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Wall Of Sound #14 | Décembre 2013

Alternative/Folk/Pop/Indie

2014

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current faves

Featured on the Remix compilation - Romance 126 - by snow mantled love

If you want to - Snow Mantled Love - WATERBEAR REMIX

The first single from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete's third album 'Chambers', released via Sonic Cathedral (UK/EU) and Captcha (US).

Buy on iTunes

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete 'What's Holding You?'

Samantha is on tour throughout the summer - tickets available now: http://samanthacrain.com/tour-dates

Taken from the album 'Kid Face', out now on Full Time Hobby. Available on 2xCD, LP & high-quality digital download.

You can purchase the album from the following places:
Full Time Hobby: bit.ly/16kgyDH
Rough Trade: bit.ly/HnxV0t
Amazon: amzn.to/1d2fNnL
iTunes: bit.ly/1dB3RgH

iTunes

Samantha Crain - For the Miner

Check us out on Facebook, and download our free EP''s from Band camp. Thanks friends
www.facebook.com/mindflowersband
mindflowers1.bandcamp.com

Little Prayer

"How to Build a Maze" is the title track from the second album from Cocoanut Groove, due for release on 4 November. Fronted by Olov Antonsson, it's their first as a full band, the debut album Madeleine Street (2008) having essentially been a solo project. Hailing from the North of Sweden, Antonsson wears his1960s baroque pop influences on his sleeve, along with traces of latter day guitar pop like The Smiths and The Clientele, and folk acts like Vashti Bunyan and Nick Drake. 

The songs for How to Build a Maze were written and recorded over quite a long period of time. Bleaker and less naive than their debut it's still no great departure, with Olov continuing to strive for 60s pop perfection, attempting to write something as beautiful as "Beechwood Park" by The Zombies or "World Of You" by The Aerovons. As well, there are quite a few traditional Swedish folk melodies hidden on the album, like the ones you find on the album "Jazz på svenska" by Swedish pianist Jan Johansson. 

Recorded in various places around Olov’s hometown Umeå, with no professional recording studios involved whatsoever, the album is about getting lost in different ways – losing your way in city streets, losing friends and watching summers pass. The theme can be summed up by this simple definition from Wikipedia: "A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route."

Having taken their name from a Lovin' Spoonful/Roger Nichols song, Cocoanut Groove formed in 2007 with Olov writing and recording the song "The End Of The Summer On Bookbinder Road", which became their debut single. Olov writes all the songs and plays guitar, as well as bass, piano and whatever else is needed. Over the years (and on this record) he has been joined by Calle Thoor, Anton Runesson and William Andersson (drums), Josef Ringqvist (bass), Mattias Malm (guitar, keys, vocals, arrangements, percussion and whatnot), Ivar and Gunnar Lantz (strings) and Frida Danielsson (trumpet).

Cocoanut Groove follow in a grand tradition of Swedish indiepop, with a focus on melody and beauty, tinged with melancholy. From the long, dark winters to the respite of the dreamy summers, the songs talk of escaping the city and pining for the countryside, about unemployment and having nothing to do but drink coffee and watch the birds fly.

Cocoanut Groove - How To Build A Maze

"Broken Heart" by Dr. Dog from the album B-Room available now.

Get it on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/broomdeluxe
Get it from Dr. Dog: http://www.drdogstore.com

http://www.drdogmusic.com
http://www.facebook.com/drdog
http://www.twitter.com/drdogmusic
http://www.instagram.com/drdogmusic

Broken Heart

"Delphine (With A Purpose)" is the first single from the debut album 'Floristry' by young Dunedin, New Zealand floral-pop trio Trick Mammoth. They say:

“Formed in early 2013, Trick Mammoth are a pop band from Dunedin, New Zealand. Fragile, lucid but rough around the edges, their songs are unintentionally sincere and bashfully honest, performed with open arms and a soft indifference. 
 
Drawing mostly on film, literature and poetry, their music discharges a shy pretension buried under layers of simplicity. With comparisons ranging from Black Tambourine to The Carpenters, Trick Mammoth have crafted a sound saccharine sweet yet doused in death.
 
In mid July 2013, the band recorded their first full length album with the assistance of Tex Houston (The Clean, The 3Ds). Adrian Ng and Millie Lovelock play guitars and sing, Sam Valentine plays drums. They all took turns to play bass.

Their debut album 'Floristry' is released through Fishrider Records in NZ on 31 January 2014 and co-released by Fishrider Records and Occultation Recordings in the UK on 24 February 2014."

http://trickmammoth.bandcamp.com/

Trick Mammoth - Delphine (With A Purpose)

Fluid 67

The Electric Airbag Police

New album Limit of Love available now - http://smarturl.it/bblimitoflove

"Southern Sun" from Boy & Bear's album "Harlequin Dream"
Available in North America, Australia and New Zealand - http://smarturl.it/ssun

On Tour Now - www.boyandbear.com/shows



Boy & Bear - Southern Sun

Daniel Avery - Drone Logic

PRE-ORDER DIALECTS NOW AT: WWW.SNOWMINE.COM

Single from upcoming full length "Dialects"

"Dialects" release: 2.4.14

Mixed and Engineered by Jake Aron and Yale Yng Wong 
Mastered by Chris Gehringer

Lyrics: 

Late last night I lost track of time
And I know I was waiting for the sun to rise
These summer days they keep stretching on 
As our friends in and out of town and tide.

We spent our nights
Hoping for nice things.
We should have known we don't need nice things
What's that don't know your way back home
You wanna know why? 

All this time when you read my mind
You read my mind
All those thoughts that I knew you'd find
I hid between the lines. 

We could dress for anywhere else
It's been a long, long time since your kingdom fell.
And I can hear something over these engines
It sounds like us in the backseat of your car
Sounds like our mysteries in skin
Just to steal away again.

All this time when you read my mind
You read my mind
All those thoughts that I knew you'd find
I hid between the lines. 
All this time when you read my mind
You read my mind
Those countries where we could have been
I left them all behind. 

Why would you bother the hurt your among?
When all that you needed was here all along? 


All this time when you read my mind
You read my mind
All those thoughts that I knew you'd find
I hid between the lines. 
All this time when you read my mind
You read my mind
Those countries where we could have been
We left them all behind. 


Columbus

written by rey villalobos 
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Fold in the Wind

A Side To The Final Instalment of 2013's Too Pure Singles Club

I Just Want To Sleep

'Erosion' is taken from CYMBALS' new album, The Age of Fracture, out on 27th Jan (EU)/4th Feb (N.A.)

Pre-order The Age of Fracture on iTunes - http://smarturl.it/ageoffractureitunes
Pre-order the limited edition double vinyl gatefold LP - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv070-cymbals-the-age-of-fracture-limited-edition-double-colour-vinyl-lp-pre-order

Buy 'Erosion' on iTunes - http://smarturl.it/erosionitunes

CYMBALS will launch their album with a headline show in London in February.
2nd Feb 2014 - Electrowerkz, London - www.wegottickets.com/event/246573

<b>Press release</b>
The long-awaited new album from CYMBALS is named after a book by Princeton academic, Daniel T. Rodgers, which addresses the fragmentation of ideas towards the end of the last century and how collective meanings have become uncertain.  Singer and guitarist Jack Cleverly writes: "It hit me that I often feel paralysed by the feeling that everything is 'too complicated', and that many people I know feel that paralysis. I realised that this way of thinking can be traced through these songs." 

Produced by Dreamtrak (Swim Deep, Chad Valley, Hot Chip) in his Hackney studio and written collectively over the last 12-months, the group have taken their time to carefully piece the album together, song-by-song, in sequence. The album was completed following a final mix from Daniel Rejmer (Foals, Everything Everything) and the result is testament to the band’s attention to detail: a cleaner, brighter sound than their brattier early recordings, edging towards the European sophistication of the end-of-the-century French house Jack grew up around. Singles 'Like An Animal', 'The End' and 'The Natural World' are characterized by an upbeat disco cool and all push the 7-minute mark, whereas ‘Winter 98’, ‘This City’, and ‘Call Me’ are brooding, stark synth-led numbers reminiscent of early-New Order, with some lyrics sung in Jack’s native French.

The literary inspiration runs further through the album. The track ‘The 5%’, more obviously making reference to the themes of the album's namesake, declares “Time can be erased, you’re stupid if you try and stay in place,” over a pulsing bassline and swirling electronics.  ‘Like an Animal’ is inspired by the intellectual and moral confusion of the main character in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. The album has even garnered literary responses of its own by British poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine.

“I told Joe about the book and the way the album was kind of a reaction to it, and he threw my rationalisation of it back at me through a short story inspired by the album.” says Cleverly. “It helped reveal the emotional territory of the songs. He showed me how I had been dividing things up artificially - desires and priorities, getting older and not being able to stop writing music…”
 
Through the writing of this album, CYMBALS have inevitably matured. “We've never been in it just for a laugh," says Cleverly; “but things got confused when we said we wanted to keep it fun – we just didn't want to end up bitter, having chased a hollow dream.  But this album is less about us; it's more outward looking, more aware of the world at large."  

Despite the weighty literary influences, the band are keen to separate themselves from the over-earnestness that can sometimes accompany such associations.  “I hate the whole 'serious earnest-singer-songwriter-thing,’” says Jack. “With this album I really wanted to get away from that and make music that makes people want to dance and feel joy. Neil's kick drum is the most important thing we have to say as a band. Is this all "fun"?  Yes, of course, but at the same time, not just that."

UK press: leah@inhousepress.com
UK online: matthew@enganche.co.uk
US press/online: gloria@forcefieldpr.com


CYMBALS - Erosion

Taken from the new EP 'Random Vision' out on melodic 27th January 2014.
Pre -Order digital or on heavyweight purple vinyl direct from melodic.
http://melodic.co.uk/randomvision/

Michael A Grammar - The Day I Come Alive

"Kissing Can Wait"
Written and performed by She Sir
Song by Karloff
Shelflife Records
www.shelflife.com

She Sir is Russell Karloff, M. Grusha, Jeremy Cantrell, David Nathan

Produced by Erik Wofford & She Sir
Engineered & mastered by Erik Wofford
Recorded at Cacophony Recorders, Austin, TX, USA

©2014 She Sir. All rights reserved.

www.shesir.com
www.shelflife.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/She-Sir/360917473035
https://twitter.com/shesir

Kissing Can Wait

Heartburst - I'm Here To Stay - Auto Pilot EP 
Support the band on iTunes: smarturl.it/Heartburst
facebook.com/heartbursttheband
twitter.com/merchantnate
http://heartbursttheband.com

Lyrics:

I can't go on any longer
Because this feeling keeps on getting to me
And every day it's getting stronger
I don't know how I'm gonna get you to see

That you are mine and I am yours
Never have I been so sure
Take me as I am today
I promise you I'm here to stay

I've got everything that you could think of 
But something's got me feeling so low 
All I need is someone to love
And someone who would already know

Everything has changed nothing's feeling the same
Everything had changed still we're playing this love game
Everything has changed and I won't ever leave ya
Everything has changed you just have to believe

© 2013 Heartburst Music

Heartburst - I'm Here To Stay

Fortuna POP! will be releasing the self-titled third album by London’s LET’S WRESTLE in February. The record sees the band enter a new phase of maturity and sophistication giving frontman Wesley Patrick Gonzalez a forum to showcase his songwriting talents and love of classic pop. More heartfelt and musically diverse than previous albums, Let’s Wrestle sees the band transformed and ready to move up to a different level completely. 

Let's Wrestle - Codeine and Marshmallows

8 A.M

Glow

Written/Produced by: Shane Dinet 

Released: 12/11/2013

Lyrics: 
Abandon summer, abandon spring, see what the autumn has to bring.
Wild- eyed smiles to feel like a child again.
I was your melody, you were my harmony we were washed out beneath the autumn sky.
Stutter thoughts of that autumn to hear the sound, the sound of your laughter in which I drowned. I was your melody you were my lullaby, washed out beneath the autumn sky.
With you I'm ready to......
Going as times are slowly showing, take me to the autumn sky. Fading as our leaves are falling, but with you I'm ready to die. Summer turn me green, winter shed my leaves. How strange just to be anything. Now that I'm the seasons I'm come alive.
How strange just to be anything at all.

Autumn Sky

First single off forthcoming release in late 2014 

Recorded at home in Annandale in October 2013 
Mastered by Mikey Young

Back To Bellevue

From 'Underneath the Rainbow' out 3/18/14 via VICE Records

Black Lips-Boys In The Wood

Lilies On Mars - Dream Of Bees

The Fall- The Remainderer (Promo Version)

This EP was recorded with Lee Bowden at Finnmark! HQ in Leeds and Lee's country retreat in York in May to June 2013.  

This is a joint release between Finnmark! and the brilliant February Records. 

Download or buy the CD from http://finnmark.bandcamp.com/album/were-not-k-ping 

DIY until we die!

Considering a Move to Sweden

Happy Diving s/t EP out digitally January 14, 2014 + on cassette on February 18, 2014.

Happy Diving - Never Been

Circles is taken from East Village's album 'Drop Out'.

www.heavenlyrecordings.com

East Village - Circles

Slave Ambient

Baby Missiles

The War On Drugs - "Baby Missiles"

Concrete Schoolyard

Dying for Pigs

The first single from Sons et al.
http://www.facebook.com/sonsetal

See Me Run

The debut single from London 3-piece Teleman.

Released on limited edition 7" vinyl and download on 14th January 2013 through the Moshi Moshi Singles Club.

www.telemanmusic.com / @telemanmusic 
www.moshimoshimusic.com / @moshimoshimusic

Buy Here

Teleman - Cristina

'Nightschool' is taken from the split cassette EP released on Coastal Wizards Records

Out February 25th

www.coastalwizardsrecords.bandcamp.com 

Contact ancienttimes@hotmail.co.uk