love that voice...  that bassline is solid.   overall, reminds me of 90s gurl grunge.   🤟🏼☺️🎸

elkyn has released his debut album, ‘holy spirit social club’, which sees elkyn aka Joey Donnelly put his uncensored inner dialogue on paper, bravely airing the thoughts most wouldn’t dare expose. Whether that’s hurtful messages to one’s self, vague and elusive memories or lingering lessons from childhood, it’s all here on ‘holy spirit social club’, unfiltered and searingly honest. 

This sincerity is matched in the music. While the arrangements on ‘holy spirit social club’ are far more expansive than those heard on 2020 EP ‘beech’, tender finger picks and elkyn’s distinctive half-whisper still remain at its heart. Though the pain is palpable, its impact is meditative, enveloping the listener in a safe haven where you feel free to acknowledge the darker parts of yourself. 

Rainy regret-tinged evenings dominate ‘holy spirit social club’. ‘everything looks darker now’, reflects ruefully on how Donnelly shied away from an old friend who unexpectedly came to a rainy gig in Manchester. While ‘change’ finds him on the streets of Yorkshire, revisiting his family home and wondering whether he had fulfilled his father’s desire for him to ‘become a man’ - a sore point that resurfaces again and again on ‘holy spirit social club’. 

This unflinching honesty has seen elkyn become a streaming success in recent months, with the one-off singles that followed ‘beech’ making it on to a number of Spotify editorial playlists. After a lockdown spent demoing, he entered Nave Studios with producer Mark Gustafson, creating more complete songs than ever before. The process was so cathartic for Donnelly that he went on to name the album after the social club that once existed in the basement below the aforementioned studio. 

Whilst elkyn isn’t exactly kind to himself on ‘holy spirit social club’, it does see him lift a monumental weight from his shoulders. In elkyn’s words, it’s “an interim into writing nicer songs and being nicer to myself”. In creating ‘holy spirit social club’, he has faced demons that he’s shied away from for too long, finding a way back to himself that previously felt impossible. It’s only by sitting with your darkest moments that you can begin to glimpse the light - ‘holy spirit social club’ is proof of that and a whole lot more.

fell

Light Up The Sky

'Panic Stations' - by FloodHounds

Stream on all platforms here:
https://kycker.ffm.to/panicstations

Produced by Martin Smith at MuStudios

Social Media: @floodhounds
www.floodhounds.com

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LYRICS
Panic stations, it feels like vertigo
Might be misreading it but even so
Did you ever notice that idea start to grow?
Misinformation on the radio

I don't like it but you reap what you sow
So misleading with that puppet show
My advice is to forget what you're told
Shout and kick and scream until our blood runs cold

Nothing to prove nothing to lose
And if you take that like you're on the outside looking in

Give me something with meaning
And I will show you something to believe in
But if you just try and deceive me or mislead me
You better run before the claws come out

Hazy illusions are clouding up the sky
All those visions leave you asking why
My intention is to live and let live
Give everything you've got till you've got nothing to give

Nothing to prove nothing to lose
And if you take that like you're on the outside looking in

Give me something with meaning
And I will show you something to believe in

But if you just try and deceive me all the lies that you hear blurring out your TV
It is your mission to heal division so go and rally all the people who will listen

Panic Stations

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English :
The BLACK LILYS siblings are back with a powerful single, "INVISIBLE STRINGS" mixed by Odd Martin (known for his collaboration with Aurora and Sigrid...).
A song about the importance of questioning one's beliefs in order to reach for more truth.
Is our vision always clear?
Our thoughts can easily become “invisible strings” that strangle our minds and make us believe those strings are unbreakable, preventing us from acting.
Invisible Strings is an invitation to "Unlearn how to think to learn how to feel"
After releasing a few months ago, Gymnopédie, a sensitive adaptation of Eric Satie's famous masterpiece, BLACK LILYS prove once again their ability to play with contrasts by returning today with an epic single.
The duo is currently touring in the UK, supporting Nouvelle Vague until 17 March.

French:
La fratrie BLACK LILYS est de retour avec un puissant  single, “INVISIBLE STRINGS” mixé par Odd Martin (reconnu pour ses collaborations avec Aurora et Sigrid...).

Ce titre aborde l'importance de remettre en question ses croyances afin de tendre vers plus de vérité.

Notre vision est-elle toujours bien claire?
Certaines de nos pensées deviennent parfois ces "fils invisibles" “ invisible strings qui étrillent notre esprit, nous conditionant souvent à croire qu’ils sont indénouables et nous empêchant ainsi d’agir.

“ Unlearn how to think to learn how to feel “
Une invitation à " Désapprendre sa façon de penser pour apprendre à ressentir " 

Après avoir sorti leur dernier single, Gymnopédie, une sensible adaptation piano-voix du célèbre chef-d'œuvre d'Eric Satie, BLACK LILYS nous prouve une fois encore leur capacité à jouer avec les contrastes en revenant aujourd’hui avec un single percutant et épique.

Le duo est actuellement en tournée au Royaume-Uni en première partie de Nouvelle Vague jusqu'au 17 mars.

New Era

Invisible Strings

BLACK LILYS - Invisible Strings

Them

Struggling To Sleep

North Wales Psychedelic rock band 'Holy Coves' return with a brand new single 'Desert Storm' which is set for release on 29th of April via prolific North Wales Label 'Yr Wyddfa Records'.

Dropping swiftly into the slip-stream and following on from the successful 'The Hurt Within' which was released last month, 'Desert Storm' really sets the psych mood with droney riffs, hazy vocals on an epic musical landscape.

Lead by Welsh Singer-Songwriter Scott Marsden, 'Holy Coves' find themselves crossing an unseen threshold on a fantastical new journey where new psych-hazed material spells an exciting new era for the collective.

Through long time friend and Producer David Wrench, 'Holy Coves' were put in touch with Texan Producer Erik Wofford (The Black Angels / Explosions In The Sky) and have built quite a magical working relationship, one where Wofford found himself on Mixing and Mastering duties for the material and certainly contributes to their new sound.

Desert Storm

Angelic

Shut Up!

18 - DIFFERENT WAY

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