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When you meet that special someone and are just completely enamored with them. In your mind, they are one of a kind.

One of a Kind

elkyn has announced his debut album ‘holy spirit social club’ and shared its lead single ‘everything looks darker now’. 

Set for release via Curation Records on 18th March 2022, ‘holy spirit social club’ 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 - as you’ll hear on new single ‘everything looks darker now’ - is meditative, enveloping the listener in a safe haven where you feel free to acknowledge the darker parts of yourself. 

Speaking about the single, Donnelly said: “This is about a rainy gig I played in Manchester. I invited someone and didn’t expect them to show up and when they did I shied away from them for most of it. We had a big catch up over a cigarette outside but when I left I realised how much I missed them”.

Rainy regret-tinged evenings, like this one, dominate ‘holy spirit social club’. ‘last night’ concerns the final night he spent with a friend, considering the ensuing loneliness that awaits. 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.

everything looks darker now

HARD TO CONCENTRATE

Starting a new @verdancemusic journey! Enjoy this upbeat electronica featuring @sooskimusic.

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🎧 stream everywhere

Verdance - Hold Secrets ft Sooski

Lead vocals, guitar, synth - Louise Macphail 
Lead guitar, harmonies - Kristin McFadden
Bass - Kitty Drummond 
Drums - Heledd Owen
Saxophone - Antonia Bratt 
Additional synth - Juliette Jackson

Recorded at The Barn, Wiltshire
Produced by Juliette Jackson and Fern Ford
Mixed and Engineered by Cecil Bartlett
Mastered by Doug Shearer

mgmt: dan@playnicemgmt.com
band: primaqueenmusic@gmail.com

Chew My Cheeks

Sandra's Wedding present, 'Pleasure Grounds.'

The new album is out now and available for download and Compact Disc.

Pleasure Grounds. Two words which mean more to some than others.

I don't want to say too much about this record
This was and is a record for myself and for us as a band
Every note we play and every line we sing
Comes from a seed
Planted in a quiet corner of the world
Nothing much goes on
Does it matter? Not really
Does any of this matter? Not really
We write and play, play and write
Everything comes and goes
Your support keeps us going.

We hope you enjoy this record.

"If there is a bright centre to the universe, you're on the planet that is farthest from."
credits
released October 1, 2021

Joe Hodgson - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jonny Hughes - The Electric Guitar, 12 String Guitars
Corey Jones - The Bass Guitar
Luke Harrison - The Drums, Percussion

Trumpet on Track 5 and 8 performed by Anthony Thompson

Cover artwork by David West.
All tracks recorded at Young Thugs Studio, York
With Jonny Hooker & Alex Willie

Lovin' Life

Has The Bird Got Your Tongue

Amethysts Debut Album, due to release November 17th via AWAL & Shy Cat Music

Amethysts - Forget-me-not

Start Again

Anywhere / Everywhere

Drive

Stay Spooky

New Age Witch

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Singapore

Slimer

Let it Shine

by.Sech, DSM - Let It Shine

Spaced, lines on the floor, traced....it's all here...

confused

Spaced

Track 10/B4 from the upcoming Hyper Robin compilation 'Glowing Orange (A Slow Fade From Thought To Being)' [HYPROBCOMP02], releasing on cassette only, November 23rd.

Blueski - Mosphereat

4AM is the highly anticipated debut single by 20 year old singer/songwriter Sucker. It’s an ode to making bad decisions to prevent yourself from making even worse decisions, and living every moment in the ultimate unsociable hour, 4AM, to prevent anybody stopping you.

4am (radio edit)

Rollo

Primer lanzamiento tipo R&B por el artista The Samu. Mezcla sonidos americanos con su esencia latina en este viaje musical. Además de agradecer a su audiencia en el contenido de su letra, en esta canción el artista invita a todos los oyentes a trabajar por hacer realidad los sueños que tanto anhelan.

Flowstar

FLOWSTAR

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