The Casket Girls
True Love Kills the Fairy Tale 
Out 2.11.14
order the colored vinyl, cd or cassette here: http://www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html
 
So many pieces of Savannah, GA three-piece The Casket Girls seemed to happen by accident. From their beginning - when electronic sound-shaper Ryan Graveface (Graveface Records, Dreamend, Black Moth Super Rainbow) found sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene under a tree in one of Savannah's many squares, playing Autoharp and singing bizarre songs - to the night they composed their sophomore album, True Love Kills the Fairy Tale, under circumstances that fall somewhere between séance and dream state, nearly everything about The Casket Girls seems to have been inspired by some kind of spooky happenstance. But then again, the Greene sisters don't believe in accidents.
 
"I dropped off a shit ton of songs to the girls to work on one night," Graveface says of the genesis of True Love, the follow up to Casket Girls' critically acclaimed 2012 debut. "I went back to check on their progress, because they weren't answering their phones. I don't know if they dropped acid or what, but I walked in and Elsa was sobbing and reciting poetry while Phaedra was just staring straight ahead writing it all down, like catatonic. The next day they dropped off a CD and said, 'We don't even know what's on this. You can throw it in the garbage if you want.' I sat down and listened all the way through and cried. I was like, 'Holy shit! They actually wrote a record like that!' I booked studio time and had them re-record every note just as it was on the demo. They really didn't remember any of it.  Had to learn the songs as if someone else had written them entirely. Very bizarre."
 
Phaedra and Elsa had filled the disc with lilting, almost whimsical melodies about chemical hazes and love gone sour like a couple of fucked up Shangri-las, to which Graveface added a bevy of grinding, multi-dimensional psych-rock keys that will be familiar to anyone with a Graveface LP in their collection. The title track speaks like an unknown voice in a lucid dream - perhaps the one that conveyed these songs through the veil in the first place -beckoning, "True love kills the fairy tale... until heart and lungs fail."  It's this twisted and comforting charm, which set in motion the Graveface-Greene love affair in the first place, that relieves us from fear.
 
The Casket Girls have gained momentum and a substantial cult following due to the unflagging catchiness of their songwriting and the compelling development of their live stage show. They spent the last year and a half touring in support of BMSR and the Faint before growing into headliners in their own right. Last year, they released a self-titled EP on Record Store Day, and a "cassingle" cassette store day.
 
The trio will hit the road for a slew of US dates, followed by a sojourn through Europe. Visit casketgirls.org to for tour date developments, new-music nuggets and more.

The Casket Girls - Same Side

In the highlight of the rarest event on the planet, I present to you, Supermoon.

Supermoon - Peachbomb

Bulan Mentari Suria - The Lemons // Fthlnzm (Acoustic Cover by Picibum)

A song by my incredible friend, Fatahul Nizam (Fthlnzm). An acoustic cover by me. Though, the vocal doesn't sound too clear, expect a new version soon in the future.

Do listen to the original song here : https://soundcloud.com/fthlnzm/bulan-mentari-suria

Lyric by Fatahul Nizam:
Sang bulan, mentari, dan juga suria
memanggil namamu di pentas dunia.
Namun kau tak muncul dalam ilhamku.
Lala kau hanyut bersama egoku.

Aku pun jatuh
Dalam gaung gelapmu
Nyawaku tergantung
Dicelah hatimu

Bulan Mentari Suria - The Lemons // Fthlnzm (Acoustic Cover by Picibum)

Lirik:

Bulan mentari dan suria
Debu yang berterbangan di angkasa
Tiada lagi tempat untuk ku bercanda
Kini gaung gelapmu bergelora.

Bintanku yang gugur
Ku usung ke bumi
Di bahu langitmu
Aku meratapi
hancur aku hanyut
di saat kau pergi
di saat kau henti

FthlNzm's Album

Bulan Mentari Suria (Angkasa)

Taken from New Hymn To Freedom:
http://szunwaves.bandcamp.com/album/new-hymn-to-freedom

Szun Waves - Temple

(lyrics)
kick back, sit back, and watch over me
you're such a disease
and you infect the ones who put up with the shit that you pull,
that's why you're so alone
you live a sad life, bad life
you're all alone, nowhere to call one, no one picks up the phone
and i can't feel sad because you want control (you want control 2x)

lay down, face down, you feel empty
you caught your disease
and you feel it in your chest when you breathe
and now you see, the damage you did to me,
so you call my number, but it just rings, and that really stings
but i can't feel bad when you made me feel alone
so now you're on your own
-

lol i wrote this when i was ANNGRRRY

ur disease

Aiskrim is a story about the feeling of eating an ice-cream and how ice-cream seduces for you to have a bite while feeling high in the moment when the flavour burst heavily in your mouth; so heavenly, it’s just finger- licking good. Composed with lyrics by Ewin Lunar.

Aiskrim

Beach house - master of none (toro y moi)

Lyrics:
Bm		E		A		A
	I could see the blue in your smile
Bm	C#			F#m
	on your deathbed.
Bm 		E 		A 		A
	You said all the things to me,
G#m		C#		F#m
But you never said goodbye

Bm 		E 		A 		A
	While the darkness pulled you in
Bm C# 				F#m
	your stars shined bright
 Bm 			E	  A 		A
	And that’s when you asked me
 G#m 		 C# 		F#m
“where were you, my love?”

Bm 			   E 			A 		A
	Don't know how the blade was on your wrist
Bm 		C# 		F#m
	But it scarred me too
Bm 				E 		A 		A
	I carved your name on your stone
G#m 	C# 		F#m
With the blade you kept from me

Bm 	     E 	A 	A
Oh please, oh please
Bm 		C# 		F#m
	Dont shut your eyes
Bm 	     E 	A 	A
Oh please, oh please,
G#m C# F#m
Please take me too

Outro
D D Bm C# C#

Unreleased

[Unreleased] An Ode To Unrequited Goodbye (2016)

GRAVE096 ::::  The Stargazer Lilies 'We are the Dreamers'

The Stargazer Lilies slow motion bathing through space music is like sun glistening on the water in sound, ambient rock for daydreamers to bob their heads to. The Northeastern Pennsylvania based trio of guitarist/bassist/drummer/producer, John Cep, singer/bassist, Kim Field, and live drummers EJ DeCoske and Johnny Lancia, bring back the raw rock primal gaze, no bullshit sunshine haze.

The gazey dance floor where Soundpool, John & Kim’s previous band, dwelled lies behind them, while The Stargazer Lilies cosmic ambient arena lies ahead. Soundpool released three full-lengths in the last half decade, two on Aloft & Quince, and one on Killer Pimp. They shared the stage and in some cases toured with the likes of: Chapterhouse, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, School of Seven Bells, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco and Robin Guthrie to name a few.

The Stargazer Lilies streamline and minimize Soundpool down to just the bare essentials, ridding themselves of the superfluous & getting down to the essence of what The Stargazer Lilies are: ~butterfly wings, slowly beating guitars enveloping the listener, ethereal breathy female vocals floating on a melody, rocked out bossa nova beats and bad ass bass throwing down the rhythm.

This new direction, like minimalism, gains strength by taking away and paring the instrumentation down to create vast vistas of sound.

Their debut album, We are the Dreamers, will be out Oct 22nd on Graveface Records. Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow curated the release.

PR :::
Michelle King
michelle@noisyghostpr.com
http://www.noisyghostpr.com/album/we-are-the-dreamers/

[Unreleased] An Ode To Unrequited Goodbye (2016)

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