Monday Miscellany #13

They say we can't divide the heavens. But they'd be wrong.

Another in a long line of HotSpotMixtapes and the second full batch of Monday Miscellanies Best-ofs from @HotSpotMusic.

Divide The Heavens - a HotSpotMixtape

Espresso

Slap nu af! vol. 2

pretty pop

FREE TO BE YOU AND ME 1979

juice

warm vibez

New Light of Tomorrow

Wanna throw some bones at l'artiste?
Name yr price on bandcamp
http://chromesparks.bandcamp.com/album/my-3

All There Is (Feat. Steffaloo)

Show You My Way

Tour Dates:

10/22 - New York, NY @ Cake Shop http://bit.ly/1KgCIKR
11/10 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade w/ Surfer Blood http://bit.ly/1NQvIej
11/11 - Hamden, CT @ The Space w/ Surfer Blood http://ticketf.ly/1QMpPwi
11/12 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street Nightclub w/ Surfer Blood http://bit.ly/1KgCIKR

A Game

Talk

exclusive DL through portal's sxsw mixtape
http://www.portalsmusic.com/2012/03/sounds/portals-mixtape-3-sxsw-sampler/

So Far 2 Go (Feat. Steffaloo)

02 Forward Forward Back

Sindri Már Sigfússon, better known as Sin Fang – and as someone who grew up with summer in his heart and on his mind (skateboarding, eating pizza, reading the German “Bravo”) –, called his last album “Summer Echoes”, and even though there was yet another long winter in-between, his new EP “Half Dreams”, dropping only a year after the album, follows in the same vein: It’s not echoes, but omens in this case, harbingers of a summer that has yet to come. Only a few seconds into “Half Dreams”, and this is blatantly obvious: the guitar is there, the voice(s), everything is switched on, going heads over heels, a-tumble, and it feels like running out into nature after months of hibernation. It might sound like a dream, but Seabear’s founder and mastermind, who, unsurprisingly, also creates stunning visual art, hardly ever sounded this joyous and awake.

“Half Dreams” is not all exuberance though: “I won’t be afraid anymore,” Sin Fang sings on the rather dramatic and majestic sounding “Walk With You”, one of five new tracks he presents on this EP. It’s a haunting tune, a circumnavigation of musical worlds, almost an Icelandic R&B track of sorts, with slow beats, glockenspiel, again many layers of vocals, and bittersweet overtones (or undercurrents), like resolutions for the season to come: let’s not forget how bad things were, how stuck we felt, but it has to change, cannot go on like this.

And it doesn’t: the guitar he picked up rather late – he was already in his twenties – is at the core of the obscurely beeping “Shine For Me”, strummed chords at first to wash over hazy vocals, campfire-style, then vast landscapes busted open, lots of room, again more of that element he’s so in love with: the human voice. Here it shines again, this unique take on (indie) pop that Sigfússon has developed over the last four albums (two solo albums and two Seabear records). In fact, it shines like a freshly done tattoo, some blood mixed in as well, and it’s going to last just as long.

Having recently presented his visual skills in a limited edition book with Múm’s Örvar, Sin Fang (no more Bous, in case you didn’t notice), a collector of prison tattoo designs from Iceland, finishes the new EP with some instantly recognizable “sha-la-la-la” sing-along vocals (“Strange House”) for those hours spent on an ideal, imaginary beach that feels like the year 1962 or 1969, and then, lastly, “It’s Not There”: his take on off-beat stomping, beats made for dancing and chanting, a celebration of “not-quite-knowing” and nevertheless going on, even stronger than before.

A few weeks before “Half Dreams” was finished, there was a flood in the studio where Sin Fang was working on the final mix. (No cat was injured or forced to take a bath, rest assured.) The surprisingly cold water must have washed away the last bit of doubt and uncertainty, only to expose something he knew all along: that honest songwriting serves as the ultimate war paint

Sin Fang - Only Eyes

“Its sureness and subtlety say more than a few gauche early pullquotes” | PITCHFORK
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17355-persistent-malaise/

“The songs do this wonderful thing, where they just gnaw on you” | DAYTROTTER
http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/cold-pumas/20056359-37383554

“The methodically planned looseness of ‘Persistent Malaise’s constant groove is thoroughly captivating” | LOUD AND QUIET
http://www.loudandquiet.com/2012/11/cold-pumas-persistent-malaise/

“I can’t think of a better album from a British band all year” | NORMAN RECORDS
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/136796-cold-pumas-persistent-malaise

Fog Cutter

"Sometimes you get the feeling the week has too many Mondays. In that case, we need to reduce them by any means necessary." A wise woman once spoke these words and she is right in every sense. Luckily however, spring has arrived; the birds are singing, the days are growing longer and subsequently the number of Mondays are steadily decreasing.

And if that's not enough for you, there's more good news: the darlings in FM Belfast are inviting you to dance with their newest single, 'Stripes'! Because stripes never go out of style—as the breton sailor shirts prove—and it is never a better time for sailor shirts than in the springtime.

"Stripes" is a single from FM Belfast's album 'Don't Want To Sleep', released by German label Morr Music last year. Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson produced the record, but the song was recorded in the shed behind Árni and singer Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir's apartment in Reykjavík. Many undoubtedly remember the shed from Árni Sveinsson's music documentary Backyard, where it played one of the lead roles, even serving as the concert stage itself by the film's end.

Word on the street is that hips have never been shaken as recklessly or as dangerously as when the song's recording took place. Innocent pedestrians walking unsuspectingly by the infamous shed were suddenly seen shimmying away uncontrollably.

But now is not the time to worry, quite the opposite. The future is quite literally warm and bright, and if you're ready to shake your hips, you can no doubt sport, and earn, your 'Stripes'.
Björn Teitsson

LIVE:
04.05.2012 — Palma de Mallorca (ES) — Festival de indie de interior
05.05.2012 — Husqvarna (SE) — Popadelica Festival
11.05.2012 — Barcelona (ES) — Festival La Plaça Odissea
01.06.2012 — Nürburgring (DE) — Rock am Ring Festival
03.06.2012 — Nürnberg (DE) — Rock im Park Festival
04.06.2012 — Berlin (DE) — Astra 

FM Belfast: Stripes

Made especially for the GRL MTN compilation AAURAL II - the Ann Arbor boys just wanted to do a lil somethin somethin, u feel me? ;)

Quieter than the other traxx just for those moments when you wanna be moody n shit

Bandcamp + T-shirts!!!: http://grlmtn.bandcamp.com/album/aaural-ii
Free download of the comp: http://www.mediafire.com/?2c3m20xgihwzwxy
Sexy website: http://GRLMTN.com


oooweeooo

"Gremlins Crawl" by Shannon and the Clams available August 17 on 7" on Volar Records along with the b-side, "White Rabbit".  volarrecords.bigcartel.com www.volarrecords.blogspot.com

Gremlins Crawl

LIM. COLOR VINYL

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS--Gremlins Crawl

Be Forest - Blind Boy

From the 12-track album 'All Blackshirts To Me': http://matineerecordings.com/item.php?item_id=157

Cats On Fire - 1914 And Beyond

Facebook: https://facebook.com/haertsmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/haertsmusic
Official site: http://haertsmusic.com

Wings

My new friend

Middle school dance

On our way

Your little life

Over you

buy on iTunes: tinyurl.com/MisunAlbum
contact us: MisunBand@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/MisunBand


Buy on iTunes

Misun - Harlot

i didn’t know what to expect but like a ghost you came, it felt
i didn’t know how close to get to your morning coat and cigarette

so make it tough but just enough to ease my mind 
make it so that time goes slow; the days we sleep, the nights we hunt.

So save it for another day.


let us go, u and i,when the evening spreads out against the sky
let us go through certain streets of desert sands, where all silence meets

i didn’t know what to expect but like a ghost you came, it felt
i didn’t know how close to get to your morning coat and cigarette

So save it for another day.


The Bailor

BONUS TRACK ON "EMPIRE BUILDING/STUDIO 54" CASSETTE

ORDER HERE
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/saint-pepsi-fundraiser-extravaganza/x/2654774

tell ur friends

KICKSTART MY HEART

Misun - Promise Me

George Maple - Fixed (Maribou State Remix)

https://illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/platinum-collection-triple-album-plus COP THIS ON CASSETTE AS PART OF THE TOPAZ GANG PLATINUM COLLECTION

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the challenge was set. to make three new songs in twenty four hours. 
decided to experiment with this one, using nothing but my boss sp-202 sampler, as well as samples taken from vinyl and a few drum hits. 

TWENTY FOUR HOUR EP

My remix for 'Phoria - Red' // free to download.
Original: http://soundcloud.com/phoriamusic/red

Original picture used for the cover art by my friend Giorgio Lamonica:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giorgiolamonica

Phoria - Red (Need a Name Remix)

http://vsjrp.bandcamp.com/album/pleasure-network-selections-vol-1

えぬヴぃろｗｏｒｋ

This track is about dancing under moonlight with friends and loved ones, embracing the seasons, and transitioning into a period of irreversible change 

oooweeooo

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