New record from Samantha Crain, 'Under Branch & Thorn & Tree', is a stunning collection of heartrending tales. Easy contender for album of 2015

Fancy reading a short story inspired by Samantha Crain's 2015 record? http://www.kemptation.com/features/short-story-if-you-ever-come-back/

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Kayla Cohen, a.k.a. Itasca, is a folk guitarist and songwriter from New York State. She has released several small press CD-rs and cassettes over the past five years, and began recording as Itasca after a move to Los Angeles in 2012. She records at home, taking inspiration from the fringes of LA's open space and natural land.

On Itasca’s latest full-length, Unmoored By The Wind, Kayla Cohen achieves new levels of clarity and expansiveness. Where 2012’s Grace Riders on the Road reveled in homemade intimacy, Unmoored By The Wind opens to the world, reaching a timeless, near-baroque yearning; each of these eleven tracks burns with a unique vision. At once soft-spoken and virtuosic, Cohen’s fingerpicking mesmerizes, laying gauzy groundwork for vocal work David Keenan rightfully cited as “courtly…dazzling.” It’s a spacious set of songs, one you can wander into, flowing seamlessly between wistful interludes a la Bob Desper and fully-fledged verses of powerful, often beguiling imagery. “Two male shapes are standing/ Shrouded in white cloth” sings Cohen on “Nature’s Gift,” with a plaintive candidness that echoes Sibylle Baier. “They’re looking at me/ Sort of smiling/ Seems as if I’ve called them here.” Cohen’s voice has a windburnt quality reminiscent of Lal Waterson or Collie Ryan, but it’s tempered with sweetness, and on songs like “Colt In Hiding” she realizes an angelic luster. More than ever before, though, Cohen’s confident singing is laid bare; vocals ride on top of arrangements, taking their rightful place in the forefront. The effect is arresting. Cohen has achieved new levels of clarity, while staying true to the seductive ghostliness that has come to characterize her sound.

Pre-Order Here http://newimageslimited.com/catalog/itasca-unmoored-by-the-wind-pre-order

Itasca - After Dawn

Indian Summer

Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba7BXgQnJQ0

Diagrams play live in 2015, tickets available now!

11-Feb-15      France, Paris, Le Point Ephemere http://bit.ly/1r18IcA
12-Feb-15	France, Lille, La Peniche http://bit.ly/1yugzUw
13-Feb-15	Germany	, Berlin, Comet Club http://bit.ly/1F4KLrm
14-Feb-15	Germany	, Hamburg, Molotow Club http://bit.ly/14RU42M
5-Mar-15      UK, London, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen https://kililive.ticketabc.com/events/diagrams-special-gue/

The first single from Diagrams' new album "Chromatics" out now! Available to buy here: http://bit.ly/1ocqKNp

First pressing comes with bonus instrumental version of the entire album. 

When songwriter and producer Sam Genders last donned his Diagrams hat, captive listeners found themselves truly stunned by the Streatham Hill artist’s imaginative and inventive arrangements that made up 2012's debut album Black Light. Having now upped sticks from his London lodgings and settled in Sheffield with a new lease of life and wife, fresh pastures and friendships are what form the heart of Diagrams’ brand new album Chromatics.
“Relationships are a constant thread. In all their frustrating, exciting, mundane, beautiful, wonderful, sexy, scary glory,” reveals Genders of the album’s themes. “And there's lots of hope in the songs. They shouldn't be taken too literally mind you... in my head Chromatics is life in Technicolor; with all its ups and downs.”
Whilst Black Light fizzed with electronic effects, synth-bass, programmed beats and low-key funk grooves that brought about comparisons to the leftfield pop of Arthur Russell, Metronomy, Steve Mason and Hot Chip, it’s without doubt that Genders’ next offering falls closer to home comforts and marks the next step in Genders’ renaissance. Take lead track ‘Phantom Power’; it’s the track which truly sums up what it’s like to find yourself forever reassessing. “It's about feeling like you're losing a grip on your sanity at one moment, then feeling inspired and up for anything the next. Or frustration with yourself yet believing that it's possible to sort yourself out,” explains Genders. 

https://www.facebook.com/Diagrams

Diagrams - Phantom Power

Crave For More

Despite It All

White Roses, My God

Get Still

Death And Vanilla - Arcana

Taken from the new album "The Fine Art Of Hanging On" out now!

Buy the new album from the following places:
FTH Store: bit.ly/1ws9MaR
iTUNES: http://geni.us/2z4C

The Leisure Society - Tall Black Cabins

GHOSTLY SWIM 2
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Grapevine

Out now on v.ltd edition 12" vinyl + digital download
Also features on the debut album, out now.

Buy now: 
http://fulltimehobby.sandbaghq.com/dralms-pillars-pyre-pre-order.html
http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/93106
http://smarturl.it/PillarsandPyre

Pre-order the debut album here: 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/shook-deluxe/id1020610284
Rough Trade: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/96068
Rise: http://goo.gl/065eJr
FTH Store: http://fulltimehobby.sandbaghq.com/dralms-shook-pre-order.html

Live shows:

Sat 26th September - Berlin - Lido @ Berlin Independent Night
Mon 30th November - London - Birthdays
Mon 7th December - Dortmund - AZ
Tue 8th December - Berlin - Berghain Kantine
Wed 9th December - Hamberg - Molotow 
Thurs 10th December - Dresden - Beatpol
Sat 12th December - Cologne - Arttheater

Dralms - Pillars & Pyre

Samantha is playing live in the US throughout January 2016 - tickets available now: 
http://samanthacrain.com/tour-dates

Taken from the album "Under Branch & Thorn & Tree" - out now
Available on CD / Vinyl / Digital at http://tinyurl.com/p3hpe6k
Itunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/under-branch-thorn-tree/id990278922


Under Branch & Thorn & Tree

Samantha Crain - Outside The Pale

+Dome

Three

From POLIÇA's upcoming "Lipstick Stains" / "Still Counts" double single featuring Boys Noize and Spank Rock. Digitally available 4/11/17 with limited Record Store Day 7" on 4/22/17.

"Still Counts" features guest vocals by Spank Rock
Cover photo by Alexa Horochowski

POLIÇA - "Still Counts" (ft. Spank Rock)

Through Shaded Woods

The Fountain

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Samantha Crain - Outside The Pale

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