Songs of November 2021

Choices of the Grasshopper November 2021

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Five Things We Liked This Week - 19/11/2021

RTDD 2

The Upload

kflay - Weirdo

nov 21 sundayThe Upload

[Weekly Mix] 2021.11 (3)

WithGuitars November 2021 SoundCloud playlist

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callus

Written, recorded, performed and produced by Laura Wolf
Mixed by Zubin Hensler
Mastered by Joe Lambert Mastering

Work Of Art

Tunnels

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

«Superstar», the debut record from Norwegian art-pop outfit Mall Girl, represents an exciting new chapter for the buzzed-about band. The release follows a string of successful singles, including their 2018 track “Slay Queen,” which introduced them as an act to watch in the alt-pop arena. The chaotic year of 2020 brought a string of infectious, vibey singles, including “My Sweet Mall Girl” and the fierce “Bad Girl." 

Members Iver Armand Tandsether, Hannah Veslemøy Narvesen, Eskild Myrvoll and Bethany Forseth-Reichberg were forced to get creative when the pandemic hit, sidelining best-laid plans to flesh out some songs before heading into the studio together. 

"Because of COVID regulations and the four of us living in two different cities, we changed the way we worked with the songs quite radically in the months leading up to the studio recording,” Narvesen says. "We’ve always been very oriented towards the live performance of the songs, including when we compose them together in our rehearsal space. That way of working has led to some challenges when recording, as you end up listening to the songs in a different manner and might figure out you should have done everything differently."

While others put their creative endeavors on hold, Mall Girl opted to try something different. Many of the songs on «Superstar» were tracks that the band regularly performed, but they wanted to seize the opportunity to evolve their sound even more.

“We actually ended up ‘remote composing’ big parts of the album, with everyone working from their own home studio and bouncing ideas back and forth,” Narvesen explains. "This was a very welcome change of workflow for us, and it lead to us making some songs which probably wouldn’t have turned out that way had we been together in the same room."

This experimental shift in their creative process led to the creation of songs bursting with infectious hooks, hypnotizing grooves and punchy lyrics. It brings all of the edginess from their previously releases, just through a slightly different lens.

“In many ways I think we’ve kept most of the spirit in the music, just the joy of playing together while exploring different genres and breaking conventions.”

Recorded at Studio Paradiso in Oslo with longtime collaborator Marcus Forsgren, «Superstar» runs the gamut of emotions and moments of reflection on our fleeting experiences. “Feel Like Crying,” the first song Mall Girl ever wrote together, taps into the overwhelming question of where we all belong in the universe. “Machine Gun Mystery” dives into a darker realm, presenting an alter ego we all wrestle with, who thrives on power. The beautiful chaos of love is at the center of “You And I,” while “Dance Alone” highlights just how much can be said through a wave of silence. 

As a whole, «Superstar» finds Mall Girl fully realized, with a fresh perspective that positions them as one of pop’s most intriguing new acts.

Mall Girl - Bubbly Cool Drink

Hang Time

Stilling

Artifacts

So Slowly

Petrichor

Force Field

Do It Over

Weirdo

C Shells

C Shells (feat. Teddy Roxpin & Hark Madley)

Sally's Choice

Circles, the new single from Chris Liebing with Tom Adams (@oceantemple) and @ralfhildenbeutel
Single Mix feat. additional production from @janblomqvist
Album Version taken from the forthcoming #AnotherDay on @muterecords

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Circles (feat. Tom Adams)

Circles (feat. Tom Adams) - Single Edit

Circles (feat. Tom Adams) (Single Mix)

RHODODENDRON

Eat The Moon

Rolodex City is taken from the album Archive Material, out now. Buy: https://orcd.co/archivematerial
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Silverbacks - Rolodex City

tricky

Tricky

Cybernetic

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Anorak Patch - Delilah

11/19/2021

Thinkin' of You

Easy

'Live at Metropolis Studios', out now on Ninja Tune: https://jordanrakei.lnk.to/metropolisSo

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Live at Metropolis Studios

Send My Love (Live at Metropolis Studios)

Via Chicago

five seconds flat

erase me (feat. Jacob Collier)

Written by Jeremy Tuplin and DG Solaris
Produced by DG Solaris
Featuring Matt Canty on bass guitar

Idle (with DG Solaris)

creature of habit

A.M. RADIO

'Fuse' is the title track of Nicfit's debut LP, out Jan 14th on Upset The Rhythm.

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Nicfit - 'Fuse'

Time Escaping

"Pain Without a Touch" (Release Date: November 17, 2021)

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Sweeping Promises - Pain Without a Touch

Written and Produced by Phil Danyew
Drums by Mark Pontius
Mixed by Carlos de la Garza
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters

Caught In A Twilight (lyrics)
Ooo you got me where you wanted
Ooo you’d think I’d lost my mind
Ooo the sun is where you left it
Now down is up and black is white
I don’t know what you’ve been told
But you’ve been sucking poison
From the lip of highball glass

Talking heads
Trying to make out of here
With my consciousness
Take my tongue and disappear
I’m not smiling cause it feels like I’m
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight zone

The masses become moonstruck
Turned rabid from the lies
Crooked pigs running amok
A giant spiral fills the sky
Maybe I hit my head too hard
Or maybe not hard enough
I got the feeling the stars will still be spinning when I wake up

Talking heads
Trying to make out of here
With my consciousness
Take my tongue and disappear
I’m not smiling cause it feels like I’m
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight zone 

Oh we find the cure in love
Look past your mirror
Learn to listen
Face the fear
The truth may look different
Truth may look different

Caught In A Twilight Zone

Produced and recorded by Tyler Floyd @ Floyd Audio

Worst Party Ever - Prism on a Window

Jeff Goldblum

In The AM

Believe

Believe (Sammy Virji Remix) [feat. Fredwave & Jeshi]

It’s been four years since we last heard from Tigercats, with the 2018 album Pig City marking the expansion of their sonic palette from indie-pop and alt-rock, to include highlife, afrobeat, and scuzzy West African psych.

The New Works EP is another step into the new for Tigercats, the sound of an increasingly political band, unbound by the records they’ve made previously, and enjoying the freedom of exploring and experimenting for these 5 new tracks.

“We’ve been a band over 10 years and it felt like all of our previous recordings have been leading up to this one. After Duncan switched from guitar to kalimba a few years back, and we welcomed a horn section into the line-up, the sound has been getting denser and grittier, particularly live. With this recording we’ve finally managed to capture some of that energy on record.”

The opening track New Work, a song about the relentless tyranny of labour in the 21st century, grows from the synth bass riffs and riotous brass lines with production inspired by industrial techno like JK Flesh, to display lyrical ferocity not often heard.
The Space came together completely improvised in the studio, and reflects on the fight for space to create art - in a world fighting for your attention 24-7, and the depletion of available arts spaces.
The intensity subsides for The Picture, a track whose origins date back to the writing of the band’s second record. More reminiscent of Tigercats’ indie credentials, drawing on the textures of Low or Yo La Tengo, it is developed here by a band confidently hitting their stride.

New Works was written in 2019 and recorded at Lightship 95 on the Thames, and at Big Jelly in Ramsgate. Originally scheduled for a spring 2020 release, we’re excited to finally bring you these 5 tracks and the promise of a return to blistering live shows from Tigercats.

Tigercats are a kalimba-led psychedelic pop band from East London.
Having honed his songwriting craft in the short-lived but much much-missed Esiotrot, in 2010, Duncan Barrett went about forming a new band and recruited sibling/long-time producer Giles Barrett (bass), talented songstress Laura Kovic (keys), as well as Paul Rains (guitar, of Allo Darlin’).

The band have performed throughout the UK and Europe and have supported The Wave Pictures, Allo Darlin and Darren Hayman among others. They have also performed at the End of the Road and Primavera Festivals and have appeared on Spanish TV (RTVE Radio3) and Indietracks. A tour of the USA and Canada included a headline appearance at NYC Popfest.

New Works harks a return to Fika Recordings, having released the debut Tigercats album Isle of Dogs back in 2012, bookending albums with Fortuna Pop! (2014’s Mysteries) and El Segell Del Primavera (2018’s Pig City).

Tigercats are:
Duncan Barrett - Vocals, Kalimba
Giles Barrett - Bass, Production
Laura Kovic - Keys, Vocals
Paul Rains - Guitar, Vocals
Will  Connor - Drums, percussion
Seb Silas - Baritone saxophone
Meridyth Dickson - Alto saxophone
Thom Punton - Trumpet

New Works

Doxxed & Loaded

Tigercats - Doxxed & Loaded

Written, recorded, and produced by Felicia Sekundiak
Artwork by Felicia Sekundiak

Lyrics:

If you knew that tonight would be the last time
Would you say something different?
Did you mean always when you said 'please be mine'?
Or did you mean something different?

Late nights in your bedroom
Everytime I leave it always feels too soon but
I can't stay forever
Because my brain says now or never 

Where's the joy in growing old?
Is it just something that we're told?
Is heaven even a real place?
Or is it what I felt the first time I saw your face?

End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll

Wait
I'm not the lead character in my movie
I think I've lost all control but
Everyone is gonna wish that they knew me
When those end credits roll by

Late nights in my bedroom
Everytime I cry I always think of you and
When I told you never
But my heart will hurt forever, and ever, and ever

Where's the joy in growing old?
Is it just something that we're told?
Is heaven even a real place?
Or is it what I felt the first time I saw your face?

End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll

If you only knew what I could see (hey!)
They love my acting, they don't love me
Never gonna share an onscreen kiss (dadadadada)
All my best moments are often missed

End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll

End Credits

All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version) - Recorded at Long Pond Studios

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Produced and performed by James Chatburn
Trumpets & Jazz Guitar: By Will Henderson
Recorded and Mixed: at Redbull Studios Berlin by David Hoffman and Constantijn Lange
Mastered: at Tonstudios and Musik Produktion by Thommy Hein 
Artwork: by Sean Locascio

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Darling I Missed Your Call

Be Mine

Multi-instrumentalist Ren Lawton has had a diverse, often tumultuous, career in the music world. Originally performing under his own name, Conor Owen, he experienced the highs of supporting the likes of We Are Scientists and The Subways. Having taken a break to concentrate on tour management, Conor gained a well of experience living out of a van, travelling and playing in bars. Reinvigorated, the time was right for Conor to reinvent himself, begin writing and ultimately perform under the moniker Ren Lawton.

With a notable ability to play a varied section of instruments - from guitars and trumpet to harmonica and piano - Ren Lawton was a project that would transform Conor’s style of music. He was able to create mature vignettes inspired by the great storytellers from music and beyond such as Bob Dylan and Frank ‘Connor. The result is debut album, Today Today Tomorrow; a collection of songs, emotive and personal, cutting right to the heart of who Conor is.

Today Today Tomorrow is distinctive album drawing inspiration from British folk traditions, Americana, blues and soul. Conor illustrates his eclectic methodology through the gentle soothing of forthcoming single and album title opener, to the playful, uplifting bop of ‘Thinking About You’. As you move through the record the multi-genre variety becomes ever more apparent. From the ethereal beauty of ‘Willow’ and ‘Come All You Mourners’ to the harmonica-filled crescendo of ‘The Writer’, Today Today Tomorrow dazzles throughout.

Conor’s atmospheric brand of contemporary folk has resonated far and wide. With over 1 million Spotify streams of single ‘Piece of Your Heart’ as well as airplay on Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6), BBC Wales, BBC Newcastle and BBC Bristol. He has also picked up press support from tastemakers such as Clash Magazine, Folk Radio, Thank Folk For That, Narc, Fame Magazine, Contact Music and many more.

Today Today Tomorrow

Kind of Freak - Produced by @thankyoufatmatt
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