Music I like 18

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Selected Works Spring 2018 vol. 6

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Five Things We Liked This Week - 20/04/18

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From out of the ether and into the ethereal, Elastic Sleep release the follow up to their debut pop microcosm 'Anywhere' with a dreamy but haunting interpretation of the Nancy Sinatra classic 'You Only Live Twice'. With shimmering vocals, explosive cymbals and euphoric drones, Elastic Sleep have created a truly unique reinterpretation with this live cut of the pop classic as a precursor to their eagerly anticipated 'Leave You' EP (FIFA Records release January 2014).

'You Only Live Twice' will be available as a free digital download on Bandcamp and Soundcloud on November 15th with an accompanying video produced by David Mathuna- https://www.facebook.com/FourAndAHalfThousand . Maintaining the bands visceral aesthetic the video explores the Lynchian duality within the songs lyrics.

You Only Live Twice

The empathy test in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is based on the premise that machines, no matter how advanced, lack compassion. But for childhood friends, Isaac Howlett (vocals) and Adam Relf (production), Empathy Test is all about wearing their hearts on their digital sleeves. With driving synth chords, punchy 4/4 beats and euphoric ‘80s melodies, the London-based duo take inspiration as much from modern acts like Chvrches and Purity Ring as they do from Vangelis and Depeche Mode. But far from sounding like just another ‘80s-electro reboot, Empathy Test have cultivated a mesmerizing and immersive identity which sets them apart from pretty much anyone else on the scene.

With an insistence on glorious hooks and instantly memorable vocal lines, Empathy Test are refreshingly unafraid to be pop music. Since self-releasing their debut EP “Losing Touch” in February, Empathy Test have picked up thousands of fans via sheer word-of-mouth and late-night tweets, and collaborated with Richard Swarbrick on numerous viral animation videos for ESPN and Liverpool FC. Empathy Test signed to Brooklyn’s Stars & Letters Records in the spring of 2014, with their follow-up EP “Throwing Stones” releasing December 9th, 2014.

Website → http://empathytest.com
Facebook → http://facebook.com/empathytest
Twitter → http://twitter.com/empathytest
SoundCloud → @empathytest

©℗ 2014 Empathy Test

Losing Touch

Throwing Stones EP

Empathy Test - Holding On

Empathy Test - Throwing Stones (Minuit Machine Remix)

Artist: Muertos
Track: Ballroom Spritzer 

Guitar/Vox: Marc Crane
Guitar/Vox: Deanna Avis
Drums: Tom Lewis

Recorded at HalfTon Studios by Matt Moon

Ballroom Spritzer

Empathy Test are back with double A-Side ‘Demons / Seeing Stars’, the first taste of the forthcoming debut album. Since releasing their stunning debut EP, ‘Losing Touch’, the enigmatic duo have impressed with their brooding cinematic electro pop sound; winning both critical acclaim and a legion of dedicated fans worldwide. Their music has seen radio support with KCRW, BBC Introducing and XFM and features with MTV, Clash Music, Earmilk and PopMatters amongst others. Isaac Howlett and Adam Relf formed Empathy Test after discovering a mutual love of eighties sci-fi soundtracks, nineties guitar bands and underground dance music. With echoes of CHVRCHES and Purity Ring, their sound has been described as Future Pop, Dark Wave and numerous other variations along similar themes.

The name Empathy Test is taken from the science fiction film Blade Runner. The duo’s artwork is also sci-fi inspired and follows similar themes to the movie, focusing on the basis of consciousness and the relationship between humans and technology. New track ‘Demons’ deals with the human nature of jealousy and how it can destroy a relationship. It explores how some people unconsciously cultivate jealousy in a partner in order to control them. In this all-consuming infatuation, nothing else matters - “and now she wakes up, every day and she invites, all of my demons to play.” It’s a subject that captures the duo’s strength and goes straight for the jugular.

Empathy Test are renowned for captivating their audiences with their branded mix of analogue synth sounds, uplifting melodies and catchy choruses. Live shows take audiences through driving creative rhythms and eighties pop beats, and new single ‘Demons’ is a live favourite amongst fans. While on tour last year, Empathy Test performed at Wave-Gotik- Treffen Festival in Germany, Urban Forest Festival in the UK and headlined Riba Rocks Festival in Spain. They have shared stages with artists such as Bombay Bicycle Club and The Japanese House. Empathy Test are embarking on another European tour that culminates with a show at London’s The Garage in October 2016. If you haven’t already checked out the electro pop prism of Empathy Test’s world then it’s time to acquaint yourself with this amazing new talent.

Twitter: twitter.com/empathytest
Facebook: fb.com/empathytest
Website: www.empathytest.com

EMPATHY TEST DEMONS LYRICS:

All of my dreams have flown away
All of my ambition with the wind 
Now you’re here.

I never thought I would be satisfied
With anything I had
Now I’m not so sure.

I waited so long for you
Now you’re here I don’t know what to do
With you.

I went hunting for love
When I thought I’d lose.
I meant to shoot down a dove
Shot an angel instead.
And now she wakes up every day and she invites
All of my demons to play.

Fade in fade out like a musical
Rhythm and rhyme in time
Our heart beats sing
Just to remind you we’re still alive in here.

I waited so long for you
Now you’re here I don’t know what to do
With you.

I went hunting for love
When I thought I’d lose.
I meant to shoot down a dove
Shot an angel instead.
And now she wakes up every day and she invites
All of my demons to play.

Well I love her, I hate her
I abhor her, I adore her 
Just the same, just the same
Just the same, just the same.
Well I love her, I hate her
I abhor her, I adore her 
Just the same, just the same
Just the same, just the same.

Demons | Seeing Stars

Demons

Empathy Test are back with double A-Side ‘Demons / Seeing Stars’, the first taste of the forthcoming debut album. Since releasing their stunning debut EP, ‘Losing Touch’, the enigmatic duo have impressed with their brooding cinematic electro pop sound; winning both critical acclaim and a legion of dedicated fans worldwide. Their music has seen radio support with KCRW, BBC Introducing and XFM and features with MTV, Clash Music, Earmilk and PopMatters amongst others. Isaac Howlett and Adam Relf formed Empathy Test after discovering a mutual love of eighties sci-fi soundtracks, nineties guitar bands and underground dance music. With echoes of CHVRCHES and Purity Ring, their sound has been described as Future Pop, Dark Wave and numerous other variations along similar themes.

The name Empathy Test is taken from the science fiction film Blade Runner. The duo’s artwork is also sci-fi inspired and follows similar themes to the movie, focusing on the basis of consciousness and the relationship between humans and technology. New track ‘Demons’ deals with the human nature of jealousy and how it can destroy a relationship. It explores how some people unconsciously cultivate jealousy in a partner in order to control them. In this all-consuming infatuation, nothing else matters - “and now she wakes up, every day and she invites, all of my demons to play.” It’s a subject that captures the duo’s strength and goes straight for the jugular.

Empathy Test are renowned for captivating their audiences with their branded mix of analogue synth sounds, uplifting melodies and catchy choruses. Live shows take audiences through driving creative rhythms and eighties pop beats, and new single ‘Demons’ is a live favourite amongst fans. While on tour last year, Empathy Test performed at Wave-Gotik- Treffen Festival in Germany, Urban Forest Festival in the UK and headlined Riba Rocks Festival in Spain. They have shared stages with artists such as Bombay Bicycle Club and The Japanese House. Empathy Test are embarking on another European tour that culminates with a show at London’s The Garage in October 2016. If you haven’t already checked out the electro pop prism of Empathy Test’s world then it’s time to acquaint yourself with this amazing new talent.

Twitter: twitter.com/empathytest
Facebook: fb.com/empathytest
Website: www.empathytest.com

EMPATHY TEST SEEING STARS LYRICS

Everybody knows you’re not perfect
But you still do your best to hide your flaws.

Everything you do is just surface
But we all know what goes on behind closed doors.

You’ll never know how it feels
To be out on a limb, in the wind.

And you’ll never know how much it hurts
To fall so hard you see stars

To fall so hard you see stars
To fall so hard you see stars
To fall so hard you see stars
To fall so hard you see stars

Everything we do is falling snowflakes
It will all have melted by the dawn.
Give up all your fears for your own sakes
And follow me out into the storm.

You’ll never know how it feels
To be out on a limb, in the wind.

And you’ll never know how much it hurts
To fall so hard you see stars

To fall so hard you see stars
To fall so hard you see stars
To fall so hard you see stars
To fall so hard you see stars

Bare My Soul

Latest single from Psych Rockers Sun Scream

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'Charm Tooth' is the first taste o the debut album 'Parallel Universes' from Routine Death - the duo consisting of Lisa and Dustin Zozaya (also in Holy Wave).

"Assured psych-pop that matches extreme dark against shades of pure light... a dense but intoxicating experience." 
- Clash Magazine

Parallel Universes will be out on Black Hair Records and Fuzz Club Records on May 25th.

Parallel Universes

Routine Death - Charm Tooth

ORDER 'SHADOW ON EVERYTHING' OUT ON WHARF CAT RECORDS ON 4/6
wharfcatrecords.com/store/bambara-s…thing-pre-order

Bambara - Sunbleached Skulls - From the "Shadow On Everything" LP

from 'WHRRu' [CD|2LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den299
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/nadiastruiwigh]

Denovali Records is pleased to welcome Nadia Struiwigh to the roster. Her new album is due for release in April 2018.


Nadia Struiwigh is an electronic music DJ & producer from Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Sitting somewhere between Biosphere and Board of Canada, Struiwigh’s refined downtempo electronica takes you on a journey full of synthesized soundscapes that flirt with ambient techno.

Awash with melody and warm electronics, Lenticular is an expertly crafted piece from an artist who has found her sound and is now effortlessly outputting inspiring compositions.

Reminiscent of Warp’s Artificial Intelligence series, this is electronic listening music for quiet nights and club drowsy dawns.

"... it works in slow, drawn out movements - the piercing grumble of drone stretching and throbbing over spaced out pads. With each track the percussive footsteps edge ever nearer and nearer... " WIRE

"a superb armchair techno record for the post-IDM generation" Resident Advisor

"a pair of mindbending dance sketches that blur the liens between industrial and something verging on techno" Boomkat

WHRRu

Nadia Struiwigh - Roeiweijk

Eye Jammer

Belle Sonder EP
Belle Sonder
Written & recorded in Bergen and Vrådal, Norway, by Eirik Bøen Gravdal and Liam Cook.
Produced by Eirik Bøen Gravdal and Liam Cook.
Mastered by Liam Cook.
Artwork by Liam Cook.

© Belle Sonder 2018

Belle Sonder EP

Purple

Work in progress taster songs for whats to come. Written, Recorded, Produced and performed by HADEDA

SNAKES

@nadiastruiwigh is releasing her debut album 'WHRRu' through @denovali next month, exploring an expansive, affecting style of electronica.

'Soundshag' stars on a haunting note, and unfolds with a grand, cinematic sense of depth. New elements are introduced and twist through the track like plot lines, forming a breath-taking composition. 

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2GWmld2

More exclusive music

Premiere: Nadia Struiwigh 'Soundshag'

Telepath

Taste Like Time - The Noise Figures

Calm Down

Ari Roar - Don't Have A Fit

"Putting On Airs" is the title track from Erin Rae's upcoming CD/LP release on Single Lock Records, out worldwide June 8.

www.erinraemusic.com
www.singlelock.com

Putting On Airs

Erin Rae- "Putting On Airs"

Buy on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BJMHoldThatThoughtAp
Pre-save on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/BJMHoldThatThoughtSP

This is the new single which announces the band's forthcoming two albums to be released this year. The first track is "Hold That Thought" which comes from the album "Something Else" which is to be released on 1st June 2018. The second track is "Drained" which will come from the self titled album that will be released in September of 2018. Both tracks were recorded in Berlin & the band are announcing tours of the USA, Canada, Australasia & Europe throughout the year.

Hold That Thought

'Scump Damage 1' is taken from School Damage's brand new 7" EP titled 'Sings.. Four Songs About One Cat', released through Upset The Rhythm on May 25th.

Available to pre-order now: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Melbourne/Geelong quartet School Damage began as a bedroom recording project for Carolyn Hawkins (Chook Race, Parsnip) and Jake Robertson (Ausmuteants, Frowning Clouds etc). They released a cassette for Moontown Records in 2013, then were joined by Jeff Raty on drums and Dani 'Damage' Hakim on bass. Taking cues from pop outfits such as The Vaselines, The Particles and Young Marble Giants, School Damage's sound is defined by wobbly keyboards, weaving bass lines, and lyrical content focused on the vagaries of modern life. Following on from last year’s excellent debut album through Chapter, School Damage return with a new EP for Upset The Rhythm titled ‘Sings… Four Songs About One Cat’. As titles go this one hits it on the head, School Damage tell the tale of a very independently-minded feline that they share their life with called Lumpy (also known as Scump). As Jake from the band explains, “Lumpy is incredibly naughty, she’s not very cuddly and she definitely plays by her own rules.  The songs here are a mix about us having anxiety as pet owners - whether she’ll run away, or if we’re suffocating her by our constant need of attention… and also about how much she enriches our lives.” For a cat who spends much of her time scratching up record spines, it seems fitting that Lumpy will now grace the cover and sentiment of her very own 7”. Maybe she’s just been making room all this time for as many copies as possible of her hit record.

Sings... Four Songs About One Cat

School Damage - 'Scump Damage 1'

Tooth Ache is taken from RF Shannon's sophomore album, Trickster Blues, due for release May 4th on Fuzz Club in Europe and Cosmic Dreamer in the US. Pre-order the vinyl at fuzzclub.com

RF Shannon - Tooth Ache

Nadia Struiwigh - Bldrnnr

The Garrys release their new single 'Makeout at the Drive-In' on 13th of May 2018, through Grey Records.

Ahead of two shows at this year's Great Escape Festival in Brighton, Canadian sibling trio The Garrys have announced the release of a new single 'Makeout at the Drive-In'.

 'Makeout at the Drive-In' is a shimmering slice of surf pop,  tremulous guitar licks are draped in subtle strings, framed by percussive backdrops and infused with The Garrys longing entwined vocal harmonies. With elements of dream pop that could be lifted from a Beach House record, allied to the influence of reverb-heavy 1950s harmonies and a cinematic quality that recalls the Twin Peaks soundtrack. This delectable song conjures up images of summers days of the past spent pulling up to Drive in with your date 

The Garrys are a trio of sisters from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada who play garage surf pop doo-wop. Their harmonies are dreamy and precise, and their instrumentation stays true to the likes of Dick Dale and early Beatles. Formed in the spring of 2015, The Garrys pull a strong influence from early reverb rock'n'roll and 1950s era vocal harmonies. If Ed Sullivan went on a date with the Shangri-Las, they would eat ice cream sandwiches and dance to the Garrys. Like father, like daughter(s). The Garrys are Erica Maier, Julie Maier, and Lenore Maier.
 
The Garrys released their sophomore album, Surf Manitou, in Canada last year through Saskatoon label Grey Records. Surf Manitou is a concept LP written about the various places in the nostalgic prairie resort town of Manitou Beach, Saskatchewan. The album is more technical and more musically mature than their first effort,  raunchy and dreamy it comes with a gratuitous dose of beach sass.

At the annual ‘M for Montreal’ festival, The Garrys received a number of positive reviews from music critics, The Garrys received multiple generous reviews and were cited amongst several critics in attendance as being amongst ‘The Best of M for Montreal’.  The Garry's appear at this year's Great Escape festival in Brighton.

“Erica, Julie, and Lenore’s delightful vocal harmonies over an early rock ‘n’ roll arrangement fade in as if being beamed to your brain from another time.” – Quick Before it Melts

'The Garrys’ sound is submerged in the twangy minor keyed reverb found within the ‘60s surf genre. Any of the guitar riffs could stand next to legendary surf rock bands like The Shadows, The Ventures, or The B-52s.'-  VUE Weekly

The Garrys appear at The Great Escape Festival 2018 
Thurs, May 17 at TGE. 12:45pm at Green Door Store (Canada Blast)
Thurs (night), May 17 at TGE. 12:15am at The Walrus
 
Friday, May 18 in Cardiff, Wales. 8:00pm at The Moon, Ages 18+ free entry show

 
Bandcamp: www.thegarrys.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5yCrfMGL6rnzyd85FlFcWc?si=XYt73-d3TBy6n56D0XPuog

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarrys/

Twitter: www.twitter.com/thegarrysband

Instagram: www.instagram.com/thegarrysband