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First mp3 single from In Roses, the 2nd full-length LP from Boston's Gem Club, out January 28th on Hardly Art records.

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Polly

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'I Remember' Lyrics: 

I remember when we were skin and bone, tough and cruel  
But bruises brown and fade away
Trinkets in a coat pocket stolen from kids at school
Burned a hole and fed a shame

Someone should have told you that you'd always have a place to go
Uh oh I thought you would have known  
Someone should have told you that you'd never find yourself alone
Uh oh, we lost you to the snow  

I remember when we would hang about in hollow trees  
New sounds, sitting smoking leaves
Walking past boarded up windows gets you down
Sh*t town, knew you couldn't breathe  

Someone should have told you that you'd always have a place to go
Uh oh I thought you would have known  
Someone should have told you that you'd never find yourself alone
Uh oh, we lost you to the snow  

Or maybe you climbed out after all  
I didn't wait around to see you fall
Found you on facebook soft and warm
You must have known it. You must have known it
You must have known it. You must have known it

Saint Saviour - I Remember

Enchantment

Release Date : 23rd February 2015

Grasscut, the duo of Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair, return in February with a new single, Curlews/September Night’s Sky – the first single from the band’s forthcoming third album, Everyone Was A Bird, to be released by Lo Recordings in May 2015. 

Whilst first performed in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet to over 4,000 people in a warehouse in Poland, Curlews origins lie much closer to home. It’s meditative piano intro, soaring strings and sense of open skies and distant horizons inspired by the British coastline. “I’d started it on the train from Birmingham to Wales,” say Phillips, “and as I reworked it later for the album the music, especially the piano and string rhythms, kept pulling me back back to the Mawddach Estuary. I kept stripping layers and layers away, till eventually the melody, mood, and words were exposed – like they'd always been there.”

“The poet Harriet Tarlo cautions against the lazy use of ornithological metaphors for human emotion, but watching the curlews on the estuary, I really thought: this is me, digging around in the mud till I find it. I hope that's not lazy.”

That sense of place and belonging resonates throughout much of Grasscut’s work, and the forthcoming album features liner notes from the renowned landscape writer Robert Macfarlane. 

Alongside Curlews comes September's Night Sky, a story of a spring equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Scored by fragmented keyboards, guitars and sweeping strings it brings to mind the sense of both majesty and fragility that a starry night can inspire.

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After "Theater Island," last year's 6-track EP, Sóley returns with her first full-length, an album full of rhythmic makeshift creatures, of handclaps hidden in the undergrowth, tempting us to join in. The 13 tracks are sometimes incredibly catchy; amazingly quirky at other times: think cardigan-folk from the northern hemisphere, an ocean of stained glasses bopping up and down in the shared apartment's dishwater, leeward in limbo. The result is refreshing in its lack of edginess; think Joanna Newsom minus her harp, or the Casady sisters circa 2004, but then clearly better trained, less crooked. In other words: her voice, those loops moving around like wooden toys, and finally the piano – that's the backbone, the essence of her compositions; at least until some unexpected element appears elsewhere, a rhythmic creaking or the lack thereof, like a hidden Rube Goldberg machine, setting off yet another component, thus paving the way across the threshold and on into the next realm of sound. And thus we keep on sinking, deeper and deeper, until we stand on terra firma once again, realizing that somehow, next to us, above us, around us, a beat is laid out, hesitantly moving along at first, then careering… 

Sóley: I'll Drown

Ailbhe Reddy's new single 'Distrust':

"‘Distrust’ is her latest track, a song which pushes and pulls between acceptance, desire and distrust: at once mournful yet resolved to move on." - Nialler9

Irish Times 'New Artist of the Week' - "Her latest track Distrust marks a turning point towards a more developed sound. With the production help of Darragh Nolan, is more complex and memorable than what has gone before." - Niall Byrne, The Irish Times

"The stark production, use of harmonic background texture and large vocal swells makes for beguiling track." - Stephen White, The Last Mixed Tape

"‘Distrust’ is an indie pop tune that showcases Ailbhe’s distinguishing vocals. With lyrics that are both emotive and defiant yet hold a hint of open vulnerability, this mid-tempo track is well worth a listen." - Anna Henderson, Dublin Concerts

Claire Beck's Record of the Day on TXFM.
The Last Mixed Tape's 'Song of the Week'
Niall Byrne's New Artist of the Week for the Irish Times

Recorded and mixed by Darragh Nolan at Asta Kalapa Studios.
Mastered by Andy Davenport at Altitude Studios.
String arrangement - Katie Lynn

Vocals - Ailbhe Reddy
Guitar - Ailbhe Reddy
Bass guitar - Cillian Byrne
Percussion - Lorcan Byrne
Violin - Katie Lynn
Keys - Keith O'Reilly
Additional vocals - Cillian Byrne, Callum Orr, Katie Lynn & Jackie Hennessy

Artwork by Victoria Levins

Lyrics:

I'm not a mistake,
Hurts when you talk that way, that way.
I'm not a waste, 
The time it takes to fuck this up.
The distaste, distrust.

And I'll miss you,
I'll miss you...

But I'm not in love,
I don't think I can be, 
Thought that I could be with you.
I'm not in love,
No I can't be, 
Thought I could be with you, you.

With you, with you, with you...

It's not a shame,
You act this way, 
It just shows,
It's me you loathe.
I'm not afraid,
To walk away because I know.
I'm built to live alone.

And I'll miss you 
I'll miss you...

But I'm not in love,
I don't think I can be, 
Thought that I could be with you.
I'm not in love,
No I can't be, 
Thought I could be with you, you.


Distrust

Agnes Obel plays from her new release, Citizen of Glass, at soundcheck at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland, 3.24.17

Agnes Obel - It's Happening Again (opbmusic)

Woodkid - Central Park (feat. Son Lux)

A-side of our 7" EP, published on january 25th 2013

Landscapes

Brent Arnold: cello, producer
Adam Haggar: engineer
Recorded at La Cour Dieu and Audiofriction HQ

Empty Castles (Brent Arnold No Widows refracted)

Patrick Watson - Lighthouse

Gem Club is an American chamber pop band based out of Boston, Massachusetts. 

Polly

Gem Club

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