Jan / Feb 2020

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79) Temples - Colours To Life

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Sister Take My Hand

From the forthcoming album ‘Tape Hiss’
Release date: April 2nd, 2015
KRS 002 / Kurious Recordings & Subroutine Records
Pre-order album on ratsonrafts.com

Tour dates:
03/04 - V11, Rotterdam (SOLD OUT)
04/04 - Merleyn, Nijmegen
09/04 - Simplon, Groningen
10/04 - Ekko, Utrecht
11/04 - Motel Mozaïque, Rotterdam
17/04 - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
18/04 - Stroomhuis, Eindhoven
24/04 - Asteriks, Leeuwarden
Tickets on ratsonrafts.com

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"Tokyo" is the second single from TEEN's forthcoming record "Love Yes" out February 19th, 2016

Pre-order the album here:
iTunes w/ instant grat: http://smarturl.it/loveyes_itunes
Carpark shop: http://smarturl.it/loveyes_carpark

catch the band on tour this winter: http://bit.ly/1ntZJhH
February 14th - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
February 16th - Philadelphia, PA - Ortlieb’s
February 17th - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
February 18th - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
February 19th - Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
February 20th - Lakewood, OH - Mahall’s
February 21st - Chicago, IL - Hideout Inn
February 22nd - Cincinnati, OH - Monday Night at the Comet
February 24th - New Haven, CT - BAR
February 26th - Stony Brook, NY - Stony Brook University

TEEN - Tokyo

Plage

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/HalfSilences_Spotify
Apple: https://u.subpop.com/HalfSilences_AppleiTunes
Sub Pop Mega Mart https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/loma/half_silences

Loma: http://lomatheband.com
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/lomatheband 
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lomatheband
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lomatheband

Sub Pop Records: www.subpop.com
Twitter: twitter.com/subpop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
SoundCloud: @subpop
MegaMart: megamart.subpop.com/
Podcast: subpop.fm/

Loma - Half Silences

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Move to San Francisco

Never A Low

Who Needs The Money?

Flood

Hope you enjoy the second single from our upcoming record, Disco Volador! 
Heavenly Recordings 
Produced by Marta salogni, Engineered by Joel Patchett 
Artwork by Raissa Pardini

Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme)

Download this from http://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/beaches-she-beats

From second album She Beats, out on Chapter Music 3 May 2013.

Sprawling Melbourne psych-rock fivepiece Beaches return with second album She Beats.
Their self-titled debut emerged on Mistletone Records in 2008, making the Australian Music Prize shortlist for that year and featuring in 2010 book 100 Best Australian Albums. In the intervening years, the band have toured the US twice, played All Tomorrow’s Parties at the invitation of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, released an EP for NYC label Mexican Summer, shared stages with the likes of Roky Erickson, Deerhunter and Wooden Shjips, and even celebrated the birth of beautiful twin daughters to guitarist Alison Bolger.

But a second album was always on the cards. For She Beats, Beaches have once again joined forces with producer Jack Farley (Twerps, Scott & Charlenes Wedding). And like its predecessor, the album reflects a love for 60s pop, 70s psych, shoe-gaze, prog, southern boogie and Krautrock. But She Beats is bigger, bolder and more ambitious than the debut.

For one thing, German guitar icon Michael Rother of Neu/Harmonia features on two tracks. The band formed a bond with Rother at ATP in Melbourne in 2009, and he invited himself along to their recording sessions during his next Oz tour in 2012. One of these tracks, the cascading sonic swirl Distance, was premiered in March on Gorilla Vs Bear and has already had more than 30k Soundcloud plays.

￼Elsewhere, Veda sees the band extending hypnotically Eastward, while droning cello scrapes introduce Tanzanite. On the other end of the spectrum, tracks like Send Them Away, Out Of Mind and Runaway are upfront, glorious pop, though still heady with Beaches’ dreamy guitar heroics. All up, She Beats is rich, confident and layered, a multi-dimensional sonic world to get lost in over and over again.

Beaches are Antonia Sellbach (guitar/vocals), Alison Bolger (guitar/vocals), Ali McCann (guitar/vocals), Gill Tucker (bass/vocals) and Karla Way (drums/vocals).

“The five-piece can make a racket, no doubt, but Beaches are far from reckless, as the band delivered tightly constructed, densely layered and intricately detailed songs, all of them packing riffs the size of glaciers” - LA Times

“If the Melbourne, Australia-based all-girl rock group Beaches were based in, say, Brooklyn, you would probably have heard about them by now” - Pitchfork

www.facebook.com/beachesband
www.twitter.com/beachesband
www.chaptermusic.com.au
Itunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/she-beats/id610715433?uo=4

Beaches -  Send Them Away

Taken from the Boiling Point/Promise Land 12", out 5th Feb 2021. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BadwanCoxon

A collaboration between Faris Badwan (The Horrors / Cat’s Eyes) & renowned guitarist John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack / Spiritualized / Treader), Boiling Point/Promise Land is the first release of an ongoing collaborative series between Faris and other artists, details of which will be subsequently announced.

Badwan & Coxon met some years ago when Faris was looking for producers to work with on his solo material and their working relationship evolved beyond the existing songs into something more improvisational and instinctive. As Faris explains:

The new songs we ended up working on were largely spontaneous and cut together from early takes with minimal overdubbing. The lyrics were improvised and the focus was placed more on creating atmosphere and keeping things fairly raw and expressive. I guess I found it rewarding particularly with the guitar playing because it was so intuitive and completely free from any expectations of how a song should be constructed. There are hooks and repetitive sections but fewer traditional structures.

We tried to avoid doing any planning beforehand and focussed more on responding to what was happening in the moment. I guess the sessions were kind of a constant dialogue where we would each respond to the other's improvisation.

With Promise Land I began by improvising lyrics over a drone track John and I created. Some time later I came across “To Our Land” by Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian poet, and was struck by the similarities - there are a few lines that match really closely. Despite being half-palestinian myself this was a total accident and I know for sure I hadn’t seen Darwish’s piece before.

With Boiling Point the lyrics are almost the ghost of a narrative rather than an explicit story. I’m interested in the subconscious and how the hidden parts of your brain express themselves when given the opportunity. Looking back it was almost more about creating the right conditions for the subconscious to come out.

Boiling Point / Promise Land is out on Tough Love Records on Friday 5th February 2021 on DL and as a limited edition (500) 12” which includes a very limited run of 100 copies with hand painted sleeves by Faris which are available via Bandcamp. In keeping with the approach of the music, each design was improvised and instinctive. Faris added about the artwork:

What was interesting about it was the way the style of the designs naturally evolved as a result of having so many blank squares to fill - there's a really clear development from start to finish - beginning with angular lines filling the sleeve and ending with smoother, more minimal abstract shapes responding to the existing sleeve design. It ended up almost like a process-based art project where you work repetitively within really strict confines and let the results emerge organically.

Promise Land/Boiling Point (MP3)

Badwan/Coxon - Boiling Point

STREAM/PRE-ORDER:
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"Echo Base" is taken from Ed Schrader's Music Beat's forthcoming album 'Nightclub Daydreaming' out March 25th, 2022.

p + c 2022 Carpark Records

Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Echo Base

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Where Wildness Grows - 2018

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