brilliant song, love the tone. after reading the HTRK bio on ghostly, definitely understand where the vibe is coming from

the woman with octopus visuals for this song were quite interesting!

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HTRK - Work (work, work)

live recorded at les ateliers claus 11.03.2022

Piotr Kurek - live ateliers claus

og flight

HTRK - Ice Eyes Eis

HTRK - Slo Glo

Purchase: http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/htrk-work-work-work
Release Info: http://ghostly.com/releases/work-work-work

HTRK’s Ghostly International debut 'Work (work, work)' is a flat-lined study of desire and submission, sentimentality and dysphoria. The London by way of Berlin and Melbourne art-rock duo (pronounced “Hate Rock”) finished the album’s production while grieving the sudden loss of founding member and bassist Sean Stewart to suicide in March ‘10. And while that tragedy has certainly found its way into the music’s bottomless sonic void, 'Work (work, work),' written from 2006-10 in Berlin and London, is about much more than abject darkness. Much, much more.
On 'Work (work, work)', HTRK craft a stark soundscape: achingly slow 808 beats, eerie synth arpeggios, vaporous guitar noise, and Jonnine Standish’s androgynous, detached vocals, dripping with reverb. And yet it’s the careful way the pair combine those elements—organizing and juxtaposing them with a minimalist’s attention to detail—that makes their music so emotionally devastating. “Ice Eyes Eis” starts things off by enveloping you in a slippery erotic zone, in which a German sex TV babe splays herself over a molasses-slow beat and clouds of dry-ice atmosphere. The creeping “Eat Yr Heart” embodies HTRK’s touch with sonic unease, showcasing a high-pitched horror-movie synth obligato that flits like a swarm of bats around Standish’s declarations of longing (“glucose, cellulose, saccharine”/ “you fill me up then make me starve, eat yr heart”). Late-album highlight “Love Triangle” takes a more sensuous tone, describing a perfect three-person encounter (“he on she on me / she on me on he / bermuda bermuda bermuda”) over textured guitar swirls and a languorous drum-machine march.
For all of Work (work, work)’s more abrasive elements, its sense of bleakness and mourning, one finds a surprisingly romantic core. A sense of doomed melancholy, a heavy heart, lives below the layers of a murky and heavy space. HTRK’s remaining members, Jonnine Standish and guitarist Nigel Yang, sweeten their heavier sonic reference points (Pan Sonic, Suicide, et al) into songs of love and lust, creating an imaginary party record for the end of time. And what of all that “work”? In the end, HTRK’s album title seems both to refer to the tireless craft that went into its creation, as well as Standish and Yang’s endless quest to extract beauty from melancholy.


HTRK - Eat Yr Heart

HTRK - Bendin'

HTRK -Skinny

Purchase: http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/htrk-work-work-work 
Release Info: http://ghostly.com/releases/work-work-work

HTRK’s Ghostly International debut Work (work, work) is a flat-lined study of desire and submission, sentimentality and dysphoria. The London by way of Berlin and Melbourne art-rock duo (pronounced “Hate Rock”) finished the album’s production while grieving the sudden loss of founding member and bassist Sean Stewart to suicide in March ‘10. And while that tragedy has certainly found its way into the music’s bottomless sonic void, Work (work, work), written from 2006-10 in Berlin and London, is about much more than abject darkness. Much, much more.

On Work (work, work), HTRK craft a stark soundscape: achingly slow 808 beats, eerie synth arpeggios, vaporous guitar noise, and Jonnine Standish’s androgynous, detached vocals, dripping with reverb. And yet it’s the careful way the pair combine those elements—organizing and juxtaposing them with a minimalist’s attention to detail—that makes their music so emotionally devastating. “Ice Eyes Eis” starts things off by enveloping you in a slippery erotic zone, in which a German sex TV babe splays herself over a molasses-slow beat and clouds of dry-ice atmosphere. The creeping “Eat Yr Heart” embodies HTRK’s touch with sonic unease, showcasing a high-pitched horror-movie synth obligato that flits like a swarm of bats around Standish’s declarations of longing (“glucose, cellulose, saccharine”/ “you fill me up then make me starve, eat yr heart”). Late-album highlight “Love Triangle” takes a more sensuous tone, describing a perfect three-person encounter (“he on she on me / she on me on he / bermuda bermuda bermuda”) over textured guitar swirls and a languorous drum-machine march.

For all of Work (work, work)’s more abrasive elements, its sense of bleakness and mourning, one finds a surprisingly romantic core. A sense of doomed melancholy, a heavy heart, lives below the layers of a murky and heavy space. HTRK’s remaining members, Jonnine Standish and guitarist Nigel Yang, sweeten their heavier sonic reference points (Pan Sonic, Suicide, et al) into songs of love and lust, creating an imaginary party record for the end of time. And what of all that “work”? In the end, HTRK’s album title seems both to refer to the tireless craft that went into its creation, as well as Standish and Yang’s endless quest to extract beauty from melancholy.

HTRK - Synthetik

Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006 - 2009

Dream Power

When I was teenager I listened rap, rock was so far to me… So know I discover some classics that are fresh for me… lucky me! 
So there is some classics grunge and indie rock, and of course 2023 songs from the new scene. 


After Eight w/ Aymard (03/05/24)

Global Goon - 06.02.23 / ADEPTA003

From the album What is Not Strange? 

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Tashi Wada - Subaru

prod. neverforever

ears folding back
now im scared now im
now im kissin yo head
sayin goodbye now its time for bed
i hate the words u say
bitch ur away
i gotta say
huh huh huh 

ooo drown in my tears now
thought you loved me
but you held me on the ground
my love
id love to keep being around ooo

kisses w/ pfion

Take from the album 'Reactions' released as 2LP and Download

Reactions

First Tone 'Reiterations' (SP 049)

Record Label Records

Wisp - Teddy Oggie

Morita Vargas '8', released as HH03 LP by Hidden Harmony Recordings (Estonia)

Morita Vargas – composer, producer, voices

Mastering - Diego Crisalida
Vinyl mastering, lathe cutting - Matt Colton (Metropolis Labs, London)

Recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Recording period 2014-2018)

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12" 180-gram vinyl record, 33 RPM, black vinyl. Edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies coming in die-cut outer sleeve, color print inner sleeve and protected by additional poly-liner sleeves.

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