2014 pop

summer 2014

LiStening Now // June 23rd

New Discoveries #8

Xpress Magazine x Weekly IV

champagnemolotov_27.06.2014

PLAY rockcurrent soundLIST ≠26 ♩♩♩
01AU We Are The Brave	- Your Ghost	
02US Charlie Malloy	- Dragon Friend	
03FR Tahiti 80	- Crush!	
04UK Tripwires	- Total Fascination Stuff ⇓	
05AU Them Bruins	- Barrenlands	
06UK Volcanoes	- Up In Smoke	
07FR Grand Bain	- No Country	
08US Ladada	- Comets ⇓	
09UK The Sea The Sea	- Captives ⇓	
10US Zella Day	- East of Eden	
11UK Owl John	- Hate Music	
12AU Husky	- I'm Not Coming Back	
13UK Amy Milner	- Have It All	
14US Stereoma	- Thought You Should Know ⇓	
15NO Silver Street	- Do My Best	
16AU The Kite String Tangle	- Arcadia	
17US EXROYALE	- Without It	
18DE Night Sports	- Substance
LIST random18 #newtracKs #time 1.06.46
@rocKcurrent Cloud Sounds ≋ /o.. uPdate your rocK ♩ 
Melbourne, Australia

PLAY rockcurrent soundLIST ≠26 ♩♩♩

summer

Notes from Left of the Dial: July 4

performed by denitia and sene. 
written by sene. 
produced by sene and nolan. 
mixed by nolan.

photo by mats bakken
artwork by denitia and sene.

BUY NOW!

feel better.

from Reconnect (2014)

pre-order the album (digital or cassette) at https://grmnygrmny.bandcamp.com/album/reconnect

vocals by Kotomi (Lauren Hillman)
music by Drew Harris


All Of Your Love ft. Kotomi

www.subpop.com/artists/lyla_foy
www.lylafoy.com

Like Lyla Foy on Facebook www.facebook.com/LylaFoy
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Sub Pop Records www.subpop.com
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Mirrors the Sky

Feather Tongue

Lyla Foy - Feather Tongue

Get "Swim" on iTunes here: http://po.st/pZ4JvE
Listen on Spotify here: http://po.st/SwimSp

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQjbNrUCYA0

Co-Produced by Charlie Hugall

Swim

Rae's debut album 'Unguarded' is out now!
Download on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/unguarded.itunes
Purchase on Amazon: http://smarturl.it/unguarded.amazon
Listen on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/unguarded.stream

Like on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/SqvAnR
Follow on Twitter: http://bit.ly/QqtGnb
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/rae.spotify

http://raemorris.co.uk

Unguarded

Skin

D O W N L O A D

• Fall •

Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3TWLBkotNQ

Fall - EP out NOW: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fall-ep/id804003515

•  Facebook: facebook.com/pixelfixmusic •  Twitter: twitter.com/pixelfixmusic • 

Pixel Fix - Fall

Great Ytene

PRE-ORDER HERE

Great Ytene - Away For Now

Donkey 12" out 10 March 2014 on Transgressive Records

A1. Donkey
A2. a Ho a Hand

B1. Hebrew
B2. History Lesson Part III

1st single from our 1st record coming later this year

Side A produced & mixed by Miti Adhikari at Stonehouse Chapel
Side B engineered & mixed by Dan Cox at Urchin

Art photographed by Tatiana Soumar & embellished by Arthur Yates

Pre-Order DONKEY EP digital - http://po.st/sAwII1

Pre-Order DONKEY EP 12" - http://po.st/GW90XS

☆

4 Shows... N, S, W, E in LONDON

1993 year of the Underdog. 2014 year of the Donkey

THURSDAY Feb 6th - The Gunners

THURSDAY Feb 13th - The Grosvenor

TUESDAY Feb 25th - St. Moritz

THURSDAY March 6th - New Empowering Church 

TICKETS: http://po.st/LXKljf

http://famy.co.uk
http://transgressiverecords.com

Donkey

Released August 5, 2014.

Digital: bit.ly/1mYsqJ2 
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/television-man

Naomi Punk // Firehose Face

"The Primordial Will" is the second single from Liam Betson's new LP "The Cover of Hunter". Out 7/22 on DDW.

Lyrics:

The little things I did
to show I wasn't taking this too seriously
will probably get lost over time.
But that's fine, right? Yeah that's fine, right.
Some parts are mine and, like...
other things you just can't help sometimes.
So I try to keep it out of my mind
and talking with you is a good sign.

These motions can't always do what I want them to.
Today, I realize, I am in a bad mood,
that I scowl and brood like it's clever or cute.
But I will see it through, I will curse and rue,
I will joke about it too just to confound and confuse—
there's nothing wrong with you.

And I am smart enough to admit that.
I will not stop understanding that.
I will bow before that.
I will get drunk knowing that.
I will not feel bad.
I will offer my hand.
I haven't been and will continue
to refrain from sobbing in my bed.

I want crooked teeth and I want a runny nose
and I want a cut on my knee
to get little specks of blood on my clothes.
This too will be a testament
as I sit cross-legged in my room.
And I'll talk you through the rest of it
if that's what you want to do.

Intersecting wills in a dark and crowded room
where voices whisper who’s sleeping with whom,
hiding hands beneath tables like charms in a tomb
for an itch to exhume and then posture improves
as the ego in you begins to blossom and bloom—
the image is renewed!
And with eyes splintering a line of pale light
you think of what might be the loneliest way home.
It's hard, I know, but humility shows
that you're willing to go quiet-and-unannoying-ly.
I say this knowingly: whatever it turns out to be,
I can plainly see right the heck in front of me,
like two hands extending, the door is opening.

Liam Betson :: The Primordial Will

Viet Cong's debut release on Mexican Summer.

"Cassette" will be available in EP / Digital formats on July 8, 2014.

www.mexicansummer.com

Buy on Mexican Summer

Static Wall

"Un Poquito Mas" is officially out May 27 on Bastard Jazz. 

https://soundcloud.com/dj-captain-planet
http://chicomann.bandcamp.com/

Captain Planet feat. Chico Mann - Un Poquito Mas

Go now
Slam your head into the clouds
Slow drown
Only I could drag you out
Float now
Without us bricks weighing you down
Grown out of all desires left lying around

I know that I can fake it
I know that I can make this alive

Dumb shit
Hippie conduit for sale
My wits
Left to chase your paper trail
Every little monster’s gotta feed
This one’s been devouring me
I have never moved at slower speeds
As when a heavy heart’s in need 
Hear me

I know that I can fake it
I know that I can make this alive

Never been so frightened by the sound
Of a spark dying out now
Safe to say that i won’t get around
It’s time to put it in the ground
Believe you me

I know that I can fake it
I know that I can make this alive

Slam (Free Download!)

2014. Recorded in London.

Video:
http://youtu.be/uQaOwIYJDok

Total Fascination Stuff

Ladada is Virginia Beach native Josiah Schlater. After years of recording and touring in other bands (MAE, We Are Trees, Jake Clemons), Schlater has now settled into a lively, sun-drenched sound of his own. Taking inspiraton from early Motown and 60's garage rock, he squeezed a drum kit, a couple guitars, a 4-track, and a netbook into a small storage unit and began recording what became Ladada.

Ladada

Comets

Ladada - Comets

"Dust" by Destruction Unit

Download the track for FREE at adultswim.com/singles beginning June 23.


Destruction Unit - Dust

Available on:
iTunes - itunes.apple.com/au/album/statues…ngle/id882886997
Spotify - play.spotify.com/album/0ilqxs8xQGWRPZzbkYXL5H
Rdio - rd.io/x/QUjuhCIaXP4/

If you like this, please rate or review it on Triple J Unearthed: www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/lupa

Connect with Lupa

Facebook | www.facebook.com/officiallupamusic 
Twitter | www.twitter.com/Lupa_Music
Triple J Unearthed | www.triplejunearthed.com.au/lupa
Soundcloud | www.soundcloud.com/lupa-music
Youtube | www.youtube.com/user/officiallupamusic

Lupa - Statues

New single from Slow Magic's forthcoming album out via Downtown Records.

♡

Girls

From Shabazz Palaces' forthcoming full-length 'Lese Majesty', out July 29th on Sub Pop Records.

Pre-order: 
https://www.subpop.com/artists/shabazz_palaces

https://www.facebook.com/shabazzpalaces
https://twitter.com/shabazzpalaces

twitter.com/subpop
www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
instagram.com/subpop#
subpop.tumblr.com

Lese Majesty

#CAKE

Shabazz Palaces - #CAKE

Preorder "La lune / Les chemins de traverse" limited edition 12" on Bandcamp http://bit.ly/moodoïd-BC
iTunes ◊ http://bit.ly/SQuoNu
Deezer ◊ http://bit.ly/Moodoïd-deezer
Spotify ◊ http://bit.ly/Moodoïd-Spotify
Facebook ◊  http://on.fb.me/1cUFBpU
Twitter ◊  http://bit.ly/1dUNDNG
Instagram ◊ http://bit.ly/1lahdRh

Moodoïd - La Lune (album version)

Hey Big Bang

Release Date: August 12
Bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com

Label: S/R
------
"Ferrill Gibbs’ new album, "Significant Trees", is “The most interesting album to emerge from Mobile in a very long time.”

Amassed and performed by engineers, producers, and players who’ve graced the music of artists such as of Montreal, REM, Brantley Gilbert, Jennifer Nettles, Sonic Youth, The Allman Brothers Band and Government Mule just to name a few, in the end, the sum became equal to the parts. The players would agree when it was over: they’d made “magic.”

Ferrill Gibbs had a renaissance of songwriting following the completion of his first solo album in 2010, in which songs popped from him one by one in near-complete fashion. Three years later, he would handpick the band to record the 12 songs at Studio 1093 in Athens, GA.

Significant Trees soars to heights and plunges to lows as it interweaves between the topics of sickness, joy, spirituality, loss, and hope, and is carried to grave extremes – although delicately - by the preeminent jazz and fusion of Athens, GA’s heralded Kenosha Kid.  

The album begins lamblike with The Happy Ones: the hypnotic roll of a kick and a brush sweeping against a snare and from there begins a song that sets the stage, bringing images so cinematic and visual that it seems like it was made for a movie. 

Before the song fades, in comes the expert fiddling of Andy Carlson, arranger of strings for REM’s "New Adventures in Hi Fi", and this is representative of the entire album really: each song is surprising and building and climaxing, each trying to outdo the next. So when you hear the cacophonous but controlled second track, “Roses,” and the blistering third, “Blitzkrieg,” you know that this album is not at all what it first appeared; that each song rises psychedelically and cinematically to the last effect-laden reverberation of the final track, “Overlooking A Horse.” At which point, you’ve come to understand its ambition.

Significant Trees is available at www.ferrillgibbs.com on hardcopy and will be available on iTunes and Amazon on August 12th. 


Ferrill Gibbs - "The Happy Ones"

From the forthcoming Zella Day EP expected late summer via B3SCI Records.

Follow Zella on Twitter - twitter.com/zelladay
Like Zella on Facebook: www.facebook.com/zelladay
Watch "East of Eden" on Youtube: http://bit.ly/zdEOE
Buy "East of Eden" on iTunes: http://bit.ly/1qbxSVV


Crown, Vol. 1

East of Eden

John is a homeless. 
John is a priest.
John is a witness.
John is a beast. 
John is a weirdo. 
John is a thief. 
John is a wino. 
Listen, bleed, weep.

Owl John is Scott Hutchison, Andy Monaghan & Simon Liddell.
Out Now: CD, Digital, Vinyl, and Bundle at http://owljohn.com 
Subscribe: http://goo.gl/7xelZz Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1mPsBVv

'Recorded Songs' EP out now: https://atlanti.cr/recordedsongs

2017 tour dates on sale here: http://smarturl.it/FRShows

Follow Frightened Rabbit here: 
Twitter: http://smarturl.it/FRTwitter
Instagram: http://smarturl.it/FRInstagram
Google +: http://smarturl.it/FRGooglePlus
YouTube: http://smarturl.it/FRYouTube
Soundcloud: http://smarturl.it/FRSoundcloud
Website: http://smarturl.it/FRWebsite

Owl John

GET TRACK ON ITUNES

Owl John - Red Hand

The second single of 2014 by Volcanoes
A sweet little lion of a record

VOLCANOES - Up In Smoke

Download on iTunes: smarturl.it/GoGrimes 

Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)

CHECK OUT bluntside’s NEW ALBUM "未来 THE FUTURE" OUT NOW ON BUSINESS CASUAL!
http://businesscasual87.bandcamp.com/album/the-future
http://www.businesscasual.biz/

bluntside - ソファの上に急ごしらえ

Download on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/your-ghost-single/id889043858

Visit: www.facebook.com/wearethebravemusic

WATCH THE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKs1XcuHOs

Emerging/unsigned Australian synth-noir duo We Are The Brave has been attracting impressive international blog attention lately, following the release of their recent single/video, Sparrow, from debut EP Noctua. They now release follow up single, Your Ghost, with a video (shot by James Chappell) to follow imminently.

Featuring warm, '80s/’90s flavoured synths, moody guitar licks, and Jess Chalker's  emotive vocal at the fore, Your Ghost was written/produced/recorded/mixed by We Are The Brave from their respective studios. It also features Grammy-winner William Bowden (Gotye's Making Mirrors) on mastering duties. 

Local blogs and outlets across the pond have jumped on board to praise Your Ghost, calling it ‘addictive’, ‘accomplished’ and ‘sophisticated’. At the same time, critics have heralded We Are The Brave as an exciting new act to emerge from Australia’s fertile indie music scene.
 
Your Ghost precedes We Are The Brave’s second EP, due later in the year, as well as a remix package, out soon in collaboration with NYC's Kid Recordings.

Written, recorded, produced, engineered & mixed by: We Are The Brave
Mastering: William Bowden

(Special thanks also to Ben Le Bruce (Clubfeet) for lending us your ears/perspective in the mixing stage, when our ears had gone to shit. You're a champion.)

                                    "dreamy and addictive" - Culture Collide   
 
“a pop tune of some sophistication that sounds a bit like Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush re-imagined for the disco" -  Breaking More Waves
                                                   

“disco wrapped in huge swathes of melancholy. You’re dancing. But tears are falling. Icy drums and shards of synth float around Jess Chalker’s emotive vocal. It’s an intense few minutes.” -  When the Gramophone Rings
 
“Your Ghost is an accomplished piece of work…. it's the type of music Kate Bush would be making, if she was still making hits!" - Indie Shuffle
                                                       
"Channeling similar-sounding acts like Florence and the Machine, Bat For Lashes, and MS MR, the duo's songs expertly ride the line between the past and the expansive future horizons...we wouldn't be surprised to find them gaining a foothold right here in the U.S. very, very soon." - MTV Buzzworthy

"...all the hallmarks of a Bat For Lashes or Ladyhawke track...the sound of a mid-eighties classic" - Your Music Radar

“Jess Chalker and (Ox Why) interweave the refreshing bluish crush renowned of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith with a breezy contemporary aesthetic to ensure it transcends time” – Dots and Dashes, UK

“Vibes, along with synths and a dreamy guitar, flow right in and out of this song. It's like a dancing ray of sunshine. “ – on Sparrow (Culture Fires remix). Thump/Vice (global premiere)

Your Ghost

Your Ghost - we are the brave (ft Jess Chalker)

performed by denitia and sene.
vocals: denitia
written and produced by sene.
mixed by nolan thies.

now on iTunes.


trip.fall.

performed by denitia and sene.
written and produced by sene.
post production / mix by nolan thies.

brand new visuals on denitia and sene. VEVO page.

download at www.denitiaandsene.bandcamp.com

breathe.dream.scream.

Paranoia

Demon Dance

Tarot Classics (Deluxe)

Drinking Problem

An independent record label, born in the Bay Area and based in Boston. We adore vinyl and creative people.

Ladada - Comets

Gold Robot Records