Grouper – Ruins

Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train (LP)

Release date: November 19th

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You’ll Never Get To Heaven (Alice Hansen and Chuck Blazevic aka Slow Attack Ensemble) returns with their fourth release Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train, a collection of ethereal songs that move through the mercurial weather patterns of minimalism and dream pop.

The duo named this album after the closing track on Phil Yost’s 1967 release Bent City, inspired by its prescient use of delay processing in elevating spare beatless arrangements into haunting arrays of sonic afterimages — an approach Hansen and Blazevic explore on this outing in their own way, with a few favoured instruments and a Chorus Echo and Revox in hand. The result is a collection of sparse, lightly dub-infused songs and instrumentals, equally icy and wistful, characterized by melodic fretless basslines, spaced-out harmonics, watery piano and marimba, hushed vocals, and tape echo treatments.

Stylistically, it’s almost as if the duo was imagining what an early This Mortal Coil demo might have sounded like had Ivo enlisted in lieu of the usual cast, with a pared back L’Empire Des Sons as the session band, and June Hardin or a young Julee Cruise on lead vocals. The album evokes an overcast autumnal evening of cloud-watching, an inner journey witness to an expansive spectrum of moods, from nimbus clouds to shimmering sun showers.

RIYL: Broadcast, Weekend’s ‘81 Demos, Chantal Weber, Orquesta de las Nubes, Hydroplane, The Moon and the Melodies, Eberhard Weber

Tracklist:

A1 Setting Sun (2:59)
A2 Pink and Gold and Blue (2:56)
A3 Dust (2:36)
A4 Pattern Waves (3:30)

B1 Eye, Soul and Hand (3:18)
B2 Mad Shadows (2:33)
B3 Eternal Present (2:59)
B4 Predawn Visions (2:28)

Purchase digital on Bandcamp:
https://youllnevergettoheaven.bandcamp.com/album/wave-your-moonlight-hat-for-the-snowfall-train

Purchase vinyl: 
https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/youll-never-get-to-heaven-wave-your-moonlight-hat-for-the-snowfall-train

You'll Never Get To Heaven - Dust (29SC)

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Broadcast - Tears In The Typing Pool Demo [ 2004 ]

From the album Glider on Western Vinyl
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/glider/id985322600
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Glider-Heather-Woods-Broderick/dp/B00W4Y7EB8
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv135.php

Tracked live at Type Foundry recording studio in Portland, OR with Peter Broderick on drums and Dave Depper on bass

Heather Woods Broderick excels at distilling her experiences into a soulful melancholy that's enduring both for it's intimate relatable moments and its persistent sense of mystery. Her uncanny ear for evocative production and gorgeous vocal harmonies serves her well on her new album Glider. Throughout the album, the rich dreamlike atmospheres she creates hint at a darkness looming on the horizon, while the singularity of her ethereal voice always seems to linger long after the music has stopped.

Heather Woods Broderick:
Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/heather-woods-broderick.php
Website http://heatherwoodsbroderick.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/_H_W_B_
Instagram https://instagram.com/woodsbroderick/

LIVE DATES:
5/26/15 - Holocene - Portland, OR
5/27/15 - The Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA
5/30/15 - Turf Club - St Paul, MN
5/31/15 - Schubas - Chicago, IL
6/1/15 - The Drake - Toronto, Canada
6/2/15 - Le Divan Orange - Montreal, Canada

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