beautiful: somehow understatement and human decency in a perfectly underperfect Level. very nice to watch..

Eerily whispered vocals and creeping synths carried by an ominous beat. A song for stealthy secret admirers and peeping toms with shadowy desires. ‘In The Dark’ is a brooding artpop confession of an obsession gone just a tiny bit too far…

Josephine Odhil continues her exploration of humanity’s darker impulses with this hypnotic track. ‘In The Dark’ is the third single from her upcoming album, crafted with Maurits Nijhuis and Joost van Eck at the underground Studio Karakterbak.

Amsterdam based Josephine Odhil is a creator in the truest sense of the word, seamlessly blending music and visual art while drawing inspiration from the world around her. She has supported Altın Gün on tour and performed at festivals such as Motel Mozaique and Oerol. Following the release of her debut album Volatile she dove into a year-long exploration of evil through literature and cinema, keenly observing the darker aspects of the human psyche. The result: an intriguing sonic experience that resonates with dark tourists, true crime aficionados, and Pop Noir enthusiasts. Collaborating with Maurits Nijhuis and Joost van Eck, she recorded and produced the album at Studio Karakterbak—a studio that is quite literally underground. 

Empathy, Ennui and In The Dark are singles from the forthcoming album ‘Monstera’, set for release in April 2025.

Josephine Odhil – In The Dark

Malcolm

The second single from South / East London band Cloud Studies. It's the follow-up to their debut 2024 single ‘Ghosts’.

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For Fans of: Dreampop, Shoegaze, Slowdive, Film School, My  Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Stereolab, Beach House, DIIV

Cloud Studies formed in 2024, as means for Adam Cresswell and Martin J Langthorne to explore the sonic possibilities offered by the large arsenal of effects pedals they had acquired.

‘Cloud Cartography’ was the first song written by Adam for the band as a means to set the tone for the direction of their sonic explorations. It was inspired by visits to the Derryveagh Mountains of Donegal in Ireland, and fighting off the elements as sheets of rain beat down upon the mountainous landscape.

The song is about trying to make sense of a constantly changing world and our efforts to document and understand it.  In a library, the protagonist meets someone attempting to map and catalogue the clouds. They find themselves standing together on a mountainside battling the elements, their undaunted optimism constantly challenged by the impossible nature of their undertaking. 

Sonically the song presents a panoramic, full-spectrum wall of sound; dreamy synths, layers of reverb-drenched guitars from Adrian Taylor and Martin J Langthorne, ethereal vocals from Adam Cresswell, underpinned by a tight insistent rhythm from drummer Nat Guest.

Cloud Studies:
Adam Cresswell, Vocals, bass; Nat Guest, Drums; Martin J Langthorne, Guitars; Adrian Taylor, Guitars

Produced by Adam Cresswell.
Mastered by Toby Campen Mastering.
Recorded at Nan's House Studios (Liverpool) and Bellasonic Sounds (London).

Cloud Cartography

CLOUD STUDIES: Cloud Cartography

Fading

Middle of Nowhere

COLOR PALETTE - ANYWHERE AT ALL

Whispers

It’s about that kind of love that spirals - consuming, impossible to quit. It’s the sound of wanting more even when it’s already too much. Perfect for those late summer nights ✨


Written by: Agnieszka Trawczynska, Simon Velazquez, Aleksander Kaczmarek
Drums by: Marek Radziminski
Producer, Mixing Engineer: Aleksander Kaczmarek
Mastering Engineer: Krzysztof Kessler

Feel me
Just like you feel your heartbeat
On your wrists
Feel the hot blood pumping

Curious
Curious, your heart is
I might let you in
If I feel you're like me

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

Crawl
Crawl yourself to my skin
Magnetised
To what you could not see

I'll make you fall
In so many ways
You could not imagine
I'll keep you entertained
Until nothing feels just like this

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

It's so much faster
Feel it approaching
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming

This feeling
This beating
Is harder
Than anything else

Will thicken
Will bubble
Erupt and cause trouble
We'll burst to fall

I'll watch it in rapture
An outstanding finding
And overcommitting
Cause it is so blinding
I'll try to capture
Euphoria and love
And I'm forgetting
That life is upsetting
That every beginning
Is start to an end
I will forget that we ever lived
I will forget that we ever lived

overdose

instrumentals of love

Novam Infantiam

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Vanishing Riffs

London based electronic robot-pop label. 

Contact: info@happyrobots.co.uk
Web: www.happyrobots.co.uk

Releases include those by artists CLOUD STUDIES, ALICE HUBBLE, MOOD TAEG, ROMAN ANGELOS, HOLOGRAM TEEN, RODNEY CROMWELL and ARTHUR & MARTHA. Distributed by Cargo Records.

CLOUD STUDIES: Cloud Cartography

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