Indie Pop May 2019

May 2019

Every month I will gather all submissions that don't make it directly onto the channel in a playlist and make a final selection of my personal favourites at the end of every month.

Chillicious Discoveries - May 2019

Mitski-Francis Forever

“A Love Song Seven Ways” is a celebration of the miracle of love in an overwhelmingly damaged world. Drifting in on a psychedelic breeze of synth and drums, Benjamin Lazar Davis’s gentle falsetto soars like a warm sunbeam giving way to euphoria. This is the first single to be released from Davis’s debut solo album ‘Nothing Matters,’ out April 20 on 11A Records.

Nothing Matters

A Love Song Seven Ways

Bioluminescence is available here: http://smarturl.it/iv7pzq

Mixed by Joel Ford (Ford & Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never, How To Dress Well)

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below, Black Knoll Studio)

Stream/download Spring here: http://smarturl.it/iv7pzq

Bioluminescence

Bandcamp

Spring

The Rope / Production Yan Lemoine

From the album Invitation available April 19th on Western Vinyl

INVITATION
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/invitation/1449313508?ls=1&app=itunes
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/1v5lm8v5OGB1d2XE6JyA3K
Bandcamp https://heatherwoodsbroderick.bandcamp.com/album/invitation
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv178

HEATHER WOODS BRODERICK
Website http://www.heatherwoodsbroderick.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/woodsbroderick
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/heatherwoodsbroderick
Twitter https://twitter.com/_H_W_B_

Heather Woods Broderick has played in Efterklang, Horse Feathers, the live bands of Laura Gibson, Lisa Hannigan, and Damien Jurado, and has also been Sharon Van Etten’s longtime collaborator and bandmate.  While this list may seem enviable for an aspiring young musician, any experienced player will know that the life of a touring musician comes with its own sacrifices.  Lasting relationships and financial certainty can be tenuous, as can mental stability itself.  Feeling this firsthand, Heather traded her usual launchpad of Brooklyn for the sleepy town of Pacific City, where she would quietly take a job cleaning houses, sitting down at the piano in the off-hours to unpack the personal tragedies and triumphs of the intervening decades since her first trips there as a child.

Invitation is an album of dreamy baroque-pop that swells and whispers with grand string arrangements, and intimate lyrics, built around earnest piano melodies, painting a lifelike picture of the locale in which it was written.  However, it’s not about the epic and beautiful physical features of the Pacific northwest seaside.  Rather, it’s about how the stillness of such settings can unearth the disquiet often buried by the infinite distractions of a life without pause.

Invitation

Heather Woods Broderick - "Where I Lay"

Tiny House

Recorded by Justin Rose at GCR Audio in Buffalo, NY

Mixed by Matt Bayles at Red Room Recording in Seattle, WA

Mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios in London, England

All songs written and Produced by Heron

Ben Blick - Boyd Lewis - Eric Morelli - Nathaniel Blick

© 2019 - Heron

Light

LYRICS ///

No I won't no I won't fuel the pain
Smoke filled cabins in my head
I feel as if I have no hope no way out of here
But I won't no I won't fuel the pain

Then I hear

No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire

The moan I hear from another
Worried I will show my fear
I feel a crawling cover a great mistake

No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire
No ceasefire

Can lift me up and lay me down
No I won't no I won't be afraid
These holograms in my head
All I need is inside of me
There is a way out then I hear

A ceasefire
A ceasefire
A ceasefire
A ceasefire

Yeah, oh, yeah 

///

As depression rates continue to spike at an alarming rate among millennials/teens, "Ceasefire" explores the slow meander and rhythmic repetitiveness of a creeping depression. The lyrics poignantly illuminate depression and psychological warfare under the influences of a modern technopoly. The final lyrics break the listener away into a euphoric space with a cacophony of harmonies, synths, and guitar riffs lifting the listener up to a finale.

BOTH RECORDS LLC ©2019

Ceasefire

Among the houses and the blossoms.
silent wishes out the window
On these streets I caught a bit of magic
in a taxi without signs
And I wonder if you
will ever, ever, notice me?
Or we do it all over.
Let´s do it all over, again

You brought the spring feeling in my body into my bones.
And I feel it come alive from my head to my toes.
Stay a little longer,
Won’t you stay a little longer
(In the spring sun, with me)

Among the treetops and the streetlights
Thew the meaning out the window
On these rooftops I caught a bit of air
with a view, oh mine to keep
And still I wonder if you
will ever ever find me?
Or I will do it all over.
Should I do it all over for you?

You brought the spring feeling in my body into my bones.
And I feel it come alive from my head to my toes.
Stay a little longer,
Won’t you stay a little longer?
(In the spring sun, with me)

And maybe we are way too young,
and maybe we will only feel low,
to know things like love.
But who cares anyway?

Spring Sun

This Is All In Your Head

Of Collingwood (Reworks)

Coward (Rework)

Adam Ayan 
Maia Bilyk 
Zachary Degnan 
Paul Gray 
Daniel Grima 
Madeline Holt 
Iti Memon 
Kevin Orr 
Joanna Syme

Try Hold Time

Interlude

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LYRICS:
You’re not alone
When you’re swimming in the dark
Follow the glowing bodies drifting
Up to see the stars

You’ve been lost for so long
You’ve forgotten what it feels like
You’ve been lost for so long
You’ve forgotten what it looks like

Oh you’re
All I
If you’d only dare to go
You’re not alone
Feel my arms around you

Close your eyes
I’ll breathe air into your lungs
Tell you
I love you
Follow me
I’ll take you to hidden lands
If only you let me now

Take a breath
Lay your head
In my hands

You’re not alone
When you’re swimming in the dark
See the glowing bodies leading
Up to greet the stars

You’ve been lost for so long
You’ve forgotten what it feels like
You’ve been lost for so long
You’ve forgotten what it looks like

Close your eyes
I’ll breathe air into your lungs
Tell you I love you
Follow me
I’ll take you to hidden lands
If only you let me now

Take a breath
Lay your head
In my hands

Hold me now
For the last
Rise to see the light
Hold me now
At last

Close your eyes
I’ll breathe air into your lungs
Follow me
I’ll take you to hidden lands

Close your eyes
I’ll breathe air into your lungs
Tell you I love you
Follow me
I’ll take you to hidden lands
If only you let me now

Take a breath
Lay your head
In my hands

You're drifting downwards
You're drifting downwards
You're drifting down
To the forgotten window

Mermaid

'Magic' by Abc Dialect.

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IUCyDe
Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/magic/1458391225?i=1458391437
Instagram: www.instagram.com/abcdialect/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/abcdialect
Website: www.abcdialect.com

© ABC DIALECT 2019
Ⓟ CASABLANCA SUNSET 2019

Magic

Sold all I own and packed my bags into the night
Drove alone until I finally reached the ocean side
Pulled me closer till my legs they slowly numbed

Take me home

Love
All the knots I’ve tied are pulling at me tight
Thoughts of longing only call me in the dead of night
There’s only six main strings that bring me back to you

Take me home
Take me back from the rain 
Right before the days
I was stripped from all I know
Take me home

Lost it all into the ocean
Found it in the end
Lost it all into the ocean
Found it in the end
Lost it all into the ocean
Found it in the end

Take me home
Take me back from the rain 
Right before the days
I was stripped from all I know
Take me home

Take Me Home

EVRWNDR

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( i promise
promise?
it means something you can't break, ever )

kiss me on my neck
tell me all your fears
'cause the rush of love is gone
i'm tryna find out why it disappeared
why it disappeared

i look you in the eyes
don't feel nothing here
'cause the feeling of the love that i used to have
well that shit's disappeared

( promise )

do you remember
our love in november
that shit was so real
but there's patches on my fingers that won't heal
there's patches on my fingers that won't feel
why'd you have to fucking disappear.


why'd you disappear
please come back

beabadoobee - disappear

Immunity out on August 2nd

Pre-save the album:
https://clairo.lnk.to/immunity

Lyrics:
Every second counts,
I don’t want to talk to you anymore
All these little games
you can call me by the name I gave you yesterday

Every minute counts,
I don’t want to watch TV anymore
Can you figure me out?
Just doin this to waste more time on the couch

Can you see me I’m waiting for the right time
I can’t read you but if you want, the pleasure’s all mine
Can you see me using everything to hold back
I guess this could be worse
Walking out the door with your bags
x4

[Instrumental]

Pour your glass of wine
Mitchell told me I should be just fine
Cases under the bed
Spill it open let it rush to my head

I don’t want to be forward
I don’t want to cut corners
savor this with everything I have inside me
I’m not the type to run
I know that we’re having fun
But what’s the rush? Kissing and my cheeks are so flushed

Tell you how i felt
Sugar coated melting in your mouth
Pardon my emotions, I should probably keep it all to myself
Know you’d make fun of me
x4

Chorus

Take Me Home

HARLEQUIN GOLD