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04 Expectation

After years of writing and performing, Ava Luna has refined their doo-wop soul meets punk-as-fuck aesthetic into something bold and glaringly defiant in today's indie music landscape. Following the release of their critically lauded first proper full-length Ice Level, the band spent an intense 2-week period writing and recording in upstate New York. Unlike previous efforts that were meticulously mapped out, the songs that would become Electric Balloon were "…a family effort." according to frontman Carlos Hernandez. For the new album, former Columbia composition student Hernandez relinquished the reins a bit, opting for a more organic approach to writing the material for what would become Electric Balloon. As Hernandez explains, it was a "…birth of confidence. I grew closer to my bandmates, began to see the roles of a family playing out. Ethan cooks dinner for all of us, we make lewd jokes, and then 'after-dinner storytelling' takes the form of playing music." 

In the wake of Ice Level, Ava Luna's sharp edges have melted away just enough, making it easier to connect with their no-wave grooves and soaring harmonies. Distilling everything from James Chance and ESG to contemporaries like Dirty Projectors and Of Montreal, Ava Luna have landed on an aggressively unique sound that still manages to be accessible. Hernandez goes on to explain "…the stories and moments here are clearer, as in a conversation. The moment appears, you grab it with your hands, screw the lid on the mason jar. There was no tweaking, no second-guessing. Julian's mantra for the process: 'First thought best thought.'….And for my part, I sing my best about encounters, friendships, some moments beautiful and others painful. A bike shop manager in New Orleans, a derelict porch on Brighton Beach, a yellow sweater in a kitchen in the Catskills, a water duct in the New Mexico desert…"

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Catching Flies - Quiet Nights

Erik Hall worked patiently and solitarily for four years to craft Driver, his sophomore album as In Tall Buildings. Produced between his home studio in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and a 60's farmhouse in Leelanau County, Michigan, the album comes twenty years after Hall originally fell in love with home recording at age 13 - the year he got his hands on his first multitrack recorder.

Raised in downtown Chicago, Hall played drums and guitar in high school rock bands, and then went on to study percussion and audio engineering at the University of Michigan.  While in college he joined the avant afro-funk band NOMO and met His Name is Alive's Warn Defever, who produced many of the band's albums. Under Defever's tutelage, Hall honed many of the recording and production techniques he would later apply to his solo recordings. As he explains, "I was the guy in the band badgering him with questions throughout the sessions, trying to learn everything I could and then trying it out myself at home." As a multi-instrumentalist and producer Hall eventually went on to record and tour with several groups, including old friends His Name is Alive and, more recently, dream-pop duo Wild Belle, performing the rhythm section tracks and lending an engineering hand to their Columbia Records debut.

In stark contrast to the dense polyrhythms echoed by NOMO's albums, Driver uses a relatively simple palette to create spacious pop songs, leaving plenty of room for Hall's often Peter Gabriel-esque vocals to shine.  The music, though culled from every guitar, keyboard, and drum he managed to fit into his home studio, is powerful in it's restrained simplicity, and it's a compelling foil to the haunting gravity of his vocal performance. Never rushed, his melodies deliver elliptical lyrics that manage to feel intimate, while retaining a sense of mystery. Ultimately, the album's melancholic vibe is relatable, rather than moping or histrionic, and in the end these songs are incredibly comforting and inviting.

In Tall Buildings - Unmistakable

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Lyrics:

Oh my mom doesn't know about me.
That's because I don't tell her a goddamned thing.
Lying... Kind of...
Oh she'll never know.
No she won't, never will, because I'll just say...

Na na na...

Oh my brother always crosses his t's.
That's because he is a better guy than me.
Less than... Kind of...
Oh he'll never know...
No he won't, never will, because I'll just say...

Na na na...

And I'm not necessarily saying that I hate myself,
But I wouldn't exactly invite me over for dinner...


Music and lyrics written and composed by Henry Hall

Henry Hall - Vocals, Guitar, Mellotron
Robby Caplan - Bass
Nate Mondschein - Drums

Recorded at Strange Weather Recording and John Kilgore Sound and Recording
Mixed by Marc Alan Goodman and Johan Forsman Löwenström
Mastered by Josh Bonati

Album Artwork by Oliver Citrin and Annalora Von Pentz

Fake Words

Taken from Debut Album 'It Takes A Lot', out Sept 16th via @averagenegative / limited edition tapes / digital formats

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Take Me By The Hand

"[The remix] is inspired by early Weatherall and Oakenfold productions, as well as the textures found on the Moodhut and Future Times labels. The dance mix builds to a grooving bass line which compliments the soaring melodies of the original." -- Mike Coogan (of Brett)

"Come On Thru" is taken from MADEIRA's debut EP "Bad Humors." Available here:
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MADEIRA - Come On Thru (Brett Dance Remix)

Golden Cage

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Fever

Bubbles taught me how to love, butterfly of digable planets taught me how to hold the space & sauce

Fake Words

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