Just wish she wasn’t in jail. For something she honestly didn’t do.

Whereas last week's daily, mega-playlist was a boisterous, upbeat one, the Weekend Showcase October 24th Edition is maybe our most "serious", but there are still some get-off-your-butt dance tracks.
Plenty of countries are represented, including Australia, Canada, England, France, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

Weekend Showcase - October 24 Edition

Heiress

Euphor

FOUND-Zach Webb

Appaloosa Bones

Sweet Heat Lightning

Someone To Stay

Someone To Stay (Acoustic)

Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation – Horse Dance

In an era in which ‘psychedelia’ can often mean merely a grab-bag of influences from which wah-wah pedals and two-note riffs are dispensed as signifiers and signposts into a realm of easy accessibility as opposed to gateways to another dimension, it can be a rarity to come across a band who are genuinely fixated on creating alternate realities for the listener. Yet this is exactly how Stockholm’s Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation view their incandescent art, and it’s this sensibility that’s led to the kaleidoscopic spendour of their debut full-length for Rocket Recordings, ‘Horse Dance’. 

“It’s a continuum that flows beyond here and now, and psychedelic music seems to be a really powerful way to unveil those deeper oceans of being that are our true home.” reflects Josefin, who forms half the core of the band with Fredrik Joelson. The last twelve months have seem a dramatic rise to prominence for The Liberation (who take their band name from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead) with their EP ‘Diamond Waves’ leading to shows in their homeland with Goat and Les Big Byrd, a nomination for a Swedish Grammy as best newcomer, and rapturously received appearances at festivals like Roskilde.

These adventures have set the stage for a spectacular movement into the unknown from their earlier work. ‘Horse Dance’ is a razorsharp collection of ditties that marry dreamlike radiance with hypnotic rhythmic drive, set alight by a prismatic experimental glow. It inhabits a realm in which a propulsive ‘60s-tinged pop song like ‘Sunny Afternoon’ can be elevated skyward with krautrock-tinged repetition, dub echo and analogue curlicues alike, and one in which a Broadcast-style mantra like ‘You Have Arrived’ can tap into a psychic lineage that stretches all the way from The United States Of America to Portishead’s ‘Third’. Yet whilst ghosts of the like of Laika, Cat’s Eyes and The Creatures may lurk in the darker recesses of these songs, this is a band paying no homage to bygone glories. 

The Liberation cite a myriad influences in both their philosophical stance and their aesthetic, from 12th century iconoclasts like Milarepa to 20th century sonic voyagers like Catherine Ribeiro, and from Kandinsky’s abstract expressions of synaesthesia to the avant-jazz of Moondog. Yet at all times their transcendental extrapolations are married to icy and enticing melodic flourishes, making for a revitalising clash between the chic and the transcendental, and a sound as biting as it is beatific.

“I definitely think that the human need for altered states - to see oneself from a bigger perspective - is a deep fundamental need” Josefin elaborates. “We’ve been deprived of access to our full nature by a restrictive system where altered states may be the ultimate taboo.”

With ‘Horse Dance’, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation step into a world where all such restrictions and taboos are null and void, and this journey is already proving quite the spectacle to behold. 

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - SUNNY AFTERNOON

Living in the dark

GRAVE119
Casket Girls
The Piano Album
out 10/17 digitally
pre-order here: https://graveface.bandcamp.com/album/the-piano-album

Casket Girls - Sixteen Forever

"Saturn" is from "Space" - an album of songs inspired by the planets in our Solar System. Space is a part of the Atlas: Year One music series by Sleeping At Last. 

iTunes

Saturn

Joshua Hyslop - In Deepest Blue
Available now at http://flyt.it/jhidb

http://joshuahyslop.com

Joshua Hyslop - Gone

"Better Instincts" is the first single from Miner's forthcoming album Tuanaki.

MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Jpw_kt-mk7M

http://buzzbands.la/2015/10/20/video-miner-better-instincts/

Miner - Better Instincts

Remedy II is a re-recorded new version of Remedy as released on MY BABY's second album Shamanaid (March 2015 Embrace Recordings)

Originals written by C. van Dijck, J. van Dijck, D. de Vries, R. Allen, Y. Sprey and M. Smid.
Performed by MY BABY.
Produced and recorded by Mickey Smid at Smusic Studio's Amsterdam

LYRICS Remedy II

Babe,
Nothing feels the same 
Now I got the taste 
Of your sweetest remedy  

Strange,
How I feel this way 
Your stuck in my brain 
Like an endless melody  

Your melody melody melody
Is my remedy remedy remedy

Strange
I’m stumbling to the caves
On these Delta Waves
But you’re a step ahead of me

Babe
How I feel this way 
You’re still in my brain 
Like an endless melody

Your melody melody melody
Is my remedy remedy remedy

Remedy II

TOUCH

when will i feel this
as vivid as it truly is,
fall in love in a single touch,
and fall apart when it hurts too much?

can we skip past near-death clichés
where my heart restarts, as my life replays?
all i want is to flip a switch
before something breaks that cannot be fixed.

i know, i know- the sirens sound
just before the walls come down.
pain is a well-intentioned weatherman
predicting God as best he can,
but God i want to feel again.

rain or shine, i don’t feel a thing,
just some information upon my skin.
i miss the subtle aches when the weather changed,
the barometric pressure we always blamed.

all i want is to flip a switch
before something breaks that cannot be fixed.

invisible machinery,
these moving parts inside of me
well, they’ve been shutting down for quite some time,
leaving only rust behind.

well i know, i know- the sirens sound
just before the walls come down.
pain is a well-intentioned weatherman
predicting God as best he can,
but God i want to feel again,
oh God i want to feel again.

down my arms, a thousand satellites
suddenly discover signs of life.

Atlas  Touch

Lifted from the 'Bathing Beach' EP out now via AllPoints
Buy: https://novoamor.lnk.to/bathing-beach
Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKAn8rNbKg

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Novo Amor

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