2020/08 #1 IndieRock DJ Playlist

"Picture of You" is the third single from Madeline Kenney's album, "Sucker's Lunch," out July 31st.

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Madeline Kenney - Picture Of You

A reaction to the band’s own naivety. Evoking a mini indie, cinematic melodrama about wanting to deconstruct and reassemble the world, the song is a reaction to American ideals of believing you can do anything.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/HxSszuZEVQ4

The Innocent

The Trusted

Poland

Brownian Motion

Track is taken from the self-titled debut by Gary Olson (Ex-The Ladybug Transistor)

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This album is a tale of two cities, or rather, two studios; one in Hayland, Norway and the other in Flatbush, Brooklyn and two brothers who came up with the idea making a record with indie rock wizard Gary Olson which now links the two locations.  Gary Olson is the lead singer, main songwriter and plays trumpet with the band Ladybug Transistor who have released five albums on Merge Records. He is also producer and engineer at Marlborough Farms studio deep in the heart of Flatbush Brooklyn. 

On the Norwegian side Ole Johannes Åleskjær has his studio, Tune-J in the bucolic countryside outside Oslo (and works as a lumberjack when not making amazing records). He and his brother Jorn Åleskjær met Gary many years ago when their band Loch Ness Mouse crossed paths with Ladybug Transistor on tour.

At one of these chance meetings Ole put forward the idea of a writing and recording collaboration between himself, his brother Jorn and Gary with the recording done both in Norway and Brooklyn. Over a period of eight years Gary would visit the Åleskjær brother’s barn studio in its idyllic setting near the Swedish border and do basic tracks on whatever songs the three had written. Gary would then take the recordings back to cosmopolitan Brooklyn where he would add vocals, horns and strings at his studio.  The recordings would then return to Norway for producer Ole to finish the tracks. By the end of 2019 this set of eleven songs had naturally blossomed into an album.

With Ole producing and playing guitar and Gary doing vocals and trumpet the album personnel was rounded out by Håvard Krogedal - bass, cello; Emil Nikolaisen  drums (both from Serena-Maneesh ); Joe McGinty (The Psychedelic Furs, Ryan Adams) string arrangements, piano and organ and Suzanne Nienaber  (Pale Lights) backing vocals. 

Although the initial idea was to do simple recordings Ladybug Transistor fans will no doubt be pleased to find Gary’s signature exultant trumpet sound, the luscious strings and gorgeous pop hooks so favored by that band present in plenty on this album.  The melodies are at once both delicate and strongly memorable and the lustrous production gives a sheen reminiscent of the best ‘70s commercial radio and ‘80s indie pop.

Fittingly the album cover photo depicts Gary on a decommissioned airfield in New York that is now a national park. There's a dreamy, overwhelming vastness on the old runway that was built in the 1920s. A lot of the original buildings still remain. You can feel the ghosts of the old pilots everywhere. Pioneer aviator Thor Solberg began the first successful flight from the U.S. to Norway from there in 1935. This album continues that tradition.

Gary Olson was asked how he’s like the album to be listened to. He reply went like this: “I’d suggest listening in a moving train facing the window. Close your eyes and feel the sunlight pass between the trees. Open your eyes slowly and realize you've missed your stop, repeat. “

More info: https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/gary-olson/

Gary Olson

Some Advice

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Gary Olson - Some Advice

Klub Silberrücken

The Pits

Untenable

Local Radio

The Jealous Star

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Saved

the derevolutions - Saved

Moral Panics

Verfremdungseffekt

All That Emotion

Just A Phase

No Place

Written and performed by Perlee, (Cormac O'Keeffe and Saramai Leech)

Artwork by Christopher Colm Morrin. Design by Anthony Mackey. 

All the tracks were analogueified by Julie McLarnon and Elise Mollé at Analogue Catalogue who put the mixes through the renowned Trident desk to tape. A.S. Fanning mastered the tracks in Berlin at Proper Octopus HQ.

Greenbay Records 2020 Berlin and Ireland

Half Seen Figure

SLOW YOUR EYES

BREACH

Berlin

Song Machine Episode 5

Pac-Man (feat. ScHoolboy Q)

'Atlas Vending' (Release date: October 09, 2020)

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METZ - A Boat to Drown In

Division

More Than A Feeling

'The North' is taken from Vintage Crop's forthcoming album 'Serve To Serve Again' out August 7th on Upset The Rhythm & Anti Fade.

Available to pre-order now: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Serve To Serve Again

Vintage Crop - The North

La Nueva Normalidad

Half Moon Rising