Indie Favorites 2015 + Synth/Future

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A collection of the greatest tracks, ever.

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2015

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Pinkshinyultrablast | ‘Umi’ | Club AC30

•	“Excessively impressive, unexpectedly fast-paced shoegaze from these Russian peeps.” Drowned In Sound

•	“It's one of those records that make you want to listen all day long. It's all there: guitar waves, distant voices, melodies and electrostatic. It's impossible not to play this on repeat." Sinewave

•	“In our minds, they’re the most interesting shoegaze band in the world right now.” The Dumbing Of America

‘Umi’ – first single to be taken from ‘Everything Else Matters’ due out in January.

Pinkshinyultrablast, are a five-piece band from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. The first single ‘Umi’ is due for release on November 10th. The song is indicative of an album full of melodic gems. Umi is rich with complexity, while underpinned with a beauty that both beguiles and entrances. The song evokes the spirit of bands like Slowdive and The Cocteau Twins, but at the same time remaining undeniably modern.

Hailing from a city more synonymous with the State Conservatory rather than a gang of shoegaze addicts, they’ve been compared to Lush. But this is no mere throwback tribute - due to their sharp, icy electronics and ability to subvert the genre, bringing something new to the table. They possess not only the spirit of late 80s/early 90s British bands like Ride, but also machine-made sounds of the same era from Sabres Of Paradise or Global Communication, not to mention wider vibrations like Cluster, Popul Vuh, Terry Riley and Philip Glass.

Disdain for a stagnant scene can often be a driving force of creativity; the band say of St Petersburg that, “we realised the local indie scene was totally boring and wanted to play something radically different”. That vision has been realised – this is a sound brimming with playful melody and finely-crafted songwriting. Imagine the scope of a Caribou record, fronted by Elizabeth Fraser soundtracking a grizzly Raskolnikov crime.

The band take their name from an Astrobrite album, an act who were, according to the band, instrumental in how they “researched spaces between ambient, heavy guitar and pop music” .The spaces are what stand out, the production creates a dream-like affair, while space to breathe and reflect on the beauty of the music is accommodated. There exists a sparseness to their sound, that, in turn gives spaciousness, even expansiveness.

Welcome to your new favourite Russian band.

Pinkshinyultrablast are Igor - bass, Lyubov - vocals, Sergey - drums, Rustam - synths and electronics and Roman – guitars.

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Pinkshinyultrablast - Umi

Out March 9/10 on Slumberland Records (N & S America) and Fortuna Pop! (ROW).

iTunes pre-order: http://smarturl.it/expectdelays
LP/CD pre-order: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/283

Evans the Death return with their second album "Expect Delays" in March via Fortuna POP! (Europe) and Slumberland Records (USA). Recorded again with producer Rory Atwell, the album bristles with an underlying tension and veers from rip-roaring noise to quiet contemplation, underpinned by Katherine Whitaker’s extraordinary voice.

Still barely out of their teens, there’s a tremendous sense across "Expect Delays" of a band coming into their own, honing a plethora of influences to make a sound that is uniquely them. Each song on the album has a different feel to it: some of them are melodic and pretty; some of them heavy and dissonant; and some of them are, to quote guitarist Dan Moss, “a bit strange”. While retaining the post-punk and 90s alt-rock inspired elements that peppered their debut, the music is more expressive, heavier and more experimental, and the lyrics more nuanced, the sense of despair leavened by sharp wordplay and humour.

The unsettling undercurrent of melancholy and hopelessness that pervades the record has its roots in the last three years, spent eking out an existence on the poverty line in Cameron’s Britain, leaving them with a succession of minimum-wage jobs and unemployment benefits interviews. As guitarist Dan Moss relates, the album is about “being in London and feeling hopeless and a bit lost. Not having any money, relationships falling apart, things just not connecting or going anywhere and getting absolutely wasted all the time.”

Named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood,' the band’s 2012 self-titled inaugural album saw critical acclaim from the likes of Q, Uncut and Artrocker, as well as radio play on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music and XFM. After a change in line-up following the release of their debut, the band regrouped around the core of brothers Dan and Olly Moss and singer Katherine Whitaker for the recording of "Expect Delays." Drummer James Burkitt was recruited from Leeds’ band The ABC Club to complete a taut new four-piece.

More ambitious and focused than their previous record, whilst sacrificing none of their spontaneity and vitality, "Expect Delays" is a supremely inventive and intelligently crafted album from a band who have suffered for their art, and used that experience to inform and nourish their work. Expect no more delays, Evans the Death have arrived.

“Evans the Death manage to make humdrum everyday existence seem quite magical” Q ****

“A wonderful marriage of converse elements elegantly crafted into its own neat mess.” Artrocker *****

“Terrific” Uncut

Evans The Death - Don't Laugh At My Angry Face

Buy @ iTunes: bit.ly/1pjGcaH
Stream @ Spotify: bit.ly/1KSd1lu
LMTD Edition Vinyl - Sold Out
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All proceeds from this recording will be donated to Coalition for the Homeless: coalitionforthehomeless.org.

Ice Choir is a studio project of New York-based musician Kurt Feldman. Pure Holiday is one of two singles produced for the 2014 holiday season and the first release since Ice Choir’s debut album, Afar. Each track, wrapped in a glistening synth pop package, surrounds themes of caring for one another and connectedness.

Artwork by D.V. Caputo
"Cut Down The Tree" mixed by Jorge Elbrecht
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Ice Choir - It's Different Now

“On Christmas” is a delectable synth-pop nugget from New York’s Dum Dum Girls, recorded at Winter Station in Brooklyn, NY.  Featured on Converse Rubber Tracks’ holiday music EP, Noise To the World 2. 

Produced and mixed by: Kurt Feldman 
Programming, arrangement, and guitar by: Kurt Feldman
Music and Lyrics by: Dee Dee
Mastered by: Mike Bozzi at Bernie Grundman

Dum Dum Girls "On Christmas"

Taken from Diagrams' new album "Chromatics" out now! Available to buy here: http://bit.ly/1ocqKNp

Diagrams - Gentle Morning Song

Taken from the forthcoming album Mysteries by Tigercats (due out on Fortuna POP! on 2 February 2015), a pop gem in the shape of bishops, knights, kings and queens - a Bobby Fischer-referencing love song and anthem for chess fans everywhere.

Tigercats - Junior Champion

Taken from the forthcoming BLONDE EP, limited to 100 7"s only inc. downloads of all 4 tracks. Released 16th February 2015. Click the Buy tab to pre-order now! 

http://cf-records.com
http://facebook.com/Autumns.Band

AUTUMNS - Je Veux Être

"Hedina" is the first single from Therese Aune's EP called "Cocoon".

Cocoon release date: 
May 8th 2015

Visit: 
https://www.facebook.com/thereseaunemusikk
https://instagram.com/therese.aune/
http://thereseaune.virb.com/

THERESE AUNE - Hedina

Home

Stoked to announce that I have signed with Marathon Artists and will be releasing an EP on vinyl which is available here: smarturl.it/HE_Buy

Never Going Home

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Hazel English - Never Going Home

The first single and last track from 'Abandonware,' the ambitious new album by Ryan Newmyer/Jen Goma of A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Kurt Feldman of Ice Choir.

pre-order now at https://romanaclef.bandcamp.com/

These games we play
Are another way
To redefine the pleasure
Of sign and decay

Has that romantic streak marbled your heart?
Spend all your days picking up pieces
Of a life, that by all rights hasn’t fallen apart

Do you know what I mean?
What power gives my words meaning?

You told me, long ago, that your friends were your family
Now that you are angry with them all the time
I guess they really are

Disappointed, or Relieved?
Such easy cruelty
I can’t believe you'd be so naive

Any bond can be poisoned, 
If you’re to be believed

Despite what people say
Ours is no heroic act

Love and Decay
Yet we live against the day

Grow up and apart
Grow old and get smart
From the ghosts that share your name
Hone your art

Do you still live like you did?
Takeout five nights in a row
Laundry’s at the wash and fold
And good god, you’re looking old!

Over your shoulder
At a world getting older
What can we bring?
We still haven’t learned a thing!

Roman à Clef - Abandonware (Josh And Jer)

To say Berlin-based, Swedish artist Adna has had an eventful last 18 months would be a massive understatement.  With over 7 million streams on Spotify, as well as two highly acclaimed LPs, the 21 year old has become one of Europe’s most talked about emerging talents. The melancholic, lo-fi, singer-songwriter has had her work compared to the likes of Bon Iver & Daughter as well as high praise from NME, Pigeons & Planes & The Line Of Best Fit. She will embark on a European tour over the summer including her first ever dates in UK later this week.

Thursday May 14 @ 13:45 North Laine
Friday May 15 she's playing in Oxford (venue is the Ashmolean Museum)
Saturday May 16 @ 19:00 North Laine
Sunday May 17 @ 20:30 Sebright Arms

Adna - Beautiful Hell

Young Empires - The Gates (Teen Daze Remix)

Download "The Gates" on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/YEGates_iTunes

The Gates (Teen Daze Remix)

The new musical endeavor from Kristin Welchez (aka Dee Dee, leader of internationally acclaimed rock outfit Dum Dum Girls) is here and it's called KRISTIN KONTROL.

Kristin Kontrol's X-Communicate album releases 5/27/16 
Pre-order now http://u.subpop.com/1QpDatc

Kristin Kontrol http://www.kristinkontrol.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kristinkontrol
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KristinKontrol/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kristinkontrol/

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X-Communicate

Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate

Ice Choir (@Icechoir) 1st single from new album "Designs In Rhythm".

LP pre-order USA: Shelflife (http://www.shelflife.com/catalogue/LIFE145.html)
LP & CD pre-order Japan: Fastcut (http://fastcutrecords.com/?mode=grp&gid=155458&sort=n)

All Songs Written, Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Kurt Feldman at Winter Station (Brooklyn, NY)
Mastered by Heba Kardy, Timeless Mastering
Artwork and Design: D.V. Caputo

Ice Choir - Unprepared

Nins - NY Dancer  (original version)

"Across The Multiverse" is the first single from Dent May's forthcoming record, "Across The Multiverse", out August 18th on Carpark Records.

Pre-orders available here:
Carpark shop - http://smarturl.it/multiverse_carpark
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/multiverse_itunes

Dent May - Across The Multiverse (feat. Frankie Cosmos)

🔮 pre-order: houseoffeelings.bandcamp.com/album/last-chance-ep
⚗ spotify/itunes/etc: lnk.to/lastchance
🎉 HoF VIII ft Shamir, NOIA, DJs + more: ticketf.ly/2vCS3Fj

"I did one last disco song"

This track was written with a specific instrument in mind: the unmistakable voice of Shamir Bailey, who recently traded glimmering disco-pop ballads for a new brand of soul-searching lo-fi. A duet with House of Feelings bandleader Matty Fasano, who contributed sax on Shamir’s 2015 debut Ratchet, the song appears to bookend a certain phase of Shamir’s musical life (the above quote was tweeted by Shamir when we announced the track's existence). That bittersweet, maybe-an-ending, maybe-a-beginning feeling is manifest in the series of repeated, unanswered questions that make up the lyrics. "Who's gonna change the motion / when you're standing right by my side?"

🔮 pre-order: houseoffeelings.bandcamp.com/album/last-chance-ep
⚗ spotify/itunes/etc: lnk.to/lastchance

Last Chance EP tracklist:
01 Teach You
02 Last Chance
03 Hurt Me (feat. GABI)
04 Avatar (feat. Meredith Graves)
05 Keep On Running
06 It'll Cost You
07 Falling (feat. Shamir)
08 Let's Pretend

House of Feelings is an NYC based collective helmed by Matty Fasano and featuring a bevy of talent from the basements and bedroom studios of the New York underground. At once a band, weekly radio show, and roving dance party, the crew has swelled ranks and earned a growing following through a modern, multidisciplinary approach to creating and sharing music, fully embracing the community aspect so often present in the culture of dance music.

House of Feelings - Falling (feat. Shamir)

From Moon King's new album "Hamtramck '16"
Order here: http://smarturl.it/aeu582

Hamtramck '16

In & Out

Moon King - In & Out

Maria Usbeck - 'Bosque De Bambú'
Out March 9, 2018 on Cascine/Labrador

Written by Maria Usbeck
Produced and mixed by Kurt Feldman
Kalimba by Andrea Toscano
Featuring Rockaway Beach stranger

Artwork design by Maria Usbeck
Art direction and Photography by Holland Brown

Bosque De Bambú

Maria Usbeck - Bosque De Bambú

Jaipur

Echo Arms

Merry Christmas.. A couple years old but still might be worth a download.

Beaumont Stanford - Hello Juno - Free Download

Bottom Step

Written by Ryan Newmyer
Produced by Kurt Feldman and Ryan Newmyer
Engineered and Mixed by Kurt Feldman at Winter Station (Brooklyn, NY)

Kurt Feldman - programming, guitar
Jen Goma - voice
Ryan Newmyer - voice, guitar, synth, bass

PSBTV (Demo Version)

Written by Ryan Newmyer
Produced by Kurt Feldman and Ryan Newmyer
Engineered and Mixed by Kurt Feldman at Winter Station (Brooklyn, NY)

Kurt Feldman - programming, string arrangement, guitar
Jen Goma - voice
Ryan Newmyer - voice, guitar, synth




Lucky Toasts (Demo Version)

Cover of Turning Shrine's "1/4 Circle Black", featured on the <i>Face of Another</i> 12", reissued with accompanying 7" for Record Store Day, April 20 2013

Roman à Clef - Abandonware (Josh And Jer)

Infinite Best