Name: Middle Of America - White Reaper by Infinity Cat
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Description: From the upcoming 7" split with Daddy Issues, limited to 300 random colored records. Get yours at White Reaper's December shows, or on Christmas at infinitycat.com!

Listened right after emotive sound soup "Spectre" from Radiohead, I'm better now ;) This is perfect.

out now! on lolipop records, it's...
Dirt Dress - "Revelations" (CASS)
SUPERB, EXPEREMENTAL POST PUNK ART ROCK!!! FROM ONE OF OUR FAVE BANDS!!! DEBUT LOLIPOP CASSETTE, OUT NOW!!! DON'T DROP DA BALL!!!
www.lolipoprecords.com

DIRT DRESS - "Revelations"

Taken from our debut album "Scatter" out now. Get it here: http://smarturl.it/ScatteriTunes

Overgrown

Released on July 10, 2015. 

Digital: smarturl.it/eztv
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/calling-out

Calling Out

EZTV // Trampoline

From their "s/t" debut, out on July 10th, 2015 on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Trouble In Mind Records - Negative Scanner "Would You Rather"

Pre-order 
LP, CD or limited edition cream vinyl - http://smarturl.it/GirlsNames.ToughLove 
iTunes - http://radi.al/AAAViTunes

Northern Ireland’s Girls Names return this autumn with their third full-length album, Arms Around a Vision, due for an October 2nd release via long-term home, Tough Love Records.

PRESS RELEASE:
“We look to Europe for inspiration. For romance. For the idea of a better life,” says the band’s frontman, Cathal Cully, when discussing the album. “For me, living in Belfast just makes you focus on your own art.”

True, Girls Names formed in Belfast, but they’ve long considered themselves a European band. The distinction is important – their vision of Europe is one of weird, labyrinthian histories, blackest-ever-black coffee, and long drives to dismal places. Romantic notions for those of a certain disposition, but behind the thousand-yard stares they’ve always been a soft-hearted lot. As the title of Arms Around a Vision would suggest, they’re all set to let love in.  

The band initially came together as a relatively lean two-piece back in the summer of 2010, but over the course of a handful of EPs and three very different albums, they’ve grown in number and ambition. Their last album, The New Life, was an unexpected underground hit in early 2013, taking the band around the world and garnering much critical praise, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes. Emboldened by the reception to that record, in March they returned with an 11-minute single that was played in full on Radio 1 and, typically, does not feature on their new album. Girls Names like to do things a little differently. 

On Arms Around a Vision, they’re more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive. The bass, drums and guitars are still there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers. Conceptually, Arms Around a Vision acts as a love letter to European elegance – Italian futurism, Russian constructivism, Germany’s Zero Group and both Neubaten and Bowie’s Berlin. 

Love and pain, romance and fucking. It’s all in there somewhere. Grand claims, perhaps, but in an ever bleak world, why not skygaze? The album opens with ‘Reticence’, a song in two parts that’s half metallic knockout, half midnight swagger. It sounds unlike anything they’ve ever done before, and is a perfect primer for an album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze, Birthday Party dissonance and M.E.S’ three R’s: repetition, repetition, repetition.  

As confident as it sounds, hardship has equally played a role in shaping Arms Around a Vision. “I'm not starving or anything, but I've practically been living hand to mouth since I was 22,” confirms Cully. “Most guitar music now is just a playground for the rich middle classes and it's really boring and elitist. We're elitist in our own way, in that we're on our own and you can't fuck with us when we’ve nothing to lose”. The near-6 minute ‘A Hunger Artist’ tackles that subject full on, addressing that age old adage of suffering for one’s art.

While the songs aren’t narrative-driven as such – the band still generally favour abstraction and ambiguity – there is a consistent underlying message: “We've got nothing. We’ve never had anything. And we don't expect to. The only person I ever wanted to impress was myself. I've never got anywhere close to succeeding in doing that until this album. I'm proud of it. I think I can start saying I'm a musician now.”

Tracklisting:

1. Reticence
2. An Artificial Spring
3. Desire Oscillations
4. (Obsession)
5. Chrome Rose
6. A Hunger Artist
7. Málaga
8. Dysmorphia
9. (Convalescence)
10. Exploit Me
11. Take Out the Hand
12. I Was You 


iTunes pre-order

Girls Names - Reticence

"Bad Ideas" by Saintseneca from the album 'Such Things', available October 9th

Download the album on iTunes: http://found.ee/SaintsenecaSuchThings
Order the CD and vinyl at: http://found.ee/SaintsenecaSuchThingsstore

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Saintseneca
Twitter: https://twitter.com/saintseneca
Instagram: https://instagram.com/saintseneca_music

Saintseneca - Bad Ideas

Our Girl - Sleeper 7"
HYMNS003 
Released December 11th 2015

Limited black vinyl: http://tinyurl.com/nwddqxe
Spotify: http://tinyurl.com/q2z5nfx
iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/olvm9fv

Track listing
1. Sleeper
2. Level

Produced & Mixed by Andy Savours. Mastered by Felix Davis.
Artwork by Lucy Reavey

Our Girl
https://www.facebook.com/weareourgirl/?fref=ts

Cannibal Hymns
www.facebook.com/cannibalhymnsrecords/?fref=ts

https://www.musicglue.com/cannibalhymns/


Our Girl - Sleeper

From the upcoming 7" split with Daddy Issues, limited to 300 random colored records. Get yours at White Reaper's December shows, or on Christmas at infinitycat.com!

Middle Of America - White Reaper

Written by Sam Gillbanks, Hugo Heaverman, and Henry Nicholson. 
Produced by Sam Gillbanks.
Recorded by Frank Whittaker at Troubadour Studios, Falmouth.
Mixed and Mastered by Teitur Arnason and Hugo Heaverman.

Find it on Spotify/iTunes/Amazon here: https://communion.lnk.to/SinglesClub2%20

Childhood

The triumphant return of the Fresh & Onlys! Wolf Lie Down is out August 25th, 2017 on Sinderlyn Records.

Pre-Order Wolf Lie Down Digitally: http://apple.co/2rXq5Vw
Pre-Order Wolf Lie Down Physically: http://bit.ly/2sxNSwl

Wolf Lie Down

The Fresh & Onlys - Wolf Lie Down

Second single from the upcoming album Saudade.
Out in July.

Middle Of America - White Reaper

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