Kiss me at the Funeral

Single off of Tim Presley's debut solo album, The WiNK!

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Tim Presley- "Clue"

Ripened

Track 1 from The Cradle 'Bag Of Holding' [NNA114]
Available July 20th, 2018 on Vinyl & Digital formats.
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Bag Of Holding

The Cradle "Sweet Dreams"

Out 5th April on limited 7" (250 copies) - http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW027 - All We Are & Alex Kapranos - Heart Attack

Flow

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

Peel Dream Magazine - It's My Body

Early Morning Abstract

Dream Colour

Lunchbox's Tim Brown and Donna McKean have been making records in their Oakland, California basement for two decades, inspired by 1960s/70s AM-radio pop and TV show theme music, punk, C86, and mod à la the Creation and the Jam. From the sonically-inventive indiepop of "The Magic of Sound" (1999) to the dub-influenced psychedelia of "Evolver" (2001) to the critically-acclaimed bubblegum of "Lunchbox Loves You" (2013), the couple have established a sound all their own.

Their new album for Slumberland, "After School Special," finds them at the height of their powers of songcraft and performance. Donna's bass playing stakes out stylistic territory somewhere between Carol Kaye and John Entwhistle while Tim's guitar is equal parts 12-string jangle and clipped Orange Juice-esque funk. Horns by Gary Olson (Ladybug Transistor) and longtime collaborator Jeremy Goody drive the record from beginning to end. Evelyn Davis' delay-drenched keyboards combine with whispers of analog tape feedback to give the record an otherworldly vibe in keeping with its lyrical themes.

There, favorite seasons (autumn) and animals (cats), appear alongside love and death, ghosts and reincarnation. From the shimmering opener "Dream Parade" to the horn-driven mod-pop of "Hide and Seek," the groovy sixties R&B vibe of "I Really Wanna Know" and the haunting male-female vocal stylings of the  album-closing title track, the textures shift while the unity of artistic vision remains. Catchy as hell and beautifully packaged, "After School Special" is Lunchbox at their very best.

After School Special

Lunchbox - Dream Parade

First single from Pet Shimmers second album of 2020, 'Trash Earthers', out 2nd October. Pre-order on tasty ltd translucent red vinyl ere: https://petshimmers.bandcamp.com/album/trash-earthers

Amy Gough: incredible visuals
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As if faith waits for pillars of proof, well so do you
With a head full of history too, said “feeling cute”
Still, we’re all going home in an ambulance
Best stay cognisant, someone to give the driver directions

Of, blind ambivalence, in the aftermath.
A reckless optimist, of symbolic swells.
We’re all just playing along, two flaws in unison.
Overcome with overthought, until we’re inside out.

Back stepped, all things, conscious, comets, honest, summits

My inklings fade with false alarms
Her ink face decorates his arms
Tied perfect knots around the tubes
And your mother looks confused
Because you still buy baby’s shoes
Just one’s you know you’ll never use
Spoken like the truest friend
So, make a move, I’ll make the next

The moment passed, it came and went
It never started, never ends

Traced steps, flawless, conscious, comets, secret, handshakes, complex, dissuade, obsessed, haunted,
safe space, flightless, nervous, oh nothing!

Imber (ft. Ellie Rose-Davies)

Taken from Pet Shimmers' second record of 2020, 'Trash Earthers', out 2nd October. Pre-order on tasty ltd translucent red vinyl ere: http://petshimmers.bandcamp.com/album/trash-earthers

Amy Gough: incredible visuals
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Flow

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