Museum Of Love
"Monotronic"

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first single "Down South" available here: http://store.dfarecords.com/products/dfa2389

DIGITAL SINGLE

Museum of Love - Monotronic

If Words Were Flowers

The One

The Stars Align

The Stars Align (Timmy Timid Energy 909 Mix)

She Belongs To Me / Ballad Of A Thin Man

She Belongs To Me (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)

Floating On A Moment

Recorded live at Findspire Studios http://www.findspire.com
Heartache City album is out now digitally - and physically 10/16:
http://www.cocorosiemusic.com/heartache-city-album/
tour dates: 
Wed 9/30 - Mexico City, MEX @ Teatro Blanquita
Fri 10/2 - Lima, Peru @ Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
Sat 10/3 - Bogota, Colombia @ Teatro Ecci
Mon 10/5 - Buenos Aires City, Argentina @ Niceto Club
Wed 10/7 - Montevideo, Uruguay @ La Transtienda
Thu 10/8 - Santiago, Chile @ Teatro Cariola
Fri 10/9 - Cordoba, Argentina @ Paraguay Club
10/13 - Berlin, Germany @ Columbia Theater
10/14 - London, UK @ Village Underground
10/15 - Paris, France @ Cafe de la Danse

1. Forget Me Not
2. Un Beso
3. Lost Girls
4. Heartache City
5. Tower of Pisa
6. Bed Bugs
7. Tim and Tina
8. Big and Black
9. Lucky Clover
10. No One Knows

Lost Girls lyrics:
Even though red is not your color
i'll dress you in feathers
and fly you in the windy weather
like a child bird marooned
on an island of cats
little dewy brawling cats
with cross-eyed and hats
they take mercy on you
take you for walks
the mercy choir singing dismal dims
watery bible rhymes
all jumbled a mess
a mess of bright graves
flowers and balloons

stick out your thumb
and lift up your skirt
someone's bound to stop here soon
take down your hair
and wind up your grin
someone's gonna take you home

with a knapsack of trinket
I'm off to seek my fortune again
chasing ghosts of dead orphans
friends, cousin or kin
we wave to the passer by
moth wings of a butterfly 
endless tracks where no car pass
close your eyes and you can fly
I'm off to meet my soul mate 
a naked fawny jail bate 
wading into ponds
filly with polly wigs at dawn
mourning the light
that slipped from my eyes 
a little child with dirty nails
and dirty hair
i hard dirty things scrawled upon my mind

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Lost Girls (Live)

Push the Sky Away

Higgs Boson Blues (Live from KCRW)

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now.

Douglas Dare - New York

Soothing

Grey Oceans

Trinity's Crying

Slumlord

was in 1996 that Jay-Jay Johanson, a young man from a cold climate, fascinated by the Bristol sound they called trip-hop and Portishead in particular, first tapped delicately on our eardrums.
The intoxicating album that definitively put this rare and elegant Swede on the map was called Whiskey. It was the beginning of an enthralling adventure. In only a few songs he revealed a family tree that spread its roots far and wide: on one branch Lee Hazlewood, or pop from Talk Talk or Nilsson, on the other John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, and a whole army of calm jazz or symphonic
recordings sampled from everywhere imaginable.
Almost 20 years later he has returned with an
incredible new album. This new release is called Opium and it contains the very essence of Johanson’s music: an ease with inventing melodies, a voice that gently caresses, and the jacked up, heady rhythms that lift and carry the songs. From the peaceful harmonica opening of Drowsy / Too Young To Say Good Night to the smoke-wreathed love song I Don’t Know Much About Loving, via titles with a sporadic and light groove (NDE, Alone Too Long), Opium is a courageous offering. Johanson opens his heart with
fearlessness and modesty, gracefully lowering his guard and evoking the questions that torment men of his age: love, solitude, immaturity. The songwriting is unerring, the words have a suppressed poetry. This
new Johanson is the work of a guy who has survived the avalanches, who is no longer looking for answers and is content to sketch out the perspectives in as many songs. Some titles are serious (Harakiri), but others immediately take up the reins casting a more
gentle, peaceful light, like Scarecrow, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie that would not have sounded out of place on a Cocteau Twins album, or of the strange positivity of Be Yourself or I Love Him So.
The strength of Opium is that it asks questions that don’t necessarily have an answer; it offers a collection of songs freed from any certitude but which convince
through their modesty, through their precision.
In short, Jay-Jay at his best.

The Stars Align (Timmy Timid Energy 909 Mix)

JAY-JAY JOHANSON

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