2018 Vol 1

Snail Mail on Audiotree Live

Slug (Audiotree Live Version)

PRE-ORDER 'The Second Floor' LP:

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The Second Floor

Non-contest

ego inflator

Dreamweapon - Mashinne

ORDER 'SHADOW ON EVERYTHING' OUT ON WHARF CAT RECORDS ON 4/6
http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/bambara-shadow-on-everything-pre-order

Way back, when Elsa was a little girl 
She saw a deer in her yard 
And she went over to take a peek 
She waved at it through the glass 
A gunshot cracked 
And steaming blood fanned out around its kicking feet 
Dead eyes staring 
Dead eyes staring 
Now she’s all grown, big-boned, and sweet 
Dancing to her records late at night 
When there’s no one around who might 
Hear her as she tries to sing 
Fly strips along the walls 
She twirls through the halls of buzzing wings 

She puts on the clothes she likes to sleep in 
Leaves the hall lights on bright 
And falls nervous into dreaming 
Cause she knows what she’ll find 
Staring back all blank and dead 
She takes a hit and slides out of bed 

You said Jack’s handsome and he’s dumb 
Drinks at your father’s bar with all the scum 
Till his flushed face goes slack 
He’s new in town. Came one night when it was raining 
Bag full of blank notebooks on his back 
And he’s always complaining 
Yeah he knows he’s a poet just uninspired 
Says it’s his muse who is a fucking hack 
Says the bitch must be sleeping on the job 
Like some lazy god-slob 
Don’t give a shit about her little Jack 

He whistles for another round 

Elsa’s walking down the street 
Jack sees her through the glass and winks 
Elsa smiles back from the crosswalk 

Brakes squealing and screeching 
Jack runs to the Cadillac 
Sees Elsa gurgling beneath it 
Her eyes stare dead-blank 
Rolling round in her twitching head 
Like a dumb animal he thinks 
And the beauty overwhelms him 
He writes and writes and writes 
He writes and writes and writes 
He writes a title on the page 
“Doe-Eyed Girl” it says

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Bambara - Doe-Eyed Girl - From the "Shadow On Everything" lp

NO SWOON 
EP 1

Written, produced and engineered by No Swoon
Mixed by Jorge Elbrecht
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Additional production and engineering by Patrick Canaday

Tasha Abbott - Vocals and Guitar
Zack Nestel-Patt - Synthesizers and Bass
Ricky Petraglia - Drums

Blame The Messenger

pre-order: http://www.explodinginsoundrecords.com/products/613199-big-ups-two-parts-together
Big Ups is:
Brendan Finn -Drums, Percusssion, Violin
Joe Galarraga - Vocals, Percussion, Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Synthesizer, Piano, Drum Machine
Amar Lal - Guitar, Percussion, Synthesizer, Bass Guitar, Field Recording, Glockenspiel, Harmonium
Carlos Salguero Jr. - Bass Guitar, Percussion

Additional Vocals on "Trying to Love" by Elana Ehrenberg
Additional Percussion on "Trying to Love" by Michael Quigley

Artwork by Austin Redwood. Art Layout by Amar Lal. Track 1 Recorded at Thump and Moon Recording by Amar Lal. Track 2-4 and 6-8 recorded at Gravesend Recordings by Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez with additional recording at Moon Recording and Crew Cuts by Amar Lal. Track 5 partially recorded at the Moos Cabin, Ten Mile Lake, Cass County, MN. Mixed by Amar Lal. Mastered by Sarah Register. All music by Big Ups except Track 5 by Amar Lal and Joe Galarraga.

Big Ups - Fear

George Clanton is Back™
"Make It Forever" released officially on March 8th 2018 (today) marking the beginning of a new era. Listen now, and look for George in a city near you this Spring

George Clanton - Make It Forever

This track is from the Record Store Day version of the ACLU Benefit Compilation and comes on a flexi disc! You can find this comp at fine record stores everywhere!

BUY ON BANDCAMP

Public Practice - Foundation (Demo) - from the RSD version of our ACLU 2XLP plus flexi-disc)

Wimps 'Garbage People' (Kill Rock Stars)
Available on LP/CS/CD/MP3 on July 13th, 2018

Pre-order at http://smarturl.it/garbagepeople

Garbage People

Mope Around

Wimps - Mope Around

Peel Dream Magazine is the nom de plume of New York City-based musician Joe Stevens. A nod to BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel, arbiter of all things underground, Peel Dream Magazine is highly evocative of a certain strain of independent music. Stevens harkens back to the early 1990s, when The Velvet Underground resurged as an inspiration to a new set of bands wielding synthesizers, off-set guitars, and a political bent. The Peel Dream experience is defined by a gentle, fuzzy psychedelia —it’s a hypnotic bit of mod-ish lo-fi pop, recalling the best of early Stereolab, Lilys, and other shaggy haired kids with vintage fuzz pedals, slim trousers, and good record collections.

Written and recorded over a four-week period in the fall of 2017, Peel Dream Magazine’s debut album "Modern Meta Physic" fixates on the New Age universe of the Catskills region of New York. Stevens deals in esoteric bohemian fare — Far East philosophy, Native American tradition, mid-century modern cool — as he appraises the world according to privileged urban expats who increasingly call the upstate paradise home.

Leading off the album, "Qi Velocity" is a metronomic take on French pop that yields to a lush chorus reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian. “Deetjen's," named after the much-loved bed & breakfast in Big Sur, would fit snugly on Unrest's best Teen Beat material. "Due to Advances in Modern Tourism" displays a soft take on Neu!, while the organ that enters could be a sly wink to Steve Reich's "Four Organs.”

There is an economy to these tracks — everything is distilled down to it’s essential elements, no gestures are wasted, no superfluous ornamentation taking up space. While Stevens is more than happy to show his influences on his sleeve — mind you, they're great influences — it's clear Peel Dream Magazine isn't just a “sound." The guy can write songs. Where he goes next is anybody's guess.

Modern Meta Physic

Peel Dream Magazine - Qi Velocity

Powersnap - Pink Diamonds

Rat Columns is the ever changing musical project of David West and friends. West is involved in other groups such as Rank/Xerox and Liberation, was a member of Total Control and Lace Curtain, and in recent years has released 2 eponymous solo LP's. Rat Columns emerged from the desert outpost of Perth, Western Australia in the late 2000s, influenced by largely anglocentric forms such as post-punk and jangle pop,  and has developed over time with an array of different friends from the USA and Australia, emitting a jet stream of 7”s, EPs and three full length albums along the way.

The third full length LP "Candle Power" was released in 2017, a mix of indie pop, post-punk and disco. The songs included on the "Sometimes We're Friends" EP were recorded at the same time as "Candle Power" in Guildford, Western Australia, in a back shed studio on a rambling riverside property. Beyond West, the Australian Rat Columns line-up of Perth underground luminaries, Amber Gempton, Louis Hooper and Chris Cobilis is featured, as well as musical wunderkind Cohen Bourgault guesting on violin. This recording sees Rat Columns dancing around classicist, German-influenced propulsive guitar pop on 'Sometimes We're Friends', an indie pop gossamer ballad involving an 'Astral Lover', and an unusual diversion into downer, vaguely Young-esque dirge rock on the cheery 'Waiting To Die'. This is the first Rat Columns release on the long-running, Bay Area-based Slumberland imprint.

Sometimes We're Friends

Rat Columns - Sometimes We're Friends

Human People's full length debut "Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears" is out September 21st via Exploding In Sound Records.

Human People - Jenny

This rough mix of Breathe In is from Kristin's forthcoming album, "Possible Dust Clouds". Bass by Fred Abong, drums by Kristin's son, Wyatt True.

BREATHE IN

Fall into the Sun

Future Hell

Big Bliss - Surface

from the album 'A Prayer For War' (12XU 109-1),
out 9/21/18  

preorder at 12XU.bigcartel.com or 12xu.bandcamp.com

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12XU.net

Borzoi - Big Pink

Beak> - WAWPSY

Remix by @blockheadnyc
Original featured on the album "Some Strange Reason"
Mastered by Eddie Logix
Artwork by Jake Ruiz

© 2018 Blockhead, Peace to Mateo, distributed by Young Heavy Souls, Inc.

2018 Vol 1

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