Songs We Like - February 2019 Short List

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LYRICS:
Another amazing day to open shop
I heard the Dow Jones ended double positive
Today they’re back for more
Me and my shares are on a bubble up and we’re never coming down
An unbelievably booming economy, now!

Come everyone gather round
The end of the world is any time now

Let us all join hands and say a prayer
Heavenly Father, can you do that thing you do and lower interest rates?

Some of the most impressive real estate is being developed near my house
An inconceivably lucrative fortuity, wow!

Come everyone gather round
The end of the world is any time now
So hold up both your hands
It’s raining money
Grab everything your back will let you carry

RECORDING CREDITS:
Daniël de Jong: lead vocals, guitars
Daniël Schoemaker: guitars, backing vocals
Kike Zwagerman: bass, backing vocals 
Ivar Otten: keys
Gino Buragevic: drums, percussion 
Adura Sulaiman: backing vocals
Daniël Smienk: percussion

Produced by Feng Suave. Engineered by Jasper Geluk. Mixed by Feng Suave and Jasper Geluk. Mastered by Wessel Oltheten.

Artwork by Armando de Cosmos

Come Gather 'Round

listen!

Spanish On The Beach

Fulton Park

Mushroom

Bad Day

Mixed by Chris Sheldon
Master by Dan Suter

Taxi Gauche Records

In Your Head

Eternal Orbit

Tennis - Young & Old
Out now on Fat Possum Records

It All Feels The Same

Artwork by Khadija Choudhury

Recorded and Mixed by Tuval Schneerson

Mastered by Felix Davis at Metropolis

Point Of View (Demo)

Days Of No One

Lincoln, here’s a song for you
I’ve been twisting in the vapors and the fumes
There is nothing that I can say to you now
That you have not already heard

Lincoln, you cheated me again
From the highways, I had visions and the shakes
There is no one who can take me from this land
More than once, I was captured in your lens

Fall back, let the sunshine blind your eyes
Hear the voices of your lovers be your guide
There are many windows open in the house
They are letting out our secrets with the heat
There is nothing to hide
There is nothing left to hide

Dear shipwrecked, I, too, am waiting to be saved
I had my prayers and praises all sent back
Heaven is full of people who belong
There is nothing to hide
There is nothing left to hide

In the Shape of a Storm

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Damien Jurado - Lincoln

Laughing Matter

Thin Air

'Softie' is an attempt at proving that there is more than one way of being a functional human being. The album is about coping, growing out of your fears, learning how to distance yourself from your anxieties and the ups and downs that comes with being bipolar. 'Softie' is ultimately about releasing the pressure off of yourself and we want to encourage our listeners to do the same.

We decided to make a record that was turbulent, back and forth and non-conforming, because we wanted our second album to hit you in the face rather than rock you to sleep or move you to tears.

Wy - Softie

'The Good News' (Release date: May 17, 2019) 

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Minor Poet - Tropic of Cancer

Jess Cornelius, the New Zealand-born, Australian-raised, and now Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter, has an intense desire for personal authenticity, which is reflected in her songs as they explore womanhood, relationships, ageing and existence, all delivered through her startling voice. 

“No Difference” was written in Melbourne before moving to Los Angeles while trying to navigate everything going on in her life. The song is part self-help mantra, part blind fatalism. Its video, directed by Thomas Hyland, was filmed in a bathroom in Melbourne and features friends and acquaintances of Cornelius. 

“We wanted to introduce the water element because of its cleansing/rebirthing properties, but water is also destructive, and the image of someone wearing a white suit in a full bathtub implies someone slightly unhinged,” says Cornelius. “We wanted to expand on this idea of rebirth by showing all these women having miniature moments of self-reckoning, which is what I feel people often do in the bathroom. We use the bathroom—and the bathroom mirror—to collect ourselves, to recover, to psych ourselves up, to escape, to self destruct, to castigate ourselves, to tally up our worth, to make deals with ourselves, to re-evaluate, to preen and primp and steel ourselves.”

WATCH “NO DIFFERENCE” VIDEO -
https://youtu.be/XYDbx6L2Wuk

After releasing three critically acclaimed albums with her Melbourne-based band Teeth & Tongue, Cornelius sought out a more personal project. She began performing and recording under her own name, releasing the “Nothing Is Lost” EP (Dot Dash/Remote Control) in 2017. “No Difference” is the first new music Cornelius has released since then. 

Recorded and mixed by Tony Buchen at 64 Sound in Los Angeles in July 2018
Drums - Steven Urgo
Bass -Ryan Weinstein
Guitars and vocals - Jess
Additional guitars, keys, synths, melodica - Tony Buchen

Cover art by Jacob Gardner
Photography by Rachel 'Pony' Cassells

Jess Cornelius

No Difference

**Out 4/5 on Get Better Records**

All songs by Control Top
Produced and mixed by Al Creedon
Recorded by Al Creedon and Jeff Zeigler
Mastered by Emily Lazar
Additional production by Ali Carter

Design by Nolen Strals
Photography by Kevin Spaghetti

Covert Contracts

Chain Reaction

Stream 'Twilight' : https://avectoi.fanlink.to/twilight

Alex Siegel recently decided to take a new direction musically by creating his new alter ego, Avec Toi. After an intense first single, he is back with 'Twilight'.

'Twilight' also rides this heavy emotional sound for a beautiful ballad teinted by Alex's atmospheric voice.

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Avec Toi - Twilight

Second album CARE/TAKING is due for release June 14, 2024 on Tender Loving Empire Records. First single "People Move On" is out now. 

Currently based in Los Angeles, New Zealand-born Jess Cornelius spent her musically formative years in Australia where she released four critically acclaimed albums under the moniker Teeth & Tongue.

In 2016 Cornelius began working under her own name, and moved to Los Angeles after releasing the ‘Nothing is Lost’ EP. Her follow-up album, “Distance”  was released on Loantaka and Part Time Records in 2020.

Jess Cornelius writes arresting songs that capture the disorientation and endless possibilities of being in flux.  Where Cornelius’ 2020 debut Distance found her untethered moving across continents, CARE/TAKING has the songwriter firmly established in her California home but no less at a crossroads. Over 10 intricate and immediate songs, she grapples with squaring global crises  with the transformations and responsibilities in her life. It’s searching indie rock that’s as biting as it is comforting.

Praise for Distance:

"An incredible new record" - NPR Music, Robin Hilton

"This album opened up a whole new fandom for me" - NPR Music, Ann Powers

"Winning songs about finding delight in despair...Cornelius handles heaviness with an enviable lightness, finding new resiliency in every rebound." - Pitchfork

"A kind of 21st century amalgam of Karen Dalton's delicate folk and 70s jam band Americana" - Guardian

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No Difference

Jess Cornelius

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