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Best New Indie Songs (February 2016)

February 2016

If you want some visuals to your Indie Pop-Ups, here are 25 videos for February 2016:
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Indie Pop-Ups (February 2016)

turbo chills

Number 1

From GOAT's forthcoming full-length, 'Commune', out 9/23 on Sub Pop.

Pre-order:
https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/goat/commune
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/commune/id889458536
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L9QYI8Y/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

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Commune

Hide From the Sun

GOAT - Hide From The Sun

As heard on All Songs Considered: "The title track of Oakland-based Makeunder's new EP jumps brilliantly with polyrhythms, time shifts and an octave-spanning, soulful falsetto from singer Hamilton Ulmer that's reminiscent of the Dirty Projectors."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2015/04/14/399457829/new-mix-built-to-spill-milk-carton-kids-brown-bird-protomartyr

Great Headless Blank

Taken from Michna's upcoming album "Thousand Thursday" out February 3, 2015.

Follow MDNR https://soundcloud.com/mndr

Pre-order in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/michna-thousand-thursday

Michna - Solid Gold (feat. MNDR)

ZuckerSuess (DreamPop)

@flyinglotus
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notes:
supported by earmilk - http://goo.gl/nN0tfi
supported by the needle drop - https://goo.gl/gNAKe0 / https://goo.gl/ocdVQ7
supported by brain bandits - https://goo.gl/WVDgHO

weirdinsi.de

flying lotus - puppet talk (weird inside remix)

Crossing Over Into The Next Realm

Feel

Pre-order LP/CD: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/293
Pre-order iTunes: http://smarturl.it/wolvesitunes

Scene reports. Regional styles. It all seems charmingly antiquated these days, given how social networking cross-pollination has transcended space and time. But with a hyper-literate, tightly wound, and irreverent brand of post-collegiate rock, Bent Shapes may just be the most quintessentially Boston band of the last few years.

Since forming the group under the name Girlfriends in 2009, principal songwriters Ben Potrykus and Andy Sadoway have largely ignored indie trends leaking from the "industry cities" in favor of churning out earnest, expertly-crafted pop and post-punk laced with “some of the tightest punk poetry around” (Liz Pelly).

2013’s "Feels Weird" (Father/Daughter Records) offered a glimpse at the discomfort and desperation of youth, with self-reflections on personal growth and decay. Over a year of critical acclaim from outlets as diverse as Maximum Rocknroll and Pitchfork, a tour with John Vanderslice, and shows with Fucked Up, Ted Leo, and The Bats followed, culminating with the addition of guitarist Luke Brandfon and bassist Jenny Mudarri.

Bent Shapes spent early 2015 recording "Wolves of Want" with Elio DeLuca (Titus Andronicus), although Potrykus and Sadoway began writing what would become their second album long before "Feels Weird" was even released. “The basic format for how songs came together was the same: Ben would write a guitar riff or vocal melody along with some chords and then we would hash out the arrangement in our rehearsal space,” explains Sadoway. The band took their biggest risk in the studio, electing to record "Wolves of Want" purely analog with 16 tracks. “Even with a relatively small number of tracks, we were able to bring in some additional instruments that we hadn’t added to our palette before: cello, trumpet, trombone to name a few,” says Sadoway. “My favorite part of tracking was when Luke and I got to play a Steinway grand together during the outro of ‘New Starts in Old Dominion.’”

Thematically, Wolves of Want is an album full of meditations on mental illness, the struggle to bring goodness into the world, and faith in humanity as a renewable resource. These themes are particularly personal to Potrykus who was diagnosed with multiple anxiety disorders after experiencing acute symptoms on-and-off for years. “I talk about it openly, because what helped me when I felt isolated and alone was reading books and listening to interviews by comedians and writers that had dealt with the same thing. The mainstream perception of a given disorder isn't always accurate, and I don't want anyone to feel like I did when things were at their worst,” explains Potrykus. “Writing about it was cathartic for me, as well -- documenting how I was feeling gave me a way of contextualizing a personal crisis that made it seem like something I could overcome.”

"Wolves of Want" will be released by Slumberland Records on March 11, 2016.


Buy LP/CD

Bent Shapes - New Starts In Old Dominion

Sound of Ceres - Bryn Marina

Sound of Ceres - Ember Age

Sound of Ceres - My Spiral Arm

Sound of Ceres - Dagger Only Run

damn, go follow https://soundcloud.com/ofmethodist - this kids fire. 

Vocals: Written and recorded by https://soundcloud.com/ofmethodist
Produced, mixed and Mastered by fourlore 

enjoy! turn the shit up !!

lyrics:
it's hard to breathe my heart can wait, pleading for it to stay away, cuz all I need is you and me getting it down, you and me together right now. 
And my blood runs slowly, in return, it runs cold. Cuz all I need is you and me getting it down, you and me together right now.

~ free dl ~

together right now // ft. of methodist

Apple Music: smarturl.it/TuvaluTxG
Spotify: smarturl.it/SpotifyTuvaluTxG 

Watch --> bit.ly/1NfUVtz
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Released in partnership with our friends at Berlin-based-Italian-at-heart label @hell-yeah, the final transmission from Cascine in 2015 comes from Italian producers Tempelhof and celebrated composer & director, Gigi Masin. The newest piece of work from the trio's ongoing collaborative sessions also serves as the first glimpse into an album scheduled for Spring. 

Tempelhof (Luciano Ermondi and Paolo Mazzacani) are known for their spacious downtempo musings, songs that are rich and musical, yet economical in emotion. Having previously released one solo album (Frozen Dancers), a handful of 12” singles and another collaborative LP with Masin (Hoshi) in 2014, Tempelhof are deeply respected at home in Mantua and throughout niche producer circles across Europe, North America and Asia. 
 
On "Tuvalu," the pair once again team up with Venetian composer Gigi Masin, a man who’s played an important role in Italy’s music community since the ‘70s – on radio, on television and in theatre via his directorial work. An ongoing source of inspiration to others, artists including Bjork and To Rococo Rot have sampled his music. More recently, Masin's full-length Talk To The Sea is regarded as a benchmark ambient LP, while album Lifted 1, released April of this year, created with Maxmillion Dunbar and Co La under the name Lifted, is still garnering praise. Together, Masin's and Tempelhof’s chemistry is organic, elegant and undeniable.

Tempelhof x Gigi Masin - Tuvalu

Recorded and Produced by Sweat.
Watch the video here! : www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ACXhZ4OtAo
Out now on Handsome Dad Records.
iTunes : itunes.apple.com/us/album/be-comp…gle/id1082663651


Be Complete

* Second single taken from the forthcoming GLINTS EP, to be released in december 2015, digital/physical through Run Tell Secrecy *

GLINTS is born out of a love for language, luscious sentences, and sincere music. Growing up in Belgium (Antwerp) with a British background proved to be a fertile breeding ground for the creation of an original sound that combines elements of hip-hop, electronic music, and pop. GLINTS is the brainchild of Jan Maarschalk Lemmens. The inciting event however, consisted of meeting and collaborating with producer Jergan Callebaut (VUURWERK) and guitarist/producer Mathias Bervoets. The project sets out to titillate the senses whilst reinstating the importance of poetic quality in lyrics.

Credits:

Vocals & Lyrics by GLINTS
Recorded, Mixed & Produced by Jergan@WhiteSwords
Guitar, vocals & co-production by Mathias Bervoets
Artwork by Iljen Put
Mastered at The Exchange
Released by Run Tell Secrecy

Sirens

Dsbm, black metal project from usa
Desperation is Belegost, acoustic, synth
Rehersal demo recorded november 2015

Desperation - Nihil Sigh (Ambient DSBM)

Desperation - Thoughts of Suicide (DSBM)

Desperation - Unlight

iTunes: https://itun.es/se/GfGp_
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/4YXrLvvBmSSGZgB33bZEga

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Pacific

Written and performed by Isabel, produced by Steve Thornely at the Palace Studios

Fences

Happy new year everyone!

Thanks for getting me to 14k on my birthday, and thanks for reposting, liking, commenting, sending me a lovely message in 2015. 

I hope to get a lot more done in 2016, and I want you guys to be a part of that too. Thanks to the moon and back, always. 

<3

Parkinson White - '97 [Free DL]

© & ℗ EAT FAST 2016

Design by Cody Sowerby

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Byker Drone

Album Cascades out Feb 5
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Cascades

How Could You Know

‘U’ Album Available Now

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Live
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To Have You Back

Download

Latest single off James Supercave's debut album 'Better Strange' (out 2/12). 

It is not easy to know James Supercave. Their web presence is clipped and understated. Coming from a firm belief that the music speaks for itself, Supercave's debut album, Better Strange, is the only introduction they’ll allow. 

Better Strange affirms Supercave as both figment and figurehead for a genre not yet defined, exploiting the edge of the pop idiom, cheating in psych-rock with thick, low end grooves normally reserved for funk and soul.  

This is the hustle. In Better Strange, James Supercave is patent leather lounge singer on one track (“With You”) gone Bowie in the next (“The Right Thing.”) Aloof and glam-centric until moments of biting commentary, winking jabs at corporations (“Chairman Gou”) and frustrated anthems angled at the internet native (“Virtually a Girl”). Between nagging synth, shape shifting vocal timbre and lurching bass, the record is flecked with strange—but, as James Supercave proves, things are so much better strange. 

Production-wise, Better Strange is glassy, but not manufactured thanks to the analog, “  more room, less computer”   ethos of Fairfax Recordings. Supercave’s debut LP, Better Strange, releases on February 12, 2016 via Fairfax Recordings.

Better Strange

Burn

From the album "Nostalgia for Infinity", out March 4 2016 on Joyful Noise Recordings. Order direct: http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/sound-of-ceres-nostalgia-for-infinity

Sound of Ceres - Hand Of Winter

“The Words” is our first new song of 2016. We were messing around in the studio and came up with this hybrid, disco-folk track. It’s written from the perspective of a boyfriend or girlfriend who just needs to hear that they’re still wanted. We really liked that the lyric “Just say the words” kind of also sounds like “Je sais the words.” “Je sais” means “I know” in French.

If you dig it please <3 it on Hype Machine: http://hypem.com/track/2f686/Freedom+Fry+-+The+Words

If you like what you hear be sure to follow us on Soundcloud and our other sites for new music updates:

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Freedom Fry - The Words

On this one I tried something a bit slow and different from my usual stuff. When I started to look for a singer Alo came straight in my mind, so i sent her the instrumental and when she came back i was blown away by her "dreamy r'n'b" voice which fits the beat perfectly and creates a great slow and chill atmosphere for the track.

Alo Lee
https://soundcloud.com/alolee
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LeMarquis
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Hurricane (Feat. Alo Lee)

We Could Be Alone

Written, and Produced by Paperwhite
Mixed by Chris Zane
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound
Artwork by Taylor Lucas

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Unstoppable

New Lushlife + CSLSX album Ritualize out on Western Vinyl February 19, 2016. 

iTunes: hyperurl.co/g5zrsz
Bandcamp: http://lushlifemedia.bandcamp.com/album/ritualize
Amazon CD: http://amzn.com/B0185A6DI4
Amazon LP: http://amzn.com/B0185A6DBQ

Lushlife:
Artist page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/lushlife
Website http://www.theyoungandinlove.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/lushlifemedia
Instagram https://instagram.com/lush.vida/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lushlifemedia

Lushlife + CSLSX - "Hong Kong ( Lady Of Love ) ft. Ariel Pink"

Written by Hazing
Mixed and additional production by Declan Gaffney
Mastered by Pete Maher 
Artwork by Eibhlin Doran 

℗ and © Hazing under exclusive licence to Happy Valley Records 2016

Released on:
04/03/2016 

'Joy Void' is available to pre-order on limited white tape via Happy Valley Records:
www.happyvalleyrecords.com 

contact: 
max@happyvalleyrecords.com 

digital pre-order 

Hazing - Nervous Signals

iTunes: 
http://smarturl.it/iDuckHouseEP 

Spotify: 
hyperurl.co/y921p8

All parts written, produced and recorded by Stefan Vincent.

Duck House — Your Call

Self Portraits  - Crossed The Line

SeeSaw (Club Version)

Jamie xx + Four Tet + Romy - Seesaw (club version)

all instrumentation by anirudh bharadwaj
additional sound by padma ramachandran

another song from the forthcoming EP titled 'as we know' available for vinyl preorder and digital download/stream on february 11th, 2016

read more about it: http://weirdinsi.de/as-we-know
watch it on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/154265666
watch it on youtube: https://youtu.be/d_oIlgCCKpk
eat a pancake: http://facebook.com/weirdinsides
snuggies: http://twitter.com/weirdinside

as we know

breathing

music video

project file available at http://weirdinsi.de/downloads
a remix i did for my good man @br_no
original track: https://soundcloud.com/noble-people/bruno-verhaar-undrcut

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bruno

bruno verhaar - undrcut (weird inside remix)

Band Members 
David Longstreth Amber Coffman Haley Dekle Nat Baldwin

Show set list:

Swing Lo Magellan
About to Die 
Gun Has No Trigger 
See What She Seeing 
The Socialites 
Offspring Are Blank 
No Intention 
Beautiful Mother 
Dance for You 
Just From Chevron 
Maybe That Was It 
Useful Chamber 
Unto Caesar 

Encore:
Stillness is the Move 
Cannibal Resource 
Impregnable Question 

Dirty Projectors 'Cannibal Resource' Live Celebrate Brooklyn Summer Concert Series

Imaginary Worlds by So-so Echo

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by So-so Echo
Mastered by Daniel Storm

Imaginary Worlds

from GRAVE101 - Weary Engine Blues: A Tribute to Jason Molina.  Purchase this compact disc and a print by William Schaff here: http://www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html

From William Schaff:
"Back in January of this year, I received a message from a friend of Jason's, Tara Samaha. Like so many of us were, she was concerned. She was concerned for his safety, mental and physical health after receiving an alarming email. She felt he needed a map to help him through these troubled times and then asked that I make him one. I did. Sadly we were never able to land a concrete address for Jason, where we knew he would get the map. I know that he had lost things important to him over the past few years, for various reasons, so I wanted to be sure this got into his hands, and no one else. That said -- sadly -- the map was never delivered to him. 
Upon learning of his death, the map sat in my studio; it felt cold, and now useless. A guide made for a friend who can no longer see it. 
Ryan Graveface and I thought of how, thanks to folks like you, we were able to raise a considerable amount of money for Jason's medical bills through sales of the book, From Black Sheep Boys to Bill Collectors. We thought maybe there is still a way for this map to be useful. Not as it was originally intended, a map for one man, but as tool to commemorate this man, and continue to help his family, especially in such dark times as these. 100% of the profits from this print will be going to Jason Molina's family. We now have a chance to give back to the family that gave us Jason, who in turn gave us all so much.
Our love goes out to the Molina family, and to the family he built in his dusty road travels." 

From Aaron Molina:
"Very rarely do you run into a star that burns as brightly as Jason. When he is also your brother you are truly blessed. To fans of Jason’s music we want you to know you were the center of Jason’s universe, you meant everything to him. As much as his music inspired others, he was constantly and honestly inspired by you. From the Molina family, from the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you for the outpouring of support and send our condolences to his fans and friends."

From me:
With the purchase of the 12.5x12.5 print of the above mentioned artwork, we're including a compact disc of Jason Molina covers. We're calling this collection Weary Engine Blues, named after a piece of artwork by Molina that serves as the cover of this CD release. Click here to view that artwork. Confirmed contributions so far from: John Vanderslice, Mark Kozelek, Hospital Ships, Lucas Oswald, Jonathan Meiburg, Damien Jurado, Dreamend, Brown Bird, Haunt the House, TW Walsh, Phil Elverum, Alisdair Roberts, Scout Niblett, Jeffrey Lewis, Will Johnson, The Wave Pictures, Allo Darlin, Darren Hayman, Will Oldham, Herman Dune and many more amazing musicians. Huge thanks to Hugh Noble and William Schaff for helping get this together so quickly. Please note you cannot just buy the screenprint or the cd. They come as a package and are limited to 525 copies. Know that 100% of the profits are going directly (and immediately) to Jason Molina's incredible family. 