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Debut album from Soviet Soviet.

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Soviet Soviet - No Lesson

Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart (original)

Working under the name Craft Spells, Stockton, Calif.'s Justin Vallesteros makes music for bedsitters who dream about being social. Though often addressed to a love interest either real or imagined, Idle Labor is above all a lonely album that rarely betrays its origin as a solo project. Sonically it recalls Wild Nothing it the way it mines a large swath of 1980s synth pop, but its clear emotional tenor gives it a distinguishing perspective and personality.
Idle Labor exists in a time frame best described by the title of its ebullient centerpiece-- "After the Moment". These are sketches of romantic problems and solutions with the wounds still fresh and the thoughts uncensored. Taken as a whole, it could be read as a narrative following Vallesteros from heartbreak to infatuation and back, a few months' worth of romantic uncertainty boiled down to a taut and hooky album.
In a maundering yearn somewhere between Jens Lekman and Ian Curtis, Vallesteros introduces himself as a lovelorn melodramatist over sunstroked, near-Balearic pop. But as the narrative begins to hint at physical contact, the music works in lockstep, and Vallestreros builds tracks more as a dance producer than a singer-songwriter. And that's where he hits his stride-- while his vocals remain a central fixture, the post-punk mordancy is softened by locomotive arrangements that stack synth pads, ringing guitar, and primitive drum programming.
"Party Talk" starts a mid-album mini-suite with Vallesteros as a nebbishy Woody Allen character trying to decode a mutual romantic connection from casual conversation. But he leaps forward during the upbeat "From the Morning Heat", and by the fantastic morning-after celebration "After the Moment", something has apparently clicked; Vallesteros repeats the chorus as if he knows it's the best he's written.
The emotional high is predictably short-lived, and even within its brief half-hour runtime, more than a few of the melodies take detours and left turns. "The Fog Rose High" has the feel of a gothier Beach Fossils, while the anodyne dream-pop scruff of "You Should Close the Door" could have been a Radio Dept. B-side. But as with so many bedroom auteurs' debuts, it's tough to separate the creation from the creator, and Idle Labor shows the promise of a precocious songwriter who isn't claiming to have anything totally figured out just yet.

Craft Spells -  After the Moment

February 14th

VANIISH - "Kaleidoscoped"

Human Tetris - Things I Don't Need

Crystal Stilts - Departure

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"In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something that would change his life forever. What began as a couple notes played in experimentation soon transformed into vibrant melodies that soon shook Vallesteros' musical foundation to the core. Guitar chords laced over pulse sating synth melodies and drum rhythms was a departure from Justin's previous work; he began to create the dreamy nostalgic pop music that is Craft Spells. Justin is a California native who now finds residence in the mid-size town of Stockton, the heart of California. Craft Spells is the epitome of the recent uprising of the DIY music scene. Coming from a place not known for its musical history or impact on music culture it seemed destined for Craft Spells to stay as a bedroom pop project with no final destination in sight. But soon the shear amount of blog volume his work began to generate was unimaginable. Sites like Weekly Tape Deck, Pasta Primavera, No Modest Bear and Pitchfork's Forkcast took notice and thus began the never ending worldwide posting and re-posting on blog after blog of Craft Spells. The sound is led by Justin's blissful voice, backed behind beautiful guitar melodies over heavenly synths, pop basslines and looped rhythms. Captured Tracks has released 7" single for the song "Party Talk" and will release the debut LP due out in Spring 2011 called Idle Labor. 2011 is going to be a busy year now that Justin has set up a live band for future touring. Keep a look out for tour dates in Europe and US come the new year. In no time at all, Justin has been able to move out of Dave Brubeck and Pavement's shadow to create something his own which he shares with the ever continuing admiration of the world." 

Craft Spells - Party Talk

You showed me the trees, cause the forest you burned it.

Uncanny Valley

Taken from the upcoming new album " Cultural Bleeding " which will be released by Wave Records on November 30th (2015)

Original quote - performing in ancient Greek language from "Antigone" tragedy by Sophocles

Official video on YouTube : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv2cehANxeo

Lyrics "translation in English" : 

Chorus : 

"O Love invincible love" ! 
You are beyond wars, beyond any place you fall!
You make nests out of the soft cheeks of young girls for your slumber…
…and you hover over the oceans and distant lands
…and no immortal god, nor mortal man with his measured days escapes you!

And then, you catch and your catch becomes insane!

You push the minds of the just to do injustice
And you’re the one who lit this fire of discord between two men of the same blood. Between father and son.
Through the lashes of a lusty bride, Passion, you win the day, scorning the great laws which hold sway over the whole world.

Because Aphrodite is invincible!

So now, I, too, seeing all this Leave the laws behind me and I cannot stop the fountain of my tears when I see Antigone being dragged to her eternal death-chamber.

TRANSLATED BY
GEORGE THEODORIDIS
©2004
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Antigone.htm

Kriistal Ann - Αντιγόνη "Antigone"

the word wireform is a sculture genre, as is assemblage and bas-relief.
the CD available for $9.95 here:
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- from Wireform LP 2016

wireform

dressed in leather

Dressed In Leather  (from wireform LP 2016)

Available only here https://zoltanfreitag.bandcamp.com/album/rewind-the-future-2019

Undercover

Beak> - WAWPSY

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Stream the single: https://ffm.to/housesofheavensleep

Silent Places

Houses of Heaven - Sleep

these eyes they don't show what you know the shedding of lies will unfold remember the scars you have sewn but there's nothing to recall nothing to recall remember the dreams you've been told but there's nothing to believe and there's nothing to pray for surreal and confined the frills and the rind receding receding receding the science of grief despair no relief in silence you wait cause you forgot how to feel as revealed in your eyes these eyes they don't show what you know nothing to believe and there's nothing to pray for remember the scars you have sewn but there's nothing to recall nothing to recall surreal and confined the frills and the rind receding receding receding the science of grief despair no relief in silence you wait cause you forgot how to feel 


Human Tetris - Things I Don't Need

Juanelo Mictlán

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