Lemon Meringue

Taken from the album 'Healing Is A Miracle', released 10 July on Ninja Tune: https://julianna.lnk.to/healingSo

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Julianna Barwick - 'Healing is a Miracle'

Vol. 3 of the GT Reposted Mix 2020

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New, recent and wondrous finds from Picking Up Rocks blog, where we are obsessively devoted to excavating the unjustifiably overlooked, forgotten, hidden in plain sight & truly underappreciated, in the musical universe, old and new !!!

Weekly New Wonders Playlist # 23 !

Gothcore

God puts us all in the swimming pool

Texture Like Sun

Nepenthe

One Half

Black Chapel Sun

The Grid

Taken from the Paris quintet's second album, "Juillet", released worldwide by Trouble In Mind Records on January 24th, 2020. (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

En Attendant Ana "Do You Understand?" (Trouble in Mind Records)

From Deeper's Sophomore LP "Auto-Pain" out March 27th on Fire Talk.

What do you do when pain blots out joy? How do you learn to take care of yourself? What happens when the things you think are helping end up doing the most harm? 'Auto-Pain' is the Sophomore album from Deeper, a record that finds the band embracing open space, using synths to create shadows where bricks of guitars once would’ve blocked out the sun. The group — singer and guitarist Nic Gohl, bassist Drew McBride, and drummer Shiraz Bhatti — were all graduates of Chicago’s rich DIY scene who came together around their love of Wire, Devo, Gang of Four, and Television. While the new record is still within the Great Lakes post-punk tradition of their debut, the album isn’t as insular as its predecessor; it’s less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces. Guitars enter the picture precisely, locked bass grooves propel things forward. Drummer Shiraz Bhatti, who is half-Pakistani and half-Native American, embraced the drumming patterns he’d heard growing up at pow-wows, channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack. The result is an album both more nuanced and catchy.Auto-Pain represents the constant wave of depression felt by many in everyday life. Stemmed from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, Auto-Pain is a concept meant to be an inverse to soma, a pill in the book which makes everything numb. The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity, which comes at the expense of feeling everything simultaneously. The album artwork features the now-demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago capturing the band’s rounded-off brutalism, and the album title appears in Urdu, a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti’s Pakistani heritage. The record was recorded and mixed by Chicago scene luminary Dave Vetraino (Lala Lala, Dehd) and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Greg Obis (Ne-Hi, Melkbelly).

Auto-Pain

Deeper - This Heat

2nd single from The Hazy Seas debut s/t album due January 2020

Release date:
03 January 2020

Old Clothes

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

Peel Dream Magazine - Pill

A I A: Alien Observer

Moon Is Sharp

Half The Man

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🌐 Released by Foreign Family Collective & Ninja Tune

DAWN

DAWN (feat. TEED)

Knot's self-titled full length debut is out August 28th via Exploding In Sound Records

Knot - Foam

Taken from the forthcoming album "The True Story of Bananagun" out 26th June. Pre-order: https://smarturl.it/thetruestory

Bananagun - The Master

Inspirit

Healing Is A Miracle

Oh, Memory (feat. Mary Lattimore)

Safe

Nod (feat. Nosaj Thing)

Taken from the album 'Healing is a Miracle', released 10 July on Ninja Tune: https://julianna.lnk.to/healingSo

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In Light

In Light (feat. Jónsi)

Michigan Hammers

Heaven is You

Honey Radar - Wind-Up Man

'Gridlock' is taken from Vintage Crop's forthcoming album 'Serve To Serve Again' out August 7th on Upset The Rhythm & Anti Fade.

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Serve To Serve Again

Vintage Crop - Gridlock

In The Name Of The Beat

Available at Bandcamp

26 Walk The Dog

25 The Witch

“Frida Kahlo,” the new single from Iska Dhaaf, is a nuanced piece of storytelling. The song's narrator, Nathan Quiroga, tenderly weaves his own disappointment and feelings of isolation with the famous struggles of two iconic painters (Kahlo & Van Gogh). A gorgeous piece of indie folk, each verse lyrically paints these artists inside of their own work. The song's expressively picked guitar and gentle piano glow beneath Benjamin Verdoes’s flowering vocal harmonies. Iska Dhaaf have taken a compelling and unique approach to songwriting that extends a hand of comfort to their fellow lonely souls.

Frida Kahlo

Cantu Lautarescu By Dj Tagada

Spoils System is Sean Hansen and Dan Coutant