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Southern Comforting

All Time

From the debut album 'Happiness is Trouble'

Males

son step - "sweet wife life"
natural majique (out may 27)
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Sweet Wife Life

Lost Animal - Too Late To Die Young

Written and produced by Laura Wagner and Michael Tenzer
Drums arranged by Michael Tenzer

Bass/Vocals - Laura Wagner
Guitar - Michael Tenzer

Art by Christian Russo (https://www.instagram.com/c.c.russo/)

Crawler

Bed Head

Bed Head (Single Mix)

Waiting In The Desert

MMODE - Waiting In The Desert

'Somewhere Else' by JW Ridley
Produced by JW Ridley & John Catlin
Mixed by John Catlin

‘JW Ridley’ EP out on SOME KINDA LOVE / [PIAS] now!
Track listing:
1. Somewhere Else
2. Blitz
3. Jaguar Spring
4. 1990

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Somewhere Else

From the album Warrior, available April 6, 2018 from Western Vinyl

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The album cover for Warrior, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based band Air Waves, features a ominous, androgynous figure standing with a bicycle, wearing a gas mask adorned with a daisy.  The remarkable image was taken on April 22nd, 1970 at the inaugural Earth Day celebration in New York City by Nicole Schneit’s dad, Martin Schneit.  Forty-seven years later, artist Em Rooney hand-painted Schneit’s original black & white photo, resulting in an image that radiates with Warrior’s indefatigable spirit, strength, and love

Like many queer women, Nicole Schneit is a warrior by necessity, fighting for basic rights, dignity, and acceptance.  Such determination in the face of hardship and injustice runs in Schneit’s family; her new album was inspired in part by her mom who was diagnosed with fallopian cancer last year.  As she explains, “The doctor told her she had a fifteen to twenty percent chance, and her response was ‘I’m going to get this mother fucker.’ So the title ‘Warrior’ and the song are about her. After chemotherapy,  surgery, and then more chemotherapy, all the cancer in her body has left and she's currently in remission. I feel like most of the people in my life, including myself, are warriors and have overcome obstacles that seemed impossible to defeat.”

The dignified fighter archetype referenced in the album’s title is explored on each of Warrior’s eleven pieces of bittersweet, empowering indie pop.  According to Schneit the song “Gay Bets”, written after the 2016 election is “about being gay and being proud and open. I was thinking about hate crimes spiking and the current state of the world. My friend Jennifer Moore, who sings on the track, was my partner a long time ago, so I felt like I was writing a fuck you to Trump, for trying to take away queer rights, women's rights, people's rights.”  The song “Tangerine” was inspired by the film of the same name in which two trans women try to make ends meet as prostitutes. This movie, a dark docu-comedy shot in the contrastingly sunny setting of L.A., reflects Schneit’s battle between identity and society via Brooklyn pop rock that swings between the pastel-tinged and the downright melancholic.

On the album’s gorgeous closer “Blue Fire,” (inspired by the Adrienne Rich poem "The Will to Change") Schneit equates her post-presidential-election anxiety to a flame that grows and recedes, as she pleads for herself and listeners to remain calm. Like its namesake, the track burns slowly and brightly into one of the most glowing points on the record, leaving the listener smiling with thoughtful hope.  Warrior’s highlights, and all of the unmissable, satisfying pieces that tie them together show Schneit’s perseverance and resilience through crumbling relationships, personal adversity, and the current political climate, all leading to her most powerful collection of songs to date. Understated, subtly sophisticated, and equally empowering and comforting, Warrior launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries.  Schneit proudly declares her mission statement: “I want these songs to be heard by people in my queer community, but also by anyone that wants to feels strong, powerful, and included.”

Warrior

Air Waves - "Blue Fire"

Easy Way Out

Producer: Jon Joseph
Mixed: Dusty Moon
Master: Chad Wahlbrink

BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD (feat. Devendra Banhart)

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Homesick (Out The Blue)

You and me will be 
Whatever it takes don't think about breaks 
I can feel I’m slowly changing 

All the plans and dreams 
That you and me share 
I don't wanna dare to replace them 
I know you waited long 

You and me so free, to do whatever we want 
whatever we need
I just love it we could be anything 
Don't you know what its like 
When I do get scared? Well Im a little scared you know that

I do, Your'e so comforting 
Do I? Give in to your dream 
Babies, in our apartment love? 
Im still figuring myself out

It’s all I think about
You’ve gone and missed me a lot 
I avoid the question 
But I feel so guilty afterwards 

I know what I said but honey I can think again
I rather just think again 
You should know that 
I can really change
I know what its like to wait forever for a shot
Something to hit the spot, you should know that

I do, Your'e so comforting 
Do I? Give in to your dream 
Babies, in our apartment love? 
Im still figuring myself out

Just stay cool, just stay cool, dont act a fool, oh whatever you do
Just stay cool, just stay cool, dont act a fool, oh whatever you do

It’s all I think about
You’ve gone and missed me a lot 
I avoid the question 
But I feel so guilty

Somewhere Else

JW Ridley

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