Name: Dad Rocks! - These Days (Nico Cover) by Kanel Records
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Description: Icelandic/Danish folk-rockin' Snævar Njáll Albertsson AKA Dad Rocks! covering Nico. Free B-side to 7" split vinyl single with Heister on Kanel Records.

"Loser" by @brodet-stockholm

Out on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp etc.. EP nr2 coming soon.
www.facebook.com/brodetsthlm/

Cover art: Amelie Bjurenhed

Brödet - Loser

Virginia Wing 
Release new album ‘Ecstatic Arrow’ 
Out June 8th 2018
Limited Edition deluxe blue LP inc 20-page zine and poster / standard LP / CD

Their favourite records are the perfect counterbalance of the considered and the superficial. Whether it’s Madonna, Talking Heads or Holger Czukay - we enjoy these artists in the background with friends or profoundly and alone. 

Virginia Wing both understand and embrace this concept fully as they return with Ecstatic Arrow, an album which finds them in a place of renewed strength, optimism and clarity.

Recorded in Switzerland, in the family home of longtime friend and collaborator Misha Hering within the domesticity and gentle routine of communal life, the album represents a world as predisposed to solemn introspection as it is to blithe conviviality. 

Ecstatic Arrow borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizard’s Fourth Wall, the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Press Colour, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art. 

The resolute opener of Be Released and album centre point The Female Genius pair resonant Fourth World instrumentation with sonorous, loping drum patterns. Elsewhere, the sentimental march of single The Second Shift plays out like an after-hours ballad re-imagined by Wally Badarou and For Every Window There’s a Curtain is coloured by the blue-lit haze of an Eventide warped tenor saxophone.

Three albums in, the voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith’s Will Powers. 

It’s with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of Ecstatic Arrow - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that houses a fact we must be reminded of - we have the ability to choose. Even in moments of frustration; the ascerbic eye-roll toward male entitlement, Glorious Idea or the world-weary Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, there persists a joy for living that refuses to be confined.

A depiction of a group finally at ease with itself, Ecstatic Arrow is a tribute to the internal momentum that quietly guides us toward our destination. 

Live Dates:
9th March: UK, Salford, The White Hotel w/ Hookworms
17th March: UK, Glasgow, The Art School w/ Hookworms
18th March: UK, Newcastle, The Cluny w/ Hookworms
24th March: UK, London, Electric Brixton w/ Hookworms
25th March: UK, Sheffield, Picture House Social w/ Hookworms
6th May: UK, Salford, Sounds From The Other City w/ Xam Duo
25th August: UK, Totnes, Sea Change Festival

Virginia Wing - The Second Shift

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Icelandic/Danish folk-rockin' Snævar Njáll Albertsson AKA Dad Rocks! covering Nico. Free B-side to 7" split vinyl single with Heister on Kanel Records.

Dad Rocks! - These Days (Nico Cover)

August transmission on Newtown Radio

Hour one: @soundofceres
Hour two: @sunsetdiver

Tracklist: stadiumsandshrines.com/e62-sound-sunset

S&S Radio

S&S Radio - E62: Sound of Ceres & Sunset Diver

Washing Machine

“Like A Whisper” is a recent collaboration between Better Person and John Moods, two of Berlin’s trademark balladeers. The song, written and home-recorded over a rainy afternoon in Berlin is a loving ode to Mother Earth.
The characteristic styles of the two singers blend together smoothly, mixing sophisticated pop like Prefab Sprout/Blue Nile with slick yacht rock guitar licks and a straightforward power-ballad energy.

Better Person & John Moods - Like A Whisper

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Kanel Records was a small Danish label run by good friends. We've released a few albums by Danish, Icelandic, Canadian, and American artists.

Dad Rocks! - These Days (Nico Cover)

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