Rusty

Always Trashy in Fillydelphia

Gemma

Looking In From The Outside

The Game is taken from new album Human Music - released 16th February on Mercury KX Records. Pre-order the album here: https://mkx.lnk.to/HumanMusicFP

The Game

Closed Door is taken from new album "Human Music" - released 16th February on Mercury KX Records. Pre-order the album here: https://mkx.lnk.to/HumanMusicFP

Closed Door

Daydreams

Cha - Cha

Look//Listen

Premium Leisure’s Chris Barker – singer songwriter, musician, producer and engineer – has a very clear idea of what he wants his sound to be. A gifted guitarist and songwriter, he honed Premium Leisure’s sound in his home studio in suburban Oxfordshire where he and his bandmates grew up. His attention to detail and obsession with vintage equipment and analogue recording techniques give the sound an authenticity that’s more fitting to 1968 than 2018. The mix of experimental guitars and undulating rhythms are reminiscent of late 60s English psychedelic rock with a bit of early Tame Impala or White Denim thrown in. But really the vibe is wonderfully, refreshingly distinct. It’s pure Premium Leisure.

The EPs opening track “Water Pistol” is a show stopping song about narrow minds and recklessness in small towns. There’s a pounding, sometimes menacing beat leading you through a neighbourhood of foolish small-time crooks who think they are hard with their water pistols but really all they do is make their mothers cry. At nearly six minutes long with overdriven, fuzz guitar solos culminating in a cacophony of distortion and feedback, “Water Pistol” has all the ingredients of a toe tapping, hip thrusting, epic psychedelic rock track.

Premium Leisure’s songs comment on the contradictions and irony of everyday life. “Gold Tunes” has Chris’ characteristic guitar groove, a bluesy rock track about the deeply felt, beautiful experience of hearing songs that have been lovingly and thoughtfully crafted versus the mass market, meaningless expressions we often hear. It’s light and upbeat with a message to never lose direction when seeking enjoyment. This theme is continued on “Daydream Drive” a mellower, Beatles-esque track about a simple man who’s living safe. He’s not directed by the moon or the stars, the spiritual or the romantic; life’s riches. He admirably guards against having “no time to kill and calls coming out his ears,” but he’s a man starved of his inner Mozart or Mondrian. But hey, maybe he doesn’t know he’s hungry, maybe he is happy sleeping on Daydream Drive?

Premium Leisure’s songs are twenty-four carat, they direct you to that exciting, indefinable place where great art thrills. With just one listen you are taking notice, your body moves and your soul swells; these are the “Gold Tunes”.

Oxfordshire has certainly spawned a band of immense integrity and talent. What a treat to get them on tape.

Plug The Leads In

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PREMIUM LEISURE - Water Pistol (Radio Edit)

Michael Fox’s debut EP Before The Cold Heart is a breathtaking mix of indie folk, vintage synth pop and anthemic ambient dance tracks that take on both the personal and political.

Written in London during the summer of 2017 and inspired by the tense, insecure atmosphere hanging heavy over the city, Michael’s songwriting expresses a formidable yet sensitive appraisal of love and life in an uncertain world. His delicate folk guitar mixed with bold beats and layered vocals convey an impassioned depth of feeling.

Before the Cold Heart is available to pre-order now:
michaelcfox.bandcamp.com/album/before…e-cold-heart

Before The Cold Heart

They Don’t Love You Like I Do

https://open.spotify.com/track/3u1Erc0p0rpqNk63Mqnwxa?si=03wf7QzBSv-AmR1n8y3ipg

Holding It Down

You’re Always On My Mind is the lead track from Max Blansjaar’s first Beanie Tapes release. Pre-order the cassette and/or digital edition now over on Bandcamp.

Max Blansjaar’s début EP Spit it Out! is a riotous mix of fuzzy guitars, energetic beats and unexpected samples that feels fresh and exciting. This handful of raw, lo-fi tracks were recorded and mixed in the music room at school during his lunch breaks and free periods. At fifteen years old, Max isn’t hanging around: there are songs to write and you can tell he’s loving every minute of it. Max has spent the last ten years playing classical piano but after picking up the guitar about a year ago he started creating music that has a much more DIY, experimental edge; think Darwin Deez, tUnE-yArDs or Franz Ferdinand rather than Mozart or Handel.

In Spit It Out! Max is really embodying the indie-punk ethic; this isn’t background music, he wants his listeners to feel something. His songs grab our attention and remind us that no matter how old, we are all still just trying to make sense of everything. Max’s songs are a spirited expression of those feelings; without being self-conscious, he’s spitting out what he wants to say and we are listening!

Spit It Out!

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MAX BLANSJAAR - You’re Always On My Mind

Jordan O’Shea is a mysterious character. He appeared on the Oxford scene as the unassuming barista in Truck Record Store who sang heartfelt acoustic songs when he wasn’t making coffees. But before long he had founded Bear On A Bicycle Records and was releasing some of the most quirky and interesting musical projects in town (nobody will forget the Paddox vinyl that came in a 3kg concrete sleeve). Jordan’s own music took a left turn and he re-emerged as a morbid cinematic doo-wop revivalist – Jordan O’Shea and the Friday Night Film Club played shows with a backing band of projected images and supposed ghosts. Never one to stay still for long, his most recent release was a 12-minute symphony in four parts, which he described as “a film score to (yet again) an unmade film”.

Jordan’s new album This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things will be released on Beanie Tapes on 2 November 2018.

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

JORDAN O’SHEA - Aurelia

The second single from Max Blansjaar’s début EP Spit It Out!, released on Cassette Store Day 2018 by Beanie Tapes.

Rusty

Laura Baldock