LIStening Now // September 24th 2017

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the estranged-the subliminal man

Frozen Fingers

Low Light

and yet you miss the sea

Pre-order The Cornshed Sisters new album 'Honey and Tar' - http://smarturl.it/honeyandtar

The Cornshed Sisters - Running

To be irregular 
Saint Elmo preaches strength in who you are 
And every kid you knew picked at your scars
Social butterflies that sting 

So home up on the hill
You drop the acid and you watch it spill
On and on, the pop songs come at will
Inside the toilet bowl you sing

So go to Zambia!
That's a name, a place you've heard before
Poster you could splash across your door
On a lip the joint burns through 
On a spit, you're turning too
Most nights alive, you sweat like Zambia 

So don’t they see you roll? 
Aren't the eyes a peep hole to the soul?
Don't you see that your late night shows?
Before you turn the tv on

You got a girlfriend too
Pretty deadly piece of skin to chew 
And you love her, or you think you do
You're sure you'll notice when she's gone

And now in Zambia! 
That's a name, a place you've heard before
No hesitating at the cockpit door
This is where you wanna be
Underneath acacia trees
The cradle rings, but you're in Zambia 

You may yet take a turn
Monday morning's still another world
But the weekend's built on words words words
Not a one of them will change

And if the sky and land
Melt together like a wedding band 
God himself could place it on your hand
And you would let it slip away

So now in Zambia!
You got Victoria to drench your heart!
Hope that any day your life might start!
Any roar may be the cue
Nausea's just a point of view
When you’ve got everything to lose
Is it different down in Zambia?

Zambia

First single from the upcoming CO SONN debut album. The album will be released on all digital platforms and cassette.

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New single ‘I’m Yours’ out now: http://smarturl.it/TGImYours
     
God is Wild Tour Tickets: http://www.tommygenesis.com

Tommy Genesis

Tommy

The Saga Continues - http://smarturl.it/thesagacontinues

Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues

Wu-Tang - Lesson Learn'd” featuring Inspectah Deck and Redman

Taken from The Great Distraction (@differentrecordings)
https://vesselsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-distraction

@john-grant-official

The Great Distraction

Erase The Tapes (Feat. John Grant)

ANNA ST. LOUIS
FIRST SONGS
woodsist092 / mare002
release date: November 3, 2017

Despite her last name, Anna St. Louis was born and raised in Kansas City. She grew up a painter and singing in punk bands, eventually leaving her hometown to attend art school in Philadelphia. After graduating she made the move to Los Angeles where she began teaching herself guitar, writing songs and recording them on her own in her bedroom. First Songs is the sound of someone discovering their talent in real time - a peak into the collage of a wonderful mind that is absorbing their new surroundings and using new tools to put them into the room. Listening to this collection you can feel the sun coming in through the window - Anna on the foot of the bed with a guitar on her knee, finding her voice. St. Louis wears her influences well - think Patsy Cline singing over John Fahey - but has a style all her own. And while you can take the artist out of the midwest, you can't take the midwest out of the artist - so let this be known; this is Midwestern music ran through a California filter. I believe Anna will have many more releases in her lifetime, but let it all begin here - First Songs.

ANNA ST. LOUIS - Fire (Mare Records)

Now It's Over

Written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Tony Njoku.

Artwork by Jordan Woods

Lyrics:
"Darling can’t you see, that there’s no one here for me.
There’s something in command I feel the rhythm as we danced.
Tell me is this love the same that turns the sun and earth.
I told you I won’t leave but this rhythm’s taken me.

Are you seeing me dear, are you seeing me inside out.
Trembling by myself.
Eventually I become like an origami swan.
You twist me out of shape; you shape me how you want. 
Oh you couldn’t relate? to the movements in this space?
You’re forgiven and it’s ok, these vibes are just for me!"

H.P.A.C.

As We Danced

After releasing debut single ‘Oceans’ at the end of 2017 and being featured in Upset Magazine, Alternative Press as one of the 20 bands you need to hear, and being asked by huge supporter Steve Lamacq to introduce themselves with a 60 second CV on his BBC 6 Music show, The Yada Yada Yadas have returned to show their songwriting chops once more in ‘Woke Up Strange’. 

This second offering from the band is made of sharp guitars, twisting together harmonically in all their fuzz and distortion, across a landscape of familiarity, forced under a more traditional pop songs skin. It's playful, aggressive, and fuelled with intention. In this latest installment from The Yada Yada Yadas, their US alt-rock influences really shine through, with tones reminiscent of Dinosaur Jr’s J. Mascis, and the playful craftsmanship and lyrical stylings of bands such as Pavement, Yuck, and early Flaming Lips. 

An ironic tale of the mundane and boxed in nature of northern life, Woke Up Strange provides an insight into the band on a social level though it’s relatable narrative. Here, The Yada Yada Yadas are more earnest lyrically than in previous offerings, more deliberate, and at times downright heavier musically. 

Speaking of the release, the band explain “Woke Up Strange is alternative rock in disguise. Hiding behind it’s unfolding overlapping hooks lay a pool of screaming guitars bathed in fuzz, rising upwards as they’re kissed by the light of the morning sun and born again to lay the foundations of a pop song. Narratively, the track has many insights to offer about the nature of conformity, the ever pesky and elusive ideological ‘Man’, and simple agreed fashion etiquette. Dynamic contrast is a huge part of our sound, and here in Woke Up Strange, this is demonstrated once more as screams dissolve into sweet melodies, and horrendous dissonance builds toward serene resolution.”

‘Woke Up Strange’ is set for release Friday April 6th 2018 via Silent Kid Records.

Woke Up Strange

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