LAZY OCTOPUS RECORDS // SINGLES

'Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.
Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis.
Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion'
The Grateful Dead (Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia 1968) from "Zabriskie Point: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (1970)

Dark Star - FEBRUARY 2018 \\ Shoegaze / Dreampop / Psychedelic / Indie Pop

2018

It's not working We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

Preoccupied

Rock Therapy

Anti Pony - Pale Blue Hours. Taken from the new EP Alexander, out January 19 via Lazy Octopus Records. Order vinyl: http://bit.ly/2haDgNt

Anti Pony - Pale Blue Hours

Second single from Holy Now's new EP "Please Call Me Back", available on all digital platforms.

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Holy Now - Dead End

Single #2 from upcoming debut album THE BIG NOISE out April 12. Pre order:

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The Presolar Sands - Det Stora Oväsendet

Taken from upcoming Death EP out on May 12 via Lazy Octopus Records!

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MANKIND - Ghost

New single from Dead Vibrations released on May 25th 2017.

Dead Vibrations - Swirl

Bad Dream

First single from upcoming 'Deep River Series' EP out spring 2018 via Lazy Octopus Records.

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DEEREST - Waves Could Not Be Seen

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Best Laid Plans

Unfortunate Soul

New Ruins

Rewind

Gold Casio is set to entrance populations through space-age disco and electrifying visuals that leave their listeners moving their hips and singing melodies. The New York-based crew harnesses irresistible indie-dance melodies and high-energy performances to seduce listeners into obeying the dark forces of alien disco. Venues and unsuspecting listeners should consider themselves warned.

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SINNERS EP

Love Vs Logic

The 2nd single from our 2nd LP WAITING FOR PLEASURE Out 23rd March 2018.

Jeanine

Fine China 'Anybody Else' taken from the upcoming full length 'Not Thrilled' available 2/23 via Velvet Blue Music

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Not Thrilled

Fine China - Anybody Else

Out on all major platforms January 31st. Premiered by DIY Magazine. 

Self Recorded by Llovers @ Tees Music Tech
Mixed and Mastered by Chris McManus @ Blank Studios

Artwork by Glen Adkins

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Just Lust

"A Kick A Knife" is the first single off of JACK's new album Alchemical Rounds, due out Thursday, March 1st 2018.

Alchemical Rounds

A Kick A Knife

JACK -- "A Kick A Knife"

In the corner of his small bedroom in Somerville, Massachusetts, Luke Reed of Bent Shapes and Mini Dresses spends most nights quietly writing and recording solo material ranging from quiet and deliberate meditations, to summery jangle pop. Over the years, Luke has amassed a prolific collection of lonely and disenchanted pop songs, seldom released.

"I'm Dreaming" is Luke's first single of the year – an ultra-catchy, lo-fi dream pop song that follow's his collaborative single with Tea Leigh. Last year, The Native Sound re-released Luke Reed’s debut LP ‘Won’t Be There’. Initially self-released on Bandcamp last summer with no promotion, or even album art, 'Won't Be There' is a set of 16 lo-fi indie rock songs.

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Luke Reed – I'm Dreaming

"Beyond XXXL" out April 6th on Telephone Explosion and Atelier Ciseaux. 

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In the two years since their last release, Freak Heat Waves have continued a perpetual process of transformation. Shedding familiar influences from the heavily excavated histories of post-punk and krautrock, the band has now beamed into uncharted territory with the otherworldly sound of their third album, Beyond XXXL.

Beyond XXXL is 11-song excursion, alien strains of synth-pop and glam-rock are sandblasted with smooth guitar solos, eerie electronics, and pulsating drum machines propelled into skull-shattering breakbeats. Deeply distorted vocals narrate the narcoleptic trip like a DJ Screw mixtape splicing together John Foxx, John Maus, and The Prodigy. The result is Freak Heat Waves’ most cohesive and captivating release to date, amplifying earlier melodic sensibilities while remaining singularly strange.  

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Beyond XXXL

Freak Heat Waves - Self Vortex

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 - "Morro Bay"

'white dove' by Koda

the second single off my upcoming debut album 'i hope this makes us better'

LYRICS: 

white dove
i had him bless these hands just to run you out
give me strength when you run your mouth
i've got a bone to pick
somebody showed you all of the horror you weren't born with it

i had this idlewild feeling in this house
give me truth give me a way out
i've got a home to break
somebody showed you all of the horror
you weren't born with it

you're a silvertongued jackboot thug with
white skin but you're no white dove
and you're scared of us 'cause we show you love
until there's none of us left to love
none of us left to love

i had this feeling that you'd betray me
if i gave too much and you took too much
but here we both stand a gun in your hand
there's blood on the leaves 
there's blood in the sands i
feel his grace slowly running out
give me truth 
give me away out

i've got a bone to pick
somebody showed you all of the horror you weren't born with it
you're a silvertongued jackboot thug with
white skin but you're no white dove
and you're scared of us 'cause we show you love
until there's none of us left to love
none of us left to love

White Dove

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Koda - white dove

Tell Me Texas

Black Chemicals

Prod. Kashaka & Topaz Jones
Bass: Jesse Brotter
Additional Vocals: Guianna, Ada, & my auntie.

TOOTHACHE

Mélat x Jansport J

Move Me II: The Present

Song .1

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On spotify

Co-Pilot

Mélat x Jansport J

Move Me II: The Present

Song .7

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Not A Lover

Ravyn Lenae - CRUSH EP
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Crush 

Computer Luv feat. Steve Lacy

Preoccupations - "Antidote"  from 'New Material', out March 23, 2018 on Jagjaguwar.

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Preoccupations - Antidote

Strongest Son

Written by Max Kinghorn-Mills
Produced by Pan Andrs (insta: @panandrs) & Atlas Shrugs (insta: @atlas_shrugs)
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Blackberry Wine

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