First single off our debut LP VACANT PAGE out Feb 10th via Exploding in Sound and Inflated Records. 

Pre-order a limited-edition paint splatter vinyl via Inflated http://inflatedrecords.bigcartel.com/product/leapling-vacant-page

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Death and the Internet is out 4/28 on Fire Talk

LP - http://firetalkrecs.com/shop/advaeta-death-and-the-internet
ITunes - Coming Soon!
Bandcamp - https://firetalk.bandcamp.com/album/death-and-the-internet

Advaeta is the collaborative project of Brooklyn based musicians Lani Combier-Kapel, Amanda Salane and Sara Fantry. With a complex sound that is heavily melodic, loud and textural, they grind velvet harmonies and lush noise into a landscape that is both evocative and wholly enveloping.



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ADVAETA - Angelfish

You're not sure why you decided to come alone to this karaoke bar. A sudden desire for people-watching, you suppose. You don't sing anything, just nurse a drink near the back. For the first half-hour, nothing out of the ordinary happens. Then, another spectator, one you've noticed hovering by a side wall, takes the stage. A slightly tinny drum machine comes forth from the P.A. The song is instantly familiar, but you can't quite place it. It must be some mostly-forgotten hit from the '80s that you haven't heard in years. At first, the singer's delivery is as shy as you'd expect from a fellow wallflower. But slowly, you come to perceive a deep, quiet confidence in his voice. He obviously knows the song by heart. He occupies it as if it were home. Actually, you think his rendition might be truer than the original performer's, although you still can't recall who that was. Although it might just be your second drink taking effect, you've almost begun to suspect that there is no original, that the enigma on the stage in this unremarkable bar, is, somehow, performing an entirely new song for the very first time. As the tempo slows and he begins to gently croon the next track, you become sure. By some weird turn of Lynchian magic, this man on the stage has reshaped the room to his will, coaxing his own private music out of the karaoke machine.

This is the kind of scenario one imagines when listening to Better Person's smoke machine pop. His (Adam Byczkowski) enigmatic stage presence is matched by his elusiveness as a recording artist output: while he's already toured with the wonderful Canadians TOPS and Timber Timbre, and as keyboard/guitarist with Sean Nicholas Savage, at six tracks It's Only You is his longest release, encompassing the critically acclaimed singles “Sentiment” and “I Wake Up Tired.”

While the EP's sonic touchstones – torch songs, Sade, Arthur Russell, synthed-up European and Japanese pop from the 80s, French and Italian movie soundtracks – are all unimpeachably romantic, there's a more Romantic undercurrent of isolation that begins from the way It's Only You was made – all recorded on a computer at home, on Berlin's Pannierstrasse (the same street where Magic Island's Wasted Dawn was recorded last year.) The title itself casually, elegantly captures the paradoxical phase shift which occurs when the movement toward closeness becomes a plunge into solitude. It's Only You is the sound of turning down the mood lighting so low you're no longer sure if anyone else is there.

The transmutation of being-alone-with into being-alone ignites a fixation on memory, and most especially on its entanglement with place. On repeated listens, It's Only You slowly reveals itself as a work of (self-imposed) exile behind a facade of seduction. In the aftermath of intimacy, one is left with only sensual remnants - smell leads to memory (“I found a smell that takes me home,” Byczkowski sings in opener “Somebody Cares”) and memories, of home and of people, lead to the question of place and belonging. In “Somebody Cares,” “I found a smell that takes me home” leads into “I try to notice all the things around” - reminiscence of there demands attention to here – but he concludes “God only knows where I'm gonna live.” “I Wake Up Tired” features the plaintive request “Show me a place / where I feel home;” while the refrain in “Everything Cold” asks the question on the mind of every expatriate in Berlin: “Why is everything closed on Sunday night?” In the still astonishing “Sentiment,” the singer is left unsure of his identity, with only sentiment remaining, precisely because he will “never be from here.” The real revelation of It's Only You may however be the closing track “Your Smell” which, atop a tragicomically funky shuffle, wraps in a cocoon of beautiful confusion all of Byczkowski's themes: lost love, lost locales, and finding oneself again, fleetingly, provisionally, in their pursuit.

Better Person - Everything Cold

First single from Zen Mantra's self titled album out April 15, 2016

Zen Mantra

Second Skin

Zen Mantra - Second Skin

Our first album 'Contemporary Toyboy' is out today and available here: https://unknownreferences.bandcamp.com/album/contemporary-toyboy

Contemporary Toyboy

'Suzie Wong' is our new single - out now on Hand In Hive

Stream on Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/668JA1RoMxPDafCcLbZdNv

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Recorded / mixed by Dama Scout

Suzie Wong

Chain Reaction

Rat Columns is the ever changing musical project of David West and friends. West is involved in other groups such as Rank/Xerox and Liberation, was a member of Total Control and Lace Curtain, and in recent years has released 2 eponymous solo LP's. Rat Columns emerged from the desert outpost of Perth, Western Australia in the late 2000s, influenced by largely anglocentric forms such as post-punk and jangle pop,  and has developed over time with an array of different friends from the USA and Australia, emitting a jet stream of 7”s, EPs and three full length albums along the way.

The third full length LP "Candle Power" was released in 2017, a mix of indie pop, post-punk and disco. The songs included on the "Sometimes We're Friends" EP were recorded at the same time as "Candle Power" in Guildford, Western Australia, in a back shed studio on a rambling riverside property. Beyond West, the Australian Rat Columns line-up of Perth underground luminaries, Amber Gempton, Louis Hooper and Chris Cobilis is featured, as well as musical wunderkind Cohen Bourgault guesting on violin. This recording sees Rat Columns dancing around classicist, German-influenced propulsive guitar pop on 'Sometimes We're Friends', an indie pop gossamer ballad involving an 'Astral Lover', and an unusual diversion into downer, vaguely Young-esque dirge rock on the cheery 'Waiting To Die'. This is the first Rat Columns release on the long-running, Bay Area-based Slumberland imprint.

Sometimes We're Friends

Rat Columns - Sometimes We're Friends

Written/mixed/produced/and so on... by Shane Dinet

When the sun sets on what we come to expect. 
Every memory just turns to vanity you go, knowing the car will crash.
You drink the world your heart is breaking, the bitterness has got your legs shaking. Oh now you boogie to the groove where you could be late.

I'm dreamin of a 5th season, I need something more than what meets the eye.
I'm seeing as the night passes by, all the world's offers will eventually die.

When the sun rises to put away the death, sentenced in our hearts.
When we receive the rain of our land darling baptize me with the new day.

I'm dreamin of a 5th season, I need something more than what meets the eye.
I'm seeing as the night passes by, all the world's offers will eventually die.
I'm breathin in all the reasons that heaven is only received inside.
I'm sleeping, but my heart's hearing my only wish is to awake on time.

5th Season

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Caramel is a recently formed psych-pop duo from opposite sides of the earth. Lithuania’s Domas and South Africa’s Stephan met in London while studying the same course and quickly realised that they shared similar interests and musical tastes.
Summer 2019, Lithuania, Stephan and Dom start recording tunes in village cabins, apartment living rooms and old bath houses in and around the city.
They like laid back, dreamy melodies accompanied by simple, groovy rhythms.

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Caramel - On The Line

Teleman's new single - Steam Train Girl - will be released on limited edition 7" vinyl and download on 1st July on Encona Records. 

It is the follow-up to their debut single "Cristina". 

They also support Suede on their UK tour in October/November 2013. 

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TELEMAN - Steam Train Girl

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