New Music October 2018

October 2018

Thank Goodness for Piccadilly Records: their weekly mail-out saved the day. Watch out for the raucous opener from Lightfoils, but then you can ease back in your seat for Bdrmm's more poppy sounds and some dreamy electro pop from White Flowers (think Cocteau Twins meet Low). AT this point you should put on your (House/Electronic) dancing shoes for Shinichi Atobe and keep them on for Lee Kelly, the slightly quirky sounds of Erol Alkan, Rival Consoles, Gabriele Poso, Kalbata & Mayaan Nidam, before chilling out to the closing sounds of Ian Eccles-Smith. I'm a big admirer of White Flowers, and I do like the Erol Alkan and Ian Eccles-Smith tracks, but Lee Kelly's "Our Place in Time" gets this week's best track pick. (EDIT: White Flowers track was later pulled from Soundcloud)

Oct 26 - Nov 01 2018

Weekend Showcase 4.43 spins 46 excellent new tunes from artists and bands representing thirteen countries from around the globe. Learn more here: https://therevue.ca/2018/11/03/weekend-showcase-4-43/

Weekend Showcase 4.43

WithGuitars November 2018 Soundcloud Playlist

Bloodbuzzed Jukebox 210

Jen Dan - November 8, 2018 - TOP 10 #30

Mysterious Skin (feat. DEDE )

Zoo (Master)

Pink Morning

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

STEPHEN STEINBRINK
Utopia Teased

Stunned with grief in the months following the Ghost Ship fire, Oakland-based Stephen Steinbrink ate LSD daily, bought a synthesizer, and locked himself in his shipping container studio, refusing to sleep for days as he wrote and recorded what would become Utopia Teased, as a means of working through his overwhelming feelings of cynicism and loss.  

Recorded in between stints touring as a member of Dear Nora, and then as a touring member of Girlpool, Utopia Teased is Stephen Steinbrink's followup to his critically acclaimed 2016 album Anagrams.  Unlike the pristine production of Anagrams, on Utopia Teased, Steinbrink embraces the rough edges, as he shifts his focus from the craft of production to the art of processing and capturing his experiences with honesty.   He explains, “I was driving the preamps a little too hard, mixing down to tape, bouncing back to the computer, and repeating the process over and over again. I wanted it to reflect how fried my brain felt at the time, totally pulverized.  The songs just poured out of me, it hardly felt like work to make them up. It was like turing on a spigot. I don’t write often, maybe once or twice a year, but when I do, a lot comes out. To me my craft is less about putting in the hours physically playing music — the real work is getting my soul right so that when the holy wave of pure creative energy moves over your house, it will recognize you as worthy enough. If it does, maybe it’ll give you a song.” 

“Empty Vessel” and “Maximum Sunlight” both sung from perspective of residents of Tonopah, Nevada, were written to accompany a book about the town, by Steinbrink's friend Meagan Day.  The sparse imagery on “Empty Vessel,” ostensibly about a semi-transient lock-picking truck driver, feels at least semi-autobiographical as Steinbrink sings “You're 31, you don't believe in anything…If you don't stop moving you'll never get hurt.”  His evocative lyrics continue to intrigue on “Maximum Sunlight” as he sings “Sleeping through the night in the drained pool / I said I love you to a fool” from the perspective of a 30-year-old alcoholic ATV enthusiast. At the close of the, too-little-too-late acoustic narrative “Mom”, guest vocalist Melina Duterte of Jay Som joins him in conjuring a memory of listening to extraterrestrial radio, drifting asleep in a suburban Phoenix Wal-Mart parking lot.  The album’s heartbreaking closer “I’m Never Changing Who You Are” continues Steinbrink’s recollection of his adolescence, asking an unnamed family member “Will you try to love more than you did?” while soberly accepting his reality. 

In an interview with North of the Internet, Steinbrink recalled a video he came across on his phone, which was taken the day after the fire, “It sent me spiraling and thinking, it’s almost been a year. Nothing really felt actual those weeks, and I could only only react to the future at a remove because the horror of everything was inescapably tying me to the present. The idea of doing laundry or driving across the bridge to San Francisco to work was too abstract, so I just didn’t do it. I hardly did anything. Two days after the fire I woke up, walked to P.’s porch and sat there for hours alone and cried without a jacket on until the sun started going down. Geese were flying across power lines at dusk and I took a video of them on my phone. I imagined one of the birds was my friend.”  In the same interview, he goes on to share some insight provided by a friend he reached out to when trying to finalize the album: “Finishing the thing puts a limit around something that comes from an infinite well; this is uncomfortable.” True.

All music written, performed and produced by Sophie Nicole Ellison
Recorded by Sophie Nicole Ellison
Drums (except chorus drums)and extra guitars recorded by Chris Pawlusek
Mixed by Chris Pawlusek
Mastering by Matt Colton @ Alchemy Mastering

Released 5 Oct 2018

HUSSY - Playtime

Perfect Body formed in Cardiff, early 2017, inspired by the sonic experimentation of bands like My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Their earliest performances took place in Cardiff’s underground, often in practice spaces and house parties: So, by the time Perfect Body emerged on the music scene, they had already sculpted a distinctive sonic identity. The attention gained from their first single, ‘Getting Cold’, saw them supporting the likes of Jen Cloher, Slowcoaches, and The Wytches.

Perfect Body’s sound is characterized by it’s noisy, psychedelic guitar playing; icy, ethereal synthesizers; and a muscular, yet dynamic rhythm section. Their three vocalists, each with their own style and identities, ensure that Perfect Body’s performances are varied and engaging. Perfect Body is a wall of noise, hazing over and obscuring what is, at it’s core, pop-oriented songwriting.

Perfect Body - Fields

This Time Is Up

Heat is a surprise new double album from Shinichi Atobe for DDS. It follows on from last year’s “From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art” set and continues a run of highly enigmatic, acclaimed and completely unparalleled productions that follow their own timeless logic. There’s no sonic fiction involved - this material really does just turn up on a CD sent by air mail from Japan to Manchester, sparse info, no messing, pure gold.

Heat

Shinichi Atobe - Heat 1

Vök - Night and Day

This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet

Minotaur Forgiving Knossos

Get Out

Jen K. Wilson, aka Buildings and Food, is a Canadian electronic music artist.  Quick Beat Save is her debut solo album.  Written, recorded and produced in her home studio, "The Music Room", Quick Beat Save is a collection of mostly instrumental tracks with a modicum of vocals.

Quick Beat Save

Slow to Reverse

Slow To Reverse

Wasting Time

Tasha's debut album, Alone at Last, out October 26, 2018.
Pre-order LP/CD/DIGI: http://smarturl.it/aloneatlast

Alone at Last

Pre-Order

Tasha - New Place

Moving Panoramas - "Baby Blues"
digital single available October 26, 2018 
via Modern Outsider Records

From their upcoming sophomore album, In Two, in stores Feb 22, 2019. 

www.movingpanoramas.com
www.modernoutsider.com

Baby Blues

Moving Panoramas - Baby Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMxa6RxUjI0

Scene Of A Crime

Scene of a Crime

Conflict Resolution

Lord, gimme the grace to let shape take, form and order
Pay to play, pennies on the goddamn dollar
Say what you say, we ain't getting it done
Words on a page mean fucking, nothing

So come on and take the weight
Or let the weight take over
Left in the wake, left in the wake
Let's elevate these levels on up
Let's escalate some situations

I need conflict, resolution
I got problems, with solutions
Gimme conflict, resolution
If you're tired, feeling useless, use it

They made us slave to wage war, build walls and borders
Outside the frame, international waters
Caught in the act, caught up in the crossfire
Taking some flak, pull out, push back

Good time zone for the zero hour
I wouldn't miss it for the end of the world
I wouldn't miss it for the end of the world
Just hurl abuse at me

I need conflict, resolution
I got problems, with solutions
Gimme conflict, resolution
If you're tired of feeling useless
Use it or lose it

Conflict Resolution

Premonitions

The second single from the forthcoming record by Melbourne base, The Ocean Party. 
Out November 9th through Spunk Records(AUS/NZ) & Emotionla Response (US/UK/EU).

Vinyl 
AUS/NZ https://shop.spunk.com.au/product/the-ocean-party-the-oddfellows-hall
US/UK/EU https://emotional-response-recs.bandcamp.com/album/the-oddfellows-hall

The Ocean Party - What It's Worth

The 1st release in a series of cassette potboilers from WTTG. Our Place in Time is taken from the tape LP; Layers of Identity by Lee Kelly (formerly Sage).

Limited edition of 50 C62 Cream coloured cassettes. Also available digitally. Order NOW on bandcamp: https://wherethetimegoes.bandcamp.com/album/lee-kelly-layers-of-identity

All music written & performed by Lee Kelly at Seagull House Studio.

Buy the Tape

Potboiler No. 1: Lee Kelly - Our Place In Time (Cassette LP OUT NOW)

BLUE

This song is our party song. This is our jam. It was inspired by late nights in our Brooklyn studio with all of our friends selecting and playing random disco and funk records from our collection.... from old James Brown to Chic to god knows what else. It talks about “A Real Woman,” but it’s really about anyone who’s real, who knows themselves, and who doesn’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks. It’s a celebration about embracing individuality because there’s nothing sexier than that.

Check out the lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToJB-A9Bc7c

A Real Woman

Snapchat, pornhub, cyber sex
Electronic cigarettes
A spray tan on the president
He’s just working on a dream I guess

Slimfast, botox trophy wives
Pool boys, fuck toys, magic mikes
You’re so pretty, won’t you get in line
A face like that goes viral

Thrift store cowboys, basic chicks
Glamour camping, selfie sticks
Check your online presences
Never mind the grandeur

Influencers indie bands
Wookies, festies, lifestyle brands
electric kool aid acid test
Except that you can stream it

You and I wake up each morning
Get groceries take out the trash
There’s no use denying we broke it we’re buying
I’m afraid that there’s no turning back

So fill up the tank when it’s cheapest
And we’ll drive till it’s dry and we’ll park
Just to keep on fighting to do something right
And Make love in the back of your car

They say Socialism is a Bullshit dream
We’ve got a trickle down economy
They mean more - but less for you and me
Jesus, look at that GDP

While the Underworked and underfed
underclasses understand
That the factories ain’t coming back
And a big old wall won’t do it

Cuz the uber drivers are out of work
and they’ve fired all the checkout girls
And I know makes it all a little worse
But these discounts are expensive



Police beatings, holy wars
Walmart, cocaine, surplus corn
I guess that’s what the flag is for
But we just get what we deserve

Like opioids, diazapenes
Pump the schoolkids full of speed
And scare them off of shrooms and weed
Money talks it doesn’t grow on trees

Shanty towns in parking lots
LA quakes in Arkansas
Garbage Islands, martial law
Still you can’t trust the science


++++++
Mascara on the anchor on the tv news
Still worried about which room you use
He’s got the average straight white pronoun blues
And there’s still a war on Christmas

Jesus in the shopping malls
Karaoke worship songs
The rest must be Obama’s fault
But I guess we’ll thank him later

Once we’ve Fucked the World in all directions
Brought on an early Armageddon
Hope my daughter’s still eleven 
when they beam the good ones up to heaven
(Cuz you know what they do at 12)

well they don’t drink and they don’t drive
There’s record teenage suicide
And they won’t even go outside 
unless their mama makes ‘em

Sittin’ Home alone on the telephone
Jerking off and getting stoned
The kids aint sinning they’re just really bored
But really Can you blame them?

Bullshit Dream

Recorded at The Nave, Leeds
Produced by Alex Greaves
Written & Performed by bdrmm

Tell Me How This Ends

A Better Pet

New album 'Heavy Heavy', released 03 February 2023 on Ninja Tune: https://youngfathers.lnk.to/heavySo

Taken from the single 'Border Girl / Cocoa Sugar', released 31 October 2018 on Ninja Tune: https://youngfathers.lnk.to/border-cocoaSo

Follow Young Fathers -
Spotify: http://found.ee/youngfathers-sp
Apple Music: http://found.ee/youngfathers-am
Instagram: http://found.ee/youngfathers-ig
Facebook: http://found.ee/youngfathers-fb
Twitter: http://found.ee/youngfathers-tw
Youtube: http://found.ee/youngfathers-yt
Soundcloud: http://found.ee/youngfathers-sc

Border Girl / Cocoa Sugar

Border Girl (Single Version)

The band have spent the summer in the studio with long-time producer Russ Hayes, working on their forthcoming debut album. This single marks the start of a campaign that the band have been eager to get underway, with the album taking shape for release in early 2019. For Rising Sun, they took a trip out to sunny West Kirby to record with former The Coral guitarist and Domino Records artist Bill Ryder-Jones.

Written and performed by Kidsmoke. 
Mixed by Bill Ryder Jones and Russ Hayes. 
Mastered by Gethin John, Hafod Mastering. 
Artwork by Tom Mason.

Rising Sun

Album out 9 Nov 2018

Pre-order :
Album : https://punchdrunkmusic.com/album/ashley-road-sessions-88-94
10" Sampler : https://punchdrunkmusic.com/album/love-is-the-key-version

Smith & Mighty - Dub Song

It's been a long time since we found albums that sounded like the bands we liked so much, slovenly, fresh, fun, elegant. Do you remember what you felt listening to Pavement, Beat Happening, The Feelies or The Chills? That’s what Dick Diver, Twerps or Nap Eyes are bringing us now.

Bobo Integral is pleased to release the outstanding debut album by the Australian group (from Brisbane, that’s right, like The Go-Betweens) Dumb Things. 10 songs, 28 minutes, without valleys, pure youthful adrenaline. A first album with everything that means, for good. A collection of country-burnt pop songs, scruffy enough to get stopped at the door, but charming enough to talk it's way in. They will be big.

The vinyl record will be available from January 4, 2019, but you can order it now at https://bobointegral.bigcartel.com/

This record was firstly released in cassette by the French label Hidden Bay Records.

Dumb Things - Catch And Release

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYfIYjnAkBI

ig: grdnsband

Vocal/Guitar - Jacob Lyons
Lead Guitar - Sam Gledhill
Bass/BV - Cameron Harrison
Drums - John Fitzpatrick

Hydraulic Lover

"Everlastingly Yours" is taken from the debut album "Brickbat" by Piroshka, available to order here: http://smarturl.it/Piroshka_Brickbat