I'm  back to composing some more traditional post-rock. As probably expected with my usual style by now -- maybe with a sort of post-apocalypse or lone wanderer kind of vibe. What kind of story can you imagine with this music? Also, here's another shameless plug for new album, APHELION -- available now for download at my bandcamp page. Appreciate the support, guys! https://lainechinensy.bandcamp.com/album/aphelion

No Longer Human

A rework of an original composition by Nora Cola

Interlude (Rework)

Started with a simple kick-snare beat set to the 134 BPM and let the inspiration kick in.

Dawned

Lunchbox's Tim Brown and Donna McKean have been making records in their Oakland, California basement for two decades, inspired by 1960s/70s AM-radio pop and TV show theme music, punk, C86, and mod à la the Creation and the Jam. From the sonically-inventive indiepop of "The Magic of Sound" (1999) to the dub-influenced psychedelia of "Evolver" (2001) to the critically-acclaimed bubblegum of "Lunchbox Loves You" (2013), the couple have established a sound all their own.

Their new album for Slumberland, "After School Special," finds them at the height of their powers of songcraft and performance. Donna's bass playing stakes out stylistic territory somewhere between Carol Kaye and John Entwhistle while Tim's guitar is equal parts 12-string jangle and clipped Orange Juice-esque funk. Horns by Gary Olson (Ladybug Transistor) and longtime collaborator Jeremy Goody drive the record from beginning to end. Evelyn Davis' delay-drenched keyboards combine with whispers of analog tape feedback to give the record an otherworldly vibe in keeping with its lyrical themes.

There, favorite seasons (autumn) and animals (cats), appear alongside love and death, ghosts and reincarnation. From the shimmering opener "Dream Parade" to the horn-driven mod-pop of "Hide and Seek," the groovy sixties R&B vibe of "I Really Wanna Know" and the haunting male-female vocal stylings of the  album-closing title track, the textures shift while the unity of artistic vision remains. Catchy as hell and beautifully packaged, "After School Special" is Lunchbox at their very best.

After School Special

Lunchbox - I Really Wanna Know

Same Old, Same Old

Vocals by Karl McCann
Guitars by Marc Joy
Drums by Malcolm Holmes

Pure

Pure by Lights That Change

The third single from Ancient Channels, ‘Pangs’, is a heavy and immersive contribution to the dream pop landscape with pummeling drums, ethereal synths, stark reverberated guitars and dreamy delay- ridden vocals.

‘Pangs’ is a meditation on the ephemeral nature of time and the human feelings that are borne of uncertainty: confronting the unwavering and the unpredictable one discovers when looking within. In direct conflict with the plodding, lesser tempo of the song that serves as a crucial reminder that we are more than the sum of our thoughts.

Pangs

'Bullpen' from 'Scrundle', the new EP from Parker Lee. Released independently Sept 4th 2020.

Lyrics:
Watching the bullpen shake its way crosstown
A one inch punch brings in the crowd
Some good intentions could miss their mark again,
If we made up like dying friends

But all my tides could never be
The longest break of a wave at sea
The best damn friends we would ever be

Hearing the corners my friends left out to me
I jig-and-saw the finished piece
Flatline of letters spelling out a need:
"I should go - or you should leave."

But both my eyes could hardly see
The darkest crack of a trench at sea
The best damn friends we would ever be

Keep those hands in front of me
A simple plan and a master key
A knife-like wound and it looks like me
The best damn friends we would ever be

Jowan Mead - songs, words, vocals, guitar
Annie Prior - guitar, bass, synth, percussion
Adrian Maidman - drums

Recorded by Annie Prior and Jowan Mead at The Fungalow.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Annie Prior at Red Chilli Recordings. Art by James Baily, @jamesmbaily on Instagram.

Scrundle

Bullpen

Fine EP, 9th December 2020 on Big Indie Records.

No Gloom

Held Open Door

The newest and first single from the amazing forthcoming new Album releasing in early 2021. 
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The Deathray Davies - Then You Met Me

Wales’ Lights That Change to release single MAY 11. 
 
"A truly beautiful slow burning slice of dreamy bright pop" - Louder Than War

"A brooding intro brings us into a sonic world, suggesting something of classic shoegaze flavour whilst shooting firmly for the mysterious unknown future...a radiosexy reinvigoration of early 4AD spirit" - Joe Foster (Creation Records)
 
" A haunting, shimmering, deceptively simple slice of widescreen shoegaze that knows 100% what it's all about. A winner" - Producer Fran Ashcroft (Damon Albarn, Lords of Acid)
 
"Sublime slice of dream-pop inspired heaven, full of hauntingly beautiful vocal tones, floating progressions & blissfully unassuming guitar lines" -Primal Music Blog
 
"Stunning and haunting…outstanding showmanship and seductive melody" - The Sound of Confusion

FOR FANS OF: Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins,The Cure, This Mortal Coil, Marissa Nadler

Lights That Change is an alternative ethereal dreampop outfit, hailing from North Wales and headed by Marc Joy. After many years producing other artists, he finally turned his attention towards his own creative endeavours. Thus was born Lights That Change, channeling new energies into sculpting horizons of perfect dreamscapes, primarily based on guitars.
 
Lights That Change released their debut EP ‘Rainbow On Your Shoulder’ in 2013, followed by ‘Whispers in February’ and have received support from BBC, Tom Robinson, and Amazing Radio, among others. 

The debut LP ‘Byzantium’, which includes vocals from Rebecca Palin (Golden Fable) and Mandy Clare, some bass from John Bryan, drum programming from Mal Holmes (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)is now available on all online stores.