8 YEARS OF BIRP!  My selections for February 2017... Download the partial playlist over at http://www.birp.fm/playlist/2017/february-2017

BIRP! February 2017

"On Ludlow" the debut LP from High Waisted, available now:
iTunes: itun.es/us/DvIQab
Spotify: spoti.fi/2b7XYd3
Apple Music: apple.co/2aFr94M

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On Ludlow

Trust

Deserts of Youth by Lisa/Liza is out now! https://orindalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deserts-of-youth

Lisa/Liza is the lo-fi, psych-folk recording project of Maine-based guitarist, singer and songwriter Liza Victoria. Deserts of Youth is her debut LP, after numerous limited edition cassette and CDr releases. Deserts of Youth is an intimate collection of seven original songs, recorded at home by Victoria, using just her voice and her acoustic guitar.

Liza explains:
"Deserts of Youth is an album about the parts of our past that remain within us, and visiting these landscapes with recognition of ourselves instead of a meditation on what has been lost, or is no longer a resource or a path we can use. It is about meeting the past and facing it with a sense of ownership instead of abandon; the idea that one can see a desert as a place of desolation or a place of needed reflection, full of life, and strength."

Praise for "Century Woods," the first single from Deserts of Youth:

"Carried on the lightest of breezes, ('Century Woods') manages to take on numerous foreboding shapes thanks to the fragile, spectral nature of Victoria’s utterly compelling lead vocal, that never once deviates from the path, never once stops to check whether anyone is following, but drags you through the entire piece regardless.
It’s a wonderful piece of work, a fragile expanse that seems to fold in on itself, like a forest slowly departing in the shrivelling, encroaching dusk."
-Tom Johnson, GoldFlakePaint

"'Century Woods' exists outside of time entirely. Victoria opens the song in a drifting, half-existent time signature, her careful, close-mic’d guitar lapping gently like sleepy waves at high tide. Her vocals reverberate powerfully without an ounce of reverb. The song’s dry production—seemingly no overdubs or effects at all—actually makes it sound even more mysterious: the magic is entirely in her performance. Six minutes in, as the song’s jazzy, Karen-Dalton-on-ambien melody begins to settle into your brain, it just kind of ends. The last sentence is left unfinished, the chord progression unresolved. Victoria’s haunting, imagistic dream logic is only beginning to reveal itself."
-Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork

http://orindal.limitedrun.com/products/574775

Century Woods

Tip of My Tongue (The Civil Wars cover)

Drift

Float

Mixed by Jacob Montague.
Mastered by Dale Becker.

Angkor (feat. Welshly Arms)

"The Dream Never Leaves" album out now. 
itunes.apple.com/album/id11830640…?ls=1&app=itunes
open.spotify.com/album/4K78KaOmom3Vd2OSeBkmBn
play.google.com/store/music/album…skx4nhd3nue&hl=en

Air is easily my favorite. It's an old song that I considered mediocre... that is until I changed the bassline around about 8 months before release. I'm a HUGE sucker for songs that are just long build-ups to enormous drops. The thing about this is instead of a drop it's just a giant beautiful synth wall. Absolutely love this song to death.

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/c3e29e'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

The Dream Never Leaves

Free Download

◈ This groovy track by Slacker is sure to evoke some feels. It is a perfectly mixed cocktail of punchy and smooth. It's sure to take your breath away, let us know what you think in the comments! ◈ 

■ Youtube Visuals 
□ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnY4CnPfdUw

✦Slacker
⟡ @slackervibes
⟡ www.facebook.com/slackervibes

✦Phonotecture 
⟡ @phonotecture
⟡ www.facebook.com/Phonotecture-425889387609744

✦Sam F Hinton Illustration
⟡ www.facebook.com/sfhillustration


original:
https://soundcloud.com/nightowlcollective/s-lyre-air

Drift

Mandy Sloan

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