Lovely stuff, and featured here: http://www.recordrewindplay.co.uk/rrp-recommends/super-subs-week-2/

Whereas last week's daily, mega-playlist was a boisterous, upbeat one, the Weekend Showcase October 24th Edition is maybe our most "serious", but there are still some get-off-your-butt dance tracks.
Plenty of countries are represented, including Australia, Canada, England, France, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

Weekend Showcase - October 24 Edition

Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation – Horse Dance

In an era in which ‘psychedelia’ can often mean merely a grab-bag of influences from which wah-wah pedals and two-note riffs are dispensed as signifiers and signposts into a realm of easy accessibility as opposed to gateways to another dimension, it can be a rarity to come across a band who are genuinely fixated on creating alternate realities for the listener. Yet this is exactly how Stockholm’s Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation view their incandescent art, and it’s this sensibility that’s led to the kaleidoscopic spendour of their debut full-length for Rocket Recordings, ‘Horse Dance’. 

“It’s a continuum that flows beyond here and now, and psychedelic music seems to be a really powerful way to unveil those deeper oceans of being that are our true home.” reflects Josefin, who forms half the core of the band with Fredrik Joelson. The last twelve months have seem a dramatic rise to prominence for The Liberation (who take their band name from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead) with their EP ‘Diamond Waves’ leading to shows in their homeland with Goat and Les Big Byrd, a nomination for a Swedish Grammy as best newcomer, and rapturously received appearances at festivals like Roskilde.

These adventures have set the stage for a spectacular movement into the unknown from their earlier work. ‘Horse Dance’ is a razorsharp collection of ditties that marry dreamlike radiance with hypnotic rhythmic drive, set alight by a prismatic experimental glow. It inhabits a realm in which a propulsive ‘60s-tinged pop song like ‘Sunny Afternoon’ can be elevated skyward with krautrock-tinged repetition, dub echo and analogue curlicues alike, and one in which a Broadcast-style mantra like ‘You Have Arrived’ can tap into a psychic lineage that stretches all the way from The United States Of America to Portishead’s ‘Third’. Yet whilst ghosts of the like of Laika, Cat’s Eyes and The Creatures may lurk in the darker recesses of these songs, this is a band paying no homage to bygone glories. 

The Liberation cite a myriad influences in both their philosophical stance and their aesthetic, from 12th century iconoclasts like Milarepa to 20th century sonic voyagers like Catherine Ribeiro, and from Kandinsky’s abstract expressions of synaesthesia to the avant-jazz of Moondog. Yet at all times their transcendental extrapolations are married to icy and enticing melodic flourishes, making for a revitalising clash between the chic and the transcendental, and a sound as biting as it is beatific.

“I definitely think that the human need for altered states - to see oneself from a bigger perspective - is a deep fundamental need” Josefin elaborates. “We’ve been deprived of access to our full nature by a restrictive system where altered states may be the ultimate taboo.”

With ‘Horse Dance’, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation step into a world where all such restrictions and taboos are null and void, and this journey is already proving quite the spectacle to behold. 

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - SUNNY AFTERNOON

GRAVE119
Casket Girls
The Piano Album
out 10/17 digitally
pre-order here: https://graveface.bandcamp.com/album/the-piano-album

Casket Girls - Sixteen Forever

Joshua Hyslop - In Deepest Blue
Available now at http://flyt.it/jhidb

http://joshuahyslop.com

Joshua Hyslop - Gone

"Better Instincts" is the first single from Miner's forthcoming album Tuanaki.

MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Jpw_kt-mk7M

http://buzzbands.la/2015/10/20/video-miner-better-instincts/

Miner - Better Instincts

Remedy II is a re-recorded new version of Remedy as released on MY BABY's second album Shamanaid (March 2015 Embrace Recordings)

Originals written by C. van Dijck, J. van Dijck, D. de Vries, R. Allen, Y. Sprey and M. Smid.
Performed by MY BABY.
Produced and recorded by Mickey Smid at Smusic Studio's Amsterdam

LYRICS Remedy II

Babe,
Nothing feels the same 
Now I got the taste 
Of your sweetest remedy  

Strange,
How I feel this way 
Your stuck in my brain 
Like an endless melody  

Your melody melody melody
Is my remedy remedy remedy

Strange
I’m stumbling to the caves
On these Delta Waves
But you’re a step ahead of me

Babe
How I feel this way 
You’re still in my brain 
Like an endless melody

Your melody melody melody
Is my remedy remedy remedy

Remedy II

I loved you before 
I could love myself
My mistake 
I tried to ignore 
The way that it felt
Went astray
My mistake 

A different face
In the same mirror
I couldn't tell 
Who 
Might appear

It wasn’t enough
To have the right thoughts 
Made wrong moves 
Here, with you

A different face
In the same mirror
I couldn't tell 
Who 
Might appear

I washed you right out 
I made you afraid, love
Against every doubt 
Your heart kept its shape up

A different face
In the same mirror
I couldn't tell 
Who 
Might appear

I washed you right out 
I made you afraid, love
Against every doubt 
Your heart kept its shape up

Washout

YUNG SATAN PRODUCTION

made it this fine mornin' 

Vinyl Heart Pt. 1

2 lovers making noise. 

Karmen Kimball and Alex Lasner met at a party on December 21st, 2012, the day the Mayan calendar had predicted the world was to end. That night, they struck up a conversation about their mutual love for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, and realized they had both gone to the same elementary school, years before. They got engaged a few weeks later and, since then, they've been in the studio working on an EP they plan to release in 2016.

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

Washout

Maybe The Moon

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