+ GARAGE & PSYCHEDELIC ROCK 2023 PART V

Lauren Andino - Vocals, Guitar, Moog.
Glenn Fryatt - Drums

Written by Andino/Fryatt

Recorded at Golden Beat Studios, Los Angeles, USA by Travis Parvur
Produced By Lover Of Tomorrow
Mixed and Mastered by James Aparicio in London, UK

Cover image © 2021 Rob Richardson (IG: @richardson_pix)

℗ & © 2022 Tremours

Affectations

Port Children

Recorded in 2021-2022 in Louisville, KY by Nick Roeder. Produced by Andrew Rinehart. Mixed by Nick Roeder and Andrew Rinehart, with guidance from Steve Albini. Drum programming & additional production by Matia Simovich at his Infinite Power Studios in Los Angeles.

Charm School is: Andrew Rinehart, Drew English, Matt Filip & Jason Bemis Lawrence.

Simulacra

Butterfly

Speaking ahead of their latest release, frontman Seb revealed: “This song is about a dream I had, where my friend Ted told me he didn’t want to be my friend anymore because I was getting too drunk and making a fool of myself. When I told him about this dream he told me that maybe I shouldn’t drink so much because I do make a fool of myself. I’ve been in the shame cube ever since”.

Pre-order the forthcoming LP here https://publicbody.fanlink.to/NoConstraint

No Constraint - Public Body

Shadow

I Know No Other Way

Prepared for a Nightmare - Deluxe Version

Dresden

Dresden (Prepared for a Nightmare - Deluxe Version)

Did You?

Interiors

Evacuation

Waves

New Romantics - Hard to Let You Go

Atlanta's Stranded (David Mansfield) is a corroded, bleary web of synths and processed guitars which sound romantic, haunting and grandiose - a space to get lost in, to find our own other worlds in. Produced and mixed by Vacant Lots’ Jared Artaud.

Stranded - Aftermath

This is a fan-made remix of a band from Macclesfield where I grew up. In my view they had it all - great songs, great musicians and a strong local following, but they never got signed by a big label and never got the support they deserved. That said, I think Stock, Aitken and Waterman almost signed them (who knows what would they would have done to the sound of Officers and Gentleman). Lesser bands did get a deal and we talk about some of these bands now as though they are gods etc. Getting a good record deal along with the right level of promotion made a big difference to bands in the 1980s. 

To find out more about Officers and Gentlemen can visit their bandcamp page. They are still touring. Check them out. 
https://officersandgentlemen.bandcamp...
https://soundcloud.com/gareth-hobbs/s...

Officers and Gentlemen - Run To Him (KD Remix 2023)

all from my heart (feat. missmriel) (prod. racky)

http://mayflowermadame.bandcamp.com/
Contact: mayflowermadame@gmail.com

Mayflower Madame is a band from Oslo that specializes in a cinematic blend of post-punk, dream-pop and psych-noir. They made their debut with the LP "Observed in a Dream" in 2016 which created a buzz in the underground music press and earned them tours in both Europe and North America. Comparisons were made to bands like Bauhaus, The Cure, DIIV and The Black Angels.

Mayflower Madame’s long-awaited second LP "Prepared For A Nightmare" was launched in 2020 to excellent reviews. Through ten tracks of hypnotizing psychedelia, shimmering shoegaze and 1980s dark romanticism, the album conveyed the wintry feeling of their home country Norway – icy and gloomy, haunting and majestic. It was released by French labels Only Lovers Records and Icy Cold Records in collaboration with US label Little Cloud Records. 

The covid-19 pandemic hit hard just after their sophomore release, which made the title even more fitting than expected, but in 2022 Mayflower Madame finally returned to the European club stages again with mini-tours in the UK, France and Eastern Europe. The following year the band focused on writing and recording new music while also releasing a Deluxe Version of "Prepared for a Nightmare" containing 5 new bonus tracks. Their upcoming third album has been mixed and mastered by Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher, The Vacant Lots) and is due for release in October 2024 with the first single "A Foretold Ecstasy" to be launched May 10th. 

Some press quotes:

"Mayflower Madame adorn black hearts on the sleeves of their leather jackets with a sense of pride, and so they should." (8/10 score) - Under The Radar Magazine

"Wildly addictive mix of post-punk, shoegaze and psychedelia. Utterly superb." - Louder Than War

"Mayflower Madame makes gorgeously dissonant and urgent post-punk that seamlessly blends with shoegaze to unfurl layer upon layer of gauzy sonics over your ice-cold eardrums." - CVLT Nation

"Uniting tones of post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, and psych-rock seamlessly lends the band a characteristic sound that translates from an auditive experience into a visual one without batting an eye." - Everything Is Noise

"If you like your beats fast, your guitar riffs laden with atmospherics and your music dark, you could do far worse than Mayflower Madame. They’re a complex musical package tied up in a black post-punk bow." (8/10 score) - Backseat Mafia

"The love child of post-punk and neo-psychedelia." (8/10 score) - Classic Rock Magazine

"Their sneering vocals and wickedly distorted guitar riffs are pure Jesus & Mary Chain, the ominous, echo-drenched atmospherics recall Sisters of Mercy, and the overall and very palpable sense of fear and dread harken back to Faith-era Robert Smith." - BlackBook 

"Deeply atmospheric psychedelia." - Clash Magazine

Dresden (Prepared for a Nightmare - Deluxe Version)

Mayflower Madame

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