Name: Porridge Radio - Give / Take by Memorials of Distinction
Duration: 3 min 50 s
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Can I use this in an Animation project pwease :3 This is amazing

aghhhhh fav song this year .... 6th repeAT

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"18 Cigarettes" is taken from Ducks Ltd.'s album, Modern Fiction, out now on Carpark Records / Royal Mountain Records.

p + c 2021 Carpark Records

Ducks Ltd. - 18 Cigarettes

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From the album The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong out April 29, 2022 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / Listen: https://lnk.to/XHoJYpp2

On their debut for Western Vinyl, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist Nate Mendelsohn and his band use lyrical maximalism for the powers of good. Where Market’s previous home recorded releases shifted genre restlessly, on The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong Mendelsohn took a core band of longtime collaborators to a house in rural Massachusetts where they carved out space for his words to speak through with humor and intensity. 

Though he comes from a background in experimental music, Mendelsohn’s ear for pop has prevailed. Certain moments on Bullshit Gong reveal his stranger side, as on the thundering bridge of “Scar,” which sounds like a more unhinged Parquet Courts, or the angular  “I Would Do That,” which takes cues from Cate Le Bon. On the whole, though, this band of close friends insists on directness, their arrangements clear despite the intricacies. Guitars and synthesizers tangle fluidly atop the rhythm section’s tight bedrock, evoking the tenderness and backbeat-centric qualities of Elliott Smith or Big Thief. 

After college, where he met most of the members of Market, Mendelsohn became an engineer and producer at the Brooklyn studio Figure 8 Recording. Through that community he’s recorded artists like Frankie Cosmos and Wendy Eisenberg, and played with Yaeji, Vagabon, Katie Von Schleicher (who co-produced Bullshit Gong with him), and Sam Evian, who mixed the album. 

While writing Bullshit Gong, Mendelsohn grappled with long-gestating OCD, watched a formative relationship dissolve, and experienced a mental health crisis that lasted a full year. During this turbulent time, Mendelsohn began to consider the ways he has approached friendship, partnership, and especially family. Those observations and partial conclusions make their way into the songs in an essential capacity, as he mixes the small with the very big on a dogged search for empathy. On “Control” he sings “I heard a kid ask a teacher today / ‘What is a memory?’ / Man, sometimes life is great / At 4:15 I was awake and a mess / My mind’s a broke machine.” 

The words flow in much the same way as Mendelsohn’s thoughts, with observation and memory giving way to moments of profound anxiety. This emotional heft is met in crucial ways by his band. On the tender “Watergate,” a love song set against both the Watergate scandal and James Comey’s senate testimony, the arrangement is simple and trusting, adding depth and intimacy to each word as he compares his life, love, and temperament to that of his parents. 

While recording “Old,” the band sat around an omnidirectional microphone shaking percussion instruments and singing out certain lines. In the background, you can hear Mendelsohn pick up his clarinet and eke out a few notes, a spontaneous act of playfulness that made the final cut. These tonal shifts matter deeply, as the words he sings could be interpreted differently in a darker setting: “Half of these feelings aren’t my feelings anymore / But I guess I could still enjoy the notes and chords / Maybe that’s just the way it goes / We always sing about things that are old.”

Creating intimacy out of manic self-reflection requires a delicate balancing act, one Mendelsohn tackles with abandon. His words never skew too poetic or grandiose, and when he invokes the ugly it’s met with a sonic tonality that sets him right again. In tender moments, his voice is often flanked by bandmates Natasha Thweatt or Von Schleicher, who help skew his words toward the universal. Still, Bullshit Gong is an obsessive look inward, one in which Mendelsohn simply asks himself if he is good to those he loves. It’s an act of trust between the artist and the imagined listener he takes with him.

The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong

Market - "Scar"

Radio Haw is the music project of Matt Gray. Influences range from Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Robert Hunter-penned Grateful Dead, to Triangle-area neighbors Hiss Golden Messenger. 

Radio Haw creates "bedroom" folk that would fit in the record crate alongside Elliott Smith or Hiss Golden Messenger's early 4-track-recorded Bad Debt. The songs are elevated from the bedroom toward the cosmic on the back of their searching lyrical content, crunchy guitars, and ethereal organs. Set all of this in Radio Haw's backyard of tree-shrouded, poison ivy-lined, Haw River paths in the North Carolina Piedmont and the sound rounds out into its own flavor of southern gothic folk rock.

With a vibe that would suit the jukebox of some supernatural roadhouse just out of town, many of the songs off the upcoming album, counsel of serpents, started as home demo recordings alongside the unrest of the early 2020s. With lyrical motifs ranging from the exploitation of spirituality to too-long acid trips, counsel of serpents speaks to the perils and triumphs of being human in our current world.

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Scientists of Sound said: "Whilst the weather can't quite make up its mind this week, on days like today where temperatures soar there's really no more perfect soundtrack than a dizzying guitar pop backdrop. No one seems to be doing it quite as well as The Diamond Age. With a bigger sound than ever before, the now trio showcase a swathe of swirling melodies and gleaming synth patterns that intertwine and convulse throughout its snappy 3 and a half minute duration. Taken from the band's forthcoming new due later this summer, have a listen for yourselves. " 

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I think most people have gone through at least one breakup or had a friendship end that pretty much wrecked them for a little while. ‘Ok Ok Ok’ is about going to a party and being hyper-aware of that other person’s presence. It’s about trying to overcome discomfort but in the process overcompensating and being (maybe just a little) petty. It’s about that desire to prove to that other person, and to yourself, that you’re okay when maybe the truth is, you’re not. We were lucky enough to record and mix this and album with producer, Andrija Tokic at The Bomb Shelter studio in Nashville. Mastered by the legendary Heba Kadry.

Don't Talk to Me

Ok Ok Ok

Recorded at Echo Zoo Studios 
Produced by Theo Verney 
Mixed by Theo Verney 
Engineered by Christoph Skirl 
Mastered by Bill Skibbe (TMM Third Man Records)
Music by The Howlers 
Lyrics by Adam Young & Cameron Black

I Don't Love You All The Time

Lyrics:
I find all my hair
Lost in the sheets
The sheets of my bed

I lost all my love
Lost down the drain
Along with my brain

I find all my hair
Lost in the sheets
The sheets of my bed

I lost all my love
Lost down the drain
Along with my brain

Why don’t you see
What I mean
About those people?

Why don’t you help
Find my way?
I’m lost in Sweden

Why, why?
I’m high

I find all my hair
Lost in the sheets
The sheets of my bed

I lost all my love
Lost down the drain
Along with my brain


Recorded & Mixed by The Lazy Eyes at Lindfield Studios
*Except drums recorded at Main Street Studios

Where's My Brain???

Record Label & management.
Spewing morbid noise out into the void.

http://modrecords.co.uk
https://memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/

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