[Weekly Mix] 2020.01 (2)

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Hold That Thought

Drained

2nd Holy Ship single "Tau"  from Jonatan Westh,  formerly of late 00's shoegazers BLACKSTRAP (Swe). As HOLY SHIP he explores post-punk dark wave with anthemic hooks in a similar vein to debut single "Lüst". Mixed by US producer/mixer Ed Ackerson (BNLX, Polara, The Jayhawks, Motion City Soundtrack)  
FIYL: BRMC, The Soft Moon, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS

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Holy Ship - Tau

Melbourne's Constant Mongrel (featuring members of Terry, Woollen Kits, Taco Leg and Nun) return with a new 7” via Upset The Rhythm in conjunction with their 2019 European tour. ‘Experts in Skin’ is the little sister follow-up to 2018’s ‘Living In Excellence’. The A side single holds the familiar post-post punk angst the band is known for, only building ever higher with a triple saxophone flurry and singer Tom Ridgewell’s mutters on the often awkward nature of mainstream consumerism. On the flip side the band turns to its pop sensibilities producing the tough but sweet sounding ‘Schnuki’. Bassist Amy Hill’s bouncing vocals contrast to the anarcho-punk growls below. Subject matter being another complaint about people that are really fake nice. Can I help you darling? Honey? Sweetie? Deary? Pumpkin?...... no thanks. Constant Mongrel have previous releases available on RIP Society, La Vida Es Un Mus and Siltbreeze.

Release date: 7 June 2019

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Experts In Skin 7"

Constant Mongrel - 'Shnuki'

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From the album "3D Routine". Preorder on orange vinyl from : https://www.musicglue.com/mushband/

Upcoming tour dates:

18 Feb – UK Nottingham, Rough Trade
19 Feb – UK Bristol, Rough Trade 
20 Feb – UK London, Rough Trade East 
07 Apr – FR Paris, Supersonic
08 Apr – FR Lyon, Le Sonic
10 Apr – FR Lille, Pzzle Festival @ Le Grand Mix
12 Apr – UK Ramsgate, Ramsgate Music Hall
13 Apr – UK Brighton, The Prince Albert
14 Apr – UK London, Sebright Arms
15 Apr – UK Bristol, The Lanes
16 Apr – UK Manchester, YES
17 Apr – UK Sheffield, Picture House Social
18 Apr – UK Newcastle, The Cumberland Arms 

Tickets: https://www.musicglue.com/mushband/live

Mush - Revising My Fee

Raincoat

Hope you enjoy the second single from our upcoming record, Disco Volador! 
Heavenly Recordings 
Produced by Marta salogni, Engineered by Joel Patchett 
Artwork by Raissa Pardini

Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme)

In Me

From the Pamplona, Spain band's second album "Dias Raros", which launches the garage-pop punch of their debut across a landscape of lysergic dream pop, melancholic indie rock and strident guitar jangle, awash in luminous waves of harmony. Out MAY 1st, 2020 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Dias Raros

3 Segundos

Melenas - 3 segundos

What's Beauty To Do?

New single from Lucern Raze featuring Sudakistan. Taken from the INTERNATIONAL BREAKDOWN LP out May 20 2020. Pre-order at www.PNKSLM.com/store

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Lucern Raze - Elvis Ronaldo (feat. Sudakistan)

Los Angeles-based group The Spyrals are gearing up to release their new album ‘Same Old Line’ on October 30th. Taking cues from The Velvet Underground, 13th Floor Elevators and The Stooges by way of Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters, the record sees the band carve out eight songs of raw, back-to-basics rock’n’roll that marries white-knuckle garage-blues, psychedelic repetition and sun-baked alt-country to create “something new with an old soul”. The record is their fourth full-length to date and their first since signing to London-based label Fuzz Club.  

Armed with a guitar, harmonica and fuzz pedal, band-leader Jeff Lewis formed The Spyrals when he was living in San Francisco in the early 2010s. Now, though, he’s based in Los Angeles and finds himself backed by a new line-up of musicians. ‘Same Old Line’ was cooked up in new drummer Dash’s garage and recorded over the course of a few days and nights straight to a Tascam tape machine. Jeff recalls: “This is the first album recorded with a new lineup after I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. At the time of recording we werenʼt sure if this would be a Spyrals album or something under a different name. At some point during the mixing process I decided to keep moving on under the Spyrals name, so to me this album is a real turning point in the band’s history.”

The result is a record that’s just as rooted in the sounds of Nashville and the Mississippi Delta as it is the band’s West Coast garage-rock forebears. “I was heavy into listening to a lot of Neil Young and Crazy Horse during this period too which I can hear in some of the song structures. We actually all took a road trip to Bakersfield, CA to see Neil with Crazy Horse in concert around the time of working on the album.” Lyrically, Jeff says, “it feels like the most raw record so far and the most open and down to earth. Less psychedelic sounds and more real life emotions and situations.” The opening title-track ‘Same Old Line’, for example, is a song about “life’s ups and downs and how some people seem to have it easier than others. We’re all tied together whether we know it or not and in the end we all have our different struggles to get by and keep living.”

Elsewhere, ‘Don’t Turn Me Down’ is a defiant, overdriven ode to “trying to stay positive when obstacles seem to keep coming in the way” and ‘In Your Room’ is a piece of psychedelic alt-country about a “new romance, maybe a short fling, and wanting something to work out that you know won’t be possible”. Charting similar themes, ‘There’s A Feeling’ is about love and travelling (“two things that can be hard to do at the same time”) and ’Goodbye’ is an observation that “life is short and even the stars fade away eventually”, both delivered through the medium of stomping, blues-inflected garage-rock. ‘Just Won’t Break’, on the other hand, is a song about the American Dream and it's hopeless shortcomings, Jeff offering the following advice for his fellow country-men and -women: “Don’t let it get you down. Most of us are still waiting for it to come true.”

Arriving off the back of their 2012 self-titled debut, 2013’s ‘Out of Sight’ and last year’s ‘The Curse’, ‘Same Old Line’ marks a new chapter for the band who have spent the last decade picking up a growing international reputation for their fuzzed-out, driving rock’n’roll. They’ve played with the likes of Spectrum/Sonic Boom, Moon Duo, Fuzz, The Warlocks and Spindrift and performed at such festivals as SXSW, Desert Stars Festival, LA Psych Fest and in 2015 they even headlined a festival in Southern Russia (‘Spring Beat Festival’), one of the first US bands to play in the area. Right before the Covid-19 lockdown set in this year they’d also wrapped up a headline European tour just in the knick of time.

Same Old Line

The Spyrals - There's A Feeling

New sinlge from Sibille Attar, taken from the new album A History of Silence out February 26 via PNKSLM Recordings. Pre-order at www.PNKSLM.com/ahistoryofsilence

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Sibille Attar - "Dream State"

Indie label based in North London…
The home of many fine bands indeed.  Currently home to
POLIÇA, The Go! Team, Field Music, Blue States, The Phoenix Foundation, Haley, Dutch Uncles, Stats, Warm Digits, Weaves, NZCA LINES, Malihini, Menace Beach, Rozi Plain, You Tell Me, Odetta Hartman

Mush - Revising My Fee

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