Indie 2020 2nd Quarter

Crazy days, challenging times. Loads of great stuff here, including the stellar remix of Lisa Stansfield's "People Hold On", but pick of the week for me is Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints' "Runnin' (To Get To Your Love)".

Stay safe, people, look after yourselves and your neighbours.

Mar 13 - Mar 19 2020

https://fortherabbits.net/2020/03/20/five-things-we-liked-this-week-19-03-20/

Five Things We Liked This Week - 20/03/20

March 2020

Ana's Flavourites vol.49

'Qute' by Guds Pengar, released March 17th 2020. From debut album 'Granar som flyr staden', out May 15th via Rama Lama Records - pre-order the vinyl via ramalama.rocks. 

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal etc.: https://ffm.to/qute

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Guds Pengar - Qute

Music Video: https://youtu.be/_HxMOSMleMI

“In a dark tunnel underground, a nameless laborer tries to move an immovable burden.” That’s how director Ryan Hart describes the imagery in the video he made for Mute Duo’s twangy bruiser “Red-Winged Blackbirds.” A meditation on grief, trauma, and perseverance, Hart’s video considers the Sisyphus myth, mutating the fatalist cynicism into something open-ended, if not overtly hopeful, backgrounded by sun-soaked, droning pedal steel and propulsive, sublime rhythms.

Lapse in Passage is out on March 20, 2020

Skyler Rowe - drums, percussion, piano, wurlitzer
Sam Wagster - pedal steel, piano, farfisa
All songs by Mute Duo (BMI)
Recorded & Edited by Matt Russell at Jamdek, July 2018
Mixed by Cooper Crain at Jamdek
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Dmitry Samarov

Mute Duo - Red-winged Blackbirds

I Wouldn't Mind is the first single to be released from the Sitcom EP (10/04/2020), recorded at Tesla Studios with David Glover (Slow Club, Self Esteem). I Wouldn't Mind is about the concept of offence, and how senseless being offended can be.

I Wouldn't Mind

New single from Warm Digits new album Flight of Ideas https://smarturl.it/flightofideas

Flight of Ideas

Warm Digits - Everyone Nervous (Feat. Rozi Plain)

Elephant In The Room

The Absence of Birds

The Absence Of Birds

Music and lyrics: Sophie Coran
Strings by: Sophie Coran
Arranged by: Sophie Coran and band 
Produced by: Michael Cumming and Logan Roth
Recorded/Mixed: Michael Cumming at Rittenhouse Soundworks and at TreacleMine
Mastered by: Barry Grint  at Alchemy Mastering
Artwork: Emily Mineo

Vocals: Sophie Coran
Keys: Sophie Coran
Synth/organ extraordinaire: Logan Roth
Bass: Mike Morrongiello
Drums: Arjun Dube
Violin I: Shelby Yamin
Violin II: Lionel Thomas 
Viola: Sarah Douglass
Cello: Nicole Boguslaw

Lyrics:

kept it in for so long                     
I forgot how to breathe			
After all that went down
And how I wish I’d come clean

Lost in a little slice of hell
Stuck inside your spell
Going round and round and round
And I always miss the mark 
I’m lost without your spark
Going round and round and round

Now we’re swimming in circles with no place to go
Always clawing at the surface to the great unknown
Like we always try to do this silly dance to give ourselves a chance
To catch our breath,
I’m just trying not to drown 

Scared to speak the wrong word
I just wish you would say 
you remember how to love me,
that everything is ok

Lost in a little slice of hell
Stuck inside your spell
Going round and round and round
And I always miss the mark 
I’m lost without your spark
Going round and round and round

Now we’re swimming in circles with no place to go
Always clawing at the surface to the great unknown
Like we always try to do this silly dance to give ourselves a chance
To catch our breath,
I’m just trying not to drown

Circles

For me this song is dramatizing and honoring the thought life of what you might call a typical, mundane day. I’ve been thinking about the importance of perspective. There’s this warmth and importance and life that can be experienced every day in my mind. Not saying I’ve arrived at all, but I’m learning - and this song captures some of that. Musically, I started with frozen darting violin sounds. I wanted to create this beautifully icy melody and then fill it in with warm ambience to surround it.

This is the first single off my upcoming 4 track EP 'Latent' due out in March.

Hope it blesses, challenges, and brings peace to you :)

Perspective

"Silent Opera" EP 

label: Project: Mooncircle
date: 31.01.2020
buy vinyl/digital: https://longarm.lnk.to/SilentOpera

Silent Opera

Wait For A Wonder!

Listen to "Over 85" on all music streaming platforms!!!
hey also i love u guys hehehe omg hehe

For spotify and apple music:
https://levelmusic.lnk.to/Over-85

Socials:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yihojean/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yihojean

Over 85

The Worst In Us

Life In A Hole

Stream "when i look at you." 
ffm.to/whenilook

I begged you to stay 
As my mind span around the room that day
But I watched you leave instead 
So I spent the day drawing lines in bed 
Why’d you have to go 
My mind changes like the tide I know 
And the tide has turned our love 
And it’s not me you’re thinking of


But when I looked at you 
When I looked at you 
I felt my head come loose

I couldn’t see the signs 
That you said were clear 
That you said were mine 
So you laid them out for me 
And I cried so hard
That I couldn’t breathe
Tonight I’ll go to sleep 
With another ghost inside of me 
And I know you’ll forget
What it’s like to be stuck in my head 
When I looked at you 
When I looked at you 
I felt my grip come loose 
When I looked at you 
When I looked at you 
I knew we couldn’t undo 

When I look at you 
When I look at you 
I feel my head come loose 
When you look at me=
I know you feel it too 
There’s nothing time can do

when i look at you.

Out 27th March (digital) + 24th April (physical) – limited 7” – 250 copies.

https://www.speedywunderground.com/shop/singles

SW034 // The Lounge Society // Generation Game

Available here: https://lnk.to/StSouth-IfItsNotYou

St. South - If It's Not You (feat. N.Y.C.K.)

"Let me keep ya, don't fight,
Hush the gavel and then resign.
And then I'll keep you, entranced,
Against momentum that you can't stand."

Music and lyrics by Nico Conti.

Produced by Jim Wirt and 1800-SOS.

Gavel

Thoughts and Prayers

Taken from the album 'BOY', released 8 May on Counter Records: http://rac.lnk.to/BOYSo

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Stuck On You

Stuck On You (feat. Phil Good)

Come 2 California

New album "Morning Light" releases Tuesday, June 2nd

Morning Light

The new single Smokescreen by Tourists.

Release date: Friday 6th March 2020

Recorded by Tourists and James Bragg.
Mixed by Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather studios in Brooklyn, NY.
Mastered by Simon Heyworth and Bill Sellar of Super Audio Mastering.

Smokescreen

‘Do You Want That’ is an open letter about climate change directed to our global leaders.
Download Track Here: http://bit.ly/DoYouWantThatDownload 

100% of proceeds will go to the Australian Red Cross in the aim of bushfire recovery
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The song was born from the frustration of two NYC-based artists (from Melbourne and Hell’s Kitchen) surrounding the 2019-2020 Bushfire Crisis, and the Australian government’s poor response to the catastrophe. It examines the increasing tangibility of our own extinction, and the helplessness we feel in the face of it. 

The Australian Red Cross is working to provide recovery programs and emergency assistance to communities in disaster-affected areas. 100% of the proceeds from the purchase of 'Do You Want That?' will go directly towards The Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery fund. 

Thank you!
Evan Crommett
Hannah Bailey

Hannah:
https://www.hannahadelebailey.com
https://www.instagram.com/hannahadele...

Evan: 
https://www.evancrommett.com
https://www.instagram.com/evan.crommett
https://open.spotify.com/artist/21OzU...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ev...
https://soundcloud.com/evan-crommett
https://evancrommett.bandcamp.com/

Filmed & Edited by AJ Nickell 
https://www.ajnickell.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ajnickell

Do You Want That? (feat. Hannah Bailey)

We made this song between a day at my place in LA and and a day at Chaz’s spot in Oakland. This was our first time working together, I’ve been a Toro Y Moi fan for a while. His song Talamak is a longtime favorite. I listened to that one a lot when I first started Flume as a project.
-Harley

'The Difference' feat. Toro y Moi out now: https://flu.me/TheDifference
Spotify: https://flu.me/TheDifference/Spotify
Apple Music: https://flu.me/TheDifference/AppleMusic
YouTube:  https://flu.me/TheDifference/YouTube
Amazon: https://flu.me/TheDifference/AZ

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Lyrics:
The difference in between
all the faces you read
When the grass ain't green
When you fix everything

I don't know about you but I got to get it out and I don't know how soon
But if we die, I want to bring the whole thing

Chorus oooohs

Who cares about a game
when it's all been replaced
Each level feels the same
It really goes either way

I don't know about you but I got to get it out and I don't know how soon
But if we die, I want to bring the whole thing

Chorus oooohs

Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold on
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto

Watch Music Video

The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi)

PEOPLE HOLD ON!!!
Let go of FEAR.
This isn't the END
Only a fresh new BEGINNING.
Awaken.
TRANSCEND.
Give into LOVE.

FREE DOWNLOAD  https://www.stankolev.net/music

Lisa Stansfield - People Hold On (Stan Kolev Remix)

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

Warm Digits - Everyone Nervous (Feat. Rozi Plain)

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