Songs We Like - October 2019

Jackson Scott - Sunshine Redux
Bloodmoss Records
Release Date: April 28th, 2015

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Out of the modern musical abyss comes Jackson Scott, a 22-year-old artist living in Asheville, NC. Finding pure metaphysical euphoria within the depths of cassette recorders and guitar pedals, he enjoys the simple things in life such as playing music with friends and falling into existential voids. After touring extensively for his debut album Melbourne in 2013, Jackson returned home to record an album that he could listen to in absolutely any negative or positive state of mind.

His second album Sunshine Redux is a translation of this paradoxical psyche, a kaleidoscope of sounds ranging from 60’s flower power to 90’s hip-hop production techniques. Veering from nihilistic punk rock explosions to gentle sonic nightmares, it is his most cohesive musical undertaking yet.

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Jackson Scott - "Pacify" (Official Single)

The Grand Station – Oversize the Oversized

Oversize the Oversized är The Grand Stations stora skattkista – en samlingsplatta som samlar upp allt det där som annars riskerar att gå förlorat i tidens brus. Här finns demos, alternativa mixar, outtakes och experimentella tagningar från bandets olika perioder, sånt som ofta bara bandmedlemmar och de närmast sörjande fått höra tidigare.

Det är en resa genom bandets historia bakom kulisserna: de första trevande versionerna av låtar som senare blev fanfavoriter, råa liveinspelningar med all sin energi och oförutsägbarhet, samt udda experiment som visar på bandets kreativitet när studion förvandlades till lekplats.

Titeln Oversize the Oversized är en blinkning till att allt fått plats – här är det maxat, storslaget och kompromisslöst. Skivan ger både en dokumentär känsla för trogna fans och nya ingångar för den som vill upptäcka The Grand Station från ett annat håll.

Detta är inte den polerade studioversionen av bandet – det här är de råa kanterna, de lyckade olyckorna och de ögonblick som skapade bandets identitet.

All I Want Is You [Live]

The Last Person, a DIY artist who single-handedly manages every aspect of his music from songwriting and performance to mixing, mastering, and promotion, is set to release his new manifesto, "The Last Person's Theme." The name itself means "the person least likely to," reflecting his position on the periphery of the scene, creating music on his own terms.

Following his debut album Record of Inner Conflict, a document of his inner struggles, this new song marks a true new beginning. Incredibly, the track was born from a time capsule: a lost demo he wrote over a decade ago at the age of 20, rediscovered by chance. It captures the raw, unfiltered impulse of a young man armed with a belief in rock and roll, while also harboring the cynical fear that it might all be an illusion-a duality that remains at the core of The Last Person today.

Reimagined with a decade's worth of production skill, the track fuses its original garage-rock energy with a modern, dynamic sound. The release itself is an experiment: an English-language EP will be released first, followed by a Japanese version, with each featuring four distinct mastering versions at different LUFS levels. It is a public test of how his music will be heard in the age of streaming loudness normalization - a bold move only possible for a true DIY artist.

As he says, laughing, "If someone happens to listen just once and think it's good, that's the best thing." That unadorned sentiment is the source of the song's brilliance.

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The Last Person's Theme (-6LUFS Ver)

PRE-ORDER ON LTD EDITION 7": bit.ly/2xjj9Xq

Following their well received debut single - the 10 minute long Alternative Facts released in June as part of Too Pure's singles club - Mush have returned with a new AA 7" due for release on the 17th November.

Whilst their previous single called out the bullshit of the White House press department, this time round Mush have set their sights on those despicable creeps; the people who exclusively live their lives in the comments section of online articles. Meanwhile on the flip-side 'Luxury Animals' is a call to arms to "sack off work and go lay down somewhere instead".

The tracks were recorded with Matt Peel at The Nave and combine clever Television'esque interplay with the slacker-rock of their previous singles. Since forming early in 2016, the Leeds four piece have recorded an EP with MJ at Suburban Studios, been invited by Marc Riley for a BBC 6 Music session and supported the likes of Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and Happyness. You can catch them live at the following dates with a longer tour to be confirmed shortly…

21st October - Waterfront, Norwich (w/ British Sea Power) 
9th November - Shacklewell Arms, London (w/ Drahla) 
11th November - Rough Trade West (instore)
12th November - The Old England, Bristol (single launch).

Pressing Information
Ltd to 300 copies. You'll also get an instant download of Luxury Animals when you order.

Comment Section Creeps / Luxury Animals

Mush - Comment Section Creeps

"Promotional $ingle" is a snapshot of the forthcoming 7", "IBO". The 7" contains 12 one minute songs. 
It will be out in July 2018, through Spunk Records (Aus/NZ) and  Emotional Response in (US/UK/EU).

The Ocean Party "Promotional $ingle"

Take 
From me what you've 
Needed 
I'm alone 
And 
I don't need a 
Reason 

When love's just a feeling 
(Love's just a- ) 
When love's just a feeling 

(Don't forget 
That) 

Your love's just a feeling 
(Love's just a- ) 
Your love's just a feeling 
(Love's just a- ) 
Your love's just a feeling 
(Love's just a- ) 
Your love's just a feeling 

I know what I want 
And now's when I need 
Your charm is disarming 
So inconvenient 
This isn't real 
Don't need a reason 
Means to an end 
And the end of a season 
Your heart is prison 
Lust is misleading 
Worship is bondage 
And fondness is fleeting 
Got what I wanted 
Now that I'm leaving 
Love's just a feeling 
Your love's just a feeling 

It's gonna take some 
Time 
To get you out my 
Mind 

It's gonna take some 
Time 
To get you out my 

Your love's just a feeling 
Your love's just a feeling 
Your love's just a feeling 
Your love's just a feeling 
Your love's just a feeling

Just a Feeling

Just A Feeling

Spectre

Joanna

From the album 'Up On High', out November 1st on Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) and Loose Music (UK/EU).

/// PLAYERS

Andy Cabic: vocals, guitars, keyboard
Gabe Noel: bass
Josh Adams: drums
Dan Iead: guitar

/// CREDITS

All songs written by Andy Cabic / Vetiverse Music (BMI)
Produced by Thom Monahan & Andy Cabic
Engineered and mixed by Thom Monahan
Recorded at Starlight Sound, Golden Void & Panoramic House
Mastered by Eric Broyhill at Broyhill Masters
Management by Dave Grazynski at Congress+Main
Cover photography by Terri Loewenthal 
Layout and design by Nathaniel Russell and Vincent Bancheri

/// LYRICS

Once a songbird caught me by surprise
With the strength of its singing
A bright call took flight, pierced the air
Like a lone bell a-ringing

What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

I don’t expect to get a second chance
To choose my words as I mean to
But I’d take it all back, I was wrong
Now I know what you’ve been through

What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

A songbird’s shadow upon the lawn
Lies in wait since you’re gone

Sun sure falls fast
No shadow cast
What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

Up On High

Vetiver - Wanted, Never Asked

Seeker

I’ve Got Reason

One thing you won’t be able to avoid on Bambara’s Stray is death. It’s everywhere and inescapable, abstract and personified  – perhaps the key to the whole record. Death, however, won’t be the first thing that strikes you about the group’s fourth – and greatest – album to date. That instead will be its pulverising soundscape; by turns, vast, atmospheric, cool, broiling and at times – on stand out tracks like “Sing Me To The Street” and “Serafina” – simply overwhelming
 
Bambara – twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh, singer/guitarist and drummer respectively, and bassist William Brookshire – have been evolving their midnight-black noise into something more subtle and expansive ever since the release of their 2013 debut Dreamviolence. That process greatly accelerated on 2018’s Shadow On Everything, their first on New York’s Wharf Cat Records and  a huge stride forward for the band both lyrically and sonically. 
 
The album was rapturously received by the press, listeners and their peers. NPR called it a “mesmerising...western, gothic opus,” Bandcamp called the "horror-house rampage" "one of the year's most gripping listens," and Alexis Marshall of Daughters named it his “favorite record of 2018.”  Shadow also garnered much acclaim on the other side of the Atlantic. Influential British 6Music DJ Steve Lamacq, dubbed them the best band of 2019’s SXSW, and Joe Talbot of the UK band IDLES said, "The best thing I heard last year was easily Bambara and their album Shadow On Everything."  The question was, though, how to follow it?
 
To start, the band did what they always do: they locked themselves in their windowless Brooklyn basement to write. Decisions were made early on to try and experiment with new instrumentation and song structures, even if the resulting compositions would force the band to adapt their storied live set, known for its tenacity and technical prowess. Throughout the songwriting process, the band pulled from their deep well of creative references, drawing on the likes of Leonard Cohen, Ennio Morricone, Sade, classic French noir L’Ascenseur Pour L’Echafraud, as well as Southern Gothic stalwarts Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.
 
Once the building blocks were set in place, they met with producer Drew Vandenberg, who mixed Shadow On Everything, in Athens, GA to record the foundation of Stray. After recruiting friends Adam Markiewicz (The Dreebs) on violin, Sean Smith (Klavenauts) on trumpet and a crucial blend of backing vocals by Drew Citron (Public Practice) and Anina Ivry-Block (Palberta), Bambara convened in a remote cabin in rural Georgia, where Reid laid down his vocals.
 
The finished product represents both the band's most experimental and accessible work to date. The addition of Citron and Ivory-Block’s vocals create a hauntingly beautiful contrast to Bateh’s commanding  baritone on tracks like “Sing Me to the Street”, “Death Croons” and “Stay Cruel," while the Dick Dale inspired guitar riffs on “Serafina” and "Heat Lightning" and the call-and-response choruses throughout the album showcase Bambara’s ability to write songs that immediately demand repeat listens.
 
While the music itself is evocative and propulsive, a fever dream all of its own, the lyrical content pushes the record even further into its own darkly thrilling realm. If the songs on Shadow On Everything were like chapters in a novel, then this time they’re short stories. Short stories connected by death and its effect on the characters in contact with it. “Death is what you make it” runs a lyric in “Sweat,” a line which may very well be the thread  that ties  these stories together.

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Bambara - Serafina (from the 'Stray' album out 2/14)

ANIMAL

Self Released 01/10/2019
Songwriters: Millie Duthie, Mitch Duce, Danny Southwell, Dan Hole 
Engineer/Producer: Josh (Hoagie) Harrison
Artwork: Sapphire Needham
MGMT: mhowes@theorchard.com

Two Sense

Death Stranding

Talk Show - Stress

'The North' is taken from Vintage Crop's forthcoming album 'Serve To Serve Again' out August 7th on Upset The Rhythm & Anti Fade.

Available to pre-order now: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Serve To Serve Again

Vintage Crop - The North

OUT NOW, ON LOLIPOP RECORDS!!!
David Turel - "Dream of You"
Neo psychedelia, at it's finest!!! 
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DAVID TUREL - "Dream of You"

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I’ve Got Reason

Mikal Cronin

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