(Dis)harmony

Milk Buttons debut EP 'Songs For My Butcher Bird'(Out June 2, 2017).

Produced by Cameron Bower and engineered Cameron Bower and Alex Lestrange.
Mastered by Jarrod Priestly.
(C) Milk Buttons, 2017.

Songs For My Butcher Bird

June 2017

August 2017 - Pt I

JJ17

Best of 2017

Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

Black Hearted Brother - (I Don't Mean To) Wonder

There might be rats in the palm trees, but where are Popstrangers? Out on the water. The New Zealand trio recorded this new 7-inch in an old lightship moored on the River Thames in London, where the band moved in April. The recording and mixing with Rory Attwell (Warm Brains, Test Icicles) only took one weekend on the river and produced the roaring, restless "Rats In The Palm Trees" and its daydream memory B-side, "Fortuna."

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Popstrangers - Rats In The Palm Trees

A free track to celebrate Youth and Life. 

Sample: Endless Love 

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 Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eternal-youth/id1268684742﻿

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Eternal Youth

Really Mean It

Down South (Single)

Blue Chips 1 & 2

Ron Simmons

All That I Can Say is included on 'A Space Device', Mountain Castles' second album. 

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Buy/Digital: https://mountaincastles.bandcamp.com/album/a-space-device

A Space Device

All That I Can Say

Australian Melbourne/Brisbane based group.
Produced and engineered  by Cameron Bower and Alex Lestrange.
Mastered by Jarrod Priestly.

Flowers

3rd single off the Rainbrother debut album 'Tales From the Drought'
Vinyl & downloads available at Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2t6Hhuu
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Tales From the Drought

Juggler

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lately

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In partnership with HBO, Mass Appeal Records has released the official soundtrack for the hit show, "Silicon Valley" season 4. "Silicon Valley: The Soundtrack" features a collection of new exclusive songs and previously released material from an array of legendary and rising artists including Nas, DJ Shadow, Danny Brown, Hudson Mohawke, Wu-Tang Clan, Run The Jewels, Too $hort and more. The soundtrack is now available at all digital platforms. For more info, visit https://MassAppeal.lnk.to/SiliconValley

DJ Shadow - Systematic feat. Nas

The debut album from Birmingham, AL quartet, The Lost Controls. 

Chris Rowell: Vocals, Guitar
Chris Hoke: Guitar, Lap Steel
Drew Davis: Bass
Wes McDonald: Drums

The Lost Controls - Lucky Ones

From CRYSTAL MAGIC, available May 26: thefuzzycrystals.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-magic

Chris Hackman - Bass and Vocals 
Thomas Queyja - Electric Guitar
David James T. - 12-String Electric Guitar
Magdalene Herring - Vocals and Tibetan Singing Bowl
Christina Licciardi - Vocals
Joel Saur - Drums
Alex Pfender - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals

Produced and mixed by Gus Seyffert at Sargent Recorders, Los Angeles CA.
Additional Mixing by Sean Cook.
Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, Seattle WA.

©2017

Crystal Magic

Spinning

photo taken during my trip to Libertad, Peru

the grass is always greener

Lonesome

My Dad

how glad the strangers are 
when the sky line falls 
in the neon lights 
everybody wants to dance 
bastard son of the dance 
he’s got a liquid heart 
in the neon lights
his little limbs they glow

i’ve been floating off 
the line of what’s real
do i feel how X feels

living in the background

what do you say to those men 
who want an interview
they speak to your body 
while you’re floating outside your skull
you can always sleep when you’re dead
but what about the dreaming
on a saturday night 
everything gets reset

i sing 
therefore i am 
and when i sing my voice 
goes into your blood 
into your mind

if you see something say something

06 Floating Off The Line

You're a simple man I know 
But you held me by the soul 
And I sent you off although 
I was in love with you
I was in love with you 

You're a blinded fool I see 
Still I want you to see me
Be the gaze you choose to keep 
I was in love with you 
I was in love with you 

Heart in the center of 
A wheel spinning towards the edge 
All I know falling in 
A pit that never sees its end 

I was in love with you

Spinning Towards the Edge

I Was In Love With You

'Another Night' by Milk Buttons off debut EP 'Songs For My Butcher Bird'(Out June 2, 2017).

Produced and engineered by Cameron Bower and Alex Lestrange.
Mastered by Jarrod Priestly.
(C) Milk Buttons, 2017.

Another Night

'Walt' by Milk Buttons off debut EP 'Songs For My Butcher Bird'(Out June 2, 2017).

Produced and engineered by Cameron Bower and Alex Lestrange.
Mastered by Jarrod Priestly.
(C) Milk Buttons, 2017.

Walt

'Most Of The Time' by Milk Buttons off debut EP 'Songs For My Butcher Bird'(Out June 2, 2017).

Produced and engineered by Cameron Bower and Alex Lestrange.
Mastered by Jarrod Priestly.
(C) Milk Buttons, 2017.

Most Of The Time

'Flossy Moss' by Milk Buttons off debut EP 'Songs For My Butcher Bird'(Out June 2, 2017).

Produced and engineered by Cameron Bower and Alex Lestrange.
Mastered by Jarrod Priestly.
(C) Milk Buttons, 2017.

Flossy Moss

From the album Ghost, released April 13, 2017
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⇩⇩⇩ Lyrics ⇩⇩⇩

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~ Lyrics:

Baby it makes me sad 
but I've got a bad habit of just letting things be 
every time you turn your back 
well I always wonder why you gotta turn it on me 

baby did you lose your way 
well I've got a funny feeling that you just don't know 
you said everyone is dead to me 
or did you say it was the dead you were looking for 

don't go worrying about your baby no your baby's gone 

baby it's a lonely place 
in-between your love and your vanity 
and when you said that you just needed space 
did you mean to go and ruin every part of me 

don't go worrying about your baby no your baby's gone 

I know I'm a hopeless case 
but I was hoping you'd stick with me 

don't go worrying about your baby no 
my baby don't 
baby don't go

Baby

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Cold Feet

Black Cloud

an Ode to mixtapes and the strangers you share them with.

High Fidelity

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Kendrick Lamar - Compton (ft. Dr. Dre)

Smoke Again (ft. Ab-Soul)

Milk buttons is the Melbourne/Brisbane song writing duo of parts Cameron Bower and Jackson Muir.