Synthwaves

Slow Life

Vinyl / Download / Stream - www.blumarten.com/snoflingor

Seba & Ulrich Schnauss - M7 (out now on BMTM)

Billow Observatory: "Plum"

BLISSING?

Dorias Baracca: s/t out on Azure Vista Records April 27, 2018!

Clear vinyl limited to 300 copies (includes download Card). Order here:
https://doriasbaracca.bandcamp.com/releases

Info:

Dorias Baracca's existence was cut short when lead singer, guitar player and main songwriter, Buster Svendsen, passed away in the summer of 2011 - incidentally the same day as the album was completed. This is the first time this material has been released. Swirling, melodic dream-pop wrapped in loud, kaleidoscopic guitars, heavy drums and ecstatic noise. Bleak but sensuous, visceral but tuneful, brimming with youthful wonder and confusion. 

Dorias Baracca was formed in Odense, Denmark in 2007. They released an EP on prestiguous London label Club AC30 in January 2010, a release that received plenty of befitting praise from the British press: ”...Already light years ahead of many peers who've spent entire careers searching for a similar happy medium”, wrote Drowned in Sound. 

It turned out to be the band's only release while in existence. Although their sound unmistakenly belongs in the shoegaze pantheon there's something very unique about it – they managed to filter their influences through their own vision. Slowdive never sounded this loud, hard-hitting and desperate. My Bloody Valentine was never this colourful and psychedelic. 

Dorias Baracca married the thick haze of guitars to trippy psychedelia, and ultimately had as much in common with American bands such as (early) Smashing Pumpkins and Dinosaur Jr. as with the more ethereal British bands. As circumstance would have it this album would be the last thing the band ever recorded, and for various reasons it has remained unreleased since its completion in 2011, until now. Although they were only in their late teens at the time it's a fully formed album: it's the sound of a band with total confidence in what they're doing, superb skills for melody and arrangement, as well as an unmistakenly youthful energy. For fans of dream-pop and noisy, visceral rock it's a rare treat that this album finally sees the light of day. Co-produced, mixed and mastered by Jonas Munk. 

Reccomended if you like: Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Smashing Pumpkins.

Dorias Baracca: "Shaky Dreams (You And Me Forever)"

THIS WEEK 
WIN a one month Rough Trade event pass plus we hear what Rough Trade NYC’s George is listening to, Emily chats to Garbage’s Shirley Manson and of course we play a load of music.

MUSIC PLAYED
Girl Ray - The Way We Came Back
Mark Peters - Ashurst's Beacon
tricot - Pool
Garbage - No Horses
LUMP - Curse of the Contemporary
Courtney Barnett - City Looks Pretty

USEFUL LINKS
Garbage - 2.0 (20th Anniversary remastered reissue): https://roughtrade.com/gb/music/garbage-version-2-0
Pre-orders: https://roughtrade.com/gb/pre-releases
New Releases: roughtrade.com/gb/new-this-week
Events: roughtrade.com/gb/events

COMPETITION
Win a Rough Trade event pass for the month of May - e-mail access@roughtrade with the details as stated in the show! Please remember to include the store you wish to attend. Closes midnight Sunday 29th April.

The Rough Trade Podcast. Your one-stop-shop for everything Rough Trade, every Tuesday. Tune in for new releases, staff picks and events, plus we interview some of the hottest emerging and established artists and play a sexy selection of new music.

Tell us what you think on Twitter via #RoughTradePodcast

Rough Trade Podcast 4 with Shirley Manson

"Dispellers" is the second album by Mis+ress.  Available on limited edition compact disc and digital formats via Sound In Silence Records.

https://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/dispellers

Dispellers is a gorgeous collection of eight calming compositions, centered on ambient atmospheres and dreamy soundscapes. Utilizing mesmerizing melodies and blissful layers of delayed guitars, loops of ethereal textures, heavily processed with reverb and a variety of other effect pedals, Wenckebach creates one of his finest works to date. Dispellers is a wonderful album of nostalgic and emotional content, highly recommended for devotees of Michael Brook, Daniel Lanois, The Durutti Column and July Skies.

The Floating World

MIS+RESS