The 38th edition of the Weekend Showcase for 2018 features 45 songs from artists & bands representing 12 countries. Learn more here:
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Weekend Showcase 4.38

Kid Wave - Wonderlust

"Ржавые облака" — это hyperpop-wave fusion трек о жизни в мире, где всё кажется одинаковым, но небо меняется каждый день. Тёмная, индустриальная атмосфера переплетается с танцевальной энергией — музыка для тех, кто продолжает двигаться, даже когда реальность кажется ржавой и тяжёлой. Этот трек — о танце под небом из металла, о поиске свободы в серых улицах и о том, как превратить страх в движение.

Ржавые облака

God Will Never Come For Us

Taken from the forthcoming album Watercourse released 26.05.17 via CF Records. 

Sea Pinks, Belfast’s finest purveyors of bittersweet guitar pop since 2010, return with the first single from the their sixth long player Watercourse, due for summer 2017. Into Nowhere sees them picking up where 2016’s acclaimed Soft Days left off, taking the dream pop sound palette of that record up a notch and twisting it around in the process. It’s a song that swerves and dives, the verse’s arpeggiated fatalism giving way to first defiance, then full blooded euphoria in the choruses. Clear eyed and buoyant, it’s the sound of winter giving way to spring.

Watercourse

Sea Pinks - Into Nowhere

Magic

Trespasser

Art d'Ecco - Who is it Now?

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'Crush (It's Late, Just Stay)' is the new single from EP III by Yumi Zouma, out on Cascine. III completes the EP trilogy the band began in 2014.

Written, recorded and performed by Yumi Zouma
Mixed by Jake Aron 
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield
Artwork by Aidan Koch
Layout by Ryan McCardle
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EP III

Crush (It's Late, Just Stay)

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Yumi Zouma - Crush (It's Late, Just Stay)

GOTTA LET GO

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Calva Louise - I Heard A Cry [Radio Edit]

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‘Eat the Etiquette’ is the new single from Mush’s newly announced debut album 3D Routine due out on 14 February 2020 via Memphis Industries. ‘Eat the Etiquette,’ described by lead singer Dan Hyndman as a “a bit of a stream of consciousness type rant”, takes aim at the use of ‘common sense’ as societal weapon; the “sick laughing track of malicious intent” making a mockery of progressive ideas, while “manufactured sense” helps maintain the underlying and iniquitous structures of wealth and power.  

Following on from their ‘Induction Party E.P’, Leeds based Mush are circulating their own sonic mythology, blurring the lines between abstract surrealism, existentialism and social commentary. Like its predecessor ‘3D Routine’ is a sensory overload of clattering, hooky, guitar work. However, this time space emerges between the onslaughts and in this respite, room is found for new emotional depth. More expansive than ever before, ‘3D Routine’ manages to maintain the rawness of a classic debut but it’s experimentation and variety portray a band unlikely to rest on their ‘guitar band’ chops. 

Songwriter Dan Hyndman explains the genesis of the band as being “fairly boiler plate” a combination of friends old and new converging in Leeds post-Uni to form a band predominantly united in their mutual affection for the Pavement back catalogue. Finally settling on a lineup of Nick Grant (bass), Tyson (guitar) and Phil Porter (drums) the band’s progression has taken them far beyond this original vision. 

Having garnered local attention in the early days for their unhinged and often calamitous live shows in Leeds, it was the unlikely radio hit ‘Alternative Facts’, (clocking in at an uncompromising ten minutes) that brought the Mush to the attention of a wider audience. The song, one of the last releases for the legendary Too Pure Singles Club saw early support from Marc Riley and others on BBC 6music with them playing multiple sessions, and the follow up single, ‘Gig Economy’ hopping onto the 6music playlist. Roaming further afield from their hometown, Mush spent the first half of 2019 heading out around the UK, earning a reputation for their intense live performances, supporting the likes of Girl Band, The Lovely Eggs, Yak, Shame and Stereolab, as well as releasing the ‘Induction Party’ EP to great acclaim. At the tail end of summer of 2019 Mush headed to Leeds’ Green Mount Studio and with Andy Savours (Dream Wife, Our Girl, My Bloody Valentine) manning the mixing desk, their debut LP, ‘3D Routine’ was born.

If the EP was intended as admittance to the cult, ‘3D Routine’ is a fully-fledged manifesto for the age of misinformation. The twin disciplines of surrealism and realism collide in the data stream, creating the absurdity of modern times. It’s more than the lyrical content that’s mercurial with Mush. Tracks such as ‘Revising My Fee’s incisive yet worldly lyrics comment on the work/life balance, income to rent ratios and the increasingly worrying financial landscape for the younger generation, all set against a backdrop of a decade of austerity: “meal-deal critique, aspirational creed”. It’s a vital and instructive opener for the record, setting the tone for what comes next. 

The way in which the album brazenly moves from polished 3- minute punk tracks, to avant-garde spoken word, to sardonic-political funk, whilst sounding like the same band is testament to an uncompromisingly unrefined ethic and compounds the jarring nature of Mush. Together, the songs form a unified, abrasive, emotive, frenetic and entirely beguiling concoction of sound and opinion, a fast-moving snapshot of current times, relatable, politically minded and incredibly personal. Music for those who want their guitars loud and weird, and their political commentary a little less ‘on the nose’.

Calva Louise - I Heard A Cry [Radio Edit]

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