August 2020

Best of 2020

[Weekly Mix] 2020.08 (5)

Explore the ever-evolving indie folk and roots scene. Cover: Fleet Foxes

Roots Rising

Molly - vocals
Juan Solorzano - acoustic, bass, electric
Tommy Perkinson - drums
Matthew Wright - keys

Kitchen Table

Headspin (ft. Charlotte Spiral)

Don't Let Me Disappear

Rubber

Loving You

I Was Born To Love You

:) a little piece of gratitude in these strange and uncertain times. 

written by Lianna Vanicelli x Jon Zott
produced by Jon Zott x Xelli Island
bass guitar by Mathew Hofman

Copyright 2020

02 20 20

BREACH

Berlin

Distant Axis

Crime

Engineered by Robby Joseph & Bear Call
Produced by Aaron Mortemore
Mixed and mastered by Mikey Young
Art by Jed Gabelman

Time Sensitive

“Labour-oppressive wellness initiatives; machinic lubricants. Half a decade of unprocessed bitterness, constricted by social norms as corporate structures. The Program fails through successive firmware updates while, in the background, slideshow graphics show that rage tends towards infinity. The face of a destabilised workforce in a society that secretes symbolic concessions as a defence reflex against meaningful change. Your positive attitude is keeping us all in line.” - Emil Mniszko

Written by Public Body
Produced by Theo Verney 
Recorded at Brighton Electric Studios
Artwork by Emil Mniszko

Released 27/08/2020

Ask Me Later

Are You Listening?

The Story

Taken from You Might Be Happy Someday, released 2nd October. Pre-order the LP here - https://smarturl.it/redpinksandpurples
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Deep amidst San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood misty air and washed-out pastel blocks, Glenn Donaldson has been diligently creating minor masterpieces with rudimentary home technology for some time now. With The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Donaldson has finally created a vivid reflection of this dreary scene. You Might be Happy Someday is an oblique strand of SF outer-avenue cloud cover that stretches across the Atlantic to the grey docks of Bristol as captured in Sarah Records’ fetishized insert photos.

Despite the deceptively congenial presentation, Happy is often a heavy record. After a litany of Donaldson’s past iterations (from experimental abstraction to post-punk and pop), The Reds, Pinks & Purples is Glenn D’s most personal project. Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironically upbeat jangles and rhythms Mitch Easter might have captured on his reel-to-reel are prime cuts of bummer pop. Almost every track is written in second person, creating a feeling of overheard private inner conversations-on-repeat: soft-lob criticisms, supportive friend advice and embarrassing confessions, You Might be Happy Someday is a smeared window into the (kindly) cynical thoughts of a romantic misanthrope.

Like the work of other U.S. depresso-pop purveyors East River Pipe, The Reds, Pinks & Purples’ mini-album is the kind of record that is both unsettling and comforting. When you’re four drinks deep and you’ve worn your Smiths records out, You Might Be Happy Someday is on deck to have wine spilled on it while you dance alone in the kitchen.

You Might Be Happy Someday is released on Tough Love on 2nd October. Fittingly, the record will be pressed on to 'pastel pink' colour vinyl, with a limited run of 300 copies.

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Last Summer In A Rented Room

'Repeat' is taken from Naked Roommate's debut album 'Do The Duvet', out September 4th through Upset The Rhythm and Trouble In Mind.

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

Kitchen Table

Molly Parden