After years of writing and performing, Ava Luna has refined their doo-wop soul meets punk-as-fuck aesthetic into something bold and glaringly defiant in today's indie music landscape. Following the release of their critically lauded first proper full-length Ice Level, the band spent an intense 2-week period writing and recording in upstate New York. Unlike previous efforts that were meticulously mapped out, the songs that would become Electric Balloon were "…a family effort." according to frontman Carlos Hernandez. For the new album, former Columbia composition student Hernandez relinquished the reins a bit, opting for a more organic approach to writing the material for what would become Electric Balloon. As Hernandez explains, it was a "…birth of confidence. I grew closer to my bandmates, began to see the roles of a family playing out. Ethan cooks dinner for all of us, we make lewd jokes, and then 'after-dinner storytelling' takes the form of playing music."

In the wake of Ice Level, Ava Luna's sharp edges have melted away just enough, making it easier to connect with their no-wave grooves and soaring harmonies. Distilling everything from James Chance and ESG to contemporaries like Dirty Projectors and Of Montreal, Ava Luna have landed on an aggressively unique sound that still manages to be accessible. Hernandez goes on to explain "…the stories and moments here are clearer, as in a conversation. The moment appears, you grab it with your hands, screw the lid on the mason jar. There was no tweaking, no second-guessing. Julian's mantra for the process: 'First thought best thought.'….And for my part, I sing my best about encounters, friendships, some moments beautiful and others painful. A bike shop manager in New Orleans, a derelict porch on Brighton Beach, a yellow sweater in a kitchen in the Catskills, a water duct in the New Mexico desert…"

Ava Luna – "Sears Roebuck M&Ms"

From the album Range Anxiety, out January 27, 2015 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/range-anxiety

Range Anxiety

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Twerps "I Don't Mind"

Ménage à trois - Bobby's Prism

The players: Marie Merlet, Julien Gasc, Emma Mario
Written by Marie Merlet
Recorded at Juju's in Ramboubou
Album out October 16th on Elefant Records
Pre-order limited numbered LP here:
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Le Jardin Des Plantes

New Money Walk

<3 by Broen is available now on iTunes via Bella Union: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/3-single/id1205599836

I Love Art

Broen - <3

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Salut, je ne te reconnais pas.

ANNA ST. LOUIS
FIRST SONGS
woodsist092 / mare002
release date: November 3, 2017

Despite her last name, Anna St. Louis was born and raised in Kansas City. She grew up a painter and singing in punk bands, eventually leaving her hometown to attend art school in Philadelphia. After graduating she made the move to Los Angeles where she began teaching herself guitar, writing songs and recording them on her own in her bedroom. First Songs is the sound of someone discovering their talent in real time - a peak into the collage of a wonderful mind that is absorbing their new surroundings and using new tools to put them into the room. Listening to this collection you can feel the sun coming in through the window - Anna on the foot of the bed with a guitar on her knee, finding her voice. St. Louis wears her influences well - think Patsy Cline singing over John Fahey - but has a style all her own. And while you can take the artist out of the midwest, you can't take the midwest out of the artist - so let this be known; this is Midwestern music ran through a California filter. I believe Anna will have many more releases in her lifetime, but let it all begin here - First Songs.

ANNA ST. LOUIS - Fire (Mare Records)

Moodoid - Reptile

Taken from their third album "Du bist so symmetrisch", out October 26th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Klaus Johann Grobe "Siehst Du Mich Noch?" (Trouble In Mind Records)

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'Cyanide Thornton' is a record wreathed in tenderness, honesty and intimacy, and will guide you from the dark corners of your mind to somewhere unearthly and supernatural.

Cyanide Thornton acknowledge that this recording was made on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. 

Available November 9, 2018 via Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records (AU/NZ), Omnian Music Group (USA/CAN) and Cargo Records (UK.EU).

http://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Cyanide Thornton - Weight

PRIMADONNA COLLECTION https://bio.to/moodoid
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Concert Paris @ la Maroquinerie le 26 Septembre - https://web.digitick.com/moodoid-la-maroquinerie-paris-26-septembre-2023-css5-moodoid-pg101-ri9739455.html

"His music is an enemy of convention" NME

Moodoid - Reptile

MOODOÏD