Silver Jews - 2006-07-01 - Trains Across the Sea (live & acoustic)

Brighton shoegaze luminaries Air Formation return on … with ‘Were We Ever Here’, their first new material since reforming in 2014. Loosely based around the group of songs they were working on in 2010 before their split, the band worked on the EP in secret, stating “We thought it would be a more exciting, organic, experience if we just got on with it un-announced and released it as fast as we could.”

Air Formation formed in 2000, long before their spiritual forebears Slowdive and Loop were once again considered acceptable influences. Since signing to Club AC30, long a bastion of the modern shoegaze sound, in 2005, the band gained a devoted following and for albums such as 2007’s Daylight Storms (which was mastered by alternative rock legend Kramer) and their final LP, Nothing To Wish For (Nothing to Lose), in 2010. Their incendiary live show also saw them share stages with the likes of Vessels and Efterklang.

Ten years on from their first release for Club AC30, the 57 Octaves Below EP, the four songs on ‘Were We Ever Here’ cover every corner of Air Formation’s sound, whilst adding surprising new touches. The swathes of feedback and distortion are all present and correct, along with swooping New Order synths. Slow-building opener ‘I Could Stay’ comes to life in a swooning burst of fuzzed-up bass and hyperactive Ride-like drums. Closing track ‘The Wasted Days’ takes the entire EP into another gear, shifting from kinetic drone-pop to expansive post-rock territory, bringing this record to a close in a shower of noise.

Say the band themselves: “We really feel 'Were We Ever Here' showcases the best of Air Formation, but then takes it on a different path to any of the music has come before.” While their break-up in 2011 involved no fireworks or fistfights, the band do admit that “what once felt effortless and exciting was becoming hard to hold together, and that is no way to make music.” ‘Were We Ever Here’ suggests that the band’s spark has returned. With a vengeance.

Track list: I Could Stay / Last Resolve / On the Floor / The Wasted Days

For press enquiries please contact josh@9pr.co.uk or 0207 375 2725

Air Formation - The Wasted Days

Produced by DJ Free Weed
February 11, 2017
at Studio G
in Los Angeles

Los Angeles Sunset Fuckin

C'mon, Hook Me Up

Star Tropics (@startropics) from new album "Lost World".

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LP & CD pre-order Japan: Fastcut (http://fastcutrecords.com/)

Star Tropics - Lost World

"Dunce" is taken from Ed Schrader's Music Beat's album, "Riddles," out March 2nd on Carpark Records.

Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZTIkX8NNXg

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TOUR DATES
March 1st - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
March 3rd - Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong
March 4th - Raleigh, NC - Kings
March 5th - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
March 6th - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
March 7th Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR
March 9th - Atlanta, GA - Mammal Gallery
March 12th - Houston, TX - Walter's Downtown
March 13th - Dallas, TX - Transit Bicycle Company
March 14th - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
March 15th - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 16th - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 17th - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 18th - Austin, TX - SXSW 
March 19th - Hot Springs, AK - VOV Fest
March 20th - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
March 23rd - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
March 24th - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest
March 26th - Reno, NV - Holland Project
March 28th - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon
March 29th - San Francisco, CA - Make Out Room
March 31st - Portland, OR - The Know
April 4th - Sioux Falls, SD - Total Drag Records
April 5th - Minneapolis, MN - Kitty Cat Klub
April 6th - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
April 7th - Milwaukee, WI - Quarters Rock N Roll Palace
April 8th - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
April 10th - Toronto, ON - Baby G
April 11th - Winooski, VT - Monkey House
April 12th - Providence, RI - AS220
April 15th - Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right

Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Dunce

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Hysterically Relaxed

From the album In Focus?
Order CD/LP/MP3 here: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/infocus

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Shugo Tokumaru - Decorate

For several years now, Faded Paper Figures has been one of the best kept secrets of indie-electronic music, delivering gorgeous melodies, complex harmonies, and pop-cultural brilliance to a small and devoted fanbase online. With the release of their third album, “The Matter,” the band’s sound has matured into something more powerful and intense.  Alternately sparse and epic, harmonic and grinding, pensive and playful, "The Matter” takes FPF beyond their electro-pop beginnings to create something even more sincere, epic, and profound.  There are moments in “The Matter” that echo the band’s previous albums “Dynamo” and “New Medium” (all the glorious synth-blips, glitched-out riffs, and heartbreaking harmonies are still there), but a new sound has clearly emerged, with breathtaking orchestral scores, thick, powerful guitars, and more energetic, concentrated synths. Like the previous two albums, the lyrics glide with effortless sophistication through references both ironic and obscure. But there are passages here more intense, immediate, and playful.  One moment “The Matter” conjures up images of traffic lights and factories, the next, soaring questions on the vast distances between galaxies--and always the intimate, vivid possibilities of love and pain.  Given how powerfully “The Matter” astonishes with its daring energies and thoughtful lyrics, this electro-pop secret is going to be hard to contain in the months ahead.


A "new music must-have" --New York Post

"The electro-pop band put their best foot forward here, churning out
what could be the catchiest songs that Fall 2012 will see."
--TheMusicNinja.com

"you’ve just found yourself an instant treasure-trove of great music to listen to"
--MusicUnderFire

"Faded Paper Figures merges pulsing electro-shocked grooves in the
best way; in a perfect world, Owl City bro hears this and applies to
law school." --Rawkblog.net

"This is no mere indie-electronica album . . . there's something very
compelling here" --TheRedAlert

"Indietronica sublimeness" --TILT Music Blog

"The most wonderful winter wooksie since Belle & Sebastian’s track of
the same name"  -- Subba-cultcha

"Cure-all music" -- MusicUnderFire

First Son

O Mer’s music is full of symbolic meaning. Political, existential, and autobiographical.

O Mer is an Israeli singer songwriter and producer, based in Brooklyn.

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