what a goofy ass thumbnail though, I love the song not the art, pass

Math & Such

Format: Vinyl LP, CD, Digital
Web: www.hopestreetrecordings.com/woodenboy

It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares! Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one’s telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It’s dark here, so you can do your own thing.

Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel -- a ten piece band from Melbourne, Australia -- all born in the 90s and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year's rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic odyssey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog -- if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA's score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener's imagination.

Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel’s taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby, Wooden Boy.

PRAISE FOR HAPTICS by THE CACTUS CHANNEL (debut 2012 album):

•	"Hot-to-trot... an embryonic version of the Meters or the Dap Kings" - THE AUSTRALIAN (four stars)
•	"Tightly raw soul, rambling deep-funk jams and organ-driven party mash-ups" - THE AGE
•	"Infectiously funky sounds... a horn-fuelled, butt-shaking affair" - TRIPLE J HOME & HOSED
•	"Old-fashioned, gritty soul music – by a bunch of white teenagers from Melbourne" - THE MONTHLY
•	"Album Of The Week" - RTR PERTH, PBS-FM, SYN-FM, 2SER + EASTSIDE RADIO, RTR PERTH

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宇宙コンビニ (Uchu Conbini) - Compass

very very early proto-Setec demo, circa 2009. never ended up adding the big thudding drums and ended up on the cutting room floor before I released I'll Be Good

quite obviously i listened to The Books and Cornelius a lot (some things never change)

thought y'all might like a peek idk. sorry it's not a new one.

Newborn Heart And a Deed      

our love will call out for us

i want people to care about me iii

Twin Galaxies

21 Letters

through me

LA PUNK (demo)

Party With Tina

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Ed The Dog releases his first single Funny Turns from debut album ‘Shame’ via ALLONEWORD and Interstellar Music Group.

Combining the British cynicism of Blur and the dynamic power pop of Weezer, Funny Turns is an insight into the author’s perpetual growing pains and pursuit of the road less travelled. Dirty and homebrewed, it’s as uplifting and infectious as existential anxiety gets.

After the break-up of his previous band Fish Tank, quitting his day job as an admin assistant, and the subsequent quarter life crisis, Ed Wetenhall retreated into his attic and began writing…

With the few broken and battered instruments available, he used his crippling fears, dry wit, and tentative optimism to write and record an LP. The result of this self- imposed exile and reflection is his debut album ‘Shame’, a hook filled, lo-fi exploration into adulthood, anxiety and what it means to be a hopeless romantic in 2018.

All written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Ed himself. Slated for release this summer.

www.edthedog.com

Shame

Funny Turns

apples

Rosa Parks - W

All songs written, performed, recorded and mixed by members of Suffer Like G Did.

BEOW

Tower (demo)

I don't own this, I posted it here because I couldn't find it, Enjoy!

カッコー (Cuckoo) - Autobahn Kidnapping

Consistency? Never heard of it.
A menagerie of sound and genres, with no upload frequency.

Rosa Parks - W

しぃ

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