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January 2014 has been the busiest release schedule for a first month of the year in pretty much all the years we've been a shop. It's been awesome that everyone has been shaking off those Christmas hangovers by getting back to the shop and picking up something new.

The four 'records of the week' in January were Stephen Malkmus, East India Youth, Mogwai and Actress, with the record of the month being Damien Jurado. Other highlights and things we've made a fuss of have been; Samantha Crain, Mutual Benefit, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Warpaint, Bill Callahan, I Break Horses, Marijuana Deathsquads, Thee Silver Mt Zion, Ásgeir, Hospitality, Cymbals, Snowbird, David Crosby, Peggy Sue and Pontiak.

All of those and plenty more to listen to below.

January '14 Forecast

❖ New RockCurrent Playlist - 0113 #9

❖ RockCurrent Jan 2013 Playlist

10 Best Tracks of January

Swoon

'Feelings' features as the b-side on our 'Strong' EP release. You can buy 'Strong' on iTunes now: smarturl.it/LG-Strong
(UK only).  

Our debut album 'If You Wait' is out now!

Vinyl: po.st/IfYouWaitLP
iTunes: po.st/IfYouWait
CD: po.st/IfYouWaitCD

http://londongrammar.com
twitter.com/londongrammar
facebook.com/londongrammar

Strong

Feelings

Antwon - Helicopter

Taken from the "Selected Works" mini-album out NOW:

Digital: http://po.st/SGWorksSociT 
CD: http://po.st/SGWorksSocAm 
Vinyl (UK): http://found.ee/vinylUK 

Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9Ek4dRakM 

--
SOLOMON GREY
Like → facebook.com/solomongreymusic
Follow → twitter.com/solomongreyband
Site → www.solomongrey.net


Selected Works

Firechild

Buy on iTunes

Official Website: http://yourmirrortalk.tumblr.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mirrortalk
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mirrortalk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mirror_talk

Mirror Talk - Don't

The debut single from Boxed In is out now on limited edition 7" vinyl and download on the Moshi Moshi Singles Club! 

@boxedinuk

Get It Here

Boxed In - All Your Love Is Gone

Though texturally inspired by early new age records like Iasos’ Inter-Dimensional Music, and sample-based collage ventures like Colleen’s Everyone Alive Wants Answers, Lava Diviner (Truestory) is reinforced with a robust percussive backbone.

Botany, otherwise known as Spencer Stephenson, never resorts to shallow MPC trickery or contrived mixtape clumsiness. Instead, his proto-new age textures float elegantly atop a primal boom-bap pulse to paint a detailed, rhythmic mural that has the scope of a ‘70s prog rock epic.

“On Lava Diviner, I wanted to conjure that same headspace that artists like Roger Dean, and even Zdzislaw Beksinski project in their iconic paintings,” says Stephenson. “I tried to evoke those grand, colourful, surreal landscapes that are mind-bending yet oddly comforting - sci-fi and epic and holy, all at the same time.”

Following 2010’s quietly applauded Feeling Today EP, Lava Diviner (Truestory) was created at various Texas locations using a jumble of equipment, from aging desktop computers, samplers, guitars, bells, flutes, tape recorders, turntables, violin playing room-mates and much more besides. Guest vocals from Brainfeeder artist RYAT were added to the mix and the final creation was mastered by Matthewdavid (Leaving Records / Stones Throw).

As the product of a lengthy gestation period, Lava Diviner (Truestory) follows Botany on an intensely personal journey as he makes his way home within himself, returning to his celestial centre.

Loosely a concept album documenting a religious sect that prays for a volcano to erupt, Stephenson set out to make a kind of instrumental storybook of an album, using only the emotional tone that his theme might evoke.

However, by the time the record was finished, it became clear that the emotional tone was really coming from own life, rather than any concept or allegory.

“As work on the record progressed, I began to realize that the musical journey was a direct reflection of my most hard-to-quantify life experiences.” he explains. “Lava Diviner is about very real transformations in my being, so it’s a true story in that sense… I always imagined my first album being like a volcano, with years of pent-up emotion and musical ideas bubbling up to a cathartic release. So, I always knew that symbolism would end up being a part of my first full-length.”

The volcanic sense of release is palpable. Lava Diviner (Truestory) easily moves past stale tropes of beat-based music, and brings to life a fully-realized, album-length outpouring of profound human emotion.

BOTANY "Quatic"

From the forthcoming album 'Rave Tapes' released via Rock Action Records, January 20th 2014.

Mogwai - Remurdered

Damien Jurado "Silver Timothy" off 'Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son' out now on Secretly Canadian. 

Get the album:
SC Distribution: <a href="http://smarturl.it/damienjurado" target="_blank">http://smarturl.it/damienjurado?iQid=vevo</a>
iTunes: <a href="http://smarturl.it/damienjurado_itunes" target="_blank">http://smarturl.it/damienjurado_itunes?iQid=vevo</a>
Amazon: <a href="http://smarturl.it/damienjurado_amazon" target="_blank">http://smarturl.it/damienjurado_amazon?iQid=vevo</a>
Your local record store: <a href="http://smarturl.it/damienjurado_indies" target="_blank">http://smarturl.it/damienjurado_indies?iQid=vevo</a>

Damien Jurado
Artist Page http://www.secretlycanadian.com/artis...
Website http://damienjurado.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jurado.damien
Twitter https://twitter.com/damienjurado

Damien Jurado "Silver Timothy" from 'Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son' out now on Secretly Canadian.

Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son

Silver Timothy

Pre-order via SCD

Damien Jurado - "Silver Timothy"

from the album 'where shine new lights' available 1/27.

tara jane o'neil 'wordless in woods'

Brooklyn indie-rock trio Hospitality earned buzz-band status with their peppy 2012 debut, but they navigate darker, more turbulent waters on their follow-up album, Trouble out on Fire 27th January 2014

iTunes

Hospitality - I Miss Your Bones

"I Wanna Be You" appears on the compilation Killed By Death Rock Vol. 1, Out now. 

LP/CD: http://bit.ly/1Uj0YQY
iTunes: http://apple.co/1r4pwp6





Your Funeral - I Wanna Be You

Matthew Dear (feat. Tegan And Sara) - Pale Shelter

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
The third single from Anamanaguchi's ENDLESS FANTASY
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Available on USB RELEASE at 2014 European tour dates

Prom Night ft. Bianca Raquel (2k14 Radio Edit)

Lyrics:

This garden is overgrown but that does not stop
A stone would never grace the guards a lot
Still loved, still rolling a bad eye in all this salt
But that did not stop her sun get her down

You were my first time
You are why I'm staying up
You are why it's undone
This song gave it

I'll savour the light for us and that is so hard
It's only ever mess decipher us
Still loved still further
Hope in her hand you're
But that did not stop her sun get her down

You were my first time
You are why I'm staying up
You are why it's undone
This song gave it

You were my first time
You are why I'm staying up
You are why it's undone
This song gave it
I saved us a night in the sun


From  'Display' EP, released via X Novo June 2014 (licensed to Humming Records, out in GSA 04/07/14).

You can buy the EP here - http://smarturl.it/phoriadisplayep

"Display" (Vinyl) available here - http://xnovo.bigcartel.com/product/phoria-display-ep-10-vinyl-xn001

www.phoriamusic.com
twitter.com/phoria
www.facebook.com/phoriamusic

Released via X Novo (Digital/Ltd Edition Vinyl):
www.facebook.com/XNovoMusic

Artwork by Sophie Giblin:
www.facebook.com/SophieGiblinArtist

Undone

General Elektriks Raid The Radio

“Electric" appears on Electric b/w Water Babies, Out Now.

iTunes- https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/electric-water-babies-single/id590062149?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
LP/CD- http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr078-the-men-electric-w-water-babies

Website:  http://wearethemen.blogspot.com/
http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/the-men

TOUR DATES: http://bit.ly/256ZSjV

The Men - Electric

THE BALCONY STARS - KISS AND MAKE IT BETTER

www.GEMS-band.com
www.facebook.com/GEMSband
GEMSbandinfo@gmail.com

Recorded in Outer Banks, NC - October 2012




GEMS - All I Ever

From the album, Curiosity, out in May 2013. Also appears on The Hearse 7", which is available here: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/hearse

Wampire - The Hearse

Birthmarks

With Her Shadow

The b-side to Teleman's debut single - Cristina - released on the Moshi Moshi Singles Club.

Out now on limited edition 7" vinyl (http://bit.ly/VlLNYC) and download (http://bit.ly/UYJZY5).

Catch them live at: 

31 January - Brighton (Sticky Mike's Frog Bar)
11 February - Bristol (Louisiana) 
13 February - London (The Waiting Room) 

http://www.telemanmusic.com
http://www.twitter.com/telemanmusic

Download

Teleman - In Your Fur

Passion and Fall is the second LP of Contre Jour. It was composed, written and produced by Contre Jour between may 2010 and october 2012 (except track 08 composed in 2006). 

All right reserved © Contre Jour 

YOU CAN ORDER YOUR OWN COPY OF PASSION and FALL on BANDCAMP : http://paf.contrejourband.com


5€ in DIGITAL DOWNLOAD version (with hd booklet in PDF)
14€ in CD version (free shipping wherever you are)


Thanks : 

to Greg, Fred, Alex (Infrastition), Michel, Sandra, Juju d'Acier, Floriane, Matthieu, Mathilde, Marco Kirste, Thomas Thyssen, Jens Zietlow, Ian P. Christ, Marcus (AFMUSIC), Falk Merten, Rapido de Noir, Stella Peel, Press Gang Metropol 

and many more ... 

Without forgetting our families and people who support us ! 
♥ 



Check our first LP "One Night At The Station" released on march 2011 with Infrastition 

See our self-produced videoclip : vimeo.com/contrejour 

Facebook : www.facebook.com/contrejourband 
Myspace : www.myspace.com/contrejourband 
Twitter : www.twitter.com/contrejourband 
Bandcamp : www.contrejour.bandcamp.com 
Official website : www.contrejourband.com



Album credits : 

Roxy : vocal, lyrics, ideas. 

Christof : bass, keyboards, programming, mix, mastering post-production, video footage, video editing. 

Manu : guitars, keyboards, instruments, backing vocal, video footage, booklet graphics, photographs.




Info : In a few weeks we'll release several bonus tracks in an other album called "PASSION and FALL bonus" set to "FREE (or pay more)" on bandcamp. 

It will be private so all you have to do is to write us an email : contrejourband@gmail.com and ask us your download code for PAF BONUS :-) 

(you can ask for it now, we'll take note of your request and send it to you as soon as possible). 

Les Appelés

Gabriel Bruce 
Car's Not Leaving
Buy on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/carsnotleaving
Physical release: Monday 11th March
Through Luv Luv Luv Records
Pre-order Gabriel's debut album 'Love In Arms' on iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/album/love-in-arms/id602442082

Gabriel Bruce -  Cars Not Leaving

Missing Reward

Mt Royal - Missing Reward

buy on iTunes: tinyurl.com/MisunAlbum
contact us: MisunBand@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/MisunBand


Misun - Battlefields

DADA (NYC band) Separate Ways

North America:
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fall-over-single/id608488421
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BJW6O5I

UK:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fall-over-ep/id601229089
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BE1Q9J0

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2ank9CdDXrW2pDljadZIKe


Thank you for purchasing, streaming and sharing these songs with your friends. 

@hernameisbanks
hernameisbanks.com

Goddess

Before I Ever Met You

blogged here in febuary xx
http://www.thewildhoneypie.com/bays-indie-electro-track-leaves-us-craving-more-stream/
www.hearty-vibes.com/2013/03/bay-no-1413.html
http://sleepinmusic.com/post/43086032822/bay-emerge-with-gusto
http://musicfansmic.net/post/42847960327/bay-with-you-croydons-bay-have-all-the
http://diymag.com/archive/bay.-share-debut-track-with-you

With You

Buy the Metal & Dust EP on iTunes now: http://smarturl.it/METAL-AND-DUST

Our debut album 'If You Wait' is out now!

Vinyl: http://po.st/IfYouWaitLP
iTunes: http://po.st/IfYouWait
CD: http://po.st/IfYouWaitCD

http://londongrammar.com
http://facebook.com/londongrammar
http://twitter.com/londongrammar

Metal & Dust

Metal & Dust (X Factor Performance)

Blogged here in may xx
http://www.thewildhoneypie.com/bay-impresses-again-with-honey-stream/
http://diymag.com/archive/the-neu-bulletin-6th-may-2013
http://musicfansmic.net/post/49774719313/bay-honey-bay-are-in-rude-health-everything

Honey

Click here to download my second album: http://iansutherland.bandcamp.com/album/missing-time

Post Hoc

Baltimore City has become known for having a robust and diverse music scene. Collaborations frequently occur between bands that often become fixed groups themselves as is the case with Mt. Royal which officially came into existence in November of 2012.
