[Weekly Mix] 2017.08 (3)

Cruel

The third single from Ariel Pink's forthcoming album Dedicated to Bobby Jameson, "Feels Like Heaven" is a lovelorn insta-classic paying tribute to the promise of romance.

Dedicated to Bobby Jameson is out worldwide on September 15.

Ariel Pink - Feels Like Heaven

Artist: Ritual Howls
Album: This Is Transcendence EP 
Label: Felte
Order: http://bit.ly/1lhkzoR

This Is Transcendence 

Their Body

Ritual Howls - Blood Red Moon

Makthaverskan - In My Dreams

New single from the forthcoming album "The Echo of Pleasure"

The Echo of Pleasure

My Only

Written by Carmen Villain & Jenny Hval. Produced by Carmen Villain. New album 'Infinite Avenue' out 8. September via Smalltown Supersound.

Pre-order: http://smarturl.it/sts310-bcamp

Borders feat. Jenny Hval

Give Me a Chance

Pre-order the Fire EP: https://dreamwife.bandcamp.com/album/fire-ep

Lyrics:
I wasn't always your future
I wasn't always your man
Those who were left behind us
I guess they'll make it the best they can
I'm moving closer to you 
You have a lot to say
Your accent is changing 
Your words rearranging and you don't sound the same 

Do you remember last night there was a fire? Do you remember last night there was a fire? We danced and we screamed and we held each other tight. Do you remember do you remember last night?

I've only just met you under the table 
you have a lot to say
Your lips are moving the way that I move mine I wonder if you'll stay
I wasn't always your future I wasn't always you man I wasn't always your future but I guess we'll make it the best we can

Do you remember last night there was a fire? Do you remember last night there was a fire? We danced and we screamed and we held each other tight. Do you remember do you remember last night?

There was a fire
There was a fire
There was a fire
There was a fire

Fire

"Big One" is taken from Madeline Kenney's forthcoming debut, "Night Night At The First Landing," out September 1st on Company Records.

Pre-orders available here:
Company shop - http://smarturl.it/nnatfl_company
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/nnatfl_itunes

Tour Dates:
August 23rd - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop 
September 2nd - Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot
September 9th - Portland, OR - House Show
September 13th - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge 
September 15th - Minneapolis, MN - The Entry
September 17th - Chicago, IL - Schubas 
September 19th - Queens, NY - Trans Pecos
September 23rd - Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse
September 25th - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa 
September 27th - Austin, TX - Sidewinder 
September 29th - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar 
September 30th - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar

Madeline Kenney - Big One

Pre-order 'Blurred' on LP/DL: http://phonofile.link/blurred

Kiasmos mark their return in 2017 with a new 12” EP titled Blurred — available worldwide on October 6th via Erased Tapes.

Since their 2015 Swept EP, the duo have been performing shows extensively across the world. After writing and recording together in their native Iceland this year, the pair will be bringing a glimpse of light to a particularly gloomy time of year as their light sounds are brighter than ever.

Words from Ólafur and Janus, August 2017: 
￼ 
￼￼“To write new material felt like a new beginning for us after two years of touring. The plan was to ￼write something a tad darker than our previous stuff. Spring in Reykjavík had other plans though, as this turned out to be our brightest release to date.” — Janus Rasmussen

￼“Stimming was one of the reasons we started making four-on-the-floor music and we have been listening to Bonobo since we were young, so it was a great honour that they wanted to contribute remixes for the EP.” — Ólafur Arnalds

￼The EP closes with remixes from British producer Bonobo and German electronic musician Stimming, taking tracks Blurred and Paused into different coloured realms.

The cover art featuring the iconic Kiasmos symbol is by long-time Erased Tapes collaborator Torsten Posselt at FELD.

TRACK LISTING

1. Shed 
2. Blurred
3. Jarred 
4. Paused 
5. Blurred (Bonobo Remix) 
6. Paused (Stimming Remix)

WEBSITE: www.kiasmos.is

Kiasmos - Blurred

1st single off the 'Content' EP. Out 10.6.17 on New Feelings/Rallye. 
Vocals/Guitar - Jesse Kivel
General Mood - Jeff Brodsky
Bass - Russ Manning
Sax - Alekos Syropoulos
Vocals - Victoria Bergsman

LP Pre-Order: https://www.new-feelings.com/releases/jesse-kivel-content-ep

Content

LA Story

Vinyl: bit.ly/willowbank-vinyl 
Spotify: bit.ly/willowbank-spotify 
iTunes: bit.ly/willowbank-apple
Bandcamp: yumizouma.bandcamp.com/album/willowbank
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'Depths (Pt. I)' is the second single from Yumi Zouma's sophomore album, Willowbank, out October 6, 2017 on Cascine. 

Listen to first single 'December' here: https://soundcloud.com/cascine/yumi-zouma-december

Limited-edition Willowbank LPs are pressed on baby blue vinyl and include sheet music for album highlight 'Carnation’ printed on premium cotton paper. Select limited-edition LPs will also include hidden entry tickets to invite-only release parties in New York City and Los Angeles, featuring live and DJ sets from the band. Pre-orders will ship the week of September 18.

Just over a year after releasing their lauded debut LP, Yoncalla, Yumi Zouma return with Willowbank, the band’s sophomore album. For the making of Willowbank, Yumi Zouma's members — Charlie Ryder, Josh Burgess, Christie Simpson and Sam Perry — settled on a plan to reunite for the New Zealand summer. To complete what would become their first significant work written and recorded entirely in their home country, they rented a studio in Christchurch’s semi-demolished CBD, on one of the few remaining blocks that still characterizes the city from before it was destroyed by a series of earthquakes. “It was as though there was a brief pause in all of our lives and we finally felt like a band from New Zealand,” said Burgess. “We were on home turf and creating from a place that felt fundamentally natural.” When you know it’s there, the feeling of rootedness is undeniable on Willowbank. Being connected to their origins on the bottom of the earth allowed the band’s members to craft another essential chapter in the Yumi Zouma storybook.

Catch Yumi Zouma on tour this fall and winter: www.yumizouma.com
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Yumi Zouma on Facebook: bit.ly/yumizouma_fb
Cascine on Facebook: bit.ly/cascine_fb

Willowbank

Depths (Pt. I)

Order Vinyl

Yumi Zouma - Depths (Pt. I)

The Water We Drink

Khalil - "Herat"

From the album The Kid out October 6, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order The Kid
BLEEP https://bleep.com/release/86790-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-kid
Norman Records https://www.normanrecords.com/records/166212
Bandcamp https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid
iTunes hyperurl.co/8n4qa5
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv170

In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "To Follow and Lead"

Taken from new album The Great Distraction (released 29th September 2017 on Different Recordings)

The Great Distraction

Mobilise

The single is taken from the bands second album Forever Trouble. 

Produced and recorded by Virgin Suicide. Mixed by Christian Alex Petersen and Virgin Suicide. Mastered by Brian Mørk Hansen. Artwork by Cecilie Castor von Spreckelsen.

Burnout

WAJU - 4 Me (feat. Kyle The Hooligan)

Kyle the Hooligan: 
https://soundcloud.com/hooligans

additional guitar work by Nellie Schindler

Harrison First - 4 Me (feat. Kyle The Hooligan)

Harvey Sutherland JDF Dub Version of "Airborne".
listen / download: https://CutCopy.lnk.to/airborneremixes
original version of "Airborne". download / listen: https://CutCopy.lnk.to/HFZ

Pre-Save ‘Freeze, Melt’ now via Cutters Records: bit.ly/CCCWFM

watch official "Airborne" video: https://CutCopy.lnk.to/AirbornevidSo
Listen to Cut Copy Greatest Hits playlist: https://CutCopy.lnk.to/GHhitsSo

Immerse yourself in “Haiku From Zero” via our experiential website and listen to commentary on each track from the album. https://CutCopy.lnk.to/listentohaiku

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Upcoming shows: cutcopy.net/tour/

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order new album

Cut Copy - Airborne (Harvey Sutherland JDF Dub Version)

Full stream of Poté's dance-inducing single "Model."

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/08/stream-potes-new-dance-inducing-single/

@potemusic

More info

Premiere: Poté - Model

Written and Produced by Tom Tripp & Liss. Out on Prime Sound.

Release
https://primesound.lnk.to/pamela

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