[Weekly Mix] 2020.09 (2)

A tense ride on the back of a unicorn through eclectic soundscapes straight into the eye of a cotton candy tornado.

Fuserrrr

“Their complex arrangements echo the type of perplexing subject matter at hand, and their metaphorical lyricism sees them evoking a world beyond reality in hopes of finding the right answers” - Consequence of Sound

Born among the pitch pines of southern New Jersey, Pine Barons is a project that came to fruition as friends gathered around campfires in the nature-rich environments of their hometowns. The band’s debut LP, The Acchin Book (released in 2017), possessed a unique quality from the auxiliary instruments and recording techniques used; feathered paper dragged across paintings, field recordings in the woods at night, accordion, string arrangements and bowed guitars all contributing to the various moods and textures of the record.

Pine Barons’ newest effort, their sophomore album, Mirage on the Meadow, is by nature a more insular effort, as all ten songs were written by frontman and multi-instrumentalist, Keith Abrams, who began to explore themes of the feeling that time is running out, longing for love and death’s inevitability. Mirage is a psychedelic amalgamation of graveyard shifting indie rock – full of the dread we all experience living our daily lives while retaining a cautious optimism that propels its rich, colorful sound towards a brighter future.

Mirage on the Meadow is out Friday, October 9th.

PURCHASE 🌸

Pine Barons - Meadowsong

Blue

Western Medicine

Verse 1
I stared up at the Dark Side of the Blue
Looking out for a Half Side to the Truth
Cause don’t it feel like a Wind-Up Doll
Just left on the loose

Now the Only Consolation Prize
Is maybe that this simulation got it right
And in that Flash of Light
Are we the sum of all our wasted time? because

Pre-Chorus 1
This Life is Brief
And No One Truly Knows 
The Pain you keep
But still, beneath the bittersweet
I need it endlessly

Chorus
Nights when the stars are falling
I’m not your Knight in Shining 
But I still Care for you the same
Days when the last train’s calling
I’m not your Silver Lining 
Baby somethings will never change

Verse 2
Mexican standoffs between
Me, Myself, and I
Looking back and forth thinking
“Oh my Love, One of us
Has got to try”
Are we Adam and Eve 
Or an Atom Bomb
Was the start of this 
Really worth the fall?
Just take twelve steps and 
Turn around, and then draw your gun
And shoot me down, because


Pre-Chorus 2
This Love’s a duel 
So baby don’t be a fool
Who confuses free will
With control
You know we’ve got 
No Idea what’s going on
Beyond the curtains drawn
No One Truly knows the pain you keep
But still beneath the Bittersweet 
I need it endlessly 

Chorus 
Nights when the stars are falling
I’m not your Knight in Shining 
But I still Care for you the same
Days when the last train’s calling
I’m not your Silver Lining 
Baby some things will never --- 

Nights when the stars are falling
I’m not your Knight in Shining 
But I still Care for you the same
Days when the last train’s calling
I’m not your Silver Lining 
Baby some things we’ll never change

Western Medicine

'Nightflight' by Kluster B, released September 11th 2020 via Rama Lama Records. 

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Kluster B - Nightflight

Written by Joni Fatora and Chris Petrosino 
Produced by Chris Petrosino
Mixed by Brian Rosemeyer and Chris Petrosino
Mastered by Drew Lavyne

Orchid Room EP

Orange

In Your Mind

In The Air

Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti join forces on their collaborative album ‘u,i ’, a brilliant exploration of mediated modern communication and a timely release that strikes a powerful resonance with our recently heightened experiences of connection and isolation under pandemic conditions. ‘u, i ’ was recorded over VOIP (voice over internet protocol), using the technology as both creative tool and conceptual frame.

Recorded in Berlin and Montreal and the strange virtual space in between, ‘u,i’ was pieced together between 2017-2019, though its genesis dates back fifteen years, to when Olivier and Johannes began dreaming of a network-based studio that could bridge the 6,000 km geographical distance between them. When early public forms of VOIP such as Skype appeared in the early ‘00s, the pair quickly took to the platform to talk and exchange ideas. Whilst it enabled the building of both a friendship and musical collaboration, they quickly noticed its limitations. Poking fun at its often distorted and unintelligible transmission quality, they began accumulating recordings of its strange sonic by-products. As the pair increasingly used VOIP through the years, the musical potential of these recordings and the concept behind ‘u,I’ began to emerge. Spending more time together online than in the same physical space, they noticed their personal experience was widely shared. With contemporary lives increasingly atomised, social interaction is becoming more and more mediated. Meanwhile, an explosion of personal video feeds has given us access to millions of intimate lives online, a raw and fragile glimpse on human existence. This new paradigm gave Olivier and Johannes the idea that it might be possible to build the narrative of a whole life via disconnected fragments posted online.

A reflection on human existence glimpsed through the prism of VOIP, 'u,i' encapsulates our vaporized social existence via a multitude of disconnected ghostly fragments and offers a bittersweet celebration of our interconnection – simultaneously close and detached. Ultimately, the album itself is a dichotomy – it mourns this gap whilst at the same time recognising it as the sole reason for its existence.

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Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - I Can´t Even See Myself

Space Forms

Yell And Shit

Now I Know

Stream 'La Luna' : https://yellowthesun.fanlink.to/laluna

La Luna is the debut follow up from Australian psych pop duo Yellow The Sun and their first release under guidance of label Nice Guys Music.

What if the moon just wont rise?
When the world went into lockdown comforts and predictability were lost, it was as if the ‘moon just wont rise’. The moon, a guiding light uniting people all around the world. Without it, where do we find hope? La Luna explores the concepts of comfort, spirituality and bravery in these uncertain times whilst drawing on hope through self empowerment.

Anthony and Marcos met in the off beat coastal surrounds of Byron Bay, Australia where Yellow The Sun writes, records and resides.

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Yellow The Sun - La Luna

Listen/Buy: https://ingroov.es/morning-dew-with-you-8v

Morning Dew, With You

Having  already delivered one of the most exhilarating and rounded debut EPs of the year in Microcosmic Things, Leeds quartet Eades prove they’re not ones to rest on their laurels with stirring new single ‘I Want More’ – out via Bam Bam Records on September 9th.

Once again showcasing their chameleonic approach to guitar music tradition, the track starts as a nouvelle country influenced slow burner, before exploding with rabble-rousing intent into buoyant indie, taking a left turn at classic rock. As ever, these touchstones are distilled into a unique, forward-looking sound by their self-production – the final result a distinctly modern sound from this coalescence of genres.

The themes of the track are a new take on a well-worn trope too – the antagonistic but necessary relationship between a musician and 9-5 drudgery, as lead vocalist Harry Jordan explains:
“When we wrote ‘I Want More’ I was in a pretty strange place, working a real dead end job just doing what I could to stay in Leeds and make music. I guess it reflects pretty well about how we all felt as musicians - finishing uni, feeling a bit lost and wanting more from life than the rat race our friends around us were joining.”

Perhaps accordingly, the track is a  roll towards euphoria in its escapism – a vessel through which the four-piece invite you into their gang, as synth player and percussionist Dan Clifford-Smith follows on:

“It instantly hits you in the feels - when we first started jamming it, it wasn't long for us to figure out it was going to be one of our favourite tunes. The coolest thing about it is the way we play it live, everyone goes absolutely mental and locks in so deep with one another. Can't wait to start gigging again once lockdown ends, catch us live in 2069.”

Arriving close to fully-formed in intention across sound and message, their breezy self-confidence, born of time spent cutting their teeth around a fertile scene in Leeds, has started turning  heads across the board, with FADER, NME, DIY, KCRW, The Line of Best Fit, DORK Magazine and more lining up to call themselves fans, and predicting big things.

‘I Want More’ is the new single from Eades - out on September 9th via Bam Bam Records.

I Want More

Undercover

Fit For Work

I feel like the king of the hill

Low Ceiling EP out in November via sumoclic

Mud out now via sumoclic:
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[Weekly Mix] 2020.09 (2)

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