[Weekly Mix] 2022.09 (2)

Hell On Bent Street

What you waiting for, just a minute more
Can't you see that there's no answer?
Cannot stand it any longer
But all I do is try, just to question why
To keep poised by why
Does it all keep crumbling down
Is it to kick me around
I'm upside down

So I'm going to sing the same old song
Won't you care to sing along
Are you with me or you not

I can't ask myself
Is this what I'm suppose to do
Just hold me even closer
And bring me back to you

Don't care to explain
What's there left to gain
You believe I'm not allowed
To live the life I've figured out
I'm upside down

So I'm going to sing the same old song
Won't you care to sing along
Are you with me of you not

I can't ask myself
Is this what I'm suppose to do
Just hold me even closer
And bring me back to you

There you have it
Did you find it far too long
I couldn't find it in this song
You didn't have to sing along

UPSIDE DOWN

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Somebody's Child - Broken Record

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Small Triumphs And Deep Disappointments (Scanner Remix)

New love often requires letting go of old patterns and hurts. Kenny Sharp’s "The Breeze" laments an opportunity for love lost to fear of failure. Recorded at the legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Sharp wrote the soulful song with friends/collaborators Noah Shell, Spencer Coates, and Megan Connors. As two of the last people mentored and signed by the founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound, Rick Hall, Coates and Shell wanted to ensure the production honored that timeless feel and tradition. While penning the song overlooking the Tennessee River, the vocals and instrumentation were finished in the same rooms that recorded Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and countless other legends. "The Breeze" is an honest, impassioned plea to hold on to love in the face of a storm.

The Breeze

DTAP / True Love

DTAP

Release Date - Nov 11, 2022

Originally a working title representing the first letters of the band members’ names (Sean, Cory, Alec, Brandon), S.C.A.B. is an acronym with a shifting meaning – its phonetic double acting as a metaphor for protection and healing for a group that’s always been there for one another.

Following the release of the band’s debut album, 2019’s Beauty & Balance, COVID-19 put the brakes on the Brooklyn-based band’s burgeoning career. Not content with sitting still, the band decided to travel down to Georgia to record their sophomore, self-titled LP (S.C.A.B.), which they engineered and produced themselves. (side note: Brandon, the letter "B" in S.C.A.B., does play on this record, but has since left the group to focus on solo work under the name Hayfitz). Having distance from their beloved city during this unprecedented, tragic time helped them hone a sound that is even more distinctly New York.

Frontman Sean Camargo, whose parents immigrated from Ecuador and Bolivia as teenagers, was born in Elmhurst, Queens. His lyrics are colored with nostalgic memories of 90s Bushwick, where his grandparents later settled, alongside sardonic observations of the contemporary city where he landed again after stops in Maryland and Massachusetts. Each song on S.C.A.B. contains snapshots of New York moments that feel hazy with nostalgia, yet are the result of being present through transformational circumstances, no matter how seemingly small. As a self-titled effort, it solidifies the band’s mastery of balancing raucous, distorted guitars with glimmering spoken word passages and a pop-infused melodic confidence.

The angular guitar passages in lead single “Tuesday” conjure up trains skidding across deteriorated subway platforms, as Camargo declares he's "trying to let go of everyone I’ve ever loved," reflecting a relatable disillusionment with trying to form meaningful connections, and searching aimlessly for something worthwhile. Thematically, S.C.A.B. covers an array of topics ranging from grief (“Small Talk”), as Camargo describes bonding with another band member over the loss of a parent, to infatuation with a partner you know is ultimately bad for you (“Why Do I Dream Of You”).

S.C.A.B. is a result of four musicians, a tight-knit group, best friends: the kind of rare conditions that allow for such raw, emotionally-charged music. When the members of a band are this close, able to protect each other from the world outside it, they are a force to be reckoned with. As Frank Sinatra famously sang about the city, “Green beams of steel, making me feel, like I’m home again”. S.C.A.B. embodies that sentiment and evokes the intangible magic that is New York City.

VINYL 💿

S.C.A.B. - Tuesday

Possum

Paradise

something about you

Winter Time Blues

Look Like A Man EP

Look Like A Man (feat. Lias Saoudi)

"Silhouettes" by Dougie Stu
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Dougie Stu - Silhouettes

"Moving Now Now Now" is the third single taken from the album CLEAREYE SHINING showcases the band's epoch of expressionist impulse. Released with a fantastic and stylish video.

see video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADkIfp1h50

Monochrome silhouettes are met with chess stylistically doused in Hollywood Regency. Bitumen’s Kate Binning embodies slick femme fatale with a choreographed performance emphasising Binning’s affinity for stage and camera.

Produced by Jenny Branagan and Andrea Blake and edited by Bitumen’s very own Bryce Maher. “Moving Now Now Now”, connects the dots between Anger’s scandalous expose ‘Hollywood Babylon’, Bob Fosse, Klaus Naomi, and the golden age of glamour noir in the MTV Music Video. 

Cleareye Shining is out now via: Heavy Machinery and It Records

GENRE: POST-PUNK, SYNTH-PUNK, SYNTH-POP, DARKWAVE, GOTHIC, ELECTRONIC ROCK, INDUSTRIAL, ALTERNATIVE

RIYL: SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, BOY HARSHER, KILLING JOKE, CURVE, MEDICINE, DEPECHE MODE, DRAB MAJESTY, MOLCHAT DOMA, SEXTILE, MALARIA!, RIKI, PATRIARCHY

Bitumen -  Moving Now Now Now

As we await the follow up to Lazy Queen’s refreshingly impressive EP “A Human Reaction”, the Norwegian-New York bubble punk hybrids are welcoming a new era with their new single “243, New Moon”. 

Set for release on Swedish tastemaker label Icons Creating Evil Art, the new single sees the band reignite their partnership with collaborator Morten Øby at Taakenheimen Lydriket in Oslo. Appearing as a more relaxed version of Lazy Queen, the new single is nevertheless loaded with emotionally-confronting lyrics and earworming guitar melodies from the off. Simmering out the self-antagonistic air evident in the band's previous work, "243, New Moon'' is no less passionate than before as it hints at a new evolutionary stage of Lazy Queen.

“243, New Moon marks the start of a cycle. One that’s unaware of itself; of its own significance as a beginning. It’s feeling like change is the only option, but not knowing where to start. It’s the body leading and the mind following blindly.”

Lazy Queen entered the Norwegian music scene as a blast of fresh air, making the move from New York, where Colombian-Norwegian Henrik García Søberg founded the band. Fast forward to now, the Oslo-based band have embraced the new decade with an ever-evolving attitude of acceptance, perseverance and survival, creating an effervescent soundtrack along their journey. With an instinctive ear for melody and a uniquely intuitive sense of identity, García Søberg effortlessly weaves harmonic and discordant elements together that transform into a rich soundscape of bouncy yet jagged poignancy when the band comes together to complete the jigsaw puzzle of each track. Like CLASH puts it, “their penchant for bouncy, punk-infused electro-pop allows them to deliver poignancy with a sprinkle of sugar”. It’s immediate. It’s urgent. It impatiently demands your attention. 

It’s no surprise then that Lazy Queen’s ingenuity has been praised by fans and music outlets all over the world.  Lazy Queen have three storming EPs under their belt; 2019’s “A Sigh So Deep”,  2021’s “Get Home Or Die Trying”, and 2022's “A Human Reaction” - the latter released on Swedish tastemaker label Icons Creating Evil Art. Beloved singles such as “Bed/Head” and “Alcohol” received spins from Norway’s own P3, UK’s BBC Introducing Networks as well as BBC Radio 1’s Future Alternative show with Jack Saunders, prompting the following response "This band feels like such a rare discovery…it doesn't feel like a carbon copy, it doesn't feel like they're trying to be anyone else but themselves”. The band has received huge praise across the board with press from Kerrang! to CLASH, Rolling Stone France to Rock Sound, Visions (DE) to Louder Than War. On top of this, Lazy Queen have lauded across digital streaming platforms, recognised by Spotify playlists:  Fresh Finds Global, New Music Friday Norway, The Punk List, All New Rock, 100% Rock, Rock idag and Rock ei ole kuollut and many more, as well as Apple Music’s New Music Daily, The New Rock and Flesh Blood.

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243, New Moon

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Key To The City

ฬเกǥ ༶₊✧˚
The first single from my album 'Mirror'

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Stay

Wing

Mandrake Handshake return with their brand new single 'Emonzaemon', taken from their brand new EP 'The Triple Point of Water' out on November 18th. 

'Emonzaemon' is a fearless psych-explosion representing the eclectic sound of the hypnotic 9 piece psych-collective, with the main inspiration for the song coming from a ninja from the anime 'Katanagatari'. Indicative of the self-honed style they dub ‘Flowerkraut’, Mandrake unleash a hedonistic brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia, spiced with enigmatic grooves and fearless improvisations.

Mandrake Handshake - Emonzaemon

From DJ Q's new album 'Est. 2003': https://djq.lnk.to/est-2003

Almost two decades since first adopting the name DJ Q, Local Action is proud to present Est. 2003, DJ Q’s first proper album since 2014.

Comprising 11 high-grade UK Garage tracks made both solo and in collaboration with his peers from either side of the Atlantic, Est. 2003 cements Q’s status as one of the UK's most important living artists, one whose musical DNA can be found in everything from contemporary UKG and pop to underground grime and bassline.

Released on September 23, Est. 2003 gets right to the essence of what makes Q so special. There’s no unnecessary concepts or narratives, no needless experimentation - it’s simply DJ Q, at the top of his game, flexing on everyone for a water-tight 36 minutes.

The album's lead single 'Sweet Day' is out now - a long-overdue link-up between Q and Todd Edwards that was worth the wait, and a marriage of both their distinctive styles.

DJ Q & Todd Edwards - Sweet Day

sell you all out
I’ll tell you my secret

not enough love?
how bout a pick-me-up

year of the rooster
forever raw
year of the rat
baby I’m a narc for your love

lean in close
I’ll show you what you wanna see
I’m not pretty
I just know how to work the angles

year of the rooster
cock of the walk
year of the rat
baby I’m a narc for your love

I’m coming home
I’m coming home
coming home
home

Written, recorded and produced by Alex MacKay
Addtl mixing and mastering by Alex Previty

Skinny Salazar - synthesizer, hi hat
Leo Grossman - percussion

Cover image by John MacKay
Cover art by Devika Sen
Snake icon by Astrid Terrazas

[Weekly Mix] 2022.09 (2)

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