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Around the World (Daft Punk) - Maxence Cyrin

HALLS - LOVE TO GIVE (EXTENDED EDITION)

Live // 25th July at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen w/ The Bedroom. Tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/event/halls/hoxton-square-bar-kitchen/792764

From second album 'Love To Give', out now through No Pain In Pop. Extended Edition due August 2014, featuring album outtakes, covers and new material.

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Halls - the solo project of 23 year old South London musician Sam Howard - released a debut album, ‘Ark’, in November 2012.

A long twelve months later - after rapt reviews and a stint modelling for Hedi Slimane in Paris - Howard’s second album is here, and the changes are marked.

“This is an album about opening up. Ark is the cold album, closed-off, obscure and confusing. I obscured lyrics and hid behind reverb and mumbling. For this album I wanted to reach out more. In some ways it is darker than Ark. I feel that I struggle to connect with a lot of people and I want to connect somehow. Love to Give is about opening up and becoming more of a human being.”

In his new work, Howard has replaced apprehension and doubt with a muted hope, and just as the sentiment has shifted, as too the compositions and arrangements have moved into the real world. Ark’s electronic templates have ceded to - as Howard says - “embrace the sound of human beings”, and the instrumental palate has widened: brass, tuned percussion, woodwinds, and organs now flesh out the tracks, with digital percussion only used for texture rather than structure. Much was recorded in a theatre in London’s Woolwich, with Howard’s vocals recorded naturally in the large main hall, and passing traffic and street noise can be heard faintly throughout the album.

Opening track ‘Love To Give’ builds from hymnal acoustic reverie to a wall-of-noise breakdown, before ending on a military brass finale; the seven minute centrepiece ‘Aria’ leads with a solo xylophone into interweaving Kraut percussion and strings lines; ‘Forelsket’ contains a freeform pitch-shifted saxophone, evoking Sun Ra alongside a Justin Vernon vocal line and symphonic swells; and closer ‘Body Eraser / Avalanche’ ends the album on a few minutes of haunting ambience.

The album is not a clean listen; lyrics and vocal melodies are still lost occasionally to the music, creating an hazy, sometimes impenetrable aura, and even the direct, sparser guitar-and-voice-tracks ‘Aside’ or ‘You Must Learn To Live Again’ rely on a heavy atmosphere rather than narrative. Instead of relying on clearer melodic control, what is more apparent is the growth in Howard’s compositions - his ability to breathe life in to sentiments of cold confusion and loss across dense, shifting arrangements.

Halls - The Greatest (Cat Power cover)

Piano version of SKIMMING STONES featuring the stunning vocals of Kirsty Hawkshaw.

Sleepthief (ft. Kirsty Hawkshaw) - Skimming Stones (Piano Version)

Music/Lyrics by Eleanor Dunlop
Remixed by Paul Conrad

Eleanor Dunlop - Rollin' On (Paul Conrad Rework)

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Feist - Bittersweet Melodies

A rendition of the Irish folk standard “She Moved Through the Fair” plays on the debut episode of the BBC drama “The Living and the Dead” by The Insects Feat. Elizabeth Fraser ( Cocteau Twins)

The Insects Feat. Elizabeth Fraser - She Moved Through The Fair

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Vampires

This is my cover of "Old Souls" from the movie "Phantom of the Paradise".  All the music in this film was written by Paul Williams.

"Old Souls" from Phantom of the Paradise (cover)

Tragically Beautiful

Soley - Theater Island

Pre-release single from upcoming SNOWMINE album - an awesome, ambient sound with a little pop-infusion makes for a timeless vibe. I also encourage you to check out the music video, which includes wonderful hand-painted animation by Martin Francis Shields. 
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SNOWMINE - Silver Sieve

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