This track is available on: Marly Lüske – "Five Fires" 15 Track LP (Wildlife Recordings ~ 9th Feb 2018)

Bandcamp: marlyluske.bandcamp.com/album/five-fires
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/5PmtlFCOFr6y5eLnBXFZnc?si=OOGCYzTfR9uIV1tr_1ySpA

Certainly one of my favorite vocal guitar songs : > Have a whole bunch like this : >   .. song 81c

Five Fires

9th Feb 2018

Vinyl

Square Bassoon ~ Five Fires LP ~ 12" Vinyl

PREMIERE > http://inverted-audio.com/premiere-foans-heavy-traffic

@foans sophomore iteration, the eight-track mini album 'Frontier' has him delving deeper in jerky percussive patterns, fleshing out his melodic lines as the groove gains a more club-ready momentum. Our pick 'Heavy Traffic' exudes a pleasure-seeking elixir of whispered vocals and understated piano keys, looping bars of a muffled synth hook to hug you tightly. A true caress for the senses.

Frontier

Foans - Heavy Traffic [100% Silk]

IS THERE A HOTLINE? DEBUT RELEASE ! 

ITAH? are a Melbourne based duo, comprised of Jen Tait and Jen Callaway. Live recordings at Longplay (North Fitzroy) and Howler (Brunswick), both from earlier this year. Atmospheric post-punk space rock featuring percussion, analogue synth, electric thumb piano, various objects and alien-siren vocals and wails. Strange drifting sounds, delicate and intense extremes, evoking a parade of cosmic imagery. 

Exclusively available this Friday 23rd September 2016. 
Double cassette launch with Squirrel Pancake. 
ITAH? + Duck Billed Dinosaur to perform •
Aeso Studio > 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 
Doors 8pm. 
$5 entry. 

• This show coincides with a 10 artist exhibition, curated by Victoria Armytage. 
Opening night Tuesday 20th September / open all week. 
Artists involved: Kevala Buttonshaw, Georgina Matherson, Victoria Armytage, Carly Housiaux, Jen Tait, Allanah Stewart, Jane Hearn, Alyssa McBain, Olivia Vesnaver, and Jen Callaway.
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IS THERE A HOTLINE? - live at Howler 31.05.16 [excerpt]

Our first full length visit to Perth. What better way than a cassette by Leafy Suburbs!

Track features Alana MacPherson on Sax

Leafy Suburbs - Martini Spoke

From 'Contact,' out now.
CD/LP/Digital: http://hyperurl.co/Contact

ARTIST INFO & TOUR DATES:
https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/pharmakon

Pharmakon - Transmission

Daybreak tends to creep up on you. Emerging from starry darkness, the sun wobbles at first but proceeds on its scheduled arc. You can’t help but wonder if it ever looks back in disbelief, or regret.  This feeling of self-reflection—of looking back to see how far you’ve come—is precisely the sentiment of Thawing Dawn, the first solo record from A. Savage, released on Dull Tools.

The songs on Thawing Dawn form a guided tour through the romantic environs of A. Savage’s mirrored mind. While some were written recently, other tunes were penned over the past decade. For one reason or another, these compositions didn’t land with any of Savage’s other groups, and instead are presented now as a distinct collection. Reflecting back, Savage says, “Once I realized I had a small body of work that didn’t fit anywhere else, I started to examine the commonalities: What’s the common denominator of all this and how I can expand on it?”

Savage is best known as the frontman for Parquet Court, a duty split with fellow Texan Austin Brown. Their last record, Human Performance, delved into the emotional wreckage of a broken heart, to critical acclaim.  But with Thawing Dawn, it’s clear that Savage has matured. While assembling the record, he fell in love. Now, for the first time, we hear songs about being on the inside of love. Rather than lamenting the end of a relationship, we hear a voice trying, in the moment, to make sense of love’s mysteries. “Part of this maturity,” he says, “is reflecting on something when it’s happening, not just when it’s gone.” 

Thawing Dawn gives us honesty: We see the artist at home in bed, more singer-songwriter portrait than esoteric statement. Throughout his discography Savage has long abbreviated his first name as a kind of writerly gesture. He says, of the move, “I am an uncivilized member of modern civilization--I’m just a savage.” Like Duchamp’s R. Mutt signature on a urinal, the shortening embodies a mischievous directness, enabling this savage to introduce his slanted honesty into the universe.

“I always like it when records are good representations of communities,” Savage says, and this one succeeds in this regard. These ten songs were recorded between December 2016 and June 2017 by a cast of friends in Jarvis Taveniere’s Thump Studios in Brooklyn. Members of Woods, Ultimate Painting, PC Worship, EZTV, and Psychic TV all lend their talents.  Savage’s voice, once shouted into mosh pits, now glides confidently above its backing band. Thawing Dawn marks the arrival point for Savage as a sensitive and skilled vocalist.  A strain of rural inquiry tinges the soundscape, an ongoing trope in Savage’s writing most powerfully felt on Parkay Quart’s ballad “Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth.” On this record it is stronger, with a healthy helping of pedal steel guitar, a chorus of female back-up vocals, four familiar chords, and maybe the truth, all layered throughout these songs. Their titles also steer us this way, but don’t fully convey the hidden intricacies. “Buffalo Calf Road Woman” opens the record in a burst of C&W energy.  The staccato pop piano of “Eyeballs” lays crisply beneath a refrain of heartbreak. “Wild Wild Horses” finds him confessing inside a Talk Talk bubble of guitar static and organ. The build-up of “What Do I Do” yields a guitar freak out that Parquet Courts fans will recognize. You could two-step to the swing of “Phantom Limbo.” “Ladies from Houston” is a Leonard Cohen-like ramble through a party scene. Finally, the title track is a suite of three interwoven songs that closes the record in a beautifully cinematic style. 

Throughout, A. Savage delivers one-off lines of razor-sharp observation that will stick in your brain, only to surface when you’re least prepared to handle their insights. When you put your copy of Thawing Dawn on your turntable and drop the needle, you’ll learn what A. Savage has to say about romance in our modern world. Keep your ears open--it’s worth hearing.

- Jack Murphy

A. Savage - Winter In The South

'Swan's Beat' is taken from the new David West with Teardrops album, Cherry On Willow, released on 20th October. Available on CD, limited edition 'cherry cola' vinyl, black vinyl and download formats.  

Pre-order Cherry On Willow here - http://smarturl.it/CherryOnWillow 

Follow David West on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/davidwestmusicalartist/

Biography
David West is a musical artist from Western Australia based in New York City. He's been active in the shifting sands of underground pop for over a decade. Not dissimilar to the main character in Star Wars, his musical career began in a backwater desert village, in this case, Perth, before he migrated to more glittering metropolises like San Francisco and Melbourne, and finally landing in his current home of New York. He presently plays in the contemporary outfits Rat Columns, Rank/Xerox and Liberation. In the past he has participated in such groups as Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation and Total Control.

DW began releasing eponymous platters in 2015 with the Night People/Happy Endin' full-length cassette Drop Out Of Collage. This was followed in 2016 by the Peace Or Love LP which featured the radio semi-hit ‘Dream On Dreamer’. DW's move into the "own-name" category of artists came as his other bands began to develop defined identities. He felt that recording under his own name would be an excellent umbrella for both roving experimentation and a more frivolous, post-modern style of pop music that would not fit in the frameworks of his other projects. Also, after crafting band names for over a decade, it was just time.

Cherry On Willow is DW's audio pop vision for 2017. It differs from the last two DW releases by introducing a more collaborative framework, creating the backing group Teardrops - an open ensemble of friends and collaborators, including Bob Jones of Eaters, Louis Hooper of Rat Columns, Mikey Young of Total Control and Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Raven Mahon of Grass Widow, dynamite drummer Griffin Harrison and other supremely talented individuals from the past and future. The recordings were quite live and spontaneous, hoping to catch some of the magic involved in speed and improvisation, harvesting creative sparks from his musical colleagues and himself.

The album was recorded in various places in the latter half of 2016 - by DW in his practice space in New York City; in a rental rehearsal room in Glasgow; and a garage studio in Guildford, Western Australia, where Rat Columns' recent LP Candle Power was also recorded. The record was mixed by Mikey Young and DW in Young's seaside studio in Victoria in the first days of 2017, and mastered by the ever reliable Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering in Melbourne. The cover photograph was taken in Perth by the Western Australian photographer Traianos Pakioufakis. The graphic design for the record was done by the talented NYC designer Daniel Wagner, well known in the DIY art publishing world for being one-third of the zine/publishing powerhouse Kingsboro Press.

Cherry On Willow was recorded quickly and with a 'first thought best thought' philosophy, to capture an old-school pop feeling, with rough edges intact, human movements tracked and uncut. Swiping liberally from various strains of underground pop, glam, rock'n'roll, synth-pop and disco, Cherry On Willow wants to be a thing that swings, the chewing gum stuck between love and loss, born under ever shining stars…so, as DW sings on this record: “let’s paint it blue”…let's make it real, let's be a little bit careless, let's let it all hang out, just a little bit...OK?

Cherry on Willow (masters - digtial - mp3)

David West with Teardrops - Swan's Beat

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