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Dream Pop/Jangle Pop/Psych Pop (January-February 2016) Playlist

The annual / accumulating playlist of 2016 faves, more @ www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com. 

Shoegaze & Dream pop Etc - 2016

DreamGaze II - OKTOBER 2016

Alles

Some great Dream Pop, mostly Jangle Pop tracks. #janglejangle

Dream Pop/Jangle Pop

FensterThe Pink Caves
Morr Music - MORR127

Fenster's second record The Pink Caves is a dark fairy tale brimming with layers of tremolo guitars, tactile percussion, soft analog synths and moon-dusted vocal melodies. The tracks take you on a slow-motion free fall through the rabbit hole into an ethereal world of spectral soundscapes, lush pop opulence and minimalism drawing inspiration from science fiction, french 70s film scores and Lynchian mysticism. Work began on The Pink Caves in early 2013. A home studio was set up in a cabin in East Germany and the whole house was wired so every room contained different elements, set up in such a way that they were able to record live altogether. As a result The Pink Caves radiates with an intuitive and spontaneous approach to noise experimentation. 
With this record, Fenster ventures into new spaces, exploring different techniques, instrumentation and song structures. The album's title and aesthetic derive from the concept of a make-belief heaven, a place you go when you die that only exists in your mind. Welcome to The Pink Caves!

Fenster is: Jonathan Jarzyna, JJ Weihl, Rémi Letournelle, Lucas Chantre
Production: recorded and mixed by Tadklimp

Dates:

Dates:
17.02.2014 — Hamburg (DE) — Hafenklang (w/ Aloa Input)
18.02.2014 — Cologne (DE) — Studio 672 (w/ Aloa Input )
19.02.2014 — Munich (DE) — Milla (w/ Aloa Input)
20.02.2014 — Dresden (DE) — Ost-Pol (w/Aloa Input)
22.02.2014 — Berlin (DE) — Schwuz (Rec.release show w/ Aloa Input)
13.05.2014 - Hannover (DE) - Café Glocksee
15.05.2014 - London (UK) - Birthdays

Links:
www.fensterbones.com
www.facebook.com/fenstermusic
www.morrmusic.com

Fenster: Mirrors

www.waltermartinmusic.com 

DEBUT SOLO ALBUM from SONGWRITER,
WALTER MARTIN (of THE WALKMEN)
instagram: instagram.com/waltermartinmusic
twitter: twitter.com/WaltRMartin
website: www.waltermartinmusic.com
facebook: facebook.com/waltermartinmusic

Fully Illustrated album packaging by illustrator/ musician Marcellus Hall. http://www.marcellushall.com

ALBUM TRACK LISTING:

1. WE'RE ALL YOUNG TOGETHER (FEAT. ALEC OUNSWORTH)
2. WE LIKE THE ZOO (CAUSE WE'RE ANIMALS TOO) (FEAT. MATT BERNINGER)
3. I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N (FEAT. KAT EDMONSON)
4. RATTLESNAKES (FEAT. KAREN O & NICK ZINNER)
5. SING TO ME (FEAT. KAREN O)
6. THE BEATLES (WHEN RINGO SHOOK HIS MOP) (FEAT HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, NICK STUMPF, JOSH WISE & MATT IWANUSA)
7. IF I WERE A TIGER (FEAT MILAN MCALEVEY & NINA DONGHIA)
8. COSTA RICA
9. HEY SISTER  (FEAT KAT EDMONSON)
10. IT'S A DREAM

Sing To Me feat. Karen O

Jillian Edwards - Daydream

♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️☯♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️

Boring games on my bed
All these people have to change
Holidays come to and end
And there´s something left 2 say

Give it up, give it up
Oh Oh

Let me be your man
I want you so bad that it hurts
Girl don´t be afraid
I´m not prepared to let you go away

Give it up, give it up
Oh Oh

♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️☯♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️♒️

Give It Up

Little Vessels (This Is An Adventure)

Do you remember when the summer holidays seemed endless? Spending hours by the sea, surrounded by friends, the ice cream in hand... Here's "Cut", our ode to all beautiful summers!

"STEPS" debut EP's second single, produced by Tadklimp, out on Morr Music on May 15th 2015.

Any request? slowslowsteve@gmail.com
Any booking and love letters request? then amande@julietippex.com

Peace

Minuit

Drowning

Void

Underwater

The record was recorded over the course of the spring, summer, and early fall 2014. It is dedicated with love and in life-long memory to Joshua Bogle. Peace.

The Sun

FREE DOWNLOAD: http://star-tropics.bandcamp.com

Summer Rain

Swept Away

Dry Blood

Taken from ‘Music for the Motion Picture Victoria’ – released by Erased Tapes on June 15th, 2015
ORDER LP/CD/Digital here:
www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP071
ORDER DL via iTunes here:
http://snip.ftpromo.net/victoria

ABOUT:

Nils Frahm has always said that he’s just waiting for something real special when being asked if he would ever score the music for a film. And that’s exactly what German director Sebastian Schipper presented to him with his one-take feature ‘Victoria’. Filmed in Berlin, Victoria’s plot sees a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town, but their wild night of partying suddenly turns into a bank robbery as the music changes from techno to subdued piano sounds.

For the recording session at Studio P4 in Berlin, Frahm enlisted the help of long-time collaborator and cellist Anne Müller, violist Viktor Orri Árnason and ambient artist Erik K. Skodvin of Deaf Center on guitar.

‘Victoria’ won the Berlinale Film Festival prize for Best Cinematography and has also received seven nominations including Best Soundtrack for the Deutscher Filmpreis – Germany’s highest movie award, and will be released in cinemas across Germany on June 11th with plans to release it in the UK and other countries soon. 

More info: nilsfrahm.com · erasedtapes.com

Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

Them

Buy LP/CD/DL

Dissolve

The Death Of Pop - Only Now

'Reichpop' is taken from the new Wild Nothing album 'Life Of Pause' which is to be released 19th February 2016 on Bella Union and is available for preorder now. The song is also available as an instant-grat download on iTunes, and Spotify.

iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/life-of-pause/id1061178724
Bella Union - http://tinyurl.com/ox3q3qj
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/hljalmn


Wild Nothing - Reichpop

Written by Hazing
Mixed and additional production by Declan Gaffney
Mastered by Pete Maher 
Artwork by Eibhlin Doran 

℗ and © Hazing under exclusive licence to Happy Valley Records 2016

Released on:
04/03/2016 

'Joy Void' is available to pre-order on limited white tape via Happy Valley Records:
www.happyvalleyrecords.com 

contact: 
max@happyvalleyrecords.com 

digital pre-order 

Hazing - Nervous Signals

"Do Your Best" off of 'Big Sparks' by Few Bits, out 2016 on PIAS

Do Your Best

Taken from EP II

Closer look here:
https://jaguwar.bandcamp.com/album/ii-ep

Eyes Collide

Recorded and mixed by Peter Hove
Produced by Alpha Male and Peter Hove

Mono Focus

A heady balm of smeared guitar textures and sharp pop sensibilities.”
STEREOGUM

“It’s hard not to crush on the extensive, encircling sound of Melbourne’s Flyying Colours”
NO FEAR OF POP

“Chances are that this tune from Flyying Colours is going to make a fan out of you…these guys are belting out a noise that instantly pricks people’s ears up.”
SOUNDS BETTER WITH REVERB

After two critically acclaimed EPs, Flyying Colours are set to release their debut album ‘Mindfullness’ in September on Club AC30.  Residing in a dream-world that sits somewhere between psych, indie, grunge and shoegaze, the Australian band’s beautifully dynamic new offering showcases their talent for uniting a delicate vocal melody with a satisfying thick wall of abrasive drums and guitars.

Leading track and first single It’s Tomorrow Now further stirs the melting pot. Opening with a chaotic looped squeal, the knockout punch of the frenzied opening riff and steady, driving drums sets the bar high for the nine tracks that are to follow.

Formed in 2011 in Brunswick by school friends Brodie and Gemma, they played every show they could week in, week out in Melbourne’s bustling inner north to finesse their sound. Debut single Wavygravy (2013) perfectly set the scene by truly capturing the unhinged essence of a Flyying Colours show. But the recent addition of the impressive abilities of Andy on drums and Mel on bass have taken that unhingedness to undreamt-of-levels, making the beautiful trip of their live show, something to truly marvel.

The Melbourne quartet have since spent the last year touring with label mates pinkshinyultrablast as well as Johnny Marr, Brian Jonestown Massacre and A Place To Bury Strangers, whilst singles Not Today and Running Late taken from their second EP, ‘ROYGBIV’ garnered heavy rotation on enormous radio stations worldwide, including KEXP, BBC6, JJJ, RRR and FBi. They hit #47 on the CMJ Radio top 200 in the states, sat in the UK’s Amazing Radio charts for weeks, and were championed by Clash, 405, Stereogum, Wonderland and NME. With the September release of ‘Mindfullness’, 2016 seems set to be just as busy.

Flyying Colours - It's Tomorrow Now

Weightlessly

soundtrack tunes

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Download Album

Spike Spiegel. [Album Out Now !]

free download prior to the 'Neverfriend' / 'Seeing Up' single released digitally on EDILS Records on September 9th 2016. 

note: Big Blue is a standalone, self published track, not part of the EDILS release.

composed and produced by dayflower 

additional musicians: 
Euan Rodger - drums
Matt Flint - guitar
Ola Szmidt - vocals

engineered by Jamie Ward
mastered by Joel Evans

Big Blue

Don't Feed Me To Them

Wake Up, The Sky Is Falling

Produced & Mastered by Rory Attwell at Lightship 95
Artwork by Rowan J Stevens

Cold Spell

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a shoegaze / post-punk band from Berlin.
We love bands like My Bloody Valentine, Velvet Underground, The Cure and Joy Division.