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From the album BLUE RIDER by Zachary Cale.  Available Sept. 24, 2013 via All Hands Electric (US), JellyFant (EU).  Pre-Order LP/CD: http://allhandselectric.com/bluerider/

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Wayward Son

Whether you walked to work or to the shop or to your barbers today, chances are you did so kicking through piles of golden leaves. Perhaps you were wearing a scarf too. hese new chilled winds are a welcome change; girls excited to wear mittens, guys forced to wear the jumpers they were gifted the previous festive season.

Welcome to the softer side of Jack Collister. Usually found looking more like Animal from The Muppets and sat behind fellow members of Best Friends, the soothing banjo-infused folk is a wholesome complimentary to confusing dark afternoons and cold evenings. Previously a solo project, Jack has fleshed out his sound with a hand from Ed from Best Friends, Apple from Avida Dollars and Lew from Nai Harvest (also did the ace artwork)

As a generous addition to our track this week, Jack has also offered the entire Five Leaf Nettles EP as a free download to all Postcard Club subscribers. A stripped down Best Friends reinterpretation, a lolsome CKY cover and three beautiful originals - consider it early festive cheer.

Download full EP for free: http://fiveleafnettles.bandcamp.com/

Purchase this week's postcard at http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com.

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Five Leaf Nettles - Autumn

Hooray For Earth - Racy

Makeout Videotape's second album 'Ying Yang'. Great album and a really raw high school band feel to it. Defiantly should check it out!

Makeout Videotape - Island Groovies

I'm in this night, of purple fright 
Social enclosed, with no ones phone 
I cramp my face, and spill my drink 
The violet boy, is the missing thing…I'm here 

I cry on my my bike, I'm feared I'm cleared 
''I feel nerves are shaking'' 
Your heart's here, but your lips are so far away 
''I'm losing my purple'' 

My mind's a dream, coz you ain't near 
''I'm sorry babe, I ain't near'' 
My heart is tight, makes my blood go wild 
''I'm sorry babe, I am feared'' 
My eyes are queer, they keep pumping tears 
''I'm sorry babe, please don't tear'' 
A lion's game, still I love you but…I'm here 

I cry on my my bike, I'm feared I'm cleared 
''I feel nerves are shaking'' 
Your heart's here, but your lips are so far away 
''I'm losing my purple'' 
I cry, when I'm looking through the glass it's weird 
''I feel nerves are shaking'' 
Your heart's here, but your lips are so far away 
''I'm losing my purple''

Crying In The Discotheque

The first single off of their debut album 'Loose Ends'

Preorder 'Loose Ends' on vinyl: http://smallplates.bigcartel.com/product/francisco-the-man-loose-ends-12-spr019


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Francisco The Man - Progress

Still corners - eyes (rogue wave cover)

Soul

Nose Song 
by Sam Lee And Llywelyn Ap Myrddin

www.samleesong.co.uk
https://soundcloud.com/llywelynapmyrddin
www.bodyofsongs.com

"The nose is by far the least understood of all the organs and one of the great human science mysteries. This song explores this "archaic nerve" that penetrates our psyche and unconsciousness in magical transportive ways. This original organ has elevated itself to such a lofty position of biological deportment as to become almost unnecessary, yet so rooted in all our judgements socially, sexually, animalistically and atavistically it could be reckoned as the seat of the highest intuition and most advanced of all faculties.”
Written by Sam Lee and Llywelyn ap Myrddin
Voice: Sam Lee
Piano: Llywelyn ap Myrddin
Bass: Liran Donin
Recorded at Lion Aboard
Mixed and Mastered by Raz Olsher at Fossil Studios
www.bodyofsongs.com

Nose Song by Sam Lee and Llywelyn Ap Myrddin

Brass Bed - "I Am just a Whisper"
from their new album In the Yellow Leaf
in stores 04.15.16

pre-order now on LP and CD:
http://modernoutsider.bigcartel.com/artist/brass-bed

http://www.modernoutsider.com
http://www.brassbedisbrassbed.com

Being an undiscovered commodity has its advantages. Growth, movement, exploration, metamorphosis and misfires can be weathered without scrutiny or expectation. There’s no mistaking that Brass Bed is not a young band. Now in their early 30s, the band’s essential trio of Jonny Campos, Peter DeHart and Christiaan Mader are too old to be wunderkinds, too young to be cult, but just old enough to understand themselves.

With their 4th LP, In The Yellow Leaf, BB continues to contemplate the slipping horizon. Where others confront mortality with a self-seriousness that belies a fundamental insecurity, principal lyricists Mader and Campos encounter the void with winks and shrugs.

That’s the most impressive hidden growth of all – the development of a poetic sensibility appropriate to their stage of life. At one time collegiate Wilco-acolytes, cribbing Jeff Tweedy’s romantic nihilism and Jim O’Rourke’s texturizations like teenagers raiding a liquor cabinet, BB now wears a mask commiserate with their age.

They’ve grown up. They’ve learned about shit. They can talk about it honestly now.

Yellow Leaf finds the band in much the same headspace as their 2013 breakout The Secret Will Keep You: angsty vortices of sound draped over pop idioms constructed with a grad student’s eye for abstraction and musical grammar. With the help of guitarist Ben Jones (Generationals, Youth Lagoon) and a pilot recording with engineer Chris Woodhouse (Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees), the band rediscovered the exuberance of guitar rock and forced it to grow up.

Faced with an audience not yet listening, BB turned up. Where other bands age into balladry, BB traded their ill-fitted pining in for decibel urgency and caterwauling feedback. Their musings sit much better over fuzz, spit, and glistening reverb.

The result is a record that is as eclectically inventive as it is fundamentally raw and abrupt. Lead single “I Am Just A Whisper” captures the band’s ability to charm snakes of anxiety while creating enough speed to allow melody, decay and sustain to hover over the scurrying madness like whispers. Thematic center-piece “Yellow Bursts of Age” evokes a haunting innocence arranged with studio-ghosts that vanish like falling evening snow. From all this it may seem as though BB is trapped in a cycle of morbid meditation. But consider the apostate sarcasm of “Maiden Voyage” and witness that Yellow Leaf is a cradle for artists at peace in an unsettled universe.

Brass Bed used to be wide-eyed pop dreamers. Now they are realists finding wonder in the dark comedy of mortality. They are the eponymous bursts of age – kids hopping into leaf mounds and making the most out decay.

Brass Bed - "I Am Just a Whisper"

My Bond song, Nancy Sinatra-style - from "Luck or Magic" out April 29th on Double Feature Records. Available on 
iTunes: http://geni.us/LuckOrMagiciTunes
Amazon: http://geni.us/LuckOrMagicAMZNmusic
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http://brittaphillips.com

Luck Or Magic

Daydream

01 Daydream

Out now. Listen on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer or pre-order limited edition vinyl from Amazon here: smarturl.it/y975uy

Taken from "Golden Island" out on January 26 on Labrador.

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Golden Island

Club 8 - Fire

From the debut album Light.  Available June 1, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://julianadaugherty.bandcamp.com/
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/light/1352432904?ls=1&app=itunes
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv148

It’s hard to imagine that Juliana Daugherty’s softness and subtlety could materialize amid the tumult of current-day Charlottesville, VA, but every mode of being continues in the people of Charlottesville, as it does elsewhere, despite the impressions headlines might give. Despite the societal ills that dominate our screens, private struggles still exist, and Daugherty’s debut Light gives them palatable, manageable, and satisfying form.

“I wrote this record partly to strip mental illness of its power,” Daugherty says. She adds, “There is nothing useful or beautiful to be gleaned from the experience of depression.” Though this statement seems contrary to the romantic tone of Light, it’s refreshing to hear an artist speak of their own depression with objectivity, unwilling to be charmed by the gloom. Daugherty wields her songcraft like a sword, not a diary to be buried in a drawer.

As one listens, it becomes clear that Light was not a title chosen despite the gravity of its subject matter-- romantic struggle, abject depression, and throbbing vulnerability-- but rather in service of it. Light, so to speak, comes when we give shape to what haunts us.

Light  

Juliana Daugherty - "Player"

Less Than Positive

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3cp6Lbfkr7TJ0bFClNWctY?si=w8pTZiibTvOJKRuscZzoZQ
Recorded, mixed by Nich Wilbur at Anacortes Unknown Studio
Mastered by Ed Brooks
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Downtown
Eyes down
The secrets on the city bus
Don’t tell

She sees 
Bodies
She’ll never have another one
Oh well

Does it show
Her smile on a silver plate
When it’s over
Her mind is still a safer place

Come home
Unknown
The pages in the magazine
Still shine

Oh yes
Black dress
She pours herself a different drink
Each night

And she goes
Places everybody knows
Can you find her
Hiding in the afterglow

Wear a pretty little smile
Make believe
Dolls are fun for just a while
Set her free

She might be the one she really needs

Still corners - eyes (rogue wave cover)

Oasis.

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