MAJOR LEAGUES | 'WEIRD SEASON' EP

Released on December 6, 2013
Available to order on limited 10" mint-coloured vinyl
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Last year, King TV's 'When She's Around' was featured on the very first Beech Coma release. Intimacy and hedonism high-five each other throughout the song as guitars switch from almost silent to screeching in waves - it's an utterly brilliant and thrilling song. When I first emailed frontman Louis Milburn about working with the band, I distinctly remember him asking me never to mention his age - just 17 at the time - as he was worried venues would stop booking the band.

Having just turned 18, and Louis is astoundingly prolific. Two further King TV releases under his belt, he also started writing solo work under the name Lou E late last year and released the beautiful and uplifting 'Teach Yourself'. Behind the scenes, given the number of different demos he has sent me since, I would guess there are in excess of 25 finished brilliant Lou E songs waiting to be unveiled - and today I have the utter pleasure of sharing my favourite, ‘Just One Thing’.

Taken from Vol. 3, out March 9th, ‘Just One Thing’ is a sprawling affair that really belongs over a sun-drenched road-trip scene in a cult 80s film. Juxtaposing everything that ‘When She’s Around’ is about, warm acoustic guitars slowly rise up like a heat wave from hot tarmac, whilst Louis’ vocals take you away with him as the dream-like, hazy melody slowly becomes lodged in your brain. 

Beech Coma Vol. 3 is released March 9th on cassette, t-shirt bundle and download - pre-order here - http://beechcoma.bandcamp.com/album/vol-3-2

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Lou E - Just One Thing

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Caught Dead

Sweet spell is a nostalgic, gentle, and captivating album written and recorded by Tyler Burkhart, a musician currently working in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This collection of songs is intended as a soundtrack to growing up, with bittersweet melodies that shimmer and reflect memories of simpler times. Through washed out layers of guitars and melancholy vocals, this album is to look back with yearning, and to look forward with hope of redemption. 

We recommend this title for people interested in the likes of Eels, Pedro The Lion & Death Cab For Cutie.

All songs written / performed / recorded by Tyler Burkhart. Released physically in the UK on Friday 1st July 2016 via Hail Hail Records, under the serial number HHR-TYB-001.

Sweet Spell

Tyler Burkhart's Sweet Spell

Tyler Burkhart - Pavement Gazing

"Blood Spitting" is taken from the debut 7" by Brooch, a new project featuring Ben Stidworthy from Ought and Mikkel Holm Silkjær from Yung, out 31st March. Limited to 300 copies, 100 of which are on green vinyl and only available through the Tough Love online shop

"I rode back to Aarhus with Yung after we toured together last winter. Every day, Mikkel and I would write and record one song at their scando-office rehearsal space, and then go out in the evenings. These songs emerged from us without discussion or direction, and I feel they captured an energy that was resonating in black and white. Blood Spitting is a collection of fragments that I collected over the course of a very long year. It’s a historically-situated conversation between a healer and a lover who search for remedies that aren’t real. They are the first lyrics I’ve ever been proud of. " - Ben Stidworthy

Pre-order 
7" (green vinyl - 100 copies) - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv094-brooch-blood-spitting-broken-glass-limited-edition-7-green-vinyl 

Brooch Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/broochmusic/ 
Brooch Bandcamp - http://brooch.bandcamp.com/

Biography:
Brooch is the glimmering spinoff of a tour that Ben Stidworthy and Mikkel Holm Silkjær did together with their bands, Montreal’s Ought and Aarhus’ Yung.  Their first offering of two songs are like the people behind them: youthful and yet already wise, cold-hearty and yet with ripe with a primrose melodicism.  “Blood Spitting” and “Broken Glass” are an expertly crafted pair of rock songs, but ones that maintain that burgeoning kind of playfulness that comes from a new collaboration.

The tracks were recorded over two days in Aarhus, DK in November 2015.  Ben continues, as he does in Ought, to play bass like a craftsman makes a fine chair and expands his palate to not only lush organ playing but also whispery and emotive vocals.  Mikkel, Yung’s principal songwriter, continues to show off his multi-instrumentalism as he offers guitar, drums and, as he does in Yung, vocals.

In “Blood Spitting”, Ben shows his poetic heart atop a crisp and revolving drum and guitar melody that recalls the quietest moments of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out-era Yo La Tengo.  And yet a tender edginess appears lyrically: “For the blood spitting and vertigo,” he sings “these days are muddled by dust.”  It is a striking juxtaposition, the lush organ tones with words such as this.  It alone almost conjures the cold room they recorded in: a few beer bottles clattering on the cement while a soft cough, visible breath and a smile break the quiet between takes. 

Mikkel answers on his side of the pair with a distinctly piercing and yet lush vocal presence.  “Broken Glass” features violin from the duo’s friend Lena Geue which balances the more rugged bass tone and chugging, almost off-kilter rhythm of the thing.  “A see-through window is not a rare sight, but a shattered one will leave blood behind,” replies Mikkel beyond his warbly and fierce guitar line.

These are both songwriters who know when to leave space, when to sustain a moment, and yet are unafraid to play ornamentally.  It is a rich collaboration, bursting at the edges when you take stock of who these songwriters are, and yet contained here in a small capsule that introduces us to their voices together.  It is a bit like a brooch, in that way, something they would both wear in real life.  I’d wear this 7” on my jacket.  And with songs like this for the kindling of a project, it’s pretty exciting to think about what happens next.

Tim Darcy, Montreal, October 2016

Brooch - Blood Spitting

Title track from Hollow Everdaze's debut album 'Cartoons', out now via Deaf Ambitions.

Vinyl/digital: bit.ly/2lu6qGs
Film clip: http://bit.ly/2rAGDTg

Produced by John Lee & Hollow Everdaze.
Mixed by John Lee. Engineering assistance by Zachary Schneider.
Mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio.

Artwork by Michael Olivo and Niv Bavarsky.

Hollow Everdaze - Cartoons

Turning Twenty

Strange Weekend - Something Topical

Cathedral Bells - Invisible

New single from Yung, taken from their upcoming second LP Ongoing Dispute, out January 22 2021 via PNKSLM Recordings. Pre-order at www.PNKSLM.com/ongoing-dispute/

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Cathedral Bells - Invisible

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