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Illusion Of Peace

Forming in Belfast in January 2009 initially as a two-piece, Cathal Cully and Neil Brogan booked their first gig as Girls Names before they'd even played together. Expanding to a three piece some months later with the addition of Claire Miskimmin on bass, the band have effortlessly refined their own personal take on the early/mid eighties shadow world of Black Tambourine, Felt and the Sound of Young Scotland. Although still in their infancy, Girls Names have traced their development through a series of releases, having already issued a 12" (Captured Tracks), an 8 track mini album (Tough Love) and a split 7" with San Francisco's Brilliant Colors (Slumberland). From humble beginnings there live show has also been dramatically improved, helped in part by sharing stages with Times New Viking, Dum Dum Girls and Abe Vigoda, amongst others. 

With their identity firmly established, debut album "Dead To Me" is the next step forward that delivers on the promise shown on previous releases. The song writing is more defined and the production values have been sharpened, representing a definitive break from the nonsensical lo-fi tag that has lazily followed them around by association. 

Recording for "Dead To Me" began in the last half of 2010, the band entering the studio with the conscious desire to make an old-fashioned style pop album, albeit one with a perverse haunted feel. As intended, the haunted aspect is brought to the fore. The ten tracks that comprise "Dead To Me" are possessed with a warm, classic quality derived second hand from the 60s influenced bands of the 80s. Songs such as "When You Cry", "Bury Me" and "I Lose" are characterized by a timeless melodicism that's long been the reserve of pop classicists from the Walker Brothers to Orange Juice, while other elements of the record, such as "Séance on a Wet Afternoon," reveal a perverse undercurrent.

And in an oblique manner, ghosts are also integral to the lyrical themes of the record. Whoever the inferred protagonist in the album title is, their specter lingers throughout "Dead To Me," hiding in the narrative arcs that run consistently throughout. Masked under the gloom of reverb-heavy guitars are subdued bittersweet vignettes charged on bloody nostalgia, bad romance and a fascination with the occult.

Despite their influences and immaculate taste, "Dead To Me"	 remains a distinctive listen precisely because of where it was conceived. The grey contours of Belfast streets indelibly shade the mellifluous guitar tones and spooked vocals. As such, for all the band's backwards gazing, there's a feeling that this album couldn't have been made anywhere but Belfast right now.


Girls Names - I Could Die

Mónóey

Decent Times

video: https://youtu.be/aBdITWB0rWQ
Buy album: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vaginaboys
kef LAVÍK: https://soundcloud.com/kef-lavik

Þú ríður mér,
rauðum hesti í eyðimörk,
við klárum eyðilögð.
Ég reyni að finna ekkert,
verðum ekki á sama stað.
Ég finn mig aldrei þar.

Þú lætur oft
eins og að ég sé fáviti,
ég held að þú hatir mig.
Þú bara sérð ekki
alveg sömu liti og ég,
þeir fljóta yfir mér.

Við verðum lyfjaðar klámstjörnur
með peninga í augunum
að dansa á hræjunum,
á hræjunum.

Þykjustu ástfangnar klámstjörnur
með hvítt undir nefinu,
að horfa á heimsveldið
á heimsveldið okkar.

Við erum klámstjörnur,
sérð okkur í myndunum
sem þú horfir á ein
með sjálfri þér.

Myndirðu mig ef ég segði þér 
hvað ég er fucked up?
Oh, stundum tek ég meðalið í nefið mitt,
pínu Nezeril, 
einstefnugata beint í klofið þitt.

Við verðum lyfjaðar klámstjörnur
með peninga í augunum,
að dansa á hræjunum ,
á hræjunum.

Þykjustu ástfangnar klámstjörnur
með hvítt undir nefinu
að horfa á heimsveldið
á heimsveldið okkar.

Ég er fucked up.
Ég er fucked up.

Icelandic Vaginaboys' debut EP. 
Few Icelandic bands have created such a buzz in such short time as the elusive Vaginaboys. With vocals performed through vocoder, and identities hidden by masks, the sensual beats by this mysterious duo flow nicely.

Buy album: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vaginaboys

Vaginaboys - Stjörnur (prod. kef LAVÍK)

New song from upcoming album.

http://utidur.com
http://facebook.com/utidurofficial
http://utidur.bandcamp.com/

Recorded and mixed by Kári Einarsson and Útidúr
Mastered by Sigurdór Guðmundsson at Skonrokk Studios.

Morbid Pleasure (Train part II)

Gangly - Fuck With Someone Else (IamHelgi Remix)

ViDEO: https://youtu.be/5h38TmBKDzQ

VAGiNABOY$ V. 2.0
iCELAND

Vaginaboys - Feeling [ViDEO iN DESCRiPTiON]

The debut full length album from Iceland's Oyama — "Coolboy" is available everywhere on cassette and digitally from Topshelf Records.

http://www.topshelfrecords.com/artists/oyama

Oyama - "Old Snow"

Oyama - "The Right Amount"

Oyama - "The Cat Has Thirst"

From self recorded debut EP, I Wanna.

Check it out here: http://oyamaband.bandcamp.com/

http://oyamayo.tumblr.com
http://facebook.com/oyamaband

Oyama - Everything some of the time

lyrics: 
it doesn't make much sense to me 
why we must all live 
try not to let that affect 
the beauty I'm seeing 
you know I love this world 
with my heart and soul 
can't carry burdens on our back 
gotta let em go 
life is short and so is sex 
we wonder what happens next 
sipping a drink and lighting up a grit 
take a seat down by the wall and rest 
it's such a heavy load 
going down the road 
looking around and hearing sound 
there must be something going on 
you know it's true 
all the things I wanna do 
cause there ain't all that much time 
so I try to free my mind 
you know it's true 
all the things I'm gonna do 
cause I was born right into time 
so I'll try ways to be fine 
oh so fine 
sucks to have a heart attack 
the lovely little heart of gold 
I don't care if I ever come back 
but a story told 
you know I love this world 
with my heart and soul 
can't carry burdens on our back 
gotta let em go

Oh So Fine

Taken off of 'Spacehopper'. Released through Frenchkiss Records June 17th (UK), June 18th (US).

Shimmer

Brisbane surf-rock quartet Go Violets have revealed the second single from their upcoming debut EP.  Recorded and produced by Sean Cook, ‘Josie’ takes the band in a new direction, expanding their sound to encompass a darker mood. The wry, distorted guitars, thumping rhythm, and ballad-like vocals carry any kind of melancholy away fast and hard.

Go Violets will launch Josie in June playing Thursday 13 June in Brisbane at the Black Bear Lodge, Saturday 15 June in Sydney at Brighton Up Bar and Thursday 20 June in Melbourne at the John Curtin Hotel.

Oyama - Everything some of the time

oyamaband

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