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Last Thing On Your Mind

Sometimes the mess is the message. PAINT is the project of Allah-Las guitarist / singer Pedrum Siadatian, and the title of his first solo album. Started by four-tracking his strange, slow-growing ideas just after Allah-Las third record Calico Review, PAINT has a happily paradoxical finished-but-not-finished, wet-to-the-touch feel, like an even more shambolic Kevin Ayers or Syd Barrett, but the songs that never came out.

PAINT

PAINT - Daily Gazette

'Nothing Is Real' new track from new album 'Are You A Dreamer?' 
out 10th May

Pre-order fire-records.lnk.to/areyouadreamer

Live Dates
May 10th: Malmö, Inkonst, Sweden
May 24th: Totnes, Sea Change Festival, UK
May 26th: Cardiff, Psych & Noise Fest, UK
May 29th: Manchester, Soup Kitchen, UK
May 30th: Lewes, Westgate Chapel, UK
May 31st: London, Shacklewell Arms, UK

There’s something about the Swedish city of Malmo that doesn’t add up.
 
Named the “happiest” city in Sweden in 2016 (who gets the job of judging these things?), Malmo’s DNA contains a “none-coding” strain that reveals the city’s penchant for a world more studious, fashioned in a vintage era, telescoped by pop culture that arrives via the TV-approved bridge that connects it to Denmark. Surely, it can’t be the same place.
 
Marleen Nilsson, Magnus Bodin and Anders Hansson of Death And Vanilla couldn’t come from anywhere else. They are dreamers, antiquarians, music-obsessed individuals, lauded by the media for their last album ‘To Where The Wild Things Are’ from 2015…

“Swedish exponents of dreamily lovely psych and lush, late-60s-style baroque pop.” The Guardian
 
“Lush and enveloping, reminiscent of Curt Boettcher and Margo Guryan.” The Wire
 
“Fantastically eerie.” Clash

The trio’s love of all things “old” is well known – they’ve tinkled ivories, played vibraphone, recorded with a Sennheiser microphone and a nod to everything from Fun Boy Three to Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, while still roaming somewhere between an ambient Eno and Cocteau Twins at a late-night soiree.
 
Prior to recording their new album ‘Are You A Dreamer?’, they scored several soundtracks, that process undoubtedly influencing the new album’s dreamlike euphoria built with added mellotron and affected electric guitar. Expanded with bass and drums in their quest for the grail, Death And Vanilla’s songs are longer; more plush and pampered; more hypnotic and haunting.
 
‘Are You A Dreamer?’ is melancholy at its most refined, riddled with super-memorable motifs and melodies that nestle in reflective echo. Death And Vanilla are an alluring confection, hard to resist and wantonly moreish as Marleen Nilsson’s sepia tones are embraced by the trio’s gorgeous arrangements and intricate ambience.

‘Are You A Dreamer?’ is released on deluxe limited edition pink transparent LP, crystal clear LP, CD and digitally via Fire Records on 10th May 2019.

Are You A Dreamer?

Death and Vanilla - Nothing Is Real

Between Hours

Public Practice is reanimating the spirit of late ‘70s New York with their intoxicating  brand of no wave-tinged dark disco. The band came in hot with their punchy balance of punk, funk, and pop on the critically acclaimed Distance is a Mirror EP in 2018, paving the way for their highly anticipated freshman record. Now, after a year of intimate and experimental songwriting in their home studio, they have fleshed out the energetic, playfully oblique sound captured on their debut full-length Gentle Grip. 

Together, the foursome creates bold, slinky rhythms and groove-filled hooks that get under your skin and into your dancing shoes. The musicians’ unique chemistry and approach to songwriting is part of what makes their world so intriguing. Magnetic singer and lyricist Sam York and guitarist and principal sonic architect Vince McClelland, who were creative music partners for years prior to Public Practice’s formation, come to the table with an anarchic perspective that aims to eradicate creative barriers by challenging the very idea of what a song can be. Paradoxically, Drew Citron, on bass/vocals/synth, and drummer/producer Scott Rosenthal are uncannily adept at working within the framework of classic pop structures. But instead of clashing, these contrasting styles challenge and complement one another, resulting in an album full of spiraling tensions and unexpected turns.

Inspired by influential New York bands like Liquid Liquid and ESG, the foursome has a natural inclination toward music that sounds rough-hewn. “We were thinking about classic New York dance albums, and the thing that stuck out is that many sounded like they were recorded in less-than-ideal situations,” McClelland says. “There was always something about them that felt somewhat home-cooked.” McClelland has spent the past few years constructing a home studio with carefully chosen and occasionally hand-made equipment in an effort to recreate that “cobbled together” sound. As three quarters of Public Practice are engineers as well as instrumentalists, their collection of gear, combined with the recording rig McClelland built, allowed the band to record Gentle Grip largely at their own hybrid practice space/studio in Brooklyn. “Having a space and setup that is unique, you're always going to have more of a signature sound,” McClelland explains. They spent the better part of 2019 playing with sounds, riffing on McClelland’s demos, and recording a number of songs live to tape. Although a handful of sessions occurred in traditional recording studios, the band’s autonomy and ability to record themselves imbues their music with a sense of freedom and gives it a distinct character — a home-cooked sound that is purely Public Practice.

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Public Practice - Compromised (From the 'Gentle Grip' album out 5/15)

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Let's Stick Together

First single from a new Double LP by Monster Rally. Castaways Vol. 1 presents a collection of four EPs that have never appeared on vinyl previously, including Sunflower, Psychic, Flight to the Jungle, and Starlight. The Double LP also includes a previously unreleased bonus track for each EP, culled from the original sessions.

The 2xLP drops on 8/28, pre-order the 2x12" here:
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-castaways-vol-1-2xlp

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