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The Weather Station's "Loyalty" will be released May 12, 2015 on Paradise of Bachelors.
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The record was called Loyalty from the beginning—it was the first decision I made about it. It’s a word you usually see written in copperplate script, a virtue: LOYALTY. But the songs don’t treat it that way, just as a thing to unpack. It’s a force that you have to reckon with: loyalty to the dream, to the “work,” to the mythical idea of “you” that somebody thought they saw. It can be a weakness as much as a strength; it can keep you from the reality of your own life, your own self.

- Tamara Lindeman

In excess virtue lies danger, or at least limits to pragmatic action—it’s a lesson hard learned by anyone disillusioned by the erosion of youthful mythologies. Strict fealty to a fixed ideal of identity doesn’t do us any favors as adults. Loyalty, the third and finest album yet by The Weather Station (and the first for Paradise of Bachelors) wrestles with these knotty notions of faithfulness/faithlessness—to our idealism, our constructs of character, our memories, and to our family, friends, and lovers—representing a bold step forward into new sonic and psychological inscapes. It’s a natural progression for Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman’s acclaimed songwriting practice. Recorded at La Frette Studios just outside Paris in the winter of 2014, in close collaboration with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), the record crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, but utterly her own.

Lindeman describes La Frette, housed in an enormous, crumbling 19th-century mansion, as “a secret garden, a place of enchantment and grace”: walls mantled in ivy and lions, corridors piled high with discarded tape machines, old reels, and priceless guitars, a mixing console personally built by Rupert Neve. As she puts it, “Recording where we did meant we embraced beauty—we weren’t afraid of it being beautiful.” Like the record itself, it’s a quietly radical statement, especially since certain passages achieve a diaphanous eeriness and harmonic and rhythmic tension new to The Weather Station. The stacked vocal harmonies of “Tapes,” the drifting, jazz-inflected chording in “Life’s Work,” and the glacial percussion in “Personal Eclipse” contribute to a pervading sense of clock-stopping bloom and smolder, recalling the spooky avant-soul of Terry Callier’s Occasional Rain.

Beyond the decaying decadence and vintage gear, the brokedown palace atmosphere of La Frette afforded a more significant interior luxury as well, one stated with brutal honesty in the stunning “Shy Women”: “it seemed to me that luxury would be to be not so ashamed, not to look away.” Accordingly, Loyalty brings a freshly unflinching self-examining gaze and emotional and musical control to The Weather Station’s songs. She is an extraordinary singer and instrumentalist—on Loyalty she plays guitar, banjo, keys, and vibes—but Lindeman has always been a songwriter’s songwriter, recognized for her intricate, carefully worded verse, filled with double meanings, ambiguities, and complex metaphors. Though more moving than ever, her writing here is almost clinical in its discipline, its deliberate wording and exacting delivery, evoking similarly idiosyncratic songsters from Linda Perhacs to Bill Callahan.

Outside her musical practice, Lindeman also happens to be an accomplished film and television actor, and it’s her directorial eye for quietly compelling characters and the rich details of the everyday, Bressonian in its specificity and scope, that drives the limpid singularity of The Weather Station’s songs. As in Bresson’s films, there is no trace of theater here, no brittle singer-songwriter histrionics, but rather a powerful performative focus and narrative restraint, a commitment to what the auteur called the “simultaneous precision and imprecision of music.” Despite the descriptive delicacy, the album never lapses into preciousness or sentimentality, instead retaining its barbs and bristles and remaining resolutely clear-eyed and thick-skinned. Lyrically, Loyalty inverts and involutes the language of confession, of regret, of our most private and muddled mental feelings, by externalizing those anxieties through exquisite observation of the things and people we accumulate, the modest meanings accreted during even our most ostensibly mundane domestic moments. (“Your trouble is like a lens,” she discerns in “I Mined,” “through which the whole world bends.”)

“Tapes” and “I Could Only Stand By” expose and exalt the quotidian—“the little tapes” hidden beneath a lover’s bed, “the sunken old moorings” at the “bruise-colored lake”—without romanticizing these scenes of, respectively, grief and guilt. “Like Sisters” analyzes the darker contours of a friendship with devastating scrutiny. The breathless momentum of “Way It Is, Way It Could Be”—“both are,” she sings of the way we sometimes live, for better or for worse, amid multiple truths—hinges on a mysterious moment when two brown dogs die underwheel, then don’t, and that gut-sickness is overturned, a sin redeemed with a second glance. “Floodplain” and “Personal Eclipse” are also road songs about traveling through, and owning, the empty places in-between, literally and figuratively—what Lindeman deems “the various ways people try to disappear from themselves, in physical distance, in politeness.”

To invoke Melville (author of PoB’s namesake story), “extreme loyalty to the piety of love” can be a destabilizing force, a kind of bondage from which we must emancipate ourselves. The line is from his strange masterpiece Pierre, or the Ambiguities; The Weather Station’s Loyalty could quite easily support the same subtitle for the fascinating ways it navigates the deep canyons between certainty and uncertainty, faith and doubt.

+ The third and finest album yet by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, recorded with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, as well as past collaborators Doug Paisley and Daniel Romano.
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl as an LP, with heavy-duty matte jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and full lyrics, as well as on gatefold CD and digital formats.
+ Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon.

“Built from blocks of bluegrass, British balladry, & country sadness ... Lindeman’s voice flits & cracks, peaks & valleys, comforts & cries ... clenching truth like a catch in the throat.  She possesses the unwavering patience of Bill Callahan’s later records, delivering every word & worry like she’s pondered it all into acceptance.  For songs so intimate, & performances so inward, such careful singularity feels like a remarkable feat.” - Grayson Haver Currin (Pitchfork)

The Weather Station - Loyalty (2015, PoB-19) [Premieres]

chillern liksom

Just Spiders

February 2015

2015

Music One

Artist: Twin River
Title: Should The Light Go Out
Release date: February 17, 2015

++ Focus tracks++
Bend To Break
Word To The Wise

CONTACT
Label: Kaitlyn Reining, Light Organ Records - kaitlyn@lightorganrecords.com
Management: Jonathan Simkin, Simkin Artist Management - jonathan@simkinartistmanagement.com
Press: Joan LeMay, Riot Act - joan@riotactmedia.com

Twin River - Secret In A Séance

Twin River - Word To The Wise

I SAW

Jennifer Castle
Camelot
PoB-078
LP/CD/Digital
November 1, 2024

Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills everyday experience into art and art into faith, subliming terrestrial concerns into sublime celestial prayers to Mother Nature, and to the unfolding process of perfecting imperfection in one’s own nature: “Back in Camelot / I really learned a lot / circles in the crops and / sky-high geometry …” (Includes poster with lyrics.)

“Castle’s songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. [She] has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humor and devastating beauty.” – CBC

“Castle channels the lunar radiance of Emmylou Harris and the heartfelt barroom blues of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, quietly gleaming with a rustic beauty and a deep, patient understanding of the mystic.” – Aquarium Drunkard

Camelot

Earthsong

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Jennifer Castle: Earthsong

The Weather Station's "Loyalty" will be released May 12, 2015 on Paradise of Bachelors.
Purchase from the label: www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-19
Purchase from iTunes: smarturl.it/PoB19iT
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Purchase from Bandcamp: paradiseofbachelors.bandcamp.com/album/loyalty

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-19
www.paradiseofbachelors.com/the-weather-station

The third and finest album yet by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, recorded in France with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, but utterly her own. A diaphanous eeriness and harmonic and rhythmic tension contributes to a pervading sense of clock-stopping bloom and smolder, recalling the spooky avant-soul of Terry Callier’s Occasional Rain.

She’s an extraordinary singer and instrumentalist—on Loyalty she plays guitar, banjo, and keys—but Lindeman has always been a songwriter’s songwriter, recognized for her intricate verse, filled with double meanings, ambiguities, and complex metaphors. Though more moving than ever, her writing here is almost clinical in its unflinchingly self-examining gaze and deliberate delivery, evoking similarly idiosyncratic songsters from Linda Perhacs to Bill Callahan. Lyrically, Loyalty inverts the language of confession, of regret, of our most private and muddled mental feelings, by externalizing those anxieties through exquisite observation of the things and people we accumulate, the modest meanings accreted during our most ostensibly mundane domestic moments. “Your trouble is like a lens,” she discerns in “I Mined,” “through which the whole world bends.”

+ The third and finest album yet by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, recorded with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, as well as past collaborators Doug Paisley and Daniel Romano.
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl as an LP, with heavy-duty matte jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and full lyrics, as well as on gatefold CD and digital formats.
+ Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon.

Loyalty

The Weather Station: Loyalty - "Shy Women" (2015, PoB-19)

The Weather Station: Loyalty - "Tapes" (2015, PoB-19)

The Weather Station's "Loyalty" will be released May 12, 2015 on Paradise of Bachelors.
Purchase from the label: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-19
Purchase from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/PoB19iT
Purchase from Amazon: http://smarturl.it/PoB19Am
Purchase from Bandcamp: https://paradiseofbachelors.bandcamp.com/album/loyalty

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-19
http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/the-weather-station

The third and finest album yet by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, recorded in France with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, but utterly her own. A diaphanous eeriness and harmonic and rhythmic tension contributes to a pervading sense of clock-stopping bloom and smolder, recalling the spooky avant-soul of Terry Callier’s Occasional Rain.

She’s an extraordinary singer and instrumentalist—on Loyalty she plays guitar, banjo, and keys—but Lindeman has always been a songwriter’s songwriter, recognized for her intricate verse, filled with double meanings, ambiguities, and complex metaphors. Though more moving than ever, her writing here is almost clinical in its unflinchingly self-examining gaze and deliberate delivery, evoking similarly idiosyncratic songsters from Linda Perhacs to Bill Callahan. Lyrically, Loyalty inverts the language of confession, of regret, of our most private and muddled mental feelings, by externalizing those anxieties through exquisite observation of the things and people we accumulate, the modest meanings accreted during our most ostensibly mundane domestic moments. “Your trouble is like a lens,” she discerns in “I Mined,” “through which the whole world bends.”

+ The third and finest album yet by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, recorded with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, as well as past collaborators Doug Paisley and Daniel Romano.
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl as an LP, with heavy-duty matte jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and full lyrics, as well as on gatefold CD and digital formats.
+ Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon.

The Weather Station: Loyalty - "Way It Is, Way It Could Be" (2015, PoB-19)

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"My Baby Don't Understand Me" will appear on the self-titled album by Natalie Prass on Spacebomb Records, out 26/27 January 2015.

Spacebomb is proud to share the vision of 'Natalie Prass,' one of those records that appears fully-formed and alive–a rare, bird of beauty. Natalie Prass, the sly Nashville songbird, collaborated with Spacebomb’s crack team of arrangers and in-house musicians to spin the lush history of pop into a glowing new tapestry: R&B shimmer and click, Philly soul orchestras, melodic jazz structures, soulful Curtom percussion, easy rolling New Orleans tack piano and understated funk grooves. It is modern and classic, gorgeous and resonant, infectious and utterly engaging. The whole affair is wrapped around her tender voice, sailing high, sweeping low, flying, sighing–heart-melting and vulnerable one minute, fiery and muscular the next. As a songwriter, Prass has that sharp photographer’s eye for composing balance, building tension and release, able to lay out the heartsick struggle–perversities and pleasures of love in studied contrast. 'Natalie Prass' spins on pure central Virginia time, the true energy of a community captured and released in its vibrant, effortless sound–an unassuming, soul-pop classic.

www.natalieprassmusic.com
www.spacebombrecords.com

media contacts: alyssa@riotactmedia.com; nathan@dogdaypress.com

Natalie Prass

My Baby Don't Understand Me

Django Django - First Light EP
12" vinyl repress available - http://po.st/DDfirstlightVINYL2

Watch the official video for First Light, directed by Daniel Swan: http://po.st/FirstLightOfficialVideo

Tracklisting:
First Light
First Light (Wrongtom Dub)
First Light (Mickey Pearce Remix)
First Light (Ghost Culture Remix)

Born Under Saturn Album out now - po.st/BornUnderSaturn

www.djangodjango.co.uk
www.because.co.uk
P&C 2015 Because Music

Released by:
Because Music

Buy on iTunes

First Light

"Empty Nesters" is the first single off Toro Y Moi's forthcoming album "What For?" out April 7th. iTunes pre-order:  http://smarturl.it/whatfor_itunes

Lyrics:
Understand the purpose of making
Everything around you better
There are no zeros after this one
There is no one to destroy your sweater

I’ll try to hum it to you if I can’t sing
My Baby wants me back before I even leave
Smothered and covered by my high school dreams
Call Mom and Daddy cause the nest is empty
And so are you

Did you meet with your advisor?
Do you still draw in the margins?
Bubble letters reading “WHAT FOR?”
And “I wish I had a stand in...”

Let’s try to make another hit for the teens
I miss your bangs, can you cut them for me
Smothered and covered by my high school dreams
Call Mom and Daddy cause the nest is empty
And so are you





Toro Y Moi - Empty Nesters

Buy it now https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/flutter-single/id958525112
Flutter, released 16.02.15, taken from the new album, Mount The Air by The Unthanks, released 09.02.15. 

Flutter

"Smother" from Almost Famous

Out February 27th.



Smother

Elsewhere is the title of track of my debut album, released 6th April 2015 on Because Music.
Produced by Rodaidh McDonald. ‘Elsewhere’ is available to pre-Order now: 
http://po.st/ElsewhereAlbum
http://po.st/ElsewhereAmaz 

Live: 
7th April - The Lantern, Bristol
8th April - The Deaf Institute, Manchester
9th April - Elektrowerkz, London

Denai Moore - Elsewhere

‘Stone’ is now available on iTunes. Album out on 2nd February 2015.

Pre-Order the album "All We Are", with instant downloads of ‘Stone’, ‘ Keep Me Alive’, 'I Wear You' and 'Feel Safe': http://po.st/AllWeAreiTunes

Pre-Order the debut LP from Domino Mart and receive a bonus 7" featuring exclusive tracks 'Reach' & 'Just Give It To Me':http://po.st/AllWeAreDM

Music by All We Are - Rich (Drums), Guro (Bass), Luis (Guitar). 

Upcoming All We Are headline UK + EU dates:

Thursday 12th February - La Vapeur – Generiq - Dijon, France
Friday 13th February - Rodia – Generiq - Besancon, France
Saturday 14th February - Noumatrouff – Generiq - Mulhouse, France
Monday 16th February - Badaboum - Fireworks - Paris, France
Wednesday 25th February - Prinzenbar - Hambug, Germany
Thursday 26th February - Prince Charles - Berlin, Germany
Friday 27th February - Studio872 - Cologne, Germany
Saturday 28th February - Strom - Munich, Germany
Tuesday 3rd March - Rockhal - Luxembourg
Thursday 5th March - AB Club - Brussels, Belgium
Friday 6th March - Upstairs @ Paradiso - Amsterdam, Holland
Monday 9th March - Deaf Institute - Manchester, UK
Tuesday 10th March - Green Door Store - Brighton, UK
Wednesday 11th March - Corsica Studios - London, UK
Friday 13th March - Cyprus Avenue - Cork, Ireland
Saturday 14th March - Workman’s - Dublin, Ireland
Tuesday 17th March - Broadcast - Glasgow, UK

Tickets: http://po.st/AllWeAreLive

All We Are

Stone

Buy on iTunes: http://bit.ly/1DdMb2Z
Find us on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1JY3xTG

It's a hallmark family photo
Circa 1995
And it looks like you're all happy
But you can't imagine why

And now you're trying to explain
Things that need no explanation
And you're searching for some way
To do it over again, now it's over


And now that you're older
Are you dreaming of the sunshine of your youth?
You know that it's useless looking back
There's no redemption there for you
You make it a promise to yourself
You'll put those habits on the shelf
Can you make a promise?
To be honest with yourself?



While you were out searching for something
All of your friends have settled down
Has it been this way forever
And you've only noticed now?

And now you're trying to explain
Things that need no explanation
And you're searching for some way
To do it over again, now it's over

Now are you dreaming?
Tell me how you're feeling

The Sunshine Of Your Youth

Let me be your Light is taken from the new album "The Door Behind the Door" due for release 24th February 2015.
www.theantimachinemachine.com

Let Me Be Your Light

Taken from the debut album 'Constant Bop' out April 13th/14th on Downtown Records (US) and Blood & Biscuits (UK/EU).

Bop English is the recording name of White Denim frontman James Petralli. 

UK/EU Pre-order: http://tinyurl.com/k5vlhdr

https://www.facebook.com/bopenglish


Constant Bop

Dani's Blues (It Was Beyond Our Control)

Bobby Black

Diane

Written by Esau Mwamwaya, Johan Hugo, Freddie Cowan
Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Johan Hugo
Engineered by Johan Hugo
Assistant Engineer Christian Kansichi
Bass by Chris Baio
Guitar by Freddie Cowan
Piano by Dan McDougall
Recorded in Podor (Senegal) and M'dala Chikowa (Malawi)

Let Go

The Very Best - Let Go

"Daydream" is from Calvin Love's forthcoming album 'Super Future'

http://calvinlove.com
https://www.facebook.com/IamCalvinLove
https://twitter.com/calvinlovemusic

Calvin Love - Daydream

A year ago today we lost Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I didn’t know Phillip, but I had watched everything he did for 15 years. To me, he was everything one could ever want to be in an artist, and although I am no actor I was much more of a student than a fan. Very soon after his death it became crystal clear to me that I wanted to try very hard and write a song for him. He deserved something from me, something that honored him, and showed how grateful I was for all he had given. His death was immensely sad and as deaths such as these go, leaves us crushed that a life so bright has been dimmed. There is a duality in these circumstances, it’s a place where we find darkness in the light, but more powerfully, we find light in the darkness. I tried to find music that felt the same. It’s my best shot, and it’s called Tranquility.

To a man that showed me, over and over, what excellence and craft is, here is a song for you.

Fresh Blood

Tranquility

out April 14, 2015 on Last Gang Records

Limited edition vinyl available on the Last Gang Shop: 
http://lastgang.myshopify.com/products/moon-king-secret-life

Bandcamp - moon-king.bandcamp.com/album/secret-life-2

Last Gang Records


Moon King - Apocalypse

Written and Produced by Astronauts Etc and Harriet Brown
Additional production by Chaz Bundick 

contact: astronautsetc@gmail.com

Harriet Brown & Astronauts etc. - Fiction

"Compass" appears on the "Hunger" digital single, out now! Buy the single here, http://smarturl.it/HungerDigital

Watch the new video for "Hunger", found.ee/HungerYT

Zola Jesus is currently on tour through the Spring of 2015. For a full list of tour dates, click here, zolajesus.com/tour.html.

BUY TAIGA HERE: 
Digital- found.ee/taigadigital
CD- found.ee/taigacd
LP- found.ee/taigalp
Marbled LP- found.ee/TaigaMarbled

Website: www.zolajesus.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/ZOLAJESUS
Facebook: www.facebook.com/zolajesusofficial
Instagram: instagram.com/zolajesus
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ZolaJesus
Tour Dates: www.zolajesus.com/tour.html

Photo by Tom Chaves

Zola Jesus- Compass (Hunger B-Side)

ALBUM ABSTRACT

The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic and finally manifesting the title of the classic Hiss anthem “Run from the City.”

He’s uncovered a rich seam of songwriting, classic-sounding yet modern, unquestionably nostalgic in temperament but undeniably vital ... Even when he’s at his most melancholy and hangdog, the songs themselves gleam like diamonds. – Uncut

The sound of the record approaches bliss: the sonic equivalent of a beer on the beach at sunset. It flows like a well-conceived song cycle and moves gracefully from one thought to the next. – Pitchfork

Exquisitely beautiful … It has the wondrous, enveloping quality of a daydream. – American Songwriter

I love this music so much ... So many of these songs give me chills. – Kurt Vile

paradiseofbachelors.com/mike-polizze

Around Sound

Buy/Listen

Mike Polizze: Is There Anybody Out There?

Mike Polizze: Everybody I Know

Mike Polizze: Around Sound

First single of the new self-released Pony Time album, "Rumours 2: The Rumours Are True"!!

Time Tells Me

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