Destroyer 'Five Spanish Songs' out December 2, 2013 on Dead Oceans (Europe)

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Destroyer "El Rito" from 'Five Spanish Songs' out December 2, 2013 on Dead Oceans (Europe)

Destroyer - El Rito

Stereolab - neon beanbag

After years of writing and performing, Ava Luna has refined their doo-wop soul meets punk-as-fuck aesthetic into something bold and glaringly defiant in today's indie music landscape. Following the release of their critically lauded first proper full-length Ice Level, the band spent an intense 2-week period writing and recording in upstate New York. Unlike previous efforts that were meticulously mapped out, the songs that would become Electric Balloon were "…a family effort." according to frontman Carlos Hernandez. For the new album, former Columbia composition student Hernandez relinquished the reins a bit, opting for a more organic approach to writing the material for what would become Electric Balloon. As Hernandez explains, it was a "…birth of confidence. I grew closer to my bandmates, began to see the roles of a family playing out. Ethan cooks dinner for all of us, we make lewd jokes, and then 'after-dinner storytelling' takes the form of playing music."

In the wake of Ice Level, Ava Luna's sharp edges have melted away just enough, making it easier to connect with their no-wave grooves and soaring harmonies. Distilling everything from James Chance and ESG to contemporaries like Dirty Projectors and Of Montreal, Ava Luna have landed on an aggressively unique sound that still manages to be accessible. Hernandez goes on to explain "…the stories and moments here are clearer, as in a conversation. The moment appears, you grab it with your hands, screw the lid on the mason jar. There was no tweaking, no second-guessing. Julian's mantra for the process: 'First thought best thought.'….And for my part, I sing my best about encounters, friendships, some moments beautiful and others painful. A bike shop manager in New Orleans, a derelict porch on Brighton Beach, a yellow sweater in a kitchen in the Catskills, a water duct in the New Mexico desert…"

Ava Luna – "Sears Roebuck M&Ms"

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A heady and elliptical travelogue, Way Out Weather demonstrates a radical widescreen evolution, featuring a larger band and lighting out for lusher, more expansive and impressionistic territories than Time Off (2013). This is the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter’s career-defining statement to date, a self-assured masterpiece.

+ A radical widescreen evolution, featuring a larger band and lusher arrangements, this is the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter’s career-defining statement to date
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl as an LP, with deluxe tip-on jacket and full-color inner sleeve, as well as on gatefold CD and digital formats
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+ Featuring photography by KT Auleta, Dan Murphy, and Constance Mensh

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Way Out Weather

Buy/stream

Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather: "Way Out Weather" (2014, PoB-15)

Peter Broderick - The Reconnection

Keep Living

luklvrc (dead cats ep)

From the new album, Black Anything

Part 3 - Africa

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Lights On

Devendra Banhart - Summertime

This session was recorded at Bermondsey Social Club in London in May 2018. BSC is in trouble right now & needs yr support. If you are able to, please donate now to help #saveourvenues: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/bermondseysocialclub

We can’t wait to douse BSC with another MILK. night sometime in the future…🥛

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MILK. #4
London // 17 May 2018
Bermondsey Social Club 

Performers:
James Ford - Modular Synth & Percussion
Michael Spearman - Drums
Yannis Philippakis - Guitar & Vox
Ady Acolatse - Bass

Recorded by Brett Shaw & Rob Wilks
Mixed by Brett Shaw
Filmed by Kit Monteith

MILK. #4: LONDON [Part I]

some demos. titles are not final. nor the mixes. or the songs.

enjoy xx

vocals + guitars + bloops: arthur 
synths + pans + melodies in 13: adam
drums + samples + pith: laurence
bass + vocals + microwave: Ed

sound engineered, produced + mixed by arthur robijns

all copyright pushpin + cobblerbob ltd.

So Long

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