Cantautores 14/06/18

From Frankie Lee's debut album, 'American Dreamer', out now.

American Dreamer

Where Do We Belong

Frankie Lee - Where Do We Belong

Spotify: http://smarturl.it/spotifyvivienxo
Apple: http://smarturl.it/applevivienxo
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vivienxo [@vivienxoxo] is the risk-taking solo moniker of Victoria from the European act, Pretty Sad, who released an undeniably charming EP in 2014 on Portland's beloved, Shelflife. To our ears, Pretty Sad channels the best of Sarah Records, brushing their own material with moments even more sensitive and self effacing. 

The music of vivienxo is feminine, but with spikes. her inaugural EP, w84u, was produced and sung by Victoria herself to contain two original cuts plus a cover of track "Sex" by everyone's favorite guilty pleasure, The 1975. On w84u vivienxo takes aim at dudes that have done her wrong, expressing complex emotions with transparency and humor.
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vivienxo on FB: http://bit.ly/2a87Hmv
CSCN on FB: goo.gl/ybTZQ2

w84u - EP

vivienxo - sex (The 1975 Cover)

Spotify: http://smarturl.it/BlondAmbitionSpotify
Apple: http://smarturl.it/BlondAmbitionApple
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Blond Ambition (@b4boy) is the new solo project from Ex Cops’ founder Brian Harding. After living in the woods of upstate NY for three years, Harding spent a month in LA, recording what would later become a full length album with producer & friend Andrew Miller. 

The first material from those sessions is single 'Hurricanes' - a lush and dream inducing track set against a crisp world beat, purposeful bassline and astral guitar parts. 'Hurricanes' suggests a world that's both catchy and complicated - an undeniable sense of heaviness permeates the track, but it's buoyed by acceptance. Mature material by an artist who understands that music must be personal, despite the risk. Traces of acts E.S.G. and '77 Dead can be heard in the material. 

'Hurricanes' is bundled with B-side 'Confused Forever'. Blond Ambition’s debut LP will be released early 2017.
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CSCN on FB: http://bit.ly/2bQlpYL

Hurricanes (CSC022)

Hurricanes 

Blond Ambition - Hurricanes

From Cigarettes After Sex LP out now:
https://cigsaftersex.lnk.to/cas

website: http://www.cigarettesaftersex.com/

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recorded December 2015 in Brooklyn, NY

Written by Greg Gonzalez
Greg Gonzalez - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Phillp Tubbs - keyboards
Randy Miller - bass
Jacob Tomsky - drums

Recorded by Greg Gonzalez
Mixed by Rocky Gallo
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Cover photo by Resa Rot
Cover design by Randy Miller

Released on Partisan Records

See You Again (Feat Miette Hope)

First single from the upcoming Prince Innocence - Blue Star EP
Produced, Written & Arranged by Josh McIntyre & Talvi Faustmann
Mixed by Harrison & Jim Anderson 
Mastered by Jim Anderson at Easy Life Studio

Blue Star

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999 (Feat. Harrison)

What have you been up to?
I can hear you breathing on the other end of the line
Makes me want to be there 
show you just how much I care 
But we’ve got time
Many weeks of wondering 
If we’re going to make it
Trying our best to stay strong
It’s been on my mind but 
I know we can take it 
Baby hold on 
Cause every morning when I wake up and you’re so far away
I think about being together and I’m counting the days
Want you to take me down and only let me up when we’re done
Your body is the only thing I’ve been thinking of 
My love, my love my love  
Talking on the phone 
just isn’t the same thing 
as being face to face
I only can imagine what you have been thinking 
Is it the same? 
Do you dream about the
Moment when our distance 
Doesn’t exist 
More I think about it more 
I realize the 
things that I miss

Written and arranged by: Miette Hope
Engineered and Mixed by: Hope Brush
Mastered by: Jacob McCaslin
Guitar: David Musante 
Drums: Nick Villamazar
Keys: Bobby Butler 
Bass: Madeline Lough
Vocals/Guitar: Miette Hope

My Love

amanda cheng: vocals, bass 
peter ruddell: organ, bass
tom leggett: drums 

recorded and produced by jonathan pearce 
artwork by amanda cheng

Gillian

Listen: lnk.to/willowbank
Vinyl: bit.ly/willowbank-vinyl 
Spotify: bit.ly/willowbank-spotify 
Apple: bit.ly/willowbank-apple
Bandcamp: yumizouma.bandcamp.com/album/willowbank
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"Persephone" by Yumi Zouma, from their album Willowbank, out October 6, 2017 on Cascine.

Listen to previous singles 'December' and 'Depths (Pt. I) here: http://bit.ly/willowbank-singles

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Yumi Zouma—
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Facebook: http://bit.ly/yumizouma_fb
Twitter: http://bit.ly/yumizouma_twitter

Cascine—
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Facebook: http://bit.ly/cascine_fb
Twitter: http://bit.ly/cascine_twitter

Willowbank

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Yumi Zouma - Persephone

Spotify: http://bit.ly/cf_spotify2
Apple: http://bit.ly/cf_apple
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'East Coast Stars' is the inaugural single by Annapolis, Maryland-based musician and producer Dave Kuhn, aka Cap Ferrat. 
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Cap Ferrat on FB: http://bit.ly/cf_fbk
Cascine on FB: http://bit.ly/2biWzP3

East Coast Stars (CSC025)

Cap Ferrat - East Coast Stars

Uncle, Duke & The Chief

BORN RUFFIANS - Forget Me

Out now on Eskimo Recordings
 
“Once I thought of us as more than hopeless lovers,
It was only a mirage…”
 
‘Mirage’ is the new single from German producer Tim Bernhardt, aka Satin Jackets. Released this November on Eskimo Recordings, ‘Mirage’ continues Bernhardt’s winning streak that has made him one of the hottest nu-disco/house producers around, clocking up more than 20 million plays on Spotify alone in the past few years.
 
Following on from this summer’s Nordic themed hit ‘Northern Lights’, Bernhardt has once again looked to Scandinavia for inspiration. “I think this might be the hookiest track I have made so far,” explains Bernhardt. “But then you start looking for the best possible topline which, of course, can be like searching for the Holy Grail, but on a trip to Stockholm at last it all came together. BOOM! You can definitely hear the strong Swedish pop influence in it. I can’t wait to see how people will react to it.”
 
Built upon a gentle bed of bubbling synths, delicate guitar licks and laidback beats ‘Mirage’ is classic Satin Jackets, the song’s beautiful melodies the perfect setting for the bittersweet lovelorn lyrics that tell of a moment of self-realisation at the end of a relationship. It’s fair to say that heartbreak has rarely sounded so good.

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http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/track-premiere-satin-jackets-mirage/ 
http://www.dancingastronaut.com/2017/11/premiere-satin-jackets-mirage/
 
FIND SATIN JACKETS ONLINE AT:
http://satin-jackets.com
http://facebook.com/satinjackets
http://twitter.com/satinjackets
 
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www.eskimorecordings.be 
www.facebook.com/eskimorecordings 
www.twitter.com/eskimorecords 
www.soundcloud.com/eskimorecordings 
https://play.spotify.com/user/eskimorecordings 
www.instagram.com/eskimorecordings/

Lyrics:

Overthinking every single part about us
Building ideas out of air
Over analyze our flaws and all our angles
I can’t get it out of my head

When we’re good, we’re good
Only me and you
And when we’re low, we’re low
And it fucks up the picture
But when we’re good, we’re good

All I wanted was to stay in this illusion
Without knowing we’re imperfect just the way we are
Was it me, was it you, or just someone we could blame instead
‘Cause all I wanted was to stay in this illusion

All we do is throwing words and empty bottles
We’re the best at fooling hearts
Once I thought of us as more than hopeless lovers
It was only a mirage

Mirage

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Outsiders

Power Lines

DIVIDED

Miusik - Emmaline band

NOW AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY!

Wading faster, I can be listening,
Going nowhere, I can be someone,
But I'm right here, singing alone,
And I'm right here, dancing alone

I got someone here, wishing me well,
I got someone there trying to keep me strong,
But I don't got nobody to hold on

CHORUS
Cause I'm tired of the sunshine
It's always getting in my eyes
Yeah I'm waiting for some moonlight
Something to keep me up at night
I'm tired, I'm tired of the sunshine

Why don't I feel a little bit older?
Looking at you pretending to be sober,
I am here just staying the same
Wearing my coat and praying for rain

And you might say to open my eyes,
But I'd say they've been open all this time,
Looking for something that I can't find

CHORUS [x3]
Cause I'm tired of the sunshine
It's always getting in my eyes
Yeah I'm waiting for some moonlight
Something to keep me up at night
I'm tired, I'm tired of the sunshine

Tired of the Sunshine

I waited for you.

( Thank you Aixion for the wonderful beat,  <3 and @flwrs for the LOVELY mixing. I love you both dearly.)
Lyrics:
"I just cannot feel
I just can't explain 
can't seem to complete the words from my brain
I don't even know
Maybe I'm just plain
least you stayed for a while, guess I can't complain.

I asked you, asked you why won't you wait for me? For me?
You told me, you told me I'm tired of lazy sundays 
Sundays

Picking posies from the ground
Feelings to tip toe around

I wanna be different 
Am I superficial 
I want to your attention 
To be an exception

I just cannot feel 
I just can't explain
least you stayed for a while guess I can't complain

Why is this under my skin?
Why is this under my skin?"

Sweaters are for introverts (prod. Aixion)

Please Don't Disappear is the second full length studio album by Loud Forest. 

Thoughts on the album from the band:

This album was an exploration of new territory for us. We come from a very folky background. For this album we collaborated with our longtime friend, drummer and producer (Steve Wilmot) who challenged us to expand our palette. We discovered new forms and colors, and new ways of writing and crafting songs that brought a sharp focus to the skeletal structures of the songs themselves. We were challenged to write things that were more personal and were not shrouded by abstract poetic language that we tend to use, we tried to allow the songs to be understandable.  A huge part of this growth had to do with melody, exploring our voices, reaching out farther and expressing things in a way that is more extravagant than we are used to. The result for us is an album that is punchy, with vast splashes of color, almost like a room or space that is filled with floating colors and light, and right in the center of all that is our voices, stories of love, loss, fight for freedom and expression, independence, and friendship. 

Album Credits:
All songs written by Rachel Chadwick, Bernard Chadwick and Steve Wilmot. All songs recoded and produced by Rachel Chadwick, Bernard Chadwick and Steve Wilmot with appearances by Alex Strahle on guitar and Carlen Walth on bass. Mastered by Brian Lucey. 

Band Bio:

The music of Loud Forest is an artistic, emotional approach to rock shot through with everything from alternative to folk to gospel to shoegaze. Add then tender lyricism and the clean fluidity of
modern pop production.
 
If Loud Forest’s music can be called pop, a four-letter word for artists after purity, it is only in its likeability, its warmth, its tidy edges. Here is then pop imbued with love and artisanship.
The love pours in from founders and mainstays, Bernard and Rachel Chadwick, a husband-and-wife duo. Theirs is an enviable creative relationship built around making more of themselves and the
world through their collaboration.
 
The art arrives from the band starting as an excuse to play gallery openings while Bernard was earning his MFA at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. It was a way for rock to run into art
and art to run into rock, or, the exact purpose of their music.
 
Doused in indie credibility from years of self-releases, homemade microphones and hosting shows in their experimental art space in Pasadena, it is easy to call up like souls in their influences
Arcade Fire, The Pixies, Sonic Youth and Spoon.
 
The band’s recent incorporation of pop sensibilities comes from a partnership with co-writer and drummer, Steve Wilmot (OneRepublic), with support from their label, New York-based AntiFragile Music.
 
In their writing, Bernard comes in direct and minimal, Rachel abstract and experimental. The fusion of their individual sounds is then built out by a marauding group of likeminded family and friends
entering their space with voice and instrument to create the band’s often ruckus, danceable soundscapes.
 
The couple met in the cloud forests of Costa Rica as teens. Both were by chance visiting from their native California. Bernard played Rachel a song, Rachel tuned Bernard's guitar and Bernard tried the song again. Then came marriage, two daughters and always more music.
 
Loud Forest endures past pop’s usual events of finding the dream girl or losing that lover. As a couple who caught their love young, Bernard and Rachel sing what they know: leaning into the life-giving
challenges of a union, the sometimes resulting cravings of independence and the thousands of points in a relationship where courage and fidelity are called upon again sweetly by two powerful voices.

Wake Up

Bulkhead present their debut album – Aft Pressure – due June 15th on 2MR. 
In 2015, during the coldest Toronto winter on record, two old friends – Pop District and Patrik Benjamin – locked themselves away in the studio to experiment with a medley of hardware. Both solo artists in their own right, they had overseen their own projects prior, but had never considered how a collaboration might sound. Exploring the polarity of extreme cold and immersive warmth with a distinctly analogue feel, the duo carved themselves an aesthetic. And so Bulkhead was born. Using a raw, organic palette they repudiate formal structure and polish, opting instead for a freeform blend of unhindered mechanical techno and fuzzy ambience – slambient, if you will. 
Debuting in 2016, their ‘Worker’s Kampf’ cassette album on LA imprint Far Away Tapes sold out quickly, warranting another release on 2MR featuring highlights of the cassette on 12’ and digital. Continuing with the purveyance of abstract arrangements and machine wizardry, their forthcoming album – Aft Pressure - is a striking exploration of the intersection between frenzied techno and harmonic warmth. 
Fragments of techno and EBM mutate without strict guidance, rebuilding themselves into new forms with stunning physical qualities. Whilst many of the tracks might file under dance music, the DIY spirit of the album transcends a nightclub, occupying a peculiar space between the uncensored grit of the post-punk scene and some melancholic form of ambient minimalism. Angular percussion slices its way through dizzying synth leads whilst serene harmonies wander on their own accord. Darting melodies are made all the more powerful by their harsh timbre as drum-less excursions provide a cinematic backdrop. 
Aft Pressure is a statement of intent, blurring the parameters of dance music culture with equal doses of insanity and serenity. At the same time, it’s also a hell of a lot of fun.

Cantautores 14/06/18

Philip Richard Dawson