Guitar Work (Post-Rock/Shoegaze...)

More essential cuts of shoegaze, dreampop, spacerock, blisspop, lo-fi,krautrock, electronica, psychedelia and more.

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Shoegaze, dreampop & psych playlist #187*

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Music That Makes You Live

I need to get booked into a recording studio when i have the money!

Just messing around with a song of mine

A Place To Bury Strangers - “Straight” from ‘Transfixiation’ out February 17th, 2015 on Dead Oceans

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A Place To Bury Strangers - “Straight” from ‘Transfixiation’ out February 17th, 2015 on Dead Oceans

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A Place To Bury Strangers - "Straight"

Night Beds - "Me, Liquor & God" on Dead Oceans
Get Instantly when you pre-order 'Ivywild' from iTunes - http://smarturl.it/meliquorgod?iQid=sc.mlg

From the new album ‘Ivywild' out August 7th on Dead Oceans. Pre-order ‘Ivywild' now via SCD / Dead Oceans direct: http://smarturl.it/ivywild?iQid=sc.mlg // iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ivywild_itunes?iQid=sc.mlg // Amazon: http://smarturl.it/ivywild_amz?iQid=sc.mlg // Your local record store: http://smarturl.it/ivywild_indies?iQid=sc.mlg

http://www.nightbeds.org 

Me Liquor and God

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Night Beds - "Me, Liquor & God"

The Tallest Man On Earth - 'Dark Bird Is Home' out May 12th: http://bit.ly/sagres_blog
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The Tallest Man On Earth - "Sagres"

Here's the latest thing that I've been working on. It's a full on rock song, away from the more electronic/ambient stuff I've been making for the past couple of years. Still a work in progress though.

51°32'12 N 0°3'46 W (Work in Progress)

New album out: Lucciole, available here on a "pay what you want basis": piearesquared.bandcamp.com

My second full length, "Lucciole", is the outcome of my "74 in 74" project (the link is in the header), where I covered all 74 strategies in Dennis DeSantis' "Making Music". It is also the culmination of everything that makes Pie Are Squared what at is.

Elements of every single EP or LP that I've released thus far can be heard on this along with new facets of my music that hadn't been touched upon before. It's equal parts glitch, ambient, noise, drone and rock and yet is probably my most accessible album to date.

A Cure To Cure (feat. Amr Ashraf) •NEW ALBUM OUT*

Altered Image Demo

Your Eyes Look Pale Tonight

So I posted a video of me playing this song last Saturday and the response has been amazing, 12k views and counting, which is insane. Anyway, for the people who wanted to have it as an audio file (and people who didn't) here's a rough mix/master of the song and if you want to watch the video here are the links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/piearesquared/videos/10153786412597957/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KIE7CxFIqg
Here's the original video's description:
A reverb drenched, tipy-tapy, live-loopy song for summer, probably the most upbeat thing I've made in a very long time. Very much influenced by bands like And So I Watch You From Afar and From Monument To Masses 
Thanks

36 Degrees on a Saturday (Rough Mix)

Secret Shine - To The Well

Pie Are Squared...now with vocals! Well kinda, this is my first ever song with a discernable vocal melody, running it all through a couple of vocoders and Soundtoys' brilliant Little Alter Boy. It's shoegaze/dream pop/kinda nice I think and I am planning on doing more stuff in this vein to record properly (hopefully with live drums) & release them in 2017.
You can watch me play it live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=846X-C59v-8
Or here: https://www.facebook.com/piearesquared/videos/10154058053112957/

Stay Inside (Rough Mix)

Bright EP

New Endeavor

As promised, here's the new EP, The Wrong Places

Pure Apathy

Homesick

Whenever

Vinyl, streaming, download, etc. at http://smarturl.it/absent-forever

Absent Forever is the newest album from London-based producer Plastic Flowers - his third full-length LP and the second for The Native Sound after Heavenly. Plastic Flowers formed vaguely around 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece and play a noisy version of Dream Pop filed under Shoegaze, Ambient and Indie. Much like his previous releases on labels such as Crash Symbols, Inner Ear Records or Bad Panda, this new album artfully slips intelligence and experimentation into a dying art form.

Recordings were completed in less than three months in 2017 and the album comprises of ten tracks that have been around George’s hard drive in demo form since early 2013. For this record Plastic Flowers recorded himself onto tape in different DIY spaces around London, including a friend’s old house in Hampstead and his small home studio. While dealing with massive academic workload and stress for his PhD, he managed to completely reshape Plastic Flowers’ sound with a new record that captures the analog aesthetics and the warm sound of the tape. As part of the creative process, he collaborated with a string quartet and his ex bandmate Angelos who assisted in the recordings.

Absent Forever finds Plastic Flowers hopeful and heavy, a new direction for those familiar with his music. It still possess the pensive and melancholy undertones taken of Heavenly, but they take different forms and themes. There are different ways to find growth and constructiveness through the times and situations that are labelled as negative, but through this album Samaras explores themes of personal flaws and downfalls that changed his life and helped him complete Absent Forever.

Absent Forever is out November 10th on vinyl and digitally via The Native Sound.

Vinyl/ Streaming

Plastic Flowers – Half Life

we've got nowhere else to be
and it's getting kind of cold
i'm warmest when you're close to me
and i would like to take you home
if loneliness comes crashing in
you can hold me, it's okay
if she makes you feel so empty
you can hurt me, it's okay  
and if maybe she decides to stay
we can dance to songs that she will play
 all these walls heard me before
wrap my lips around your name
leave this memory on my floor
coffee cups with lipstick stains
if loneliness comes crashing in
you can hold me, it's okay
if she makes you feel so empty
you can hurt me, it's okay  
and if maybe she decides to stay
we can dance to songs that she will play

and if maybe you decide to stay
i can show you things that i can't say

Originals

aftershow

Sew It Back

From the new album, There's No Leaving Now. Out on June 12th. 

There's No Leaving Now

1904

The Tallest Man On Earth - "1904"

Track 4 from our new EP Hiding. 

Download it here: http://tearjerker.bandcamp.com/album/hiding

You Can

Pie's most "Post-Rock" song to date. First part of a four part song cycle that I'm currently working on titled "J, Plain and Simple".

"You're a circling failure, in a rapidly decaying orbit.
That’s the reality as we talk now but you can change that.  
It’s in your power to change that.  
Yes you’ll have to work hard, and yes you’ll have to do things you haven’t done before and still your chances are very slim, 
but you could change it."

J [Edit]

Pie Are Squared is Italy-based Egyptian musician Mohammed Ashraf. 
One-half of Bennu.
One-half of Śruti.
One-half of Aken's Sleep.
One-sixth of Postvorta.
One-fifth of Void of Sleep.