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Since the release of their debut album Idol Omen in 2009, Glass Ghost's founding members Eliot Krimsky and Michael Johnson have kept busy. In addition to playing dozens of shows, including a tour with White Rabbits, Johnson joined Dirty Projectors as their new drummer, Krimsky has been collaborating with Here We Go Magic on keys, and the duo welcomed two new members to the group, Tyler Wood on keyboards and percussion, and Aerial East on vocals. Like their debut, LYFE was produced by Tyler Wood, who also produced Joan As Policewoman’s 2014 album The Classic. For the LYFE recording sessions, the group recruited many of their friends to contribute, including Joan Wasser of Joan As Policewoman, Nat Baldwin of Dirty Projectors, and Christopher Tignor of Slow Six and Wires Under Tension. Pushing their songs to new levels by working with Brooklyn's musical elite is nothing new for Glass Ghost. They worked with more than a dozen of their friends from Brooklyn's music community, including Sharon Van Etten (who in 2011 noted “Eliot Krimsky is one of my favorite writers.”), Here We Go Magic's Luke Temple, and Matt Iwanusa of Caveman, for their debut which was described by the New Yorker as “elegant compositions of frosted indie pop,” and by Time Out New York as “weird and mournful yet highly rhythmic."

Glass Ghost has been refining their uncompromising aesthetic since they formed in 2008, after the breakup of their former band Flying. At the time, Johnson and Krimsky just felt the need to keep playing together, so they set up under Johnson's loft bed, and began to discover and then refine what would become their remarkably unique sound. Hours of jam sessions eventually yielded enough original material for a live set, where Glass Ghost would explore the powerful sounds they could deliver as a duo. Krimsky recalls "The first gig we played together was at a strange wedding in a hotel. I remember playing the first dance as the couple stiffly moved across the shiny hotel floor. That was one of the many absurd moments that Mike and I have shared." Krimsky's keen observations of the absurd often inform his lyrics. On Idol Omen he managed to build beautiful songs like "What I've Seen" around observations of young businessmen in suits lighting a sleeping homeless man's hair on fire, and "Time Saving Trick" using bits of conversation he overheard while playing a lawyer's retirement party.

On their new album LYFE, Krimsky (who's currently working on his M.A. in Media Studies at The New School, where he’s exploring the convergence of technological mediation, identity and music) turns his observations of the absurd and mundane into metaphors about living in a world where every detail about your life is harvested, quantified, and used by marketing companies to manipulate your behavior. Rather than sounding didactic or overly intellectual, the songs provide windows into the band's internal world, as Krimsky's tender falsetto glides over the icy landscapes of synths, strings, woodwinds, and regal horns. As the product of Krimsky, Johnson, and Wood's mutual trust, vision, and relentless attention to every detail, LYFE masterfully blends airy, melancholy, and chilly atmospherics with Glass Ghost's irresistible bottom-heavy grooves and hooky pop sensibilities.

Glass Ghost - "Triangle"

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the derevolutions - Another Day In Paradise (Phil Collins Cover)

Larry Gus - I Need New Eyes LP
Released Friday October 2, 2015

BUY HERE:

LTD COLORED VINYL @ DFA STORE:
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Mixed by Alex Epton
Mastered by Heba Kadry @ Timeless Mastering 

01 Black Veil Of Fail 
02 NP-Complete
03 A Set Of Replies
04 Taking The Personal Away
05 Belong To Love
06 All Graphs Explored
07 The Sun Describes
08 Nazgonya (Paper Spike) 

Vinyl Sequence

Side A 
01 Black Veil Of Fail 
02 NP-Complete
03 A Set Of Replies
04 Taking The Personal Away

Side B
01 Belong To Love
02 All Graphs Explored
03 Nazgonya (Paper Spike) 






I Need New Eyes

Larry Gus - NP-Complete

Petite Noir’s debut album ‘La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful’ will be released on 11th September 2015.
Pre Order the album here and get an instant download of ‘Best’.

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‘La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful’represents the first full expression of what Yannick Ilunga calls ‘Noirwave’, which is more of a concept than a specific sound. Inspired by innovators like Mos Def and legends Fela Kuti and Tabu Ley, Noirwave encompasses a ‘new African aesthetic’.

La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful

Best

Limited 12": smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Jungla Inquieta

Brand New Abyss

Get Up

WANT is the second single from W. H. Lung. Available digitally from 24th November.
iTunes: http://apple.co/2hI1aiP  // Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2A0fbks

LIVE:
24/11 - Live Art Bistro, Leeds   //   02/12 - The Harley, Sheffield   //   15/12 - The White Hotel, Manchester   //   Tickets: gigst.rs/WHLung

W. H. Lung - WANT

Lead single from Sudakistan's second LP Swedish Cobra, due September 7 via PNKSLM Recordings. Pre-order at www.PNKSLM.com/store

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Sudakistan - "Two Steps Back"

The title track from Summer Camp's forthcoming new EP "Always" released on limited edition coloured 12" vinyl, CD and download on 9th July. 

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Summer Camp - Always

THE POPOPOPOPS - MY MIND IS OLD (REMIXES) ● Out Now

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Tracklist :

1. My Mind Is Old
2. My Mind Is Old, Alex Gopher Remix
3. My Mind Is Old, Axel Le Baron Remix
4. My Mind Is Old, Blamma! Blamma! Remix
5. My Mind Is Old, Juveniles Remix

Sudakistan - "Two Steps Back"

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