Name: you're alright alone by poolshop
Duration: 2 min 43 s
Description: I wrote this song for my sister who produces stunning videos Theresa Grace Fryer. It was used for a sunglasses commercial 0uv which she produced.

I'm So in love. Would you mind if I use it in my youtube video?

I wrote the song about putting your "jacket" back on and going back into the world after lockdown. I thought I would be fine, but it's a bit scary.

Jackets

Heavenly out April 22 2016. Pre-order yours now!

12" / Tape / MP3: bit.ly/heavenlylp
Bandcamp: http://plasticflowers.bandcamp.com

Plastic Flowers is a Dream Pop band from London, UK, formed in late 2011 by multi-instrumentalist George Samaras. He has recorded two full length studio albums Evergreen (2014) and Heavenly (2016).

After graduating from high school he experimented with drone sounds and worked closely with other musicians, including former band member Angelos Paschalidis. During his college years in Thessaloniki he begun recording under the name Plastic Flowers and quickly released a series of EP's and singles that received praise for their lo-fi feeling and warmth. The hazy atmosphere created with the heavy use of soft guitars and multilayered synth patterns are some of the main characteristics of Plastic Flowers' sound.

BBC described his music as "very ethereal soundscapes accompanied by warm vocals" while DIY Magazine labelled him as a "Greek wunderkind musician." After a prolonged period of writing and experimentation, his second full length album entitled "Heavenly" will be released April 22nd, 2016 through The Native Sound. Recordings took place between October and December 2015 in North West London.

Plastic Flowers – Diver

Produced by Alex Greaves at The Nave and mastered by Brian Lucey (Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, The Shins)

It's True

I wrote this song for my sister who produces stunning videos Theresa Grace Fryer. It was used for a sunglasses commercial 0uv which she produced.

you're alright alone

Can You Dream

Back in 2012 when MP3 blogs dominated the music discovery landscape, Tea Leigh and Luke Reed pumped out a series of beautifully lush dream-pop singles. The songs were extremely popular on the internet and widely shared on Soundcloud and YouTube. Eventually, they stopped releasing music and went about in separate directions.

Tea became a sought after tattoo artist, who now owns Welcome Home, an all female tattoo shop in Brooklyn, and Luke spent years playing in the now defunct Bent Shapes, and Joy Void’s latest signing, Mini Dresses. He also of course released a solo record earlier this year, with plans for another in 2018.

Now, after many dormant years, Tea Leigh and Luke Reed are back with a new single, “Underwater.” It’s a sleepy affair, and one continues right where they left off years ago.

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Tea Leigh & Luke Reed – Underwater

From the album No Fool Like An Old Fool available March 16th from Western Vinyl

Bandcamp: https://carolinesays.bandcamp.com/album/no-fool-like-an-old-fool
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/no-fool-like-an-old-fool/1337343096?ls=1&app=itunes
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv164

No Fool Like An Old Fool is the sophomore LP from Austin via Alabama musician, Caroline Sallee, aka Caroline Says. Moving beyond the surf-folk foundations of her debut, on No Fool... Sallee loosens her earthly tether, allowing her songs to float to ever higher altitudes on clouds of loops, immaculate melodies, and hypnotic harmonies, as she sings about aging, the daily grind, and hometown stymie.  Moving to Austin in 2013 gave her a new perspective on her hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, which informed the overall vibe of the album. “I think leaving my fairly small hometown and then going back to visit it inspired the feeling I went for on this album. I observed that so many people I knew were content doing basically nothing. Or that they were scared to try to do anything or leave town, like they felt stuck there.” 

The first few notes of the Daniel Rossen-esque opener “First Song” dutifully establish the surreal and slightly tragic tone of longing maintained throughout the album. The curiously upturning melodies ride out on a rich ambient texture before “Sweet Home Alabama” cuts the fog with a crackling 60's soul loop that's charming and catchy enough to induce a cathartic laugh from the listener.  The brightness fades with the frosty and propulsive “A Good Thief Steals Clean,” which features lyrics inspired by the 1971 film Panic in Needle Park, and the idea of being in love with a heroin addict. “I tend to write from the perspectives of characters in dark situations, even though my songs may sound bright,” Sallee notes of her alluring juxtaposition of sunny production and grim lyrics.  She employs this dynamic again on “Rip Off,” a frenetically percussive song with lyrics inspired by an NPR story about a young Iraqi man who was killed in an ISIS bombing just before moving to NYC to become a professional dancer.  Inspired by Terrence Malick's Badlands and Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska," the song “Black Hole" features multi-voice harmonies sung from the perspective of 50's spree killer Charles Starkweather.

Finding time to record while working three jobs was no easy task, and her living situation didn't make it any easier.  Sallee explains "I lived in a disgusting mildewed basement apartment that was like living in a gross cave. My landlords were a crazy old couple that lived above me, and it was like living inside of a drum. I could hear their footsteps, and their dog’s footsteps, and a lot of the time it just sounded like they were throwing things on their floor. It was so hard to find a perfectly quiet time to record. I recorded all my loud stuff (amped guitar, drums) during the day, and had to do quieter stuff like vocals late at night."  The hurdles she navigated to record naturally led to ad hoc recording techniques, and endless sonic experimentation, often leading to her use of the computer as an instrument.  She remarks “I did a lot of recording in a state of exhaustion from working so much. I was so worn down that these songs were able to just come through.”  No Fool Like An Old Fool is a fine soundtrack for this kind of liminal state, honest in its weariness, glad to be done with the day, carrying itself into tomorrow with a bleary-eyed sense of wonder and hope for the future.  A tireless worker, and a wellspring of creativity, whatever Caroline Says, we will be listening.

No Fool Like An Old Fool

Caroline Says - "I Tried"

BRAND NEW SINGLE  'Apartment'

Music Video -  https://youtu.be/mSTftwTQd0k

Apartment

Why Bonnie - Stereo

The Hidden Shelf's "Begin Again" from new album 'Zone Out.' Out Sept 21. 
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/5sfE3A1oAaw

Pre-order on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zon...) or Bandcamp (https://thehddnshlf.bandcamp.com/albu...).

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Zone Out

Begin Again

Ruby Haunt - Avalon
from the album "Tiebreaker"
Out 7/29/20

http://rubyhaunt.com/

Avalon

Branching from Brisbane band, Major leagues, Jaimee Fryer writes dream pop melodies from her bedroom to your ears.

you're alright alone

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