Février 2015

Released on March 17, 2015.

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Nic Hessler // Hearts, Repeating

Dominique A - Éléor

Pre-order the 12" LP (limited to 500, one sided with custom etching on reverse): http://fatherdaughterrecords.bigcartel.com/product/never-young-never-young-ep

Never Young is a noise rock band from the Bay Area in California. Blending raw punk sounds and 90's guitar music with a synthetic digital aesthetic, jarring militant anthems meet angular pop songwriting. Never Young’s futurist sound is fleshed out and fully realized on their new self-titled EP; the sound of a pastel yellow iPhone 5c crashing through the window of your psyche.

Principle songwriters Christopher Adams (vocals/guitar) and Nikolas Soelter (vocals/guitar) are joined live by Samuelito Cruz (drums) and Niko Escudero (bass). This EP, out March 10, 2015, follows their 2014 release, Master Copy, also released on Father/Daughter Records. Recorded with Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden, these four songs mark the beginning of an exciting band.

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Never Young - Like A Version

Soda Fabric - Teenage Illusion

Taken from 'Atlantis' to be released in spring 2015, exclusively via Anova Music. 

Available to buy: hyperurl.co/teenage-illusion

Later this year, Anova Music, will team up with Burger Records to release Atlantis on cassette - only 200 copies!

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Soda Fabric - Teenage Illusion

Feted for the urgency and unrest of their live presence, London three-piece Fever Dream have now committed their dark and brittle post-punk-shoegaze noise to tape in the form of debut album, Moyamoya, out April 26th from Club AC30.

The first single from Moyamoya, Serotonin Hit is a potent introduction to the sound of this young London band. Building to a steady forward charge, punctuated by stinging guitars yet keeping intact a core connection to melody, Serotonin Hit reaches a liminal communion of transitory mental state, the glow that you get from a sudden rush of distant memories and the fog of images: people and places of the subconscious. 

Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Adey Fleet, bassist Sarah Lippett, and drummer Cat Loye, Fever Dream make music which stalks the unsettled territory between MBV and PiL: suffused with melody and discordance, unhinged. Via the twitching fragility and freneticism of Fleet’s guitar and vocals, Lippett's stormy bass, and the propulsive dark heart that is Loye’s drumming, Fever Dream pitch tumultuous swathes of noise against irresistible pop hooks and gentle febrile tonality, arriving at a sound which sharply articulates a disorientating world of panic attacks, tender allegiances, and sweet perversions.

Drawing from shoegaze, slowcore, and alt-rock - basically any form of music that favours distorted guitars and never really had its “moment” in indie rock post-1995 -- and for that reason, never really went out of style – Fever Dream manages to successfully sound genreless -- despite being referential of half a dozen genres at once -- and a seamless, coherent listening experience that remains in memory long after the last note has faded.

FEVER DREAM – TOUR DATES

MARCH 27th BRIGHTON: The Joker / 29th CAMBRIDGE: Portland Arms 

APRIL 5th BRISTOL: Roll For The Soul / 6th NOTTINGHAM: The Maze / 7th LEEDS: 
Wharf Chambers / 8th EDINBURGH: Henry’s / 9th NEWCASTLE: Lit & Phil Library / 
10th MANCHESTER: The Castle / 11th YORK: Fulford Arms

MAY 1st LONDON: Shacklewell Arms (Album Launch / Oddbox Weekender) / 31st LONDON: The Lexington


Fever Dream - Serotonin Hit

'Kelly' is taken from American Wrestlers self-titled album, in stores April 7th (US)/27th (EU) on Fat Possum Records

Pre-order the album with an instant grat of 'Kelly' from iTunes - http://smarturl.it/AmericanWrestlers



American Wrestlers -  Kelly

Violins

Bruising formed late last year after singer and guitarist Naomi Baguley spotted Ben Lewis wearing a Perfect Pussy t-shirt in a Leeds nightclub. Bonding over a mutual love of all things fuzzy, they began messaging voice memos from their phones back and forth until, finally, they got together in the same room and started writing some songs. This is one of them.

Self-recorded in their bedrooms in Hyde Park, Leeds, 'Can't You Feel' is pretty much the epitome of what Bruising want to do - fuzzy pop with big hooks, riddled with earworm guitar riffs and led by aloof-yet-infectious dream-clad vocals. 

'Can't You Feel' is taken from the upcoming Beech Coma compilation, Vol. 3. Featuring exclusive new music from the likes of Jr., Thalassocracy and bare pale, the compilation will be released 9th March 2015 on ltd red cassette, t-shirt bundle and digital download - pre-order from http://beechcoma.bandcamp.com/. More details will be revealed soon.

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Bruising - Can't You Feel

Escape from Evil
Release date: March 31st (North America), March 30th (World)
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Escape From Evil

To Die in L.A.

Taken from the LP: "Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Think" - Released on March 23rd Worldwide


Australia:
iTunes: Pre-order full album and get instant download of Pedestrian At Best http://smarturl.it/sometimesisit
Courtney's special pre-order: Deluxe orange LP/LP/CD with custom-made tote bag 'link'

UK/Europe/Rest of World:
iTunes: Pre-order full album and get instant download of Pedestrian At Best http://smarturl.it/sometimesisit
Amazon: Standard LP and CD http://smarturl.it/sometimesisitamzlp 
Rough Trade: Deluxe orange vinyl gatefold LP and CD http://smarturl.it/sometimesisitrt 
Courtney's special pre-order: Deluxe orange LP/LP/CD with custom-made tote bag 'link'
Recordstore: Standard LP and singed print http://smarturl.it/sometimesisitrs

USA/Canada:
iTunes: Pre-order full album and get instant download of Pedestrian At Best http://smarturl.it/sometimesisit
Amazon: Standard LP and CD http://smarturl.it/sometimesisitamzlp 
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Pedestrian At Best Available on 7" 16th March 2015 (pre-order link to Rough Trade)

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Clip by Charlie Ford @ http://www.charliefofo.com

PEDESTRIAN AT BEST was written by Courtney Barnett

I love you I hate you 
I’m on the fence it all depends 
whether I’m up I’m down 
I’m on the mend 
transcending all reality. 
I like you despise you admire you 
what are we gonna do 
when everything all falls through? 
I must confess I’ve made a mess 
of what should be a small success 
but I digress 
at least I’ve tried my very best I guess. 
This that the other 
why even bother, 
it won’t be with me on my death bed, 
but I’ll still be in your head.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

My internal monologue 
is saturated analogue, 
It’s scratched and drifting, 
I’ve become attached to the idea 
it’s all a shifting dream bitter sweet philosophy, 
I’ve got no idea how I even got here. 
I’m resentful 
I’m having an existential time crisis, 
what bliss, daylight savings won’t fix this mess. 
Underworked and oversexed 
I must express my disinterest, 
the rats are back inside my head 
what would Freud have said?

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

I wanna wash out my head with turpentine and cyanide,
I dislike this internal diatribe 
when I try to catch your eye 
I hate seeing you crying in the kitchen 
I don’t know why it affects me like this when you’re not even mine to consider.
Erroneous.
Harmonious.
I’m hardly sanctimonious.
Dirty clothes, I suppose, 
we all outgrow ourselves.
I’m a fake, 
I’m a phoney, 
I’m awake, 
I’m alone, 
I’m homely, 
I’m a Scorpio.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

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Pedestrian At Best

from their forthcoming album "Melbourne, Florida" - out March 10th on Trouble In Mind Records in the USA/EU/UK (www.troubleinmindrecords.com)

Dick Diver - Tearing The Posters Down

Having released a dreamy album inspired by 60s sci-fi soundtracks, Swedish trio @death-and-vanilla were invited to live score cult horror Vampyr at a Scandi film festival and their slow, steady, swirling accent continued. 

Their new LP To Where The Wild Things Are,is a poppier affair; the warm analogue loops of their vintage instruments crying out for the sweet breathy vocals that Marleen delivers with a calm and enchanting ease. Named after the children’s book, the album celebrates imagination and the ability to delve into the less-explored areas of the mind. Exactly what we need to get us through today, we are pleased to present the premiere of album track, California Owls. Almost hypnotic, this is dream pop at its absolute best. Enjoy!

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Premiere: Death And Vanilla - California Owls

Available as part of February Records 5 Year Anniversary Compilation

https://februaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/5-a-february-records-anniversary-compilation

Recorded by Barrie Wilson
Mastered by Cris Romero

A Quiet Night In Stockholm

The first single from Crocodiles’ forthcoming album Boys offers a gaze into the salsa-punk existence the band lived while recording in Mexico City. It is the sound of helado and cervezas; bottles smashing against heads in Cuauhtémoc bat-caves.  Charles Rowell’s psychedelic guitar swirl starts “Crybaby Demon,” immediately followed by an infectiously repetitive bass line and Latin trashcan percussion. Brandon Welchez’s sneering vocal floats above, telling the tale of a fallen angel, head still in the clouds, abusive and abused.  The flip side is a joyously noisy retelling of Hot Chocolate’s 1975 disco classic “U Sexy Thing” and adds to their ever growing collection of oddball influences.

Crybaby Demon (Single)

This song is taken from Leach Me Lemonade's tape EP called Rainy days (loneliness)... coming soon on shiny happy records!!

Leach Me Lemonade - Single Light

'Last Year' is the taster track from Joanna Gruesome's forthcoming new album 'Peanut Butter', out 11 May via Fortuna POP! (UK), Slumberland (US) and Turnstile (ROW).

Rival groups will be disappointed to learn that the record is a further experiment in combining hyper melodic pop music with sonic violence. Officials have confirmed that the album contains a record number of hooks, traces of nut and elements of jangle pop, British hardcore punk, atonal music, screaming and drone organs. Yet they have issued warnings of "a marriage of radical politics with peanut butter spread". "Last Year" is a song about experiencing tragedy and the occult in a water park.

Like their debut, the new album was recorded by MJ from Hookworms, with the aim of heightening the group's "pop" and "aggressive" elements to excessive and hitherto unrecorded levels. As songwriter Owen Williams explains: “We tried to make it shorter, more economical and attempted to pack as many hooks and screams in as quickly possible in order to avoid short changing the consumer or wasting her/his/their time. Lyrically it’s more obtuse and surreal but also attempts to mock trad masculine rock themes whenever things do get more lucid. But sometimes musically we embrace them by doing embarrassing guitar solos. I'm not sure how much else I'm at liberty to say but one thing I will disclose is that the record is a response to threats posed by rival groups."

Building up to the album's release, Joanna Gruesome will play the following UK gigs.

17 April - Islington Mill, Manchester http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/the-haunt/853981
18 April - Stereo, Glasgow http://stereocafebar.com/
23 April - Scala, London http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/scala/853979
2 May - Live at Leeds, Leeds http://www.liveatleeds.com/
3 May - The Haunt, Brighton http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/the-haunt/853981

Last Year

Kid Wave - Wonderlust

From forthcoming new album CARRIE & LOWELL
Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:
Now that I fell into your arms
My only lover
Give out to give in
I search for the capsule I lost

Drag me to hell
In the valley of The Dalles
Like my mother
Give wings to a stone
It’s only the shadow of a cross

I slept on my back 
In the shade of the meadowlark 
Like a champion
Get drunk to get laid
I take one more hit when you depart

I’ll drive that stake through the center of my heart
Lonely vampire
Inhaling its fire
I’m chasing the dragon too far

There’s blood on that blade
Fuck me, I’m falling apart
My assassin
Like Casper the ghost 
There’s no shade in the shadow of the cross

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Sufjan Stevens, "No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross"

First single off new album "Hypnophobia" (out may 4th in North America, may 5th rest of the world).

Pre-order here: 
North America: http://polyvinylrecords.com/hypnophobia
Benelux: http://www.excelsiorshop.nl/
Rest of The World: http://fulltimehobby.sandbaghq.com/jacco-gardner-hypnophobia-pre-order.html

Artwork by Julian House

Find Yourself

Cloud - Melting Cassatt

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Zen Summer', to be released April 27th via Paper Trail Records. Limited Edition 12" preorder at https://papertrailrecords.bandcamp.com/album/zen-summer

Written and Recorded by Tyler Taormina
Mixed by Cole Verderber
Mastered by TJ Lipple

PTR 001

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Février 2015

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