2017

Post-Punk& Shoegaze& Synthpop

"All art is exorcism. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time". 
Otto Dix

Art Is...The Permanent Revolution - DECEMBER 2017 \\ Coldwave/Post Punk/Minimal Synth/Synthpop/Goth

December 2017

Post punk/shoegaze

Post - Punk

ONLY MUSIC - DEC 2017

English: 

Elliot, Francis, Maxime and Simon could have met on the night of October 2nd 1988 in Middlesex, Virginia. Meeting outside a Wipers concert, they would have then started a band with a raw sound chiseled by post-punk guitars and analog synths. 

Instead, it is in Paris in 2012 that they combined their love of the guitars from Cleaners From Venus, the melancholy of The Cure and the synths of Fad Gadget and Oppenheimer Analysis to create a new band; Rendez-Vous. 

The 4 boys deliver a tight sound that vacillates between spontaneous bursts of energy and a catchy dark melodic pop ambience. Heavily influenced by both the naivete of the 80s and the resonance of the 90s. Their track "Donna" sounds like it could be blasting out of Donnie Darko's Walkman. 

Rendez-Vous is releasing their debut EP November 25 on Zappruder Records. 

Rendez-Vous - Plasticity

9 - First light

Taken from the album, Dissemble, out 21st August 2015

'Immaterial Man' is taken from the debut album, Dissemble, out 21st August 2015. 

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Dissemble press release:

“I don't have any repressed emotions that I know of. The world I write about is a jaded version of reality, but where it comes from isn't quite apparent to me yet”

Following the release of two self-titled EPs over the past 12 months, AUTOBAHN announce details of debut album, Dissemble, out on 21st August via Tough Love. Dissemble was recorded with Matt Peel at The Nave, a hometown studio situated in the wholly appropriate setting of a disused church. The band co-produced the record with Peel over six intense weeks at the start of 2015, dedicating all of their time to the studio and taking potentially unhealthy cues from the legacy of notorious obsessive, Martin Hannett. The result is an album that pushes the band through various degrees of light and shade, but ultimately into new, unexpected sonic spaces.  

“You need to remember all of this world I write about is a warped reality of people I've known or experiences I've been in. I think you can just tell when a bands from Leeds, can't you?”
Motivated by the encouragement of a supportive local scene, AUTOBAHN formed in Leeds in early 2013, and immediately began playing live across the north of England. Those early forays across the Pennines were vital in not only helping the band form their own sound, but also hold a symbolic role in understanding their genesis. The North as both idea and identity is integral to what AUTOBAHN are, where post-industrial landscapes intersect with sudden wide open spaces, a place where community is central, but loneliness can be palpable. There’s a dark, oppressive edge to their music, but a hopefulness too. Sisters of Mercy, yes, but also brothers in arms. 

“The first track was intended to be a link to the past records. We leave the past behind after that.”

AUTOBAHN first came to the attention of Tough Love via a local support slot with Tampa romantics, Merchandise, and reached the wider world with the release of two now sold out 12”s. Those first recordings suggested a classic modern punk band with a penchant for death and glamour, and an impatience to be heard. Time and touring has afforded them the ability to shift gear significantly, and the renewed ambition of Dissemble stands as testament to that. The band were immediately a thrilling live force, but on this album they’re wider, more urgent when they want to be, more thoughtful when required. Dissemble is an appropriate title (meaning to conceal one’s true motives), because there’s something canny at work here. The surface suggests despair, but scratch deeper and the lyrics display a lightness of touch that skewers the over-earnest and overly-serious.   

“Dissemble is a twisted romantic view of how AUTOBAHN think: don’t take life too seriously”

Life is a joke, but AUTOBAHN aren’t laughing. How could they?




Vinyl

AUTOBAHN - Immaterial Man

Ploho - Нужные люди

Ash Code - Alone In Your Dance

800beloved - Some Kind of Distortion

Decades Failures - Tell Me How

800beloved - Enduring Black

Produced, written and performed by D I I S T
Mastered by II HE II 
Album: Night 2015 
Lyric: Johny Joc / Eve Jir 
promo: Johny Joc / Eve Jir

photo by Eve Jir

shame

Debut EP by Cologne-based postpunk/wave band HOLYGRAM
http://holygram.bandcamp.com/releases

HOLYGRAM - Still There

Gold Connections - "New Religion"
Off the self-titled debut EP out March 31st on Fat Possum

Pre-order: http://smarturl.it/GC.EP

Gold Connections - New Religion

Download / stream ’Star Roving’: https://slowdive.lnk.to/star-roving

STAR ROVING

Slowdive - Star Roving

From the album 'Snowdonia', available here:
www.surferblood.com

Frozen

The first track from "A Crow Looked At Me" by Mount Eerie
(ELV040 from P.W. Elverum & Sun, March 24th, 2017)

available here:
www.pwelverumandsun.com

A Crow Looked At Me

"Real Death" by Mount Eerie (from "A Crow Looked At Me")

I´m so so excited to announce that my new album that I´ve been working on for two years got released today! It´s called Dear Avalanche, and I would love for you to take it for a spin - I´ve included the link to Spotify below. 
The song I decided to share with you is called "Pandora", and it was one of the first I wrote for the album. It was a big challenge and quite experimental for me, where I tried hard to break out of my own preconceived notions of what I could do, and really go for something different. I hope you will like what I´ve written, and I would love to hear your thoughts! 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Q4lWl84CNsZDDXQCm9VLe

www.facebook.com/lightsandmotion

Dear Avalanche

Pandora

Stream on Spotify

Lights & Motion - Pandora

DEMO 2016

Eden

After releasing a string of singles starting in 2016, Pia Fraus are now releasing their first full-length album entitled Field Ceremony in almost a decade. Both the "Autumn Winds" and "That's Not All" singles have been met with critical acclaim, creating anticipation for the forthcoming new album. On October 12th in the U.S. and Oct 16th in Europe and Japan, the decade long wait for a new Pia Fraus album will be over. Released on Seksound (Europe), Shelflife (U.S.), and Vinyl-Junkie Records (Japan), Field Ceremony is a triumphant return for the band, bringing back their signature dreampop sounds alongside fresh takes on pop structures. From the beautifully composed pop delicacies of "No Filters Needed" to the almost slowcore dreaminess of "Don't Tell Me How" to the explosive pop of "Sugar High of the Year", Pia Fraus bring to the table a dreampop brightness tinged with the more somber elements of life. 

Eve Komp (vocals, synths, metallophone), Kärt Ojavee (synths), Rein Fuks (guitars, vocals, percussion), Reijo Tagapere (bass), and Margus Voolpriit (drums) come together once again to produce Field Ceremony. Former member Kristel Eplik returns to record backing vocals and Pia Fraus' former drummer, Joosep Volk, also returned to direct the video for "That's Not All". The album has been mixed and mastered on analog desk by the band's longtime friend Lauri Liilvak. 

The dreampop veterans in Pia Fraus are back after over a decade. Field Ceremony is a demonstration of the band's continued contribution to the dreampop genre. Fans will be pleased with the results and new listeners will be in for a treat as they encounter this long awaited new work from the dreampop masters.

http://www.shelflife.com/catalogue/LIFE157.html

Field Ceremony

Pia Fraus - Never Again Land

Single from Stockholm band Steve Buscemi's Dreamy Eyes. Debut EP 'Four Waters' out now on all platforms and limited vinyl via Rama Lama Records.

Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal etc.: http://phonofile.link/swim-deep
Pre-order 'Four Waters' on limited vinyl: http://bit.ly/2xgWFWj
Recorded by Johan Wilmer Eriksson. 
Mix & master by James Edward Taylor. 

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Steve Buscemi's Dreamy Eyes - Swim Deep

Rivera

Snow Like Ashes

The Road Of Autumn

Dark Matter

Right Now

Out 2/2/18 on Hidden Structures and Sportklub Rotter Damm

Recorded at @raum, Leipzig in 2017
Mixed by Yannic Schemion
Mastered by Fritz Brückner

Contact: yannic@hiddenstructures.org

Anthropocene

GIUL CAOS - LIBERTAD MENTAL

Source of being, whom I meet in all that moves me.
Let us not be lost in superficial things, but let us be freed from that what keeps us from our true purpose.

Two Hands Open is written and performed by Neugeborene Nachtmusik at The Residence, Berlin.

Two Hands Open

"In this quiet room I am fine, I hear your loving whisper..." <3

NOUVELLE CULTURE "I fall in love" feat. Angel (demo version).
Words by Jacky Mazin and Marlen Moisidou, adapted into Swedish by Angel.
Music by Jacky Mazin.
All rights reserved Le Cabaret Electronique/Nouvelle Culture.

NOUVELLE CULTURE_feat. Angel_I Fall In Love_demo version

The last track off Hearts and Rockets (FKA Heat Wave)'s debut album Dead Beats - download The Silence for FREE! Buy the album at psychichysteria.com.

The Silence (single)

Huracanes

Lyrics:

We're falling in love
to fail
(but) would you make me stop?

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Falling in love to fail

Dead Inside

Shut In

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Dead Inside

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