Mandela Effect

Elsewhere EP

tracklist:
1 - Winter Train
2 - Nakamise (仲見世)
3 - Climbing A Mountain With Your Best Friend
4 - Flying Tissue
5 - Hikikomori (引き篭り)

Produced and performed by Stefano Fagnani
Mixed and mastered by Stefano Genta

Released on Loci Records (www.locirecords.com)

"Winter Train" available for free download at XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/11/winter-train

Buy here: locirecords.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere-ep

Free download here

Winter Train (free download @ XLR8R)

Til The End

Jlin returns with the first fruits of her new work since last years ‘Free Fall’ EP. ’Dark Lotus’ is a transition between 'Dark Energy’, her debut album, and her forthcoming ‘Black Origami’ full-length. 

A-side ’The Escape of the Blvck Rxbbit (ft. Avril Stormy Unger)’ is the more traditional of the two tracks, starting off proceedings with a constantly switching rhythmic structure and a stop-start sweeping hoover stab panning between the speakers, descending bleeps and Avril's vocals cut into shapes and pushed through effects.

B-side ‘Nyakinyua Rise’ races headlong into uncharted territory, with a fierce barrage of djembe drums over pounding bass, punchy war cries and jubilant uluations that paint a tension between hot aggression and weightless ecstasy.

Nyakinyua Rise

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

STAR ROVING

Slowdive - Star Roving

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Should've Called Pt. 2 [feat. saidbysed]

"This Old Dog" is from Mac DeMarco's forthcoming album, This Old Dog, out May 5th, 2017, on Captured Tracks. All iTunes pre-orders come with Instrumentals of This Old Dog and instant grat downloads of lead singles, “My Old Man,” and “This Old Dog.”

Pre-Order Digital here: smarturl.it/thisolddog
Pre-Order Physical here: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/this-old-dog

This Old Dog

Mac DeMarco // This Old Dog

Hoops  - "Rules"
Off their debut album, Routines, out May 5th on Fat Possum Records

Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/Hoops.Routines
Tickets: http://bit.ly/Hoops_Tour

Tour Dates:
2/18 - Norman, OK @ The Opolis
3/09 - Nashville, TN @ Freakin Weekend at The End
3/10 - Savannah, GA @ Savannah Stopover Music Festival
3/12-18 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
5/02 - Glasgow, UK @ The Hug and Pint
5/03 - Leeds, UK @ Headrow House
5/04 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
5/07 - Birmingham, UK  Hare & Hounds
5/08 - Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana
5/09 - Brighton, UK @ Green Door Store
5/10 - London, UK @ The Lexington
5/12-14 - Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Music Festival
5/24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo ^
5/26-28 - George, WA @ Sasquatch Music Festival
6/08 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right +
^ w/ PARTS
+ w/ Joy Again

Hoops - Rules

Elegant, melancholic, sometimes menacing, with smoldering piano melodies, desolately whistling organs, and a jaunty jaw's harp loop; kissed by the golden Californian sun, or shrouded in gloomy, dreary fog: Sophia Kennedy is currently the most versatile composer in German pop music – not to mention the greatest singer. Her debut album "Sophia Kennedy" reveals her as a dramatic romanticist and distanced diseuse, as a deft lyricist and master of melody. In her eleven songs, she travels from doo-wop to dubstep, from classic crooning to breathless R'n'B, from Frank Sinatra to Beyoncé. Her talent for songwriting is deeply rooted in history, yet it seeks nothing but the present: both historically versed and timelessly beautiful at the same time.

Sophia Kennedy grew up in Baltimore. Upon arriving in Hamburg to study film, she instantly became a source of enchantment. On the single "Angel Lagoon", which she recorded in the autumn of 2013 with the keyboard-maestro Carsten "Erobique" Meyer, she sounded as lovely, enthralling and blasé like no other singer of the season. In the years that followed she mainly composed music for theater, feeling around for what would eventually become her own style: irony is not an important factor, it's more about appropriation and adaptation, and through effectively minimalistic means, to create space for the voice – for the singing.

Sophia Kennedy produced and recorded the album together with Mense Reents, best known for his work with Die Vögel and Die Goldenen Zitronen. Together they developed the spartan arrangements and electronic textures that determine the willfully dense sound of this album. Often, Kennedy's voice is the only instrument that pursues a harmonic development over the repetitive structures. Then she doubles and multiplies her voice and sings alongside herself in a choir. She shines with bold syncopation over a hobbling piano, as well as in the field of the melancholic lament that suggests a late Beach Boys ballad. This results in multi-dimensional, highly individual music, which easily escapes all the traps of inwardness: just as her lyrics unfold from seemingly simple wordplay to subjective confessionals without ever regressing into the euphuistic pathos of romantic self-reflection.

This is the first songwriting record to be released on Pampa Records, and yet "Sophia Kennedy" is perfectly at home on this label, which for almost a decade has been making the connection between tradition and modernity, avant-garde inventiveness and pop sensibility. One can detect different traditions and historical impressions in every track – yet you can forego all the analysis and simply enjoy the craftsmanship with which Sophia Kennedy creates an absolutely contemporary musical language from her knowledge of classic songwriting: "I want to take tradition to the limits, to where it becomes extreme," she says, yet it sounds so easy and not at all preconceived. The unheard-of refinement of this music lies in its apparent simplicity: "You just can’t be afraid," says Sophia Kennedy, "that it turns out to be pop music."

01 - Build Me A House

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If you saw WALL play in NYC or at SXSW (they were No. 2 on Time Out Austin’s top picks for SXSW 2016) you will recognize some of the tracks on their new LP, Untitled. "Everything In Between" was often a set opener, albeit in an instrumental form. Here we find the definitive full band arrangement, which shows a group capable of generating wave after wave of engaging post-punk. First single "High Ratings" advances the strengths of WALL's self-titled EP with it's look at modern anxiety stemming from social media addiction: "We're all guilty," as singer Sam York howls. Their rocking cover of Half Japanese's classic "Charmed Life" is probably the closest track in tone to "Cuban Cigars," the pop moment on the WALL EP. True to the original, it features perfectly skronky sax from Pill’s Ben Jaffe. "River Mansion" displays Vince McClelland's extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary with squalls, shrieks and plinks over the band's elegant Kroutrock groove with York and Skadden's cooing vocals occasionally synching with a slippery guitar riff. Fans of Skadden's former group, Finally Punk will appreciate "Save Me" – a tale of desperation with Skadden sharing lead vocal duties along with York. These are just a few examples of songs from this diverse and intense LP, showing us a band stretching out sonically and stylistically at their peak and right before their untimely demise. 

So there you have it -- a testament to a band that formed in an instant, burned brightly and left us with two great records. Did you see WALL at Palisades, The Silent Barn, Alphaville, Union Pool, and all the rest of them? Let this LP remind you or take you there for the first time. Mixed by Mike Kutchman at Kutch 1 Studios and mastered by Josh Bonati.

PRESS
Stereogum Premieres "High Ratings" - a jamboree of demoniac guitar lines and seductively hostile vocals
PAST PRESS
Stereogum Premieres “Fit The Part” - ripping apart at the seams and bursting through with unnerving vitality
Pitchfork Review of WALL EP - In tricks like these, WALL wriggle out from the under the weight of history

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WALL - River Mansion (from the Untitled LP)

New track from POND's forthcoming album The Weather to be released May 5th

The Weather

POND - The Weather

Following the February release of their critically acclaimed debut long-player, ‘Nothing Feels Natural’, Priests will be releasing ‘Early Recordings’ through Tough Love as part of this year's Record Store Day. It will be pressed on to opaque white vinyl and limited to 1000 copies.

Priests’ ‘Early Recordings’ combines the band’s first two cassette-only tape releases, originally recorded in 2011 and 2013. The small run cassette releases were originally intended to be for purchase only at the band’s live shows. “We didn’t want everybody to hear it,” said drummer Daniele Daniele. “We were still learning our instruments, so these tapes were not intended to impress the world, just document where we were for our own sake.” Daniele met vocalist Katie Alice Greer the same week she arrived in Washington, DC to complete a fellowship at Georgetown University, and the two decided to start a band. Guitarist GL Jaguar joined soon after, and bassist Taylor Mulitz completed the lineup the following year.

Tape 1 was recorded by Jaguar in his parent’s basement in Maryland. The band had existed for one week, and the trio had written four songs. “I was very eager to have evidence of the band exist for myself, because I didn’t know how long it would last, and I wanted to make music more than anything,” said Greer. “Diet Coke”, the band’s first song, is a hundred second blast of pummeling energy and what would become Jaguar’s signature riffage. A winking nod to advertising that sneaks into culture, the tune is followed by the more contemplative “Talking”, a song on which both Greer and Jaguar play guitar. Greer’s lyrics speak to US public school systems “rewarding complicity” and children being “being socialized by reality TV”. “The World”, perhaps foreshadowing the band’s krautrock-inspired penchant for repetition, is a jubilant intermission before “Cobra”, a playfully minimal stop-start closer inspired by cult favorite rock group She (also known as “The Hairem”).

On Tape Two the band was eager to showcase their fuller sound as a newly expanded quartet. The tape’s seven songs were recorded by Kevin Erickson and Hugh McElroy, who had already recorded the band’s first single “Radiation/Personal Planes” a year earlier and would go on to produced half of Priests’ Bodies and Control and Money and Power EP and all of Nothing Feels Natural. “Leave Me Alone” nods to the Priests’s affinity for inverting the cool funk of a song like Bush Tetras’ “Too Many Creeps” (“I see you when I’m out on the street/ I think you look like a creep”) while exploring more melodic territory on tracks like “Twelve”, hinting to material that would later surface on Nothing Feels Natural. Lyrically, Priests continued to explore themes that center women’s lives (“Lillian Hellman”), critique social perception of female celebrity (“Lana”), interrogate assumptions of US history (“Incantations”), and invert the male gaze on the Daniele Daniele-penned closer “Watch You”. Priests was already interested in expanding their musical palette, as evidenced by metallic clangs and a purring drum machine on “Watch You” and creeping mellotron weaving in and out of a few different tracks throughout.

‘Early Recordings’ lays the groundwork for Priests longer releases in the following three years and provides context for the band’s evolving sound.

Early Recordings (master MP3s)

Priests - Leave Me Alone

Best Available Technology's first album on wax. Exposure Therapy fuses muggy electronics, heavy-lidded rhythms and molten dub into abstract compositions that leverage the studio as an automated tool to siphon out an implied form of radical, rugged hip hop.

Best Available Technology’s Exposure Therapy will be available on June 2, 2017 from Styles Upon Styles.

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Best Available Technology – Session 11673 (SUS022)

"Marion" is the first piece of new music from Beacon's Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett since the New York duo's 2016 album, Escapements.

Order links:
The Ghostly Store: https://goo.gl/SZYKUP
Retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/beacon-marion

Catch https://soundcloud.com/beaconmusicnyc on tour: http://beaconband.nyc/tour/

Marion

Beacon - Marion

smoke one :]

credits : Track List 

 1:  AltoSounds x Madeintyo [ 0:00]

 2 : Stlndrms x Madeintyo [ 3:19 ]

3: AltoSounds x Madeintyo [ 6:15 ]

4: MADEINTYO [ 8:54 ]

Kanazawa-Bunko

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2017/05/maud-geffray-sick-of-love/

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Polaar [via XLR8R]

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Download: Maud Geffray - Sick of Love

A mix i made for About To Blow. 

https://letherettemusic.bandcamp.com

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About To Blow Mix

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2017/05/perfume-moonspeed/

@hotgemtunes

Station 3 [via XLR8R]

Download: Perfume - Moonspeed

from the upcoming album "The Boy Who Spoke To The Wind" out June 23rd on Mello Music Group

"No Paz" ("No Peace") is a musical & social juxtaposition - one that details the weight pressed upon people of color by the police through violence & mass incarceration; against the defiance, & beauty of the struggle against our oppressors, whether systemic or overt. the view in which we see the world, there is no peace, just dead black and brown bodies strewn out in the streets like trash to the people in power" -  Lando Chill

Written by: Lando Chill
Produced by: Triceratop
Additional Instrumentation by: The Lasso
Bass by: Chris Pierce
Mixed by: Drew Vandenberg in Athens, GA

The Boy Who Spoke To The Wind

No Paz

Lando Chill - No Paz

STAND HIGH PATROL (Mac Gyver / Pupajim / Rootystep / Merry)
Presents "AFTER THE RAIN"
from the album "THE SHIFT"
Label : STAND HIGH RECORDS
Available LP/CD/MP3/WAV/TAPE on May 26, 2017

Artwork : By Kazy Usclef / Original idea from Muretz
https://www.muretz.com/

Lyrics : http://standhighpatrol.com/the-shift-lyrics/

Buy "The Shift" : snip.ftpromo.net/theshiftpreorder

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STAND HIGH PATROL - "After The Rain" = "The Shift" LP

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