I've Fucking Worn Out the Playlists with Overlove Again.  I so suck.

Mar 17

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this week's playlist is in memory of the UK. at least this cat is having a good time watching it all fall down.

Norman Weekly (30.3.17)

news letter #786

Midsummer playlist 2017, culled from material reviewed on Terrascope Online and featuring...well find out for yourselves. Let us know if you've been reviewed by us, are on Scloud and we haven't found you...yet. Enjoy

Terrascope Playlist 13

roses opening in the smoke

Cherokee by ELEL
out March 3 on M+P

Pre-order the ep: http://bit.ly/1DBnuQw

Cherokee

Song taken from my upcoming album 'freckled angels'
OUT NOW

http://www.freckledangels.com

Pocket Full Of Pain

In a partnership with Bar None Records, Lost Colony Music is thrilled to announce the release of R Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner Make It Be on Friday, March 10, 2017. The album was recorded at Rhetoric, in Hollywood CA by Jason Falkner. The grand majority of songs were composed by Moore with one by Falkner, one co-written by the pair, one co-written by Roger Ferguson. Then there's a wonderful rendition of Huey Smith & The Clowns "Don't You Just Know It."

What happens when R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner get together to record, arrange, and mix R. Stevie's songs? We get to hear an audacious realization of these songs' full potential in an epic collaboration no one saw coming. Moore and Falkner burst through your door with "I H8 Ppl" and take you on a journey through rock, pop, and experimental textures. Anchors such as "Play My Self Some Music" and "Sincero Amore," keep the effort focused, while guitar-only interludes and spoken word pieces push boundaries.
The New York Times dubbed R Stevie Moore a "lo-fi legend;" he has over 400 releases to his credit having started making music in 1968.

Jason Falkner is a power pop pioneer who started his career in the 80's with The Three O'clock and is a founding member of Jellyfish. He has released numerous solo records and has worked with such greats as Beck, Air, Aimee Mann, Travis and Paul McCartney.

Moore and Falkner are legends on their own but, as Make It Be loudly announces, their voices, performances, and arrangements have always been a match made in heaven waiting to be realized here on earth.

Make It Be

Listen / Download

R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner - Another Day Slips Away

04 - Gnoomes - Myriads Of Bees

From the 2003 VA Compilation Maybe Chicago, Criminal IQ records

The Ponys - Pop Culture

O Death

Wolf People - “Ninth Night” from Ruins, out November 11, 2016 on Jagjaguwar

Pre-order “Ruins”:
http://smarturl.it/wolfpeople 



Wolf People - Ninth Night

GNOOMES
TSCHAK!

http://hyperurl.co/GnoomesTschak

From adversity can come triumph, and from catharsis inspiration. Such has been the case for Gnoomes, the threesome hailing from Perm, Russia, whose second release for Rocket Recordings, ‘Tschak!’ arrives in the wake of considerable turbulence and tumult within their city and lives, all of which has only been fuel for a creative epiphany that has seen them create a deeply evocative work rich with vibrant experimentation and saturated in a widescreen sense of wonder. 

It may only have been eighteen months since ‘Ngan!’, the band’s first release for Rocket, whose self-styled ‘stargaze’ approach marked a glorious collision between melodic sweetness, skysurfing guitar experimentation and motorik magnificence, yet the band have already moved on to a sonic landscape still more adventurous and ethereal on ‘Tschak!’, not to mention an emotionally resonant approach that’s bewitching to witness. Taking in torrents of guitar noise and electronic extrapolations both blissfully kosmische and aggressively abrasive, it exists outside of all or any convenient genres, a vivid and singular work by three dreamers-at-heart forced to manifest their vision into a psychic defence to the circumstances surrounding them. 

Working in splendid isolation thanks to a studio space provided by their work for a local radio station, the band had time and space for the alchemical process of creating ‘Tschak!’ entirely on their own terms. Central to the this were a collection of Russian synths that they gathered, whose eccentric arpeggios and analogue textures form crucial ingredients on songs like ‘Severokamsk’ and the title track, arriving at a sound that forms a star-crossed and timeless marriage between the experimentation of krautrock and the lineage of Warp Records.

Forging forth into unknown realms both physical and metaphysical, the band recently completed a UK tour - including an appearance at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia. Yet with the dreamlike radiance of the potent and otherworldly ‘Tschak!’ on their side, this adventure is already well on its way.

Gnoomes - Cascais

GNOD
 
JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE

As we embark on a new year more characterised by fear and uncertainty than hope and optimism, a chronic shortage of dissent can be detected in the artistic community amidst a harrowing socio-political climate. Yet  the Salford-based collective Gnod have wasted little time in kicking against the doom and disquiet with everything at their disposal. 

“It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present.” reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. “2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment’s systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public’s loss of faith in their system”

Charged by this outlook, Gnod's new album, ' Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. which far from being an echo of an anarcho spirit of yore, denotes a record firmly entrenched in the psychic terrain of 2017. 

“On the surface it could almost seem like there's no political art movement out there to oppose what's happening, but there is -  we know there is” adds the band’s Paddy Shine. “Maybe that movement is struggling to find its voice as a cohesive whole right now but that will change. It has to change.”

Fuelled by their militant drive and unyielding ardour, ‘Just Say No…’ refracts Gnod’s harsh and repetitive riff-driven rancour through a psychotropic haze of dubbed-out abstraction, with Paddy’s incendiary vocal delivery to the fore. ,‘Just Say No…sounds like a record only Gnod could make - a band fiercely independent, never comfortable in one place artistically for any duration of time, always with their co-ordinates set on uncharted territory and the next challenge ahead, and delivering a monument of ire and iconoclasm.

Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine

JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE

GNOD - Bodies For Money

Saltland • A Common Truth

Track 3
"I Only Wish This For You"

Written and performed by Rebecca Foon
Produced by Rebecca Foon and Jace Lasek

Saltland is the solo project of Rebecca Foon (Thee Silver Mt Zion, Esmerine, Set Fire To Flames).  A Common Truth is Saltland's second full-length album.

Out 31 March 2017 on Constellation
cstrecords.com/cst123

saltland.ca

A Common Truth

I Only Wish This For You

Saltland • "I Only Wish This For You"

Let The Dancers Inherit The Party

Bad Bohemian

What in the Natural World

Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing On A Sweet Potato Vine?

Pere Ubu - Folly Of Youth (Raygun Suitcase)

Divisionists - Say Can You

Trimdon Grange Explosion

24 hours

Sonic Jesus - I'm In Grace

From the album "Self-Titled" available everywhere 3/24/17 on Silver Current Records.
https://feralohms.bandcamp.com

God Of Nicaragua

Taken from Rips' forthcoming self-titled debut LP. Released by Faux Discx on June 16. Pre-order here: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/rips
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Brooklyn based Rips have quickly built a reputation amongst NYC showgoers, winning them over with their virtuous melodies and sheer ferocity amidst an endless flurry of shows. Their songs may channel late '70s New York City bands like Television and The Feelies, but Rips propels these references into something new. Their self-titled debut, produced by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts, is eleven tracks of buzzing guitar riffs driven by a charged rhythm section, all set under lyrics that are actually worth a damn.

Rips (the record) takes cues from the moonlighting era of rock, while delivering a set of songs distinctly fit for the modern age. Once described as a “hyperreal rock n’ roll group”, the phrase “borne forward ceaselessly into the future" is more what they’re going for here.

So break an old habit. Let your hair down (or up). Rips will take you there.

Rips

Rips – Malibu Entropy

I Could Have Told You

Silver Eye

Moon In Your Mouth

First track off Causa Sui: Live in Copenhagen!
http://elparaisorecords.com/releases/causa-sui-live-copenhagen

Causa Sui: Ju - Ju Blues (Live in Copenhagen)

HEY COLOSSUS - THE GUILLOTINE

Hey Colossus have undergone a spectacular metamorphosis in the last three years - the 2015 Rocket Recordings double-drop of ‘In Black And Gold’ and ‘Radio Static High’ displayed not only a band with a work rate to put most all their contemporaries to shame, but one arriving at an atmospheric and rewarding sound with as much flair for the beguiling as the barbaric. 

Changes may have been afoot in the Hey Colossus camp, yet their latest transmission ‘The Guillotine’ marks another peak for an innovative force in the realm of heavy amplification. Darker and more brooding than their recent work, it’s also perhaps their most richly melodic to date -  the interplay of their three guitar lineup has never sounded more fluent than on these eight songs, nor their songcraft more well-defined. 

This is a record whose alchemical charge arrives from a reinvention of loud rock shapes into forms both feral and fresh - whilst Hey Colossus can still bludgeon with overamped vigour, as on the hypnotic and devastating krautrock-Jesus-Lizard hybrid of ‘Back In The Room’ they can also deliver the dusky and haunting waltz-time serenade of ‘Calenture Boy’ with uncompromising fortitude, with the new-found confidence and allure of Paul Sykes’ vocals at the forefront. 

These menacing and immersive songs chronicle a band exploring a unique sound and invigorating approach in a decade in which cliches and genre pieces in the realm of the psychedelic have frequently surrounded - here the six-piece find themselves transcending the limitations of the underground scene from whence they came, whilst exposing the paucity of inspiration in much of the guitar-rock mainstream. Hey Colossus are at their sharpest, and none will survive ‘The Guillotine’.

The Guillotine

Experts Toll

Hey Colossus - Experts Toll

'Under The Pines' is taken from the new Bardo Pond album out 24th March 2017 on Fire Records.

Pre-order here: https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-pines

Live dates:
31 Mar: Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
01 Apr: Knockdown Center, Queens, NY (with Eric Arn)

Bardo Pond - Under The Pines

"Different Now" is the first single from Chastity Belt's highly anticipated I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, out 06/02/17 on CD, LP, digital, and cassette from Hardly Art records. Pre-order the album today from flyt.it/usedtospend

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I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone

Chastity Belt - "Different Now"

As we embark on a new year more characterised by fear and uncertainty than hope and optimism, a chronic shortage of dissent can be detected in the artistic community amidst a harrowing socio-political climate. Yet the Salford-based collective Gnod have wasted little time in kicking against the doom and disquiet with everything at their disposal.

“It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present.” reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. “2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment’s systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public’s loss of faith in their system” .

Charged by this outlook, Gnod’s new album, ‘ Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. which far from being an echo of an anarcho spirit of yore, denotes a record  rmly entrenched in the psychic terrain of 2017.

“On the surface it could almost seem like there’s no political art movement out there to oppose what’s happening, but there is - we know there is” adds the band’s Paddy Shine. “Maybe that movement is struggling to  nd its voice as a cohesive whole right now but that will change. It has to change.”

Fuelled by their militant drive and unyielding ardour, ‘Just Say No...’ refracts Gnod’s harsh and repetitive riff-driven rancour through a psychotropic haze of dubbed-out abstraction, with Paddy’s incendiary vocal delivery to the fore. ,‘Just Say No... sounds like a record only Gnod could make - a band  ercely independent, never comfortable in one place artistically for any duration of time, always with their co-ordinates set on uncharted territory and the next challenge ahead, and delivering a monument of ire and iconoclasm.

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Stick In The Wheel

GNOD - Stick In The Wheel

Do Make Say Think returns with their first new album in 8 years, Stubborn Persistent Illusions.

Out 19 May 2017
cstrecords.com/cst120
domakesaythink.com


“The supernova in Constellation’s stellar network... arguably the finest catalogue of any currently operating instrumental rock band." • Drowned In Sound

“Experimental rock on the grandest and most impressive of scales with not a trace of musical mildew or corrosion." • The Wire

“Do Make Say Think legitimize post-rock as a term of art... engender some of the most honest, unpretentious, group-oriented rock of their time." • Popmatters

Do Make Say Think • "Bound And Boundless"

from "NO MERCY FOR LOVE" album ( BORN BAD)
More infos & buy : http://www.bornbadrecords.net/releases/bb094-cannibale-no-mercy-love/