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SHOEGAZE II

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More essential cuts of shoegaze, dreampop, spacerock, blisspop, lo-fi,krautrock, electronica, psychedelia and more.

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"Gloomy Sunday" is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933, as "Vége a világnak" ("End of the world"). Lyrics were written by László Jávor, and in his version the song was retitled "Szomorú vasárnap" (Hungarian pronunciation ("Sad Sunday"). The song was first recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935."

"Gloomy Sunday" was first recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis,[2] and was recorded the same year by Paul Robeson, with lyrics by Desmond Carter. It became well known throughout much of the English-speaking world after the release of a version by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis's lyrics referred to suicide, and the record label described it as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". There is a recurring urban legend that claims that many people committed suicide with this song playing."

Danilla JPR - Gloomy Sunday Cover

taken from MOTOR CITY CS [Not Not Fun, 2012] 


Entering Motor City



GRAVE118 - Whirr 'Sway' out 9/23/14 on CD/LP/Tape/Digital (pre-order here: www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html)

When Sway begins, you might at first press pause, reaching for your headphone wire or peeking behind your speaker cables to make sure nothing has come undone. The blister of distorted guitar that opens the album comes only from the right channel, howling and hanging there in irascible isolation until it seems that something must be wrong.
But be patient: After a dozen seconds, the rest of Whirr—a five-piece of blanketing rock focus and comforting pop finesse—pours in from the left channel. They meet the guitar in the middle, together racing headlong into a short section that’s heavy as metal but pliable enough to be the springboard for the galloping shoegaze beauty that soon arrives.
For the next 36 minutes, you need not worry again about lost connections, split channels or anything else, really. More than any Whirr release to date, Sway creates a definitive sense of immersion, sculpting an environment that breathes you in instantly and breathes you out only when the record snaps into silence.
That bifurcated start is an appropriate image for Whirr in 2014. Last year, the band headlined a tour with the Philadelphia group and fellow admirers of heaviness and harmony, Nothing. Not only did the crews become fast friends, but their respective founders—Whirr’s Nick Bassett and Nothing’s Dominic Palermo—decided to start a group of their own, Death of Lovers. When the shared tour was finished, Bassett headed to Philadelphia for a month of writing and recording. He’s never really left. He calls Philadelphia home now, so Whirr has become a bicoastal band.
In Philadelphia, Bassett worked on Death of Lovers’ debut for Deathwish Inc., toured as the bassist for Nothing and steadily composed new material for the next Whirr album, their first full-length for Graveface. Back in Oakland, the rest of Whirr had committed to the project full-time, too, so the West Coast contingent wrote and rehearsed new material without Bassett. Joey Bautista took the lead on two songs, Loren Rivera on three.
Indeed, against most odds, Bassett’s move made for a more democratic Whirr. In their salad days, Bassett had written most of the material and built the bulk of the arrangements, too, using the support only to enrich and enliven them. After a slew of splits and singles and EPs, Sway is the second Whirr LP, but it is only the first to be rendered by a fully functional rock band, having shaped the songs slowly and over some distance.
Before the quintet entered Oakland’s Atomic Garden to work with longtime producer and collaborator Jack Shirley, they reworked the contributions of all three writers, massaging the material into a cohesive dynamo. Rivera, for instance, rewrote the words for Bassett’s material, folding his songs into the album’s presiding sense of dusky melancholy.
“It’s not conceptual, entirely, but it’s intended to ebb and flow in a certain way—one song being aggressive, then dropping out and being pretty but devastating,” Bassett says. “We tried to create an atmosphere, where you listen and get vibed into one tone. ”
That rhythm presides over Sway, tying its distinct parts into a seamless unit. The restless “Heavy” churns somewhere between Godflesh and Gish, its lumbering beat and foreboding guitar buoyed by a melody that feels like a secret hymn for which you’ve long searched. Gorgeous and sprawling, “Sway” floats through luxuriating guitars and pillowed vocals, offering an impressionistic but intoxicating inversion of Whirr’s typical propulsion. Even here, during the record’s prettiest moment, Whirr maintains a righteous minimalism, emblematic of members who met one another as skateboarding high-school kids.
“The aesthetic of the band is more aimed at mature punk rather than alternative rock,” Bassett confirms. “There are these more aggressive punk elements—noisy feedback, a snare roll that just goes into super-punchy, driving songs.”
“Clear” brilliantly paints its lyrical quest for lucid communication—“I want words/to understand you,” runs one plaintive, surging bit—in music that takes up the same challenge. Whirr pushes past a pastel instrumental haze into a hangdog march, with near-whispered vocals bruised by Devin Nunes’ drums and Eddie Saldago’s orotund bass line. But as the end approaches, the band builds together, the riffs and the rhythm colliding into one triumphant, redemptive crest.
And that’s the victory of Sway, too, an album written by five people on two coasts but executed with the force and splendor of, at last, a fully unified Whirr.
Graveface will release Sway on CD, LP and digitally September 23.


Whirr - Lines

Mirror Days new single for the upcoming EP titled Solstice

OUT OCTOBER 30th 2014

Window ( Official Single )

White Noise Sound - Sunset


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Reflections

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Posh Lost

Limerence

taken from MOTOR CITY CS [Not Not Fun, 2012] 

Motor City

First single from Cory Hanson's (Wand) debut solo album, The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo.

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Cory Hanson- "Ordinary People"

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it's ok, you're ok

Somewhere Somehow

'Trouble' is the debut single from North-London trio, Girl Ray. Released on the Moshi Moshi Singles Club on 25th November: http://smarturl.it/GirlRayTrouble

They play live around the UK throughout October with Haley Bonar & Slow Club. See all dates and get tickets at http://smarturl.it/GirlRayLive

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Girl Ray - Trouble

'Battle' is the woozy first single off the debut EP 'Come Over', by New York state trio Slumbers. 

'Come Over' will be released November 25th via Sports Day records, digitally and on a limted editon run of tapes and CDs. 

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Slumbers - Battle

Written and Performed by : Graham Harrington

Endless

Lonely Moon

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

It's True

Second song of our upcoming production, Islands.

Berna Cruz - Vocals
Gardy Perez-Ruiz - Guitars
Hector Caolo - Bass
Eden Cruz - Drums

Recorded at Little Big Audio by Nicolas Linares, PR.
Mastered at Sterling Sound by Joe LaPorta, NYC.

3 Robots Records, 2017. ©®

ISLANDS

Blue Garden

Soft Beach

Acid Tripp

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 - It's Over Now

Weak

Hidden Places

Melbourne based Mosaicz's 2017 album 'Demolicious', showcases shoegaze influenced psych rock designed to blast at full volume, breeding an intensity of distorted verb and rhythm..

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'Goddamn finally... 

A collection of songs from around 2014-2016, selected from a ridiculous amount of songs made prior and during since Mosaicz started. This demo album kinda represents our preferred songs from our live setlist during that three to four year time period. Previously released demos have also been re mixed (Delay, Backwards and Physic, except for dream filter). 

This album also reflects the time frame of many segments and phases of our early - late teenage years listening to new bands and different types of music which has heavily influenced the style of these songs and our songwriting today, (obviously mainly us frothing shoegaze). 

So due to a continuous cycle of laziness, procrastination, generally being stupid and loosely decided times to release a project like this, it feels like a miracle to complete this album. 
BETTER LOUD and on better speakers. 
New music in the works...'

Mosaicz - Physic

Endless Nights

Dead Vibrations - On A Sunday Morning

The 3rd of 3 demos to be recorded shortly

Demos 2018

Nothing Here (demo)

Innercity Haze

Casino Versus Japan - Roo Bug (Slow)

White Sand

Falling Down

Lil Peep & XXXTentacion - Falling Down

Sunlight On Your Skin

Lil Peep & ILoveMakonnen - Sunlight On Your Skin

Infections Of A Different Kind Step 1

Gentle Earthquakes

Seventeen

125dd - 2.0.1

From the "Swim" two-song single release on Hauskat Records.
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Written and Produced by Film School
Co-produced and Mixed by Dan Long
Mastered at Howie Weinberg Mastering by Howie Weinberg and Will Borza
Additional vocals on “Don’t You Ever” by Noël Brydebell courtesy of Wild Signals

Cover Photo by Steve Simko IG @simkophoto
Photo Model - Kristina Kupka IG @doublek23

Don't You Ever

God Loves You When You’re Dancing EP on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/glywyd  

God Loves You When You're Dancing

Riptide

Only Until It's Over

1.LIGHT

Music and all Instruments: 
The Churchhill Garden | Andy Jossi (Switzerland) 

Lyrics and Vocals: 
Krissy Vanderwoude (USA) 

Mastered by: 
Andrew Rose at pristine audio .

Life is hard 
I know 
I’ve been where you are 
You’re not alone 

Don’t give up 
I am here for you 
When you need a friend 
To see you through 
Turn to me 

Just reach out 
When you’re feeling down 
And you need someone 
Who will stay around 
When life gets hard 
And you’re in the dark 
Let me shine for you 
And protect your heart 

I will follow through 
With everything I say I’ll do 
For you 
I will lift you up 
I’ll help you see 
The light ahead 
in reach 

I will prove to you 
That I am here for you 
Hold on 
This will pass 
These dark times 
Will not last 

Just reach out 
When you’re feeling down 
And you need someone 
Who will stay around 
When life gets hard 
And you’re in the dark 
Let me shine for you 
And protect your heart 

© Krissy Vanderwoude 2020
credits
released February 14, 2020 
Thanks to the League

light

The Churchhill Garden - Light

Experimental Independent Record Label based in Melbourne Australia dabbling from ambient / spacey to abrasive / noise corners of music

Mosaicz - Physic

Reverse Shadow Records