Spiritualized "Mississippi Space Program" - 'Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song)' will appear on the upcoming 'Space Project' collection on Lefse.

Spiritualized "Mississippi Space Program" - Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song)

"MG 333" by Richard Swift from 'Walt Wolfman'. Originally released 10/18/11 on Secretly Canadian

About a year ago, Richard Swift horrifically fractured his left ring finger. For a moment his nimble guitar and piano work flashed before his eyes. Doctors were saying things like "movement and feeling could eventually return," etc, etc. Certainly, not even a little blip on the sadness radar of humanity, but a massive bummer for a fellow who has carved out a niche as one of independent music's sought after session players and producers -- and especially in relation to the astounding Richard Swift solo output we all know and love.
So, it's with a great, collective sigh of relief that he's back to churning out new material like "Whitman." It's chugging, chiming and triumphant, featuring Swift's always-endearing falsetto and casual call-and-response lyricism. "I've got my own Whitman...Farewell, farewell/I hope it did you good/To say the things/My father never could," Swift pines. The song is a cryptic salute to Walt Whitman, whose American lineage of primal, urgent art can be traced to include Kerouac and Dylan, Bo Diddley and Beefheart -- right on through to modern outsider-pop wunderkinds like Swift. And according to Swift, "Whitman" is a nice taste of what we can expect from his next longform recording.
The same can be said for the remainder of the Walt Wolfman EP. Conceived in the same spirit that gave us 2008's cult favorite Ground Trouble Jaw EP, these blown-out, basement R&B rippers are not for the faint of heart. They require movement and sweat, dancing with a cocktail glass in your grip until your shoes are soaked in booze. Highlight of the set, "MG 333," is a raw and ghostly trance, a blast of kinetic energy and jazz cigarette smoke. Meanwhile, the neu-vintage jive of "Drakula (Hey Man)" and "Zombie Boogie" pack a timelessness that transcends their seasonal titles. And yeah, that's Swift himself on rapid-fire drums across the whole damn set. Shit, he might have been fine without that measly finger after all.

"MG 333" by Richard Swift from 'Walt Wolfman'. Originally released 10/18/11 on Secretly Canadian

Walt Wolfman

MG 333

Richard Swift - "MG 333"

Outfit - On The Water On The Way

from their forthcoming album "Spagat der Liebe" out May 6th, 2016 on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Klaus Johann Grobe - Geschichten Aus Erster Hand

From the new album "Inner Journey Out", Out Now

LP/CD: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr155-psychic-ills-inner-journey-out
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Bandcamp: https://psychicills.bandcamp.com/album/inner-journey-out


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mixed by Thom Monahan.

Psychic Ills – I Don't Mind (feat. Hope Sandoval)

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Totem' - out Jan 27th via Tambourhinoceros.

Album 2

Esca

Out on 10th Feb on limited 7" (250 copies).
Pre-order - speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW020 - JW Ridley - Everything (Deathless) Full Version

Destroyer - "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" off of ken, out October 20, 2017 on Merge Records / Dead Oceans

Buy / stream: https://destroyer.lnk.to/ken

Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming In Blood

Water From Your Eyes' latest album "All A Dance" is the fifth installment of the EIS tape club. The duo of Rachel Brown (Thanks For Coming) and Nate Amos (Opposites) blend together pop and dance music with influences from 80's post-punk and 90's dream-pop.

Water From Your Eyes - Let It Ring

LUMP - Late To The Flight taken from LUMP, out June 1, 2018 on Dead Oceans

Stream / download: www.lump.ffm.to/lump

Website: lump.world
Instagram: @thisislump
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Twitter: @thisislump

LUMP - Curse Of The Contemporary

Formed in January 2009, Girls Names quickly garnered recognition outside of the confines of their hometown of Belfast with the release of their eponymous debut EP in 2010 through New York's Captured Tracks. A mini-album through London imprint Tough Love soon followed, setting the foundations for their critically acclaimed debut LP "Dead To Me," released in April 2011, again by Tough Love in Europe and West Coast label Slumberland Records in the US. October 2011 brought the excellent "Black Saturday" single, a frisky slice of dark, driving pop. Earlier this year the band released "A Troubled See" as one side of a split 7" with Weird Dreams, also on Slumberland/Tough Love. "A Troubled See" startled with it's stark precision, pointing to a new direction.

Girls Names are now hinting at making their boldest and most exciting record to date. New single "The New Life" clocks in at over 7 minutes and takes you on a journey that mirrors the feelings of a band living and working in economy stricken Northern Ireland - the perfect soundtrack of the bleakness to where they exist. The B-side is a mesmerizing, dubbed-out JD Twitch Optimo remix of the single.

This year the band expanded to a four-piece and has spent the last six months in virtual seclusion honing and developing a more progressive and expansive sound, feeding on the darker sides of Echo and The Bunnymen, Spacemen 3, The Birthday Party and David Bowie's "Low" before heading off on a triumphant Spring/Summer European tour culminating on their biggest and most successful shows to date at the prestigious Primavera sound festival in Barcelona.

A new full length is currently being finished off but for now it seems Girls Names are intent on making a lasting impression with "The New Life." It certainly feels as though the band is ready to enter a new phase in their existence and the way they've grown and honed their sound shows that they're not afraid to take risks.

"The New Life" 12" is out now on Slumberland Records (North America)/Tough Love (Rest of World).

Girls Names - The New Life

The real Secretly Canadian, an independent record label based in Bloomington, IN.

Richard Swift - "MG 333"

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