Name: Pure by secretshame in Songs of June 2020
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: https://secretshame.bandcamp.com/album/dissolve-b-w-pure

Songs of June 2020

Its broke

Absentee

Ali Horn has had an interesting 2019 so far. His current single, ‘Dreamers’, had its release date moved forward when 6 Music’s Liz Kershaw fixed on it as her track of the year to date. His last single Modern Voodoo (‘kaleidoscopic’ according to Gigslutz), was regularly heard on 6 Music and, the day after we meet, he is flying to Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Lenin, as part of a Unesco sponsored cultural exchange. This is not standard stuff for an aspiring singer / songwriter.

Dreamers

Chemistry

https://secretshame.bandcamp.com/album/dissolve-b-w-pure

Pure

Lesser

BUY & STREAM: https://ffm.to/hellotakemeanywhere

Hello Take Me Anywhere

DGB214-6

Night Shop - Hello Take Me Anywhere

Sift

‘Wind Songs’ EP is out 14 August 2020 via Flemish Eye Records
Watch the video for  “At Last I Am Free” & pre-order ltd 12”

Dana shares the second cut from the forthcoming ‘Wind Songs’ in the form of  “At Last I Am Free” originally written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, plus an accompanying video directed by Nuha Ruby Ra. Dana explains her reasons for choosing this track to cover: 

“Originally written and performed by Chic, I first heard it covered by Robert Wyatt not long ago. It’s in part a break up song, but it goes beyond that. There’s something beautiful about the ambiguity of the song. The verses are quite personal, and then there’s this huge, ecstatic yet melancholy chorus. I love Robert Wyatt’s version of it too. His wizardly voice and that lead synth line that give it a special edge. It’s a big tune.”

Order a copy of 'Wind Songs' EP on vinyl
smarturl.it/wind-songs

Wind Songs

VINYL PRE ORDER

Dana Gavanski : At Last I Am Free

Im:bibe -  “Sometimes” Single

ONE BAND’S MISSION TO MAKE PIANO COOL AGAIN

“Sometimes” is the latest song from Australian duo, Imbibe. Brothers Tennyson and Holden Nobel create a classic pop sound, authentic and thoughtful.

"Sometimes" continues the band's revival of a retro piano pop sound that is revitalised 
and refreshed to place the band amongst their bedroom pop contemporaries. 
Positioned amongst the likes of Rex Orange County and Mac Demarco, Imbibe 
draw from a similar pool of influences but are separated by Tennyson Nobel's piano driven songwriting and the band's organic production.

The brothers have been sharing music together since they were kids, learning 
from their songwriter Dad. It was the start of a mad, musical immersion – Mozart one day, McCartney or Randy Newman the next. With a burning desire for new musical possibilities,  the brothers traded their backyard in  Byron Bay to a bedroom in Berlin in 2018. ‘Sometimes’ shows how far this journey has taken them.

Ultimately, it’s a song about the comfort that comes from accepting that life is full of ups and downs.

“...‘Sometimes’ is really just about opening up: like if all the different parts of yourself are banging on your door and instead of shutting them out, you invite them in for tea..”  Tennyson (Imbibe)

im:bibe - to absorb or soak up. 

“Sometimes” is released on July 17th.

"Sometimes" | Imbibe

“A quiet riot of ethereal vocals and lustrous guitars. Pinkshinyultrablast a valid insight into young modern

Russia via the early-90s Thames Valley” - The Guardian

“Beautifully toned and unconventionally fast, a gutsy effort that makes a big impression” - NME
“A complex but sumptuous confluence of mathy basslines and waves of melodic ecstasy.” - Q Magazine
“Excessively impressive, unexpectedly fast-paced shoegaze.” - Drowned In Sound

Pinkshinyultrablast, Russia’s premiere shoegaze export, have shared their epic and ethereal new single ‘Songs’.

With vocalist Lyubov moving to LA, the band were deeply immersed in exploring new ways of composing and collaborating from a distance long before it was enforced.

They tells us that "this one is kind of an oddball. I think when we recorded ‘Songs’ we weren’t really sure what to do with this 15-minute-long beast, or if we will ever get a chance to release it. For some reason, this B-side feels especially dear to all of us. Possibly because it encapsulates a certain time of us existing together as a band, a very specific moment. We’ve been living in different cities for over four years now, and I think what I miss the most about us all being in the same place is the ability to regularly spend time together in the same room, practice, and run ideas by one another — just communicate and figure stuff out, side by side. I went to a Terry Riley show last December and he was playing with his grandson Gyan. They were sitting on the opposite sides of a really wide stage, pretty far apart from one another, separated by this giant concert grand - playing, pausing, improvising - and just kind of secretly smiling at each other from across the hall. When I think of the time we worked on this song, I think of those kinds of smiles, you know. It feels like hearing back a long conversation you’ve had with a dear friend a while back. Maybe you don’t agree with everything you’ve said back then, but then it doesn’t even really matter, because you know you were just able to truly relate." 

Pinkshinyultrablast have amassed critical praise across the board since the release of their debut album ‘Everything Else Matters’ and follow-ups ‘Grandfeathered’ in 2016 and ‘Miserable Miracles’ in 2018.

On ‘Songs’ they deliver waves upon waves of expansive guitars to form a truly massive fusion of psychedelia and ambience that flows beautifully, awash with blissful synths and their trademark celestial vocals.

Pinkshinyultrablast - Songs

2045

Imposter

From Corey Flood's debut album Hanging Garden out September 4th on Fire Talk.

Buy: ffm.to/coreyfloodphl

There’s a vague sense of unease that permeates Corey Flood’s debut full-length, Hanging Garden, out September 5th via Fire Talk. From the surface, the record appears to break through the dark fog of the band’s 2018 EP, Wish You Hadn’t, but just below lay themes of ambivalence, uncertainty, and anxiety, layered elegantly in fuzz. Recorded in Philadelphia by Jackie Milestone, mixed by Natasha Jacobs, and mastered by Sarah Register, Hanging Garden pushes through feelings of discomfort and repressed emotions to discover what truly lies beneath.

Born in Philly circa 2017, Corey Flood began as the post-grad bedroom project of bassist Ivy Gray-Klein (formerly of Littler) and drummer Juliette Rando. A month after their first show with guitarist Em Boltz, the band signed with New York’s Fire Talk Records and turned four planned demos into a full-fledged, delightfully menacing debut EP. Now, after two years of intense growth and collaboration, the trio continues their “whirlwind trajectory” with the long-awaited, nine-track LP, Hanging Garden.

Inspired by Throwing Muses, Helium, Pale Saints, and Brix Smith-Start’s work with the Fall, Gray-Klein calls Hanging Garden “a reckoning with internal discord.” Through soft melodies, lush guitars and churning rhythms, the dual vocals of Gray-Klein and Boltz recall relatable experiences with gaslighting, imposter syndrome, and repetitive thoughts. Hanging Garden feels intimate and familiar but is strewn with playful surprises, like 70s krautrock guitar work and samba-influenced drum parts. Hanging Garden is a mature stride forward, and a bewitching amble towards the unknown.

Hanging Garden

Corey Flood - Park Deli 7

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

Pure

secretshame

Recent comments

Luovodifaberge

Rock Current 🌀

Related tracks