Crunch Time: Vol. 5

The playlist for the week's Spotlight tracks.

ADA Spotlight - 10/6/2016

10 10 16

Weekend Showcase 2.40 new music playlist features 56 songs by artists in 13 countries. Find more about the artists here:
http://therevue.ca/2016/10/16/weekend-showcase-2-40-1/

Take a listen and discover indie music's hidden gems.

Weekend Showcase 2.40

"We were trying to find our own way, We thought like artists. Imagine a painter saying I can’t suddenly paint like Andy Warhol or like Jackson Pollock, so I have to find something else, something original. It takes a while, but it is possible to find” (Jaki Liebezeit, Can)
In tribute of Jaki L. RIP

Motorik Beat - JANUARY 2017 - \\ Dreampop / Shoegaze / Psychedelic / Indie Pop / Grunge

8 YEARS OF BIRP!  My selections for February 2017... Download the partial playlist over at http://www.birp.fm/playlist/2017/february-2017

BIRP! February 2017

NewBorns

"On Ludlow" the debut LP from High Waisted, available now:
iTunes: itun.es/us/DvIQab
Spotify: spoti.fi/2b7XYd3
Apple Music: apple.co/2aFr94M

Connect with High Waisted:
Facebook: facebook.com/highwaisted
Twitter: twitter.com/gethighwaisted
Instagram: instagram.com/gethighwaistedd
Website: www.highwaisted.party

On Ludlow

Trust

GUSTAVE TIGER III 03 Thermidor

The Crash Recovery - Oracle

Broken Cassette

Haricot Vert - Debbie 
Written and performed by Josh Abramovitz

When I Was a Kid

Track of the EP 'Are We There Yet?' by Pip Blom. Official release: September 28th 2016. 

Taxi Driver

The second single from The RIVE Project's debut EP.

Wasted

single for our album OWN IT, out 10/7. 

this song is dedicated to my men's group: love ya, boys.

it's my turn to check-in
how to begin to start
every part of me's moving
can't take it apart

I'm fossilizing
I wanna leave tough art
all I feel is the motion
can't take it apart

I'm done trying to polish up
who's perfect, perfect, perfect after all?
how could I get tight with you
without my flaws?

I'm in the shower
I'm gonna come out clean
let's do some slick behavior
lather rinse repeat

I love support groups
I like attention cheap
could you make selflessness
feel easier for me?

I'm done trying to fool you twice
who's perfect, perfect, perfect after all?
how could I get tight with you
without my flaws?

would you let me get loud with you?
would you let me break out with you?

I've turned a corner
I'm gonna prove past doubt
before you think I'm hopeless
you should feel it out

guitars, lead vocals: keith brower brown
drums, synth, backup vocals: ian quirk
bass, backup vocals: kendra mckinley
backup vocals: rebecca redman, madeline kenney
produced by ian & keith, mixed & mastered by ian

Own It

Get Loud

Watch Official Music Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y82vvdn11_I
Get it on iTunes: https://itun.es/us/9sJ0eb
Written by @cuestaloebmusic with additional writing by @blakestraus 
Produced by @cuestaloebmusic & @blakestraus 
Mixed, Mastered & electric guitars <3 by @blakestraus 
Artwork by Michael Garner (@hunterhunted123) 

This is the title track from my EP "Dive" out later this year...

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facebook.com/cuestaloeb
instagram.com/cuestaloebmusic

For music licensing contact Danny Benair at Natural Energy Lab:

danny@naturalenergylab.com
p: 323.876.2408

www.naturalenergylab.com

Dive

Stream 'Questions on the Cliff' on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0wTlvuHDYEvlC2kX1h8YM9

***Lyrics***
Kicking the gravel that cut the curb from the cattle,
and in the shadows I wait, to catch a snake on the ladder.
Rather the vultures are patient because they know that I’m weak,
and they’ll be circling above until my blood’s on their beaks.

Twenty four karats got people talking like parrots,
and we inherit the motive to chase the top of the totem.
I told them wealth isn’t relative when you toss in the grave,
and in the end you’ll just be sleeping in the bed that you made.

Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.

Granted the damage we sip the blood of the planet,
without a panic we wait, to cut the cake with a splatter.
Rather the salary swinging is bringing men to their knees,
or the brutality is taking people’s lives in the streets.

Under the thunder of the American wonder.
Where global hunger was born to cut the corn by the quarter
and hord the borders in order to make a buck from a foreigner,
and shut the reporters in corners with oceans warmer and warmer

Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.

Kicking my courtesy when the bitches are burning me,
and I’m bleeding the burgundy but I don’t take it personally.

If the chickens are chirping me I just throw them a smile.
(If the chickens are chirping me I just throw them a smile)

keyboard solo

Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff

Questions on the Cliff

Float

Taken from Magana's 'Golden Tongue' EP - maganarama.bandcamp.com/album/golden-tongue-ep / Spotify: sp.kud.li/AAH016

Next Show:
November 18th - Rockwood Music Hall, Manhattan, New York

Lyrics:
With the words that are in your head 
You can change my mind again 
Copy from the text of old 
Change the words into your own 

But get it right, get it right 
If you’re gonna, gonna waste my time 
Get it right, get it right 
If you gotta, make up your damn mind 
Get it right, get it right 
If you’re gonna, gonna waste my time 
Get it right, get it right 

If you could see what is in my mind 
You would change before my eyes 
You were red but my gold turned you green 
So you stood there lying through your teeth 

And get it right, get it right 
If you’re gonna, gonna waste my time 
Get it right, get it right 
If you gotta, make up your damn mind 
Get it right, get it right 
If you’re gonna, gonna waste my time 
Get it right, get it right 

Before you say it 
Before you do anything at all 
You will want to think it through because 
This could be your final call 
Oh but if you say so 
I will follow

Golden Tongue

Magana - "Get It Right"

"Best Of You" is taken from Big Smoke's debut album "Time Is Golden" - out via Barely Dressed Records on 28 October 2016.

Pre-order "Time Is Golden": http://bigsmoke.lnk.to/timeisgolden

Track Credits:
Recorded by Nao Anzai and Alex O'Gorman
Mixed by Shawn Everett
Song written by Adrian Slattery
Mastered by Adam Dempsey

Keep up to date with Barely Dressed Records @ http://bdr.ec/

Best Of You

Tia’s new single, Vague Utopia, she sings about experiencing the cusp of adulthood, her voice unfurling through a hazy, wanderlust vibe. “It’s that feeling of ‘almost’ – school’s almost over, we’re almost adults and almost in a world other than school.”

Vague Utopia

New single from Swedish Pale Honey.
Out October 14th on Bolero Recordings
www.palehoney.com

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/real-thing-single/id1145847494
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2YvHLmUywt0NEqqZNI7yEj

Contact: mail@bolerorecords.se
©2016 Bolero Recordings

Real Thing

iTunes

Pale Honey - Real Thing

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/0HuR6jN61pYpi09v2ITU0q

Pre-Order 'Dead/Enough Nothing' out 25/11/16 on Ra-Ra Rok Records: goo.gl/3NyJpn

Artwork by Jordan Gray http://www.jordangray.co.uk

Recorded by Eric Tormey at Barnroom Studios

Dead/Enough Nothing

Dead

Porn

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Black Tigress Records 2016

JAGUAR

It hurts in my ears
My ears ring on their own
Oh Jaguar I'm wild 
And I guess I want more heart 
Half pleasure half pain 
Making love for ourselves
Don't you see the swan’s wicked white furs
Begging me to start to slow down 
We got our first fight and you're really scared
 
Oh I'm finding years hidden beneath the drawings
Oh I'm finding years hidden behind the doors
Oh I'm finding years in between what we've promised
Oh I've been saying the cruelest thing I didn't mean
 
I think I feel his black nails
Crawling inside me
Oh Jaguar I'm mad
And I wanna be alone
Half pleasure half pain
Making love alone
With the make-up I have on
You've been too much like a friend
We got our first fight can you be yourself
 
Oh oh oh I am a girl in fire
And I'll keep on and burn
Do you get me do you get me
Oh oh oh I am your girl in fire
We've been letting love disappear
I've been saying the cruelest thing that I didn't mean 
Oh jaguar

FREE Download

Lola Colt ~ Jaguar

SHAPING LIGHTS.

01 Braindead

Artist: Planning For Burial
Track: Whiskey And Wine
Release: Below the House

March 10th 2017
nowflensing

Planning For Burial - Whiskey And Wine

Mixed by Jacob Montague.
Mastered by Dale Becker.

Angkor (feat. Welshly Arms)

"The Dream Never Leaves" album out now. 
itunes.apple.com/album/id11830640…?ls=1&app=itunes
open.spotify.com/album/4K78KaOmom3Vd2OSeBkmBn
play.google.com/store/music/album…skx4nhd3nue&hl=en

Air is easily my favorite. It's an old song that I considered mediocre... that is until I changed the bassline around about 8 months before release. I'm a HUGE sucker for songs that are just long build-ups to enormous drops. The thing about this is instead of a drop it's just a giant beautiful synth wall. Absolutely love this song to death.

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/c3e29e'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

The Dream Never Leaves

Free Download

Decay

Transfigure are a duo who are not easily defined. Imagine the vocal qualities of Saint Etienne, the chilling lyrics and melodies of Pet Shop Boys and the guitar riffs and attitude of New Order bound together with plenty of contemporary twists and turns and you’ll be close to picturing Transfigure’s signature sound.
What makes the pairing of Grace Blamire and Lewis Norvid stand out above the rest is their ability to write intricate songs. Structurally complex, fresh and stimulating which build layer upon layer to create a unique sound fit for stadiums.

Their debut album ‘Translation’ encapsulates the inner city pace of Newcastle upon Tyne, in which the pair grew up, through upbeat dance floor fillers such as ‘Tell me’ and ‘No Other Way’. However, you’d be wrong to presume that this is an album destined for nightclubs alone. There are some truly introspective moments throughout, such as the emotional composition ‘Hide Away’ which discusses the urge to shut your door to the rest of the world.

The diverse nature of the 8 track album doesn’t end there, with 7 minute anthem ‘Fields’ highlighting the effect that touring mainland Europe has had on them both and title track ‘Translation’ considering how they can bring their own visions of Europe home to a British society that is slowly drifting further away from reality.

transfigure
/transˈfɪɡə,trɑːns-,-nz-/
(verb) To transform into something more beautiful or elevated.

Transfigure - Fields

New song to bring in the New year. Hope everyone has a great 2017, keep on dancing.

Lyrics

I'll bleed black and blue for your heartstrings 
Out in the fields nothing seems the same 
You chose your way through the mountain range
It's all a game, it's all a game until all the toys break 

She sent a letter, it addressed to home
She didn't know that it would be this cold
Left out at sunrise from her broken poem
But it's just the same, it's just the same until she knows what it takes

I've been calling a while but you don't seem to pick up 
Drifting out of town and you've got it all figured out now
I've been dreaming of sun, head up in the clouds
Drifting out of town and you've got it all figured out now
I've been calling a while but you don't seem to pick up 
Drifting out of town and you've got it all figured out now
I've been dreaming of sun, head up in the clouds
Drifting out of town and you've got it all figured out now

The Great Escape

◈ This groovy track by Slacker is sure to evoke some feels. It is a perfectly mixed cocktail of punchy and smooth. It's sure to take your breath away, let us know what you think in the comments! ◈ 

■ Youtube Visuals 
□ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnY4CnPfdUw

✦Slacker
⟡ @slackervibes
⟡ www.facebook.com/slackervibes

✦Phonotecture 
⟡ @phonotecture
⟡ www.facebook.com/Phonotecture-425889387609744

✦Sam F Hinton Illustration
⟡ www.facebook.com/sfhillustration


original:
https://soundcloud.com/nightowlcollective/s-lyre-air

Float

Silver Liz