[Weekly Mix] 2020.01 (3)

Dream + Lie

Make Me Want You

Introducing 'Worrymind' our musical masterpiece for those who have turned worrying into an art form. If overthinking is your kink this song might be your anthem.

WORRYMIND

Blue Raspberry

Party of the Century

Anytime

The Garden Dream

Easy Fun

Short and Sweet

Ebay Armour

Bitter Melon

Phantom Youth

2 to 3

On April 3, 2020, Toronto’s Scott Hardware will be releasing Engel, his second full-length album, and first on Telephone Explosion Records. It will mark the end of a three-year process of writing, recording and letting down his guard (for better or worse.)

His last album, 2016’s Mutate, Repeat, Infinity, was the culmination of a years-long obsession with the HIV/AIDS crisis and how it was shaped by capitalism. Hardware’s early years after coming out were shaped by the courage of people close to him who were dealing with difficult diagnoses. 
 
“Looking at these situations from a macro/societal lens
must have been the only way I could process and share
those years of my life and my loved ones’ lives with an
audience” Hardware recalls. “From a writing and
production standpoint, I was trying to re-imagine various
eras of dance music and sound as urgent and vital as they would have in their heyday of the ‘80s and ‘90s.” 

These are artists who visualize monsters and demons hiding in plain sight. Like singing to dead queer ancestors on Mutate, Repeat, Infinity, Harwood is trying to make sense of another queer cross-to-bear, this time coming from within. The image is gory and difficult, not unlike the process of digging shame from one’s spirit. Engel, in its preoccupation with angels, the afterlife and private thoughts holds hands with the image.

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada. www.canada.ca

Scott Hardware - Joy

These limbo days and this lifestyle vague.

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14/01/2020

Think Face

This song promotes a positive change in one's mindset after going through difficult times. It has a triumphant uplifting feel. Surfy guitars over a driving groove. Soft vocals interlacing with whispering harmonies and guitar flourishes.

Change

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Fever

I Don't Really Know
Loose Buttons
Something Better
2020

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I don’t really know
Whether five years ago
We thought this out
Time turns to doubt
And I’m ever down

Monumental or middling?
Will we read between the lines? 
Have you heard this old song before?
Should we be happy or resigned?
Try to peek inside a critic’s mind?
Or thank you for giving us the time?

I don’t really know
If in five years or so
We’ll figure out
Time turns to doubt
And I’m ever down

Where do we go from here
(Some one-star review)
Where do we go from here
(Start on something new)

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Recorded at Spaceman Sound in Brooklyn, NY
Produced by Gus Oberg
Mixed by Jeremy SH Griffith
Mastered by Manny Silverstein

Graphic design by Zack Kantor

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Something Better

I Dont Really Know

New York's first ever indie rock band
Writing tunes about the troublesome blessing of growing up in NYC.

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I Dont Really Know

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