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Gardy Perez-Ruiz / Guitar, synths, vocals 

Bernice Cruz / Vocals, arrangements, synths 

Hector Caolo-Alvarez / Bass, Bass VI, vocals 

Eden Cruz / Drums, vocals 

With: 
Jorge Martinez Picon (PON): beats : Voltaire 
Nicolas Linares: guitars : Voltaire / Space shore 
Javier J. Rodriguez: saxophone : Space shore 
Marcelo Perez Velazquez: voice : Drones 
Saul Robles: guitars / vocals** 


©®All songs written by un.real: 
Gardy Perez-Ruiz / Hector Caolo 
Bernice Cruz / Eden Cruz. 2014-2020. 
Except: Kids are Astronauts** / SRR 

Recorded and mixed at Little Big Audio, San Juan, Puerto Rico 
by Nicolas Linares 

Mastering: Andrew Rose, Pristine Audio 

Photography: Milton R. Perez : Saul Robles 
Design and digital manipulation: Renshaus 


Thank you, to all the un.reales who have genuinely helped us 
throughout the years. 

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Sun Like Star

From Cola's debut album 'Deep in View' out May 20th on Fire Talk

Buy: https://ffm.to/colaband

Deep in View

Cola - So Excited

04/15/2022

Silver

The Umbrellas are one of the most exciting bands to come from the indiepop underground in ages. Bursting out of the SF Bay Area's fertile indie scene, The Umbrellas come correct with a sound that fits snugly into a long line of classic pop, from The Byrds to Orange Juice, The Pastels, Comet Gain, Veronica Falls and Belle & Sebastian, along with a noticeable garage-pop/Paisley Underground flavor that is a hallmark of San Francisco's best bands. Their self-titled 2021 debut album dazzled with a dozen perfect pop tunes, charming the indiepop faithful but also winning fans outside the scene, leading to sold-out tours with bands as disparate as Ceremony and Destroy Boys.

Now The Umbrellas are back with "Write It In The Sky," an instant-classic that simply demanded to be pressed onto a 7" single. Clocking in at just under 3 minutes, "Write It In The Sky" is a thrilling pop rush full of fuzz, melody and excitement that will sit easily next to singles by the likes of Talulah Gosh, Shop Assistants, The Pastels and The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. It's really that good - a sure thing to enter the canon of perennial indiepop floor-fillers. On the b-side we have the heavier "I'll Never Understand," a slow, trippy song with a slightly-delic sound that builds to a noisy crescendo. The band really crushes this one on stage, and it's fast becoming a live favorite. Taken together that point to a mighty bright future for The Umbrellas, and we can't wait to hear what's next!

Write It In The Sky

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The Umbrellas - Write It In The Sky

Joe Stevens' Peel Dream Magazine project has dazzled savvy listeners for the last several years with its tuneful yet hypnotic synthesis of post-punk, shoegaze, 60s pop and motorik Krautrocky grooves. Their most recent salvo of the album "Agitprop Alterna" and companion EP "Moral Panics" was one of the few bright spots of a pandemic-wracked 2021.

Now Joe is back with a more conceptual work with "Pad," drawing on his own journey in and out of Peel Dream, his experiences with soundtrack scoring, and his abiding love of Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson and The High Llamas. "Pad" draws on influences as from baroque pop to bossa nova, country and mid-century orchestral, from Burt Bacharach-era 60s pop to first wave homemade post-punk. It's a unique sound that is at once relaxing and engaging and makes a most satisfying next step in the Peel Dream Magazine trajectory.

Peel Dream Magazine - Hiding Out

Peel Dream Magazine - Pictionary

Before The Reds, Pinks & Purples started getting noticed by a larger audience, a 4 song 7” EP called "I Should Have Helped You" snuck out on Swedish experimental label I Dischi Del Barone, disappeared quickly, and is now trading for insane prices on Discogs. Recorded around the same time as the material that ended up on the buzzed-about LP "Uncommon Weather," it contains some of the best examples of Donaldson’s melancholy but wry take on indie pop. "They Only Wanted Your Soul" adds six more tracks to make it a mini-LP length grab bag of hits. It has songs about record shopping, religion, worker’s rights, dysfunctional holidays, and of course heartbreak sung over a maze of shimmering fuzzy guitars and drum machine beats. This expanded reissue re-presents an essential chapter of the Reds, Pinks & Purples story and as such is crucial listening.

They Only Wanted Your Soul

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - I Should Have Helped You

Secret Shame - Color Drain

After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her new album "Love As Projection." Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, "Love As Projection" is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop. Featuring beautiful, ethereal songs like lead-off single "Anything," "Sixteen Ways" and "Come Back," this album is more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence, a newly-defined scope using the tools at her disposal, and the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet.

Love As Projection

Frankie Rose - Anything

The Laughing Chimes is a musical project formed by teenage brothers Evan and Quinn Seurkamp based out of southeast Ohio. Living in a small, crumbling coal town on the brink of obscurity, Evan and Quinn wanted to bring to light some of their feelings and experiences from their time here. The project draws inspiration from American and British jangle pop from the 80s and 90s; establishing songs that blend enduring sounds with new melodies. The duo's 2020 album "In This Town" drew attention worldwide for its brilliantly timeless songs that could just as easily originated in Athens, GA or Dunedin, NZ as eastern Ohio.
 
The overwhelmingly positive reception of "In This Town" inspired the brothers to work on their next set of tunes. Evan wrote "Laurel Heights" upon seeing a sign in West Virginia with those words and from there the idea of an EP started to take shape.  More songs were written (some were discarded) and finally the brothers settled on the 6 tracks that comprise the "Zoo Avenue EP," including the first song written by Quinn.

From the deliciously paisley-tinged opener "Ice Cream Skies" through future anthem "Laurel Heights," the pastoral "Cats Go Car Watching" and the gorgeously melodic jangle of "Zoo Avenue" we can hear that Evan and Quinn have crafted a terrifically assured follow-up to "In This Town," one that sharpens their sound and broadens their musical palette while retaining all of the considerable charm of their debut. They're already working on their next record and have recently expanded to a trio and started playing live shows, so we're beyond excited to see where they go next.

The Laughing Chimes

Zoo Avenue EP

The Laughing Chimes - Ice Cream Skies

Written, arranged and performed by Hideous Towns. 
Recorded and mixed by Matthew Hosking. 
Mastered by Mikey Young.

Eternal gratitude to Matthew Hosking, Mark Monnone and Lost and Lonesome, Mikey Young, Andy Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Stirling for their tolerance and anyone who's come to watch us play or listened to our songs.

Heart Attack

First track off the new album - Ranger - Available Jan 27, 2017.
Preorder now at electrogroup.bandcamp.com

Like Pelicans

Bayshore

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Sinking Peaks

Girls

Shoppings storming lead single “Initiative”, taken from the forthcoming Album "All Or Nothing", was written in a Seattle basement. Like the album as a whole, the track thrums with purpose, marking a confident new phase for the band. Referencing governments who shirk responsibilities but place the blame on individuals, the song has a frustrated groove that’s propelling, motivated by necessity to keep going against the grain.
You can pre-order the Album here: https://shopping.lnk.to/AllOrNothingWE

Shopping - Initiative

Slumberland began operations in 1989, inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Sarah, Postcard, and the UK post-punk indie label scene. Since then we've covered a lot of territory, from punk to lofi noise to shoegaze and of course pop, releasing records from bands like The Aislers Set, Boyracer, Stereolab, Rocketship, Lorelei, The Ropers, The Saturday People and Black Tambourine.

By the mid 2000s we were starting to see a resurgence of interest in guitar pop and the start of the ongoing vinyl revival: the perfect environment for Slumberland! We launched into our latest phase of activity with as string of classic releases from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Joanna Gruesome and so many more.

2018 is our twenty-ninth year we are still going strong, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like Smokescreens, Tony Molina, Papercuts, Business of Dreams, Peel Dream Magazine, D.A. Stern, The Spook School, Frankie Rose, Young Guv, Terry Malts and many, many more. As always, we operate entirely outside of the echo chamber of trends, fashion and phoney hipness. Slumberland bands are independent in the best way possible -- making music devoid of bullshit and true to their own voices, regardless of current popular taste.

Peel Dream Magazine - Hiding Out

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