New Tracks 03 24 14

Sonic Youth - Shadow Of A Doubt [Volta Boot]

frontier index (silver jews cover) at autonomous zone

From 'Mizieb EP by The Home Current (free with every copy of 'Music & Migration III') : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL025x.html

Hear more by El Búho here : https://soundcloud.com/el-buho

The Home Current - Theme From Mizieb (El Búho Remix)

From 'Serenades & Serinettes' : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL08.html

Available now on iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/serenades-serinettes/id660186855

Klima - By My Side

This Love is Fucking Right! by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart from the self-titled album

This Love Is Fucking Right!

Kevin Devine - "King's Crossing" (Elliott Smith)

Every now and then there's a band that pops up whose sheer enthusiasm in making music, that joy in finding the RIGHT songs and playing them the RIGHT way is so obvious that it's just contagious. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart is one of those bands. Since forming in early 2007, the Pains have released a handful of EPs and compilation tracks on classy labels like Slumberland, Atomic Beat and Cloudberry, each one issued to greater anticipation and even wilder reception. The band's breathless noise-pop sound has garnered them critical acclaim from such quarters as Stereogum, Big Takeover, Skatterbrain, Indie Pages, Drowned In Sound, Indie-MP3, Clash Magazine and uncountable others.
And now we have their brand new single in hand, and we think you'll agree that it's the most infectious blast of pop perfection you will hear all year. Taken from their forthcoming debut album (due in January 2009), "Everything With You" is a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents - early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship - but with that incredible exuberance and energy that the Pains bring to every song. There is simply no such thing as a rote moment or lazily-delivered tune in their repertoire. Every song is delivered with pure conviction and unstoppable verve, the excitement of youth just rushing forth and sweeping the listener along.
This autumn is looking to be a mighty busy one for the Pains, with a tour of Sweden in September and December jaunt around the British Isles accompanying The Wedding Present. "Everything With You" and its anthemic b-side "The Pains of Being Pure At Heart" will be the sounds that you'll hear all fall, rocking the discos and blasting from iPods. The Pains are crafting noise pop gems that are timeless but completely NOW, and these two examples are all the proof you need that this is definitely a band to cherish.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You

Elliott Smith - Little One (Live)

There is two wolves that live inside all of us, which one will you feed?

Tale of Two Wolves

06 The Raincoats - The Perfect Crime

From the album, 'Yclypt,' out now on Second Language Music : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/

Richard Moult -  Song For Mourie

Awful Bliss (Guided by Voices Cover)

Does not exist, take an exit
I hear voices insinuating
Feeds me words to this song that I am saying
Sunlight 7:20 PM, early September

Standing looking at a photograph you don't remember
You look out of breath, and me like I am faking
As a matter of fact, I don't recall this being taken
You don't actually exist so I start shaking

Does not exist, take an exit

Sun Kil Moon - Exit Does Not Exist

Beautiful remix by Danish composer, Lene Charlotte Holm, of 'Boatwoman' from Áine O'Dwyer's mesmerising new album, 'Anything bright or startling?' (out now on Second Language Music : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL022.html)

Áine O'Dwyer - Boatwoman (Lene Charlotte Holm remix)

Slumberland began operations in 1989 as a collective effort consisting of members of DC area bands Velocity Girl, Big Jesus Trash Can/Whorl, Black Tambourine and Powderburns. We were inspired by such musical happenings as C86, early Creation, Postcard, K, Bus Stop, lower East Side noise, and also the renegade art aesthetics & methods of people like Cage, Burroughs and Duchamp. The explosion of punk had left behind a thriving network of 'zines, labels and distributors and we felt that there was room for our noise-loving, pop-obsessed aesthetic. While there were loads of US indie labels releasing a steady stream of 7"s, there wasn't much pop going on. Notable exceptions included Bus Stop, K and Picture Book, and we hoped to join that group and help chisel out some space for melodies amongst the noise.

Early releases from Velocity Girl, Whorl and Black Tambourine struck a note, and we found like-minded popsters getting in touch from all over the world. As we expanded the label roster and our own horizons, the goal was always to share great songs and interesting sounds from a range of styles. Our first burst of activity through the 1990s and early 2000s brought seminal records by legendary bands like Stereolab, Rocketship, The Ropers, Lorelei, The Aislers Set, Hood and Boyracer.

By the mid 2000s we were seeing 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.

2025 is our thirty-sixth (!) year we are still at it, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like The Laughing Chimes, Humdrum, The Cords, Autocamper, Jeanines, The Umbrellas, Neutrals, Artsick, Kids On A Crime Spree, Papercuts, Lightheaded, Tony Jay, Chime School, Lunchbox and many, many more. Indie fashions come and go but we're still thrilled by great songs and the new ways that pop can be rejuvenated to fit the times.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You

Slumberland Records

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