Order here: http://goo.gl/eLyTIW.
Buy the first single "Complete" now: http://goo.gl/Z1WbE9

Heavenly Beat // Honest

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Taken from the album "Ripe 4 Luv." Out March 10th on Slumberland Records.
Pre-order iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ripe4luv
Pre-order LP/CD: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/282

From: Harry Winklebottom
To: Social Media/Marketing/Sales
Re: who is Young Guv and why is he ripe for love?

Who's @youngguv? He's still underground, but everyone will know him soon. Right now, he only has 1500 followers, so we need to get this kid a checkmark as soon as possible. Here's the rundown:

He's a white boy in a backwards snapback with fake Emoji neck tattoos. He's ripped bald kid fronting one of the most important and successful hardcore bands in Toronto history. He's a ghostwriter eating pasta as he pens al dente tunes for the likes of Sum 41, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, a few Canadian Idols, Snow, a slew of hardcore bands, Maroon 5 and one or two OVO affiliates. He's a tortured artist turning down Katy Perry's edits to his tunes because she didn't like his babies as they were. He's a child actor playing Ryan Gosling's sexy little brother. Do I need to go on?

@youngguv is Ben Cook, and he's putting out an album, "Ripe 4 Luv," on one of the greatest labels ever, Slumberland Records. Having been around for a minute, Guv has decided to put together a set of pop tunes that shows off his range as a performer, singer, songwriter, style icon and retweet-worthy pop star. I've heard the album, and its ready to head to marketing. We don't need a billboard for this one, all we need to do is release a single and get it trending worldwide. We're going to break Nielsen SoundScan. We're going straight to #1 on iTunes!

Guv got it right the first time with his band No Warning, one of the only Canadian hardcore acts to achieve recognition from major labels in the U.S. He parlayed this experience into a successful career as the creeper peaking through the curtain as better-looking people sing his songs to an appreciative audience. In addition to writing for pop royalty and no-name punk acts, Young Guv has spent the last 7 years playing guitar in fellow Toronto legends Fucked Up, selling 10's of 1000's of singles recorded in various bedrooms, and helping put the East End back on the GTA's music map with his Bad Actors imprint. Guv has been around for a while, and now he's helping new, young talent get around and release classic records. How could you not like this guy? He's got the bone structure to go viral at any moment.

"Ripe 4 Luv" is a beautiful album for beautiful people. Plus, it really shows off his range. There's only one way to describe this record: Guv sings like Prince into expensive audio-nerd mics over power pop backing tracks that evoke Big Star after they got some nookie but before they became depressed about their failure to appeal to the right audience. If that's not good enough for you, then it sounds like Cheap Trick produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Or how about Drake's producer 40 manning the boards for a Hall & Oates session? Any of those will help sell this record to the blogs, just pick one and run with it. 

That's it, that's what you get when you stream "Ripe 4 Luv" on Spotify. I'm telling you, this album is just perfect for Billboard's Trending 140 chart. We're going to be rich!

Young Guv - Wrong Crowd feat. Jef Barbara

This electro-pop song is about past lives, memories of our youth, first loves and heartbreaks. We can't rewind, might as well embrace being alive and growing old.

We want to grow old

We Want To Grow Old

Grace Joyner, "Maybe Sometimes in C" 
out Friday 5/20 on Hearts & Plugs, H&P021

Pre-order on CD and Cassette here:
http://bit.ly/1S69fpS

Grace Joyner - Dreams

Shake Off is taken from Wildhart´s debut album Shine that will be released 11th of November. Shake Off is released on all digital platforms the 14th of October. 

Wildhart Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/wildhartmusic/

Their album Shine can now be orderd on Vinyl or CD from:
https://gaphals.bandcamp.com/

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2do2Ha1
Deezer: http://bit.ly/2dOKN3R
TIDAL: http://bit.ly/2dBkpd8
iTunes: http://apple.co/2dWV8fC

'Shine'

Shake Off

Written and composed by Maud Nadal. 
Produced by Robin Leduc and Maud Nadal at Spectral Studio, Paris. 
Mixed by Angy Laperdrix at Solaris Studio, Paris. 
Mastered by Rémi Salvador at Climax.

Maud Nadal: vocals, guitars, keys. 
Robin Leduc: bass, guitars. 
Stéphane Bellity: drums.

BUY Du Pouvoir EP:
https://halomaud.bandcamp.com/releases

Du Pouvoir

Midnight Sister - “Daddy Long Legs” from Saturn Over Sunset, out September 8 on Jagjaguwar

Buy / stream: https://midnightsister.lnk.to/saturn

https://www.facebook.com/midnightsister
https://www.instagram.com/midnightsister
https://twitter.com/_midnightsister

Midnight Sister - Daddy Long Legs

Mermaid

'oh my' out 26 January, 2018 on Father/Daughter (North America) and Memphis Industries (UK/EU)
Pre-order: smarturl.it/nadine_ohmy

oh my

Pews

From the upcoming album 'Something Familiar' out on March 2nd, 2018.

Follow Hibou at the links below.
https://www.facebook.com/hibouband/
https://twitter.com/hibouband/
https://hiboumichel.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/hibouband/

Fall Into

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.

Young Guv - Wrong Crowd feat. Jef Barbara

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