seething landscapes

Blue - Mar 18

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Und wenn du heute eine Pommes isst, hast du es morgen schon wieder fast vergessen.(#127)

SOHN * ,14/03/18

'Hue' / 'Nil'

All songs written by Dan Snaith.
Luke Lalonde sings 'Jamelia'.
Kyle Brenders plays soprano saxophone and bass clarinet on 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal'.
Colin Fisher plays tenor saxophone on 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal'.
Rob Piilonen plays flute on 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal', 'Jamelia'.
Steve Ward plays trombone on 'Sun', 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal', ' Jamelia'.
'Odessa', 'Kaili', 'Leave House', ' Lalibela', 'Jamelia' mixed by David Wrench at Bryn Derwen Studio.
'Found Out' and 'Hannibal' mixed by Jeremy Greenspan at Pistacho Studio.
'Bowls' mixed by Jeremy Greenspan and Dan Snaith.
Mastered by George Graves at Lacquer Channel Mastering.
Photography and art direction by Jason Evans. www.thedailynice.com
Design by Matthew Cooper and Jason Evans.

Jamelia

Iron - EP

Iron

Available Now: smarturl.it/sonderinto

mastered by Rob Bisel

Stream

Feel

Reemerging in 2017 with four new tracks, Son Lux’s new EP 'Remedy' is the ferocious trio’s response to an ever-encroaching reality of social and political upheaval. Reflective but defiant, Ryan Lott, Ian Chang, and Rafiq Bhatia synthesize their signature unpredictable experimentation into an explosive examination of what it means to live, to create, and to resist in America today. These songs were born the week of the 2016 election, and they capture a band both mournful and refusing to accept the new normal. "How does it feel, to be your own deceiver," Lott whispers in our ears, just ahead of the steady approach of swarming, mechanized woodwinds and rising torrents of noise. "I watch you fall, hollow and depleted. A city razed/raised, to bury you beneath it.”

The EP's final statement is a plea, sung in unison with a crowd-sourced choir of more than 300 people. "Find your voice, in the sea of surging bodies and breath, to form a melody, to find a remedy."

In that spirit, Son Lux will donate all proceeds of the sales of 'Remedy' to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of American society.

Remedy

Dangerous

Purchase

Cardinal is the third single from Mt. Joy.

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/7rAF05onNIP4AymEGTgUHO

Facebook - facebook.com/mtjoyband
Twitter - twitter.com/mtjoyband
Instagram - instagram.com/mtjoyband

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Cardinal

Sonder Son

Stay Down

lyrics:

stalled
and leaning backwards
following all the rules
you left

baby steps


long laborous lobotomy
performed on me

woke every night
same questions asked
i don’t remember

its been so long yet i remember you like scars
a perfect picture, everyday
its been so long yet i remember how it was
i used to be your everything and anything

since I’ve been gone I’ve been forgetting all i was
but you’re still clearer than the day everyday

Come down
Come home
Melt in morphine
All alone

Still alive
Still whole
Still in toxic chemicals

Still intoxicated love
Dizzy mess inside my bones

I still remember
I still remember

Now i feel a little hypnotized
Sentimental of your scent tonight
Sent my mental off i feel just fine
got my heart its all need this time
Yea

amnesia

Keep up with Armani White on his social media…

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ArmaniLegendary
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Armaniwhitemusic
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/armaniblanco
Spotify: bit.ly/ArmaniNYC
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WeAreLegendBound

Public School

Free Download

Official Song | Diplo - Worry No More (Feat. Lil Yachty & Santigold)

Stream Look Back:
Stream - http://diplo.fm/WorryNoMore
Download - http://diplo.fm/WorryNoMoreDL
Spotify - http://diplo.fm/WorryNoMoreSP
Apple Music - http://diplo.fm/WorryNoMoreAM
Amazon - http://diplo.fm/WorryNoMoreAMZN

FOLLOW DIPLO:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/diplo
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FOLLOW LIL YACHTY:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lilyachtysailingteam
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lilyachty
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SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/770rd

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Diplo - Worry No More (feat. Lil Yachty & Santigold)

Produced by Topaz Jones & Thelonious Martin

PLEASURE PAIN PASSION Feat. KAMAU

prod. by @muckybeats & @j83
artwork by @ocoyuwtvr
released via @majesticcasualrecords <3

He used to see stars in my eyes
I wonder what he sees now
I used to eat his words like fruit
And I always had an appetite

Two starving souls in the limelight
of the scene that we set ourselves
And we played it all out

That boy don't love me no more
So I've had to love myself
Somehow, but I'm doing okay

That boy don't love me no more
So I've had to love myself
Somehow, but I'm doing okay

I died at his hands a thousand times
And he drank the poison
He heard what I said a thousand times
While I lost my voice and
Had to live off of him
And I tried to
I tried

Two starving souls in the limelight
of the scene that we set ourselves
And we played it all out

That boy don't love me no more
So I've had to love myself
Somehow, but I'm doing okay

That boy don't love me no more
So I've had to love myself
Somehow, but I'm doing okay

Boy (prod. Mucky & J83)

Verse 1

Never gunna be worth nothin
am i gunna be worth something Oh 
Id really like to know
Never gunna try for nothing 
never gunna die for nothing Oh
Welcome to my world

Chorus

I don’t wanna tell you i don’t know your name
I don’t wanna tell you i don’t feel so great 
I don’t wanna tell you i don’t know your name
I don’t wanna tell you i don’t feel so great 

Verse 2

try watching TV for nothing
Gunna fall asleep or something Oh 
I think Im gunna go
heard you called police or something
Never catching me for nothing oh
I thought that you should know

Verse 3

try to change my mind in the last chance
looking straight at you for another dance
I really wanna know
am i gunna change for someone 
always stuck in place is no fun

Chorus

I don’t wanna tell you i don’t know your name
I don’t wanna tell you i don’t feel so great 
I don’t wanna tell you i don’t know your name
I don’t wanna tell you i don’t feel so great

Vinyl

I Don't Know Your Name

Virginia Wing 
Release new album ‘Ecstatic Arrow’ 
Out June 8th 2018
Limited Edition deluxe blue LP inc 20-page zine and poster / standard LP / CD

Their favourite records are the perfect counterbalance of the considered and the superficial. Whether it’s Madonna, Talking Heads or Holger Czukay - we enjoy these artists in the background with friends or profoundly and alone. 

Virginia Wing both understand and embrace this concept fully as they return with Ecstatic Arrow, an album which finds them in a place of renewed strength, optimism and clarity.

Recorded in Switzerland, in the family home of longtime friend and collaborator Misha Hering within the domesticity and gentle routine of communal life, the album represents a world as predisposed to solemn introspection as it is to blithe conviviality. 

Ecstatic Arrow borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizard’s Fourth Wall, the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Press Colour, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art. 

The resolute opener of Be Released and album centre point The Female Genius pair resonant Fourth World instrumentation with sonorous, loping drum patterns. Elsewhere, the sentimental march of single The Second Shift plays out like an after-hours ballad re-imagined by Wally Badarou and For Every Window There’s a Curtain is coloured by the blue-lit haze of an Eventide warped tenor saxophone.

Three albums in, the voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith’s Will Powers. 

It’s with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of Ecstatic Arrow - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that houses a fact we must be reminded of - we have the ability to choose. Even in moments of frustration; the ascerbic eye-roll toward male entitlement, Glorious Idea or the world-weary Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, there persists a joy for living that refuses to be confined.

A depiction of a group finally at ease with itself, Ecstatic Arrow is a tribute to the internal momentum that quietly guides us toward our destination. 

Live Dates:
9th March: UK, Salford, The White Hotel w/ Hookworms
17th March: UK, Glasgow, The Art School w/ Hookworms
18th March: UK, Newcastle, The Cluny w/ Hookworms
24th March: UK, London, Electric Brixton w/ Hookworms
25th March: UK, Sheffield, Picture House Social w/ Hookworms
6th May: UK, Salford, Sounds From The Other City w/ Xam Duo
25th August: UK, Totnes, Sea Change Festival

Virginia Wing - The Second Shift

From the album Warrior, available April 6, 2018 from Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Warrior
Bandcamp: https://airwaves.bandcamp.com/album/warrior
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/warrior/1337353378?ls=1&app=itunes
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv167

The album cover for Warrior, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based band Air Waves, features a ominous, androgynous figure standing with a bicycle, wearing a gas mask adorned with a daisy.  The remarkable image was taken on April 22nd, 1970 at the inaugural Earth Day celebration in New York City by Nicole Schneit’s dad, Martin Schneit.  Forty-seven years later, artist Em Rooney hand-painted Schneit’s original black & white photo, resulting in an image that radiates with Warrior’s indefatigable spirit, strength, and love

Like many queer women, Nicole Schneit is a warrior by necessity, fighting for basic rights, dignity, and acceptance.  Such determination in the face of hardship and injustice runs in Schneit’s family; her new album was inspired in part by her mom who was diagnosed with fallopian cancer last year.  As she explains, “The doctor told her she had a fifteen to twenty percent chance, and her response was ‘I’m going to get this mother fucker.’ So the title ‘Warrior’ and the song are about her. After chemotherapy,  surgery, and then more chemotherapy, all the cancer in her body has left and she's currently in remission. I feel like most of the people in my life, including myself, are warriors and have overcome obstacles that seemed impossible to defeat.”

The dignified fighter archetype referenced in the album’s title is explored on each of Warrior’s eleven pieces of bittersweet, empowering indie pop.  According to Schneit the song “Gay Bets”, written after the 2016 election is “about being gay and being proud and open. I was thinking about hate crimes spiking and the current state of the world. My friend Jennifer Moore, who sings on the track, was my partner a long time ago, so I felt like I was writing a fuck you to Trump, for trying to take away queer rights, women's rights, people's rights.”  The song “Tangerine” was inspired by the film of the same name in which two trans women try to make ends meet as prostitutes. This movie, a dark docu-comedy shot in the contrastingly sunny setting of L.A., reflects Schneit’s battle between identity and society via Brooklyn pop rock that swings between the pastel-tinged and the downright melancholic.

On the album’s gorgeous closer “Blue Fire,” (inspired by the Adrienne Rich poem "The Will to Change") Schneit equates her post-presidential-election anxiety to a flame that grows and recedes, as she pleads for herself and listeners to remain calm. Like its namesake, the track burns slowly and brightly into one of the most glowing points on the record, leaving the listener smiling with thoughtful hope.  Warrior’s highlights, and all of the unmissable, satisfying pieces that tie them together show Schneit’s perseverance and resilience through crumbling relationships, personal adversity, and the current political climate, all leading to her most powerful collection of songs to date. Understated, subtly sophisticated, and equally empowering and comforting, Warrior launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries.  Schneit proudly declares her mission statement: “I want these songs to be heard by people in my queer community, but also by anyone that wants to feels strong, powerful, and included.”

Warrior

Air Waves - "Blue Fire"

Written & Produced by 1010 Benja SL.
Mixed by Marta Salogni.
Mastered by Heba Kadry.
Artwork by 1010 Benja SL