J A M U A R Y

2016

Soundcloud discoveries and general goodness out in 2016 worth checkin' out.  .  . Enjoy! :) 

Listen: 2016

a bunch of catchy tunes from all around, 
singles and new releases, 
new & older finds,
instant pop-chart, 
no genre-specific

Blah Blah Blah Tape #2

from Orion Rigel Dommisse's third studio record "Omicron" 

"Omicron" available for digital download orionrigeldommisse.bandcamp.com/

official release date October 18, 2014

recorded in May 2014 by Benjamin Glibert at Electric Mami in Vallesvilles, FR

mixed and mastered by Seth Manchester and Keith Souza at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, RI

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i have met the murderer 
we drank together 
seen him pass by everyday 
and had been warned to keep away 

we never make a plan 
he understands 
to walk around, under noon skies 
hewn wife pictured by passerby 

evil walk with me 
i have seen all the things you have seen 
a handsome killer 
he knows 
the way to 
speak to me 

daylight fills my 
hilltop house 
and i want out 
to venture down 
to the village 
the one in which 
he and I live 

i've fallen for the murderer 
we drank together 
i like to hear 
about prison 
the games that happen within 

evil walk with me 
i have seen all the things you have seen 
a handsome killer 
he knows 
the way to 
speak to me 

i wake you up 
when it is time 
to say goodbye 
you wonder 
where i go all day 
you're on to me, my heart astray 

evil, walk with me 
i have seen 
all the things 
you have seen 
a handsome killer 
he knows the way to speak to me

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Orion Rigel Dommisse: songs, singing, piano, synthesizer, organ
Jens Bosteen: bass, harmony vox
Eddy Crampes: guitar, harmony vox
Emmanuel Mario: drums, percussion
Janel Leppin: cello
Benjamin Glibert: guitar, contrabass on "Take Her Away"

Hewn

In demand drummer for Melt Yourself Down and the Owiny Sigoma Band, Tom Skinner, steps out of the spotlight from his recent worldwide successes to rework Kit Grill's track "Velodrome" with an all live set up. Contrasting from the original's very digital tone, Skinny has brought in the help of his previous collaborator, Shabaka Hutchings. Aware that Kit wasn't too keen on having remixes done, Hello Skinny thought it would be more interesting to do a cover version. The idea was to replay some of the core melodic and rhythmic material but rearranged loosely for a more acoustic set up. Hello Skinny started off as a duo between Tom Skinner and clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings so it made sense to go back to this original format for the basis of this cover version.
The whole piece is built around a one-take performance of the main theme from Shabaka on clarinet. A feat of human physical endurance, he manages to maintain the repetition of the part whilst changing the timbre and texture through circular breathing and other extended techniques. We then overdubbed the counter melody and a bass clarinet part. Having the overall shape of the piece, Hello Skinny was able to play a live drum take along to it.
With a bit of extra percussion, liberal use of delay and some distortion the track was taken to close friend and collaborator Chris Morphitis to mix. The whole piece was bounced to 8-track tape and mixed to 2-track tape utilizing his beautiful Studer desk and gorgeous plate reverb. Job done.

Kit Grill - Velodrome (Hello Skinny cover)

Artwork by Steven Duke - http://instagram.com/_stevenduke_

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Zama

Gus Franklin — drums, organ, backing vocals 
Mark Monnone — vocals, guitar, bass

Recorded in Melbourne, late-2013 by Lukas Glickman and Gus Franklin. Mixed by Gus Franklin. 

Released by Jigsaw Records and Dufflecoat Records as a double A-side 7" single with Math & Physics Club's 'It Must Be Summer Somewhere' on the flip. 

Order it on vinyl here: 
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Monnone Alone — Eddie

Thrilling Cardiff-based noisepop group Joanna Gruesome have teamed up with their American cousins Perfect Pussy to release a remarkable four song split 7" EP. The release comes packaged in a 24-page comic book, illustrated by cartoonist Phil McAndrew (brother of Perfect Pussy's guitarist Ray McAndrew). The heroine in McAndrew's comic is a "split" between Joanna Gruesome front woman Alanna McArdle and Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy, who battles misogynists, online trolls and haters everywhere. The EP is being co-released by Fortuna POP!, Captured Tracks and Slumberland on 24 November.

Joanna Gruesome’s terrific debut album “Weird Sister” took the world by storm when it was released last September. Produced by Hookworm’s MJ, the album is brimming with irresistible pop melodies and spiked with dissonant fuzzy jangle, the songs shot through with loud discordant feedback and super-fast, hardcore punk drumbeats. Fantastic press support saw glowing press reviews across the board with particular love from Pitchfork and from NME, including a spot on the front cover as part of their Rule Britannia issue. At radio the singles from the album scored a remarkable three out of three in BBC 6Music B-lists and the band played sessions for Lauren Laverne on 6Music and for Huw Stephens on Radio One. The album has recently been shortlisted for this year’s Welsh Music Prize. The two tracks here follow their recently released split EP with Trust Fund and represent some of the first new material to be heard from the band since the release of “Weird Sister” and, in lead track “Psykick Espionage” a taste of their new album to be released in the first half of 2015. Their second track “...And Keep Reaching for Those Stars” is a cover of a song by 90s US emo band I Hate Myself.

Hailing from Syracuse, New York, Perfect Pussy are one of the boldest and most intriguing projects to surface in recent years. Veiled beneath layers of exquisitely abrasive noise, frontwoman Meredith Graves’ lyrics are disarming, brutally honest and poetic, possessing a feverish intensity that can only be matched by her electric stage presence. Their album ‘Say Yes to Love’ was released on Captured Tracks in March 2014 to widespread critical acclaim. On this EP Perfect Pussy cover Björk’s old band the Sugarcubes’ “Leash Called Love” and also contribute the new track “Adult World (The Secret)”.


Joanna Gruesome - Psykick Espionage

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Night Songs' released March 25th 2016 on Sugarcoat Records
Preorder here: https://benedictbenjamin.bandcamp.com/album/night-songs

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Thin Skin

'Expansion Pact' is the first single from Gun Outfit's Two Way Player EP out on 2/12/2016.  Order Two Way Player here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/pre-order-gun-outfit-two-way-player

Order from Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/two-way-player-ep/id1074175667

After nearly a decade and a steady flow of full lengths, EPs, and tapes, Gun Outfit can be safely identified as underground stalwarts and an institution of sorts, embodying the promise of lives lived for art. Outlasting simplistic “sounds like” comparisons, Gun Outfit have arrived at a sound that is awash in western light and as deep and expansive as their beloved Pacific Ocean.

On the heels of their justly lauded LP Dream All Over, Gun Outfit deliver Two Way Player, an EP of enigmatic and spacious guitar music that stands alongside the bandʼs boldest and strongest work thus far. Abstracted legends of the American West, fortunes gained and lost, tragic songs of life rendered in deep focus – all portrayed through mysterious and dense compositions that recall the lonely expanses and warm intimacies of the films of Bruce Baillie and Gunvor Nelson. Compulsory listening for any fan of American Music, Two Way Player is a brief, beautiful dispatch from the countryʼs most consistent band, a record equally suited for stoned sunny mornings and lonely full moon nights. Two Way Player was recorded in New York in June 2015 and features an alternate lineup including David Harris (Milk Music) on bass, Joe Denardo (Growing/Ornament) on guitar and Will Lawrence on electric piano in addition to the core group of Daniel Swire, Carrie Keith and Dylan Sharp. Recorded at Kutch 1 Studios, Brooklyn. 

Pitchfork review of Dream All Over - http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20980-dream-all-over/

Gun Outfit - Expansion Pact

My Feet Have No Need For The Ground

From his second album "It Calls On Me", out February, 19th, 2016 on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Doug Tuttle "Falling To Believe" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Mass Gothic (release date: February 5th 2016) https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/mass_gothic/mass_gothic

Mass Gothic

Mass Gothic - Every Night You've Got to Save Me

"Amerika" from new album The Great Detachment, available March 4, 2016 on Dine Alone Records.

Pre-order now:

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Physical: http://wintersleep.com

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The Great Detachment

Wintersleep - Amerika

Pre-order Coming Jan 7th at dopefolksrecords.com 

Deep In Da Circle - Eye Tag - Pre-order Starts 1/11/16

chopped and screwed

Ye Ali + Dutchboy ~ Ring 4x (Chopped and Screwed) By DJ Purpberry

'Free TC' Deluxe Edition available now - features 4 new $ongs!
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Horses in the Stable

Golden Daze's self-titled LP is due February 19 via Autumn Tone Records

"Low"

From the upcoming Still Life of Citrus and Slime album.

CFM -  Lunar Heroine

Michael Nau
"Mowing" CD/LP/DIG
Order: CD/LP/DIG - http://store.suicidesqueeze.net
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
Artist Facebook - www.facebook.com/michaelnaucottonjones/
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Label Instagram / Twitter: @suicidesqueeze

Smooth Aisles by Michael Nau

Taken from the 'Dagger Paths' E.P. 

Released on 12" vinyl via Dense Truth and CD via No Pain In Pop.

Buy at www.forestswords.co.uk
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Debut album "Engravings" out now through Tri Angle Records.

Full tour dates now online: http://www.forestswords.co.uk/

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Miarches

Get your free download of 'Reaction' now: http://bit.ly/azreaction
Artwork: Giovanni Torres http://www.lightpollution.net/

Reaction

Taken from debut album "Engravings" out now through Tri Angle Records. 

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Thor's Stone

Taken from EP#1. Out June 28, 2013.

Written, recorded and mixed by Raphael Elmiger, Bern.
Mastered by Carl Saff, Chicago.

Belia Winnewisser - Vocals
Raphael Elmiger - Vocals, guitars, drums & all that stuff.

Artwork by Judith Roelli.

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Silver Firs - Motherland

Release info: http://ghostly.com/releases/jetee-desire

Fort Romeau - Jetée

Independent record label based in Seattle, WA.