PLAYLIST AUGUST 2018

If I Don't Take You Away [Then Who Will] (live at WCBN)

Janitor Short - Mark Phillips (serial Podcast)

Springtime Fantasy

Unmastered version of fifth track on Blue Wave Mosaic

Phillip's Bicycle 
Charlie Burg feat. daniel james
Prod. Charlie Burg
2015

Album art by Emily Blair

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PHILLIP'S BICYCLE feat. daniel james

Words and music by Charlie Burg and Dan Sagher
Prod. Dan Sagher
Mixed and mastered by Dan Sagher
Consultation from Erez Levin

Feeling It Now feat. Dan Sagher

A (lo-fi) recording of Pocket Candies, live at the Luther Frostbite Freak, 1/30/2016.
Pocket Candies are:
Summer Krinsky - Bass, Vocals
Sam Naples - Guitar, Vocals
Robby Olsen - Drums


Pocket Candies -(Poly Jealousy) Blues  -  1/30/16 - Luther Haus - Ann Arbor, MI

Lady Gets High

Debut single from experimental art-popper, Alex Rand. Special edition vinyl pressed by Wax Mage. 

Preorder here: https://jurassicpoprecords.com/releases/alex-rand-boyhood-places

ALEX RAND is an experimental-pop producer/songwriter from Montréal, who has recently finished his first solo EP, Sundial, in between recording and touring as a member of the art-rock band LOOK VIBRANT, .

According to Alex the record is, "a collection of experimental-pop songs that explore a wide range of lo-fi sonic textures and harmonic colours within the frame of more accessible pop forms and melodies." 

In other words, Sundial is a heady, engaging take on progressive pop music. Alex deconstructs elements of modern pop, R&B, and indie-rock, then carefully reassembles them into delicate and captivating song structures. This is a maximalist approach to pop arrangements that we've been calling "Art&B".

Alex Rand - "Boyhood Places"

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Produced by RAHM
Artwork by Darren Oorloff
Photo by Debbie Scanlan

Amnesiac

Written by Jack Thomas
Adaptation by Max Stutz

Recorded summer 2017

Who Boy - Toy Plane

"Birthday" is the first single from Gia Margaret's debut album, THERE'S ALWAYS GLIMMER, out 7/27/18 on Orindal Records.

Pre-order vinyl + digital now at http://orindal.com

Chicago singer/songwriter/producer Gia Margaret describes her music as “sleep rock.” It’s a genre all her own, combining elements of folk, shoegaze, slowcore, ambient electronica and trip hop. For her self-produced debut album, There’s Always Glimmer (out July 27, 2018 on Orindal Records), Gia Margaret crafted twelve gorgeously melancholic lullabies to combat her own insomnia, and to salvage some beauty from the brighter and darker moments of her life.

There’s Always Glimmer explores relationships between friends, family members and significant others, often in past tense. Sparse verses isolate mundane moments of domestic and urban life, and choruses ache with earnest expressions of yearning and loss. The disarmingly simple language of Gia Margaret’s lyrics, when carried by the melodic sparkle of her singing voice, have the power to elevate an ordinary moment into something supremely nostalgic and sentimental. A ride on a train, a hand on a shoulder, a dog in a yard, the light of the moon through an apartment window are each made significant and sacred, worthy of examination and preservation.

As much as it addresses the unease in our lives, each song on There’s Always Glimmer is steeped in loving comfort, awash with gentle sounds to usher the still minutes before dreams come, when we’re left alone amidst the shadows and the echoes of our memory. There’s Always Glimmer exists to fill the darkness and the quiet.

There's Always Glimmer

Birthday by Gia Margaret

"Bright and propulsive and gorgeous." - Tom Breihan, STEREOGUM

"A deeply funky house track." - Sophie Kemp, PITCHFORK

"One of the 5 Best Songs of the Week." - STEREOGUM

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Touchscreen (feat. Meredith Graves)
A new single from House of Feelings off the record "New Lows"
Out 1 September 2018 on the Joyful Noise White Label Series

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Song by Meredith Graves, Joe Fassler, Matty Fasano, and Dale Eisinger
Produced by House of Feelings
Sax and guitar by Tim Angiolillo
Drums by Matty Fasano
Tambourine by Dale Eisinger
All sounds made at Faculty and Tower of Light, Brooklyn, New York, 2018

Cover photo by Dale Eisinger

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Touchscreen (feat. Meredith Graves)

Wakey

Young Miami producer Marks is returning to Coyote Records on 31st August with 'Crush', his first full-length beat tape. Having debuted on the label last year with the well-received 'Drain' EP, the new release pushes his core sound forward while also showing off his versatility.

Following lead track 'Cold Monday' which was released last week, we're very happy to be premiering the second track to be taken from the record. 'Strawberry Shortcake' opens with glossy chimes and a nursery rhyme melody straight out of the Aphex Twin playbook, patiently evolving this theme over the course of the track while being thwacked over the head by fidgety drums that feel beamed in from another record.

Crush

PREMIERE: Marks - Strawberry Shortcake [Coyote Records]

Puce Mary — The Drought
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 87
Release Date: 5 October 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot

Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth.
 
Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience.

“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world.

Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland 

@pucemary
http://p-a-n.org

Wakey

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