August 2020: An Alternative Music Playlist

Old Fools
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

Old fools
Sat on their hands like 
dull tools
Particles blown by the gas
Fly by their faces as they pass
By the old fools

Old fools
Useless remainders, 
the old cogs
Adrift in the fog
Waiting for a peer
That will never come near

The sounds of the tunnel
The swiftly flowing funnel
Spilling like slop on the shoulders
of the old fools 
who will never be
any older

Could you believe only days from today
We will fight for the scraps where they lay
How terribly fair 
to be nowhere

[instrumental]

Old fools
We got here the same way
Stupidly nursing the same smears
Couldn't get out of our own way

Could you believe only days from today
We will fight for the scraps where they lay
How terribly fair 
to be nowhere

[instrumental]

Old fools (11a)

A paean to our pals and a preview of our second LP — out later this year, we promise.

Recorded by Lewis Pesacov (Fool's Gold, Foreign Born, Peel'd)
Add'l production by Jed Smith (The Jeanines, My Teenage Stride)
Mastered by Mikey Young

Michael Is My Girlfriend

The Cafe of Eternal Youth

Night Shop - The Cafe Of Eternal Youth

Here's a dark one for your sunday blues.
Made this live on IG.

beats

Troll Hunt

Virus

Messiah Complex iv: The Sect

Emily Reo - One Eye On The Sky

Following up their well-received 2018 album "Used To Yesterday," LA's Smokecreens are back with the excellent new record "A Strange Dream." Produced by David Kilgour from NZ legends The Clean, "A Strange Dream" shows a band at the peak of it's talents, ably blending influences like The Go-Betweens, UK DIY indie and pop, and of course Flying Nun into a compelling, compulsive album. From the jaunty pop of opener "Fork In The Road" to the rocking "Streets of Despair" and the dreamy "On and On" this is a record that clearly shows a band that knows it's way around a timeless guitar riff and aching pop melody. Gorgeous ballads like "Nighttime Skies" and "I Love Only You" add a new depth to Smokescreens' sound, and the cover of Scrotum Poles' DIY classic "Pick The Cats Eyes Out" is perfect, and perfectly fun. A future classic.

A Strange Dream

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Smokescreens - Fork In the Road

Sex, Death & The Infinite Void

Napalm Girls

Summer Trope (feat. Pip Blom)

Your Four Walls

'The North' is taken from Vintage Crop's forthcoming album 'Serve To Serve Again' out August 7th on Upset The Rhythm & Anti Fade.

Available to pre-order now: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Serve To Serve Again

Vintage Crop - The North

Old Data in a New Machine, Vol. 1

ripple+

Their new EP captures the band evolving together in the best of ways. The Ophelias are changing in sound, location, and gender— but their camaraderie is strong as ever.

Limited Edition Lathe-cut & Digital: http://joyfulnoi.se/ForLuck

For Luck

Lathe-Cut/Digital

Grand Canyon

The Luxembourg Signal - 2.22

From Corey Flood's debut album Hanging Garden out September 4th on Fire Talk.

Buy: ffm.to/coreyfloodphl

There’s a vague sense of unease that permeates Corey Flood’s debut full-length, Hanging Garden, out September 5th via Fire Talk. From the surface, the record appears to break through the dark fog of the band’s 2018 EP, Wish You Hadn’t, but just below lay themes of ambivalence, uncertainty, and anxiety, layered elegantly in fuzz. Recorded in Philadelphia by Jackie Milestone, mixed by Natasha Jacobs, and mastered by Sarah Register, Hanging Garden pushes through feelings of discomfort and repressed emotions to discover what truly lies beneath.

Born in Philly circa 2017, Corey Flood began as the post-grad bedroom project of bassist Ivy Gray-Klein (formerly of Littler) and drummer Juliette Rando. A month after their first show with guitarist Em Boltz, the band signed with New York’s Fire Talk Records and turned four planned demos into a full-fledged, delightfully menacing debut EP. Now, after two years of intense growth and collaboration, the trio continues their “whirlwind trajectory” with the long-awaited, nine-track LP, Hanging Garden.

Inspired by Throwing Muses, Helium, Pale Saints, and Brix Smith-Start’s work with the Fall, Gray-Klein calls Hanging Garden “a reckoning with internal discord.” Through soft melodies, lush guitars and churning rhythms, the dual vocals of Gray-Klein and Boltz recall relatable experiences with gaslighting, imposter syndrome, and repetitive thoughts. Hanging Garden feels intimate and familiar but is strewn with playful surprises, like 70s krautrock guitar work and samba-influenced drum parts. Hanging Garden is a mature stride forward, and a bewitching amble towards the unknown.

Hanging Garden

Corey Flood - Park Deli 7

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