EPR Weekly Roundup 2017 #41 W/C 2nd October 2017

'Tombs are full of fools who gave their life upon command
Of monarchy, oligarch, head of state, potentate
And now never coming back, never coming back
Tombs are full of fools who gave their life upon command
Of Romance gone wrong'
MORRISSEY "I Wish You Lonely” (2017)

Tombs Are Full Of Fools // OCTOBER 2017 \\ Dreampop / Shoegaze / Psychedelic / Indie Pop

Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators will listen to every track*. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 2nd October: from mid-day on Friday you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch256

*Note: we don't listen again to tunes we've already heard, and automatically block artists who send more than one track a week (our moderators can manage to work their way through 150+ tunes overnight, but 300+ would be impossible!)

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 256

Top Tracks Playlist October Edition

Full Recommended Tracks Playlist

Bend & Break

Sam McKenna - Bend & Break

Heard this for the first time in years, had to find the vocals and have a play with them......

iio Rapture Remix

Dilate

The Pale White

Downer

04 When They Fall

Dawn

Friday Night

Debut single from Headclouds. Released 25th August 2017.

Written by Headclouds. Recorded at Blank Studios with Chris McManus.

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2vo9klO 
Apple Music: http://apple.co/2wNIBmo

Flowers

'Feels Like' written and performed by Swine Tax

Feels Like

Punk Drunk & Trembling

Recorded and produced by Liam Dickman, Nathan Gooch and Ben Mackett.

Mixed by Darwin Smith. Mastered by Pete Maher.

Artwork by Sarah Legender (Rat Stamp Musician Artwork).

Forget To Love

Remix by @ellieh 

Pre-order the Fire EP: dreamwife.bandcamp.com/album/fire-ep

Fire EP

Fire (Ellie Herring Remix)

Я вирішив поділитися першим альбомом, який був записаний через півроку з моменту, як я взяв гітару в руки.

Entrada (2014)

Remix by @billyboynoyz

Pre-order the Fire EP: dreamwife.bandcamp.com/album/fire-ep

Fire (biLLLy Remix)

Холода

catch a falling star but i cry
the stars and i the sound of
i can read your mind with my emotions
they’re afraid we may change 
we’re not the same they say
they’re afraid we might feel their pain
they’re afraid we may become human like them

artificial isolation

Recorded and Mixed by Alex Greaves at The Nave

Mastered by Streaky at Metropolis

Speak It

兵庫発のサイケデリック・ポップ・バンドDaisy Jaineの初となるフィジカル音源のリリースが決定した。5曲入りのEPとしてリリースされる『Under The Sun』は60年代以降のポップ・ミュージックを独自のサウンドとして表現したマスターピースと言える作品となっている。Rio Miyamotoによるボーダーレスなボーカル、Tomoya Yokoyamaが紡ぐベースラインは彼ら特有のサイケデリックな世界へと導いていく。

様々な年代の音楽を踏襲しながらも独自の世界観を作り出していくその鬼才ぶりには、Tame Impalaの存在を引き合いに出さずにはいられない。彼らがオーストラリアで確立した地位と同じように、ここ日本では、Daisy Jaineが新しい音楽の形を提示していくのだと感じている。今作『Under The Sun』は、彼らの処女作であり、これからの日本の音楽シーンに投げかける、メッセージとなるであろう。

Under the Sun

Buy this EP

Daisy Jaine - Under The Sun

Vinyl, streaming, download, etc. at smarturl.it/absent-forever

Absent Forever is the newest album from London-based producer Plastic Flowers - his third full-length LP and the second for The Native Sound after Heavenly. Plastic Flowers formed vaguely around 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece and play a noisy version of Dream Pop filed under Shoegaze, Ambient and Indie. Much like his previous releases on labels such as Crash Symbols, Inner Ear Records or Bad Panda, this new album artfully slips intelligence and experimentation into a dying art form.

Recordings were completed in less than three months in 2017 and the album comprises of ten tracks that have been around George’s hard drive in demo form since early 2013. For this record Plastic Flowers recorded himself onto tape in different DIY spaces around London, including a friend’s old house in Hampstead and his small home studio. While dealing with massive academic workload and stress for his PhD, he managed to completely reshape Plastic Flowers’ sound with a new record that captures the analog aesthetics and the warm sound of the tape. As part of the creative process, he collaborated with a string quartet and his ex bandmate Angelos who assisted in the recordings.

Absent Forever finds Plastic Flowers hopeful and heavy, a new direction for those familiar with his music. It still possess the pensive and melancholy undertones taken of Heavenly, but they take different forms and themes. There are different ways to find growth and constructiveness through the times and situations that are labelled as negative, but through this album Samaras explores themes of personal flaws and downfalls that changed his life and helped him complete Absent Forever.

Absent Forever is out November 10th on vinyl and digitally via The Native Sound.

Vinyl/ Streaming

Plastic Flowers – Dalliance

Virtual Life

Undine Beauty

Written by Headclouds. Recorded at Blank Studios with Chris McManus.

'Seen It Before' released Friday 27th October.

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2hfKRKu 
Apple Music: http://apple.co/2lmRuyT

Seen It Before

life is not a pony farm
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

contact / bookings: 
bookings@swinetax.com
swinetax@gmail.com