I love the sustained chords in your songs.

Holy hell im glad I finally found this song. Such a wonderful tune. I am not sure what to make of the lyrics but I am trying. Wonderful package though!

i like it. i like it a lot. our music is pretty different but i feel like we do both keep a certain chill atmosphere to our music, check me out if you'd like. i'm always looking for critique from respected musicians like you guys! either way i wish yall the best of luck. you guys got it going on

August

Promises

Music & lyrics by Dean Valentino 
Recorded and Produced by Gareth Leach 
Mixed by Geoffrey O'Connor 
Mastered by David Walker 
Artwork by Sarah Ujmaia

Drums hit by John Philip

Night Fiction

PRE-ORDER 7" Postcard/card postcard: http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/584916-penelope-isles-cut-your-hair-pcc01

Our 2017 singles club will be taking the form of a monthly postcard from some of your favourite bands, and we're kicking that off right now with Penelope Isles.

Following their Comfortably Swell EP which we reissued to coincide with Cassette Store Day 2016, the Brighton via Cornwall foursome jump right into the new year with a fresh audible bowl cut in the form of Cut Your Hair.

25th Jan – Tooting Tram & Social, London
26th Jan – Cookie Jar, Leicester
28th Jan – Wharf Chambers, Leeds
30th Jan – Maguires Pizza Bar, Liverpool
31st Jan – Mothers Ruin, Bristol
2nd Feb – Woodlane Social Club, Falmouth
3rd Feb – Unit 23, Totnes
4th Feb – Green Door Store, Brighton
7th Feb – Old Blue Last, London

Penelope Isles - Cut Your Hair

a very sad song to feel very sad to, but also to feel maybe a little bit better after listening.

Mostly Blue

Pre-order now: https://smarturl.it/usedtoyesterday

Smokescreens began as a love letter to the Flying Nun scene of the 1980’s and it’s outlying bands. Chris Rosi and Corey Cunningham had become friends when the pair toured together in their bands Plateaus and Terry Malts in 2011. By 2015 both had moved to Los Angeles where they began the band in earnest with Rosi on guitar and Cunningham on bass. After getting their sea legs playing the bars and bowling alleys of Southern California, the duo recruited engineer/drummer Jon Greene to help them commit their shambolic paeans to kiwi pop onto tape. Recorded in a disused dairy factory and mixed in mono, their self-titled debut came out on Cunningham’s label Parked In Hell in February of 2017 and was reissued by Spain’s Meritorio Records later that summer.

After the passing of Jon Greene, the pair re-grouped with drummer Brice Bradley and bassist Jenny Moffett, a move that enabled Cunningham to switch to lead guitar and keyboards. The group worked tirelessly, nurturing their sound and writing batches of songs with steadfast dedication. They soon decamped to Primitive Ears, a small studio in North Hollywood, where they tracked the 10 songs that make up "Used To Yesterday." After a handful of quicksilver sessions, the group brought the tapes to producer Kyle Mullarky (The Allah-lahs) who created a final mix that really captures the band's rhythmic drive and melodic verve.

"Used To Yesterday" continues Smokescreen’s zeal for New Zealand pop but also incorporates influences from the more melodic side of Messthetics-era DIY pop and expands into classic indie pop territory, a natural fit for the group’s new label Slumberland Records. First single "The Lost Song" perfectly encapsulates where the band is coming from on this new record; literally a lost demo from the group's earliest days, it is here given a NZ-meets-Athens GA arrangement, galloping along at an urgent clip and packed with guitars that strum and jangle in magical unison.

Where Smokescreens really excel is in the quality of their songwriting and the ability to incorporate a disparate set of influences while still forging their own sound and identity. The song "Used To Yesterday" is classic power-pop, riding a chunky three chord riff and leavened by a bright, clanging lead. Elsewhere we find nods to The Velvet Underground ("Fool Me"), The Clean ("Someone New") and SF's beloved The Aislers Set ("Waiting For Summer"). Smokescreens are such skilled writers and keen students of sound that their cover of the über-obscure NZ band Wasp Factory's "Steel Blue Skies" fits in seamlessly. Album closer "Falling Down" could be a lost single from LA's paisley underground and definitely leaves the listener itching to hear where the band goes next.

Used To Yesterday

Smokescreens - Someone New

From Deeper's debut self titled album out May 25th on Fire Talk. 

Pre Order 
Fire Talk: http://firetalkrecs.com/shop/deeper
Bandcamp: https://deeperchi.bandcamp.com/album/deeper

The debut album from Chicago based Deeper. Origins of the project date back to 2014 where the band has made their mark locally supporting like minded acts Omni, Protomartyr, Chris Cohen & fellow Chicago powerhouses Whitney & Ne-Hi. Fresh off official after show appearances at Pitchfork & Lollapalooza the band is poised to jump out wide with this debut record. 9 tracks channel the anxiety and uneasiness of modern life in this pit of endless internet, chiming post punk rave ups with pointed "of the times" lyrics & gorgeous ambient interludes woven in.

Deeper

Deeper - Pink Showers

So Dead (Version Two) is the exclusive b-side from the Word single.

http://tearjerker.bandcamp.com/album/word

So Dead (Version Two)

One Wretched Summer

Hey what’s up? 
i just had to call
it’s no big deal
just want to talk 
so what’s new?
heard that you moved on
and found someone who makes you talk
can’t believe 
it has been a year
been kinda dark 
just want to talk

x3 Hey what’s up? 
i just had to call
it’s no big deal
just want to talk 
so what’s new?
heard that you moved on
and found someone who makes you talk

So Dead (Version Two)

Tearjerker

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