[Weekly Mix] 2018.02 (1)

From the album Exit Index out October 20th on Western Vinyl

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Grooms' Exit Index combines the abandon of pop with the unease of American life in 2017, cloaking its hooks in a clamor of samples and distortion, its agitation expressed in its dream-poetry lyrics. The album as a whole is a study in contrasts—light meeting dark, amplifier fuzz surrounding big melodies, sampled friction squaring off with fluidly played basslines. 

Grooms laid down the skeleton tracks for Exit Index, the Brooklyn band's first album since 2015's Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair, at the storied New York recording studio The Magic Shop. 

The heavy processing on the group's guitars helps add to the gloom as well; Johnson, who has co-owned the Brooklyn pedal company Death By Audio Effects since 2008, made a limited-edition distortion pedal to celebrate the album's release. "There's a lot of tremolo on Exit Index," he says, "so I made a fucked-up-sounding trem. I designed it to be dense and possibly confusing at first, where all the controls affect what the other controls do, like a synth. It can tremolo, or it can degrade things like they're on worn-out cassette tapes." Collin Dupuis (Angel Olsen, Lana Del Rey) mixed the album, adding a few finishing touches to intros and song structures while also making the structures Grooms constructs sound even more massive and imposing.

Grooms -  "Turn Your Body"

Taken from Strange Names' sophomore album "DATA" is out February 23rd, 2018.

Stranges Names - People To Go (Feat. Jorge Socarras)

The fourth single off of my upcoming project, "Witches Lake."

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Lyrics :

Don’t Keep Me Waitin’

Givin’ up your pride isn’t easy
C’mon realize that you need me
It’s enough to hold

Tell me all the lies that you’re keeping
I’ll be on ya side not fleeting
And we hardly know

Tryin’ to catch your eyes when they pass along
Don’t keep me waitin’
Me waitin’
Find me when the lights are turnin’ off
Don’t Keep Me Waitin’
Me waitin’

Call me when the fear turns over
I’ll be on the rise getting older
It’s enough to choose

Find me to the left of ya shoulder
I’ll be in your eyes getting colder
And we hardly move

Tryin’ to catch your eyes when they pass along
Don’t keep me waitin’
Me waitin’
Find me when the lights are turnin’ off
Don’t Keep Me Waitin’
Me waitin’

Funny how I been right here crying
For one of you to call me out
Call me out
Funny how I been right here dying
For one of you to pull me out
Pull me out

Don't Keep Me Waiting

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Produced by - Speakman Sound

Cause and Effect

Cause And Effect

music, lyrics & prod - Jacob Allen
mixing - Ben Baptie
mastering - Guy Davie

vocals, guitars, noise - Jacob Allen
bass - Rudi Creswick
keys - Harvey Grant
MPC3000 - D'Monk

photo - Molly Daniel

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~ released via Blue Flowers ~
https://youtu.be/jsvyuqWAJEo

Only Trying 2 Tell U

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"Beyond XXXL" out April 6th on Telephone Explosion and Atelier Ciseaux. 

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In the two years since their last release, Freak Heat Waves have continued a perpetual process of transformation. Shedding familiar influences from the heavily excavated histories of post-punk and krautrock, the band has now beamed into uncharted territory with the otherworldly sound of their third album, Beyond XXXL.

Beyond XXXL is 11-song excursion, alien strains of synth-pop and glam-rock are sandblasted with smooth guitar solos, eerie electronics, and pulsating drum machines propelled into skull-shattering breakbeats. Deeply distorted vocals narrate the narcoleptic trip like a DJ Screw mixtape splicing together John Foxx, John Maus, and The Prodigy. The result is Freak Heat Waves’ most cohesive and captivating release to date, amplifying earlier melodic sensibilities while remaining singularly strange.  

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Beyond XXXL

Freak Heat Waves - Self Vortex

Heaven's Only Wishful

'Mother Hen' the opening track from debut album 'Now! (in a minute)' due for release 2 November via Heavenly Recordings. 

Pre-order album here:  http://smarturl.it/AB_NIAM

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Released by:
Heavenly Records
Release date:
2 November 2018

Now! (in a minute)

Mother Hen

02 Gnoomes - Sword In The Stone

From the album Unmask Whoever available March 27, 2020 on Western Vinyl

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Unmask Whoever

Activity - "Calls Your Name"

Aleph

Hypnagogia

The Strain

KEYS - The Strain

The Sophtware Slump ..... on a wooden piano

Underneath the Weeping Willow (Piano Version)

Cool Ghouls - a band fledged in San Francisco on house shows, minimum wage jobs, BBQ's in Golden Gate Park and the romance of a city’s psychedelic history turns 10 this year. What better a decennial celebration than the release of their fourth album, At George's Zoo!

How did San Francisco's fab four arrive at George's Zoo? The teenage friendship of complimentary spirits Pat McDonald (Guitar/Vox) and Pat Thomas (Bass/Vox) serves as square one. The Patricks were munching on Eggo-waffle-sandwiches and downing warm Taaka in suburban Benicia years before McDonald would hear George Clinton address his fans as "Cool Ghouls". The boys played their debut gig as Cool Ghouls at San Francisco's legendary The Stud in 2011, but there's no doubt the musical moment cementing the band's trajectory was much earlier at the 18th birthday party for boy-wonder Ryan Wong (Guitar/Vox) - at the Wong household.

You might remember the Ghouls' earliest days... McDonald’s hair hung luxuriously past his waist, Thomas dreamt of no longer having to crash on friends' couches to call SF home and Wong looked forward to turning 21. Cool Ghouls' Pete Best, Cody Voorhees, thrashed wildly - but briefly - on the drums and Alex Fleshman (Drums), who still claims he's not really "a drummer", turned out to be a really good drummer. Thomas would sleep pee on tour. Those were golden days!

Flash forward to today and everything is up in flames. No shows, parties or bars. Cool people are streaming out of SF. It's been 2 years since the last time Cool Ghouls have even played. The STUD is gone, The Eagle Tavern is for sale and The Hemlock has been demolished for condos. Your boss is an app. Fascism is no-knocking down the door. There's a pandemic.

Fortunately for us, the ghouls got an album in before it all went to shit, and they made it count. At George's Zoo includes 15 of the 27 tunes they managed to eke out while simultaneously working through major life moves. It was a 5-month, all out, final sprint down the homestretch (to Ryan's moving day) with affable engineer Robby Joseph, at his makeshift garage studio in the Outer Sunset (pictured on the cover). Instead of recording the entire album over a few consecutive days - like they'd done with Tim Cohen, Sonny Smith and Kelley Stoltz for the first three LPs - the band took it slow by working through a few songs each weekend after rehearsing them the week before. Robby would cue up the tape, McDonald would throw some steaks on the grill and they'd get to work - much to the neighbor, George's, chagrin.

These guys have a real commitment to elevating as songwriters, musicians and ensemble players. It's always been for the music with Cool Ghouls and this long-awaited self-produced outing is a track by track display of the ground they've covered and heights they can achieve. Their vocals and trademark harmonies are front and center and out-of-control-good. Ryan's guitar solos are incredible. The horns by Danny Brown (sax) and Andrew Stephens (trumpet) hit in all the right places. Maestro, Henry Baker (Pat Thomas Band / Tino Drima), plays keys throughout. There's even a mesmerizing string section ("Land Song") by sonic polyglot, Dylan Edrich.

None of this growth is to the detriment of the fun, natural, feeling that fans have come to expect from the band. This is a fully realized Cool Ghouls album. It paints a remarkable portrait of SF's homegrown heroes and the many corners they've explored over the last decade. The songwriting, harmony and playing are nothing if not solid. The lyrics are keen. Robby's recording and mixing sound great start to finish and even better after mastering by Mikey Young. It's a triumphant addition to their catalogue. Recommended for Stooges and Beach Boys fans alike. Listen and see!

Freak Heat Waves - Self Vortex

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