[Weekly Mix] 2022.07 (2)

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Lasagne

Fuji

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Aaron Joseph Russo - Fuji

Mirror Shapes

Seasons

Music By Attawalpa - linktr.ee/Attawalpa
Recorded at Eastcote studios in London
Engineered by Clem Cherry at Eastcote Studios
Produced, Performed, Engineered and Written by Luis Felber and Matt Allchin at Off Liscence Recordings in Camberwell, London.
Drums performed by Henry Danowski
Bass performed by Matt Allchin
Wurlitzer performed by Adam Sopp
Synths performed by Matt Allchin
Guitars by Luis Felber
Backing vocals Lena Dunham Felber
Mixed by Eduardo De La Paz
Mastered by Dyre Gormsen
Photo by Dan Martensen
Creative Emma Chitty
Extra art by Justine Figueiredo and Luis Felber

Ignore the pollution .

Cool morning 
Take me away,  I’m tired of today
Smooth driver
Get outta town , Turn me around 

I’m cracking up while I’m  just cracking jokes 
My minds made up there’s nowhere else to go
ignore the pollution 

I feel lighter 
But Only in dreams , I don’t care what it means 
Heavy hunger 
I can’t really choose , I guess I’m old news 

I’m cracking up while I’m  just cracking jokes 
My minds made up there’s nowhere else to go
I’m cracking up while I’m  just cracking jokes 
My minds made up my minds a cloud of smoke  
ignore the pollution 

Ooooh

The shadows in time challenge my/kind(ness)

Ignore the pollution

Leeds quartet Crake have today announced their debut album, ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’. It arrives via Fika Recordings on April 8th. The band have also shared the album’s lead single, ‘Winter’s Song’. 

Led by enigmatic songwriter Rowan Sandle, Crake is driven by her endless curiosity. Armed with her gently cracking vocal, and inspiration from writers like Shirley Jackson and Nan Shepherd, she sings of crinoids, slime mould and pussy willow. When they supported Buck Meek at Brudenell Social Club, Buck found himself so beguiled by Sandle and her band that he invited them to support Big Thief on their UK and EU tour in 2019. Crake duly obliged and have been building towards their debut full-length ever since. 

Much of the forthcoming album revolves around the death of Sandle’s friend Anna, who died in Syria after being hit by a Turkish air strike. Anna was working for a woman’s liberation group in the war-stricken country when the tragedy took place. ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ explores the grief that followed and the lessons learnt from dealing with such a significant loss. 

Sandle does, however, find space to explore more themes alongside this grief, such as cruelty and queer nature. On lead single ‘Winter’s Song’ she acknowledges the cruelty and coldness that exists within us all, and questions how we can continue to grow and love whilst remaining true to that. 

Speaking about the track, she said: “Winter’s Song is about the absolute mundane beauty of being fallible. It's a true story, I saw the moon rise but swore it was the sun setting. I think about this line a lot: “keep a little coldness in you, just wear it soft and gentle” Be soft, be kind, be honest. Being unremarkable has its own beauty.” 

Sandle’s love for queer nature is so fervent that it makes the experience of listening to Crake akin to that of stumbling on an entirely new world. Sandle believes that life isn’t as black and white as we’ve been taught, and thinks nature holds the key to revealing the true nature of human experience. The appearances of things like slime mould - single-celled organisms that form a single body when in search of food  - brittle starfish - a type of starfish whose awareness isn’t concentrated in one place - and other such oddities furnish ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ with a folklore all of its own. 

‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ will send you down multiple rabbit holes and you’ll emerge from each with a newfound appreciation for the complexities of the world. Perhaps even more important than this though is the humanity that lies at the very heart of this debut full-length. Whether it’s in the sensitivity in how she portrays the loss of her friend, the depiction of our most base instincts - namely cruelty, passion and love - or the sincere, pure quality of the songwriting itself, it’s this that makes ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ essential, and invaluable listening.

Winter's Song

Crake - Winter's Song

Flèche

Commuting is a song about daily patterns we seem to just accept in modern society. A continuous loop of a repeating timeline that’s depressing but comforting at the same time. Its a song about our thoughts of wanting to break free from the chains of routine. However we’re enjoying our comfort zone too much.

COMMUTING

Glass

"Amour Fou" is the second single from our debut album, coming this fall. Out now on Welfare Sounds & Records.

Produced by Per Stålberg and Kalle Lilja. Mixed by Kalle Lilja. Mastered by Esben Willems. Artwork by Jakob Ekvall.

Amour Fou

Lyrics:

All the pills are drying me out
You gave me hope but turning me down
All of you here but never around

It’s alright
I will carry on
In my sweetest tone
Sometime I wish you could just
Wait for me

All the jeans are wearing me out
You built me up now tearing me down 
You showed me love now loving me out

It’s alright
I will carry on
In my sweetest tone
Sometime I wish you could just
Wait for me

It’s alright
I will carry on
In my sweetest tone
Sometime I wish you could just
Wait for me

My Sweetest Tone

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Written by Esther Henderson & Will Henderson
Vocals & Violin by Esther Henderson
Vocals, Guitars & Bass by Will Henderson
Drums by Myka Wallace
Synths by Harry Sutherland
Produced by Gimme Gimme & Miggy
Mixed by Dan Nave
Mastered by Darren Ziesing

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Gimme Gimme - Day Drinking (Lyrics)

Day drinking and I'm thinking of you
 Night scheming that my dreams will come true
 Day drinking and I'm thinking of you
 
 Am I hooked on wishful thinking
 Did you wink or were you blinking
 Champagne glasses almost chinking
 Got a bike we could be could be dinking
 
 Day drinking and I'm thinking of you
 Night scheming that my dreams will come true
 Day drinking and I'm thinking of you
 
 Package up my heart
 And throw around the parts
 Cos you don't have to handle with care
 How do I keep myself in check
 When I'm training like a wreck
 Come join me for some truth if you dare
 You've blown away my mind
 Just like a dandelion
 I'm scattered by the wind of desire
 How do I keep myself together
 When I'm floating like a feather
 And I never ever thought I could fly
 
 Are you keen or are you tricking
 Cos my love's ripe for the picking
 Time goes slowly heartbeat ticking
 Now I'm stuck cos you're not sticking
 
 Day drinking and I'm thinking of you
 Night scheming that my dreams will come true
 Day drinking and I'm thinking of you
 
 Package up my heart
 and throw around the parts
 cos you don't have to handle with care
 How do I keep myself in check
 when I'm training like a wreck
 Come join me for some truth if you dare
 You've blown away my mind
 Just like a dandelion
 I'm scattered by the wind of desire
 How do I keep myself together
 When I'm floating like a feather
 And I never ever thought I could fly

Day Drinking

After delighting so many with his impressive ‘Good Dog’ EP in September last year, which went onto find support from Jack Saunders (BBC Radio 1) and Zane Lowe (Apple Music 1), as well as being curated on Spotify playlists like ‘Fresh Finds’, ‘Melomania’ and ‘Garden Indie’, fast-rising artist Trunky Juno returns to deliver his first piece of new material for 2022, the vibrant new single ‘Oxford English Dictionary’.

Continuing his venture through the rich and woozy realm of the psych-pop sound, ‘Oxford English Dictionary’ offers up yet another wonderfully infectious delight from the Newcastle native. Brimming with fresh and sun-kissed textures, a sweeping atmosphere, and his own captivating vocals at the helm, he is kicking off the next phase of his career with one of his most loveable offerings to date.

Speaking about the new offering, he said, “I still find it difficult to spell Mississippi, but I did manage to write a fun song. It's a hooky Alt-Pop that will confidently power walk you straight back to the Trunky Superstore for more Trunky. Oxford English Dictionary was one of those tracks that sounded great as soon as I made the demo, lot's of those parts made it into the final version because they're so full of that sense of initial inspiration.”

Behind a well-established moustache and deadpan inclinations, North Eastern indie maverick Trunky Juno resides within his own sphere of off-kilter artistry. Known for his masterful lyricism, warped sounds and bold ideations, the Durham native brings a spritely disposition to the alternative music scene, twisting the mundane into something entertaining. Now backed by a diverse and relatable repertoire, the zany universe of Trunky Juno is beginning its glorious expansion. 

The original dream was to be a Backstreet Boy, a far cry from his current musical positioning. However, in some metaphysical way, we can all agree that Trunky Juno is their sixth unofficial member. Truly a musician who’s done it all, he is a name well-known to his locale having cut his teeth in many a jazz, punk and indie bands. Elsewhere inspired by the 90s slacker rock of Weezer and Beck, as well as the psychedelic tendencies of The Flaming Lips and quirky offerings of Mac Demarco, Trunky Juno finds no better way to spend his time than spinning idiosyncratic tales of our society and the pop culture that engulfs it, covering every corner of our sonic landscape. 

Outside of his attributions to the alternative music scene, Trunky Juno is an avid admirer of all forms of creativity, oft finding beauty in the abstract, be it his deep-rooted love for professional wrestling, 80s horror films or sculpting plasticine expressions onto hard-boiled eggs. He says, “I always wonder what it would be like to hear music without knowing anything about music, and that’s what I like about other art forms. I like that I know nothing about them and I can just appreciate them in a more abstract way without thinking about the gritty details.”

Trunky Juno’s new single ‘Oxford English Dictionary’ will be available to stream from the 29th June 2022 via Silent Kid Records.

L I V E
29th July 2022 - Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival – Inverness, Scotland
15th October 2022 – Live At Leeds Festival – Leeds, England

Oxford English Dictionary

Written, produced and performed by Spirits of Leo
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitars, bass and synthesizer
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Album Art by Coward's Way
Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering

Spirits of Leo Live is:
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitar
Ant Taboada - backing vocals, guitar
Nick DiPillo - bass guitar
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Something in the darkness dwells
Like voices from your insides squall
Buried deep in shame, and regression
God’s rejected ones
Shade beneath my cast of faith
Tremored ground attest my strength

I know the plan for God’s rejected ones

Ash in hearth, I seek your shelter
Storming, rushing, bounding, assailing me
Entering my spine and crawling out my palms
The spirit is now ascending me
Commanding motion
Don’t fight, infernal eyes don't lie

Faith is learned or not realized

Something in the darkness dwells
Like poison on your lips, the sickness swells
The devil never comes if you don’t believe him
The curse relinquished
Scepter come, incarcerate
Where I'm captive, I am safe

I know the plan for God’s rejected ones

Ash in hearth, I seek your shelter
Storming, rushing, bounding, assailing me
Entering my spine and crawling out my palms
The spirit is now ascending me
Urging devotion
Don’t fight, infernal eyes don't lie

And nothing ever comes if you won’t believe it

Asylum

My dearest Roselle is out everywhere now. A tale for all the ones that are bounded by tradition, this seed, the flower Hibiscus. We are strengthened by our common existence.

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Production by Sim Fane & SIROJ
Mix by Cambrian Studios
Master by David van Dijk

- Nine And A Half -

Roselle

someway in this harsh life I'll still fight.

someway (i'll still fight!)

AMERICAN SLUTS

Tender Glue (noun): Not a person. Not a band. It is music made by an urge to create. 

New album "Not so Very Nice" is out and about! https://fanlink.tv/NSVN

My Sweetest Tone

Tender Glue

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