No1 Else

Almost | Pop Ballad x Lewis Capaldi Type Beat

Written June 2015, NYC.  Recorded on cassette and 1/4 tape with Izaak Binet, London, October 2015.

Artwork a crude Photoshop vandalization of El Lissitzky's
'Monument to Rosa Luxemburg.'

https://www.facebook.com/treehousemusic92/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hiaVq47c7sfJUIEHGmg95?si=erYRJruiQUWAq4Eqh2h5uA

Nonsense (old demo)

EZTV and Nic Hessler cover Milk 'N' Cookies!

Snag the Deluxe Milk 'N' Cookies Box Set here: http://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/milk-n-cookies

EZTV & Nic Hessler // Buy This Record (Milk 'N' Cookies Cover)

☀️ When the day breaks ☀️
☾ & The Moon stays ☾
☃☥ I'll remember you ☥☃
♋≋ In the waves ≋♋


daymoon

Pre-order EP/32 page book (ltd to 100): 
http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/574863-ski-saigon-brings-the-storm-cloud-ep

After a few months of sitting on this EP we’re incredibly excited to be sharing it with you. ‘Brings the Storm Cloud’ was recorded at Holy Mountain studios in London and is inspired by Khmer pop and the fictional historical events from which it takes its name.

In doing so Ski Saigon have perfectly captured the humidity and closeness of a jungle and channeled it into bedroom pop wooziness. Imagine Public Service Broadcasting and Bradford Cox popping a couple of Valium and jamming it out and you’d probably end up with something similar to this.

With the extensive backstory surrounding the EP we felt the only way to release it would be as a book. 32 pages long and limited to just 100 copies the book details in beautiful photos and words the complete history of Ski Saigon (the historic events not the band). It’s due for release August 26th and is available to pre-order now.

Ski Saigon - Wintergarden / Sweet Dreams In The Botanics

"Blood Spitting" is taken from the debut 7" by Brooch, a new project featuring Ben Stidworthy from Ought and Mikkel Holm Silkjær from Yung, out 31st March. Limited to 300 copies, 100 of which are on green vinyl and only available through the Tough Love online shop

"I rode back to Aarhus with Yung after we toured together last winter. Every day, Mikkel and I would write and record one song at their scando-office rehearsal space, and then go out in the evenings. These songs emerged from us without discussion or direction, and I feel they captured an energy that was resonating in black and white. Blood Spitting is a collection of fragments that I collected over the course of a very long year. It’s a historically-situated conversation between a healer and a lover who search for remedies that aren’t real. They are the first lyrics I’ve ever been proud of. " - Ben Stidworthy

Pre-order 
7" (green vinyl - 100 copies) - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv094-brooch-blood-spitting-broken-glass-limited-edition-7-green-vinyl 

Brooch Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/broochmusic/ 
Brooch Bandcamp - http://brooch.bandcamp.com/

Biography:
Brooch is the glimmering spinoff of a tour that Ben Stidworthy and Mikkel Holm Silkjær did together with their bands, Montreal’s Ought and Aarhus’ Yung.  Their first offering of two songs are like the people behind them: youthful and yet already wise, cold-hearty and yet with ripe with a primrose melodicism.  “Blood Spitting” and “Broken Glass” are an expertly crafted pair of rock songs, but ones that maintain that burgeoning kind of playfulness that comes from a new collaboration.

The tracks were recorded over two days in Aarhus, DK in November 2015.  Ben continues, as he does in Ought, to play bass like a craftsman makes a fine chair and expands his palate to not only lush organ playing but also whispery and emotive vocals.  Mikkel, Yung’s principal songwriter, continues to show off his multi-instrumentalism as he offers guitar, drums and, as he does in Yung, vocals.

In “Blood Spitting”, Ben shows his poetic heart atop a crisp and revolving drum and guitar melody that recalls the quietest moments of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out-era Yo La Tengo.  And yet a tender edginess appears lyrically: “For the blood spitting and vertigo,” he sings “these days are muddled by dust.”  It is a striking juxtaposition, the lush organ tones with words such as this.  It alone almost conjures the cold room they recorded in: a few beer bottles clattering on the cement while a soft cough, visible breath and a smile break the quiet between takes. 

Mikkel answers on his side of the pair with a distinctly piercing and yet lush vocal presence.  “Broken Glass” features violin from the duo’s friend Lena Geue which balances the more rugged bass tone and chugging, almost off-kilter rhythm of the thing.  “A see-through window is not a rare sight, but a shattered one will leave blood behind,” replies Mikkel beyond his warbly and fierce guitar line.

These are both songwriters who know when to leave space, when to sustain a moment, and yet are unafraid to play ornamentally.  It is a rich collaboration, bursting at the edges when you take stock of who these songwriters are, and yet contained here in a small capsule that introduces us to their voices together.  It is a bit like a brooch, in that way, something they would both wear in real life.  I’d wear this 7” on my jacket.  And with songs like this for the kindling of a project, it’s pretty exciting to think about what happens next.

Tim Darcy, Montreal, October 2016

Brooch - Blood Spitting

released May 11, 2017 

Recorded by Cris Romero at Cherry Sounds 
Mixed and mastered by Jordi Gil at Sputnik Recording Studios 

Vocals: Erica Pender 
Guitars: Manuel Jiménez and Erica Pender 
Bass: Jose Prieto 
Drums: Rosa Ponce 

Art by Kevin Lucbert

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