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Debut Album Out Now. 

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The 1975

Settle Down

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Kidding (Feat. Whorish Boorish)

1st Single from upcoming record Hard Boiled Soft Boiled out April 15 on Buzz Records
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Odonis Odonis - Are We Friends

Video: http://youtu.be/flUIzM-AJj4

Produced by The Death of Pop

Artwork by George Abram

Tasteless

"Bitter Bazaar"
Written and performed by by She Sir
Song by Karloff
Shelflife Records
www.shelflife.com

She Sir is Russell Karloff, M. Grusha, Jeremy Cantrell, David Nathan

Produced by Erik Wofford & She Sir
Engineered & mastered by Erik Wofford
Recorded at Cacophony Recorders, Austin, TX, USA

©2014 She Sir. All rights reserved.

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Bitter Bazaar

一直下雨

Confidence

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Washed Out - All I Know (Moby Remix)

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The Cure - Just Like Heaven (The Penelopes Remix)

Here's the first out of two free remixes to thank you all for the amazing support so far and that you've helped me break 200k likes on Facebook! Hope you guys like it :)

Support me by liking it on Hypem here:
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Kygo
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M83 - Wait (Kygo Remix)

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Pinkshinyultrablast
Release single ‘Holy Forest’
Out 19th January on Club AC30

•	“A quiet riot of ethereal vocals and lustrous guitars. Pinkshinyultrablast a valid insight into young modern Russia via the early-90s Thames Valley.” Guardian 

•	“Beautifully toned and unconventionally fast, a gutsy effort that makes a big impression” NME

•	“A complex but sumptuous confluence of mathy basslines and waves of melodic ecstasy.” Q

•	“Excessively impressive, unexpectedly fast-paced shoegaze from these Russian peeps.” Drowned In Sound

Pinkshinyultrablast, a five-piece band from Saint-Petersburg in Russia, are set to release their debut album ‘Everything Else Matters’ on 26th January.

Hailing from a city more synonymous with the State Conservatory rather than a gang of shoegaze addicts, they’ve been compared to Lush. But this is no mere throwback tribute - due to their sharp, icy electronics and ability to subvert the genre, bringing something new to the table. They possess  not only the spirit of late 80s/early 90s British bands like Ride, but also machine-made sounds of the same era from Sabres Of Paradise or Global Communication, not to mention wider vibrations like Cluster, Popul Vuh, Terry Riley and Philip Glass.

Disdain for a stagnant scene can often be a driving force of creativity; the band say of St Petersburg that, “we realised the local indie scene was totally boring and wanted to play something radically different”. That vision has been realised – this is an album brimming with playful melody and finely-crafted songwriting. Imagine the scope of a Caribou record, fronted by Elizabeth Fraser soundtracking a grizzly Raskolnikov crime.

The band take their name from an Astrobrite album, an act who were, according to the band, instrumental in how they “researched spaces between ambient, heavy guitar and pop music” .The spaces are what stand out, the production creates a dream-like affair, while space to breathe and reflect on the beauty of the music is accommodated. There is a sparseness to the album that in turn gives spaciousness, even expansiveness.

The second single ‘Holy Forest’ is released 19th January. The song is indicative of an album full of melodic gems and shimmering shoegaze - euphoric with spectral guitars, its sharp edged pop has a radiant charm.  Welcome to your new favourite Russian band.

Pinkshinyultrablast are Igor - bass, Lyubov - vocals, Sergey - drums, Rustam - synths and electronics and Roman – guitars.


Pinkshinyultrablast - Holy Forest

Taken from Art is Hard released 'Fifths' Flexizine (7" flexidisc record and 20 page zine) released on 4th August 2014. Buy here:

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Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xaWYpnSv-I

Key Of Three

From the new album The Scene Between out 23 March (UK), 24 March (US).

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The Go! Team - The Scene Between

I Like U - Black Tie Dynasty

As ever we are extremely honoured to announce our latest release. Best Friends are a Sheffield four piece that we’ve been fans of since their very first demos started getting posted around. Their debut EP was 7 tracks of garage surf pop that perfectly embodied hazy summer days and we’re pleased to say their second EP ‘Throwing Up’ is much more of the same.

Being suckers for non conventional packaging we have worked with the band to put together a 21cm square 12 page photo booklet of halloween parties, crowdsurfing at house shows and other rad photos. The CD is encased within the booklet itself. At the risk of sounding terribly middle class, its a bit like one of those coffee table books but with a CD inside - we will hopefully get some pictures up soon! You can listen to the full EP and preorder the EP from our Bandcamp - http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throwing-up

Best Friends - Wasting Time

From the Family Portrait split 7" also featuring Joanna Gruesome, Playlounge and KEEL HER. Full details and pre order link for the record/tshirt bundle available from our Bandcamp page http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/family-portrait

"Cherryade is a bonafide piece of grunge pop, deserving to be filed somewhere between My Bloody Valentine and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. If you think you've heard this before, I can assure you that you haven't heard it done as effortlessly and expertly as this."

Gum - Cherryade

From the Family Portrait split 7" also featuring Gum, Playlounge and KEEL HER. Full details and pre order link for the record/tshirt bundle available from our Bandcamp page http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/family-portrait

"Joanna Gruesome are 5 piece from Cardiff who seem to be indebted to the boy/girl vocals, 90's grunge and Sarah Records (this song mentions at least one of their bands) . To cite the ever correct Jake May, they're twee but with a huge helping of FUCK YEAH! This particular track seems to be directed at kids who pretend to like bands, we're looking at you annoying ginger man on the BT adverts."

Joanna Gruesome - Sweater

Formed in January 2009, Girls Names quickly garnered recognition outside of the confines of their hometown of Belfast with the release of their eponymous debut EP in 2010 through New York's Captured Tracks. A mini-album through London imprint Tough Love soon followed, setting the foundations for their critically acclaimed debut LP Dead To Me, released in April last year again by Tough Love in Europe and cult West Coast label Slumberland Records in the US. 

Girls Names return in 2012 and are hinting at a slightly different direction and its all the more positive for it. This new single titled ‘A Troubled See’ makes up one half of a 7” split with label mates Weird Dreams. The release will be available from Tough Love records on 25th June and Slumberland Records the following day. The track itself has a wonderful simplicity, an endearing guitar hook that pulls the hip muscles back and forth yet staying that side of the dirty track where it’s ok to hang out. The band will also be playing a handful of shows in May including a performance at Primaverafestival in Barcelona. 

After a successful tour of Europe in October last year supporting stand alone single ‘Black Saturday’, Girls Names began to hint at a possible directional shift away from their often misperceived surf and indie-pop roots into something more a kin to Krautrock and Psychedelia. Indeed, the band has expanded to a four-piece and has spent the last six months in virtual seclusion honing and developing a more progressive and expansive sound, feeding on the darker sides of Echo and The Bunnymen, Spacemen 3, The Birthday Party and David Bowie's Low. 

So here we are in 2012 and Girls Names are going to come out of hiding with a sophomore record and right now ‘A Troubled See’ is as solid an introduction to the forthcoming chapter as you’re going to get.

Release/catalogue number: SLR 176

Girls Names - A Troubled See

Philip Glass - Mad Rush (Tigerstripe Remix)

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Wind In Her Hair

Ghost

'Stay' (feat. Hayden Calnin) is the second single off Tully on Tully's debut album due out in 2013

Stay (Feat. Hayden Calnin)

Apparat, aka Sascha Ring, will release “Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)”, an album of music based on Sebastian Hartmann’s theatre production of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

Sebastian Hartmann is considered one of the big innovators of contemporary German theatre, and asked Ring to contribute to this mammoth project, which was commissioned by the renowned German arts festival Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen.

Apparat - Krieg und Frieden - Music for Theatre is out now!

http://smarturl.it/KundFiTunes

Apparat - Krieg und Frieden - A Violent Sky

From Youth Lagoon's second album, "Wondrous Bughouse"

On Fat Possum worldwide. 
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Youth Lagoon "Dropla"

Recorded and mixed by us and our friend George Parker, Huddersfield. 

Mastered by Rory Attwell, London. 

Tall For Jockeys - Summer

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released in February 2013, their second album 'The New Life' is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, 'The New Life' is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, Girls Names made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, 'Dead To Me,' earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Loud & Quiet amongst a host of others. And yet, despite all the praise heaped on it, as soon as that record was released Girls Names were already moving into a different headspace. 

The band’s performance at this year Primavera festival provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise 'The New Life.' The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains: 

“'The New Life' is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. 'Dead to Me' literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, 'The New Life' is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. 'The New Life' is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream today - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, 'The New Life,' stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

"The New Life" will be released on February 18th, 2013 on Tough Love (UK) and February 26th, 2013 on Slumberland Records (US).


Pittura Infamante

Ben Vida / USA

Ben Vida is a Brooklyn based sound artist who has gained international recognition performing and showcasing installations in North America, Europe, Japan, South Korea and Australia. His Smoke Machine mix has descended to us from the outer reaches of the sonic universe, bringing audiences an astonishingly eclectic array of material. Ben excels at blending amazingly disparate sound sources: the forgotten sounds of rainforest tribes mixed with avant garde musique concrete; walls of synthesized noise juxtaposed on aboriginal harmonies; bubbling vocals layered over a crooning Oval lullaby. The vast array of aural worlds is a surreal journey, each destination more unexpected than the last; in the quietude and consonance of its acapella finale, one will be left in both bewilderment and awe to ponder what it is exactly that just took place.

1. Ocora Phase - Ben Vida
2. La Légende d'Eer - Iannis Xenakis
3. Ocora Phase - Ben Vida
4. Do While - Oval
5. U-Turn-To  -   Herbert Brün
6. Ocora Phase - Ben Vida
7. Vielleicht - Duo, 1963/68/70 - Josef Anton Riedl
8. Ocora Phase - Ben Vida
9. until spring - morton subtonic
10. Tudo Tudo Tudo - caetano veloso

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https://soundcloud.com/ben-vida

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UN #26 Ben Vida

From the new release "Ultramarine" by The Ocean Blue. Out 3/19/13 on Korda Records.

Sad Night, Where Is Morning?

The Death Of Pop are Angus James & Oliver James.

Drums by Thom James.

Produced by The Death Of Pop.

Artwork by George Abram.

Released 17th March 2013.

What A Day

Great music from Sweden! 
www.wldrns.se/


Wilderness - Vengeance

Gold

Found You Out

'False Idols' - album pre-order details - CLICK HERE: http://bit.ly/ZzBKWC

http://www.trickysite.com • New album 'False Idols' out May 27th (International) & 28th (USA).

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/TrickyOfficial/app_208195102528120">DOWNLOAD this track for free on Facebook</a>

Tricky is back with a new album and his own record label, both bearing the name False Idols. Like much of the album, "Tribal Drums" features vocalist Francesca Belmonte. As early reviews have stated, the album is a stirring return to form from Tricky. False Idols comes out May 28th on False Idols in association with !K7 Records, and also features vocals from Nneka, Peter Silberman (of The Antlers), and Fifi Rong.

Download this track for free here - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TrickyOfficial/app_208195102528120">Tricky's Facebook Page</a>
And first track promo'd, "Nothing's Changed" is also still available for free here - http://www.trickysite.com/sign-up/

<a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/trickyofficial">Tricky on Soundcloud</a>
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False Idols

Tribal Drums

FREE DOWNLOAD

Bear State - Strange Feeling

The Death Of Pop are Angus James & Oliver James.

Produced by The Death Of Pop.

Artwork by George Abram.

Released 11 May 2013.

Taken from our limited edition Pictogram 10" available from

http://shop.pictogramstudio.co.uk/product/soundbox-cardboard-record-player-with-10-do-it-yourself-ep-feat-the-death-of-pop

A Kind Of Loving

Cannibal Coast

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4qdPzZukVM

Available on 'Runts' from Discos De Kirlian

order here: http://discosdekirlian.tictail.com/product/dk25-the-death-of-pop-runts

Produced by The Death Of Pop.

Artwork by George Abram.

Released 17 June 2013.