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Written and recorded by MJL on Thursday August 28th, 2014. 

the thread

Krio Girl (Live)

Written by Blooms

Produced by P*nut and @Gillewis

Additional production by @kobina 

Artwork by Dom Sebastian 

Love (Prod. by P*nut & Gil Lewis)

Cruising's debut will be released by Tough Love on 14th August 2015 in a limited edition of 300 12”, with the first 100 on hot pink vinyl. Pre-order the hot pink pressing here -  http://smarturl.it/Cruising.pinkvinyl 

Cruising are a four piece from Dublin and Belfast made up of Benni Johnston (Vocals), Claire Miskimmin (Guitar/Bass) Neil Brogan (Guitar/Bass) and Sarah Grimes (drums). With previous/ongoing experience in bands such Girls Names, September Girls, Sea Pinks and Logikparty, Cruising began in 2013 as a side project for all four.

Named for William Friedkin’s gay exploitation shocker from 1980, the debut single You Made Me Do That (taken from the killer’s line in the film) dropped in early 2014 on Soft Power records and was recorded live as it was written. Practicing sporadically and playing a string of incendiary/chaotic live shows when schedules allow, CRUISING have now miraculously recorded their debut EP proper for Tough Love. Recorded in two days in a freezing railway arch studio (Dublin’s Guerilla Studios) in January 2015, and mixed at Belfast’s Start Together, the self titled EP shows the band in various guises, morphing between popper’d up Agit-Punk (the re-recorded You Made Me Do That, Woman), psyched out post-punk (Lifting), and riff driven bangers (Safe Corridor, Cutlass, The Spectacle).

Shows in Dublin, Belfast and London TBA.


Cruising - Safe Corridor

Terrified

'In Time' is released on 23.10.15 on Feel Good Lost. 
Buy on iTunes: smarturl.it/TalosInTime

In Time / Fall depths with me miles apart / In light / We solve our whole lives.

www.talostalos.com

- Lyrics - 

I set a fire to the moons shape
We are just shadows in the cascades of history 
Fetted love and then your war games
A sky released

I set our bodies on my lungs shore
This heavy whisper makes me more scared then anything
I was loved and now that loves lost
I know they'll never find us
Way out amongst the madness
I feel free

Ch 1

In time
Fall depths with me miles apart
In light 
We solve our whole lives
In time
You'll breach the brighter parts
Alight 
We fall

V 2

You pry me thumping from this long drop
My twisted body in a bind that you want to break
This house is covered by your blood sport
Don't give a fuck what's taken
I hear there's wars worth making 
Just leave

Ch 2 

In time
Fall depths with me miles apart
In light 
We solve our whole lives
In time
You'll breach the brighter parts
Alight 
We fall

Bridge

So lay down our limbs
All our mumbles 
they are fables
Bind it all up and cast it all out into the light

I sense all your omens 
You are young 
But you are able
We drop from the sky and fill our lungs to feel alive

Ch 3 

In time
Fall depths with me miles apart
In light 
We solve our whole lives
In time
You'll breach the brighter parts
Alight 
We fall


iTunes

In Time

I Don't Mind

‘All My Life/Mariposa’, the double A-side single from Cave Ghosts, will be released through Road Movie Records on Wednesday 25th November 2015. The release will be available as a download and on CD from 
www.caveghosts.com, while iTunes, Spotify and all other popular download and streaming services will carry the single.

Cave Ghosts are five star-gazers playing shimmering nostalgic pop. Their story began when two small town dreamers living in a big city, Jen Connell (vocals/keys) and Aoife O’Carra (vocals/guitar) circled each other’s ‘Musicians Wanted’ ads. Bonding over a shared obsession with David Lynch, Wim Wenders and the bittersweet melancholy of The Beach Boys, The Shangri-Las and The Jesus and Mary Chain, their own stories of love and loss blossomed into their first songs. Their broken hearts club soon grew to include like-minded romantics Sundara O’Higgins (guitar), Jonny Fun (bass) and Maggie Fagan (drums). 
 
Blending unwavering voices, fuzzed out organ, pounding drums and melancholic jingle-jangle with a splash of summer, their songs radiate bittersweet 60s girl group naïveté and cinematic escapism. Cave Ghosts is the radio soundtrack to driving on a hot desert night recalling lost loves as neon lights flash by.
 
Off the back of two stand-out contributions to The Community Games compilation on Popical Island, and to Dutch label Candy Twist Records’ compilation album Nobody’s Business, Cave Ghosts return with their debut double A-side single ‘All My Life/Mariposa’ released on Wednesday 25 November 2015. The two songs are melancholic, sun-splashed pop that glitter against the backdrop of hot desert nights. Jen Connell’s voice soars over girl group chants in ‘All My Life’ while Aoife O’Carra’s sweet vocals swirl around brooding guitars on ‘Mariposa’. The singles were recorded and mixed by Ben McAuley (Sea Pinks, Girls Names) at Start Together Studios and Mark Chester (Ginnels) at The Pop Inn and mastered by Fergal Davis (Ben Folds, Sinead O’Connor, Fight Like Apes).

Having already captured hearts and ears at their performances at Castlepalooza and Wales Goes Pop festivals, and shows with PINS, Gavin James, O Emperor and Le Galaxie, Cave Ghosts single pre-orders are now available from www.caveghosts.com. Stay tuned for more info!

caveghosts.com
facebook.com/caveghostsband
instagram.com/cave_ghosts
twitter.com/caveghosts

Mariposa

Playing With Fire

Free download due for release in December 2015.

Before It Has Begun

Silver Leather 

Taken from the album IN HEAT NOT SORRY 

Album release date: January 29th 2016

Recorded at Funkhaus Studios in Berlin

Available via Art For Blind Records & Penske Recordings

The Altered Hours - Silver Leather

TYOTR

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