Name: Test Pattern by the thermals
Duration: 3 min 28 s
Description: The Thermals first 'ballad', from 'The Body, The Blood, The Machine'.

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The musician's name is Alejandro Rose-Garcia and he originates from Texas.

[Lyrics]
Carl was going to walk until he found Alaska
or a knife to carve a sneer into a bathroom wall
while Willie found his note that would lead him to her legs
that were lyin’ in her bed still calling out for Carl
where has my love gone?

I’ll love Willie will he love me?

Carl found Alaska hunted seals for seven months
found it immoral 
returned to seek his home
little did he find when he arrived
the door was open 
everything was out on the lawn
oh where has my love gone

she loves Willie will she love me?

Carl found Alaksa hunted seals for seven months 
found it immoral
returned to seek his home

Shakey Graves - Roll The Bones - 09 The Seal Hunter

The Dodos - Black Night

White Corolla - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

Maps And Atlases - Every Place Is a House

Since forming in early 2007, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart have become one of the most talked about pop bands in years. Their distinctive brand of noisy pop is a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents - early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship - but with that incredible exuberance and energy that the Pains bring to every song. They have released a handful of singles on classy labels like Slumberland, Fortuna Pop!, Atomic Beat and Cloudberry, each one issued to greater anticipation and even wilder reception. Critical acclaim has come from such varied quarters as Stereogum, Fader, Big Takeover, Indie Pages, Skatterbrain, Drowned In Sound, Indie-MP3, Clash Magazine and uncountable others.

Following up the band's ace "Everything With You" single and whirlwind Swedish tour, we are delighted to bring you their self-titled debut album. "The Pains of Being Pure At Heart" is an instant classic, packed with brilliantly-executed pop gems that blend the rush of youthful enthusiasm with crafty arrangements, well-honed tunes and buckets of guitar racket. Drawing on the sparkling legacy of the best of 80s and 90s pop, POBPAH update the timeless noisy pop template with a thoroughly modern viewpoint and a very distinctive, playful personality. There is something instantly identifiable about a Pains tune, and it is the essential "rightness" of their records that has captured the attention of pop fans around the world and raised anticipation levels for this album to a near-fever pitch.

"The Pains of Being Pure At Heart" delivers on this promise with perfect assurance. Smashing tunes like "Come Saturday" and "Young Adult Friction" are classic three minute masterpieces that simply beg the be played on repeat. "Stay Alive" and "Gentle Sons" show the band can slow it down and still rock it, and "Hey Paul" is as brash a slice of noise-blast guitar pop as you'll hear all year. Weighing in at a flawlessly-conceived ten songs, this is all the album that Pains fans had hoped for. Handily transcending easy pigeonholes like "indie pop" and "indie rock," it is just a great album that shows a smart young band fulfilling their potential and crafting a very convincing statement of purpose.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday

The Thermals first 'ballad', from 'The Body, The Blood, The Machine'.

Test Pattern

First online single from the Living Eyes new LP "Living Large", due out January 2015.
Out in AU through Anti Fade from January 30 and in UK/EU through Agitated from January 19.

Geelong delinquents the Living Eyes have just churned out a second LP of burners to hit the shelves early 2015, following their self-titled debut from 2013.  
Since then the band have thrown around a handful of singles, shows and a split 7”, but its common ground that all arrows are pointed towards this new long player. As of January 30, the Living Eyes will unhinge a new belt of stompers to make up LP round two. 
The album was predominantly recorded by Straight Arrows’ front man Owen Penglis over a day and a half spent in Sydney at Penglis’ new hideout; Goliath Professional Recording Studio. The tapes were then driven back down the Hume highway and finished off in a couple of West Geelong bedrooms, before being mailed to Rye mixing master, Mikey Young. 
Living Large takes off in a somewhat new direction since the S/T LP, filling out with more sharp cuts and guitar crunch but still keeping the snotty sound they’d always had. In a few words – it’s a poppy punk record that sounds nothing like pop punk. 
But it’s nothing to dwell on - its ten tracks wide and 26 minutes minutes long and it’ll spin faster than your average long player any day of the week. 



THE LIVING EYES - High Standards (Living Large LP - 2015)

From the LP 'Chain of Flowers' out October 16th, 2015.

Pre-order: http://alterstock.bigcartel.com/product/alt22-chain-of-flowers-chain-of-flowers-lp-pre-order

Chain Of Flowers - Crisis (ALT22)

This is our second EP! This is more ambitious and detailed than our first one and we're pretty proud of it. We're sure you'll love it! Thanks for listening!

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