Choices Of The Grasshopper June 2020

That clunking noise is the sound of some of the lockdown chains being dropped... ;) Pick of the week is Fiery Furnaces' "Down at the So and So on Somewhere": it's nice to have them back after such a long spell away.

Jun 12 - Jun 18 2020

Blooming Notes (June 2002)

2020/07 #1 IndieRock DJ Playlist

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Five Things We Liked This Week - 26/06/20

All New Indie

A song by Rise, a DC area band I was in for most of the 90's. We accepted a challenge to write and record 20 punk/alt rock songs in one day so on 1/29/98 we did just that. Luckily, this gem, a bit of a tribute to DC legendary graffiti artist "Cool Disco Dan" came out of the session. Lyrics by Mike Maloney music by Rise - Mike Maloney - guitar and vocals, Nels Booher - bass, Rob Engels - drums

Knucklehead

Cool Disco Dan

Play On

Weather2020

Two of Me

Derby

Lyrics:
I look into the eyes of the ocean 
There seems to be a lot of locomotion
Swirling around like it’s mixing a potion
Throwing crashing waves of emotion

I’m here right next to you
Don’t say you don’t want me to
The sea is sparkling blue
So I ask you, what can I do?

Come on I think it’s time for us to leave now
Let’s run away from all those scary storm clouds
I wouldn’t like to be under thunder
Let’s go home take cover make a cuppa

I’m here right next to you
Don’t say you don’t want me to
The sea is sparkling blue
So I ask you, what can I do?


Recorded and Mixed by The Lazy Eyes at Lindfield Studios

The Seaside

Pelota

BBC Introducing East Midlands Track of the Week - 25/05/20

Michael wrote Dead and Buried after being laid off work on a Friday morning. Half-remembered drunken mishaps filtering through a hazy hangover, he lay on his bed with his unplugged Stratocaster. Enthusiasm was low. But sometimes, you've just got to write. Cracks were beginning to form in a long-term relationship, fuelling the lyrics and pumping the track full of rage. Dead and Buried is about self-destruction. The term is used to describe the need to move on from all of the nonsense that was causing such frustration. An hour and a half later, the song was finished.

Dead And Buried

Punisher

I Know The End

Thatcher Fucked the Kids

Talking Over Talk / Cruel Reminder

Talking Over Talk

Little Eyes (London)

Little Eyes (London) [feat. Trembling Bells]

Finally! After years of releases on some of the most important labels in electronic music, DFA's Juan Maclean makes his debut on Correspondant with his glorious Manthony EP.

Four slabs of thumping cosmic disco; all modulating basslines and heavy chug dynamics, Juan is a man of many styles but it's clear he's tailored these especially for Jennifer Cardini's label. The primordial acidic soup of opener 'Manthony', the cloud-bouncing dreaminess of 'Bufomania', the tense bewitching adventure of 'She's Breaking Up' (with the purring cat-like vocals of Fantastic Twins) and the creepy, ever-mutating pranged out finale 'In A Minute'.

As an artist who states that DJing is "literally my favourite thing in life", Juan Maclean has once again delivered a collection of transcendent dancefloor moments for both DJs and Dancers alike.

Manthony

All My Trials

Gummy Bears and Sleeping In Alone

Lightning

Between the Dirt and the Stars

I Wanna Lose

Infinite is taken from the digital album 'Shards', released 31st May 2020.

Shards

IN ISOLATION - Infinite

Worry

'SUGAREGG' (Release Date: August 21, 2020)

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Bully - Where To Start

Grounds

All That Emotion

Dreams

Sleep brought with it much needed respite, an escape from his thoughts and emotions. Of late, his dreams had become much more vivid, rife with strange exchanges and far-fetched situations that left a stamp on his waking hours. Amongst the warped and familiar faces he felt both bliss and terror, yet at times he still wished he could stay in this imagined reality.

Danish producer Kasper Bjørke takes a personal approach when it comes to remixes, focusing on enlisting artists who will transform his music into something original and bring their own distinct flavour. His next batch of remixes comes in a two part package, bringing together several artists to put their own spin on his double EP Nothing Gold Can Stay. Part B rallies the likes of Bawrut, Cooper Saver, Panthera Krause, Kasper Marrott and our pick from DFA affiliate Perel.

Nothing Gold Can Stay Remixes (Part B)

PREMIERE: Kasper Bjørke - Dreamers (A Tribute to Laurie) (Perel Remix) [hfn music]

Down at the So and So on Somewhere

Rosalie (CH. II)

Handsome Wife was produced by Tommy McLaughlin in Attica studios. Mastered by Katie Tavini

In Waiting

Handsome Wife

Buy/Stream here: https://orcd.co/therealones
All proceeds from this track go directly to TY’s family.

Durrty Goodz pays tribute to his friend and collaborator TY (Ben Chijioke) in the heartfelt song ‘The Real Ones’, featuring cuts by Shortee Blitz.

TY was a foundation pillar of the UK Hip Hop scene, inspiring myriad artists. Whilst many knew TY for his lyrical ability, few are aware of his production skills, developed alongside longtime collaborator Drew Horley.

It was for that very reason Goodz decided to highlight the fact by using the instrumental version of TY’s own song ‘Me’, taken from his 2010 BBE album ‘Special Kind of Fool’.

Durrty Goodz is a highly respected grime MC, rapper and activist from London, active in the scene since 2003. Under his ‘OG Roots’ alias, he collaborated with on 2018 track ‘Eyes Open’, which was featured on TY’s final album ‘Work Of Heart’.

The Real Ones

Ty - The Real Ones (featuring Durrty Goodz)

“A quiet riot of ethereal vocals and lustrous guitars. Pinkshinyultrablast a valid insight into young modern

Russia via the early-90s Thames Valley” - The 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 Magazine
“Excessively impressive, unexpectedly fast-paced shoegaze.” - Drowned In Sound

Pinkshinyultrablast, Russia’s premiere shoegaze export, have shared their epic and ethereal new single ‘Songs’.

With vocalist Lyubov moving to LA, the band were deeply immersed in exploring new ways of composing and collaborating from a distance long before it was enforced.

They tells us that "this one is kind of an oddball. I think when we recorded ‘Songs’ we weren’t really sure what to do with this 15-minute-long beast, or if we will ever get a chance to release it. For some reason, this B-side feels especially dear to all of us. Possibly because it encapsulates a certain time of us existing together as a band, a very specific moment. We’ve been living in different cities for over four years now, and I think what I miss the most about us all being in the same place is the ability to regularly spend time together in the same room, practice, and run ideas by one another — just communicate and figure stuff out, side by side. I went to a Terry Riley show last December and he was playing with his grandson Gyan. They were sitting on the opposite sides of a really wide stage, pretty far apart from one another, separated by this giant concert grand - playing, pausing, improvising - and just kind of secretly smiling at each other from across the hall. When I think of the time we worked on this song, I think of those kinds of smiles, you know. It feels like hearing back a long conversation you’ve had with a dear friend a while back. Maybe you don’t agree with everything you’ve said back then, but then it doesn’t even really matter, because you know you were just able to truly relate." 

Pinkshinyultrablast have amassed critical praise across the board since the release of their debut album ‘Everything Else Matters’ and follow-ups ‘Grandfeathered’ in 2016 and ‘Miserable Miracles’ in 2018.

On ‘Songs’ they deliver waves upon waves of expansive guitars to form a truly massive fusion of psychedelia and ambience that flows beautifully, awash with blissful synths and their trademark celestial vocals.

Pinkshinyultrablast - Songs

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Down at the So and So on Somewhere

The Fiery Furnaces