JUNE 2022 PART II

one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden

my love 4 u is real

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Written by Amy Illingworth, Lily Sturt-Bolshaw & Rachel Clark (Copyright Control). Produced by Lily Sturt-Bolshaw and Dave Holmes. Mixed by Dave Holmes. Mastered by Stuart Hawkes

Grown Out Of You

Young & High

Written and performed by The Crowleys
Lyrics by Giuliana Frontini
Recorded by Cohen Wylie at Threshold Recording Studio
Mixed by Cohen Wylie and Michael Keire at Threshold Recording Studio 
Produced by Cohen Wylie, Michael Keire and The Crowleys
Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering
Artwork by Chloe Moss

Sewer Drain

El Jardín

Stream on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3z7YVhZ

Topo Ride the Wave

Cayucas - Topo Ride the Wave

Typical Music

Karma Climb

Sailboat

Gargoyle Groove

First single from the LP afterville, due late 2022

Face

Let’s go! Give the short burst of energy that we’ve called ‘Bats’ some love, summer is just getting started.

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Bats

Music toys with time. Or, maybe songs reflect back that time is always toying with us. The world of a song takes hold of us like an eternity to be lost in, with its repetitions and variations, but ultimately, as with everything else, it has a start and then ends. And there’s no place to lose time like San Francisco, where there are no seasons and all the seasons occur within one day; where the fog takes the space where your plans might have been; where there’s insane wealth all around and everyone you know and love is hanging on at the periphery and making art on any given Tuesday night. About Glenn Donaldson’s new record, "The Town That Cursed Your Name," he says, "I realized as I was piecing it together that it's a song cycle about trying to live while also feeling called to make music." It’s a double life when it works and a deeper doubleness to mirror the Gemini nature of songs themselves. "The Town That Cursed Your Name" contemplates this problem with wryness, generosity, and the micro- and macroscopic realness Donaldson is known and loved for.

Whereas the 2022 collection "Summer at Land's End" was a softer, gauzier world, "The Town That Cursed Your Name" is heavier, with fuzzed lines running through. "Leave It All Behind" starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges. "Here Comes the Lunar Hand" is an impressionist geometry that seems to capture the album’s themes without telling you how. Lyrically, Donaldson embraces the earnestness of his heroes Paul Westerberg and Grant McLennan. Sonically, late '80s college rock is filtered through song-forward lo-fi acts like East River Pipe and House of Tomorrow-era Magnetic Fields. Like the images that accompany his releases – flowers and residential street scenes are pushed to the breaking point with color – Donaldson’s songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.

In the liner notes, Donaldson dedicates the record "to everyone who ever tried to start a band in the Bay." There will be many knowing smiles at his title "Too Late For An Early Grave." But, this dedication captures something else about the particular strain of sincerity that laces the city water supply – the front man around here is on stage under those lights evincing the fervor not of the pop star but of the biggest fan.

-Karina Gill

The Town That Cursed Your Name

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Town That Cursed Your Name

New single from HOLM.

Stream - https://pnkslm.com/lose-the-shoes
Video -https://youtu.be/Ev7prdXAm_w

Holm - "Lose The Shoes"

Blow Dry

Self(ish)

Riotous guitars, insistent beats, and captivating melodies: this is the essence of The Oceans. Formed in 2014 by Copenhagen multi-instrumentalists Dan Joe & Linus Valdemar, the duo sounds like their city feels – a pulsing, paradoxical sea of chaos, noise, and serenity.

Young & High

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