I like this distinctive guitar riff here :)

Oh shit, dat Cow Bell, homies? Rock dat cow bell!

No tragic love, no hassle, no emotional outburst, no politics - just a bottle.  Does this band know that everything has been said? Are they striving for a grander grandiosity? I´ve put them on my watchlist.

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SBH // JUN 2017

From the album Reptilians. Purchase CD / LP / MP3 here: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/reptilians

STRFKR - Reptilians

From the "Pastel And Pass Out" EP, out November 5 (November 4 UK)

Preorder: http://bit.ly/nojoypastel

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No Joy - Last Boss

Pre-order options:
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/infinite-house/id957897925
Bandcamp https://avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-house-2
Amazon LP: http://amzn.com/B00SKFJKI0
Amazon CD: http://amzn.com/B00SKFJEE0
WV shop http://westernvinyl.com/shop/

While on a writing retreat in the sleepy southern town of Benton, Mississippi, the members of New York's Ava Luna came across an abandoned house while on a walk through the woods.  Overgrown, rotting, and littered with evidence of its past inhabitants, the maze-like dwelling would haunt their psyches throughout the writing and recording of their third full-length Infinite House.  Like Borges' "Library of Babel", the seemingly endless rooms and hallways in the old house felt like a metaphor for the invisble, internal labyrinths, which the band explores lyrically and sonically on their new album.  

Self-recorded in Benton and at Gravesend Recordings, the Brooklyn studio run by drummer Julian Fader and vocalist/guitar player Carlos Hernandez, and mixed by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Spoon, MGMT), it is safely their most polished recording to date. But their trademark intensity, mirthful humor, and angularity remain resolutely in place, the burnished surfaces illuminating the stories beneath like never before.  Working with Fridmann, Fader and Hernandez artfully employ the studio to further the album's preternatural vibe.  As Hernandez explains "Dave Fridmann was able to augment this music in a really special way, removing it from the literal realm and putting it in a really psychedelic/fictional place."  By questioning, or maybe just forgetting the rules of the real world, on Infinite House the band has grown beyond the "nervous soul" descriptor they've been tagged with in the past, delivering an album on which nightmarish moments can phoenix into revelations that help us reconnect with the surreal magic in our everyday lives.  Of course, you don't have to dig into the intellectual concepts or references to love this album, or enjoy the band's twisted mystical perspective.  On a very superficial level, these songs are sensual, vibrant, and fun.

Ava Luna - Billz

summer time vhs photoshoot  (kpw)

I Cant Recall

The Orielles debut Heavenly Recordings single 'Sugar Tastes Like Salt.' Produced by Marta Salogni. The Orielles are Sidonie B Hand-Halford, Esmé Dee Hand-Halford and Henry Carlyle Wade.

Sugar Tastes Like Salt

first single from forthcoming self-titled School Damage album, due on vinyl and digital in June 2017.
grab the single here: www.chaptermusic.com/store/school-damage/tall-poppies
www.chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/track/tall-poppies
https://www.facebook.com/SchoolDamageRockers

School Damage - Tall Poppies

Paint Me Silver

From TOPS' Sugar at the Gate. 
Listen/Buy here: https://t.co/358gTM2Lw3


The streets are paved with wasted minds 
I was patient 
I waited 
But a girl only has so much time 
Late again 

The smoke it rise in the sunshine 
Like a storm drain to my mind 
The vapours rise 
A new invention for your new life 
You're late again

If you need her you can call her 
You can meet her in the playground
If you need it too bad I waste it
If you need it too bad 

She's a Dayglow Bimbo

Did you plant a seed in a solitary teen 
Can she read
Is she growing flowers 
in her greasy sleeves
Late again

She's a Dayglow Bimbo 
Late again 
Rainbow Dildo

Sugar At The Gate

Sugar at the Gate

Dayglow Bimbo

"Build A Fire" by Young Ejecta 

Preorder Vinyl at driftlessrecordings.com 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/076EAKHF4ILDNPOgY1AnrW

12" LP featuring remixes by Ellie Herring and Napolian + Young Ejecta's 'Your Planet' EP pressed to Vinyl for the first time.

Young Ejecta - Build A Fire

I Only Bought It For The Bottle

"Girl Like You" is taken from Toro y Moi's forthcoming album, "Boo Boo," out July 7th, 2017 on Carpark Records.

available now:
carpark shop - http://smarturl.it/booboo_carpark
itunes - http://smarturl.it/booboo_itunes
spotify pre-save - https://lnk.to/ToroYMoiSpSaveBooad

Toro y Moi - Girl Like You

PRE-ORDER ON LTD EDITION 7": http://bit.ly/2xjj9Xq

Following their well received debut single - the 10 minute long Alternative Facts released in June as part of Too Pure's singles club - Mush have returned with a new AA 7" due for release on the 17th November.

Whilst their previous single called out the bullshit of the White House press department, this time round Mush have set their sights on those despicable creeps; the people who exclusively live their lives in the comments section of online articles. Meanwhile on the flip-side 'Luxury Animals' is a call to arms to "sack off work and go lay down somewhere instead".

The tracks were recorded with Matt Peel at The Nave and combine clever Television'esque interplay with the slacker-rock of their previous singles. Since forming early in 2016, the Leeds four piece have recorded an EP with MJ at Suburban Studios, been invited by Marc Riley for a BBC 6 Music session and supported the likes of Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and Happyness. You can catch them live at the following dates with a longer tour to be confirmed shortly…

10th October - Soup Kitchen, Manchester (w/ Ulrika Spacek) 
12th October - Oslo, London (w/ Ulrika Spacek) 
15th October - Oporto, Leeds (headline) 
21st October - Hug and Pint, Glasgow (Massive Sanctions all dayer) 
9th November - Shacklewell Arms, London (w/ Drahla) 
11th November - Rough Trade West (instore)
12th November - The Old England, Bristol (single launch).

Pressing Information
Ltd to 300 copies. First 50 pre-orders come with a very limited floppy disc containing hidden content. You'll also get an instant download of Luxury Animals when you order.

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Mush - Luxury Animals

produced by Jason Balla and Gabe MG. Mastered by Mike Bridavsky.

Leggy Singles

Not What You Need

Summer Owl (2016)

For more info about the SLR30 Singles Series:
https://slumberlandrecords.com/slr30singles

Formed by friends in 2014 during a summer spent obsessing about the Sarah Records catalog, Michigan band Failed Flowers quickly developed into a shadowy, high speed pop vehicle. Drawing at first from the wistful sighs of Sarah, the group grew more of an edge as they progressed, evoking elements of C86 granularity and shoegaze blur. The original lineup of bassist Erin Davis, drummer Miles Haney, and dual guitarist/singers Fred Thomas and Autumn Wetli played around the midwest for about a year, releasing an eight song demo before Wetli left the band. Close friend and collaborator Anna Burch stepped in during the spring of 2015, amplifying both the harmonies and the disquiet. This new lineup recorded a nine-song mini album of sharper material that saw release on the 25 Diamonds label before Thomas left Michigan for Montreal and Burch began a solo career with her own pristine indiepop tunes. The band remained sporadically active, playing the occasional gig, doing a short run of shows with Protomartyr in 2017 and getting together to write and record in the increasingly rare moments when all parties were available. The two songs on this 7" are the fruits of Failed Flowers' most recent sessions and represent some of their most evolved work.

"Faces" is the first song Anna brought to the band, a wash of guitars and vocal harmonies that are somehow both quick and ambling. More melodic than most of the band's recorded output, it walks in the same remarkably catchy territory as Anna's always glowing solo work, though swimming through more waves of distortion.

"Broken Screen" was described as "The Strokes in a bar fight" seconds after the lead vocals were put to tape, and the song zips along nervously with just that energy. One half jumpy, self-conscious punk and one half Flying Nun grey skies pop.

Faces

Failed Flowers - Faces

Hailing from Halifax, The Orielles are sisters Sidonie B and Esmé Dee Hand Halford and their best friend Henry Carlyle Wade whom they met at a house party just a few years ago. The then teenagers bonded over their shared love of alternative US bands from the 90s such as Sonic Youth & Pixies as well as pioneering filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino (The Orielles have cited his work in their songs and consider his work a major lyrical and aesthetical influence). Keen proponents of the DIY aesthetic, they learned their instruments on the road through gigging and the band have spent the past few years polishing their sound, with a steady string of singles previously released.

Such Bad Handling is the photo and music blog of Sean Ball, an art director based in Oklahoma City. Check out the SBH blog via the Tumblr link below!

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