Songs of June 2020

Somewhere in the land of uninhibited love and playful sins, Meggie Lennon is both the game and the rule that begs to be broken, crafting her songs through spirals of unrepentant escapism.

Following the release of GAMIQ nominated EP Endless Nights and Dreamlike Mornings in 2017 under the name Abrdeen, the singer-songwriter wasted no time making a name for herself, taking her music across the province alongside well-established acts such as Good Morning, The Dears, Julie Doiron, Sugar Candy Mountain and Laura Sauvage. Now working under her own name, Lennon teamed up with producers Sam Gemme (Corridor, Anemone) and Jules Henry. The young woman has been working with them on a new release titled Sounds From Your Lips, which is due in 2020. 

An original take on modern music, where psych-pop and make-out rock become the soundtrack to whatever comes next…

Mind Games

https://secretshame.bandcamp.com/album/dissolve-b-w-pure

Pure

Gravity

Fool for you

Unready

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Hello Take Me Anywhere

DGB214-6

Night Shop - Hello Take Me Anywhere

Performed by Dolly Valentine
Written by Dolly Valentine, Ryan Hadlock, & Andrew Joslyn
Produced and Engineered by Ryan Hadlock
Co-Engineered by Taylor Carroll
Mastered by Greg Calbi
Vocals by Dolly Valentine
Guitars by Andrew Valenti
Drums & Percussion by Taylor Carroll
Bass by Dune Butler
Piano by Charles Wicklander
Lap Steel by Kimo Muraki
Violin & Viola by Andrew Joslyn

©℗Holy Golden Music 2020

How To Be Good

My Astrology

GRACE GILLESPIE - HUH

I am a child
I do not know
Swing in the sunshine
Which way I don’t know

What is this life
from which we creep?
Into the darkness
Our love seeps

It’s so unlikely 
That you would find me
Outside the wind blows
No I will not go

HUH!

In your heart 
In your soul 
There’s a place 
You can go
Out of luck 
Out of line 
And I will still be swinging in the sunshine

What does your smile
mean to the world?
What can your lies 
do to this small girl?

I have a place 
You’ll never find
Hide in the confines of my own mind

It’s so unlikely 
That you cannot see
Outside the wind blows 
No I will not go

HUH!

In your heart 
In your soul 
In your mind 
Don’t you know
Out of luck 
Out of fear 
Well now you’ve done the damage you can disappear

In your heart 
In your soul 
Are you sure 
you are sold
on this life 
on this lie? 
You can watch it growing as the time goes by

© 2020 Kaleidoscope

HUH (Single)

Taken from The Doctrine Of Infinite Kindness, out June 26.

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Swirling keep me afloat in the daydream
I am constantly mean.

Swirling operator operator fix me
Feel my world under siege.

You're right
I'm really not supposed to like this hollow act
But now my eyes have nothing on the inside

Swirling pulls the elastic under my face
In unforgiving shapes.

Swirling loosens the hold of the great chain
While I plan my escape.

You're right
I'm really not supposed to like this hollow act
But now my eyes have nothing on the inside.

Swirling feel rock 'n' roll while I flow
Dakota waterways bleed.

Swirling keep me afloat oh I hope
I can drink from all my streams.

You're right
I'm really not supposed to like this hollow act
But now my eyes have nothing on the inside.

You're right
I'm really not supposed to
Your love brings me back you know
I try to find it on the inside.

Swirling

Killer Scene

Music and lyrics by Swine Tax, 2020.

With the recent addition of Euan Lynn on synth, ‘Screensaver’ sees Swine Tax further sharpen their agitated, hooky post-punk sound. Propelled by burned-out guitars and a breakneck rhythm section, the track’s sardonic lyrics express the existential terror of being cut off from the outside world.

https://swinetax.com
https://swinetax.bandcamp.com

Screensaver

Sift

Ready When You Are

Happier Happyless

Michigan Hammers

Half Light

Money

Taken from the upcoming album, 'Atopia'.

Music produced and mixed by Thomas Savage with additional mixing by David Pye. Mastering by Eric James at Philosophers barn.

Horseback

Love And Pain

“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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Songs of June 2020

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