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Weekend Showcase 2.09

UNLOVED

As a trailer for Unloved, the Guilty Of Love EP is a breathlessly evocative roll of the title sequence, a glimpse behind the cinema curtain, a run through the rushes of their musical ‘film noire’. 
Released on October 16th on Unloved Records, the EP precedes the full Unloved album due in the new year. 

Spearheaded by David Holmes, in collaboration with film and TV composer Keefus Ciancia (True Detective), and songwriter-vocalist Jade Vincent (The Jade Vincent Experiment), Unloved are born of 60’s girl groups, influenced by the great George 'Shadow' Morton, Jack Nitzsche, the soundtracks of Morricone, Nino Rota and the electronic sounds of Raymond Scott.  Jade, Keefus and David had the honour of collaborating with one of their favourite musicians Woody Jackson who co wrote the music on 'No Friend Of Mine', 'Cry Baby Cry' and 'Far From Here' on this debut EP.

David met Keefus and Jade in LA in 2013, that same summer Keefus and Jade started a regular Tuesday night residency in Los Feliz called The Rotary Room. A collective of great musicians, including Woody Jackson (Red Dead Redemption), Gus Seyffert (Beck, The Black Keys), Jay Bellerose (T Bone Burrent) and Deantoni Parks (John Cale), forming informal ensembles curated by Jade, Keefus and David Piltch, with David Holmes invited to DJ between each band.  

These common themes and sonic adventures led to the birth of ‘UNLOVED’, evoking the sounds and spirit of The Shangri La’s, Bruno Nicolai, The Paris Sisters, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Phil Spector's wall of sound.

A band was then brought together at Woody Jackson’s VOX Studios in LA, where the sound they had envisaged could actually be realised. Further Unloved contributors have included the legendary Jim Keltner (John Lennon), Wayne Kramer (MC5) and Tommy Morgan (The Beach Boys, Elvis). 


Unloved - Guilty Of Love

Awkward Waltz by Acapulco Lips

Contact is from The Blue Swell out May 6, 2016.

You're on some kind of specialty
You wanna use my energy
Halfway gone with the radio on
But you're all wrong and the plummet's long

Do you wanna know what's real to me?
You got a patent on frailty
Halfway blissed but you're gonna miss
How you're sickened, all your weekends
Ha Ha

We made contact
Tell me did you mean that
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand

Yesterday I could barely stay
Awake at all am I slipping away
Breathing fumes I can hardly use
Did we ever? I remember
Ha Ha
Ha Ha

We made contact
Tell me did you mean that
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand

We made contact
Tell me did you mean that
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand


The Blue Swell

Beverly - Contact

Released on April 1, 2016. 

Digital: http://apple.co/29tI3Eg
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Dinner // Turn Me On

Our debut LP 'Once Was Lost Now Just Hanging Around' out....
March 4 - North America + Aus/Nz (Dine Alone)
May 6 - UK + Europe (Raygun)

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Instagram: @segomusic

Stars

Grown Man

Lead track from 'Sink or Swim EP' released 15th April 2016 on Liquid Records. Available on 7"vinyl (Record Store Day exclusive), digital download & streaming.

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Animal Noise - Sink or Swim

"Cold to See Clear", from 'You Know Who You Are', out 4 March 2016 on City Slang

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or from the label: smarturl.it/YKHYACSLBL

Nada Surf - Cold To See Clear

The Wild Wild - When We Were Young

First single from Sweat's debut album due out in April on Human Sounds Records.

SWEAT - Keep Tight

"Lucien" is the first single from Young Magic's forthcoming album, "Still Life," out May 13th.

Pre-order the album & receive an instant download of "Lucien"
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Young Magic - Lucien

I’m missing,
a fortunate condition
based on all these lies
That’s the issue,
the connective tissue
that seems to rule my life

I had no problem
taking all your lovin’
We had a heartbeat
looking for a ride

Tell you nothing
while you hold on to something,
You’re just the age 
of my unfortunate bride

And as I pour through the puddles
of your memory muddle,
there’s no way I’ll ever get out alive

His face snows over…
FBI undercover:
not alive, so he can never ever die

Know that the issue is deep in my brain
guess they’ll need a piece of my mind
I’d warn everybody who gets near me, but 
there’s just not enough time

I have nobody 
to give all the money
so I just bought the key to my demise

They catch me thieving,
I’ll just tell ‘em I’m teething
and chew my way to the sky

Nicholas Bush — Vocals, Guitar
Raphael Peterson — Drums, Bass, Piano

Written by N. Bush

FBI Undercover

Don't Dwell releases May 13th via Paper Trail Records. Limited edition translucent baby blue 12" available at papertrailrecords.com/store

Press Contact - Amanda Dissinger: amanda@terrorbird.com

Written and Produced by Andy Bianculli
Engineered by Chris Stafford and Andrew Collberg
Mixed by Andrew Collberg
Mastered by Brad Bell

PTR 005

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Theoretical Girls

Order: bit.ly/1lhkzoR

Artist: Ashley Shadow
Album: Ashley Shadow 
Label: felte
Release Date: April 15, 2016 

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Ashley Shadow

Tired 

Ashley Shadow - Tired

From the album 'Jettison the Valley' out March 4th, 2016 on Western Vinyl

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Artist page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/carter-tanton
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cartertanton/

By the time he was 15, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Carter Tanton was already playing bar shows in his hometown of Baltimore.  Two years later, he caught the attention of Gary E. Smith, best known for discovering and producing The Pixies.  After working together for a year, they parted ways, but Tanton never slowed down.  In the mid-2000's he released a couple of EPs with his band Tulsa, prompting Rolling Stone's David Fricke to claim "…his indie-seraphim voice is not of this world…", and after a particularly impressive live set KEXP's John Richards said "…he's one of the best singer-songwriters in the country today."  Beyond his critical acclaim, Tanton's early work was cited as an inspiration by his old friend Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs.  As Granduciel recalled in an interview with Pitchfork, "He was sleeping in someone's basement, playing every instrument, going through this breakup,...That was the first time I saw someone make music obsessively. I’d never seen anyone living inside of something, to that level."  

Over the years, Tanton has toured and recorded with numerous artists including Marissa Nadler, Strand of Oaks, Lower Dens, and The War on Drugs. In 2012, he assembled Freeclouds, his first collection of songs for Western Vinyl.  A couple of years later, Tanton moved to England where he wrote all of the songs on his new album Jettison the Valley. The change of environment, and his rediscovery of early British influences including Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and John Cale sparked a powerful shift in perspective, which led him to write his most cohesive and personal work to date.  Other than the pedal steel featured on two songs, Tanton engineers and plays every instrument on the album.  His old friend and collaborator Marisa Nadler contributes lead vocals to "Jettison the Valley", and Sharon Van Etten sings on "Twenty-Nine Palms" and "Through the Garden Gates".   

More about Jettison the Valley in his own words: 
"Jettison the Valley began in a little dot of a town outside Bristol called Hambrook in the Fall of 2013. I had just moved to England with my girlfriend where we lived in a caravan on her family's plot of land with the M5 motorway on one side, and a horse farm on the other.  To get away from the incessant low rumbling of cars, I often walked along the area's ancient public footpaths that carve strange ways through the countryside. On those walks, my previous 30 years in America billowed and collapsed in front of me. As I stood there in the blowback, the constant push of time seemed to finally relent, and I found enough distance from it to see my past in clear broad strokes.  After a few months we moved to Oxford and lived in a little attic apartment up on a hill. I spent most days watching the weather roll through the valley and writing these songs about my relationship ending.  Eventually, I felt I had to come back to the states to record them.  I consider this my first solo record. The other two releases I've put out under my own name since 2005 were simply collections of scattered recordings, mixtapes essentially. Jettison was written in one long sitting, each song feeding the next."  

Carter Tanton - "Jettison The Valley feat. Marissa Nadler"

third single from Millennial Spirituals, available March 15.

Bad Luck

From 'Ullages' out now! 
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Ullages

Eagulls - Skipping

Taken from the album 'Beauty Already Beautiful' out May 6th. po.st/beautybeautifulitunes

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Weekend Showcase 2.09

The Revue