Weekend Showcase 4.17 adds more heat to this beautiful first weekend of May with 37 sweet & sultry & rocking tunes. Take a listen and discover indie music's hidden gems. Learn more here:
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Weekend Showcase 4.17

Album page: www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-041
Artist page: www.paradiseofbachelors.com/jennifer-castle

Other online purchase options (physical/download/streaming): http://lnk.to/PoB41

A sublime meditation on mortality and memory, ghosts and grief, Angels of Death casts a series of spells against forgetting and finality, in the form of mystic-minimalist country-soul torch songs about writing, time travel, and spectral visitations. Castle wrote and recorded this breathtaking follow-up to the acclaimed Pink City (2014) in a 19th century church near the shores of Lake Erie, where her family also lived and experienced a constellation of losses that inhabit these bruised musings.

“Castle reaches a pitch of mystical transport so gorgeously ethereal she seems about to drift off into lands that don’t appear on any map.” – Greil Marcus, The Believer

“Castle’s music is not so much of the earth as floating above it, untethered to the natural order of time and space. Her songs live in that gray area where observation mutates into rumination, and where the physical world dissolves into psychic terrain.” – Pitchfork

“Ravishing, soulful … stands comparison with the best of Judee Sill and Joanna Newsom.” – Uncut

Angels of Death

Jennifer Castle: Angels of Death - "Texas" (PoB-041, 2018)

Written and produced by Malena Zavala
Mix by Gareth Jones
Mastered by Alex Wharton
Artwork by Malena Zavala

www.yucatanrecords.com/malena-zavala

If It Goes

Pre-order Trickster Blues in North America / Rest of World: goo.gl/EtcqS7

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On Trickster Blues, their new full length album for Cosmic Dreamer, RF Shannon take a drastic shift from the long form, pensive desert meditations of their previous record. “The process was a drastic shift from the one we took with ‘Jaguar Palace’ and I was hooked. It was a blast all of the time. We kept a quick pace due to external circumstances via random or otherwise inevitable interruptions, so we learned to take what we could get. If a take was good, it was a keeper, we didn’t second guess it. In just four days we had demoed the majority of my new material and it just felt so right.’’ explains Shane Renfro, the mind behind RF Shannon.

The final product of the seize the moment approach behind the writing and recording process echoes the themes Trickster Blues attempts to dissect. “The lyrics are about acknowledging consequences and saying "so what", the reward is worth the risk, etc. Its about feeling a pull, a calling, and dedicating to it hell or high water, whatever that may be. Its the heart of it all.’’ Renfro continues. To be able to listen and say “That’s it, thats the song. It is what it is, and we like what it is” Sounds a little underwhelming in that sense, but thats what I wanted. I just wanted the songs to speak for themselves. Our old material is challenging and dense, and I love it. I love the spaces we have created. But I wanted to record songs that could just stand alone and be what they are.''

Born out of natural and self-imposed boundaries, the final product is an album that lives in the sonic space between desert blues and old school R&B. At times heavy like a jackhammer while maintaining the velvety vocal deliveries of Renfro, Trickster Blues is an album that embraces the natural indecision surrounding the songwriting process and goes with its gut decision every step of the way. By working on the principal that if the first impression of a song is good enough at the moment then it is good enough to be the final product, Trickster Blues paints a portrait of Renfro’s truth and his truth alone. “Maybe its a terrible mistake, maybe its better this way” comments Renfro on the writing process. “I think that’s what this record will always mean to me. Thats kind of the Trickster in a way. Many different facets, but the name conjures a sort of pure whimsical mischief, a dose of raw wild impulse that reminds you to laugh at whatever it is thats happening.”

Demoed in four days in Marfa and recorded in two in Lockhart, Texas with the help of Jesse Woods and Will Patterson, the album is demanding in it’s immediacy while providing a raw and profound insight to the raw sonic & lyrical landscape Renfro & Co have crafted.

RF Shannon - Tooth Ache

Land Before Time

Isla Craig - The Becoming

Cult

All We Got Is Time

Pulled Up The Ribbon

Takin in back to Summer '97 - Brampton style. 

Written by Miloš Angelov, Jesse Bear & Maya Killtron 
Produced by Miloš Angelov
Mixed by Miloš Angelov
Mastered by Jeff Dalziel
Cover Art by Ashley Schmitd
Design by Vanessa Vai

Satin Sheets

"Maybe" is the third single from Buck Meek (of Big Thief)'s self-titled debut LP coming May 18, 2018 on LP, CD, cassette, and digital release via Keeled Scales.

Preorder link:
keeledscales.com/store/buckmeek

Cover photograph by E. Ryan McMackin

Buck Meek "Maybe"

"Dark Window" digital single from Mass Gothic available now 

Mass Gothic
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Mass Gothic - Dark Window (Single Version)

'What A Mess' is the first single from the upcoming album "Day & Dark" due out
June 29th -- 
 Featuring backing vocals by Lucius and Springtime Carnivore

Artwork by Eric Ernest Johnson

What A Mess (feat. Lucius & Springtime Carnivore)

Written by San Mei
Produced by Oscar Dawson
Mastered by Matt Redlich

Wonder

Stream

Taken from the album, Stains on Silence, out 15th June on Tough Love. Pre-order here - smarturl.it/StainsOnSilence

Formats:
LP - black vinyl, with cream sleeve
LPX - orange vinyl, with black sleeve (indie stores-only - 300 copies)
LPXX - ultra clear vinyl, with black sleeve, poster and hand-numbered (Bandcamp only - 200 copies)
CD & digital

Biog

It stands to reason that many vital albums come critically close to never being made. The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release.

Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. “There was a finished – and then aborted – mix of the album, which was shelved for six months,” reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. “We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent.”

The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the album’s defining breakthrough. Recorded in various locations including Belfast’s Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully’s home and the band’s practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. "We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,” says Cully. “When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now."

Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat. From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener '25’ and the submerged disco doom of ‘Haus Proud’ to the rapt, dub-leaning ‘Fragments of a Portrait’, Girls Names have excelled in their goal by forging an LP of synchronous nuance and defiance.

Marked by the presence of drum machines and programming throughout, these eight masterfully-woven tales are once again commandeered by founder Cully, whose words, understated yet defiant, mine purpose and meaning from the mire ("I want to bathe again, I want to swim again / In a pool of twisting bodies, blackened gold." — ‘25’). But while Stains on Silence came critically close to never being made, having lived with it, reconfigured it, and guided its metamorphosis from flickers of inspiration and half-formed schemes, it’s both a statement of pure perseverance, and a head-on confrontation with ambivalence that couldn’t be more assured. (Brian Coney, March 2018)

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Girls Names - Karoline

New single from Oslo based trio Sauropod, released April 27th via Propeller Recordings: Sauropod.lnk.to/IKWYB

Sauropod - I Know Where You've Been

Stay Wild

I Am a War Machine

The Dream

Wake Up (Feat. Fionn)

'Turnmills' Out Now -
Stream / Download: https://MaribouState.lnk.to/turnmillsSo

Maribou State All Night Long (DJ set) at Corsica Studio in support of #SaveNightlife - https://MaribouState.lnk.to/corsicaSo

Taken from 'Turnmills' released 2nd May 2018 via Counter Records.

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Kingdoms In Colour

Turnmills

"Supergiant" is the new single & title track off the forthcoming debut album from LA's Valley Queen — out July 13 via Roll Call Records.

STREAM / BUY "SUPERGIANT":
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Supergiant - single

Valley Queen - Supergiant

Con Brio, the San Francisco funk-soul septet known for their acrobatic, adrenaline-fueled live shows in clubs and festivals all over the world, have never been afraid of a little genre-bending. It’s with that spirit that they debut “Heart Shaped Box,” the first new music from the band since 2017, and the first single off their upcoming full-length, Explorer.

Heart Shaped Box

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

Weekend Showcase 4.17

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