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Ether

2014.05

I Want it All, So I Can Have Nothing

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≋ SPIN «rockcurrent» Sounds Week 20 ♩
≋ NL01 Shy for Shore	- Love, Again ~ alt electro	
≋ AU02 Violet Swells	- Into The Ether ~ alt psych	
≋ IE03 Sleep Thieves	- You Want The Night ~ electro synthpop	
≋ UK04 Relics	- Tired Eyes (Tell Me Why) ~ psych post-punk	
≋ NZ05 Mulholland	- Cry If You Want To ~ alt electro	
≋ FR06 Boys in Lilies	- Pretty Dolls ~ indie electro	
≋ US07 St Tropez	⇓ In Pictures ~ indie shoegaze	
≋ UK08 Fink	- Looking Too Closely ~ alt post-rock	
≋ UK09 La Roux	- Let Me Down Gently ~ indie electro	
≋ CA10 Arkells	- Come To Light ~ alt indie	
≋ AU11 The Griswolds	- Beware the Dog ~ alt electro	
≋ AQ12 The Ropes	- I Want It All, So I Can Have Nothing ~ shoegaze electro	
≋ US13 Animal Years	- Leah ~ folk rock	
≋ US14 A Weekend At The Feelies	- Lowly Buzzard ~ indie shoegaze	
≋ US15 Silverbird	- Honey You're ~ indie dreampop	
≋ US16 Cheerleader	- Waiting, Waiting ~ indie haze	
≋ US17 Sharon Van Etten	- Every Time The Sun Comes Up ~ indie folk	
≋ UK18 Claudia Kane	- Hungry ~ alt electro	
≋ SE19 Cajsa Siik	⇓ Relentless Delight ~ indie folk	
≋ FR20 Os Drongos	- Some Birds In ~ psych garage	
≋ IE21 Darling	- Moth On The Wall ~ indie garage	
≋ AU22 TV Snow	- You Got Me Out Of My Seat ~ indie dreampop
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Tim Kasher - Where's Your Heart Lie
from the album Adult Film
Out 10/8/13 on Saddle Creek.

Pre-Order: saddle-creek.com/store/605

Adult Film is more thematically elastic than any other of his recent albums, and spans songs that reflect on matters such as aging and mortality, growing up and growing older, and how these things impacts our relationships – including the way we interact with and view the life around us. Kasher is as lyrically incisive as ever: the album Is packed with thoughtful apprehensions, cleverly turned phrases, and reflections on himself and the world at large, all run through his distinctive filter of dry wit and frequent self-deprecation.

Musically, the new album plays down the orchestral element of his lush debut solo album The Game Of Monogamy (Saddle Creek, 2010) and offers a more direct, yet no less affecting, blend of rock and pop. Kasher is aided throughout by Sara Bertuldo (bass, vocals), Patrick Newbery (organ, keys, synths, horns), and Dylan Ryan (drums) – who backed him while touring around Monogamy – as well as Nate Kinsella (drums; of Make Believe and Birthmark); Laura Stevenson (vocals; of Laura Stevenson and the Cans); Matt Focht (drums; of Head Of Femur); Jenna Morrison (vocals; of Conduits); Laura Carrozza (flute; of Aficionado); and Sarah Holtschlag (saw). Adult Film was mixed by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Wye Oak, Explosions In The Sky) at Elmwood Recording in Dallas, TX.


Tim Kasher - Where's Your Heart Lie

In The Land Of Giants

Caged Animals - What You're Looking For

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Moby on 'Don't Love Me':


“If there’s a more conventional, sexy song on the album, ‘Don’t Love Me’  would be it. It was actually the one song I was thinking of not including on the record: it felt a little more uptempo and lighthearted than the other stuff I’d done. It’s funny – I thought it was too happy: then I played it for a friend of mine, and he said, ‘Have you listened to the lyrics? There’s nothing happy about it!’ I’m glad it made it onto the record, because Inyang Bassey sings on it.

About five years ago, I was looking for someone to sing with me on tour. I auditioned a bunch of very good professional singers, and the last person I auditioned was Inyang Bassey. At the time, she was working in the experimental classical music department at Carnegie Hall, and she’d grown up listening to the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag. Professionally, she shouldn’t have been auditioning for me – she’d never really sung with anyone, but when she walked in and started singing, she revealed these Mahalia Jackson/Etta James pipes! Since then, her career has been taking off, and it’s been great to see her get recognition.”

Innocents

Don't Love Me (feat. Inyang Bassey)

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We've always loved Tame impala, not only because they're a fantastic Australian band, but because it also hints at music we listened to growing up. There is something sweetly familiar and nostalgic about the music, yet still fresh and innovative.

 "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" is really enthralling, it's like there are several different worlds inside one song.  How it feels like a simple rock song (with almost pop melodies) but with a field of colour bursts of warm layered instrumentation that re-invents itself throughout the whole song... but it wasn't until we started making our own version that we discovered how beautiful the lyrics are - another world in itself - so we decided to strip the groove back and take it into another place.

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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

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For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

Skydive

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Afraid (Twice As Nice Remix)

The A Side from the first Delicacy of 2014. 

Snake Bile Wine – a tipple enjoyed in both China and Vietnam, where the venom and bile from the gall bladder is believed to improve male virility, amongst other benefits – consuming the poison makes you a man, it seems….  Snakes are either steeped whole in wine, or the bile is squeezed directly into a glass. 

1. Snake Bile Wine
2. Snake Bile Wine (Trevino Remix 1)
3. Snake Bile Wine (Trevino Remix 2)
4. Balut

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Isaac Delusion - Children Of The Night

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THE HIGH WIRE - Still

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Early supported by The Magician, Tensnake, Gigamesh, Treasure Fingers, Justin Faust, Punks Jump Up, Blende, Keljet, Xinobi, Tronik Youth, Taku Takahashi, The Supermen Lovers, and more !
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june : from 4 to 14th Asia tour - more infos soon

Sunset

Recorded 2013 at Lighthouse Studios, Shacklewell Lane, London.

Tired Eyes (Tell Me Why)

[photo by Dusdin Condren: www.dusdincondren.com/]

Strand of Oaks - "Shut In" from the forthcoming album HEAL, out June 24, 2014 on CD/LP/ Digital on Dead Oceans.

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Strand of Oaks - "Shut In" from the forthcoming album HEAL, out June 24, 2014 on CD/LP/ Digital on Dead Oceans

TOUR DATES:
[all dates + tix links: <a href="http://bit.ly/SoO_tour" target="_blank">deadoceans.com/tour</a>]

6/26 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
8/7 – Allston, MA @ Great Scott
8/12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Café
8/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub
8/15 – Bloomington, IN @ Russian Recording
8/16 – Goshen, IN @ Ignition Music Garage
8/18 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater
8/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
8/21 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
8/22 – Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
8/23 – Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
8/24 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
8/26 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
8/28 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
8/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
8/31 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
9/3 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
9/4 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
9/5 – Phoenix, AZ @ Last Exit
9/7 – Dallas, TX @ Three Links
9/9 – Austin, TX @ Lambert’s
9/10 – Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree
9/11 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
9/12 – Nashville, TN @ The High Watt
9/13 – Durham, NC @ Pinhook
9/14 – Washington, DC @ DC9
9/19 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle

HEAL

Shut In

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Strand of Oaks - "Shut In"

Outsider

Pretty Dolls

Walking down to the doors
So lonely then
I just watch you torn
Look at your red scar
So afraid to die
But you left in time

Do you wanna seek for the rescue honey
Do you wanna wait (for) your cry
Do you see the way it feels inside
Do you think I’ll love you more

Walking down to the shore
So shady then
I just watch you gone
Looking at your 
So deep blue eyes
But you left in time

Is it possible not to know
You watch the sand again
You like collecting Pretty Dolls
Now I’m gone away

JOLIES POUPÉES

Marchant vers les portes
Si seule à ce moment là,
Je regarde à quel point tu es déchiré.
Regarde ta cicatrice rouge
Tu as si peur de mourir
Mais tu es parti à temps

Veux–tu chercher à être sauvé chéri, veux-tu attendre de pleurer ?
Ressens-tu ce qu’il se passe en toi ? Crois-tu que je t’aime d’autant plus ?

Courant vers la rive
Si ombragé à ce moment là,
Je te regarde, déjà parti
Regardant de haut
Tes yeux d’un bleu si profond
Mais tu es parti à temps

Est-il possible de ne pas comprendre ?
Tu regardes le sable une fois de plus
Tu aimes collectionner de jolies poupées
Mais maintenant je m’en suis allée.

Pretty Dolls

"Distress" is the third single from Popstrangers' new album "Fortuna".

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Popstranges -  Distress

Title track from Sleep Thieves upcoming album 'You Want The Night' to be released June 17th via Minty Fresh Records (US).
Pre-order the album on vinyl now at http://www.sleepthieves.net 

"After branding their trademark sweeping electronic style back in late February with “City of Hearts”, Irish trio Sleep Thieves are back and better than ever with new single, “You Want The Night”.​ Taken from their similarly titled new album set for release this June, “You Want The Night” is a darkly hypnotic and throbbing sample of new-age electro that sits somewhere in between Chromatics and Drive soundtrack alumni Desire. " - The Line of Best Fit, May 2014

Sleep Thieves - You Want The Night

Our Free Music Monday this week comes from a very talented new artist called Eyedress. Discovered by XL Recordings, home to some of our favourite artists such as Sampha, Jamie XX and SBTRKT, theres no doubting that Eyedress is a name that’s going to be popping up more and more over the coming months. There’s something very eery but beautiful about the young producers sound, filled with psychedelic synth’s and high vocals and we’re excited to give ‘My Hologram’ to you today...

Eyedress' new mixtape ‘Hearing Colors’ is available to download in full: eyedress.hearing-colors.com


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FMM: Eyedress - My Hologram

Fond Memories of a Terrible Life

She's So Armed

I Want It All, So I Can Have Nothing

Synth duo Shy for Shore have announced the upcoming release of the melodic and 80s-inspired ‘Love, Again’ this May. The single is set to build upon 2013’s breakthrough EPs ‘Then The Heartbreak’ and ‘1985’, which saw Shy for Shore’s meteoric rise as one of the most up-and-coming acts in Scandinavia. Forming in 2011 following a chance introduction at Camden’s Roundhouse, Shy for Shore quickly developed a penchant for post-rock and overdriven riffs. Inspired by the local sound of their environment, the band’s original outfit cut their teeth around the London local gig circuit. 

However, a move to the Netherlands completely reorganised and altered the band, transforming them into dreampop shoegazers reflecting their location with a chameleonic power. Heavy praise followed the organic change of sound, including critical admiration from Crack in the Road, HillyDilly and Under the Radar. Since establishing themselves in Norway, including national television appearances and having their work on the soundtrack of an independent film, Shy for Shore are setting their sights on the rest of Europe with plans to tour extensively throughout the year. Shy for Shore’s Love, Again is the group’s flagship during this expansion. With a heart made of ice that melts at the touch, Love, Again is an achingly beautiful track and the listener’s perfect introduction to Shy for Shore. Mari Nordén’s heartfelt vocals are marched perfectly with melodic and ocean-deep synthesisers courtesy of Oz Page, painting a composition that is delightful electronica possessive of the beautiful human spirit. Reminiscent of 80s synth whilst still being wholly originally, Shy for Shore and Love, Again are headstrong and powerful creations, a 21st century spirit dropped into a legwarmer distopia.

Shy for Shore’s Love Again will be self released this May on both physical and digital formats.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Kim Astley-Cooper / 07869146119 / kim@supercatpr.co.uk

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Love, Again

First single from the "The Soft Focus"
Released on by The Active Listener
Get a digital copy at www.theactivelistener.bandcamp.com 
Get a physical copy at www.violetswells.bandcamp.com 
Written and recorded by Ben Simms
Mastered By Emil Iskasson


Into The Ether

John is a homeless. 
John is a priest.
John is a witness.
John is a beast. 
John is a weirdo. 
John is a thief. 
John is a wino. 
Listen, bleed, weep. 

Owl John is Scott Hutchison, Andy Monaghan & Simon Liddell.
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'Heavenly Creatures' from Wolf Alice's 'Creature Songs' EP.

Available now on iTunes: http://po.st/CreatureSongs

My Love Is Cool (Deluxe Edition)

Heavenly Creatures

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Love Is a Chain Store

Every once in a while we surface to share our music and shed some light in an otherwise bleak reality. And that time is soon upon us, Ladies & Gents. Our third installment, called "Junior", will be out on the 23rd of March 2009.

Junior

The Girl and the Robot

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