YESS, love the rhythmic drums in combination with the lyric brass harmonies... Great vocals by Rob Goodwin! Anxiously waiting to see them live again in Nijmegen, after a stunning and intimate performance on a rooftop in Rotterdam

What a great song, what a great band, what an incredible voice!

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Directions in a Foreign Tounge 
Corey Primus - Never Again


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Augustine taken from debut album 'White Water'

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6. VampnB 2 interlude! (only one way!) [prod. by kenny302]

The Tallest Man On Earth - 'Dark Bird Is Home' out May 11, 2015 on Dead Oceans

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In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now.

Douglas Dare - Venus

Siv Jakobsen - Not Alone
The third single from the upcoming debut album The Nordic Mellow, out August 25th 2017.

Label: The Nordic Mellow
Release-date: July 14th 2017.
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Management/contact: Glenn Larsen - glenn@indianer.nu

Written by Siv Jakobsen
Produced by Matt Ingram at Urchin Studios in Hackney, London, UK
Mixed and engineered by Dan Cox
Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering in London, UK

Arranged by Siv Jakobsen and Matt Ingram
Voice and guitars: Siv Jakobsen
Drums, keys: Matt Ingram
Guitaron: Nick Pini

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Not Alone

‘Resurgam Acoustic Session’ Out Now -
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Resurgam Acoustic Session

This Isn’t A Mistake (A&B Acoustic Version)

Hold on from Angus and Julia Stone, live at Triple J, with the first part from the song taken from Somewhere over the rainbow.

Angus and Julia Stone - Hold on (live at Triple J)

Needing Release
(taken from The Irrepressibles Nude Eps) 

Breaking me down to a child, 
and peeling away the skin, 
But you don't see within, 
There's nothing within.. with you... 

I shamefully hold my breath
I'm waiting for you to breathe
But your under my skin, 
trying to make my heart, 
beat just like your heart. 

Needing release, I'm needing release from you...

I'm lonely in my sleep, 
With breaking glass to fall, 
Ten roads to begin, and all holding sin.. for you... 
Everyone sins... but you... 

Needing release, I'm needing release from you...

Needing Release - The Irrepressibles

We Already Exist

The Slow Show have both a magisterial beauty to their songs and the confidence to let their spellbinding stories find their mark. Rarely since The Blue Nile has a band created such a powerful, fully realised world from what initially appears such a minimal framework.

Augustine

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