AUGUST 2022 Part II

Cold Eyes

Cashmere Carey

Copyright: E Burrows 2022
Mix: M Gio and E Burrows
Master: Dan O'Connor

Heaven

Naarm/Melbourne 4-piece screensaver is back with a double A-side 7-inch single just 6-months after delivering their 10-track debut album Expressions of Interest on Upset the Rhythm to positive international response. See praise for the record on Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, KEXP, and Post Trash. The album has also been a regular feature on Henry Rollin’s KCRW Santa Monica radio show.

The band return with two distinctly different tracks that extend upon the blend of post-punk, new wave and synth-punk on their debut. Side A, Clean Current is a burst of high-energy: nervy guitars and groovy base underpinned with krautrock drums and cosmic synth noise, overlayed with delay heavy vocals. Repeats is the flipside of the coin, a moody post-punk stomper, led by gritty saw tooth synth, chorus-soaked guitar, textural percussion and soaring vocals. Lyrically Clean Current spits out retorts aimed at the engulfing nature of anxiety whilst Repeats critiques the repetition of modern life, languishing human existence.
Clean Current nods it’s head to likes of Snapper and 80s Flying Nun bands whilst Repeats owes it origins more to the progenitors of goth-rock.


Website: https://screensaver.bandcamp.com/music

Clean Current

STUPID DRAMA
 
The song has a cool repetitive minimal funk thing going on reminiscent of Use No Hooks and Pylon, but the vocals are sharp, dry and fiery, sometimes eroding into an acerbic Sleaford Mods style bored and anguished drawl. It's a bratty, snotty, foot-stomping, sax-screeching romp through the types of absurd, mundane predicaments that sometimes grow so big they seem to generate their own gravitational fields.  I always feel like I'm gasping for air in this song, which fits well with the theme of being completely fed-up and trying to laugh about it.    - Anna

Loose Fit - Stupid Drama

Perfect Place To Hide (Single Edit)

Cool It Down

Burning

Without a Trace

Closure

Chase

Thank You

Saturdays

Blue Rev

Easy On Your Own?

The Fish Needs A Bike

Interiors

Amnesia

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"Echo Base" is taken from Ed Schrader's Music Beat's forthcoming album 'Nightclub Daydreaming' out March 25th, 2022.

p + c 2022 Carpark Records

Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Echo Base

Brooklyn based minimalist post-punk/synth-pop duo The Vacant Lots are announcing their fifth studio album ‘Interiors’. Due out October 13th via Fuzz Club, the 8 songs on ‘Interiors’ synthesize all of the band’s past work while pushing forward into the future. It’s Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen’s darkest and most visionary work yet.

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THEVACANTLOTS

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