2014 Indie

Stutter

From Silent Lion's forthcoming EP, due out early 2014. 
Produced by Zach Shipps /// written by SiLi

Stolen In The Heat Of The Moment

Hospitality - Rockets and Jets

Taken from the new Hospitality album 'Trouble'
Out on Fire Records 27 January.

http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00000001051

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Hospitality - Rockets and Jets

Them Feet
(Music & Lyrics by Tom Levin) www.tomlevin.com

Got this picture of you and me dancing
Grandkids by our side
And I imagine you and me laughing, 
With an ever young twinkle in our eyes

I swear these aren't just lines 	
And I will show you in time 

I’m gonna dance with you when you get old
I won’t let them
I won’t let them
I won’t let them feet get cold
I’m gonna dance with you when you get old
I won’t let them feet get cold		

You snoring softly in front of the TV
There’s a rerun of Family Guy	
Life’s a ragged road and I’d like to take you with me
You’re my centerline
	
Midnight rain and morning dew
I want to share it all with you

I’m gonna dance with you when you get old
I won’t let them
I won’t let them
I won’t let them feet get cold
I won’t let them
I won’t let them
I won’t let them feet get cold
I’m gonna dance with you when you get old
I won’t let them feet get cold

Them Feet

Recorded and Produced by Steve Sears Jr.
All rights reserved to Dios Mio.

Proto (Single Version)

Think about the days we had
When your love belonged to me
Here I stand under the night
All the ghosts follow me around 
(Tonight)

I guess one day I’ll find the way
a way to stay and cast away
Every time, you pass by

Maybe tonight I become shade
And get to sleep under your bed
Close your eyes. We’ll be fine

Now I’m just a passer by 
You can’t look me in the eyes 
But I shine with your smile 
All your dreams turn me into light
(your light)

I guess one day I’ll find the way
a way to stay and cast away
Every time, you pass by

Maybe tonight I become shade
And get to sleep under your bed
Close your eyes. We’ll be fine

Good morning sun
We rise, we fall
Into love

Good morning sun
We rise, we fall
Into love

Into Love (CD Version)

TONIGHT is a bouncy funky indie classic, REGALE'S first official single now available to purchase from i-tunes store and all good online music stores. recorded by Regale at Dovecote Studios Wolverhampton, recorded and mixed by Eddie

Tonight

From Special Explosion's new EP "The Art of Mothering" — available on vinyl, and Digitally February 18, 2014 through Topshelf Records.

Order the record now: http://tsr-store.com/artist/special-explosion
http://www.topshelfrecords.com

Buy 12" or digitally

Special Explosion - Clotheslined

To be released February 18th, 2014 on black + white split 10" vinyl by Exploding In Sound Records.

Steve Hears Pile In Malden and Bursts Into Tears is a failed concept album about two kids living on the outskirts of Boston who realize they are characters in a Pile song. Steve wants to form a band and play with Pile but can't quite manage it because Mouth wants to give up on everything, leave, die, unexist. It's also about F.M. Dostoevsky and, as always, maybe above all, Krill. As Sir DFW put it, 'the horrific struggle to establish a human band results in a band whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle.' Catch you later.

written and performed by Krill
recorded on August 3rd, 2013 by Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez at The Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY
mastered by Richard Marr at Galaxy Park Studios in Watertown, MA

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Krill - Turd

Released January 2014

@altarflowers

Recorded and mixed by http://johntatlockaudio.com/ 

Echoes (demo)

Our new single, out 17th February 2014 via Kissability (@clubkissability).

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Lie Back

Dry your eyes

First track from the 'The Hidden Door' EP, released on February 14th 2014. Recorded at First Avenue Studios, Newcastle by David Curle, January 2014.

5 track CD available to purchase at http://kobadelta.bandcamp.com/ NOW!

REVIEWS:

"It’s a real throbber of a release; indie-rock that pulsates with a dark heart; bluesy and nicely singed at the edges by way of some psychedelic flourishes. Cracking stuff." - The Crack Magazine (February 2014)

"Superb new five-tracker from this Newcastle outfit who make songs like distant thunder which have all the charged atmosphere of an imminent storm. Bluesy, rocky, occasionally frazzled, occasionally dark of ballad, but always potent" - The Crack Magazine (March 2014)

"The Hidden Door EP delivers a brooding, atmospheric psychedelic rock energy. The five piece are striving to cover new ground, whilst both retaining and increasing their fan base - which is a feat many artists struggle to achieve." NARC. Magazine (February 2014)

"Included on the EP is 'Supernatural Cause', which is a dark and gritty three-minute offering that is screaming to be heard live." - The Evening Chronicle (31st January 2014)

"North East indie rockers Kobadelta are back with a new, 5 track EP and it starts with a real statement of intent. 'Supernatural Cause' has a menacing beat and sinister guitar twang that is like the Doors playing a set on death row during a power cut. When the fuzzy, distortion laden guitars kick in with a vengeance you get the feeling that the locks on all the cells have just failed as well." - Listen With Monger (February 2014)

"Opener, Supernatural Cause plods into being with a confident and comfortable swagger, possibly hints of Nirvana grunge in between guitars which almost distort but are finely controlled on the mixing desk taking the sound as far as it can possibly go.  It’s not just cracking melodies either, lyrically Kobadelta are special too, telling stories along the way." - Louder Than War (March 2014)

"Kobadelta takes little time to excite ears whether new or old with the opening seconds of first track Supernatural Cause. Drums and bass cast the initial temptation to excite senses with the guitar soon adding its melodic lures to the coaxing. It is an instant web of persuasion which seemingly draws on The Doors and Echo & The Bunnymen, an embracing enticement which smooches and dances with the imagination whilst the vocals of Dom Noble croon with expressive strength. Throughout its heated narrative and melodic climate, the song sways before and leans bewitchingly upon the emotions, the tangy sonic design by guitarist Alex Malliris and mesmeric charm of the keys from Jordan Robson a potent spice for thoughts and passions. The track is an exceptional entrance, one which simply gets stronger and richer over time marking the band out alone as something potentially special." - The RingMaster Review (March 2014)

LYRICS:

I broke through the throne room of the old Gods,
I'm welcomed by a familiar coast,
I've got a feeling that's not worth concealing, beneath all these colourful robes,
Word down in Zion is let bygones be bygones,
Treasure the earth, don't get cut on your diamonds,
Oh well I've heard that you're in need of some assistance baby from me

The penny it dropped in the orchard,
Sex went and sold all the dead horses,
It read in the coroner's report that you died of a supernatural cause

I'll share my favourite toys if you come over to play,
She's a bundle of joy with a wonderful way,
Of seeing the world like it was your first day,
You wish you were under her spell, that you were not afraid,
She fits like a lime does in a tall, cold lemonade,
She sees the world like it was her first day

The penny it dropped in the orchard,
Sex went and sold all the dead horses,
It read in the coroner's report that you died of a supernatural cause

KOBADELTA - Supernatural Cause (FREE Download)


She turns juice into whiskey, a kitchen into a saloon and a snow-covered block to a prairie. I surrender, I lay down my guitar. Singing: If you really, really want it, it's possible.  I had a song, we recorded it, but it seemed impossible to get it done. Oskar was trying to set the levels for the mellotron and the choir. Once again I sang: If you really, really want it, it's possible. And again. Do we really want to do this? We began to question ourselves. But oh yes. We wanted to do it. Now it's finished, Possible You, the first song on the upcoming album. Sometimes things just goes a little slow. But remember: Time is not passing, time is coming.

Produced by Oskar Sandlund. Recorded at A&O Studion in Umeå by Anton Persson and Oskar Sandlund. Performed and arranged by Frida Selander, Oskar Sandlund and Johan Lindberg. Released the 13th of January 2014 by Amasonora.

Possible You

Originally recorded by the Smiths on January 28, 1984.

We chose to do this song as it is probably the darkest Smiths song both musically and lyrically.

I think I died a little when I heard How Soon is Now for the first time. I didn't know bands like this could exist. I was in High School and having a hard time identifying with bands like Limp Bizkit and Alien Ant Farm that were aggressively dominating the airwaves at the time. Hearing the Smiths for the first time, I found myself.  Johnny Marr's genius guitar sirens layered on top of Bo Diddley vibrato and Morrissey claiming the throne of shyness, "Theres a club if you'd like to go",--- we've all been there. Covering the song was a chance for both Jon and I to reconnect with this nostalgia while adding our own vulnerable darkness to the mix. 


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Our new album 'TOUCH' is new available on iTunes: http://bit.ly/1bL5DYu

How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths Cover)

HALLS - LOVE TO GIVE
OUT FEB 10th 2014

Pre-order on iTunes and get 'Forelsket' MP3 instantly - itunes.apple.com/gb/album/love-to-give/id768882884

Pre-order limited 12"/CD here: nopaininpop.greedbag.com/buy/love-to-give-2/

**FEB 17 2014 -HALLS LIVE AT SHACKLEWELL ARMS, LONDON: https://www.facebook.com/events/593044900775229/ **

Halls - the solo project of 23 year old South London musician Sam Howard - released a debut album, ‘Ark’, in November 2012.

A long twelve months later - after rapt reviews and a stint modelling for Hedi Slimane in Paris - Howard’s second album is here, and the changes are marked.

“This is an album about opening up. Ark is the cold album, closed-off, obscure and confusing. I obscured lyrics and hid behind reverb and mumbling. For this album I wanted to reach out more. In some ways it is darker than Ark. I feel that I struggle to connect with a lot of people and I want to connect somehow. Love to Give is about opening up and becoming more of a human being.”

In his new work, Howard has replaced apprehension and doubt with a muted hope, and just as the sentiment has shifted, as too the compositions and arrangements have moved into the real world. Ark’s electronic templates have ceded to - as Howard says - “embrace the sound of human beings”, and the instrumental palate has widened: brass, tuned percussion, woodwinds, and organs now flesh out the tracks, with digital percussion only used for texture rather than structure. Much was recorded in a theatre in London’s Woolwich, with Howard’s vocals recorded naturally in the large main hall, and passing traffic and street noise can be heard faintly throughout the album.

Opening track ‘Love To Give’ builds from hymnal acoustic reverie to a wall-of-noise breakdown, before ending on a military brass finale; the seven minute centrepiece ‘Aria’ leads with a solo xylophone into interweaving Kraut percussion and strings lines; ‘Forelsket’ contains a freeform pitch-shifted saxophone, evoking Sun Ra alongside a Justin Vernon vocal line and symphonic swells; and closer ‘Body Eraser / Avalanche’ ends the album on a few minutes of haunting ambience.

The album is not a clean listen; lyrics and vocal melodies are still lost occasionally to the music, creating an hazy, sometimes impenetrable aura, and even the direct, sparser guitar-and-voice-tracks ‘Aside’ or ‘You Must Learn To Live Again’ rely on a heavy atmosphere rather than narrative. Instead of relying on clearer melodic control, what is more apparent is the growth in Howard’s compositions - his ability to breathe life in to sentiments of cold confusion and loss across dense, shifting arrangements.

‘Love To Give’ is a weighty, masterly executed album - a step away from anxiety towards light.


Order 12"/CD

Halls - Waves (from 'Love To Give', out Feb 2014 through No Pain In Pop)

Disorder (Joy Division)

Athena

4 TRACK CD AVAILABLE HERE: www.kobadelta.bandcamp.com

Recorded at First Avenue Studios, Newcastle by David Curle on 19th-21st April 2013...

REVIEWS:

"This is a monumental chunk of fired-up bluesy rock that has more rumble that a tropical storm" - The Crack Magazine (June 2013)

"Kobadelta’s last single “When It Rains It Pours” received a hearty slap on the back in our last issue and with good reason as it is a supremely confident rocker of a decidedly wired and psyched nature; not foot-to-the-floor stuff, but spinning off fractal guitar riffs which add up to an inner core of really frazzled blues" - The Crack Magazine (July 2013)

"'When It Rains It Pours' is a slab of leather clad, dark haired, cigarette in mouth doom rock filth. The kind of tune that you wouldn't let anywhere near your daughter in case it impregnated her with a sneer and a slow wink." - Listen With Monger (May 2013)

"The synth infused track has hints of surf and alt-rock riffs reminiscent of Muse and Bloc Party. A real gem! Go and download it!" - It's All Indie (TRACK OF THE MONTH - June 2013)

"With 'When It Rains It Pours', a doomed motif is the nucleus of a seamless interaction between clean, pensive guitars and mammoth, bass-driven riffs. It’s extremely well constructed, and bipolarizes glimmers of optimism with downright lugubriousness. From the synths that shimmer from the outset to the hugely impressive bridge, where candidly strong vocals urge over a retrospective, clean guitar, 'When It Rains It Pours' spreads like a fever." - Reviewcaster (June 2013)

"Dark and bluesy, with a healthy chunk of rock, Kobadelta are fast becoming one of the must-see emerging alternative rock bands in the region... The single itself, 'When It Rains It Pours', is a seductive slab of rustic rock 'n' roll held together with rhythmic drums, gritty guitar hooks, kaleidescopic synths and Dom's coarse Northern vocals layered over the top." - NARC. Magazine (July 2013)

"Another of Newcastle’s finest, Kobadelta are a five piece psyche band from the North East and are here to tinge this kaleidoscopic genre with a little more black. They possess the uncanny ability to bring in all the surrealism of a Nick Cave nightmare to a predominantly rock sound, with QOSTA riffs, heavy toms and still manage to sound current and fresh... The synths of Jordan Robson have the ability to cut through the humongous drums with their fading reverb that give the band their escapist sound. With their track When It Rains It Pours they use this synth as an extra textural layer to complete the blues filled, meaty sandwich Marley on bass provides. The Brothers Malliris, with Alex on guitar and Chris on drums, provide the core of the band’s style and produce an authentic rock sound which paints the perfect background for the detailing lyrics." - Far Out Magazine (July 2013)

LYRICS:

We want to drink the water, I'm sick of all the wine,
There was never prohibition in your saviour's time,
I've been working on commission,  in King Solomon's mines,
But who was to tell the snake was wrapped around the vine?

When it rains it pours, it's not the weather I applaud,
You leave me wanting more, not in a way I've ever felt before,
Not in a way I've ever felt before

I sat in the centre of the great, golden round table,
They argued and they plotted like the brothers Cain and Abel,
I have the right to be silent tonight,
But you have the right to be violent, violent tonight

When it rains it pours, it's not the weather I applaud,
You leave me wanting more, not in a way I've ever felt before,
Not in a way I've ever felt before

KOBADELTA - When It Rains It Pours (FREE Download)

From the EP "Spheres", released on 09 June 2013. Available for Download via iTunes, Amazon and musicload.de. Physical copy available via info@anydancemusic.com. www.anydancemusic.com

2014 Indie

Tore Teksas