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The first track taken from The Vacant Lots' debut album 'Departure', released via Sonic Cathedral on June 30 (UK/EU) and July 1 (US). Produced by The Vacant Lots. Mixed and mastered by Sonic Boom.

Departure

Mad Mary Jones

The Vacant Lots 'Mad Mary Jones'

The Rural Alberta Advantage 'Mended With Gold' 
Available September 30, 2014

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The Rural Alberta Advantage- Terrified

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Cobalt Cranes - "Days In The Sun" (CASS/CD)
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COBALT CRANES - "Flowers On Your Grave"

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Northern Ireland’s Girls Names return this autumn with their third full-length album, Arms Around a Vision, due for an October 2nd release via long-term home, Tough Love Records.

PRESS RELEASE:
“We look to Europe for inspiration. For romance. For the idea of a better life,” says the band’s frontman, Cathal Cully, when discussing the album. “For me, living in Belfast just makes you focus on your own art.”

True, Girls Names formed in Belfast, but they’ve long considered themselves a European band. The distinction is important – their vision of Europe is one of weird, labyrinthian histories, blackest-ever-black coffee, and long drives to dismal places. Romantic notions for those of a certain disposition, but behind the thousand-yard stares they’ve always been a soft-hearted lot. As the title of Arms Around a Vision would suggest, they’re all set to let love in.  

The band initially came together as a relatively lean two-piece back in the summer of 2010, but over the course of a handful of EPs and three very different albums, they’ve grown in number and ambition. Their last album, The New Life, was an unexpected underground hit in early 2013, taking the band around the world and garnering much critical praise, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes. Emboldened by the reception to that record, in March they returned with an 11-minute single that was played in full on Radio 1 and, typically, does not feature on their new album. Girls Names like to do things a little differently. 

On Arms Around a Vision, they’re more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive. The bass, drums and guitars are still there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers. Conceptually, Arms Around a Vision acts as a love letter to European elegance – Italian futurism, Russian constructivism, Germany’s Zero Group and both Neubaten and Bowie’s Berlin. 

Love and pain, romance and fucking. It’s all in there somewhere. Grand claims, perhaps, but in an ever bleak world, why not skygaze? The album opens with ‘Reticence’, a song in two parts that’s half metallic knockout, half midnight swagger. It sounds unlike anything they’ve ever done before, and is a perfect primer for an album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze, Birthday Party dissonance and M.E.S’ three R’s: repetition, repetition, repetition.  

As confident as it sounds, hardship has equally played a role in shaping Arms Around a Vision. “I'm not starving or anything, but I've practically been living hand to mouth since I was 22,” confirms Cully. “Most guitar music now is just a playground for the rich middle classes and it's really boring and elitist. We're elitist in our own way, in that we're on our own and you can't fuck with us when we’ve nothing to lose”. The near-6 minute ‘A Hunger Artist’ tackles that subject full on, addressing that age old adage of suffering for one’s art.

While the songs aren’t narrative-driven as such – the band still generally favour abstraction and ambiguity – there is a consistent underlying message: “We've got nothing. We’ve never had anything. And we don't expect to. The only person I ever wanted to impress was myself. I've never got anywhere close to succeeding in doing that until this album. I'm proud of it. I think I can start saying I'm a musician now.”

Tracklisting:

1. Reticence
2. An Artificial Spring
3. Desire Oscillations
4. (Obsession)
5. Chrome Rose
6. A Hunger Artist
7. Málaga
8. Dysmorphia
9. (Convalescence)
10. Exploit Me
11. Take Out the Hand
12. I Was You 


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Girls Names - Reticence

" Nothing Left To Lose "

Recorded at Idol House Studio in Hicksville, NY by Jon Nistal.
Written and Performed by Jon Nistal.

jnistalmusic@gmail.com
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Nothing Left To Lose

Tijuana Panthers -  Money Jar

Bites Will Bleed is taken from Loose Tooth's debut EP Saturn Returns released in April 2016. You can order on vinyl through our store https://milk-records.myshopify.com/collections/loose-tooth/products/loose-tooth-saturn-returns

01  - Bites Will Bleed

Slowdive

Sugar for the Pill

I laid on my back / An echo of silence / Floating on top a shallow pool of self awareness / Or a lack there of when I saw your face and I knew / That you were drunk

I laid on my back / An echo of silence / Floating on top a shallow pool of self awareness / Or a lack there of when I saw your face and I knew / That you had just cum / And you were far from done

All we want to do is to be something, be something we're not / But all we really need is to have someone to hold us when we're drunk

It's more than just sex / It's more than our bodies / It's more than a movement made from self loathing and irony / But I don't know what to call quite just yet / So I'm gonna shut up / Cuz I'm so far from done

All we want to do is to be something, be something we're not / But all we really need is to have someone to hold us when we're drunk

Written by Ryan Marshall Lawhon
Produced by Ryan Marshall Lawhon
Mixed by Jason Suwito
Mastered by Gene Grimaldi

Drunk

Available to buy at http://www.lostonme13.soundcloud.com/

Landslide

2017 Self Portrait
UK+EU Solo Tour April - June 2017
Full band band shows on sale now
Sydney July 28 http://bit.ly/JLATDLSydneyJul28                          
Melbourne  http://bit.ly/JLATDLMelbAug4 
For all dates go to www.jackladderandthedreamlanders.com/#shows

drums, percussion – Laurence Pike
electric bass, piano, synth – Donny Benét
guitars, bass VI, solina, synth programming, vox – Jack Ladder
electric guitar – Kirin J Callinan
backing vocals – Sarah Belkner, Ness Quinn

Recorded by Tim Whitten at Oceanic Studios, Brookvale
Additional recording by Wade Kierghan at Rolodex, Sydney; 
Donny Benét at Donnyland Studios; 
Richard Belkner at Free Energy Device 
& Jack Ladder at Fern Creek Cabin

Mixed by Noah Georgeson
Mastered by April Golden @ Golden Mastering

Susan

"Concrete" by Shame, out now on Dead Oceans

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Shame - Concrete

from the album "Oh" released 10/11. Tour dates: THU 9 Nov @Brighton Up Bar, Sydney  FRI 10 NOV @Franks Wild Years, Wollongong WED 15 Nov @ NSC, Melbourne FRI 24 Theatre Royal, Castlemaine

Machine Translations "Sola"

The Vacant Lots - Bells

Thee Oh Sees - Minotaur

Temple Songs - Passed Caring

Girls Names - Reticence

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