New Music May 2018

© 2018 Words and Music by Josh Stewart.

Produced by Elliot Heinrich.
Mastered by Brian Lucey.

Additional musicians:
Bass, Guitar - Elliot Heinrich
Drums - Kyle Shipton
Lead guitar - CodyJames.c.

Wait For You

The second single from the upcoming debut EP. 

Produced by The Old Pink House & Chris McManus at Blank Studios.
Mastered by Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering.

JADED

Flash In The Pan

Kios is an indie rock band based in Nashville, TN that Indie Shuffle describes as “joyous indie-pop”, with “vibrant and uplifting melodies hard to ignore”. The three piece is made up of Cole Suddarth (vocals/guitar), Aaron Krak (drums), and Mitch Wollenberg (bass). Cole and Aaron met through a previous band that formed at Belmont University - Aaron and Mitch grew up together in Newark, Ohio; all three moved to Nashville in 2014 to pursue music.

In the summer of 2017, the trio moved in together which sparked the idea of creating music. Cole decided to spend the summer in his hometown, Richmond, Virginia, where he began writing songs and recording demos for the project. The three sent demos back and forth, drawing in on their rock and pop backgrounds and thus, Kios began. They dropped their first single, “Be Loved” in March of 2018. The trio has been compared to names such as COIN, Colony House, Bad Suns, Two Door Cinema Club, and Phoenix. They plan to release an EP by the end of summer 2018.

Right Now Single

Right Now

Value Void- 'Back in the Day'
https://valuevoid.bandcamp.com/

London-based trio Value Void are announcing the release of the lovesick mid-tempo gem 'Back in the Day,' in anticipation of their debut LP, expected later in the year on Tough Love. The trio is comprised of Paz Maddio (guitar, vocal), Marta Zabala (drums), and Luke Tristram (bass); three friends with longstanding bar experience and active roles in the London DIY scene, having also played in Los Cripis, Major Malfunction and COP. 

‘Back in the Day’ is a look-back to an ambiguous object of fascination. Tense verses, in which the riff itself sounds as though it's itching a memory, give way to an understated yet instantly memorable chorus. As is characteristic of their sound,  it’s a marvel of songwriting economy, meshing a clear pop sensibility with a DIY punk tone that brains you with its precision. 

The narrator - conjured by Marta’s lyrics and conducted through Paz’s expressive vocal - puzzles then un-puzzles herself, as she turns over an old romantic  counterpart in her mind, on the premise that they 'are just this weird game,' and concluding uncertainly that 'without any rules I don't want to play'. 

Harnessing an outsized power in the way of the best punk rock three-pieces, Value Void nonetheless do so with a minimum of sonic prosthetics, recording live to tape with Euan Hinshelwood at TVT studios in Blackheath, relying on a stripped-down amplification of their ideas and esoteric technique. 

Value Void tour with Frankie Cosmos in May.

May
28th - Gorilla, Manchester
29th - Art School, Glasgow
30th - Fleece, Bristol
31st - Scala, London

Value Void - Back In The Day

http://thyla.lnk.to/H9zol

LIVE:
June 22 - Isle of Wight Festival - This Feeling/Pretty Green/Pirate Studio's Stage
June 26 - Supporting L.A. Witch - Castle and Falcon - Birmingham

Blame

Ashtray Navigations - Greatest Imaginary Hits (vhf#148 LP+4CD)

Ashtray Navigations - Greatest Imaginary Hits - D1 (Rob) - 04 - There Is A Ditch And There Is A Pit

lauraliesin.bandcamp.com/album/tara-clerkin-trio

Order

Tara Clerkin Trio - Hellenica

Taken from the album, Agitprop Alterna, out on April 3rd via Tough Love and Slumberland. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/agitpropalterna

Agitprop Alterna - master MP3s

Peel Dream Magazine - Emotional Devotion Creator

Taken from the record, Look Alive, out 1st May 2020 via Tough Love. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/StroppiesLookAlive

New EP - master (MP3)

The Stroppies - Holes in Everything

Taken from the album, Agitprop Alterna, out on April 3rd via Tough Love and Slumberland. Pre-order here - smarturl.it/agitpropalterna

Peel Dream Magazine - It's My Body

Taken from the Day By Day 12", out 8th May. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/DayByDay12 

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"Day by Day was actually written a few years ago but has taken on an eerie relevance in light of current events. As the title suggests, the song explores living in the present moment as a way of overcoming difficulties and growing stronger. Written during a dark time in our lives the song is about the struggle of carrying on, taking each day at a time in hope that things will eventually get better"

Co-produced by Doves’ guitarist, Jez Williams, Day By Day picks up where debut Night Drive left off, fragile, and amorphous, driven by a Kevin Shields-esque drone and underpinned by Katie Drew’s beautiful and delicate vocal.

The double A-side single, Day By Day / Katy Song will be released on 12” vinyl on May 8th and is limited to 150 copies.

White Flowers - Day By Day (Extended Edit)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - I Should Have Helped You

Taken from You Might Be Happy Someday, released 2nd October. Pre-order the LP here - https://smarturl.it/redpinksandpurples
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Deep amidst San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood misty air and washed-out pastel blocks, Glenn Donaldson has been diligently creating minor masterpieces with rudimentary home technology for some time now. With The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Donaldson has finally created a vivid reflection of this dreary scene. You Might be Happy Someday is an oblique strand of SF outer-avenue cloud cover that stretches across the Atlantic to the grey docks of Bristol as captured in Sarah Records’ fetishized insert photos.

Despite the deceptively congenial presentation, Happy is often a heavy record. After a litany of Donaldson’s past iterations (from experimental abstraction to post-punk and pop), The Reds, Pinks & Purples is Glenn D’s most personal project. Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironically upbeat jangles and rhythms Mitch Easter might have captured on his reel-to-reel are prime cuts of bummer pop. Almost every track is written in second person, creating a feeling of overheard private inner conversations-on-repeat: soft-lob criticisms, supportive friend advice and embarrassing confessions, You Might be Happy Someday is a smeared window into the (kindly) cynical thoughts of a romantic misanthrope.

Like the work of other U.S. depresso-pop purveyors East River Pipe, The Reds, Pinks & Purples’ mini-album is the kind of record that is both unsettling and comforting. When you’re four drinks deep and you’ve worn your Smiths records out, You Might Be Happy Someday is on deck to have wine spilled on it while you dance alone in the kitchen.

You Might Be Happy Someday is released on Tough Love on 2nd October. Fittingly, the record will be pressed on to 'pastel pink' colour vinyl, with a limited run of 300 copies.

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Last Summer In A Rented Room

Taken from You Might Be Happy Someday, released 2nd October. Pre-order the LP here - smarturl.it/redpinksandpurples
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Ahead of the release of their Tough Love debut in October, Glenn Donaldson's prolific Reds, Pinks and Purples project have released the second track from the record, the poignantly titled 'Your Parents Were Wrong About You'. Lyrically, it's a perfect riposte to the challenges of a n unrelenting year, captured best in the line, "take good care of your friends, they won't always be there". As you read this, Donaldson's city of San Francisco is coated in a thick layer of smoke from nearby wildfires, and these words feel as appropriate as ever.

Reflecting on the track, Donaldson provides a little insight into its inspiration, a moving portrait of a dark situation. 
 
"I once had a girlfriend whose mother took me out to dinner basically to warn me that her daughter was a bad person. The tragedy of that has stuck with me all these years. This song is dedicated to anyone with toxic or undermining parents. They were wrong about you."

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Your Parents Were Wrong About You

Taken from the Within A Dream EP, released 15th January 2020. Pre-order the limited edition 12" here - https://smarturl.it/WithinADream

Further info
Following the release of two 12"s in the past year, White Flowers return with the Within A Dream EP,  a recently recorded four song collection to be released on 15th January 2021. Alongside digital formats, it will be pressed to 12" transparent vinyl in an edition of 300.  

The four tracks on the EP came together earlier this year during various periods of enforced isolation, and somewhat inevitably reflect the conditions of their provenance, exploring themes of dissociation, multiple selves, and the role of the individual in an increasingly strange and fragmented world. Co-produced with Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius, Portishead), Within A Dream combines home and studio recordings in ways that display the duo’s growing ability to switch between grand sonic gestures and subtle sonic abstractions.

Alongside the three originals which explore the outer edges of post-punk, dreampop and shoegaze in increasingly alien ways, is a beguiling cover of Mama Cass’ ‘Didn’t Want to Have to Do It’. As with their version of Red House Painters' 'Katy Song' from their previous 12”, it's provides another example of how defined White Flowers' aesthetic has become, as they’re effortlessly able to shape the music of others to their own vision. Indeed, as with all their videos and records to date, the artwork for the single is again created entirely by the band, another example of their intentions to create a defined White Flowers universe distinctly their own.

Within A Dream EP (master - MP3)

White Flowers - Within a Dream

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