2021/07 #2 IndieRock DJ Playlist

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WL//WH - JULY 2021 // Shoegaze /Dream Pop /Psychedelic /Indie Pop

July 2021

https://fortherabbits.net/2021/07/16/five-things-we-liked-this-week-16-07-2021/

Five Things We Liked This Week - 16/07/21

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 12th July: from Friday afternoon you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch414

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud GO tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 414

Quale Futuro?

Larry's Hair Everywhere

Sure

Sister Fatima

The Haunted Youth - Coming Home - Fr 04-06-21

This Is My Jam

Aiki-This is My Jam

Out of the Silence

Still Life

The Double

Bright

Waiting for the Night

'Role Models' - Taken from EP 'Life Preserver'.

Full EP Here: https://treeboyandarc.bandcamp.com/

Written & performed by Treeboy & Arc.
Recorded & mixed by Chris Mulligan in March 2021.
Mastered by Tom Woodhead at Hippocratic Mastering.
Artwork by George Townend

Role Models

Time Is On The Run

Heart On The Line 27

Guided by Angels

ayw aye my niggas is monsters we thump u bonkers like honkers my niggas will off u like playing soccer with moms swear I said we awful like toddlers crying to moms swearving into concerts I'm conscious carrying arms

swear that I be off some

vigourus clitterlous flicking it glissin it but it's to diffrent I'm on some

(ion feel like doin the rest rn but here)

UNKNOWN SNIPPET???

Dark Parlor

RELEASE DATE 22ND JULY 2021

DOLLY DAYDREAMING  is my debut release and will be followed by the EP - SECRET SONGS. Dolly Daydreaming is a quirky track which came together very quickly. 

Its about a guy who is seeing a married girl. He dreams of a life he wont have with her. "Nothing kills romance, like a touch of reality".

Picture by Artist/Photographer Beth Flynn
Blue - trust and loyalty- which is what she desires
Yellow - Yellow signifies betrayal and dishonestly
Green - Green signifies cheating and infidelity

LYRICS
DOLLY DAYDREAMING 

Ooh cha cha
Ooh cha cha
Ooh cha cha
Ooh cha cha

It’s all romantic
Feels fantastic
(ooh cha)
Bedroom Gymnastics
It aint real 
(ooh cha)
You’re a dolly daydreaming fella

Ooh cha cha cha

It’s all romantic
Touch erratic
Ooh cha)
Over dramatic
It aint real
(ooh cha)
You’re a dolly daydreaming fella
(ooh cha cha)
Listen

Shove me in shut me out
That girl is taken
She won’t be leaving him for you
You have no money
She’s got none of her own what’s a girl to do
Her man pays for everything
But she cheats with you

(Ooh cha) 
It’s all romantic
Feels fantastic
(ooh cha)
Bedroom Gymnastics
It aint real 
(ooh cha)
You’re a dolly daydreaming fella
Listen

Pull me in shove me out
Your girl is so taken
And doesn’t know you like I do 
You have a few others
Breaking hearts what you do 
She doesn’t know
That you lie to everyone
And you cheat on her too ooh

Nothing kills romance
Like a touch
Of reality
Lightest touch

It’s all romantic
Feels fantastic
(ooh cha)
Bedroom Gymnastics
Its aint real 
(ooh cha)
You’re a dolly daydreaming fella
(you just feel it all my friend)

It’s all romantic
Touch erratic
(Touch ecstatic)
(ooh cha)
Over dramatic
It aint real
(ooh cha)
You’re a dolly daydreaming fella

Ooh cha cha 
Ooh cha cha
Ooh cha cha

22nd July 2021

Dolly Daydreaming

" SKULL N BONE " prod ERLAX

'Dark World' is the title track of Normil Hawaiians forthcoming collection of early material from 1979-81, out on Upset The Rhythm on September 24th.

Dark World

Normil Hawaiians - 'Dark World'

Coolhand Jax's 2nd EP 'Superstar Baby' out now on Spirit Goth [SG38]!

🎧  Listen / Stream 'Superstar Baby' EP
→ https://sg38.fanlink.to/superstarbaby

🎸  Coolhand Jax
→ https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mBQ1OduOz1oBNlwzGucll?si=fSQW34GmSeu9zolnSYqVfg&dl_branch=1
→ https://instagram.com/coolhandjax/

Coolhand Jax - Superstar Baby

Running

My Kind Of Woman

My Kind Of Woman (cover  Mac DeMarco)

Spencer Thomson of Moon Taxi remixed our track "Garth", and we love it.

Garth ST

Garth ST (Spencer Thomson remix)

Central Heat Exchange

Directly Down (feat. Varsity)

Fortitude Valley channel Weezer’s Blue Album for their latest single Baby, I’m Afraid. 

“This is a break up song.  It’s two people feeling that the vibe is off, but not communicating.
It’s about feeling insecure, over analysing little things and assuming the worst rather than actually speaking to the other person.”

Fortitude Valley tear through three minutes of scorching rock with crunchy riffs and indelible hooks, harnessing their vibrant slacker-pop to dissect a stalling relationship.

Fortitude Valley is the new outlet for the songwriting talents of Durham based Brisbanite Laura Kovic.

Having spent the majority of her musical career playing keyboards in other people’s bands, bringing their songs to life with a melodic flourish, it was about time for Laura K to find an outlet for her songs: awkward power-pop that’s bound to appeal to fans of The Beths, Pixies or The Weakerthans. 

She’s assembled quite the band too: Martha’s Daniel Ellis on lead guitar and Nathan Stephens Griffin on drums, and Night Flowers’ Greg Ullyart on bass.

Fortitude Valley is the heart of Brisbane’s music scene and it's also where Laura first started playing in bands before moving to the UK in 2010.  It was a place that objectively felt mythical, a suburb with a special meaning, looking back from the other side of the world and many years later. 

Fortitude Valley release their debut full length album at the end of the summer 2021.

Reaction to recent single Cassini:
“infectious indie pop gems that would sidle up nicely alongside Joanna Gruesome, Lisa Prank, or Colleen Green” Raven Sings The Blues
“the band set the sad tale of lost space hardware to a surprisingly fiery slice of power-pop, with the Pavement-like lurch of the rhythm section, contrasted by the rambunctious assault of the twin-guitars, and Laura’s vocal tumble of lyrical gems” For The Rabbits

@valleyfortitude
https://fikarecordings.com/artists/fortitude-valley

Fortitude Valley - Baby, I’m Afraid

Glasgow Kiss

Arranged, performed and produced by Fernando Nuti (vocals, guitars, keys), Andrea Volpato (guitars, synthesizer, backing vocals), Alessandro Boschiero (bass) & Dario Lucchesi (drums, percussion). Music and words by Fernando Nuti. Recorded and mixed by Andrea Volpato at Fox Studio (Venezia). Additional mixing by Tommaso Colliva at Laboratorio Testone (Milano). Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà (Cesena). Artwork by Fernando Nuti & Laura Gamba.

Vyvyan Rising

Gonkulator

Mandrake Handshake - Gonkulator

Written by Nation of Language
Produced and Mixed by Nick Millhiser
Mastered by Heba Kadry

A Different Kind Of Life

Just Not Today - The Arosa

Taken from the Boiling Point/Promise Land 12", out 5th Feb 2021. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BadwanCoxon

A collaboration between Faris Badwan (The Horrors / Cat’s Eyes) & renowned guitarist John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack / Spiritualized / Treader), Boiling Point/Promise Land is the first release of an ongoing collaborative series between Faris and other artists, details of which will be subsequently announced.

Badwan & Coxon met some years ago when Faris was looking for producers to work with on his solo material and their working relationship evolved beyond the existing songs into something more improvisational and instinctive. As Faris explains:

The new songs we ended up working on were largely spontaneous and cut together from early takes with minimal overdubbing. The lyrics were improvised and the focus was placed more on creating atmosphere and keeping things fairly raw and expressive. I guess I found it rewarding particularly with the guitar playing because it was so intuitive and completely free from any expectations of how a song should be constructed. There are hooks and repetitive sections but fewer traditional structures.

We tried to avoid doing any planning beforehand and focussed more on responding to what was happening in the moment. I guess the sessions were kind of a constant dialogue where we would each respond to the other's improvisation.

With Promise Land I began by improvising lyrics over a drone track John and I created. Some time later I came across “To Our Land” by Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian poet, and was struck by the similarities - there are a few lines that match really closely. Despite being half-palestinian myself this was a total accident and I know for sure I hadn’t seen Darwish’s piece before.

With Boiling Point the lyrics are almost the ghost of a narrative rather than an explicit story. I’m interested in the subconscious and how the hidden parts of your brain express themselves when given the opportunity. Looking back it was almost more about creating the right conditions for the subconscious to come out.

Boiling Point / Promise Land is out on Tough Love Records on Friday 5th February 2021 on DL and as a limited edition (500) 12” which includes a very limited run of 100 copies with hand painted sleeves by Faris which are available via Bandcamp. In keeping with the approach of the music, each design was improvised and instinctive. Faris added about the artwork:

What was interesting about it was the way the style of the designs naturally evolved as a result of having so many blank squares to fill - there's a really clear development from start to finish - beginning with angular lines filling the sleeve and ending with smoother, more minimal abstract shapes responding to the existing sleeve design. It ended up almost like a process-based art project where you work repetitively within really strict confines and let the results emerge organically.