'Ines de Castro' is the first single from David Vassalotti's Broken Rope LP on on 2/12/2016.  Order your copy here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/david-vassalotti-broken-rope-lp

Order from Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/broken-rope/id1074173803

As modern life spirals further into chaos and confusion, David Vassalotti’s newest album Broken Rope, a follow-up to his revered out-of-print 2011 LP Book of Ghosts, presents itself as a soundtrack for the tumult
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Vassalotti, a Florida-based songwriter and performer for critically acclaimed 4AD signees Merchandise (amongst numerous other projects), has used this record as an opportunity to delve further into his own diverse world of personal interests. Broken Rope is a passion project, with Vassalotti handling all of the writing, performing, recording, production, and art design.

From lo-fi guitar pop sounds (a la Flying Nun staples like The Clean and The Verlaines), to elements harsh industrial noise and musique concrete, Vassalotti weaves together a wide array of musical influences with a steady hand. Similarly, the album’s lyrics draw from literary references as far- reaching as Portuguese history, Russian folklore, and Spanish poetry.

Ambitious as it may be to cover so much ground, there is a rational flow and unity that ties the record together. In the chaotic globalism of the 21st century Broken Rope may not be the compass that helps us find our orientation, but it can still serve as a mirror to help shape our concept of where we fit into the fray. This is an adventurous album for uncertain times.

PITCHFORK: D. Vassalotti "Swallow My Pride"
“Tampa's Merchandise have a decade of artful hardcore and experimental pop under their belts-- but the devastating solo output of guitarist Dave Vassalotti is their best kept secret”

David Vassalotti - Ines De Castro

Written and composed by Maud Nadal. 
Produced by Maud Nadal and Maxime Le Guil at Studio Plus 30, Paris.
Drums recorded by Arno Van Colen and Axel Concato. 
Mixed by Angy Laperdrix at Solaris Studio, Paris. 
Mastered by Rémi Salvador at Climax.

Maud Nadal: vocals, guitars, keyboards. 
Axel Concato: bass, keyboards. 
François Desmoulins: drums.

BUY Du Pouvoir EP:
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À La Fin

From the album Warrior, available April 6, 2018 from Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Warrior
Bandcamp: https://airwaves.bandcamp.com/album/warrior
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/warrior/1337353378?ls=1&app=itunes
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv167

The album cover for Warrior, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based band Air Waves, features a ominous, androgynous figure standing with a bicycle, wearing a gas mask adorned with a daisy.  The remarkable image was taken on April 22nd, 1970 at the inaugural Earth Day celebration in New York City by Nicole Schneit’s dad, Martin Schneit.  Forty-seven years later, artist Em Rooney hand-painted Schneit’s original black & white photo, resulting in an image that radiates with Warrior’s indefatigable spirit, strength, and love

Like many queer women, Nicole Schneit is a warrior by necessity, fighting for basic rights, dignity, and acceptance.  Such determination in the face of hardship and injustice runs in Schneit’s family; her new album was inspired in part by her mom who was diagnosed with fallopian cancer last year.  As she explains, “The doctor told her she had a fifteen to twenty percent chance, and her response was ‘I’m going to get this mother fucker.’ So the title ‘Warrior’ and the song are about her. After chemotherapy,  surgery, and then more chemotherapy, all the cancer in her body has left and she's currently in remission. I feel like most of the people in my life, including myself, are warriors and have overcome obstacles that seemed impossible to defeat.”

The dignified fighter archetype referenced in the album’s title is explored on each of Warrior’s eleven pieces of bittersweet, empowering indie pop.  According to Schneit the song “Gay Bets”, written after the 2016 election is “about being gay and being proud and open. I was thinking about hate crimes spiking and the current state of the world. My friend Jennifer Moore, who sings on the track, was my partner a long time ago, so I felt like I was writing a fuck you to Trump, for trying to take away queer rights, women's rights, people's rights.”  The song “Tangerine” was inspired by the film of the same name in which two trans women try to make ends meet as prostitutes. This movie, a dark docu-comedy shot in the contrastingly sunny setting of L.A., reflects Schneit’s battle between identity and society via Brooklyn pop rock that swings between the pastel-tinged and the downright melancholic.

On the album’s gorgeous closer “Blue Fire,” (inspired by the Adrienne Rich poem "The Will to Change") Schneit equates her post-presidential-election anxiety to a flame that grows and recedes, as she pleads for herself and listeners to remain calm. Like its namesake, the track burns slowly and brightly into one of the most glowing points on the record, leaving the listener smiling with thoughtful hope.  Warrior’s highlights, and all of the unmissable, satisfying pieces that tie them together show Schneit’s perseverance and resilience through crumbling relationships, personal adversity, and the current political climate, all leading to her most powerful collection of songs to date. Understated, subtly sophisticated, and equally empowering and comforting, Warrior launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries.  Schneit proudly declares her mission statement: “I want these songs to be heard by people in my queer community, but also by anyone that wants to feels strong, powerful, and included.”

Warrior

Air Waves - "Morro Bay"

“Its sureness and subtlety say more than a few gauche early pullquotes” | PITCHFORK
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17355-persistent-malaise/

“The songs do this wonderful thing, where they just gnaw on you” | DAYTROTTER
http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/cold-pumas/20056359-37383554

“The methodically planned looseness of ‘Persistent Malaise’s constant groove is thoroughly captivating” | LOUD AND QUIET
http://www.loudandquiet.com/2012/11/cold-pumas-persistent-malaise/

“I can’t think of a better album from a British band all year” | NORMAN RECORDS
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/136796-cold-pumas-persistent-malaise

Fog Cutter

The Molochs - I Wanna Say To You

"Pink Skies", Mountain Movers' seventh studio album finds the New Haven group diving further into an interstellar wormhole, guiding the listener through an enchanting labyrinth of squalling feedback, heady P.S.F.-influenced psychedelia, motorik rhythms, and mind-flaying guitar interplay. ~ OUT OCT 5th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Mountain Movers "This City"

Out 5th April on limited 7" (250 copies) - http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW027 - All We Are & Alex Kapranos - Heart Attack

Dumb - Club Nites
Available on Mint Records LP / CD / CS / DL on June 7, 2019

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Club Nites

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Dumb - Beef Hits

Newest from the prolific Omaha musician finds him returning to the home-recorded solo magic of his earlier solo albums. This is music for late-night drives or late-night hangs, rusted and dusted with stoney brilliance. Out via Trouble In Mind Records on Nov 13th, 2020 
(www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

David Nance "When The Covers Come Off"

"Truth" is taken from Madeline Kenney's self-produced EP "Summer Quarter", out now on Carpark Records.

Stream / Buy here: 
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p + c 2021 Carpark Records

Madeline Kenney - Truth

Chicago, IL label founded in 2009 with releases by NIGHTSHIFT, Writhing Squares, FACS, Melenas, En Attendant Ana, Mountain Movers, Headroom & more - Cop It. Don't Swap it.

David Nance "When The Covers Come Off"

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