“Dream of Bees” is the first single from Lilies on Mars’ full-length Dot to Dot, to be given worldwide release early next year on Saint Marie Records. Previous recordings by the London-based, Sardinian multi-instrumentalists Lisa Masia and Marina Cristofalo have established the duo, formed in 2009, as purveyors of  poignant, otherworldly “retro-futurist” dreampop.

“Dream of Bees” opens with a hovering organ chord that’s quickly overtaken by an instrumental preview of a chorus that always pulls the listener aloft on a softly turning but slightly dizzying carousel of sound, an image bolstered by a vertiginously calliope-like keyboard line. With the first verse commences a high, distant vocal that soars gently through the rest of the track. Nimble drum work contributed by Valentina Magaletti ensures that the proceedings never quite touch the Ground.

The first remix included with the single comes by way of San Francisco’s ethereal pop team Silver Swans, whose sparer, more synthetic approach to the song brings the vocal line to the fore and uses programmed drums to pull the track’s rhythmic emphasis inside out. A remix by Vancouver-born, New York-based cellist Julia Kent startlingly recasts “Dream of Bees” in purely instrumental terms with an exquisite string arrangement.

Lilies On Mars - Dream Of Bees

Produced and mixed by Hugh Worskett

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You've got your long hair,
I've got my toupée. 
I'm just a fake Liberace in a coupe.
You've got some dollar,
I've got my 2p.
You fed me cake to get me fat then you outgrew me

Mr. Fist straight to your nose.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.
Mr. Fist, that's how it goes.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.

You livin' healthy?
I bought this smoothie,
And got my aspidistra glidin', getting droopy.
I'm getting girthy 
Under my duvet.
I wanna spend the afternoon like in that movie.

Mr. Fist straight to your nose.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.
Mr. Fist, that's how it goes.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.

Here I am with lust applied,
Man to man, our cocks entwined. 
You shut the door on my wrinkled pride.
I've butcher's spirt but no knife.
Carve my meat with gravied eyes.
Comfort me, I swig from Mummy.
Comfort me and think I'm funny.

Mr Fist

Sivu - Something On High (The Debut Album) - Out 6 Oct

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Can't Stop Now

Dumb

Midnight Juggernauts - Cedoption

Nobody on the road,
nobody on the beach.
I feel it in the air,
the summers out of reach

Empty lake, empty streets,
the sun goes down alone.
I'm driving by your house
though i know you're not home...

And i can see you
you brown skin shining in the sun
you got your hair pulled back
on your sunglasses on baby

and i can tell you
my love for you will still be strong
after the boys of summer have gone.

I never will forget those nights
i wonder if it was a dream
remember how you made me crazy?
remember how i made you scream?

now i don't understand what happened to our love
but babe Im gonna get you back
gonna show you what i'm made of...

i can see you
your brown skin shining in the sun
I see you walking real slow,
smiling at everyone

and i can tell you
my love for you will still be strong
after the boys of summer have gone.

out on the road today
I saw a dead head sticker on a cadillac
a voice inside my head said don't look back
you can never look back

i thought i knew what love was
what did i know
those days are gone forever
i should just let them go but...

i can see you
your brown skin shining in the sun
you got your top pulled down,
and your radio on baby.

i can tell you
my love for you will still be strong
after the boys of summer have gone.

i can see you
your brown skin shining in the sun
you got your hair pulled back,
and those wayfarers on baby.

and I can tell you 
my love for you will still be strong
after the boys of summer are gone

Boys of Summer - Au Revoir Simone

Make Me Wanna has been described as a sultry blend of alternative R&B, electro-soul, and dark pop fusing brooding melodies with siren-like vocals. The song creates a nocturnal soundscape that explores themes of desire, surrender, and transformation.

BUT realistically it's me incorporating my love for horror and the macabre into a song. I mean, come on people, it references vampirism.

Credit to my lovely hubby for the guitars throughout.

Kennedy - Make Me Wanna

From his second album "It Calls On Me", out February, 19th, 2016 on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Doug Tuttle "Falling To Believe" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Icelandic trio Fufanu have released the third single from their upcoming album, Sports, which Nick Zinner produced. "Liability" is a frantic flirtation between post-punk and synthpop that reminds listeners of their responsibility to speak out against the increasing evils of an endlessly chaotic society. It follows previous Sports singles "Sports" and "Bad Rockets"; the album arrives February 3 via One Little Indian. 

Pre-order the new album 'Sports' here: https://OLI.lnk.to/Sports-LPSo

Sports

Liability

From the self-titled debut by Lean Year.  Available October 20, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order the album:
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Lean Year is the debut, self-titled record by Richmond, Virginia based singer Emilie Rex and filmmaker/musician Rick Alverson. What for Rex was a departure from the structured life of academia toward the uncertain contours of a creative field, for Alverson was a return to form. Having released 5 albums with his previous band Spokane, Alverson took a 10-year hiatus from music to write and direct feature films. These departures and approaches bring a transience and listlessness to the album, like a walk interrupted by both curiosity and caution. 

Equally informed by the minimalist folk music of Elizabeth Cotton, Karen Dalton, and Fred Neil; the tenuous, ambient, and orchestral works of Harold Budd, Brian Eno, and John Cale; the quietly pointed but tender songs of Nina Simone and Bessie Smith; and the baroque pop subversions of Love and The Left Banke—the inspirations for Lean Year are as varied as Rex and Alverson’s biographies. Their childhoods—framed respectively by New-Age ideology and antiquated Catholic Catechism; anarchist Montessori and cold, cloistered ice arenas; the chaotic, upheaval of divorce and the strange, obligatory qualities of life-long marriage—provide footing on uneven ground for the record’s dream-like, oblique observations. In the wake of these dynamic histories, the two leaned on music as a kind of secular spirituality. 

Rex and Alverson co-wrote the album over the course of a year at their home in Richmond, VA and recorded it in three sessions at the home studio of Chicago musician/engineer Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings, NOMO), who also performs on the record. Alverson and Hall co-produced the album’s ten tracks, drawing on both Hall's and Elliot Bergman’s (NOMO) arsenal of instruments. For Hall and Rex, this project was a reunion of sorts, the two having met as undergraduates in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan over a decade before. Hall’s extensive vocabulary—ranging from jazz and pop to rock and afrobeat—informs his contributions to the record.

Alverson’s films [Entertainment (2015) and the cult-drama The Comedy (2012)] have premiered at Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam and the Film Society of Lincoln Center among others venues and festivals worldwide. Rex left academia and her position as Indiana University's Assistant Director of Sustainability in 2014 to focus on music and pursue resilience writing and analysis as a consultant. This is her first record.

Lean Year

Lean Year - "Waterloo Suns"

Sailing - Deerhunter Cover -

ABYSS is the first single to be lifted from the long awaited debut album from Stockholm trio Museum of Bellas Artes.

The album - Pieces - will be released September 23rd by Best Fit Recordings in collaboration with Force Majeure.

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www.force-majeure.se

Museum Of Bellas Artes - Abyss

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.

Doug Tuttle "Falling To Believe" (Trouble In Mind Records)

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