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Five Things We Liked This Week - 06/08/2021

August 2021 - best new alternative, punk and indie tracks

New & hot: Indie

Hype Machine Favorites Vol. 1

Frailty

pretender

Musicians:
Grace Repasky
Maggie Geeslin
Matteo DeLurgio
Connor Dowd
Ben Wulkan

Produced by
Daniel Gleason

Recorded and Mixed by
TJ Elias at Big Trouble in Atlanta, GA

Additional Engineer
Tom Tapley at West End Sound in

Mastered by
Dan Millice at Engine Room Audio in New York, NY

Lunar Vacation - "Mold"

Animosity

Aisles

Safety Dance

Los Angeles band Dummy employ pummeling guitars and celestial ambience within the same breath, folding a myriad of reference points into their drone-pop style. Influence from '60s melodicism and '90s UK noise pop can be found woven-in with inspiration from spiritual jazz, Japanese new age, and Italian minimalism. After releasing two cassette EP’s in 2020 (on Popwig and Born Yesterday respectively), Dummy’s debut full-length album arrives via Chicago’s Trouble in Mind Records on October 22nd, 2021. (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Mandatory Enjoyment

Daffodils

Dummy "Daffodils"

'That's My Idea' (Release date: July 30, 2021)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/3qnnj8P
Apple: https://u.subpop.com/3d8zuRw
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My Idea: 
Bandcamp: https://myidea.bandcamp.com
Instagram: instagram.com/my_idea_the_band
Twitter: https://twitter.com/myideatheband
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myideatheband
On Tour: http://www.hardlyart.com/tours/my_idea

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hardlyart
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hardlyart
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SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords

My Idea - That's My Idea

happy now

Track 1 off of the "a nice place to cry" EP with LoseMyGrip & grayskies
featuring: Ashleigh Hartley
mix and mastered by asaa 

verse(noah2000 & ashleigh Hartley)
if it’s not about the time that i drove you home
in the middle of the night when we just smoked
having a panic attack in my bedroom wasn’t planned
i promise dropping you off wasn’t who i am

chorus(noah2000 & ashleigh Hartley)
so you can tell me i’m the worst but i already know
that you’ve been talking to the person that you swore that you weren’t 
and you can tell that i gave up by how i leave you alone 
i wish i didn’t have to see what u had planned on ur phone 

verse (LoseMyGrip)
I could see the look upon your face 
Sitting in our special place 
Obvious that something’s wrong 
Baby What’s going on?
How often do you think of him 
I can see you drifting again 
What is your obsession with my friends
Eye contact as an indication 
Frequently I read your body language 
Try to understand just what you’re saying 
Promise that I won’t be mad
Or at least I’ll try 
Find me a nice place to cry 
Chemicals are introduce through lips
I’ve never been in love quite like this 
Walks with your in mine I’ll miss 
I’ll love you forever but with a twist 

chorus (noah2000 & ashleigh Hartley)
so you can tell me i’m the worst but i already know
that you’ve been talking to the person that you swore that you weren’t 
and you can tell that i gave up by how i leave you alone 
i wish i didn’t have to see what u had planned on ur phone 

<3333

spotify<3

a nice place to cry w/ LoseMyGrip & Ashleigh Hartley (prod. grayskies)

You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son

Parrot Dream's new single, "Automatic System." Available on all platforms here ~ smarturl.it/parrot-dream

Parrot Dream - "Automatic System"

Two Fingers

Chad an Gordy

Jesus in pymatuning

I Care About You is an anthem of love and support born in a group hug on the middle of the dance floor. It’s a cathartic follow up to their fiery single ‘Do Better’ released in October 2020 via Psychic Hysteria. 
Engineered, mixed and mastered with humour and skill by Andrew Huhtanen McEwan 
Produced by Andrew Huhtanen McEwan and Kelly Dingeldei
Lovingly released by Kurt Eckardt and Kalindy Williams via Psychic Hysteria
Photo by Kalindy Williams 
Artwork by Dan Barnes and Kelly Dingeldei

I Care About You

Track off the upcoming Smirk 12" on Total Punk. Out September 17

SMIRK Staring At Screens

From Yumi Iwaki's Juniper, available now for pre-order from Muzan Editions:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/juniper

Yumi Iwaki - Sleepy Fog

lyrics:

i fell too
i wanted to save myself
i wanted to wait for a sign
that you want me too
every day
i ran away from myself
i wanted to wait for a sign
that you want me too

a sign

Everyday Im always dying to see you
wasnt really trying to fall in love
lately ive been feeling down
and you are the reason why
baby there's so much I want to do with you
I just wanna hold your hand and I cant
I will lose it any time
this is fucking up my mind
everyday im dying to be with you
why is it so hard to be in love?
there's so many things i need to tell you
why is it so hard to be in love?
I will lose it any time
and you are the reason why
why is it so hard to be in love?

Why Is It So Hard To Be In Love?

#SCFirst

The new single 'Constellations,' is available now: 
Spotify: https://smarturl.it/JLMxConstellations
Apple Music: https://smarturl.it/JLMxConstellations
iTunes: https://smarturl.it/JLMxConstellations
Amazon: https://smarturl.it/JLMxConstellations
 
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#JadeLeMac #Constellations

LYRICS:
lights are turned off 
music is on
minds are unlocked 
this feeling is amazing 
hands on your waist
liquor is all that we taste
your freckles lead the way
i trace your constellations 

i see it in your eyes, the wind blows west where the sun don’t rise 
you’ve got a darker side, you know it’s a mess but you don’t need to hide 
the sweat is dripping down, caresses your skin till it hits the ground 
you’re digging deeper now, you’re biting your lip so you don’t make a sound 

lights are turned off 
music is on
minds are unlocked 
this feeling is amazing 
hands on your waist
liquor is all that we taste
your freckles lead the way
i trace your constellations

now we’re four shots in, slowly getting sober from the taste of your skin 
we bring the light to the sin, you pull my head up as you’re dripping down my chin
i feel your heart start to beat, when i hit the spot you know i hit it perfectly 
and you taste so sweet, leave me wanting more soon as we get out the sheets 

lights are turned off 
music is on
minds are unlocked 
this feeling is amazing 
hands on your waist
liquor is all that we taste
your freckles lead the way  
i trace your constellations

now you’re gone in a blink of an eye, i try to remember what you look 
orion’s belt in the sky, closest thing to you other than my mind
now you’re gone in a blink of an eye, i try to remember what you taste like 
replaying in my head, the smell of your body still in my bed

lights are turned off 
music is on
minds are unlocked 
this feeling is amazing 
hands on your waist
liquor is all that we taste
your freckles lead the way
i trace your constellations

Constellations

Only The End

Grey

Build Me a Way

Build Me a Way (Single Version)

PAINLESS

stabilise

Mono Retriever

Way to Say Goodbye

Back from the whirling vortex of the celestial mosh pit, it’s Fantastic Purple Spots, with their new single, “Flowerland,” the first bloom of a new bouquet of tunes from their forthcoming EP, “Spotsylvanian Lullabies.”

“Spotsylvanian Lullabies” will be the Spots second EP of 2024, both on Austin Town Hall Records. Their previous 5-song EP, “Vibrations Now,” (January 2024) was described by Post-Trash as “folk-ish dreamy psychedelia” informed by “oddball pop,” with “melodies that pop out of every corner,” and the “fuzzier elements of a band like Brian Jonestown Massacre” meet the “harmonies of bands like The Beach Boys and The Byrds.” A review in Rosy Overdrive noted the duo’s “Yo La Tengo-esque noise-pop” combined with a “looseness and irreverence to their songwriting” reminiscent of Flying Nun and K Records.  

The Spots first recording was a 10-song, eponymous DIY release (February 2022) displaying a range of themes and moods, from stomping Pink Fairies-esque protest (“Veterans of Future Wars”), to absurdist pop climate narratives (“Blasting into the Sun,” “Homo Sapien Times,” “Confessions of a Former Glacier”), to spacey, melodic mantras (“Please Come In” and “Rebels of the Hive Mind”). In-between their self-titled debut and first release on Austin Town Hall Records, the Spots dropped the single, “Christmas Ambulance,” a wistful satire of holiday joy and deliverance that conjures the off-key ghosts of The Ronettes and The Crystals. 

Fantastic Purple Spots are Barrett Jones and Dave Junker, musical friends and collaborators since 1988, when they met in a Hausa language class at the University of Wisconsin and bonded over vowels, animal names, 60s punk and the paisley underground. Today, Barrett lives in Norwalk, Connecticut, and Dave lives in Austin, Texas, a distance, they’ve discovered, that is ideally suited for the creation of Fantastic Purple Spots music. 

Spotsylvanian Lullabies is out via ATH Records on December 6th. 


Fantastic Purple Spots - Flowerland

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.

Dummy "Daffodils"

TroubleInMind