Name: Lithics "Hands" (Trouble In Mind Records) by TroubleInMind in Weird but like 変だけど好き
Duration: 3 min 24 s
Description: The third album from this venerable Portland band bristles with invention, wedging lyrical Dadaism into right angles off rhythmic minimalism. Out June 5th, 2020 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Weird but like 変だけど好き

Golau Arall

I Want To (Chorus Vocals Only)

Jack Madness - Eaves

Wouldn't Even Know is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg
Additional vocals by Bill Ryder Jones

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

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Wouldn't Even Know (feat. Bill Ryder Jones)

Destroyer - Song for America

Love In Winter

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

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Bandcamp: https://airwaves.bandcamp.com/album/warrior
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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 - "Blue Fire"

Death (or S.F.?)

bluehorse DEMO

White room

Bluehorse 2

Distorsion Up

The third album from this venerable Portland band bristles with invention, wedging lyrical Dadaism into right angles off rhythmic minimalism. Out June 5th, 2020 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Lithics "Hands" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Sell By Date

'The North' is taken from Vintage Crop's forthcoming album 'Serve To Serve Again' out August 7th on Upset The Rhythm & Anti Fade.

Available to pre-order now: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Serve To Serve Again

Vintage Crop - The North

The Survior does not appear (take2)

Third album from this Philadelphia duo is a modern sci-fi masterpiece. Minimal synth, drum machine, saxophone & effected bass guitar grind and sputter over two LPs worth of psychedelic, industrial punk scree.

RIYL: Stooges, Cabaret Voltaire, Primitive Calculators, Suicide.

Released March 2021 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Writhing Squares - Rogue Moon

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