Rock songs I Love

INDIE VOL. 2

twenty seventeen

Catherine: You said, "I love you," I said, "Wait." I was going to say, "Take me," you said, "Go away." 
Incipit of François Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" (1962)
In loving memory of the iconic and charming French actress Jeanne Moreau  [January 23rd 1928 - July 31st 2017]

Le Tourbillon de la Vie - JULY 2017 \\ Dreampop / Shoegaze / Psychedelic / Indie Pop

Juillet 2017

The Best Tracks that I've listened to on Soundcloud between 03.07.17 & 28.07.17

Releases Canal Electro Rock - #Rock #Indie #Alternative #NewWave #Electronic

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Releases Canal Electro Rock (July 2017) #Rock #Indie #Alternative #NewWave #Electronic

2017/08 #1 IndieRock DJ Playlist

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The new album "Education, Education, Education & War", is out now, featuring "Coming Home" - http://po.st/EEEWiYT.

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Education, Education, Education & War

Misery Company

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Taken from 'It's Immaterial' LP by Black Marble, out October 14, 2016.

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It's Immaterial

Black Marble - Frisk

The Blind Shake 
Celebrate Your Worth
133GONE
Out October 21st, 2016

The Blind Shake, three intense men from Minneapolis creating
dense, mystical music: in 1974, Bernie Taupin, feeling on top
of the world as Elton John’s “Rocket Man” soared up the charts
in 1972, suffered a sudden sense of vertigo outside the Spanish
villa where he was vacationing. In a beam of black light he saw
and heard the future of the future, a loud vision of The Blind
Shake, making music that made Elton John’s “starman as everyman”
song seem like so much pastel tissue paper, wet and dissolving
in a pretty porcelain toilet.

The real deal, 'Celebrate Your Worth' is an intense web of
connections of bands and sounds unknown to Taupin, strange
sounds from Chrome through Bailter Space through Michael
Yonkers and John Reis and with tendrils extending throughout
an incredible universe of fantastic unknown bands and sounds.
“What the hell am I doing?” Taupin cries, now on his knees,
staring at the sky. Witness the Blind Shake in all their mystical,
wonderful strangeness and energy.

TRACKLIST
1. I Shot All The Birds
2. Apostle Island
3. Reasonable World
4. Society Of Plants
5. Alicante
6. Corpse On A Roof
7. Broken Racehorse
8. Demox
9. Celebrate Your Worth

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Celebrate Your Worth

I Shot All The Birds

The Blind Shake "I Shot All The Birds" || 'Celebrate Your Worth' [Goner Records]

"Julie's Place" from the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever forthcoming EP due out Spring 2017

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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Julie's Place

Wasting Time

Aloha's cover of "Too Late To Die Young" by Beach Slang appears on the Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl compilation - a 20-track covers album featuring Polyvinyl artists covering songs from other Polyvinyl artists, out Nov 25, 2016.

Purchase 2xLP / digital here: http://plyvnyl.co/pv20store

Aloha - Too Late To Die Young (Beach Slang)

Confabulation by Thula Borah
From the EP 'Near Life Experience' out January 27th 2017 on Kill Jester Records
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Near Life Experience

Confabulation - Thula Borah

Bridge By A Tunnel

None may be better suited to crafting eulogies than William Basinski. The composer who graced us with the melancholy masterpiece Disintegration Loops now turns his gaze to David Bowie. Today marks the one year anniversary of Bowie's passing and so we humbly premiere Basinski's tribute 'For David Robert Jones.' This hymn for the music hero will be released January 20th on Temporary Residence Ltd. Keep your ears on RBMA Radio because Los Angeles resident Basinski will soon appear as a guest on Frosty's weekly LAndscape program.

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A Shadow In Time 

William Basinski - For David Robert Jones [LAndscape Premiere]

"Mallwalkers" appears on Fred Thomas' 2017 release, Changer, available on LP, cassette, and digitally here - http://plyvnyl.co/FT-Changer

Fred Thomas - Mallwalkers

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"I started recording 'Kale Me' at my home studio while our washing machine was going wild in the bathroom. It sounded like a huge rave break. I instantly set up a microphone, recorded a full cycle and implemented it into the song. The washing machine stopped working right after the recording and never made any sound again. I was pretty lucky." – Daniel Brandt

Daniel Brandt, co-founder of Germany’s electroacoustic ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, joins the Erased Tapes family with his solo debut album Eternal Something – released worldwide on March 24th 2017. 

What started off as a more simplistic idea soon evolved into something a lot more complex as the London and Berlin based music producer travelled across the world, experimenting with various other artists and different instruments. From his father’s cabin based in the German countryside with access to nothing but cymbals, to being surrounded by guitars in Joshua Tree, his unexpected journey soon progressed into what became his first solo album. 

Daniel played nearly all instruments himself with the only exception being fellow musicians Florian Juncker on trombone, Manu Delago on hang drum and Andreas Voss on cello. Using his Berlin studio as his main base for recording, Brandt created an album that encapsulates the idea that despite setting out with a particular creative vision, external influences and environments will always shift the process, and create an Eternal Something.

Words from Daniel, January 2017:

“The initial idea was to make a cymbal album. I wanted to surround myself with all types of cymbals. I locked myself into my father’s cabin in the woods for three days. That was the moment I realised it was not possible for me to make an album just with cymbals because other ideas and instruments imposed themselves on me. I had a clear sense of what I wanted to do now. The intention was to let the songs evolve by themselves and not edit too much, keep it raw and have an explosion-like energy to them. I wanted to create a different sound, songs that build up like dance tunes but don't feel like club music at all. Travelling around in California for two months gave me the possibility to deeply get into this concept outside my normal environment. Robert Raths, who served as a great motivator throughout the whole process (I guess he had listened to the record more than I ever had) came up with the perfect order for the songs. This record is about failing to make the original plan happen, but then the discovery of something I couldn't even think of before.”

Prior to being enlisted to create the album artwork, Iranian artist Shaz Madani coincidentally had also planned a trip to Joshua Tree where she documented her own experience of Eternal Something, forming the visual counterpart to the record.

TRACK LISTING

1. Chapparal Mesa 
2. FSG 
3. The White Of The Eye
4. Turn Over  
5. Kale Me
6. Eternal Something  
7. Casa Fiesta  
8. On The Move

Eternal Something

Daniel Brandt - Kale Me

Download / stream ’Star Roving’: https://slowdive.lnk.to/star-roving

STAR ROVING

Slowdive - Star Roving

Party Talk

2017 single / lim ed. 7" vinyl (BBI 0297)http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-our-bodies-7inch-vinyl-limited
performed, recorded by She Keeps Bees, 
written by Jessica Larrabee

::: Our Bodies :::
Basic Right
we must defend
choose whether and when
without being demonized
cause what control
can we have with 
no control
her body knows
need no chaperone
mother crow
help us mother crone
crow out it’s not your choice
we dare to practice  
medicine 4000 years old
but what’s important now
is that I mind my body and you mind your own
underside
for those who can afford the right 
risk sickness, death or cast aside
to the hell with a woman's life
mother crow
help us mother crone
crow out it’s not your choice
lie to control me? 
we demand autonomy
your fear is sickness not hereditary 
let me liberate me
our bodies  our own
our bodies are our own
our own body  our own choice
don’t control me
we demand autonomy
your fear is sickness not hereditary
let me liberate me

Jessica Larrabee about the song:

"I wrote this song last year, during the election, as I watched my mother's fight become my own. It’s a response to the calls from various politicians to strip women’s healthcare rights away in many states.

While writing, I tried to evoke the voices of my ancestors to help me say: we will not be punished or denied healthcare, and we will not be silenced.

In the lyrics, “Mother Crow” represents watchfulness. They have been known to alert prey to hunters, warning dear and other birds of coming danger. In fairytales and myths, crows are the keepers of the narrative and speak to us directly. 

The song summons energy to break the cycle of control, calls on our ancestors and wise animal guides, to crow-out for all spirited, liberated women: “Our own body, our own choice.”

(c)&(p) 2017, BB*Island, under exclusive license from She Keeps Bees

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Our Bodies

She Keeps Bees - Our Bodies

Electronic duo Warm Digits have announced details of their third album. Wireless World will be released 4th August on Memphis Industries, and features guest appearances from Peter Brewis of Field Music, Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne and Mia La Metta of Beards.
To celebrate, the Newcastle duo (AKA Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis) have today shared standout track "The Rumble and The Tremor." Guest vocalist Devon Sproule articulates the ambivalence of a power station which provides employment for a deprived area but at what cost? “The future is paid for by the rumble and the tremor."
Wireless World is loosely themed around a present-day that teeters between progress and collapse. The band explain: “Our experience of the world and our states of mind are shaped and thrilled by unimaginably exciting leaps in technology, and yet that world will only last for a few moments as we fail to find a way to act collectively on rising temperatures, the failures of democracy and the unstoppable hunger for exploitation of the ground under our feet. This record is our attempt to make music from our experience of this present that teeters between celebration and devastation.”
The band will be performing at Green Man Festival 17th-20th August.

Preorder Wireless World: http://smarturl.it/wirelessworld

Wireless World

Warm Digits - The Rumble and the Tremor (feat. Devon Sproule)

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After spending years as a major presence in Brooklyn’s thriving music scene, Frankie Rose relocated to her familial home of Los Angeles for 18 months with the intention of establishing yet another moment in her storied indie rock métier. Gradually, she found herself short on sleep, funds and optimism. "I moved to LA, drama ensued and I ended up on a catering truck. I was like, how can this be my life after being a touring musician and living off of music. I had really lost my way and I thought I was totally done."

Through sleepless nights of listening to broadcaster Art Bell’s paranormal-themed archives, Frankie’s thoughts had turned to "who am I, I’m not cut out for this business, it’s not for me." She continues, "I was literally in my room in L.A., not knowing how I was going to get out. But out of it all, I just decided to keep making music, because it is what I love and what I do – regardless of the outcome."

Towards the end of her time spent in Los Angeles, Frankie reached out to Jorge Elbrecht (Tamaryn, Gang Gang Dance, Violens) and began sketching what became the basic outline of what felt like a new album. Then, rather fortuitously, Frankie ended up back in Brooklyn with the realization that "in the end, I’m on my own. I have to do these things on my own."

The months that ensued meant basically working with no budget and finding ways to record in-between days. This time enabled Frankie to experiment musically with a variety of people that ultimately changed the way she worked. "I got a lot of input from people like Dave Harrington (Darkside), who was helpful reconstructing the songs, adding dynamics and changing up the rhythms."

The result of this existential odyssey is Cage Tropical, Frankie’s 4th album. It is awash with vintage synths, painterly effects pedals, upside down atmosphere and reverberating vocals. It evokes a new wave paranormality of sorts that drifts beyond the songs themselves. "My references aren’t just music," says Frankie, "I love old sci-fi. They Live is one of my favorite movies ever, same with Suspiria. 80’s sci-fi movies with a John Carpenter soundtrack, with silly synths – that makes it into my file, to the point that I’ll write lyrics incorporating that kind of stuff. It’s in there."

Beginning with the shimmery, cinematic and percussive sparkling of the album’s opening track "Love in Rockets," the song’s refrain of "a wheel, a wheel of wasting my life: a wheel, a wheel of wasting my time" immediately alludes to those darker circumstances that led to the creative origins of Cage Tropical."It’s all essentially based on what happened to me in Los Angeles and then a return to Brooklyn," says Frankie. "Misery turned into something good. The whole record to me is a redemption record and it is the most positive one I’ve made"

 "I feel like I am finally free from worrying about an outcome. I don’t care. I already lost everything. I already had the worst-case scenario. When that happens, you do become free. In the end, it’s about me rescuing myself via having this record."

Cage Tropical

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Frankie Rose - Trouble

Gracious World is the new release from Manchester Indie quintet AFFAIRS. 

Written by AFFAIRS
Produced by James Kenosha
Master by Peter Maher

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AFFAIRS - Gracious World

„ NEW from Kristy And The Kraks „Snakes On The Phone“ 4 Tracks EP on Fettkakao. Kristy And The Kraks, affectionately known as the two-headed love child of Kate Kristal and Ana Threat, are wreaking havoc on the sensibilities of unsuspecting analog lovers, club kids, and vinyl freaks from Vienna to Chicago. Bristling with handfuls of vipers, ripped-out telephone cords, haywire guitar strings, strangulated utterances, and femme fatale crash & flash, KATK have elevated CAVE-GIRL garage anthems to a new level of sleek ULTRA TRASH AuGoGo. If you are not listening to „SNAKES On The Phone“, you’re wasting your time.“
- Tav Falco, 2017

Snakes On The Phone

Kristy And The Kraks - Ready

Modafinil Blues finds Matthew Dear four years removed from his last LP and lost in the low-hanging gloam of Topanga Canyon. The producer and pop auteur wrote it there in the evening hours with Troy Nōka, a longtime Frank Ocean collaborator. The song hints at conceptual roadblocks requiring more than a simple or single solution; the manifestation of a meteoric spike in cognitive function, yearning for some form of collective freedom, followed by the inevitable descent into the complexity of the fix. Dear’s baritone verse acknowledges that this existential arc is flawed, and therein lies the blues. Moody and nuanced, slightly undone and hugging the curves of the canyon; a polyrhythmic glissade through cerebral fog.

Modafinil Blues

'Light Information' (Release date: September 8, 2017) 

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Chad VanGaalen - Old Heads

England

Violett

Cats Of Transnistria: Love

Soliti is delighted to share with you the brand new single from Cats of Transnistria 'Love', the first fruits from their forthcoming sophomore album release.

Cats of Transnistria tell us: "It's the first single from our forthcoming second album which will be released Winter 2017. 
Violist Sanna Komi has joined us for the album, adding extra beauty to the sound. The single 'Love' is exceptionally delicate, aerial and light for us. But the love talked about is, obviously, not real or healthy."

Guitars, Composition, Arrangement: Tuomas Alatalo
Vocals, Keys, Lyrics, Arrangement: Henna Hietamäki
Violins, Arrangement: Sanna Komi
Recording, Mixing: Tuomas Alatalo
Mastering: Paltsa-Kai Salama
Cover Art: Sofia Okkonen

Upcoming shows:
7.7. O'Connell's, Tampere
8.7. Grillin' Fest, Tampere
18.8. Soliti Slaughterhouse, Teurastamo, Helsinki

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Love

Cats Of Transnistria : Love

You are my Sunshine Prod. Earl Sweatshirt and Navy Blue

From the album Partner - In Search Of Lost Time
available September 8, 2017 from You've Changed Records
(YC-032)
LP/CD/Digital
youvechangedrecords.com/

Music and lyrics written by Partner

Recorded in April 2016 at Candle Recording
Engineered by Josh Korody
Assistant Engineered by Dylan Frankland
Recording supervised by Steven Lambke
Additional overdubs engineered by Max Cotter and Tynan Dunfield
Edited by Kevin Brasier
Produced by Josée Caron and Kevin Brasier
Mixed by Chris Shaw
Mastered by Joao Carvalho
Photography by Colin Medley
Layout by Paul Henderson
Art direction by Josée Caron

Vocals and Lead Guitar by Josée Caron
Vocals and Rhythm Guitar by Lucy Niles
Bass by Kevin Brasier
Drums by Simone TB

In Search Of Lost Time

Partner - Sex Object

Jangly dream pop quartet BOYS have announced the forthcoming release of Dreamland, the lead single and title-track from their second EP out later this summer.

Following a successful collaboration with Yuck’s Max Bloom on their debut EP last year, the band’s aptly-titled latest effort sees them delve further into their lo-fi sound, with hazy guitars and hypnotic vocals sparking comparisons to the likes of Beach Fossils, Real Estate and Wild Nothing.

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/1sHNq2dBAePlwa9s4jXvAb

Dreamland

L.A. Witch
"L.A. Witch" CD/LP/DIG
Pre-Order: http://store.suicidesqueeze.net
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
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L.A. Witch

Kill My Baby Tonight

Get In My Car (Single)

Get In My Car

‘Someone' is the second single taken from debut album Lovers, released 8th Sept. Pre-order the album here: http://found.ee/lovers

Someone

Written and Produced by SKEPTA
Artwork by Midnight Shane

Hypocrisy

Stream "Hitchhiker" on Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/5Zb3cQPfHc8ktuqydFR6jr

Stream / download the Hitchhiker EP : http://radi.al/HitchhikerEP

Listen and love on HypeM : http://hypem.com/track/2ngy6/Wyldest+-+Hitchhiker

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Produced by Zoe Mead
Mixed by Lorenzen
Mastered by Ed Woods
© Hand In Hive 2017

Hitchhiker

First track from the upcoming EP "Androgynes"
Music & lyrics by You Are Number Six
//
Pre-order now  : https://youarenumbersix.bandcamp.com/album/androgynes
Official release date : July 17, 2017

Androgynes

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Miami

"When The Bomb Touches The Ground" written by The Casey Jr. Ride.
Lyrics written by Stig Breu. Performed by The Casey Jr. Ride. 

"When The Bomb Touches The Ground"
produced by The Casey Jr. Ride. 
Mixed & Mastered by Elias Foerster. 
Recorded by Daniel Gold & The Casey Jr. Ride - 
April 2017. 

This music was made to be played loud, so please turn it up! 

Yannick Siegler: electric guitar, organ, backing vocals 
Christian Luther: electric guitar
Daniel Gold: drums 
George Bruhn: bass 
Stig Breu: vocals


Single of the upcoming LP "ERROR #404"

© 2017 The Casey Jr. Ride // ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

When The Bomb Touches The Ground

Written and performed by Yassassin
Recorded by Dave Allen and Mixed by Mike Moore
Artwork by Raissa Pardini

Taken from Yassassin's debut EP Vitamin Y released by BABELOGUE on 1 September.  Available now:

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Vitamin Y EP

Cherry Pie

From their second album "Multi-task", out September 22nd, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Omni "Equestrian" (Trouble In Mind Records)

'Cry Cry Cry' (Release date: October 6th, 2017) 

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Wolf Parade - Valley Boy

Daybreak tends to creep up on you. Emerging from starry darkness, the sun wobbles at first but proceeds on its scheduled arc. You can’t help but wonder if it ever looks back in disbelief, or regret.  This feeling of self-reflection—of looking back to see how far you’ve come—is precisely the sentiment of Thawing Dawn, the first solo record from A. Savage, released on Dull Tools.

The songs on Thawing Dawn form a guided tour through the romantic environs of A. Savage’s mirrored mind. While some were written recently, other tunes were penned over the past decade. For one reason or another, these compositions didn’t land with any of Savage’s other groups, and instead are presented now as a distinct collection. Reflecting back, Savage says, “Once I realized I had a small body of work that didn’t fit anywhere else, I started to examine the commonalities: What’s the common denominator of all this and how I can expand on it?”

Savage is best known as the frontman for Parquet Court, a duty split with fellow Texan Austin Brown. Their last record, Human Performance, delved into the emotional wreckage of a broken heart, to critical acclaim.  But with Thawing Dawn, it’s clear that Savage has matured. While assembling the record, he fell in love. Now, for the first time, we hear songs about being on the inside of love. Rather than lamenting the end of a relationship, we hear a voice trying, in the moment, to make sense of love’s mysteries. “Part of this maturity,” he says, “is reflecting on something when it’s happening, not just when it’s gone.” 

Thawing Dawn gives us honesty: We see the artist at home in bed, more singer-songwriter portrait than esoteric statement. Throughout his discography Savage has long abbreviated his first name as a kind of writerly gesture. He says, of the move, “I am an uncivilized member of modern civilization--I’m just a savage.” Like Duchamp’s R. Mutt signature on a urinal, the shortening embodies a mischievous directness, enabling this savage to introduce his slanted honesty into the universe.

“I always like it when records are good representations of communities,” Savage says, and this one succeeds in this regard. These ten songs were recorded between December 2016 and June 2017 by a cast of friends in Jarvis Taveniere’s Thump Studios in Brooklyn. Members of Woods, Ultimate Painting, PC Worship, EZTV, and Psychic TV all lend their talents.  Savage’s voice, once shouted into mosh pits, now glides confidently above its backing band. Thawing Dawn marks the arrival point for Savage as a sensitive and skilled vocalist.  A strain of rural inquiry tinges the soundscape, an ongoing trope in Savage’s writing most powerfully felt on Parkay Quart’s ballad “Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth.” On this record it is stronger, with a healthy helping of pedal steel guitar, a chorus of female back-up vocals, four familiar chords, and maybe the truth, all layered throughout these songs. Their titles also steer us this way, but don’t fully convey the hidden intricacies. “Buffalo Calf Road Woman” opens the record in a burst of C&W energy.  The staccato pop piano of “Eyeballs” lays crisply beneath a refrain of heartbreak. “Wild Wild Horses” finds him confessing inside a Talk Talk bubble of guitar static and organ. The build-up of “What Do I Do” yields a guitar freak out that Parquet Courts fans will recognize. You could two-step to the swing of “Phantom Limbo.” “Ladies from Houston” is a Leonard Cohen-like ramble through a party scene. Finally, the title track is a suite of three interwoven songs that closes the record in a beautifully cinematic style. 

Throughout, A. Savage delivers one-off lines of razor-sharp observation that will stick in your brain, only to surface when you’re least prepared to handle their insights. When you put your copy of Thawing Dawn on your turntable and drop the needle, you’ll learn what A. Savage has to say about romance in our modern world. Keep your ears open--it’s worth hearing.

- Jack Murphy

A. Savage - Winter In The South

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

SW027 - All We Are & Alex Kapranos - Heart Attack

"Freaks" from the upcoming album "Buds" by Reno, Nevada's Surf Curse. Coming soon on Big Joy. June 2013

Recorded at The Smell in Los Angeles by AJM (Moses Campbell)



Surf Curse "Freaks"

"In My Head Till I'm Dead" from the upcoming album "Buds" by Reno, Nevada's Surf Curse. Coming soon on Big Joy. June 2013

Recorded at The Smell in Los Angeles by AJM (Moses Campbell)

Surf Curse "In My Head Till I'm Dead"

"Ponyboy" from the upcoming album "Buds" by Reno, Nevada's Surf Curse. Coming soon on Big Joy. June 2013

Recorded at The Smell in Los Angeles by AJM (Moses Campbell)

Surf Curse "Ponyboy"

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Omni "Equestrian" (Trouble In Mind Records)

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