new new new

Welcome to Under the Radar's Weekly Playlist, where we compile the best tracks to debut online in the last week (or thereabouts). In this mix we've got new songs by Deradoorian, Chelsea Wolfe, LA Priest, Keep Shelly in Athens, Shura, Albert Hammond Jr., and more. Look no further, your weekend playlist is right here.

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/listen_under_the_radars_weekly_playlist_featuring_deradoorian_chelsea_wolfe/

Under the Radar Playlist June 5, 2015

Wolf Alice - You're a Germ: https://youtu.be/ZpomZoueWa0

DARTS - Dead [Official Video]:https://youtu.be/sDi8e7NWgAM

VANT - PARASITE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBhv3P1tkOs

Rozi Plain - Friend City: https://youtu.be/qevANBIKxAo



MoonRockPills #94

7-10-release-preview

june 24

Casual Listening Pile

2015

kurz und gut 2015

"Dust in the Gold Sack" is taken from the band's second album, Surfing Strange.

Surfing Strange will be released on 4th November on CD, LP and digital download.

Pre-order LP, CD or digital via Wichita here: http://bit.ly/1gb2Kjl 

iTunes pre-order: http://smarturl.it/7vy6k4 

Surfing Strange

Swearin' - Dust In The Gold Sack

Blank Realm are back in 2014 with a new album 'Grassed Inn'.

iTunes

Blank Realm - Falling Down The Stairs

Taken from the single "Sugarcrush."
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/jogru-sugar-itunes

The debut album "Weird Sister" is out now on Slumberland Records (US) & Fortuna Pop! (UK)

LP/CD: smarturl.it/jgws-album
iTunes: smarturl.it/jgws-itunes

Thrilling Cardiff-based noisepop five-piece Joanna Gruesome will be releasing their terrific debut album via Fortuna POP! (Europe) and Slumberland (USA) in September. Brimming with irresistible pop melodies and spiked with dissonant fuzzy jangle, their songs are shot through with loud discordant feedback and super-fast, hardcore punk drumbeats. This album sees their first foray away from recording in a living room to a proper studio under the guidance of producer MJ of the much lauded Hookworms.

Kicking it against sexism and homophobia, nothing is off-limits, drawing inspiration from DIY scenes such as Riot Grrrl/noisepop/C86 /K Records as well as post hardcore like Drive Like Jehu/Converge and the art rock of The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Gruesome offer a staggeringly diverse album, unexpectedly quiet and surprisingly loud.

Joanna Gruesome comprise Alanna on vocals, Owen on guitar, Max on bass, George on guitar and Dave on drums. They all met in an anger management counseling group. During the course they were told that writing, making music, dancing or painting could relieve tension and help reduce feelings of anger. One initiative involved a project where they were assigned a group to compose and perform a song in front of other members. Initially they found each other infuriating but gradually acknowledged their musical chemistry and decided to continue with the band outside the therapy group.

Most of the album was written during a month long stay in a seedy west Brighton hotel (now closed down) called The Hell House. The residents were pretty strange, kept attempting occult rituals/using Ouija boards etc and many of the songs were written to distract from the weirdness. Heart-wrenching and exhilarating in equal measure, these are not cheerful songs.

Awash with nods to mental illness and the dark recesses of the mind, the record is littered with references to the devil or zombies and allusions to comic books. “Secret Surprise”, in which mental illness takes a physical form and is fought using razor blades. Or "Anti-Parent Cowboy Killers," which is about stealing a scooter and driving it into the ocean when you should be in school LEARNING. Or "Sugarcrush," about spending a summer burning knitwear.

They have built-up a phenomenal live reputation, blending obnoxiously loud guitars and the occasional band uniform, with a high energy performance dispersed with quieter reflection, boy/girl vocals and teenage angst.

“Abrasion, anger, attitude. One guitarist is in the audience, but this isn’t too much of a stretch. There are slower parts where the musicians take a second to breath. There are noisier bits where the musicians take a second to reflect. There are thumpy bits where the musicians take a second to dance and enjoy themselves. Everyone’s smiling. Everyone’s hugging themselves. What a glorious mess of a noise to be a part of. What a glorious sense of community.” Everett True, Collapse Board

"A brilliant band from Cardiff who love their fuzzy melodies and songs dripped in scuzzy reverb." Huw Stephens, Radio One.

Joanna Gruesome - Tugboat (Galaxie 500 cover)

First mp3 single from Under Color of Official Right, the new album from Protomartyr, out now on Hardly Art records.

Purchase the album
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/under-color-of-official-right/id826845501
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00IIH71UY
Hardly Art: http://www.hardlyart.com/shop/protomartyr.html
Sub Pop: https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/protomartyr/under_color_of_official_right

Like Protomartyr on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/protomartyr
Protomartyr on tour: http://www.hardlyart.com/tour.html


Under Color of Official Right

Scum, Rise!

Protomartyr - "Scum, Rise!"

To be released February 18th, 2014 on black + white split 10" vinyl by Exploding In Sound Records.

Steve Hears Pile In Malden and Bursts Into Tears is a failed concept album about two kids living on the outskirts of Boston who realize they are characters in a Pile song. Steve wants to form a band and play with Pile but can't quite manage it because Mouth wants to give up on everything, leave, die, unexist. It's also about F.M. Dostoevsky and, as always, maybe above all, Krill. As Sir DFW put it, 'the horrific struggle to establish a human band results in a band whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle.' Catch you later.

written and performed by Krill
recorded on August 3rd, 2013 by Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez at The Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY
mastered by Richard Marr at Galaxy Park Studios in Watertown, MA

facebook.com/krillforever
twitter.com/krilliamhmacy
wheretheresakrilltheresaway.bandcamp.com
krillfan247@gmail.com

Krill - Turd

The opening track of 'Neighbour of the Year', out now on clear vinyl, CD and digital.

Not Now, Horse

"High Fever" is taken from the upcoming new album "Thrill Addict" out January 19th, 2015.

www.peterkernel.com

High Fever

Pinkshinyultrablast
Release single ‘Holy Forest’
Out 19th January on Club AC30

•	“A quiet riot of ethereal vocals and lustrous guitars. Pinkshinyultrablast a valid insight into young modern Russia via the early-90s Thames Valley.” Guardian 

•	“Beautifully toned and unconventionally fast, a gutsy effort that makes a big impression” NME

•	“A complex but sumptuous confluence of mathy basslines and waves of melodic ecstasy.” Q

•	“Excessively impressive, unexpectedly fast-paced shoegaze from these Russian peeps.” Drowned In Sound

Pinkshinyultrablast, a five-piece band from Saint-Petersburg in Russia, are set to release their debut album ‘Everything Else Matters’ on 26th January.

Hailing from a city more synonymous with the State Conservatory rather than a gang of shoegaze addicts, they’ve been compared to Lush. But this is no mere throwback tribute - due to their sharp, icy electronics and ability to subvert the genre, bringing something new to the table. They possess  not only the spirit of late 80s/early 90s British bands like Ride, but also machine-made sounds of the same era from Sabres Of Paradise or Global Communication, not to mention wider vibrations like Cluster, Popul Vuh, Terry Riley and Philip Glass.

Disdain for a stagnant scene can often be a driving force of creativity; the band say of St Petersburg that, “we realised the local indie scene was totally boring and wanted to play something radically different”. That vision has been realised – this is an album brimming with playful melody and finely-crafted songwriting. Imagine the scope of a Caribou record, fronted by Elizabeth Fraser soundtracking a grizzly Raskolnikov crime.

The band take their name from an Astrobrite album, an act who were, according to the band, instrumental in how they “researched spaces between ambient, heavy guitar and pop music” .The spaces are what stand out, the production creates a dream-like affair, while space to breathe and reflect on the beauty of the music is accommodated. There is a sparseness to the album that in turn gives spaciousness, even expansiveness.

The second single ‘Holy Forest’ is released 19th January. The song is indicative of an album full of melodic gems and shimmering shoegaze - euphoric with spectral guitars, its sharp edged pop has a radiant charm.  Welcome to your new favourite Russian band.

Pinkshinyultrablast are Igor - bass, Lyubov - vocals, Sergey - drums, Rustam - synths and electronics and Roman – guitars.


Pinkshinyultrablast - Holy Forest

off SALES' self-titled debut EP
order the EP here: bit.ly/1s133ZB

EP Tracklist: 
1. renee
2. vow
3. chinese new year
4. getting it on
5. toto
6. toto (XXYYXX remix)

artwork by Alana Questell (www.alanaquestell.com)
facebook.com/wearenotsales
twitter.com/wearenotsales

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

LYRICS:

gettin' it on with you to make up and i
see that you're all brand new since the break up and i
how could i be so wrong?
how could i be so wrong,
i be so wrong,
i be so wrong?
how could i be so wrong?

gettin' it on (x7)
gettin' it on (what did you forget, forget)
what did you forget or somethin'
what did you get, what did you give,
a part of it was always there and i found out on the way out of your heart (x2)

getting it on

We'll be unchanged, our motives unexplained 
New pains for next time 
All we want is the peace inside our sickness 
They cut off their own heads 
Long live the old kids 

And we'll be waiting 
(All the time called to mind) 
Until we're fading 
(Called it mine, called it mine) 
The path you laid down 
The peace that we found 

These days I stay sane pushing against the pain 
It still leaves me reeling 
All we want is the peace inside our sickness 
We'll lead until we're bled 
Long live the old kids

Mixed by Will Killingsworth @ Dead Air Studios 
www.deadairstudios.com

Old Kids

JOLTA - Easily Grounded

Bossa Nova Civic Club will release their second compilation on limited 12” vinyl and digital download Feb, 2015 exclusively at bushwickismelting.com.

Volume 2, the sophmore collaborative release with Sisterjam is a three track compilation including original unreleased material by Brooklyn-based producers Black Meteoric Star (AKA Gavin Russom, DFA), Lorna Dune (Dazzleships, Lo Bit Landscapes), and J Slusher (Lost Soul).

Lorna Dune – Reflux

Single off of his upcoming album "Tangier Sessions"

Pre- Order Now:
http://www.dragcity.com/products/tangier-sessions

Sir Richard Bishop- "Frontier"

Second mp3 single from Chastity Belt's 2015 album Time To Go Home, out 3/23/15 on Hardly Art records.

Purchase Time To Go Home:
Hardly Art: www.hardlyart.com/shop/chastitybelt.html
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-to-go-home/id951967954
Amazon: amzn.com/B00R8P1036

hardlyart.com/chastitybelt.html

Follow Chastity Belt on Twitter: twitter.com/CHAST1TYBELT
Like Chastity Belt on Facebook: www.facebook.com/chastitybeltmusic
Follow Chastity Belt on Instagram: instagram.com/chazzybelt

Follow Hardly Art on Twitter: twitter.com/hardlyart
Like Hardly Art on Facebook: facebook.com/hardlyarttrecords      
Follow Hardly Art on Instagram: instagram.com/hardlyartrecords


Time to Go Home

Joke

Chastity Belt - "Joke"

Temptation

Itunes

"Find Yourself" appears on Jacco Gardner's upcoming full length album, Hypnophobia (out 5/5/15), as well as the "Find Yourself b/w Mixed Feelings" 7". 

Pre-order Hypnophobia - http://polyvinylrecords.com/hypnophobia

Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself

Pre-order available now: 
http://importantrecords.com/

Pitchfork: 
" About 90 seconds into "Confetti", the stunning second song on James Blackshaw’s Summoning Suns, the guitarist hesitates as he begins to negotiate a particularly tricky—and, for him, rather unprecedented—passage. The first two verses have ended, a small string section has pushed the tune onto a carousel that might have suited Van Dyke Parks in his prime, and an ascendant third verse has thrust Blackshaw into a place he’s never been: a vocal hook that he has to sing himself. "The needless noise you air," he offers gently, the instrumentalist’s voice so soft and uncertain at the start of each word that he almost drops "the." "Echoes everywhere," he ends, pushing the last syllable with such force it seems he’s using his last bit of breath. It’s guileless, charming, and the anchor of a masterful few minutes of acoustic pop so good they make you ask an unlikely question: Why hasn’t James Blackshaw been singing all along?"

James Blackshaw Failure's Flame from Summoning Suns CD/LP -  Pre-Order Available Now

https://soundcloud.com/manukahoneys

Written by George Boorman
Produced by Kristian Smith

Manuka Honeys - Pushing Pillows

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-20
http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/nap-eyes

Nova Scotia’s Nap Eyes is the greatest band you’ve never heard, and Whine of the Mystic is their first full-length album, a brilliant small-batch brew of crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, it’s equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with songs about insomnia and drinking too much. 

RIYL The Only Ones/England’s Glory, Nikki Sudden/JacobitesThe Modern Lovers, The Clean, The Verlaines, The Go-Betweens, Bedhead, and all things Lou Reed.

Whine of the Mystic

Nap Eyes - Whine of the Mystic: "Dark Creedence" (PoB-20, 2015)

@paerisgiles

Written and produced by Paeris Giles

Mastered by Kristian Smith

Paeris Giles - Change Change

Calling Out released on July 10, 2015. 

Digital: smarturl.it/eztv
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/calling-out 

7": https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/dust-in-the-sky

Dust In The Sky

EZTV // Dust In The Sky

DRINKS

Hermits On Holiday

Crocodiles "Boys" album
Produced by Martin Thulin & Crocodiles
Mexico City, Mexico
2015
Zoo Music

Peroxide Hearts

The second single from 'Abandonware,' the ambitious debut album by Ryan Newmyer/Jen Goma of A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Kurt Feldman of Ice Choir.

pre-order: romanaclef.bandcamp.com/
watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_x9GCK3-Kg

She said theres just no hope for me
You're being too hard on yourself
None of us are as
They promised we would be

Can't count the ways she said
It was a mistake to study
Sociology...

With nothing to compare
How can you weigh the cost
Of being secure
Or letting yourself get lost

In your opinion, do you believe
Tautology tragic, or more simply, misconceived

Watching hours of TV
To tether yourself to the world

Different sets but the same broad strokes
Character actors telling the same jokes

The kind of books you always liked
Have just gone out of style

And the kind of music that you make
Has caught on… for a while
Tender and mild
Unusually, they told me

Sorry for you and me
But this truth 
Can’t be bowed or bent
Our youth, like all currency
Was gladly misspent

With no urgency

You know it’s strong
Stronger than the human heart
Love and Decay
A finish to every start

You know it’s strong
Stronger than the human heart
We live in decay
But try not to fall apart


Roman à Clef - PSBTV

Westkust - Dishwasher

Released on September 4th, 2015. 

Digital: smarturl.it/allyours 
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/all-yours

All Yours

All yours

Widowspeak // GIRLS

From their "s/t" debut, out on July 10th, 2015 on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Trouble In Mind Records - Negative Scanner "Would You Rather"

Pre-order 
LP, CD or limited edition cream vinyl - http://smarturl.it/GirlsNames.ToughLove 
iTunes - http://radi.al/AAAViTunes

Northern Ireland’s Girls Names return this autumn with their third full-length album, Arms Around a Vision, due for an October 2nd release via long-term home, Tough Love Records.

PRESS RELEASE:
“We look to Europe for inspiration. For romance. For the idea of a better life,” says the band’s frontman, Cathal Cully, when discussing the album. “For me, living in Belfast just makes you focus on your own art.”

True, Girls Names formed in Belfast, but they’ve long considered themselves a European band. The distinction is important – their vision of Europe is one of weird, labyrinthian histories, blackest-ever-black coffee, and long drives to dismal places. Romantic notions for those of a certain disposition, but behind the thousand-yard stares they’ve always been a soft-hearted lot. As the title of Arms Around a Vision would suggest, they’re all set to let love in.  

The band initially came together as a relatively lean two-piece back in the summer of 2010, but over the course of a handful of EPs and three very different albums, they’ve grown in number and ambition. Their last album, The New Life, was an unexpected underground hit in early 2013, taking the band around the world and garnering much critical praise, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes. Emboldened by the reception to that record, in March they returned with an 11-minute single that was played in full on Radio 1 and, typically, does not feature on their new album. Girls Names like to do things a little differently. 

On Arms Around a Vision, they’re more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive. The bass, drums and guitars are still there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers. Conceptually, Arms Around a Vision acts as a love letter to European elegance – Italian futurism, Russian constructivism, Germany’s Zero Group and both Neubaten and Bowie’s Berlin. 

Love and pain, romance and fucking. It’s all in there somewhere. Grand claims, perhaps, but in an ever bleak world, why not skygaze? The album opens with ‘Reticence’, a song in two parts that’s half metallic knockout, half midnight swagger. It sounds unlike anything they’ve ever done before, and is a perfect primer for an album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze, Birthday Party dissonance and M.E.S’ three R’s: repetition, repetition, repetition.  

As confident as it sounds, hardship has equally played a role in shaping Arms Around a Vision. “I'm not starving or anything, but I've practically been living hand to mouth since I was 22,” confirms Cully. “Most guitar music now is just a playground for the rich middle classes and it's really boring and elitist. We're elitist in our own way, in that we're on our own and you can't fuck with us when we’ve nothing to lose”. The near-6 minute ‘A Hunger Artist’ tackles that subject full on, addressing that age old adage of suffering for one’s art.

While the songs aren’t narrative-driven as such – the band still generally favour abstraction and ambiguity – there is a consistent underlying message: “We've got nothing. We’ve never had anything. And we don't expect to. The only person I ever wanted to impress was myself. I've never got anywhere close to succeeding in doing that until this album. I'm proud of it. I think I can start saying I'm a musician now.”

Tracklisting:

1. Reticence
2. An Artificial Spring
3. Desire Oscillations
4. (Obsession)
5. Chrome Rose
6. A Hunger Artist
7. Málaga
8. Dysmorphia
9. (Convalescence)
10. Exploit Me
11. Take Out the Hand
12. I Was You 


iTunes pre-order

Girls Names - Reticence

Pre-order "Inji" from DomMart: www.smarturl.it/LAPriestInjiDM

Pre-order "Inji" from iTunes: www.smarturl.it/LAPriestInji

www.earth-window.org
www.dominorecordco.com/artists/la-priest/

Lorry Park

LA PRIEST - Lorry Park

Keep Shelly in Athens - Benighted

From the upcoming album "Abyss", out August 7th, 2015 via Sargent House

iTunes pre-order includes “Carrion Flowers” + "Iron Moon" Instantly: smarturl.it/CWAbyss 
US CD/LP Store: http://chelseawolfe.hellomerch.com/
UK & EU CD/LP Store: sargenthouse.awesomedistro.com/artists/c…sea-wolfe
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/CWAbyss_Amazon 


http://chelseawolfe.net 
https://facebook.com/cchelseawwolfe 
http://twitter.com/cchelseawwolfe 
http://instagram.com/cchelseawwolfe 
http://sargenthouse.com/chelsea-wolfe 


Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers

White Light

White Light (Extended Edit / 2015 Version)

Buy Vinyl

Taken from Matrixxman 'Homesick' LP out July 10, 2015.

Purchase at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/matrixxman-homesick

Matrixxman - HMU (Hit Me Up) (feat. Vin Sol)

Single Launch, The Finsbury July 21st

Heart it on Hypem - http://hypem.com/track/2bsp7/ESCAPISTS+-+Eat+You+Alive



ESCAPISTS - Eat You Alive

From the album Glider on Western Vinyl
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/glider/id985322600
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Glider-Heather-Woods-Broderick/dp/B00W4Y7EB8/
WV: westernvinyl.com/shop/wv135.php

Tracked live at Type Foundry recording studio in Portland, OR with Peter Broderick on drums and Dave Depper on bass

Heather Woods Broderick excels at distilling her experiences into a soulful melancholy that's enduring both for it's intimate relatable moments and its persistent sense of mystery. Her uncanny ear for evocative production and gorgeous vocal harmonies serves her well on her new album Glider. Throughout the album, the rich dreamlike atmospheres she creates hint at a darkness looming on the horizon, while the singularity of her ethereal voice always seems to linger long after the music has stopped.

Heather Woods Broderick:
Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/heather-woods-broderick.php
Website http://heatherwoodsbroderick.com/
Twitter twitter.com/_H_W_B_
Instagram instagram.com/woodsbroderick/

Heather Woods Broderick - "Mama Shelter"

'You're A Germ' from Wolf Alice's debut album, 'My Love Is Cool'. 
Out now on iTunes: http://po.st/MyLoveIsCool
Double heavyweight vinyl: http://po.st/MLICvinyl
CD: http://po.st/MLICcd

My Love Is Cool

You're a Germ

Buy on iTunes

Lackluster No.

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.

Trouble In Mind Records - Negative Scanner "Would You Rather"

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