Artist: Lately La La
Title: Damaged Goods
Single: Damaged Goods
Release date: 2017-02-03
Label: Adrian Recordings 
Publishing: Adrian Recordings 
Writer: Sara K Gustafsson




https://latelylala.com

Lo-Fi Healing Music


The Line of Best Fit
Sara K Gustafsson is an artist of many talents, the newest of which seems to be writing gorgeous chamber pop songs as Lately La La.

The Swede started making music while living on the south coast of England, and released her debut single "The Dream" in the second half of 2016.

Her new single, "Damaged Goods", powers along on woozy organ and martial drums, while Gustafsson's slightly arch vocal adds a sweetly matter-of-fact nature to a song which is clearly about a couple too messed up to continue with their relationship. Gustafsson tell us "'Damaged Goods' was written many years ago, but it was a song that was hard to finish. It wasn't until I dated a guy with a specific childhood trauma that I found out what the song was about. Then it was easy to write the final verses and finish it in no time!"

The track is eautifully orchestrated from start to finish yet maintains a lo-fi air, and the result means Lately La La is definitely one to keep an eye out for.

"Damaged Good" is out 3 February via Adrian Recordings.

Lately La La - Damaged Goods

Marcus Norberg and the Disappointments - Take it to the Grave

Toulouse - Reach Out

Pre-order 'Blurred' on LP/DL: http://phonofile.link/blurred

Kiasmos mark their return in 2017 with a new 12” EP titled Blurred — available worldwide on October 6th via Erased Tapes.

Since their 2015 Swept EP, the duo have been performing shows extensively across the world. After writing and recording together in their native Iceland this year, the pair will be bringing a glimpse of light to a particularly gloomy time of year as their light sounds are brighter than ever.

Words from Ólafur and Janus, August 2017: 
￼ 
￼￼“To write new material felt like a new beginning for us after two years of touring. The plan was to ￼write something a tad darker than our previous stuff. Spring in Reykjavík had other plans though, as this turned out to be our brightest release to date.” — Janus Rasmussen

￼“Stimming was one of the reasons we started making four-on-the-floor music and we have been listening to Bonobo since we were young, so it was a great honour that they wanted to contribute remixes for the EP.” — Ólafur Arnalds

￼The EP closes with remixes from British producer Bonobo and German electronic musician Stimming, taking tracks Blurred and Paused into different coloured realms.

The cover art featuring the iconic Kiasmos symbol is by long-time Erased Tapes collaborator Torsten Posselt at FELD.

TRACK LISTING

1. Shed 
2. Blurred
3. Jarred 
4. Paused 
5. Blurred (Bonobo Remix) 
6. Paused (Stimming Remix)

WEBSITE: www.kiasmos.is

Kiasmos - Blurred

Thought you were my friend
Thought you’d be the one
I’d take a bullet for
Life can make you fear
In this atmosphere you pick a side
And now you're there 
You could be here
This side we save the crazy 
We drown out all the enemies

[Chorus]
Ahhh I don’t want you trouble
I don't need you trouble
I've been making plans without you
Letting go of all the memories
You don't want my trouble

Glad you made it clear
Never be surrounded by these crazy things
Happy I am here 
You almost dragged me down to suffocate with you
Now you’re there 
You could be here
This side we save the babies
We drown out all the enemies

Stay, stay away from me
I've been making dolls for centuries
Making dolls like you from memories
I don’t want you trouble
You don’t want my trouble

The Life of Margaret Cornelius

Trouble

Tuelo is a singer and songwriter creating in the space between rock, punk, and soul. She carries her traditional South African influences and polyrhythms along with her in every part of her bold and winding raw sound that can be dubbed revival rock - a place for seekers, and a take on rock that brings the cultures of travelers and migrants, like her, alive. Tuelo’s music tells stories with piercing vulnerability, a rebellious passion, and captivating voice which inspired the Huffington Post to dub her "New York's Best Singer (and the world’s)!”.

Tuelo's musical journey took root from birth with the traditions of her native Tswana and Khoikhoi tribes, but it wasn’t until she ventured alone to New York City that she ever considered herself a musician, teaching herself guitar as a way to connect her writing to music. Her vocal talent was discovered by chance when she accompanied a friend to an audition to sing for Hugh Masekela. This led to subsequent work as a vocalist with appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Grammy winning albums like Angelique Kidjo’s Eve and Sings. During this time, she frequented open-mic nights in New York City to test out her own music, and in 2015 formed a band “Tuelo and Her Cousins” and created an homage album to her homeland. Subsequently, she and her friend and co-creator Kevin Wenzel, released her multi-genre EP Saint Margaret in 2017, the title track of which premiered on Consequence of Sound and was described by Afropunk as “an inspiring and spiritual experience.” Tuelo wrote the song as a letter memorializing and seeking courage from the Saint who is her mother who lives in the rural and remote Northwest Province of South Africa. Saint Margaret was a way for Tuelo to feel her mother's presence while living an often incomprehensible and starkly different life in NYC and around the world from her humble upbringing in the remote African countryside.

Over the next few years, working and living between New York, Berlin, Johannesburg, and Medellín, Tuelo and Kevin took what they learned from the response to the EP and picked from Tuelo’s huge song bank to create The Life of Margaret Cornelius, Tuelo’s debut studio album set to be released in January 2022. The album is a series of vignettes of Margaret Cornelius, Tuelo’s alter ego and the influence of Tuelo’s writing and activism. Of The Life of Margaret Cornelius, Tuelo writes: 

“There have been instances when I wished I had been saved from many situations, where circumstances were too difficult -- either because I was a child or life was too chaotic -- that I had to save myself. Those times, some I wish never to utter to a single human for fear of tainting them, I can see now how my ancestor Margaret Cornelius was looking over me. This is “sleep with one eye open” music, because that is how I learned to sleep. The truth is: the same way people think about what they would do if they won the lottery, I day-dream about situations where I would be saving someone. If money weren’t an obstacle I would be saving people everyday - from small situations and big ones. I would be a superhero most of the day... except for meals. This is why I am often a hungry dreamer lost in an unreal world of superheroes.”

Trouble

Tuelo

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