@tksmusic: awesome cheers! thanks for sharing x

Well done, this is just a beautiful listening experience. It makes me feel good. Thanks for the endorphins.

Great song !!!! Need a new album !!! In my selection here https://fanfare-pop.com/florilege016/?fbclid=IwAR0q4vfZpZzwv0xNBu-nltGZ_1bfL5QycYKnC8J6bSI0VxTrV8OfKAx3uH4

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The Moving Stills - 'Downlow'

"Summer Nights is the song that reminds me of the first lockdown. It’s was all of my fears about what I was doing with myself/my life and what was going on around the world. I spent about 6 or 7 weeks on my own in that lockdown and I just remember the constant barrage of bad news and bad times that happened as you sit there, painfully watching the news and hoping that things are going to get better soon.”


Written and recorded by Nature TV
Mixed by Solo Major
Mastered by Ed Woods
Artwork by Hande Kochan


Lyrics: 

Don’t you ever give it all away at once 
Hold it back, make some plans 
For something else 

Have you never been this far away from town 
Move away, separate 
Yourself from them 

When you look back 
Do you see a rising sun 
Way off track
Pulling back the veil of night 

Make my own decisions when I see your eyes 
Clear that information has just led to lies 
If only with your words you could not sell disguise 
Painful viewing sees me through those summer nights 

On my way down 
On my way back as always 
Made good time 
Lesson learned 
What a ride 

Don’t you ever, feel that somehow you where right
Never change, never spread 
That piece of mind 

Make my own decisions when I see your eyes 
Clear that information has just led to lies 
If only with your words you could not sell disguise 
Painful viewing sees me through those summer nights

Summer Nights

From the album The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong out April 29, 2022 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / Listen: https://lnk.to/XHoJYpp2

On their debut for Western Vinyl, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist Nate Mendelsohn and his band use lyrical maximalism for the powers of good. Where Market’s previous home recorded releases shifted genre restlessly, on The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong Mendelsohn took a core band of longtime collaborators to a house in rural Massachusetts where they carved out space for his words to speak through with humor and intensity. 

Though he comes from a background in experimental music, Mendelsohn’s ear for pop has prevailed. Certain moments on Bullshit Gong reveal his stranger side, as on the thundering bridge of “Scar,” which sounds like a more unhinged Parquet Courts, or the angular  “I Would Do That,” which takes cues from Cate Le Bon. On the whole, though, this band of close friends insists on directness, their arrangements clear despite the intricacies. Guitars and synthesizers tangle fluidly atop the rhythm section’s tight bedrock, evoking the tenderness and backbeat-centric qualities of Elliott Smith or Big Thief. 

After college, where he met most of the members of Market, Mendelsohn became an engineer and producer at the Brooklyn studio Figure 8 Recording. Through that community he’s recorded artists like Frankie Cosmos and Wendy Eisenberg, and played with Yaeji, Vagabon, Katie Von Schleicher (who co-produced Bullshit Gong with him), and Sam Evian, who mixed the album. 

While writing Bullshit Gong, Mendelsohn grappled with long-gestating OCD, watched a formative relationship dissolve, and experienced a mental health crisis that lasted a full year. During this turbulent time, Mendelsohn began to consider the ways he has approached friendship, partnership, and especially family. Those observations and partial conclusions make their way into the songs in an essential capacity, as he mixes the small with the very big on a dogged search for empathy. On “Control” he sings “I heard a kid ask a teacher today / ‘What is a memory?’ / Man, sometimes life is great / At 4:15 I was awake and a mess / My mind’s a broke machine.” 

The words flow in much the same way as Mendelsohn’s thoughts, with observation and memory giving way to moments of profound anxiety. This emotional heft is met in crucial ways by his band. On the tender “Watergate,” a love song set against both the Watergate scandal and James Comey’s senate testimony, the arrangement is simple and trusting, adding depth and intimacy to each word as he compares his life, love, and temperament to that of his parents. 

While recording “Old,” the band sat around an omnidirectional microphone shaking percussion instruments and singing out certain lines. In the background, you can hear Mendelsohn pick up his clarinet and eke out a few notes, a spontaneous act of playfulness that made the final cut. These tonal shifts matter deeply, as the words he sings could be interpreted differently in a darker setting: “Half of these feelings aren’t my feelings anymore / But I guess I could still enjoy the notes and chords / Maybe that’s just the way it goes / We always sing about things that are old.”

Creating intimacy out of manic self-reflection requires a delicate balancing act, one Mendelsohn tackles with abandon. His words never skew too poetic or grandiose, and when he invokes the ugly it’s met with a sonic tonality that sets him right again. In tender moments, his voice is often flanked by bandmates Natasha Thweatt or Von Schleicher, who help skew his words toward the universal. Still, Bullshit Gong is an obsessive look inward, one in which Mendelsohn simply asks himself if he is good to those he loves. It’s an act of trust between the artist and the imagined listener he takes with him.

The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong

Market - "Scar"

Second single taken from debut EP, available online via Deaf Ambitions.

Buy our debut EP here:
https://deafambitions.bandcamp.com/album/redspencer

Ride It Out

Conversations

Vocals and Electric Guitar - Chrisy Hurn
Bass and Synth - Nimal Agalawatte
Lead Electric Guitar - Tyler Bersche
Drums - Brandon Munro

Recorded at TAPE with Adam Bentley and Jordan Mitchell
Mastering by Warren Hildebrand (Orchid Tapes)

Johnny

Info: www.topshelfrecords.com/roster/wild-ones
Purchase: tpshlf.co/tsr178

"Invite Me In" from the album Mirror Touch by Wild Ones — available October 6, 2017 on cassette, vinyl, CD, and digitally from Topshelf Records.

Wild Ones - "Invite Me In"

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Cigarette Kids

'Be Strong, Smoke Less' out March 15th

Engineering - Jamie Davies
Mixing  - Alexander Sokolow
Mastering - Bob Cooper

Be Strong, Smoke Less

Pale Honey with single "Treat You Good"
Out on Bolero Recordings February 14, 2020

http://www.palehoney.com
http://www.bolerorecords.se
mail@bolerorecords.se

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