Exceedingly Poppy

Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

Black Hearted Brother - This Is How It Feels (Single Edit)

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I Might Just Be

Taken from the debut album 'Ratworld' out 19 Jan 2015 on Memphis Industries. 

www.menacebeach.co.uk

Menace Beach - Come On Give Up

Greedy Men

https://spritzer420.bandcamp.com/  
new album! available on vinyl at that link above!
Kyle Olson - Drums
Ryan Weiner - gutiar ripping
Brian Betancourt - Bass riffs
Paul Hogan - melty key boards
Matt Meade - vocals / guitar / bar tab

Made good / recorded by / mixed by : Sam Owens
Mastered by Josh Bonati

Melt

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TELL NO FOXX - Dust

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Surf In The Storm

Alexei Shishkin - "Yucca Street"
The Title Track Off Shishkin's Second Full Length Album
Out On Forged Artifacts 2/19/2016 [FA031]


Alexei Shishkin - Yucca Street

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"Off and On" is the first single from The Ocean Party's forthcoming album "The Oddfellows' Hall" out Nov 9! Australian and NZ customers can pre-order the new LP from https://shop.spunk.com.au
US/UK and Eur customer will be able to pre-order via Emotional Response soon.

Off And On

Off of "Heaven on the Rocks", the first full-length LP from Ladada.
Pre-order the 12" here:
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Heaven On The Rocks

Float Away

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MAKE ME A BIRD

I told her “thank you” she said “that’s it” I got real nervous she kissed my lips and in that moment I swore she was all mine we got to talkin’ and she began to compliment me said that she likes the way I sing and perhaps she could help me but I was caught up in the pain behind her eyes…she said make me a bird I’ll fly away beyond the confines of the sick, sick game I said make me a bird and I’ll fly too don’t care where just want to spend some time with you a little time with you…just a blue eyed boy and a green eyed girl under the brightest moon of the whole damn year and I thought I’d wake up to find this a dream her eyes make diamonds look like loose change the kind that make a man lose track of what he’s sayin’ like… she said make me a bird I’ll fly away beyond the confines of the sick, sick game I said make me a bird and I’ll fly too don’t care where just me and you listen don’t want to play the game just want your time and if I occupy the contents of your mind then make me a bird I’ll fly with you don’t care where just want to sit and spit the truth… just a blue eyed boy and a green eyed girl under the brightest moon of the whole damn year and I… she said make me a bird I’ll fly away beyond the confines of the sick, sick game I said make me a bird and I’ll fly too don’t care where just me and you listen don’t want to play the game just want your time and if I occupy the contents of your mind then make me a bird I’ll fly with you don’t care where just want to sit and spit the truth…make me a bird God make me a bird make me a bird God make me a bird


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