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The first track from from "Woman to Woman" is a response song to Townes Van Zandt 'Loretta', the song that was the inspiration for this new record. "Woman to Woman" will be released worldwide on April 15th, 2014. 

"I was sitting in a hotel room in Spearfish, SD learning to play a Townes Van Zandt tune called "Loretta," and as I was singing the words, I started to get angry," says Esme Patterson on the inspiration behind her new album 'Woman to Woman.' "I started thinking about how one-sided and subjective a lot of 'love songs' are, and how a lot of women immortalized in songs might tell a different side of the story if anyone ever asked."

That realization inspired Patterson to write an album of response songs that aims to give voice to seven women from popular music: Jolene (Dolly Parton), Alison (Elvis Costello), Loretta (Townes Van Zandt), Caroline (The Beach Boys), Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles), Evangeline (The Band), and Irene (Leadbelly).

"They are archetypes from famous songs, frozen forever in black and white," she says. "I did my best to add some color and give them some humanity."

Well-known for her work as a vocalist for Denver, CO's Paper Bird, Patterson also appeared on Anais Mitchell's 'Hadestown,' has performed on both Letterman and Leno as a backup singer for Tennis, and has collaborated with artists like Shakey Graves, Nathaniel Rateliff, Nick Jaina and Reed Foehl. 'Woman to Woman' is her second solo release.

"I am constantly aware of being in a very male-dominated industry. You'd be surprised how often people ask, 'so who writes your songs for you?'," Patterson says. "I don't necessarily have a soap box that I'm standing on with this album. The idea is more to start a conversation and to open up a dialogue on how we view and express female archetypes in popular music."

"I believe that strong women's voices in the music industry are rare. One goal of this work is to be a voice for women, and to expand the perspective of the listeners to see these objects of desire, resentment and pity as women, and humans, with their own side of the story to tell."

Tumbleweed

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Lyla Foy - Impossible

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Slumberland Records is pleased to announce the signing of London-based neo-psychedelic pop group The Proper Ornaments. Mining the rich territories of The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys, their debut album proper "Wooden Head" features fourteen thrillingly taut and melodic pop songs with a deep, dark undercurrent. Comprised of Argentinian Max Claps and James Hoare (also of Veronica Falls) – who both sing and write the songs – and joined by Daniel Nellis (bass) and Robert Syme (drums), the band have already shared stages with the likes of Real Estate, Woods, Crystal Stilts, Toy and Metronomy.

Maximo Claps arrived in London in 2008 on a one-way ticket from Buenos Aires, aided by former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Oldham had produced a record by Claps' Argentinian band of the time but the group had fallen apart in a mess of drugs and acrimony and Claps' family were attempting to intervene by sending him to a mental hospital. The only option seemed to be to flee the country. As Claps recalls, "The day before flying to the UK I got run over by a car and had to escape hospital in order to make it so I arrived with bandages and my head all stitched up."

A few weeks later Max walked into the vintage clothes shop where James Hoare sat behind the counter reading a book on The Velvet Underground, and attempted to cause a diversion while his kleptomaniac girlfriend stole a pair of boots. “She didn't steal them in the end,” says Max. “They weren't her size”. However, the shop assistant and the would-be accomplice bonded over a mutual love of the Velvets, Love, Felt and West Coast pop and began writing together, taking their name from a song by the pioneering soft psych band The Free Design. In 2010 they released their first single, "Recalling", following it up with a five-song EP for London label No Pain in Pop. In 2013 Lo Recordings released all their output to date on a collection titled "Waiting for the Summer", followed by the single “First Step Out” in February 2014.

Their new album was recorded at a studio in Hackney, as well as at home in their old flat in Whitechapel on a broken 8-track reel-to-reel bought off eBay from an angry guy who threatened to shoot them and chop off their balls when they attempted to return it - a terrifying experience for a pair of skinny indie boys. Taking inspiration from Berlin-era Lou Reed, Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Darklands”, The Television Personalities and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the songs are breezy and easy on the ear, with sublime harmonies and chiming Byrdsian guitar, but with a darker twist and a pervasive air of melancholy. Stand-out tracks include the beautiful but sad “Summer’s Gone” (about mental illness), “Magazine” (an upbeat number written from the perspective of a bullet in the barrel of a gun) and “You’ll See” (about how when you die you’ll see everyone you know, all there lined up in a row).

With "Wooden Head", The Proper Ornaments prove that it is still possible to create an album of pure pop perfection. Max's girlfriend may not have stolen the boots, but The Proper Ornaments are about to steal your heart.

“The joint project of James and Max, through romantic drama that borders on that of The Libertines. And when you hear The Proper Ornaments you’ll see why it’s all worth it. It’s like they’re meant for each other, like Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts” - Loud & Quiet

The Proper Ornaments - Magazine

Adult Life out June 17, 2014. Recorded in Oakland, CA at Fuzz City Studio with Rob Good (Warm Soda/Bare Wires).

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June 27 - San Francisco @ Bottom of the Hill (w Magic Trick, Violent Change)
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'All The Rays' is the lead track to be taken from Grumbling Fur's third album Preternaturals, which will be released via the Quietus Phonographic Corporation on August 11th 2014. The album was mastered at Abbey Road, and features a collaboration with Tim Burgess and  artwork from Turner Prize-nominee Mark Titchner. For more information please contact luke@thequietus.com or john@thequietus.com, press enquiries to rhian@bigmouthpublicity.co.uk. 

The album can be pre-ordered in Physical Form from Rough Trade:
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And digitally via iTunes:
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ALL THE RAYS ARE FALLING FORWARDS

Grumbling Fur - All The Rays

Martin Carr (ex The Boo Radleys) will release his new album „The Breaks“ via Tapete Records on September 26, 2014
"The Santa Fe Skyway" is the first single off the album and will be released on September 1, 2014.

http://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/martin-carr

Martin Carr - The Santa Fe Skyway (radio edit)

New single coming out soon on Kingfisher Bluez and Cloudberry. Parcel Post is a collaboration between Lisle (Fireflies) and Scott (Summer Cats), and on this song, with Kristine (Tiny Microphone) on backing vocals. More info soon. 

Parcel Post - Centimetres

Lali Punas collaboration with the korean band Trampauline

w/ Trampauline: Mary Maloone

Lead vocals and keys by Sam Geller
produced by Scott Thorough
Guitar by Xan Aird
Bass by Max Comaskey
Vocals by Aerial East

Sidewinder

Beginning it all Again

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Resurrection [Prod. Steven Trueba]

"Do I make waves in your body, love?"

Written and Produced by Khai.

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If You

Do You Go Up

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Stephen - Remembering Myself 

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Written, performed, produced, mixed, and mastered by Stephen Swartz. 

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I'm looking out to where I should of landed 
These picture perfect lovers got me on another planet 
So fuck it, I'm gon let it out and learn to love it after 
I get her lost 
I'm waiting til the moon has spun around me 
Then i'm swimming in the pools that seem to fill all my surroundings 
Her clouds above nine 
I've broken all the boundaries 
To get her lost 

You got me swimming in your pools 
Now your'e turning up in tidal waves, tidal waves
Get loose and let your body fade, body fade 
Cause girl tonight i'm going to make you rain, make you rain
Pools 

I'm pushing her to get out a reaction 
Of sentimental movements 
Now i found her satisfaction
Mind is on the dollar so i'll treat her with that dime shit 
To get her lost 
I'm waiting til the moon has spun around me 
Now i'm swimming in the pools that seem to fill all my surroundings 
Her clouds above nine 
Broken all the boundaries 
To get her lost  

You got me swimming in your pools 
Now your'e turning up in tidal waves, tidal waves
Get loose and let your body fade, body fade 
Cause girl tonight i'm going to make you rain, make you rain
Pools 

Pools

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This is 'I Can Give You Heaven', taken from HONNE's new 'Over Lover' EP - out now on Tatemae Recordings.

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