2021/08 #2 IndieRock DJ Playlist

Your Love Is Evol

The Third Sound - Your Love Is Evol

Deep States

LP/CD/Cass/Digital

Bumma Sanger

Transcontinental, experimental duo Smoke Bellow have been at it since 2012, relocating from Australia to Baltimore, MD & back again and then BACK AGAIN (now firmly settled in Baltimore). The duo released the “Blooming/Middling” LP in 2014, followed by “Isolation 3000” in 2018 (both on Baltimore label Ehse Records) which found the duo refining of their sound into a dizzyingly attractive mixture of kosmiche serenity, minimalist composition, test-card psychedelia, and highlife guitar. The duo are set to release their latest album and first for Trouble In Mind Records -“Open For Business” on September 17th, 2021. (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Smoke Bellow "Furry Computer 2" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Luminol

Promise Ring

Pre-order 'The Leather Lemon' here - https://p.e.wharfcatrecords.com/leather-lemon

About The Leather Lemon by P.E.

P.E. 's sophomore album, The Leather Lemon (Wharf Cat Records, out March 25, 2022), ushers in a new era for the New York band. A wild ride through chewy bubblegum pop, sweeping synthetic orchestrations, and mutant club beats, the album slides ever closer to the fully-realized pop sensibility only winked at with their debut album Person (2020) and subsequent releases. 

Digging into mystery, romance, and sex appeal with The Leather Lemon, the group — composed of members of Pill (Mexican Summer) and Eaters (Dull Tools) — centers its sound within a Bermuda Triangle of dance music, electronic composition, and experimental rock. Members Jonathan Schenke, Bob Jones, and Jonny Campolo play  within pop parameters, building upon free-form collaboration to create a fluorescent groove machine that harnesses the energy of their frenetic live shows. Singer Veronica Torres explores her softer side, expanding her vocal repertoire from spoken word and jagged growls to cherubic and sensuous psalms. Sax virtuoso Benjamin Jaffe’s chiseled experimental tone is heard in an extended solo of true romance in “Tears in the Rain,” a somber surrealist duet penned by Torres and Andrew Savage, singer/guitarist of Parquet Courts. 

Recorded primarily at Schenke’s Studio Windows in Brooklyn, NY, The Leather Lemon was cultivated from a fertile creative period between spring 2020 and summer 2021, which also yielded 2021’s acclaimed The Reason For My Love EP. Pitchfork writes: 
	
	The quintet refines their impulses on their 2020 debut Person and transforms them into a body-moving EP. The jittery electronics are still there, but the drum cuts feel sharper and lighter, bringing a sense of structure to what could easily be shapeless. Vocalist Veronica Torres abandons spoken-word and leans fully into singing about poetry, beauty, and the contours of the body. Her lovely vocal stretches fill up the space once occupied by industrial bass drops. Sensuality suits them well.

The Leather Lemon is a reckoning record for the times; an album of psychedelic resurfacing, real-time response to world events, and soft, sympathetic magic. This is a collection of songs shaped by five individuals who embrace music-making as a way to center themselves in times of uncertainty; it’s resilience and imagination given shape. The Leather Lemon is a true sweet-and-sour listening experience, an album as bright and clear as it is fractured and fun. Get turned UP and ON with the electrifying new lemon drop from P.E.! 

P.E. is: Jonny Campolo (piano, synths, bass, percussion, voice), Benjamin Jaffe (saxophone, synths, voice), Bob Jones (beats, samples, synths, bass, voice), Jonathan Schenke (synths, beats, bass, percussion, voice), Veronica Torres (voice, lyrics). 

Produced, Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Jonathan Schenke at Studio Windows. Additional production by Bob Jones at Zo City Studios. Written in-person and in-quarantine by P.E. between Studio Windows (NY), Zo City Studios (NY), and Gray House MPLS (MN) 2020-2021.

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P.E. - Tears In The Rain (from the album 'The Leather Lemon' out now!)

Amsterdam-based electronic duo Peaking Lights (Dekmantel, Mexican Summer) remix 'Lady Blue' by Saccades. The track is originally taken from 'Flowing Fades', the new solo album from The KVB's Nicholas Wood out everywhere now. https://fuzzclub.lnk.to/flowingfades

Saccades - Lady Blue (Peaking Lights Remix)

Steadman's Wake

Really Great

I Hate The Radio

Hyde Park Coroner

Bad Kid

What’s this? Another new release from up our busy sleeve! 

Solar Death Ray' is the debut single from Berlin group Clear History, a scorching post-punk trio intent on bringing a matchbox to the dance floor. "Light a match and watch it drop, burn it down" they sing on this pulse-quickening single, which sounds equal parts Kleenex, Gang of Four and ESG.

'Solar Death Ray' is taken from the band's debut EP 'bad advice good people' out November 5th on Upset The Rhythm.

Clear History - 'Solar Death Ray'

Melbourne post-punks screensaver return with their sparking new single ‘Skin’ today! Debut album 'Expressions of Interest' due out on Oct 8th!

Bringing the gloom to the room and their rapport to the dancefloor, screensaver make sad dancers of us all! 
We’re hooked.
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Expressions of Interest

screensaver - 'Skin'

Time to celebrate the arrival of ‘Celebrant’, Robert Sotelo’s classy new album of pristine DIY pop out Nov 12th on Upset The Rhythm! 

Today we’re announcing this ambitious synth-centric collection of unbridled songs with Sotelo’s ultra-catchy first single ‘Influencer’. ‘Influencer’ is released today as a digital single in all habitual zones and in this mind-warping video of Sotelo’s cryogenically-preserved head reanimated in song, yes really!

https://youtu.be/WtB8jrUenzw

‘Celebrant’ is available to pre-order now in our UTR webshop, heads you win!

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Robert Sotelo - 'Influencer'

'Presents' is taken from Clear History's debut mini-album 'bad advice good people', out November 5th through Upset The Rhythm.

Clear History - 'Presents'

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Holiday Ghosts - Off Grid

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Clear History - 'Solar Death Ray'

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