Nac Tracks - April 2019

Bloodbuzzed Jukebox 227

Mixahulababy 586

May 2019

Hang Our Coats

Bioluminescence is available here: http://smarturl.it/iv7pzq

Mixed by Joel Ford (Ford & Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never, How To Dress Well)

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below, Black Knoll Studio)

Stream/download Spring here: http://smarturl.it/iv7pzq

Bioluminescence

Bandcamp

Spring

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-049
www.paradiseofbachelors.com/mega-bog
https://lnk.to/PoB49

Mega Bog
Dolphine
LP/CD/Digital
PoB-049
June 28, 2019

Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, who has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators. She is joined on her fifth and finest album (and first for PoB) by members of Big Thief, Hand Habits, and iji, who help her spin a manic web of emotions into beautiful, abstract future poems and thrilling genre perversions.

RIYL: Laurie Anderson, Slapp Happy, Kevin Ayers, Bridget St John, Beefheart, Bowie, Cate Le Bon, Ursula K. Le Guin

Prismatic avant-pop that balances warbling melodies with unexpected bursts of frenetic energy. 'Diary of a Rose' is a lush representation of Birgy's ability to evoke warmth and nostalgia while keeping her gaze to the future. – NPR Music

It joins Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising and Big Thief's UFOF as one of 2019's left field pop gems, a record created with no detectable consciousness of a wider scene but with a bedroom-wide sense of possibility. Birgy's songs are tangles, unconcerned with hooks, verses, choruses, while floating melodic ideas are addictive precisely because they don't repeat but play themselves out then disappear. Part prog, part easy listening, warm and engulfing... a shimmering chiaroscuro [of] fully fledged delicious pop. Dolphine pulls off the trick of making the small scale feel all-encompassing. – The Wire

8/10. Sonic fantasia from a poetic mind… a whimsical and devastating cosmic journey through loss and healing. It’s part folk-rock fantasy, part avant-pop mind trip, and all gorgeous. With lush sonic layers that are alternately raw and delicate, Dolphine translates as a series of dream worlds where the confessional meets the fantastical, and lost ones live forever. – Uncut

"The weirding way got weirder," Erin Birgy sings, sounding like Nico at her spookiest, a lovely summation of her beguilingly crooked guitar playing. Fans of Cate Le Bon, look sharp. – The Guardian

Somewhere between the mystical landscapes of prog rock and the familiar breeze of easy-listening radio... It sounds something like the 'energize' effect on Star Trek as transposed for a jazz band ... the music is vast and refined, hinting at chaos but never quite losing control. The band is equally adept at sweeping you away and pulling you in. – Pitchfork

A lounge track for the lobby of a passenger ship floating through space, Mega Bog’s 'Truth in the Wild' toys with the earthly and the cosmic. Frontwoman and multi-instrumentalist Erin Birgy guides listeners on a mystical adventure." – Cool Hunting

Absurdly good. She blurs the lines between the surreal and the profound in a way that she seems able to do like none other... "Diary of a Rose" is a stunning introduction to the new record, a jazzy/breezy gem with vaguely sinister undertones, teeming with Birgy’s unforgettably peculiar and vivid lyrical phrasing and the kind of deceptively labyrinthine melodies and slithering guitar lines that made the band’s last LP Happy Together such a compelling, unsung masterpiece and one of the best records of the last half-decade. – Gorilla vs. Bear

Starts off mossy and inviting, but then builds to an impressive tempest of wailing guitars. Spectral, at times suave and smooth, and baroque. She's not quite like anybody else. – Brooklyn Vegan

I’m forever dumbfounded by the raw intimacy and alien sophistication of Erin’s work. It’s dream music of the highest order. – Jessica Pratt

The whole experience is a pristinely surreal excursion. – Paste Magazine

Imagine an adventure game quest with Yoko Ono as your guide, or Laurie Anderson doing her best David Attenborough impression: a deep, joyful abstraction that draws to a pure, human conclusion. – Pitchfork

Dolphine

LP/CD/DL/stream

Mega Bog: Dolphine - "Diary of a Rose" (2019, PoB-049)

From the album Invitation available April 19th on Western Vinyl

INVITATION
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/invitation/1449313508?ls=1&app=itunes
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/1v5lm8v5OGB1d2XE6JyA3K
Bandcamp https://heatherwoodsbroderick.bandcamp.com/album/invitation
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv178

HEATHER WOODS BRODERICK
Website http://www.heatherwoodsbroderick.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/woodsbroderick
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/heatherwoodsbroderick
Twitter https://twitter.com/_H_W_B_

Heather Woods Broderick has played in Efterklang, Horse Feathers, the live bands of Laura Gibson, Lisa Hannigan, and Damien Jurado, and has also been Sharon Van Etten’s longtime collaborator and bandmate.  While this list may seem enviable for an aspiring young musician, any experienced player will know that the life of a touring musician comes with its own sacrifices.  Lasting relationships and financial certainty can be tenuous, as can mental stability itself.  Feeling this firsthand, Heather traded her usual launchpad of Brooklyn for the sleepy town of Pacific City, where she would quietly take a job cleaning houses, sitting down at the piano in the off-hours to unpack the personal tragedies and triumphs of the intervening decades since her first trips there as a child.

Invitation is an album of dreamy baroque-pop that swells and whispers with grand string arrangements, and intimate lyrics, built around earnest piano melodies, painting a lifelike picture of the locale in which it was written.  However, it’s not about the epic and beautiful physical features of the Pacific northwest seaside.  Rather, it’s about how the stillness of such settings can unearth the disquiet often buried by the infinite distractions of a life without pause.

Invitation

Heather Woods Broderick - "Where I Lay"

Taken from their self-titled debut album, out June 14, 2019 on Slumberland Records.
Preorder here: https://smarturl.it/jeanines

Brooklyn's Jeanines specialize in ultra-short bursts of energetic but melancholy minor-key pop. With influences that run deep into the most crucial tributaries of DIY pop — Messthethics, the Television Personalities, Marine Girls, early Pastels, Dolly Mixture — they've crafted a style that is as individual as it is just plain pleasurable. Alicia Jeanine's pure, unaffected voice muses wistfully on the illusions of time, while My Teenage Stride/Mick Trouble mastermind Jed Smith's frantic Motown-esque drumming and inventive bass playing provide a thrilling rhythmic foundation.

"Winter In The Dark" and a cover of The Siddeleys' "Falling Off Of My Feet Again" provide great insight into what Jeanines are about. 60s-meet-80s melodies combine with timeless guitar jangle in a way that recalls everything from The Aislers Set and Saturday Looks Good To Me to more recent DIY pop groups like Parsnip and Chook Race. Album opener "Either Way," "Hits The Bone" and "Where We Go" hearken back to some of the most intriguing bands of the C86/C88 era, when bands like Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes crafted perfect pop gems enlivened by the inspiration of punk. Songs like "Where I Stand," "Too Late" and "In This House" are windows into Alicia's lyrical concerns of mortality and the passage of time. The marriage of the minor-key melodies and melancholic lyrics is powerful and make Alicia's songs all the more memorable, especially so on songs like "No Home," with its echoes of girl harmony post-punk groups like Grass Widow and Household.

Clearly, with 16 great songs included, there is a lot at work here on this standout debut album. Jeanines have been compared to such cult pop icons as Dear Nora, Black Tambourine, and more recent acts like Veronica Falls and Girl Ray, but their dark, modal melodies and pensive, philosophical lyrics, along with Smith's versatile but ever-economical musicality, ensure them a place of their own in today's crowded but boisterously healthy DIY pop scene.

Jeanines

Pre-order

Jeanines - Either Way

Recorded by Justin Rose at GCR Audio in Buffalo, NY

Mixed by Matt Bayles at Red Room Recording in Seattle, WA

Mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios in London, England

All songs written and Produced by Heron

Ben Blick - Boyd Lewis - Eric Morelli - Nathaniel Blick

© 2019 - Heron

Light

NO WOW - Sorries (UNB902-7A)

"Wake up homeless
In a house of brittle leaves
This trembling palace
In a land that feels abandoned
Where the wind speaks like it's shouting


I've been thinking 'bout how we don't know where we go when we go
I don't wanna be the last in tow
Stranded at the end of the line
I wanna trade in all my lessons and my memories
I wanna buy us both a trip home


Spend my days here slowly wasting
Not my old self, constant changeling
I've been doubting, sometimes straying
Fingers crossed, but I've been praying


I've been thinking 'bout how we don't know where we go when we go
All we want is just a chance to reap the fruit of all the seeds that we've sown
I wanna meet you in the garden of infinity
I wanna watch the light wash over me


I saw you in the yard today
But every time that I got too close
You flew away
Or opened up my mouth to speak
You were gone before I got that far
And I know it's not for keeps but it still stings


It's getting clearer in almost every single way
That you're here for me to see
Not for me to save, and that's okay"

"The Weatherman"

"Fingers Crossed"

Nots - Floating Hand

Nada Surf - "Song For Congress"

From Film School "EP", coming summer 2019 on Hauskat Records.

Written by Film School
Produced by Film School and Dan Long
Mixed by Headwest Studios
Mastered by Howie Weinberg
Artwork by Adam Marks

Greg Bertens - vocals, guitar
Nyles Lannon - guitar, backing vocals
Justin LaBo - bass
Jason Ruck - synths
Adam Wade - drums

Lyrics:
Liberate
Take it all away
Higher state
Make it go away

Positive
Bullshitive
Knock me out
Take my mind away

Wasted day
Just another day
Leave or stay
Don’t care either way

Influence
Pestilence
Knock me out
Take my mind away

Positive
Bullshitive
Knock me out
Take my mind away

Influencer

Second single from ELVA debut album "Winter Sun", out on Tapete Records on April 19th 2019!

Preorder "Winter Sun" here:
CD/LP https://shop.tapeterecords.com/elva-winter-sun.html
DL https://elva.bandcamp.com/album/winter-sun?label=892897274&tab=music

More information on https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/elva/

Elva – Ghost Writer

Music and lyrics by Allan and Barb Vest
Produced and recorded by Allan Vest
Mixed by Allan Vest and Wes Sharon at 115 Recording
Mastered by Wes Sharon at 115 Recording
Artwork by Grant Fuhst

Songs for Birds and Bats

Map the Channels

I think I spent more than half of last year telling anyone who would listen about 1800, so it's an honour and a thrill to announce the rest-of-the-World pressing of Big Supermarket's debut LP, previously released in mid 2018 in Australia-only via the Hobbies Galore label. Limited to 300 copies on green vinyl, pre-order here - http://smarturl.it/BigSupermarket

Little information about Big Supermarket exists online - no 'official' band photos, no accurate information re personnel, no social media profile - so much of what is known about the band must be earned in the old fashioned way: from listening to the music itself. That alone has been difficult enough, given that until now the record had no distribution outside of Australia and was only available by Bandcamp. In an era of information overload and endless image cultivation, it's refreshing to uncover a band - yes, a band, not producer or 'solo bedroom auteur' - who favour the shadows, who prefer to leave some things unsaid.

What is present is a collection of fourteen songs recorded over a three year period in Kensington, Victoria, that trace a wobbly line through the backstreets of jangle-pop, new wave, and post-punk in a way that sees them oscilate between the melodic and the obtuse. In that sense, there's an obvious affinity with much of the early Flying Nun output, where an appreciation of the classicism of pop songwriting rubbed shoulders with a fierce DIY spirit charged on the more outre possibilities of punk autodidactism. Australia is making a habit of producing compelling, singular new guitar-led bands. In their shunning of the traditional cycles of publicity and promotion, Big Supermarket have counter-intuitvely emerged as a leading light. A secret to be passed around that doubtless wont remain a secret for much longer.

Big Supermarket - Laura C.

Plastic Mermaids - I Still Like Kelis

Taken from their 2nd LP "Cartography" (KUS 019). Limited to 288 copies on white vinyl. Each copy includes a folded Cartography insert.
Sold out at our label.
Releasedate: 14. March 2019

The BV's - Catapult

This Is All In Your Head

Johnny & the Man Kids second single off their EP 'You Made Me Hurt'

https://johnnyandthemankids.bandcamp.com/

Johnny & the Man Kids - "Wait for You"

Anything You Want

Adam Ayan 
Maia Bilyk 
Zachary Degnan 
Paul Gray 
Daniel Grima 
Madeline Holt 
Iti Memon 
Kevin Orr 
Joanna Syme