May 2019

Ahead of our next single, due in March, we thought we'd give you a free download of our newest song.

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Brutal Concrete / Scottish Wilderness

through the dark of the astral plane, we soar and are free

The Other Side Remixes

The Other Side (Plvn Remix)

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now. 

Aforger

Oh Father

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Douglas Dare - Oh Father

Sorrowdrift

Dancing

Broken Monitors - Japan Tour Sampler Version - Morr Music 2005

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

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Spring

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"

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

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This Is All In Your Head

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

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Sun Up

City View
Written by Tanya Batt
Copyright BATTS

Engineered & Mixed by Alex O'Gorman
Mastered by Isaac Barter
Produced by Tanya Batt & Lachlan O'Kane
Arranged by BATTS Band 
Tanya Batt, Lachlan O'Kane, Brendan Tsui, Ross Beaton & Adam Dean

Artwork by Tanya Batt
Lyrics
I’ll give you all my time if you want me to
‘cause I like spending time with you
I’ll give you all my love if you want me to
‘cause I really like loving you,
I really like loving you
I really like loving you

Go on our morning walks take the city view in
I’ll do anything as long as it’s got you in
All of our friends are getting married or breaking up
Having babies or buying houses
Or some of them are still getting fucked up

All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do

I’ll give you all my time if you want me to
I’ll give you all my love if you want me to
‘cause I really like loving you,
I really like loving you
I really like loving you
I really like loving you
I really like loving you
You you you you you
You you you you you
You you you you you
You you you you you
I really like loving you

City View

I piano ballad with electronic beats and ethereal guitars

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