[Weekly Mix] 2020.09 (2)

From The Zolas third studio album, Swooner. Available March 4, 2016 via Light Organ Records. @light-organ 

Invisible

Easier To Run

Lightning

Discothèque Dans Ma Tête

KAWALA Collection

Good Morning

Luna

LITTLE HEARTBEAT
Is this the part where we finally touch?
Tearing through the knee-high underbrush?
I can still hear your whisper, "I want the best of your love."

But please god be dumb for once 
and don't ask if she means The Eagles or The Emotions.
Set the pace, raise the stakes, "Listen babe, you've got the best of my love"

I've got what you need
if you want to feel your little heart beat.
So hot, so sweet, you know I want to feel your little heart beat.

I never claimed that we made much sense.
I was playing "Louie, Louie" on the pipe organ 
on the night when I met you, feeling barely 17.

So ring the bell, baby strike a chord--
Homecoming Queen knocking over that liquor store 
nonchalant, "What do you want dilettante?" Sweeter than a tangerine.

I've got what you need
if you want to feel your little heart beat.
So hot, so sweet, you know I want to feel your little heart beat.

I feel it coming on so strong
(I wanna feel your little heart beat)
now that I've held you in my arms.
Yeah, feel your little heart beat.

I've got what you need
if you want to feel your little heart beat.
So hot, so sweet, you know I want to feel your little heart beat.

Keepers

Little Heartbeat

Kios is an indie rock band based in Nashville, TN that Indie Shuffle describes as “joyous indie-pop”, with “vibrant and uplifting melodies hard to ignore”. The three piece is made up of Cole Suddarth (vocals/guitar), Aaron Krak (drums), and Mitch Wollenberg (bass). Cole and Aaron met through a previous band that formed at Belmont University - Aaron and Mitch grew up together in Newark, Ohio; all three moved to Nashville in 2014 to pursue music.

   In the summer of 2017, the trio moved in together which sparked the idea of creating music. Cole decided to spend the summer in his hometown, Richmond, Virginia, where he began writing songs and recording demos for the project. The three sent demos back and forth, drawing in on their rock and pop backgrounds and thus, Kios began. They dropped their first single, “Be Loved” in March of 2018. The trio has been compared to names such as COIN, Colony House, Bad Suns, Two Door Cinema Club, and Phoenix. They plan to release an EP by the end of summer 2018.  

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Be Loved - Single

Be Loved

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SUPER TANGERINE

Produced & Engineered by Eric Palmquist
Music + Lyrics by NRVS LVRS
Mastered by John Greenham

Little Cults

'Nightflight' by Kluster B, released September 11th 2020 via Rama Lama Records. 

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Kluster B - Nightflight

In The Air

Now I Know

Having  already delivered one of the most exhilarating and rounded debut EPs of the year in Microcosmic Things, Leeds quartet Eades prove they’re not ones to rest on their laurels with stirring new single ‘I Want More’ – out via Bam Bam Records on September 9th.

Once again showcasing their chameleonic approach to guitar music tradition, the track starts as a nouvelle country influenced slow burner, before exploding with rabble-rousing intent into buoyant indie, taking a left turn at classic rock. As ever, these touchstones are distilled into a unique, forward-looking sound by their self-production – the final result a distinctly modern sound from this coalescence of genres.

The themes of the track are a new take on a well-worn trope too – the antagonistic but necessary relationship between a musician and 9-5 drudgery, as lead vocalist Harry Jordan explains:
“When we wrote ‘I Want More’ I was in a pretty strange place, working a real dead end job just doing what I could to stay in Leeds and make music. I guess it reflects pretty well about how we all felt as musicians - finishing uni, feeling a bit lost and wanting more from life than the rat race our friends around us were joining.”

Perhaps accordingly, the track is a  roll towards euphoria in its escapism – a vessel through which the four-piece invite you into their gang, as synth player and percussionist Dan Clifford-Smith follows on:

“It instantly hits you in the feels - when we first started jamming it, it wasn't long for us to figure out it was going to be one of our favourite tunes. The coolest thing about it is the way we play it live, everyone goes absolutely mental and locks in so deep with one another. Can't wait to start gigging again once lockdown ends, catch us live in 2069.”

Arriving close to fully-formed in intention across sound and message, their breezy self-confidence, born of time spent cutting their teeth around a fertile scene in Leeds, has started turning  heads across the board, with FADER, NME, DIY, KCRW, The Line of Best Fit, DORK Magazine and more lining up to call themselves fans, and predicting big things.

‘I Want More’ is the new single from Eades - out on September 9th via Bam Bam Records.

I Want More

Fit For Work

I feel like the king of the hill

Low Ceiling EP out in November via sumoclic

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Clear Coast consists of four musicians with various influences and backgrounds who share an ongoing drive in creating music. Blending vintage synths, dreamy guitars and catchy melodies, they created their own recognizable timbre. By self-producing all their music, they try to keep an intuitive approach and are inspired by the possibilities digital processes offer which is present in their live-shows as well. In 2022 they began to release the singles of their second album “Departure”, which will be fully released in summer 2023. It’s a voyage through different reflections of finding your place in today’s complexity.

Now I Know

Clear Coast

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