AF's Best Tracks Of The Week 8/22

Written and produced by Charlotte Day Wilson
Additional production by Howie Beck
Mixed by Howie Beck
Mastered by Joao Carvalho

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'Hoops' EP out August 26th via Fat Possum Records

iTunes pre-order: smarturl.it/Hoops.iTunes
FP store pre-order: smarturl.it/Hoops.CDLP

Track listing:
1. Cool 2
2. Yeah
3. Going Strong
4. Give It Time
5. Gemini

Follow Hoops:
facebook.com/hoopsband
twitter.com/hoopsband

Hoops Tour Dates:
08/24 Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop +
09/08 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club *
09/09 Madison, WI @ The Frequency *
09/23 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival
09/24 Champaign, IL @ Pygmalion Festival
09/29 Green Bay, WI @ Meyer Theatre (Backstage) ^
10/03 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In *
10/04 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl *
10/05 Durham, NC @ Duke Coffeehouse *
10/06 Washington, DC @ DC9 *
10/07 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *
10/09 Allston, MA @ Great Scott *
10/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/11 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *

* w/ Whitney
^ w/ Car Seat Headrest
+ w/ The Pills & Nice Try

Tickets: bit.ly/Hoops_TourDates 

iTunes

Hoops - Cool 2

Swaai Boys are proud to announce the newest crumbling desert pop single off their upcoming collection of songs Hot Sand!
 
REF_HS_002 (Dana of Dendur) is based on a love story from Swaai Boys' percussionist Helmut's youth. The Temple of Dendur is an intact Egyptian temple housed in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a highschool girlfriend of Helmut's had a summer internship. Her name was Dana. Helmut said she was tasked with categorizing hundreds of shabtis in the galleries near the temple -- Egyptian Blue funerary figures -- which was apparently very boring and lonely. 
 
The Swaai Boys were having a few mai tais at the museum's roof garden one summer afternoon when Helmut told his fellow Swaai Boys about the affair -- Helmut would meet Dana at the end of her shift, they would cut the lines, sneak into the temple, throw pennies in the water, and make out under the palms. 
 
Often staying until the museum closed, Helmut and Dana would wander the wing looking at Queen Nefertiti's jewelry and crumbling pharaoh sarcophaguses. At one point, Dana said she knew hieroglyphs, and tried to decipher the insanely long Book of the Dead papyrus which lines a corridor there. They were in paradise, but was all too good to be true. They drifted apart after the summer, and Dana left a fond hole in Helmut's heart. 
 
A few weeks later Helmut ran into Dana at an opening at the Hemingway Gallery on 55th Street. She was quite cold and aloof to him. Her wealthy, stuffy parents had never liked Helmut, and she seemed to have grown into the mold.
 
Dana of Dendur is about foiled young love -- how funny and sad it can be watching people grow up and change, sometimes in such a short amount of time. Especially astute in the shadow of a 2000-year old temple preserved immaculately under stippled glass that mimics its original Nubian lighting.
​Deluxe expedition edition, including music video and packet coming soon!

Lyrics --

dana of dendur
i've got nothing too

free admission
to your exhibition 

bogus papyrus
bogus papyrus

dana of dendur 
i've got nothing too

once, twice, all the time
on your parents dime

bogus papyrus
bogus papyrus

but dana of dendur why would you
cut the line if all the time you lose?

Credits --

Produced and engineered at MCFK Studios by Oliver Ignatius 

Mastered by Caleb Townsend and Andrew McInerney at Warner Bros. Sound

Written by Andrew McInerney

Andrew McInerney - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Caleb Townsend - Vocals, Lead Guitar, Percussion
Jose Ginarte - Drums
Asher Townsend - Percussion 
Josh Barocas - Bass
Oliver Ignatius - Backing Vocals

REF_HS_002 (Dana of Dendur)

Feat. Elle Olsun

From upcoming triple LP 'Phantasmagoria' 

Available on Itunes: http://apple.co/2bgE5TH 
 
           And Amazon: amzn.to/2bxrn1Z

© 2016 Kan Wakan. All Rights Reserved


Molasses

As the curtain
closes in on your eyes
you embrace the lie
 
You were searching 
for a kiss
in other lips

I said why
can't I love you
like I used to?

And the weakness
of my heart grows
there's no beating
only flames and bows

Like molasses
that flows
with tension
ooo it grows
faucets dripping 
at a steady pace
tears will travel 
down your face

I said why
can't I love you
like I used to?

Why can't I?
oh why can't I?
Love you

Molasses

Written, produced, mixed by Danz. Obscure but Visible EP out October 7th on Channel 9 Records, available for pre-order here: http://https://itun.es/us/eiMBdb 

Pre-order limited edition 10" vinyl here: http://bit.ly/2bDaALd
Pre-order limited edition red cassette here: http://bit.ly/2bS1Ql9


Obscure But Visible EP

Computer Magic - Dimensions

Caged Animals is the musical moniker for Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter Vincent Cacchione and his family band.  With a long history in the borough’s DIY music scene, Cacchione emerged from his role fronting Soft Black (whose members included DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith) to form Caged Animals, alongside his sister Talya, partner Magali Charron, and childhood friend Patrick Curry.

“Wildflowers” is the first track to be shared from the band’s new album.  Built around a propulsive groove and nocturnal atmosphere, “Wildflowers” trades in the kind of noir-tinged, art-pop The New Yorker once described as a “hip-hop influenced Velvet Underground.”  

Enveloping his plain-spoken delivery in undulating synthesizers and paisley arpeggios, Cacchione uses extended metaphor to describe the power of new life.  From the song’s central image, a flower growing in an otherwise empty field, Cacchione begins:

“This is your proof of superpowers my favorite wildflower / scaling up the towers.”  His subject, a thing of great potential, “Born into a kingdom already conquered,” but getting stronger every day.  It’s no surprise to find this theme not only stems from something personal but has it’s roots in one of life’s biggest changes.

“I wrote Wildflowers a couple months after the birth of my daughter Alaska,” explains Cacchione.  “My mind was swimming with nature.  Becoming a parent made me understand something about the power of each individual.  How we transcend our humble beginnings and make our live’s meaningful.”

Distilling their unique musical vision into it’s most focused form, Caged Animals remain understated and curious on “Wildflowers.”  Their pop-forward melodicism is both well-worn and refreshing; remaining direct, soulful, and uniquely unguarded.  A full album is expected in early 2017, featuring guest appearances from Neutral Milk Hotel’s Julian Koster and avant-alto-saxophonist Chris Aiello.

AF's Best Tracks Of The Week 8/22

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