2nd Single off of Vaadat Charigim's debut LP "The World is Well Lost",
to be released November 12 on  ANOVA/Burger Records/Warm Ratio.

Odisea

Recordings Of Music For Film

A Falling Down Billy Brown

Purchase: http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/htrk-work-work-work
Release Info: http://ghostly.com/releases/work-work-work

HTRK’s Ghostly International debut 'Work (work, work)' is a flat-lined study of desire and submission, sentimentality and dysphoria. The London by way of Berlin and Melbourne art-rock duo (pronounced “Hate Rock”) finished the album’s production while grieving the sudden loss of founding member and bassist Sean Stewart to suicide in March ‘10. And while that tragedy has certainly found its way into the music’s bottomless sonic void, 'Work (work, work),' written from 2006-10 in Berlin and London, is about much more than abject darkness. Much, much more.
On 'Work (work, work)', HTRK craft a stark soundscape: achingly slow 808 beats, eerie synth arpeggios, vaporous guitar noise, and Jonnine Standish’s androgynous, detached vocals, dripping with reverb. And yet it’s the careful way the pair combine those elements—organizing and juxtaposing them with a minimalist’s attention to detail—that makes their music so emotionally devastating. “Ice Eyes Eis” starts things off by enveloping you in a slippery erotic zone, in which a German sex TV babe splays herself over a molasses-slow beat and clouds of dry-ice atmosphere. The creeping “Eat Yr Heart” embodies HTRK’s touch with sonic unease, showcasing a high-pitched horror-movie synth obligato that flits like a swarm of bats around Standish’s declarations of longing (“glucose, cellulose, saccharine”/ “you fill me up then make me starve, eat yr heart”). Late-album highlight “Love Triangle” takes a more sensuous tone, describing a perfect three-person encounter (“he on she on me / she on me on he / bermuda bermuda bermuda”) over textured guitar swirls and a languorous drum-machine march.
For all of Work (work, work)’s more abrasive elements, its sense of bleakness and mourning, one finds a surprisingly romantic core. A sense of doomed melancholy, a heavy heart, lives below the layers of a murky and heavy space. HTRK’s remaining members, Jonnine Standish and guitarist Nigel Yang, sweeten their heavier sonic reference points (Pan Sonic, Suicide, et al) into songs of love and lust, creating an imaginary party record for the end of time. And what of all that “work”? In the end, HTRK’s album title seems both to refer to the tireless craft that went into its creation, as well as Standish and Yang’s endless quest to extract beauty from melancholy.


HTRK - Eat Yr Heart

M is the debut single track by LA CASA AL MARE, later included on This Astro EP. 

Download, here https://lacasaalmare.bandcamp.com/

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Buy This Astro CD:

ASIA, AUSTRALIA: 
http://handsandmoment.bigcartel.com/product/la-casa-al-mare-this-astro-ep
Also available in Japan via 
FileUnder (http://fileunderrecords.com?pid=90698315)
Diskunion (http://diskunion.net/portal/ct/detail/AWS150608-LCAM1)
Tower records (http://twitter.com/TOWER_Shinjuku/status/609281570042613760)
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WORLD: CD/digital > http://lacasaalmare.bandcamp.com/album/this-astro-ep

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This Astro EP is the debut CD release by LA CASA AL MARE, a 7 track EP disc collecting the formerly internet-released four double A-singles

M/CD Girl
Sunflowers/Tonight Or Never,

plus three previously unreleased songs

I Don't Want To, 
At All 
and the album's title track THIS ASTRO, exclusively available on CD only.

Sublime Eternal Love

Quien

Forever

Stickers

Dark Stains

Kollaps

Negativ Nein

Fidelity

G & T

A Guide for Beginners: The Voice of Silver / a Guide for Finishers: a Hair of Gold

Panic