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Under the Radar #6 (11.apr.2014)

I see where you've been, stuck in your doubt
I know where you are and I'm coming to bail you out
Engulfed in your sin, and what you have known
I know where you are and I'm coming to carry you home

In comfort I hold, unstable at most
leading to choices I knew I would later disown
They won't go on their own, and pearls on my brow
Work left in my hands if only I could use them now

All of the troubles that you push aside now
are no longer your stories to tell
All of the words that never left your mouth
are no longer what's holding you down

I'll carry you home


Carry You

Soft Opening is the second full-length from Seattle's Posse.

Buy / Stream it here:

MP3s: www.posseposse.bandcamp.com/

Vinyl: www.lightintheattic.net/releases/1190-soft-opening


Posse - "Shut Up"

Release Date: April 8
Contact: Bill at teamclermont dot com

Minty Fresh Records
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In 2011, King of Prussia songwriter, singer and guitarist Brandon Hanick returned from Barcelona to American shores a new man. With very few euros in pocket, he was rich with stories from three years spent overseas, spoke Spanish fluently and had, perhaps most importantly, ￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼written the 20 songs that would become King of Prussia’s first double album, Zonian Girls...And The Echoes That Surround Us All.

He didn’t set out to create a “concept album.” It just so happened that half of the songs represent the lighter side of the human psyche (love, joy, and ‘whitewashed afternoons’), while the other half represent, well...the other half (the loss of love, woe, and ‘the dark side of town’). Each ‘light’ song on Zonian Girls has a darker counterpart on The Echoes that Surround Us All, and the two ‘cousin’ songs are bound together by related melodies, musical arrangements, lyrical themes or a combination thereof.

The idea of a transcontinental recording affair had taken shape on previous albums, but it wasn’t until this, King of Prussia’s third and fourth album, that the American and European versions of King of Prussia became fully united; the process fully realized. The adventure began in late Autumn 2012 in Barcelona, where Hanick met up with Vasco Batista (guitar, bass, keys) and drummer Simon Mille. They rehearsed five or six hours per day, six days a week in Borders’ punk rock practice space, complete with a vending machine from which one can purchase cans of Estrella Damm for a mere euro.

The marathon practices prepared the boys for a five-­‐day drum sesh at La Caverne Studio in Bordeaux, Mille’s hometown. They recorded with Sebastian Moreau-­‐Ellero, drank good coffee and wine and ate croissants from the same boulangerie every day. They rounded out the Euro sessions recording Christine Kelly’s vocals at Neverland Studios while Batista handled most of the lead guitar duties from his chilly Barcelona flat. Hanick bid “adeu” to his Barcelona buds, promising to send the final project, upon completion, via carrier pigeon.

Work on the album continued in the band’s birthplace of Athens, Ga. in December. Multi-­‐ instrumentalist and singer Nathan Troutman hopped a plane and a bus to town with just a banjo on his back and a glimmer in his eye. He, Hanick and multi-­‐instrumentalist Brian Smith locked themselves away for 12-­‐hour sessions in Casa de Smith. It felt like home. They invited Athens friends, new and old, to join the recording process, and together they laid down guitars, banjos, keys, harmonicas, vocals, horns and strings while Smith’s wife Cory patiently endured the album’s multitudinous overdubs.

Keeping with the collaborative ethic embraced by the Athens music community and employed by King of Prussia since Save the Scene, its 2008 critically acclaimed debut album, Zonian Girls And The Echoes that Surround Us All features contributions from over 20 musicians, including Chicago musician Patrick Burke and notable Athenians from bands like The B-­‐52s and Elf Power. Sometimes they made house calls. They recorded University of Georgia students in campus practice rooms and even recorded Mike Mills (R.E.M., Hindu Love Gods) on grand piano at his house. They continued recording in the infinitely more profesh Glow Studio with their friend Jesse Mangum, who would ultimately mix and ‘awesomize’ the albums.

When King of Prussia released Save the Scene in 2008, critics compared the band to “twee” pop perfectionists like of Montreal and Apples in Stereo. This might have had something to do with the fact that the album was released on sunny Kindercore Records. Or maybe it was because the band was formed in psych pop wonderland Athens, Ga. Or maybe they really did sound “twee.” Most of KOP’s members like and were likely influenced by the aforementioned bands. But they never felt twee.

The band’s follow-­‐up EP, The Time of Great Forgetting was composed of country western songs that garnered not inaccurate comparisons to twangier indie rock bands like Beachwood Sparks and Mojave 3. 2012’s full-­‐length Transmissions from the Grand Strand brought reviews that compared King of Prussia to bands like The Shins and Belle & Sebastian, and normally included at least one question like “Where the hell has this band been the last few years?” 

The answer to this question lies in the wax that Zonian Girls will be pressed upon. As if to say, “Here it is. This is what we have to give. This is what we’ve been doing,” King of Prussia presents a collection of songs that defines where the band is coming from, where it is and what will be.

Comparisons to other bands are inevitable, and the Prussians will rejoice in reading them, content to know that someone cares enough to even give their work a critical listen. But this time around something feels different. Zonian Girls and The Echoes feels more Prussian than anything that has come before it—a getting blue, of sorts. An ascend, perhaps? Yes, a band’s self-­‐actualization.

King of Prussia - "Actuary"

'He's Leaving' is a previously unreleased track recorded during the 'Mug Museum' album sessions in Los Angeles. Mug Museum is out now! 

Watch Cate live this September on her upcoming UK Tour: http://po.st/CLBLive

Buy Mug Museum:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/clb-mm-it
CD and Vinyl: http://bit.ly/ts-shop-clb

★★★★ - NME Magazine
★★★★ - MOJO
★★★★ - London Evening Standard

Follow Cate Le Bon online:
Website: http://catelebon.com/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/catelebon
Twitter: http://twitter.com/catelebon
YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/catelebon

Buy the album

Cate Le Bon - He's Leaving

Gracing the club this week, is new work from Copenhagen bedroom pop
mastermind, Benjamin Eroglu - better known as Eerie Glue. Under the EG
moniker he’s put out a number of great EP’s perfectly suited for lonely evenings and introspective train journeys as well as a recent split EP with our very own Joey Fourr.

Whereas past offerings have seen Eerie Glue‘s heartfelt utterings relayed over gooey layers of fuzz; ‘Go‘ showcases a cleaner sound akin to some of the best part‘s of the most recent Kurt Vile LP. Thankfully the songwriting technique has remained, which Benjamin describes as “straight from the top of my head and out through my heart”. As with many of his previous songs ‘Go‘ is about love, but particularly about moving on to something better. It was written in 20 minutes, recorded in his Copenhagen bedroom and will feature on a forthcoming EP so grab a free download whilst you still can!

3 physical ‘Pizza Box‘ versions of the single will go up for sale at 1pm (GMT). You can also join the Pizza Club by purchasing shirts, bottle openers, patches or even for free over on our Pizza Club homepage - http://artishardrecords.tumblr.com/pizzaclub14

Eerie Glue - Go

This is music for wet Sunday afternoons where one delicious, ennui-tinged hour drifts and meanders and merges into another, for bright Thursday evenings spent watching popinjays promenading down the high street, for late night coffee-fuelled insomnia.

Under the Radar #6 (11.apr.2014)

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