[Weekly Mix] 2022.05 (1)

Mix May 2022

Hottest Hits

beyond punk.

Route 66

GuitarHeroes

Sofa Bed

Transmission Commision

Who We Are

BACKDOOR

UNRELEASED FINAL MASTER.
Link by invite only. 

Recorded at Mill Studios
Produced by Thomas Michael Joy
Mastered by Andy 'Hippy' Baldwin
Artwork by Allen Key Media

Keep Me In Mind

Forgotten

Billionaire

Beyond The Glass

Strange Neighbours 'Devil On The Scene' Ft. Fake Turins & The Winches

Strange Neighbours 'Devil On The Scene' FT. Fake Turins & The Winches

The Fourth Wall

Souvenirs

Lyena - Romeo

From the dreams of 100% is a midnight drive to the club that will wash away your panic and pain. Using what they know best in a sound both intimate and refreshing, which only the synths and beats of Chloe Blackwood (Cannon), Grace Stevenson (Rebel Yell) combined with the voice of Lena Molnar (Bloodletter) can deliver. One to keep you moving without looking back. Fresh off the pot for their new album, Clear Visions is set to wipe the dust off your eyes with Abandon. 

First single from the forth coming debut album CLEAR VISIONS out soon on It Records

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www.itrecordsmelb.bandcamp.com

100% - Abandon

Led by enigmatic songwriter Rowan Sandle, Crake is driven by her endless curiosity. Armed with her gently cracking vocal, and inspiration from writers like Shirley Jackson and Nan Shepherd, she sings of crinoids, slime mould and pussy willow. When they supported Buck Meek at Brudenell Social Club, Buck found himself so beguiled by Sandle and her band that he invited them to support Big Thief on their UK and EU tour in 2019. Crake duly obliged and have been building towards their debut full-length ever since. 

Much of the forthcoming album revolves around the death of Sandle’s friend Anna, who died in Syria after being hit by a Turkish air strike. Anna was working for a woman’s liberation group in the 
war-stricken country when the tragedy took place. ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ explores the grief that followed and the lessons learnt from dealing with such a significant loss. 

Sandle does, however, find space to explore more themes alongside this grief, such as cruelty and queer nature. On lead single ‘Winter’s Song’ she acknowledges the cruelty and coldness that exists within us all, and questions how we can continue to grow and love whilst remaining true to that. 

Speaking about the track, she said: “Winter’s Song is about the absolute mundane beauty of being fallible. It's a true story, I saw the moon rise but swore it was the sun setting. I think about this line a lot: “keep a little coldness in you, just wear it soft and gentle” Be soft, be kind, be honest. Being unremarkable has its own beauty.” 

Sandle’s love for queer nature is so fervent that it makes the experience of listening to Crake akin to that of stumbling on an entirely new world. Sandle believes that life isn’t as black and white as we’ve been taught, and thinks nature holds the key to revealing the true nature of human experience. The appearances of things like slime mould - single-celled organisms that form a single body when in search of food  - brittle starfish - a type of starfish whose awareness isn’t concentrated in one place - and other such oddities furnish ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ with a folklore all of its own. 

‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ will send you down multiple rabbit holes and you’ll emerge from each with a newfound appreciation for the complexities of the world. Perhaps even more important than this though is the humanity that lies at the very heart of this debut full-length. Whether it’s in the sensitivity in how she portrays the loss of her friend, the depiction of our most base instincts - namely cruelty, passion and love - or the 
sincere, pure quality of the songwriting itself, it’s this that makes ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ essential, and 
invaluable listening. 

“A pensive, dejected moment of magic, but magic nonetheless” Gold Flake Paint
“Charming and intimate alt-folk” Dork
“The guitars sizzle like lightning bolts striking against an otherwise clear sky, while Sandle’s distinct, hoarse vocal plays like another instrument” Secret Meeting
“In a world of cynics, [Crake] make you believe anything might still be possible” For The Rabbits 

https://fikarecordings.com/artists/crake

Crake are:
Rowan Sandle - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Russell Searle - Electric Guitar, Piano
Rob Slater - Drums / Backing Vocals
Sarah Statham - Bass / Backing Vocals

Humans' Worst Habits

Rabbit

Crake - Rabbit

Crosswalk

Official Teaser Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VN_dho9S4

Written, produced and performed by Spirits of Leo
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitars, bass and synthesizer
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering

Spirits of Leo Live is:
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitar
Ant Taboada - backing vocals, guitar
Nick DiPillo - bass guitar
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Solaris

Money Talks

New single by Leeds / Norwich band Gladboy:

"I wanted this track to be a sort of reverie about life before the public smoking ban - something which I'm too young to have seen for myself. I enjoyed the idea that people would smoke anywhere and everywhere they can. It's a totally unrealistic view of that world though - it's full of stupid, cartoonish images about dogs smoking and people eating cigarettes for pudding. The actor, Boris Karloff, became the antagonist of this straight-edge anthem. He briefly haunted my childhood dreams, so I felt he'd be the perfect totem for this world I had the misfortune of creating."

Gladboy are George Orton, Adam Bentham, Sonny Mitchell, Janani Arudselvanathan, Lotte Davis and Alex Calder.

Karloff

pure misery

Message In A Bottle - The Police

Gold Shadow

The Jail That Sets You Free

artemas - dirty little secret (slowed + reverb)

REPLACED AGAIN

The Long Versions - Part One

Radar Love

Permanent Vacation

Rag Doll

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

The Fratellis - Whistle For The Choir

Leeds-based noise-rock band Thank will soon drop their second EP Please. Coming out as a joint venture between Buzzhowl Records and Belgium’s EXAG, Please is the follow-up to the group’s debut EP, 2017’s Sexghost Hellscape.

A major change in Thankland since Sexghost Hellscape is the group’s full integration of Theo Gowans, well-known in his own right on the UK’s harsh noise scene for his hyper-prolific output under the pseudonym Territorial Gobbing. Gowans is a fellow member of Leeds’ autonomous space CHUNK, the co-operative rehearsal/event spot that has also incubated projects like Cattle and Slut Drop. Though he joined the band in the run-up to Sexghost Hellscape and did play on that record, Please is the first Thank release which has involved Gowans throughout the writing process. Here he forms part of Thank’s midfield, busying himself on electronics while Lewis Millward and Cameron Moitt oscillate between guitar, bass and synths.

Compared to Sexghost Hellscape, Please is at once more defined and more ragged - a result of these tracks being refined more extensively in the studio. Though recorded with live drums from Jack Gordon, the precision-engineering of the grooves here is reminiscent of sequenced dance music. Lead single ‘Think Less’ is anchored by a bassline as rubbery as anything you’ll hear coming out of DFA Records, and disco beats propel ‘Commemorative Coin’ and ‘No Respect For The Arts’.

Now bolstered with an extra pair of hands, Thank have paid increased attention to textural work. The angular guitars heard on Sexghost Hellscape have mutated into a monstrous scree that sounds like a swarm of angry hornets. It is a maelstrom not dissimilar to recent work by Daughters and The Body. The juxtaposition of frenzied noisescapes with tight rhythms makes for a discombobulating listen - you find yourself unsure whether to dance to these tracks or run away from them.

While the tension in Please could be too much for some bands to hold, Thank sustain it expertly across the four tracks here. This is thanks in part to superbly-balanced production by Rob Slater and Jamie Lockhart (Greenmount Studios) as well as a meaty mastering job from Declared Sound’s Dominic Clare. Furthermore, vocalist Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe (Beige Palace) acts as a lightning rod for both elements of Thank’s sound. Vinehill-Cliffe’s lyrics tackle by turns Catholic guilt, deaths in the family, his experiences in therapy, sex, loyalty and betrayal. Whatever the subject matter, every syllable of Please is delivered in a self-flagellating yelp that is equal-parts Xiu Xiu and post-Nite Flights Scott Walker. Such a tragi-comic performance is the perfect focal point for Thank’s harsh, powerful Please.

FFO: The Body, Xiu Xiu, Daughters, Whatever Brains, Scott Walker

Think Less

Jack = Crack
Mary = Weed
Jim = Liquor
Larry S Davis = Acid
Nic = Ciggarettes
Molly = Ecstasy
Cain = Coke

Fake Friends

Fake Friends Ft. Cyanide

American Woman

The Violet Nines - Baby

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Slips Away (feat. Jason Schwartzman)

Lyena - Romeo

LYENA