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Yes! Another savage bassline from Sleep Thieves! :D

From the Golden Light 12", only available from the band on tour.

09/20/13 @ Exit In - Nashville, TN
09/21/13 @ 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA
09/22/13 @ Music Farm - Charleston, SC
09/24/13 @ Grand Central - Miami, FL
09/25/13 @ The Social - Orlando, FL
09/26/13 @ Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL
09/27/13 @ Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
09/28/13 @ Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, VA
10/11/13 @ Emo's - Austin, TX
10/12/13 @ Tree's - Dallas, TX
10/14/13 @ Gothic Theater - Denver, CO
10/16/13 @ Knitting Factory - Boise, ID
10/17/13 @ Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR
10/18/13 @ Wow Hall - Eugene, OR
10/20/13 @ Treasure Island Music Festival - San Francisco, CA
10/22/13 @ Avalon - Hollywood, CA @ *
10/23/13  @ The Glass House - Pomona, CA *
 
* w/ Chrome Sparks 

STRFKR - Golden Light (Skeletron Mix)

Denial

Bicycle

CHROMATICS / I'M ON FIRE

CHROMATICS / RUNNING UP THAT HILL

Future Politics

Utopia

Strange Pleasures: 10th Anniversary Edition (2023 Remaster)

Strange Pleasures - 2023 Remaster

The lead single & 12" from Light Asylum's self-titled debut album. 

Available now from Mexican Summer: 

www.mexicansummer.com


Light Asylum - Shallow Tears

Track 4 on Sleep Thieves EP Islands.
Recorded and mixed in Dublin by Sean Corcoran. Mastered at Masterlabs by Aiden Foley.
Copyright 2012 Sleep Thieves
Released May 18th, 2012

Spirit Animal (lyrics)
As you walk away
Take my hand 
Take my hand now
Rushing through the crowd 
Hear you roar 
Like a lion 
World is spinning 'round
Spinning 'round
Falling down, down,
Lying on the ground 
Looking up,
Lights are flying




04 Spirit Animal

Class Actress performs live at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded May 31, 2012. Hosted by Rob Levy for Juxtaposition. Audio by Scott Rosenthal and Andy Coco. 

Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org

Class Actress "Journal of Ardency" Live at KDHX 5/31/12

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released in February 2013, their second album 'The New Life' is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, 'The New Life' is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, Girls Names made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, 'Dead To Me,' earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Loud & Quiet amongst a host of others. And yet, despite all the praise heaped on it, as soon as that record was released Girls Names were already moving into a different headspace. 

The band’s performance at this year Primavera festival provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise 'The New Life.' The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains: 

“'The New Life' is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. 'Dead to Me' literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, 'The New Life' is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. 'The New Life' is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream today - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, 'The New Life,' stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

"The New Life" will be released on February 18th, 2013 on Tough Love (UK) and February 26th, 2013 on Slumberland Records (US).


Girls Names - Hypnotic Regression

Sleep Thieves, are Sorcha Brennan (vocals, synths), Wayne Fahy (Vocals, synths, bass, programming), and Keith Byrne (synths, guitar, bass, programming). The Dublin-dwelling trio met through Twitter where they bonded over film soundtracks and vintage synths. This musical friendship was solidified in the recording of their self-released EP, Islands in 2012, which garnered accolades from the press. Their full length album, You Want the Night, was released in 2014 (via Minty Fresh Records US). Their music is haunting, dreamy and cinematic, it opens up and rolls in like a storm, enticing and caressing the listener. Recently Sleep Thieves have played Electric Picnic, Culture Collide in San Francisco and LA, the FMC tour around Ireland, Forbidden Fruit, Body and Soul, CMJ Music Marathon, New York, and in London, Paris and Italy. With over 4 million plays on Spotify and almost 100,000 unique listeners the band enjoy a worldwide audience.  They are currently working on a new album.

04 Spirit Animal

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