Mockingbird

Produced by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Cave Singers) at The Hive in Vancouver, Oh Fortune carries collaborations from many esteemed improvisational and experimental musicians including Eyvind Kang (Beck, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Zorn), Jesse Zubot (Nels Cline, Mats Gustafsson), Gord Grdina (Gary Peacock, Paul Motian), Kenton Loewen (Mats Gustafsson, Jerry Granelli), JP Carter (Fond Of Tigers, Inhabitants) and Peggy Lee (Wayne Horvitz, Veda Hille).

Currents of mortality, isolation, and desperation run through the album, and yet its title comes from a reflection of a ticker-tape parade celebrating the return of Gertrude Ederle to the United States in 1926. For a heartbeat, she was the country’s biggest celebrity. She had just become the first woman to swim the English Channel, and simultaneously the new world-record holder (previously held by a man).

There exists in Oh Fortune this chaos of juxtaposition. It could be taken as a sad or dark album, yet musically it kicks with more ferocity and tenacity than people may expect from Mangan. It debates melancholy while it anticipates incredible moments of glory and victory. It’s not sad, it’s simply honest. 

06 Starts With Them, Ends With Us

Strangers

Anything feat. Benedikt

Written by Ashley Wasser and Kevin Sloan, produced by Kevin Sloan.

Lorum Ipsum

type beat: by fantom, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKBdXGD28AA

lyrics:
there's so much more than
i can just write on some paper
but the thought alone is killing me
i'm not who i was years ago
remember when we used to dream
about the bleachers, thinking life
could be so beautiful underneath
these summer nights...

chorus:
everything is changing and i can't help
how i'm feeling, i'm sad and i am depressed
i said goodbye to all of my best friends,
wish their lives had me written in them

it's kinda funny how i dreamt about leaving
so many times, i'm a small town girl with
big dreams, and now the time is here i feel
myself aching for another year, maybe another
life here

chorus.
i was so busy making sure
that i end up smewhere where i'm not poor
forget that i've been entering so many doors
my fault for thinking i could befriend you all

everything is changing and i can't see
who i am, i don't recognise me
will i make friends, will i be happy
will i be what i wanna' be?

i don't want to grow up, 
i don't want to leave here,
i wanna go back, never sad,
lay in my bed 2x

chorus.

wish i wasn't capable of change.

changes

An acoustic cover of Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? by @arcticmonkeys

Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (Arctic Monkeys acoustic cover)

Chillin In My Room

Lyrics:
I wish I could apologize for what I did
I blame my personality, it wasn't my fault

We all have thick skin, but I find a way
I don't want to lose you, but I tried to change

I don't
Want to hurt you
Maybe that's a lie
I still care about you
Only when you leave
I like missing you more than having you around
I like missing you more than having you around

When I'm alone
I can think about the things I did
Feel bad
Probably do them again

We all have thick skin, but I find a way
I don't want to lose you, but I tried to change

I don't
Want to hurt you
Maybe that's a lie
I still care about you
Only when you leave
I like missing you more than having you around
I like missing you more than having you around

Friend Killer

The Novus - Birmingham
GRMLN - San Francisco
McRae - Burnley
Dancing On Tables - Dunfermline
Skegss - Australia
Urban Theory - Manchester
The Stoned Immaculate - Glasgow
The C33's - Manchester
Superglu - Colchester
Matilda Shakes - Sheffield
Mealtime - Manchester
DDE's - Manchester

Episode 164 Of The Unheard Indie Podcast! 9th July 2020

Neutrals are a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area, channeling a wide range of '70s and '80s punk, post-punk, and indie-pop influences. Their debut album "Kebab Disco" came out in 2019 on Emotional Response Records and garnered universal acclaim as "an excellent collection of terse melodies, unique storytelling, and scraping pop. (AllMusic)". The band followed-up with an excellent five song EP earlier this year on Domestic Departure.

"Personal Computing" b/w "In The Future" is their new single and has the distinction of being the final entry in our SLR30 Singles Series. Both sides were recorded just before the COVID-19 lockdown began and share a bittersweet nostalgia for an imagined rose-tinted future that never was. The mood of thwarted utopian dreams feels all too appropriate right now and the tense, angular songs on this single are an ideal soundtrack for this unsettled moment.

Personal Computing

Neutrals - In The Future

Lara Croft makes music now!
insta: xoisha, twitter: rlylaracroft

changes

Angel of Darkness