Picks - May 2015

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Let Me Sleep

From the Mascot LP by Bichkraft!  Order your LP or CD at www.wharfcatrecords.com!

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Release Date:  4/21/2015
Personnel:  Dima Novichenko, Jenia Bichowski, Serzh Kupriychuk, Jenia Machina

RIYL:  The Jesus and Mary Chain, early Velvet Underground, Big Black, Sonic Youth

From Kiev to Kansas City, 20-somethings the world over tend to traffic in the same sort of distractions from modern life: clothes, sneakers, cars, love. Mascot, the debut LP from Ukranian guitar and drum machine noise makers, Bichcraft, holds these things for what they are: fleeting diversions from the bleak realities of modern times and an increasingly uncertain political landscape. That the band composed, wrote and recorded Mascot’s eight songs in its hometown of Kiev only adds to their authority on the matter.  As Dima Novichenko sings in the album opener ‘Didn’t Know,’ “There are erased numbers on your road… We better cover our heads.”  
This is heavy, paranoid music in the shape of frenetic jams like “A4,” in which waves of dual-guitar noise accompany a digitized howl, chanting from deep inside the mix. Often, guitar interludes emerge quickly and take a song in a new direction as they do in "Might Night Dicks."  On this track Novichenko and Bichowski display an extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary. They are as fluent in Psychocandy as they are early SY.  After hearing the record’s interwoven guitar lines, it should come as no surprise that the two originally met up to play garage jazz before Serzh Kupriychuk and Jenia Machina joined to handle bass and drum machines, respectively.   
For its brutality and chaos, Mascot has some undeniably pretty moments: the lilting guitar refrain that kicks off “Bushes,” for example, or the often poetic imagery in Novichenko and Bichowski’s lyrics about the natural world, love and decay. Still, these nods to beauty always lead back to fractured songs about suburban scenes where mankind’s disregard for nature is just a warning of greater dangers looming on the edge of town. 

Bichkraft - Didn't Know

from The Rabbit's Voice 7" EP
April 2015
Third Rupture (eno/wyr?4515)

Per Schooner Agro

cassette/digtal out now @ http://bootlegtapes.bandcamp.com/album/action-figures

Rose

Produced by Chris Bracco & Mastered by Will Quinell at Sterling Sound

Out May 15th (Digital/CD/Tape) & July (Exclusive 180 Gram Release)

www.brianbonz.com 

Eisenberg's Ghost Bike

The Bad Years - Pieces

BANDCAMP:
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iTUNES:
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WEB - www.badyears.com
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I’ll leave em all for dead
If they wanna make this harder
I’ll leave them all for you
Cause you’re the one that makes my heart beat stronger

Ooh
Would you help me
Ooh
Pick up the pieces

I’ve been all but dead
Been livin but I’m lifeless
But I’ve begun to heal 
Cause lovin you my love gives life more promise

Ooh 
Would you help me
Ooh 
Pick up the pieces

And when it all goes down
You’ll be comin back around
To start it up where we left it off
And I’ll be beggin

Ooh
Would you help me
Ooh 
Pick up the pieces

Pieces

Ecstatic Vision - "Don't Kill The Vibe" taken from their debut album 'Sonic Praise' - coming June 29th on CD/LP/Digital via Relapse Records. 

www.ecstaticvision.bandcamp.com 
www.facebook.com/ecstaticvision 

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Ecstatic Vision - Don't Kill The Vibe

Single from London-based electropop artist Kubalove - http://www.kubalove.com/

Buy now on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/trouble-single/id1012961527



Trouble

heavy makeup 2nd tape, recorded at welfare sounds 2015, mastered at north london bomb factory. 

Tracklist:
Nervous laugh
Full of shit
Ugly
Begging For consent

get the tape here:
http://farsot.bigcartel.com/product/heavy-makeup-2nd-tape


heavy makeup 2nd tape, 2015

TOMMORROW - Cauldron Bubble

Sightings - Perforated

A track off of KW-016, the Merchandise - Children of Desire LP.

To purchase or download the entire release for free, follow this link:

http://katorgaworks.bigcartel.com/product/out-of-print-katorga-works-releases-downloads

Merchandise - Time

Gong Gong Gong, Bambara, Holy Motors, Public Practice, Lily Konigsberg, Bush Tetras, Profligate, Palberta, Urochromes, Macula Dog, David Vassalotti, The Sediment Club, Horoscope+

We are in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Bichkraft - Didn't Know

Wharf Cat Records