Songs We Like January 2019

Rad songs of 2019

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[Weekly Mix] 2019.01 (4)

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PYE CORNER AUDIO/NOT WAVING Intercepts split LP

Release date: 28.07.14


'Perfect Secrecy Forever' taken from 'Intercepts', a split album between Pye Corner Audio and Not Waving. 

Taking inspiration from the world of espionage, most specifically spy rings, both artists provide four tracks each, creating a thrilling musical call and response between these kindred producers.

Some of the world’s greatest espionage stories involve Spy Rings. From the Rosenbergs to the Cambridge Five and the Duquesne case, these are stories that haunt the annals of the covert world and remain shrouded in mystery and fascination to this day.

Clandestine spirits permeate these eight tracks of dreamlike industrial techno, impressionist synth burbles, fragmented post-modern ambient and cosmic sci-fi adventure.

First edition 500 battle-ship grey vinyl. 

PCA tracks composed by Martin Jenkins. 
Recorded and produced  by The Head Technician at Black Mill with assistance from Martin Jenkins.

NW tracks written, produced and recorded by Alessio Natalizia in London 2013-2014. 

PYE CORNER AUDIO (20:50)
1 Perfect Secrecy Forever 05:30
2 Twisted Wire Pair 05:33
3 Shared Secret Key 04:19
4 One Time Pad 05:28

NOT WAVING (20:02)
1 Protect The Revolution 08:26 
2 Two-Way Mirror 02:58
3 Enemies Of The People 04:28 
4 Like Shooting A Fish In A Barrel 04:10 

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Pye Corner Audio - Perfect Secrecy Forever

Eastern System

Neutral State

Bandcamp

Demouche - Gritty Harry

Bueno [SNOE]

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If you saw WALL play in NYC or at SXSW (they were No. 2 on Time Out Austin’s top picks for SXSW 2016) you will recognize some of the tracks on their new LP, Untitled. "Everything In Between" was often a set opener, albeit in an instrumental form. Here we find the definitive full band arrangement, which shows a group capable of generating wave after wave of engaging post-punk. First single "High Ratings" advances the strengths of WALL's self-titled EP with it's look at modern anxiety stemming from social media addiction: "We're all guilty," as singer Sam York howls. Their rocking cover of Half Japanese's classic "Charmed Life" is probably the closest track in tone to "Cuban Cigars," the pop moment on the WALL EP. True to the original, it features perfectly skronky sax from Pill’s Ben Jaffe. "River Mansion" displays Vince McClelland's extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary with squalls, shrieks and plinks over the band's elegant Kroutrock groove with York and Skadden's cooing vocals occasionally synching with a slippery guitar riff. Fans of Skadden's former group, Finally Punk will appreciate "Save Me" – a tale of desperation with Skadden sharing lead vocal duties along with York. These are just a few examples of songs from this diverse and intense LP, showing us a band stretching out sonically and stylistically at their peak and right before their untimely demise. 

So there you have it -- a testament to a band that formed in an instant, burned brightly and left us with two great records. Did you see WALL at Palisades, The Silent Barn, Alphaville, Union Pool, and all the rest of them? Let this LP remind you or take you there for the first time. Mixed by Mike Kutchman at Kutch 1 Studios and mastered by Josh Bonati.

PRESS
Stereogum Premieres "High Ratings" - a jamboree of demoniac guitar lines and seductively hostile vocals
PAST PRESS
Stereogum Premieres “Fit The Part” - ripping apart at the seams and bursting through with unnerving vitality
Pitchfork Review of WALL EP - In tricks like these, WALL wriggle out from the under the weight of history

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WALL - River Mansion (from the Untitled LP)

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Remind Me Tomorrow

Seventeen

"Slow Down" is from the limited edition flexi disc features a new track by Public Practice, Flasher and Gong Gong.
Tracklist - 
1. Flasher - Terms and Conditions
2. Public Practice - Slow Down
3. Gong Gong Gong - Quantity Road
UK Tour Dates -
2/1 - Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
2/2 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete's
2/3 - Glasgow - The Poetry Club
2/6 - Brighton - Prince Albert
2/7 - London - Shacklewell Arms
2/8 - Bristol - Rough Trade

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Public Practice - Slow Down (From the Split Flexi 7")

First single from the forthcoming Nate Young album on Lower Floor, Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity.
https://lowerfloor.lnk.to/NY-DOI

First release in a new multi-part series of solo releases by the Wolf Eyes frontman. An evolution from the previous Regression material, taking in elements of classic synth soundtracks, ambient and electronic body music, but filtered through a typically off-centre Michigan underground sensibility. 

In the Regression series–Regression (2009), Stay Asleep (2011), Other Days (2012), Blinding Confusion (2013)–Young drew a compositional aesthetic from Italian library music and musique concrète. Since then, Young has been interpreting the traditional musical methods of rhythm and melody into complex synthesizer compositions. These songs were commonly made as a distraction from grief, seasonal depression, and isolation. Sometimes severely ridiculous and unrelenting; other times slow, sparse and strange; this material didn’t fit in with the Regression series. It was archived and unreleased until now. Nate Young Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity will be released February, 2019 on Lower Floor Music.

Nate Young - In The Shadow Of

Debut single from 'We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized' from Spiral Stairs.  

Out March 22nd via Nine Mile Records / Coolin' By Sound (Aus/NZ).

Tour dates and pledgemusic pre-sale at http://spiralstairsofficial.com

HYP-NO-TIZED

The Coathangers 'The Devil You Know'
Out March 8th, 2019 via Suicide Squeeze Records.
Preorder LP/CD/CS/DIG: http://smarturl.it/CH_TDYK

The Devil You Know

Bimbo by The Coathangers

What Chaos Is Imaginary

What Chaos is Imaginary

It Rains Love

Out 8th March on limited 7" (250 copies) + digital.
Pre-order vinyl here - http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW026 - Black Country, New Road - Athen's, France

The debut 7" from Working Men's Club, available on limited edition blood red coloured vinyl.
Order Here: https://tinyurl.com/y767lyxn

Released 15th Feb 2019.

Working Men's Club - Bad Blood

Released on Friday 18th January on What Reality? Records.

Lyrics:
What do you mean when you say,
What's going on? qu'est que c'est?
You're looking good with purple hair,
I bet you're used to the debonaires.
Buying you drinks, taking you out,
I'm living rough but you're worth a shout.
I know a joint where beers are cheap,
I used to work there but they recently fired me.

What's her name?
I think she did tell,
though I am drunk I can't recall.
Wanna go outside? smoke a Bali dart? 
Chat about life and festivals you wanna attend,
But your job won't let you take any time off then.
I said quit, buy flights and commit,
everything will work itself out.
She said her horoscope was definitely right,
"I like it when you talk in that vibe".

What do you mean when you say,
What's going on? qu'est que c'est?
You're looking good with purple hair,
I bet you're used to the debonaires.
Buying you drinks, taking you out,
I'm living rough but you're worth a shout.
I know a joint where beers are cheap,
I worked their once but they fired me,
cause I lost my lungs singing Queen.

I'm gunna go and get a Taxi with my friends,
Are you keen for kick ons?
All night long,
She say's you can interpret that how you want.
I'm gunna go and get a Taxi with my friends,
Are you keen for kick ons?

4am, there's fuel in the tank,
I aint ready to call it yet.
What you got in mind? she says with a smile,
Everything will be shut unless you like China town?
I've been buckled there so much that they give discounts.
She said great, it's early or late,
What category would you class yourself?
I said the night is young and we're still alive.
"I like it when you talk in that vibe".

Keen For Kick Ons?

"MY POP SENSIBILITIES"

A.D.D. is the first single off Grim Streaker's debut LP, due out May 2019.  

A song about loss of focus when your brain is anxiety-ridden from relationships, vices, and expectations. And the moment you give in to those distractions and eventually say.....I don’t care!

A.D.D. was engineered by Mike Kutchman at Look To Listen Studios. Produced by Mike Kutchman and Grim Streaker. Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering. © Ⓟ LOCAL FUN BOY. Artwork by Daniel Peskin.

A.D.D.

C Duncan’s highly anticipated third album sees the Scottish multi-instrumentalist ditch his bedroom studio and work with other producers, engineers and musicians for the first time. “This was the biggest shift in dynamic for me,” he explains, “having always worked alone, it was a daunting prospect but one I knew I had to explore.” Navigating themes of love, anxiety and sexuality, ‘Health’ – produced by Elbow’s Craig Potter - is a deeply personal record that delves into a world Duncan had previously felt uneasy exploring.

C Duncan - Impossible

PIP BLOM

Announces debut album ‘Boat’
Released 31st May 2019 via Heavenly Recordings
 

Something special happened to Pip Blom at the tail end of last year. It was a busy twelve months that saw the release of her frenetic EP ‘Pussycat’, two A-Listed singles at 6 Music and support slots to the likes of The Breeders, Franz Ferdinand and Garbage. Capping that off, though, moments before stepping onstage at a sold out Lexington – the London stop-off on her debut UK headline tour – the band put pen to paper and signed to Heavenly Recordings.

Today, Pip announces her first release for the label – her debut album ‘Boat’, out 31st May 2019. The tracklisting of the album is as follows:

1.   Daddy Issues
2.   Don’t Make It Difficult
3.   Say It
4.   Tired
5.   Bedhead
6.   Tinfoil
7.   Ruby
8.   Set Of Stairs
9.    Sorry
10.  Aha

Daddy Issues

Produced by Ari Rannus
Mastered by Pete Maher

Trees Are Green

'Bed Bug' by Heavy Heart. Released 23rd January 2019.

I live in my head when you're not around
Pull the dirty sheets over me
I live for the night when you're by my side
Even after all this time

Time after time it feels the same to me
Why the change of heart?
It's good enough for tonight
Say you might

Take off all my things, watch me shed my skin
Burn me with your eyes love
I just smile, it's cool, taste the blood on you
Even after all this time

Time after time it feels the same to me
Why the change of heart?
It's good enough for tonight
Say you might

Now the creatures come alive
I feel them itch, I feel them bite
You say it's only in my mind
But you were never on my side

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Music & Lyrics © 2019 Heavy Heart
Produced by Patrick Fitzroy
Mixing and Additional Production by Gabe Wax
Mastered by Andy 'Hippy' Baldwin at Metropolis Studios
Additional Synths and Programming by Andrea Spiteri
Artwork by Anna Vincent

Bed Bug

FUR - Him & Her (Official Audio)
Pre-order the 'FUR' EP, out 14th February: https://tinyurl.com/ybhpqem8

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/furbabyfur
Twitter: https://twitter.com/furbabyfur

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'Him & Her' produced and mixed by Andy Savours.
Artwork by Julia Nala.
Copyright © 2018 Nice Swan Records.

Him and Her

Taken from Nate Young's album Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity on Lower Floor Music, out February 8.

Pre-order: https://lowerfloor.lnk.to/NY-DOI

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Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity

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Public Practice - Slow Down (From the Split Flexi 7")

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