The playlist will get longer throughout the month as I discover new tracks worthy of inclusion, so check back in every now and again.

Mar 18 - new tracks for indie lovers

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." Bertolt Brecht

Shapes Of Reality - MARCH 2018 // Shoegaze / Dreampop / Psychedelic / Indie Pop

billion-blooded sea

shoegaze mix

Nights Dreams

GRAVE096 :::: The Stargazer Lilies 'We are the Dreamers' out 10/22/13

A great dance party is a thing of beauty, but a good soundtrack for the comedown can be just as vital. After nearly a decade on the trippy dancefloor of Soundpool, guitarist/drummer/bassist/producer John Cep and singer/bassist Kim Field set off from that New York five-piece to take respite in the warm and woozy sounds of a new shoegaze-infused project, The Stargazer Lilies. And with their debut album, We Are the Dreamers,they're letting their days of disco beats slip away into memory with style.

Linking up with Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow and live drummers EJ DeCoske and Johnny Lancia, they've teased influences like the French pop of Air and the shoegaze of Lush and Slowdive out to create a record of dripping dream pop. Here, they've pared down their sound to Kim's airy vocals, reverb-washed drums and a fuzzy, swelling ether of effects-laden guitar and bass. The resulting punch-drunk collection, from the gentle melody of "Del Rey Mar" to the sluggish and nearly indecipherable drone of "Light of Day," is coated in the disquieting patina that Tobacco brings to BMSR, though in this case the mood he creates is more melancholy than sinister.

And isn't that just how it feels, that limbo between a real good party and the morning after — sickly sweet, a little muzzy and ready, before too long, to do it all again.

The Stargazer Lilies - Endless Days

Ze  Beseder Lefahed

Slow Glow

From the upcoming full-length on Zoo Music, 'And Blow Us a Kiss.' 

Written by Zohra Atash
Produced by Joshua Strawn
Mixed by Mike Dextro
Mastered by Mike Tucci

For Last And Forever

A D O R E D H E R

Ahhh by The Stargazer Lilies


good morning dawn
the night is gone
eyelids once drawn
part to gaze on

dreams held at bay
fully rigged
and set to sail away
grounded hopes of yore
cast a sea
on this day
from shore

ahhh

hello day break
senses awake
to witness scenes
of living dreams

dreams of yesterday
unmoored
and set adrift today
afloat and starboard bound
guided by
celestial bodies found


ahhh

words &amp; music by j. ceparano(bmi) &amp; k. field(bmi)

Ahhh

Due early 2016 via Arrowhawk Records

Pre-order: http://bit.ly/swarmpreorder

Media inquiries: Alyssa@riotactmedia.com

https://www.facebook.com/BAMBARA.band?fref=ts

Debut at NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/09/25/443397618/vikings-choice-bambara-an-ill-son

Bambara - An Ill Son

Air Formation - A.M.

For Tom <3 / "Live Recordings"

Not Even Close Yet

03 These Days

01 First Exit

Release Date: 2nd March 2018
Self-produced by Junodream.

Galactica

This is our most "zen" song so far....check it out!


For more information check out: 
Website: http://thosewickedhours.com
FB: http://facebook.com/thosewickedhours
YT: http://youtube.com/thosewickedhours

West

Those Wicked Hours - West

Spielbergs are:

Mads Baklien (guitar, vocals, synth)
Stian Brennskag (bass)
Christian Løvhaug (drums)

Taken from the Distant Star EP (TIME001).
Limited cassette / CD out 27th April 2018 on By The Time It Gets Dark.
Pre-order at: bythetimeitgetsdark.bandcamp.com

Spielbergs - We Are All Going To Die

WASTELAND RADIO NEW ARCHIVES [GREEN/376] 
by Air Credits (C. Sandifer, S. Reidell) 

Mixed by Greg Magers at The Attic  
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room 

CARSELLO: synths on “Through The Dust” 
RICH JONES: vocals on “O.O.E.” 
ASTROSHREDS: background vocals on “O.O.E.”

THIS COULD BE BAD

"Empire" is taken from the album Nowadays, out on May 4, 2018 via @Tambourhinoceros.

Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/TAMB194LP
Download/Streaming: http://smarturl.it/TAMB194da

http://palacewinter.com
https://tambourhinoceros.net

Empire

PALACE WINTER - EMPIRE

Born to Lose in the East Village since 2000. This is the 2nd single "No. 2" from "Babe City" their sophomore CD after "Food" on Art Monkey Records in the oughts. James Ranson (Guitar, Backing Vocals); Larry Johnson (Bass); and Steve Rock (Lead Vocals, Drums, Banter) played the local NYC-Brooklyn/Lower East Side club circuit: CBGBs; The Continental; The Kitty Kat Farm Club; Luna Lounge; Siberia; Otto's Shrunken Head, The Grand Victory; The Delancey; Fontana's; Bowery Electric. Then recently recorded this all original 10 song album at Grand Street Recording BK produced and engineered by Jake Lummus. Now with the Heartbreaker "No. 2" along with the 9 other tasty tracks take a bite out of this Wiener Records release and you'll hunger for more of the best bawdiest straight ahead rock and roll on this or any other planet. And boy do they deliver! On 109 Records and Tapes.

session roughs

ROADKILL NYC - No. 2

The Long Awaited Maddie Acid Mixtape.

You can Download it for free at: tvgirl.bandcamp.com

Cut Chop Break Burn

Artist: Sextile
Album Title: 3
label: felte

Sextile - Spun

Psychic Hearts - Obsessed

Bloom Offering is the synth-wave / blighted electronic project of Seattle’s Nicole Carr. Having released a handful of well-received cassettes through Clan Destine, Aught Void, and Sinneslöschen, Bloom Offering presents her debut LP Episodes through The Helen Scarsdale Agency. 

In her development as an artist and technician, Carr has steadily honed her abilities in sculpting sharply cold electronics and declarative vocals set upon propulsive spines of whipcrack snares and throttled kick drums. Episodes strikes us as the refinement and culmination of those motifs into a compulsive communion with bleak noise, dark-eyed melody, controlled rhythm, cathartic release and emotional drainage. “Venus Shrugged” maintains a stately almost haughty sequence of synth stabs, evoking the sexual politics of the male gaze and any woman who choses to look for herself. In the constant headlines of men behaving badly, Bloom Offering’s curse remains necessary.

Episodes

Bloom Offering // Venus Shrugged

honeybee

GRAVE096 ::::  The Stargazer Lilies 'We are the Dreamers'

The Stargazer Lilies slow motion bathing through space music is like sun glistening on the water in sound, ambient rock for daydreamers to bob their heads to. The Northeastern Pennsylvania based trio of guitarist/bassist/drummer/producer, John Cep, singer/bassist, Kim Field, and live drummers EJ DeCoske and Johnny Lancia, bring back the raw rock primal gaze, no bullshit sunshine haze.

The gazey dance floor where Soundpool, John & Kim’s previous band, dwelled lies behind them, while The Stargazer Lilies cosmic ambient arena lies ahead. Soundpool released three full-lengths in the last half decade, two on Aloft & Quince, and one on Killer Pimp. They shared the stage and in some cases toured with the likes of: Chapterhouse, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, School of Seven Bells, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco and Robin Guthrie to name a few.

The Stargazer Lilies streamline and minimize Soundpool down to just the bare essentials, ridding themselves of the superfluous & getting down to the essence of what The Stargazer Lilies are: ~butterfly wings, slowly beating guitars enveloping the listener, ethereal breathy female vocals floating on a melody, rocked out bossa nova beats and bad ass bass throwing down the rhythm.

This new direction, like minimalism, gains strength by taking away and paring the instrumentation down to create vast vistas of sound.

Their debut album, We are the Dreamers, will be out Oct 22nd on Graveface Records. Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow curated the release.

PR :::
Michelle King
michelle@noisyghostpr.com
http://www.noisyghostpr.com/album/we-are-the-dreamers/

The Stargazer Lilies - We are the Dreamers

With members hailing from different corners of Australia and the world, Wild Meadows formed over a love of all things garage, shoegaze and experimental noise-pop.
Debut self-titled album out now!