[Weekly Mix] 2022.07 (3)

SUGAR SWEET

teen suicide - get high, breathe underwater (#3)

Gourmet Feat. Ausar

Good morning
I love you
Come over
I'll heat you up some leftover shepherd's pie

Suddenly I feel older
How long will it take for you to kiss some other lips when I die

I'm still alive

Today I'll buy you a houseplant
A visual indicator of our love
If I seem to be distant
I just never thought I could be as happy as I am with you
What to do

If I die in a chemical fire please know
Our love fed the brightest flame

Will you take me to the lake just one last time
Nothing left to do but just smile and die
Yeah I'll leave you my demons if you promise to walk them everyday on leashes

If I die in a chemical fire please know
Our love fed the brightest flame
If I die in a chemical fire please go
Move on without shame

CHEMICAL FIRE

Longshot

'Sunday'

Track 9 from 'Bedroom Mixes'.
Written and Produced by Ella Walker.

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Sunday

By the time you hear this

The Beginning and The End

Can't Touch

Paralyzed

Paralyzed (At Home Version)

Lines

Words & Music by Terje Kleven
Recorded by Ole & Silje Huleboer @ Chaka Khan studios
Produced by Ole & Silje Huleboer and Sleep Kicks
Mixed by Morten Øby @ Taakeheimen Lydrike
Mastered by Christian Obermayer @ Strype Audio

Cover photo by Jørn Landbakk
Artwork by Terje Kleven

Words In Vain

Strange Weather

Following the release of their highly playlisted success 'Like a Ghost',
Manchester's Saytr Play come back with the second single from their
anticipated EP this spring.

Crowded Room, written and self-produced by Fred Farrell and Callum
Hignett, is an indie-pop record set to please fans and newcomers alike.

The track mixes heart breaking lyrics which Farrell describes as 'an honest diary entry' about a 'classic case of self sabotage', with a refined 80s influence. 

Crowded Room is perfect for dancing with your friends and belting in the shower. A song to soundtrack this year.

Crowded Room (Radio Edit)

Beautiful View

“A national musical treasure" The Guardian

Steven Adams, formerly of The Broken Family Band releases new album DROPS on Fika Recordings in November 2023.

Since calling time on TBFB at the height of their success, Adams has released half a dozen albums under various names (Singing Adams, Steven James Adams, Steven Adams & The French Drops), his witty, incisive lyrics and melodic sensibilities taking in DIY indie rock, folky introspection, and off-kilter pop hooks. 

Originally from South Wales, Adams now lives in East London.

“Every record I’ve made has been in a hurry of some sort” says Adams of his new album, “and with this one I took my time”. DROPS is the first album to be credited to him as a solo artist since 2016’s Old Magick, his first new music since 2020, and his noisiest record to date.

Armed with a new batch of material, he began by upping sticks to the Welsh countryside to experiment with drummer Daniel Fordham and bassist David Stewart - both formerly of psych oddballs The Drink. The trio then took the songs to Big Jelly, a converted chapel on the south coast, with co-producer Simon Trought (Comet Gain, Johnny Flynn, The Wave Pictures) to lay down the basic tracks for DROPS.

Eschewing a full band set up (“I wanted to concentrate on one thing at a time”), recording sessions in East London followed with Laurie Earle (Absentee) on guitar and Michael Wood (Hayman Kupa Band, Michaelmas) on keyboards.

Adams then took the recordings home and to the French countryside, to work alone.“I finally got my head around home recording in 2020, while things were a bit quiet. Once I worked out how to record things I realised I didn’t have to think about time. I could let the songs evolve and change once we had the basic tracks down. After a while I started to think of them as paintings; trying something one morning, painting over it in the afternoon and attempting something completely different… it was about enjoying the process, making some bangers, playing around... and giving Simon the producer a mess to sort out when it came to mixing the record". Whenever Tom from Fika Recordings checked in to see how the album was progressing Adams would reply, “it’s taking ages but it’ll sound like it was recorded in an afternoon”.

The result is a dynamic and spirited collection of songs, with Adams's love of 90/00s US underground rock (Pavement's Bob Nastanovich is a fan) to the fore.

DROPS is a sonically compelling piece of work: from bleak/exultant opener Out to Sea and the motorik Living in the Local Void to the weirdly funereal Fascists (where Adams imagines the “little skip in our steps” that we’ll have upon outliving some baddies), and Day Trip's psychedelia in miniature. There are also moments of tenderness: the avalanche of empathy on closing track Cheap Wine Sad Face, and I Tried to Keep it Light’s “worse things could happen… I don’t know how, but give me time”.

Adams says: “I'm preoccupied by the passing of time and the way it affects how we feel. This record is about time and bewilderment and trying to make sense of things".

“…astonishing tenderness in its simplicity … brilliant lyrics.” Q Magazine
“…the tunes are instant and uplifting, but the real wallop comes from the lyrical imagery.” The Guardian
“…barbed modern life chronicles.” UNCUT

Drops

Moderation

Steven Adams - Moderation

Its all a lie

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