Cover of Rebecca Peake's "Strawberries and Cream"

In case you're not aware - Rebecca Peake has been writing, recording and releasing a track on Sound Cloud EVERY DAY for the last year.

listen to the original Rebecca Peake version at http://soundcloud.com/rebecca-peake/strawberries-cream

@xeroks: Really interesting cover of RP's excellent song. Missing RP a lot

Cover of Rebecca Peake's "Strawberries and Cream"

In case you're not aware - Rebecca Peake has been writing, recording and releasing a track on Sound Cloud EVERY DAY for the last year.


Strawberries and Cream

Pulse

Into The Woods

Naughty little folk-pop maestro We Show Up On Radar is indeed a person and Zanzibar Whip Coral is indeed his album. A body of songs expelled through his cloud-like body like a turbulent but fruitful gale. This mass of organised air is to be released on Fika Recordings in March 2019.

Nottingham based multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Andy Wright - the man inside We Show up On Radar - has conjured up this 9 song popular melodrama using nothing but his own full sized Wurlitzer, complete with rotating platform and wearing his trademark sequinned suit.

Zanzibar Whip Corals is the 4.15 from Waverly Station. The train seats are woven from spun sugar and the train driver is a pelican with secrets in his bill. The gentle breeze spilling through the windows is Andy's voice with a melancholy love story sung for all the weird and wonderful creatures giggling in the distance. His songwriting is tender, almost fragile but his songs are anthemic, bubbling with gentle power. This journey is one of sheer magic and terror, like a lovely nightmare where you wake up smiling.

We Show Up On Radar’s songs are bewitching tales, scattered with references to vegetarian yeti’s, microscopic sea creatures and Greek Gods. It is music that is full of contradictions - childlike and sweet, but a bit wrong; terribly sad, but hopelessly uplifting.

Lets all fly away on each other’s smiles.

“Many pop artists overdo it on the twee elements, but the vast scope and ambition of We Show Up On Radar covers an enormous sonic territory ensuring that balance is always maintained. It may sound a little like Salad Fingers fronting the flaming lips, but just imagine what kind of imagination it must take to pull that off” 
The Guardian

We Show Up On Radar - Willow Tree

Taken from the forthcoming album There's No Fight We Can't Both Win, out 26th April 2019.

For the uninitiated, Mammoth Penguins are a 3-piece indie pop powerhouse, showcasing the songwriting and vocal talents of Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, The Hayman Kupa Band) backed up by the noisiest rhythm section in indie pop. 

Their first album, Hide and Seek, was released with the much-loved and sorely missed Fortuna Pop! in 2015. Stand-out tracks ‘Strength In My Legs’ and ‘When I Was Your Age’ were picked up by BBC 6Music and Radio X, and the band played a live session for Marc Riley the following year. 

But Mammoth Penguins didn’t want to stop there.  Their follow-up release John Doe in 2017 was an ambitious concept album, exploring the feelings of loss and anger at a man who fakes his own death, only to return years later. It featured contributions from Haiku Salut’s Sophie Barkerwood and Alto 45’s Joe Bear, and expanded well beyond the 3-piece rock‘n’roll template, with washes of strings, synths and samples (field recordings of butter being scraped on toast, photocopiers, and Ramsgate beach helping to fully immerse the listener in the world the band have created) filling out and developing Kupa’s songwriting. 

Having had their ‘and now for something completely different’ moment, the band have brought that ambition and expanded palette to the production of this new release. The sound is big, bold and confident—with layers of guitars, backing vocals and keys all adding extra muscle—but maintaining Emma’s candid, heartfelt, confessional style of songwriting, and the jubilant power pop hooks that made the first record so special.   

This time around, classic themes of love, loss and conflict are (mostly) given a hopeful and optimistic spin that opposition is neither inevitable nor hopeless. For musical comparisons, think Land of Talk, and Philadelphia bands such as Swearin and Hop Along, but Kupa’s insight into the everyday and her ability to pen such relatable and honest missives means that, often, the best comparison for Mammoth Penguins’ music is with your own past. 

“Like a lot of songwriters, my songs are derived from my own personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, long lived or fleeting. The times when people have said my lyrics resonate with them or articulate something specific for them are extremely validating for me and I hope that happens with this album. Arranging the songs with Mark and Tom is a massive buzz and playing them live as a band feels exciting and fantastic. Having Joe and Faith put their mark on the songs was also a massive privilege. When we’re working on a new song it gets to a point where we just want to keep repeatedly playing it over and over. However, making a record can be an extremely slow and drawn out process that requires patience, perseverance and resilience, and because of that we are super excited and proud to be releasing this album.” Emma Kupa, Mammoth Penguins.

I Wanna

Mammoth Penguins - I Wanna

Naughty little folk-pop maestro We Show Up On Radar is indeed a person and Zanzibar Whip Coral is indeed his album. A body of songs expelled through his cloud-like body like a turbulent but fruitful gale. This mass of organised air is to be released on Fika Recordings in March 2019.

Nottingham based multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Andy Wright - the man inside We Show up On Radar - has conjured up this 9 song popular melodrama using nothing but his own full sized Wurlitzer, complete with rotating platform and wearing his trademark sequinned suit.

Zanzibar Whip Coral is the 4.15 from Waverly Station. The train seats are woven from spun sugar and the train driver is a pelican with secrets in his bill. The gentle breeze spilling through the windows is Andy's voice with a melancholy love story sung for all the weird and wonderful creatures giggling in the distance. His songwriting is tender, almost fragile but his songs are anthemic, bubbling with gentle power. This journey is one of sheer magic and terror, like a lovely nightmare where you wake up smiling.

We Show Up On Radar’s songs are bewitching tales, scattered with references to vegetarian yeti’s, microscopic sea creatures and Greek Gods. It is music that is full of contradictions - childlike and sweet, but a bit wrong; terribly sad, but hopelessly uplifting.

Wright invented libraries and then toured them…. We Show Up On Radar have also recorded on various occasions for the BBC at the legendary Maida Vale studios and Abbey Road.
("surreal, hushed acoustic folk-pop that's both downbeat and delirious" BBC Introducing).

We Show Up On Radar have previously supported The National, Piney Gir, Thomas Truax and Bright Eyes at Nottingham's Rock City and dazzled with a headline show at Club Fandango at the Bull & Gate, London (“an astonishing treat” Artrocker).

Lets all fly away on each other’s smiles.

A Theogony, the first single from Zanzibar Whip Coral, is released on the 18th of January.

“Many pop artists overdo it on the twee elements, but the vast scope and ambition of We Show Up On Radar covers an enormous sonic territory ensuring that balance is always maintained. It may sound a little like Salad Fingers fronting the flaming lips, but just imagine what kind of imagination it must take to pull that off” 
The Guardian

“A deceptively dark, quirky lyricist, (Wright) finds beautifully detailed stories and significance in the
ordinary; his dramatic imagery wrapped up snugly in the protective blanket of his charmingly endearing delivery.” 
Clash Music

“Odd pop that never quite veers into quirky. He knows how to make your heart lift and plummet.”
Darren Hayman

“Playing indie pop without all the twee connotations that implies, [We Show Up On Radar] excel at
happy/sad melodies…which are given space to breathe…an astonishing treat” 
Artrocker

Crumbs For Erin

We Show Up On Radar - Crumbs For Erin

There's No Fight We Can't Both Win

Closure

Mammoth Penguins - Closure

For the uninitiated, Mammoth Penguins are a 3-piece indie pop powerhouse, showcasing the songwriting and vocal talents of Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, The Hayman Kupa Band) backed up by the noisiest rhythm section in indie pop
Their first album, Hide and Seek, was released with the much-loved and sorely missed Fortuna Pop! in 2015. Stand-out tracks ‘Strength In My Legs’ and ‘When I Was Your Age’ were picked up by BBC 6Music and Radio X, and the band played a live session for Marc Riley the following year.

But Mammoth Penguins didn’t want to stop there.  Their follow-up release John Doe in 2017 was an ambitious concept album, exploring the feelings of loss and anger at a man who fakes his own death, only to return years later. It featured contributions from Haiku Salut’s Sophie Barkerwood and Alto 45’s Joe Bear, and expanded well beyond the 3-piece rock‘n’roll template, with washes of strings, synths and samples (field recordings of butter being scraped on toast, photocopiers, and Ramsgate beach helping to fully immerse the listener in the world the band have created) filling out and developing Kupa’s songwriting.

Having had their ‘and now for something completely different’ moment, the band have brought that ambition and expanded palette to the production of this new release. The sound is big, bold and confident—with layers of guitars, backing vocals and keys all adding extra muscle—but maintaining Emma’s candid, heartfelt, confessional style of songwriting, and the jubilant power pop hooks that made the first record so special.  

This time around, classic themes of love, loss and conflict are (mostly) given a hopeful and optimistic spin that opposition is neither inevitable nor hopeless. For musical comparisons, think Land of Talk, and Philadelphia bands such as Swearin and Hop Along, but Kupa’s insight into the everyday and her ability to pen such relatable and honest missives means that, often, the best comparison for Mammoth Penguins’ music is with your own past.

“Like a lot of songwriters, my songs are derived from my own personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, long lived or fleeting. The times when people have said my lyrics resonate with them or articulate something specific for them are extremely validating for me and I hope that happens with this album. Arranging the songs with Mark and Tom is a massive buzz and playing them live as a band feels exciting and fantastic. Having Joe and Faith put their mark on the songs was also a massive privilege. When we’re working on a new song it gets to a point where we just want to keep repeatedly playing it over and over. However, making a record can be an extremely slow and drawn out process that requires patience, perseverance and resilience, and because of that we are super excited and proud to be releasing this album.” Emma Kupa, Mammoth Penguins.

Mammoth Penguins - You Just Carry On

VIRVON VARVON "MIND CANCER" PRE-ORDER
https://girlsville.bandcamp.com/album/virvon-varvon-mind-cancer

MASTERED BY PATRICK HAIGHT
ARTWORK BY @deuteromali ON INSTAGRAM

VIRVON VARVON - RADICAL

VIRVON VARVON "MIND CANCER" PRE-ORDER
girlsville.bandcamp.com/album/virvon-…n-mind-cancer

MASTERED BY PATRICK HAIGHT
ARTWORK BY @deuteromali ON INSTAGRAM

VIRVON VARVON - MIND CANCER (DEMO)

From the backstreets of Long Jetty, four close friends decided to put aside their kids, businesses and studies for one night a week to jam in a garage. Pussy In The Dark combines nostalgic synth sounds with astral folk vocals to create something you could describe as 'Aussie Dream Pop'.

Download 'Wild' on Unearthed: www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/pussy-dark

Produced by Pepa Knight
Mixed by Jean Gallows
Mastered by Andrew Edgson @ Studios 301

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pitdmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/pvssyinthedark

Wild - Pussy In The Dark

I've been trying to work with a limited sound palette with this De-Icer collection. 

The idea is that these tracks could be played live, exactly as recorded, by a four piece band. So there are no multi-tracked guitars, harmony vocals etc.
Similarly, there's no looping or sequencing involved in any of the tracks (apart from drums).  

I don't have the coordination to play drums. 

Or a drum kit.
:-)

Strawberries and Cream

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