Lead single off 'Secret Angles,' the third album and Hush Hush debut from Seattle duo Cock & Swan.

www.hushhushseattle.com :: www.cockandswan.com

DL // Secret Angles LP

Cock & Swan - Animal Totem

Larry Gus - The Eternal and the Ephemeral

Music Box - The Cinematic Orchestra

Pre-order our new album "Heidelbach" (out March 17th) here: https://xulzolar.bandcamp.com/album/heidelbach

Written by @Xul-Zolar
Produced by Marius Bubat, Georg Conrad and Xul Zolar
Mastered by Jannis Bentler

Xul Zolar live 2023:
12.04. Berlin - ://about blank(Tix: bit.ly/3IiHwGm)
13.04. Hamburg - Molotow(Tix: bit.ly/3PM3XH2)
22.04. Köln - Gebäude 9 Tix: bit.ly/41574PG)

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

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Taken from the forthcoming album The Long Road. Available from March 4th. Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/LongRoad

Kindness - A Retelling

Big Scary - Over Matter (Animal LP | 2016)

A very special little track i wrote a few years in dedication to a dear friend of mine. Super happy it gets too see the light of day on the new compilation from Fam FOF Up Too Early.

Rest of the songs on the Up Too Early Spotify Playlist.

open.spotify.com/user/fofmusic/pl…AEX2b92MsQX4NkDh
 ' Wattle Rise '

Wattle Rise

"Marion" is the first piece of new music from Beacon's Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett since the New York duo's 2016 album, Escapements.

Order links:
The Ghostly Store: https://goo.gl/SZYKUP
Retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/beacon-marion

Catch https://soundcloud.com/beaconmusicnyc on tour: http://beaconband.nyc/tour/

Marion

Beacon - Marion

Full article: https://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/premiere-diana-what-you-get

DIANA’s synthie-Pop sound is reminiscent of the 70s and 80s. You can listen to “What You Get” – btw for being in love – from their upcoming album exclusively on i-D.

premiere: diana, what you get

From the album The Kid out October 6, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order The Kid
BLEEP https://bleep.com/release/86790-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-kid
Norman Records https://www.normanrecords.com/records/166212
Bandcamp https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid
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In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "An Intention"

Taken from the forthcoming EP 'I Will Be Cold Soon'.

Released 24th June on House Anxiety Records.

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