So rare, not enough of this "all gas no brakes" musical attacks out there...respect! Fill my ears!

Imagine yourself spinning in a slow dance with your sweetheart on the beach and confessing your love to her under warm and cheerful reggae.

“Smile if you wanna smile, cry if you wanna cry, Just be around, be around, be around…,” - the chorus conveys a sense of spiritual and artistic liberation. 

All-consuming and breathtaking love, it is impossible to run away from it and you don’t want to. Good old reggae, only in a modern way. It pays tribute to the Bob Marley heritage and “Sunshine Reggae” by Laid Back.

LYRICS
Knock knock knocking on your door
You open and the life is sweet, oh Lord
Cause every time you're not around, it’s emptiness 
But when you're near, it's always summer, blessedness

When you're not around my heart is beating so slow
And I could die, I could die, I could die, I could die, I could die, I could die 
When you're not around this world is being so hard
And we could blow, we could blow, we could blow, we could blow, we could blow, we could blow
Smile if you wanna smile, cry if you wanna cry
Just be around, be around, be around, be around, be around, be around
Dance if you wanna dance, but darling give me a chance
Cause I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love

Lord, Lord, Lord, I'm begging Lord
You let me be her man, don't break my heart
Cause every time she's not around, it’s emptiness 
But when she's near, it's always summer, blessedness

When you're not around my heart is beating so slow
And I could die, I could die, I could die, I could die, I could die, I could die 
When you're not around this world is being so hard
And we could blow, we could blow, we could blow, we could blow, we could blow, we could blow
Smile if you wanna smile, cry if you wanna cry
Just be around, be around, be around, be around, be around, be around
Dance if you wanna dance, but darling give me a chance
Cause I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love

I can't breathe without you
I can't breathe without you
I can't breathe without you
I can't breathe without you

Babe I know you want me
Babe I know you love me
Babe I know you'll let me just be around

Babe I know you want me
Babe I know you love me
Babe I know you'll let me just be around

Babe I know you want me
Babe I know you love me
Babe I know you'll let me just be around

Babe I know you want me
Babe I know you love me
Babe I know you'll let me just be around

Just Be Around

Written and performed by Static Satellites. Recorded and produced by Scott Thompson at ERF Studios, Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Static Satellites are: 
Ross Whelan - Vocals/ Guitar
Ally Taylor - Guitar
Sam Carlyle - Bass
Ciaran Boyle - Drums

Check out http://www.staticsatellites.com.

Thieves

smartURL: https://lnk.site/moonpools-nevermind

Moonpools - Never Mind

Debut release ‘Coming Good’ combines a near-Motorik driving rhythm and chiming guitars with longing twin vocals ruminating on what could have beens and past promises.

The track was recorded at Press Play Studios in Bermondsey and Joe Reeves Recording in Kingston.

Track credits:
James Baldwin - drums
Jim Coburn - bass
Joe Reeves - guitars, vocals
Jack Titcombe - guitars, vocals, string machine

Written by Learn to Surf
Recorded and mixed by Joe Reeves
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk (Stereophonic Mastering)

Coming Good

Holding out for Days

https://windupcrows.bandcamp.com/album/goodnight-lad-2

Artist : Seán R McLaughlin & The Wind-Up Crows 
Single : Wishing Well
Release : 29th March 2024
Genre: Indie Rock/Alternative Folk 


Following the critical praise for The Ninewells E.P.:

“tremendous rootsy collision of Americana and folk influences” - Folk Radio 
“a testament to McLaughlin’s incredible songwriting skills” - EARMILK

Seán R. McLaughlin returns with this glorious folk-tinged indie-rock family affair - the track features award winning singer-songwriter, Lewis McLaughlin (Seán’s cousin) and is produced/mixed by their shared cousin, Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit).

Wishing Well deals with the desire to disappear in a time when our lives are increasingly lived and captured online. McLaughlin sings:

…I’m wishing that I could roll my car in the sea
Throw the television off the end of the quay 
And delete all the data they collected on me
My birth, my death, and my family tree

Of the song, Seán R. McLaughlin states:

“…it started as a character song about this person who just wants to disappear, but knows it’s almost impossible these days…finding the constant sense of being observed, and the daily data capture that takes place in most of our lives, a bit overwhelming and unhealthy…

…I loved working with my cousins on this one, and the viola I played in the choruses was rescued from my grandfather’s fireplace. He was a luthier and was so unhappy with it, he tried to burn it. I saved it. It’s one of the best instruments I own and I’m so attached to it now. ”

The track comes ahead of the eagerly awaited full album, Goodnight Lad, due for release on 3rd May 2024. The record is available for pre-order in limited edition transparent blue vinyl and CD from the Wind-Up Crows Bandcamp.

Seán R. McLaughlin & The Wind-Up Crows - Wishing Well

Written, performed, produced by The Silent Era: 
Bri Macanas, Chris Schwarten, Jo Eiffes and Nicolas Zappa

Recorded at Brighton Electric Studios, Brighton.
Engineered by Phoebe Bentham, Josh Riordan and Liisa Kiis
Additional recordings at Secret Studios, North London.
Engineered by Bri Macanas and Nicolas Zappa
Mixed by Nicolas Zappa
Mastered by Mark Roberts

© all rights reserved

Matter of Time

WSR146 - Beverly Kills - Sunset Drive.

Released 2024-04-26 on Welfare Sounds & Records. 

Recorded by Per Stålberg & Kalle Lilja at Welfare Studios. 
Mixed by Per Stålberg. 
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg.
Artwork by Cecilia Vårhed.

Sunset Drive

Death Is Cheap

Out now! 

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IIW31i
iTunes: https://apple.co/2IlbdGu

LIVE: 
18 May - The Great Escape, Brighton (The Walrus): https://bit.ly/2touqUq
2 June - Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham: https://bit.ly/2KoZGXo
14 June - The Lexington, London*: https://bit.ly/2wFfbZf
23 June - Future Sounds @ The White Hotel, Manchester^: https://bit.ly/2ImnJpb
21 July - Tramlines Fringe @ The Forum, Sheffield: Free Entry
2 Sept - Manchester Psych Festival, Manchester: https://bit.ly/2qLAOBs
9 Sept - The Lanes, Bristol± : https://bit.ly/2wFiorI
22 Sept - Reb’Elle Festival, Leeds: https://bit.ly/2wDrsxh
23 Sept - Westgarth Social Club, Middlesborough: https://bit.ly/2IB7J69
24 Sept - Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh: https://bit.ly/2KmFghs
25 Sept - Fulford Arms, York: https://bit.ly/2Ifu4Xs
27 Sept - Bedford Esquires, Bedford: https://bit.ly/2wE3K3L
29 Sept - The Forum Basement @ Sussex Arms, Tunbridge Wells: https://bit.ly/2wFr6Gq
30 Sept - Heartbreakers, Southampton: https://bit.ly/2wHBzAY

Citizen

British/Swedish female four-piece Yassassin make unapologetic alt-indie rock music.

Having toured with the likes of Albert Hammond Jr (The Strokes), PINS, and shared stages with Echo & The Bunnymen, Dream Wife and The Garden, their fierceless live sets soon saw the band playing countless festivals across Europe.

With 3/4ths of the band uprooting from London to Margate in recent times, 2024 sees the quartet release their first new music since the big pause, giving us a shape of what's to come.

Long live Yassassin.

Citizen

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