sweetly selected | june 2022

Pouco Sozinho

Imperfect Constellations

Trespasser

From Capelton Hill

Palmistry

The Family

Dreams

The song “Beverly Hills” both embraces the opulence of the Rodeo Drive lifestyle while simultaneously pointing out the ultimate absurdity of it all. Growing up in Altadena, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, I always loved hearing stories of the lavish lifestyle occurring just over the hill. These stories were always embellished, which, on top of the extravagance of reality, made them almost absurd.

Diamond studded supermodels ordering champagne service to the pool, oiled up to their ears in search of that nonexistent tan line. Spoiled tweens buying thousand-dollar cupcakes on limitless credit cards. Newborn babies wearing 24K gold Rolexes, riding around in limited edition Louis Vuitton strollers. All of it seemingly impossible, yet a quick internet search would reveal every story completely plausible.

It’s a life of augmented reality in the truest sense of the word, where airbrushed and photoshopped images have leapt from the page and onto the faces and bodies of otherwise natural beauties. Beauties who have been sucked into the allure of envy: glitter, glam, altered faces, frames, and bank accounts, many immersed in a lifestyle beyond their means, hoping to one day rub shoulders with the right person and hit the lottery of high society.

In the end it’s hard to fault anyone. We’re in a time where success means pleasing a cold, unfeeling algorithm that rewards likes and comments over genuine artistry. Where posting a photo drinking cold brew in negligee would outperform the cure for cancer. And like an Olympics of steroid-crazed athletes, it’s difficult to compete without cheating.

In the song, I indulge in the Wonka-esque pageantry and it is me waltzing the sunny streets with my iced wrist and honey bronze tan. I am the supermodel, the spoiled tween, the newborn baby. And it ends with my orchestral dream escape from suburban normality, as I dance the night away with Bill Murray, drunk on careless irresponsibility, lost in the slow motion of future reminiscence.

Frith

Beverly Hills

Written by Nature TV
Recorded by Solo Major at 17b Studios
Mastered by Ed Woods
Released by Heist or Hit

Nature TV is Guy Bangham, Josh Eriskin, James Hunt.
Drums by Zal Jones, recorded at Rubix.

Nature TV - One Step Forward (Radio Edit)

Released 24-01-25 via Velvet Echoes Records

Recorded by Dreamwave & Dom Bailey at Nine Volt Leap 

Mixed by Dom Bailey at Nine Volt Leap

Mastered by Jason at LOUD Mastering

Songs written and performed by Dreamwave

Benjamin Harry: Guitar & Vocals

Hester Battin: Keys & Vocals 

Cameron Organ: Bass & Vocals 

Alex Andrews: Drums, Percussion & Vocals 

Dom Bailey: Vocals

Wide Shooter

Paraverbal Orchids/Young Moon is a Broken Bone

A Chance to Burn Leaves

Exploding!

7 Faces

Langit Kelabu dan Kopi Tanpa Janji

On their brand new debut single «Sunshine Crawlers» Norwegian newcomers Haunted Mansions bring warmth and understated confidence to their hiphop-inspired indie weirdness. The Trondheim-based duo's  first offering is full of insistent pop hooks, and is a great introduction to their sound. 

Haunted Mansions namecheck Portugal The Man, Danger Mouse and Gorillaz when asked to describe their music and while those artists have inspired Haunted Mansions it's clear to all that they bring their own flavour to the music as well. 

The song combines old-school hiphop beats, almost shimmering acoustic guitars, textured synths and weird, smoky and infectious vocals to perfection. «Sunshine Crawlers» is seductive in all it’s gloom, mildly psychedelic and strongly melodic, but most of all just really great. 

It’s a song about social injustice, about realizing that the world is blindingly unfair and that there really isn’t that much hope to be found. Still, there are undertones of resistance, a subdued call to arms. The last chorus rises above the gloom and asks «Who’s laughing now» as it perhaps finds an ever so slight glimmer of light in the enveloping darkness of modern society.

Thomas: "We had been flirting with the idea of writing songs and starting a band together for a long time, and it just sort of happened one day. As Vegard was leaving my studio he heard the initial demo for Sunshine Crawlers with no vocals from the hallway, and went back with an old melody of his, that just fit the song. From there everything just fell into place and the song was incredibly easy to complete. It is the first song we wrote together."

HAUNTED MANSIONS - Sunshine Crawlers

Yellow The Sun create a laid back mix Psych and jangle pop with a hint of shoe gazing effects. 
IF you like   Mac Demarco, Tame impala, Brian Jonestown or Allah Las check out YTS's hazy sun drenched sounds.  
Yellow the Sun is a 2 piece from Northern NSW featuring Marquee Moon and Ant.

Dreams

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