Obviously, Beer On The Rug is on fire. On Monday, we featured the interstellar late night channel excursions of Midnight Television, and today we're stoked to announce the Kansas imprint's fourth release, the otherworldly translucent pop of Ohio native Colin Field aka World Series. Recorded on a four-track, Episodes of El Niño is all about Field's lush yet subtle, almost irreverent but invariably brilliant guitar play, occasionally with equally sloppy vocals, that showcases a good amount of a summery, earlier Ducktails/Julian Lynch feel (total disclaimer: just noticed that this rather lame and obvious but oh-so-compelling comparison has been made before), totally unspectacular but also absolutely terrific and mindmelting. In fact, after giving this a couple of spins yesterday, these dreamscape-infused jams might add up to be my favorite lo-fi/guitar release so far this year.
Stream/buy the whole thing over here. For both World Series and Midnight Television, there should appear a pre-order link for the small run of tapes later today. Watch this space.
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Obviously, Beer On The Rug is on fire. On Monday, we featured the interstellar late night channel excursions of Midnight Television, and today we're stoked to announce the Kansas imprint's fourth release, the otherworldly translucent pop of Ohio native Colin Field aka World Series. Recorded on a four-track, Episodes of El Niño is all about Field's lush yet subtle, almost irreverent but invariably brilliant guitar play, occasionally with equally sloppy vocals, that showcases a good amount of a summery, earlier Ducktails/Julian Lynch feel (total disclaimer: just noticed that this rather lame and obvious but oh-so-compelling comparison has been made before), totally unspectacular but also absolutely terrific and mindmelting. In fact, after giving this a couple of spins yesterday, these dreamscape-infused jams might add up to be my favorite lo-fi/guitar release so far this year.
Stream/buy the whole thing over here. For both World Series and Midnight Television, there should appear a pre-order link for the small run of tapes later today. Watch this space.
After his very recent Lion of Judah 7 inch on Not Not Fun that had Bloominton synth explorer Dylan Ettinger rather close to his cinematic soundscaping works of last year's NNF full length New Age Outlaws, the stellar folks over at Minneapolis, Minnesota imprint Moon Glyph have now finally dropped his Pattern Recursion cassette, featuring one roughly eleven and a half minute track each side which both show Ettinger diving deep into the realms of synthesizer minimalism. Pattern Recursion is a conceptual piece that solely uses square wave forms which accordingly give the meandering structures a very mechanical, unnatural feel, reminiscent of the works of early analogue synthesizing pioneers.
Order the C23 now right here.
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After his very recent Lion of Judah 7 inch on Not Not Fun that had Bloominton synth explorer Dylan Ettinger rather close to his cinematic soundscaping works of last year's NNF full length New Age Outlaws, the stellar folks over at Minneapolis, Minnesota imprint Moon Glyph have now finally dropped his Pattern Recursion cassette, featuring one roughly eleven and a half minute track each side which both show Ettinger diving deep into the realms of synthesizer minimalism. Pattern Recursion is a conceptual piece that solely uses square wave forms which accordingly give the meandering structures a very mechanical, unnatural feel, reminiscent of the works of early analogue synthesizing pioneers.
Order the C23 now right here.
Dylan Ettinger - Squares (Excerpt)
Edmund Xavier's dark minimal wave project Horrid Red has finished a new EP, to be released in June via Soft Abuse. Recorded in March in San Francisco and Berlin, Silent Party comes either as a three-track 7 inch or on a six-track cassette and once again features the group's signature style of combining gloomy creepiness with an overall very danceable rhythm pattern, adding up to strangely irresistible party tunes.
Cop the title track below, and pre-order the thing over here.
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Edmund Xavier's dark minimal wave project Horrid Red has finished a new EP, to be released in June via Soft Abuse. Recorded in March in San Francisco and Berlin, Silent Party comes either as a three-track 7 inch or on a six-track cassette and once again features the group's signature style of combining gloomy creepiness with an overall very danceable rhythm pattern, adding up to strangely irresistible party tunes.
Cop the title track below, and pre-order the thing over here.
Horrid Red - Silent Party
The Cats Purring collective's website just dropped this cracking new "cosmic pop" jam by Georgia, Mississippi's Tommy Toussaint, a wonderfully cheesy and lovelorn synth ballad that has our favorite 80s-dripping romance maestro blissfully yet slightly desperately crooning about the only girl he wants, be it wrong or right, and ain't that the only universal topic we all instantly can connect with?
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The Cats Purring collective's website just dropped this cracking new "cosmic pop" jam by Georgia, Mississippi's Tommy Toussaint, a wonderfully cheesy and lovelorn synth ballad that has our favorite 80s-dripping romance maestro blissfully yet slightly desperately crooning about the only girl he wants, be it wrong or right, and ain't that the only universal topic we all instantly can connect with?
Tommy Toussaint - Only Want You
Comprising wide arching harmonies that owe a lot to Fleet Foxes or Panda Bear, airy arrangements leaving a lot of space for the songs' breathtaking melodies to unfold, and an irresistible feeling for compositional suspense, StaG's full-length Rifle Meeker is among the biggest and most pleasant surprises we've come across in 2011 so far. Without stirring up any dust, the Boulder, Colorado via LA duo consisting of Matt McGuire and Will Walden has delivered a debut which is flawless to a degree that's almost scary.
Apparently the result of a year of confusion and forlornness after the relocation to the landlocked state - Rifle Meeker is about living in a city I didn’t think was right for me. It’s about missing California and feeling like I was stuck along the seventeen-hour drive between Boulder and Calabasas, CA, constantly seeing road signs for places like Rifle, CO and Meeker, CO - the album feels like a very personal, almost intimate piece of art, at times exposing an intensity of emotion that we've last encountered listening to Hospice, even though the respective contexts might be essentially different. A marvelous, completely unanticipated record.
Get Rifle Meeker now for pay-what-you-want over at bandcamp.
StaG - Morsels (For a Task)StaG - Tired
Photograph "untitled" by Florian Reischauer.
buy this print! 15x15cm | 30x30cm
Starting today, NFOP photo artist Florian has a little exhibition showing some of his marvelous Pieces of Berlin prints at fenster61, Torstraße 61, Mitte, running until June 14. Have a look if you stop by.
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Comprising wide arching harmonies that owe a lot to Fleet Foxes or Panda Bear, airy arrangements leaving a lot of space for the songs' breathtaking melodies to unfold, and an irresistible feeling for compositional suspense, StaG's full-length Rifle Meeker is among the biggest and most pleasant surprises we've come across in 2011 so far. Without stirring up any dust, the Boulder, Colorado via LA duo consisting of Matt McGuire and Will Walden has delivered a debut which is flawless to a degree that's almost scary.
Apparently the result of a year of confusion and forlornness after the relocation to the landlocked state - Rifle Meeker is about living in a city I didn’t think was right for me. It’s about missing California and feeling like I was stuck along the seventeen-hour drive between Boulder and Calabasas, CA, constantly seeing road signs for places like Rifle, CO and Meeker, CO - the album feels like a very personal, almost intimate piece of art, at times exposing an intensity of emotion that we've last encountered listening to Hospice, even though the respective contexts might be essentially different. A marvelous, completely unanticipated record.
Get Rifle Meeker now for pay-what-you-want over at bandcamp.
StaG - Morsels (For a Task)StaG - Tired
Photograph "untitled" by Florian Reischauer.
buy this print! 15x15cm | 30x30cm
Starting today, NFOP photo artist Florian has a little exhibition showing some of his marvelous Pieces of Berlin prints at fenster61, Torstraße 61, Mitte, running until June 14. Have a look if you stop by.
Here's a new track dropped into my inbox ast night by French loner A.P. Witomski, the first track to emerge from his forthcoming EP Zenith October. No further infos so far, but Pandoraski is yet another blissful piece of dream pop that seems to have come out of Witomski's head so effortlessly.
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Here's a new track dropped into my inbox ast night by French loner A.P. Witomski, the first track to emerge from his forthcoming EP Zenith October. No further infos so far, but Pandoraski is yet another blissful piece of dream pop that seems to have come out of Witomski's head so effortlessly.
A.P. Witomski - Pandoraski
After his very recent Lion of Judah 7 inch on Not Not Fun that had Bloominton synth explorer Dylan Ettinger rather close to his cinematic soundscaping works of last year's NNF full length New Age Outlaws, the stellar folks over at Minneapolis, Minnesota imprint Moon Glyph have now finally dropped his Pattern Recursion cassette, featuring one roughly eleven and a half minute track each side which both show Ettinger diving deep into the realms of synthesizer minimalism. Pattern Recursion is a conceptual piece that solely uses square wave forms which accordingly give the meandering structures a very mechanical, unnatural feel, reminiscent of the works of early analogue synthesizing pioneers.
Order the C23 now right here.
Dylan Ettinger - Squares (Excerpt)
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