This week's Video Sunday features music videos from James Spankie, Heirs, Echo Lake, Gullfisk, High Highs and The Weeknd.
James Spankie - Anchor (by Runaway)
Heirs - Hunter (by Brent Stegeman)
Echo Lake - Buried at Sea (by Natalia Stuyk)
Gullfisk - Move Me (by Miguel Bidarra)
High Highs - Flowers Bloom (by Video Marsh)
The Weeknd - The Knowing (by Mikael Colombu)
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Prepare to get some serious goosebumps after listening to the ridiculously beautiful live recording of Casa Murilo's "Yellow Umbrellas", taken from their debut album Liting Ships which dropped on Spoon Train Records earlier this year. The Oslo based English/Norwegian six-piece brought their friends in Draup along, and combined with the eternal sound from the girls' glass harmonica, the result is rather astounding. Have a listen below.
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Splendid new 80's synth love from the suburbs of Tokyo brought to us by the Japanese experimental label CUZMEPAIN, whom already have been putting out quite a few interesting releases so far throughout this year already. We don't know too much about this project as of yet, but the few tunes MASCULiN have up as streaming on their bandcamp page is definitely worth a listen, especially "EMMANUEL" (in my opinion anyway).
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I've been meaning to write about this project for ages but somehow constantly got held back, but now that the exciting news on Kösmonaut's first vinyl output have reached my eyes and ears it's finally about time to laud the utterly exciting kosmische emanations of Texas experimentalist Patrick R. Park, who's having a tremendously prolific year with a stream of mostly digital-only releases of spaced-out synth excursions heavily influenced by Teutonic electronic psychedelia from its 70s heyday (hence the improper umlaut mark I presume).
Below, listen to the track "Creation of Time", originally the opening track of Park's previous full-length Voyage of Time, a slowly and cautiously starting prog-psych banger with swirling, far-reaching synth layers that gradually yet massively metamorphoses into an outright kosmische hymn, wittily conceived and no less than brilliantly executed.
"Creation of Time" will be part of Kösmonaut's Kösmonaut I 12 inch, which is gonna be dropped sometime in December by Deep Distance, the newly established sublabel of Dom Martin's The Great Pop Supplement, an offspring inspired by the four colored private pressings of Conrad Schnitzler from the early 70s. Accordingly, each record in the series will be in a different color, with unique, custom-made inserts.
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We simply couldn't let this one pass unheard: The Soft's brand new (and free) EP Hot Summer found it's way to our inbox the other day and has quite literally been on repeat ever since. Defining The Soft's sound is not just a simple task, moving from electronically leaning coral pop to a way more mysterious build-up in the veins of Stay+/Christian Aids (just like "Venus Breath" below): distant, reverbed vocals and partly programmed, partly physically recorded beats — varying from what sounds like a stick being beaten against the wall of a cellar door to fingers snapping to a beat in a large room. Nonetheless, the result is beautiful.
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According to Dummy, what you see below could be the first jams surfacing from James Ferraro's new project Bebe Tunes. Not sure if I find the presented evidence conclusive in and of itself, but musically it sure fits Ferraro's recent turn towards glossy iPad pop, plus our dear Londoners might have additional, undisclosed information. In any case this is dope:
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PEPSI Baby:
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Amiina meets The Antlers' Peter Silberman meets Explosions in the Sky... in a fairytale centered in the deep, mysterious woods. Indeed, Brighton's Autumn Chorus might be the best bandcamp discover I've stumbled upon in quite a long time, recently given the heads up by Trespassers William' Anna-Lynne Williams, whose eternal vocals in fact are featured on the fifth track "Brightening Sky" on their recent debut The Village To The Vale. The 52 minutes long album (which also contains a track spinning for 16 whole minutes) is much like a folk-esque story, bringing us on a journey back in time with both fragile and grand compositions; sometimes evoking feelings of sadness and loss, but also a will of strength when the album's many mindblowing climaxes kicks into your fine ears. Seriously though, you'll love this.
Buy the album from bandcamp.
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Continuing to kill it these days, Minneapolis imprint Moon Glyph has dropped a massive split single (as massive as 7 inches can get, actually) between kosmische head bangers Food Pyramid and likeminded Chicago-based psych and kraut explorers Deep Earth, both already deservedlylauded on our pages.
Below, listen to Deep Earth's side of the cake, a heavy, pretty straightforwardly sprawling synth chunk, hot and spicy yet surprisingly easy to digest, to a degree that I'm almost inclined to call it pop - which is, as we all know, never a bad thing.
The Kollider / Kontraband 7 inch is now out on Moon Glyph. Order it here.
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Prepare to get some serious goosebumps after listening to the ridiculously beautiful live recording of Casa Murilo's "Yellow Umbrellas", taken from their debut album Liting Ships which dropped on Spoon Train Records earlier this year. The Oslo based English/Norwegian six-piece brought their friends in Draup along, and combined with the eternal sound from the girls' glass harmonica, the result is rather astounding. Have a listen below.
Original:
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Splendid new 80's synth love from the suburbs of Tokyo brought to us by the Japanese experimental label 
