We were honestly quite excited when we finally received the long-awaited mail about the new EP release from Chrome Sparks' Jeremy Malvin, the brain behind that ridiculously catchy single Basement Tapes last year. Except from dropping remixes for Blackbird Blackbird and Time Wharp, it seems to be a while since we last heard from this Michigan based tunemaker, whom is seemingly going more towards the glitchy synthpop genre than ever. Also, a little silly note: am I the only one who think he's singing 'I'll show you Norway'? Nonetheless, download the whole EP for free over at his bandcamp.
Just stumbled across No Pain In Pop's Soundcloud (via Friendship Bracelet's kind heads-up) and found this brand new remix of Forest Swords' Trust Your Blood, assembled by no one else but our favorite Parisian psych wizard, Not Not Fun's very own Sebastien Forrester aka Holy Strays, who's on a heavy jazz trip on this one. Simply incredible.
Forest Swords' Fjree Feather 12 inch is still available over here. The sick, highly recommended Holy Strays 7 inch Enlightenment can be ordered directly via NNF. Refresh your excitement by listening to the b-side Phrenesiahere.
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Another fuzz pop gem by our dearest London slacker Alex Shields aka A Grave With No Name, this time less devastating than before and instead adding some nice uptempo vibes to his oeuvre, another very 90s backlash that instantly leaves us time-traveling to the hazy summers of our earliest youth.
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Pretty stoked right now by the "fractured pop songs from a parallel or hovering perspective", in the words of Portland, Oregon resident Apache Jackson. Sleazy late night, deep and dark, 80s dripping extravaganza exemplified in Hotline Getaway, the opening jam of Jackson's debut EP Soul Damage, available now via bandcamp. A second EP with "aggressive and sexy saxophone solos" will follow pretty soon, and a full-length is scheduled for this fall. Stay tuned.
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Orlando, Florida shoegaze/dream pop duo The Band in Heaven returns with two fresh gems, and it's a delight for us to see that the two have moved forward a few years, now being on a heavily mid to late-90s, densely psychedelia-infused trip (complete with sitar) that brings to mind later Oasis antics (only slightly more slowed-down and with less ragged working class euphoria), who of course have always been, as we all know, on a serious backward-leaning nostalgia trip themselves - which leaves us here with a retro late 60s/early 70s-inspired piece from 2011 viewed through a 1997 lense. Cheer up, Mr Reynolds!
If You Only Knew is taken from the outfit's forthcoming cassette Seven Minutes In Heaven on NorseKorea Tapes which may be streamed over at bandcamp and is up for pre-order now over here.
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Dracula Horse CEO Brandon Ian Biondo kindly told me that he'd have to kill me if he gave me more information about this mysterious project named Horquillas that he posted on his label's tumblr last week, but the video for What Will I Say Then suggests they're up to no good. In any case, the outfit's latest tune Yo My Life Away is by far this year's dopest slacker hymn, so whatever this might be exactly (apparently there's gonna be a whole album by the end of this week) they totally got me already.
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Mexico resident and NFOP favourite DannielRadall once again proves his magic with this blissed 80-s synthpop remix of Jef Barbara's Cocaine Love, taken off his debut album Contamination back in February. The split EP will be released on July 21 via our friends at AMDISCS.
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Just stumbled across No Pain In Pop's Soundcloud (via Friendship Bracelet's kind heads-up) and found this brand new remix of Forest Swords' Trust Your Blood, assembled by no one else but our favorite Parisian psych wizard, Not Not Fun's very own Sebastien Forrester aka Holy Strays, who's on a heavy jazz trip on this one. Simply incredible.
Forest Swords' Fjree Feather 12 inch is still available over here. The sick, highly recommended Holy Strays 7 inch Enlightenment can be ordered directly via NNF. Refresh your excitement by listening to the b-side Phrenesia here.
Forest Swords - Trust Your Blood (Holy Strays Reprise)
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