Seriously delightful synth tropicalia here by Baltimore group Ponytail's guitarist Ken Seeno, slow burning séances that indeed evoke images of sunshine and quality time at the beach watching (invisible) surfers, with a lot of chirping and bleeping probably emerging out of the nearby jungle. The whole splendid C-31 tape is now up for ordering on our beloved NNA Tapes.
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My favorite song from one of my favorite releases this year so far, Raw Thrills' Both Ways from his amazing full-length Shakedown, has finally been blessed with a no less wonderful video. Enjoy this piece by Natalie Rodgers, and then make sure to grab the whole LP over at Tokyo's Sixteen Tambourines.
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Seeing the desert flickering in all colors of the rainbow right now after listening to the blissful psych pop of Salt Lake City outfit Seven Feathers Rainwater. Their LP 15 Apple Magicians has just been released by Moondial Records, and it's stuffed with beautiful, ethereal vocals over splendid loops and synth patterns, sometimes a little reminding of early day Yeasayer (you know, when they were still exciting). The whole album sounds very well crafted and delightfully coherent, and if you don't want to buy the vinyl you can also get the thing on their bandcamp.
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I don't really know what to do with this, but this strangely intriguing, twisted little pop jam has been sticking in my head for two days now, so I'll leave it to you to decide if this is just weird crap or outright genius. Here's what we know: Rollin Hunt is some dude from Chicago who has been making lo-fi tape music all his life, and apparently he's got quite a few serious worshipers, as some devoted folks from Canada made a tribute album for him in 2008. Well, ok. Chicago's own Moniker Records is about to drop a new 7 inch by this enigma which seems to be the first regular release in years, and I can't help but thinking that it actually might come right on time. March 29 is the date, a full-length on the same label is expected for later this year.
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Brooklyn's fine Blackburn Recordings recently released the self-titled full-length by this borough's sweetest noise pop group Sweet Bulbs, and here's another brilliant track fresh from the release for your ears to make sure you don't miss this piece that is deemed to become one of this year's finest in the still rising sub-genre of honest Black Tambourine devotees. Purest pop goodness drenched in a fog of thick guitar layers and heavily reverberated textures, Sweet Bulb's music is dark yet never too far away from the bright side, just like every true shoegaze ever was.
And if you need further arguments, be sure to head over to our beloved Pelly Twins who premiered the rough but wonderful Dilated Sleep yesterday. Also, ask them if you need more tracks and further insight.
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We had to wait an awfully long time for their latest LP Human Culture to finally be released, but now that it's out, new gems of our favorite Vancouver band Terror Bird keep on dropping on an almost weekly basis. After their amazing Outside single on NightSchool Records, another London boutique label is about to put out an EP with some as yet unheard Terror Bird songs: Waiting for Nothing will be released by Verulamium Records on March 7, and below you can take an exclusive first listen to the title track as well as to the second a-side song, the particularly marvelous She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill), in fact one of the most dazzling tunes by Nikki Never and her pals that I've come across so far.
Pre-order the four track EP on brown 7 inch vinyl here. Limited to 500.
Also, Terror Bird are on an extensive tour all over Europe at the moment. Some of the dates are listed below:
02-13 Rome - DalVerme
02-21 Hamburg - Rote Flora
02-26 Berlin Mitte - Levee (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-07 Paris - L'international (w/ Ela Orleans & Holy Strays)
03-08 London - Cargo (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-10 Manchester - The Deaf Institute
03-11 Glasgow - 13th Note (w/ Golden Grrrls)
03-17 Hamburg - tba.
03-25 Berlin Kreuzberg - Madame Claude
03-26 Cologne - King Georg
For more dates, check their myspace and/or last.fm. Probably subject to change.
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Following the glitchy electronic genius Seams' wonderful Tourist EP back in September last year, the darlings at Pictures Music finally bless us with yet another electronic release: Chairman Kato's Wildfire EP, due February 14th - better known as Valentines day, for those of you who may celebrate that tradition. However, if you expect to find some cute and bubbly indie pop love on this one, you're wrong. The production set up of the London based Chairman Kato may vary, "depending on what mood I’m in" as he says himself. He tweaks, turns and reshapes sounds on his analogue equipment until that rather interesting crunchy electronic landscape appears, of which he often rams through an old tape recorder to get that particular noisy, blown-out feel – a deep and uncensored sound you can place somewhere between abstract hip-hop and dub. Totally gonna grab a bottle and listen to this while everyone else are hanging out with their dear ones on Valentines. (forever alone)
Stream a track from the EP below, or grab the whole thing for $5 via Pictures Music here. Also, don't forget to stay tuned for their Koreless release in March, it's probably going to be just as amazing.
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Here's the brand new "Codeine Rebuild" of Stay Out Tonight, Lay Bac's terrific tropical floor filler from last summer, and Austin, Texas fellow Matthew Shogi aka Party Girl has turned the already quite sleazy original into an outright instrument of seduction, with all its heavy clipping, drowned vocals and slow burning, juicy bass line letting it sound like some five a.m. extravaganza you most likely don't wanna be reminded of the next day.
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Seriously delightful synth tropicalia here by Baltimore group Ponytail's guitarist Ken Seeno, slow burning séances that indeed evoke images of sunshine and quality time at the beach watching (invisible) surfers, with a lot of chirping and bleeping probably emerging out of the nearby jungle. The whole splendid C-31 tape is now up for ordering on our beloved NNA Tapes.
Read more →
Seeing the desert flickering in all colors of the rainbow right now after listening to the blissful psych pop of Salt Lake City outfit Seven Feathers Rainwater. Their LP 15 Apple Magicians has just been released by Moondial Records, and it's stuffed with beautiful, ethereal vocals over splendid loops and synth patterns, sometimes a little reminding of early day Yeasayer (you know, when they were still exciting). The whole album sounds very well crafted and delightfully coherent, and if you don't want to buy the vinyl you can also get the thing on their bandcamp.
Seven Feathers Rainwater - Time Of Year
Read more →
I don't really know what to do with this, but this strangely intriguing, twisted little pop jam has been sticking in my head for two days now, so I'll leave it to you to decide if this is just weird crap or outright genius. Here's what we know: Rollin Hunt is some dude from Chicago who has been making lo-fi tape music all his life, and apparently he's got quite a few serious worshipers, as some devoted folks from Canada made a tribute album for him in 2008. Well, ok. Chicago's own Moniker Records is about to drop a new 7 inch by this enigma which seems to be the first regular release in years, and I can't help but thinking that it actually might come right on time. March 29 is the date, a full-length on the same label is expected for later this year.
Rollin Hunt - Criminal
Read more →
Brooklyn's fine Blackburn Recordings recently released the self-titled full-length by this borough's sweetest noise pop group Sweet Bulbs, and here's another brilliant track fresh from the release for your ears to make sure you don't miss this piece that is deemed to become one of this year's finest in the still rising sub-genre of honest Black Tambourine devotees. Purest pop goodness drenched in a fog of thick guitar layers and heavily reverberated textures, Sweet Bulb's music is dark yet never too far away from the bright side, just like every true shoegaze ever was.
And if you need further arguments, be sure to head over to our beloved Pelly Twins who premiered the rough but wonderful Dilated Sleep yesterday. Also, ask them if you need more tracks and further insight.
Sweet Bulbs - Fell In A Cave
Read more →
We had to wait an awfully long time for their latest LP Human Culture to finally be released, but now that it's out, new gems of our favorite Vancouver band Terror Bird keep on dropping on an almost weekly basis. After their amazing Outside single on NightSchool Records, another London boutique label is about to put out an EP with some as yet unheard Terror Bird songs: Waiting for Nothing will be released by Verulamium Records on March 7, and below you can take an exclusive first listen to the title track as well as to the second a-side song, the particularly marvelous She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill), in fact one of the most dazzling tunes by Nikki Never and her pals that I've come across so far.
Pre-order the four track EP on brown 7 inch vinyl here. Limited to 500.
Also, Terror Bird are on an extensive tour all over Europe at the moment. Some of the dates are listed below:
02-13 Rome - DalVerme
02-21 Hamburg - Rote Flora
02-26 Berlin Mitte - Levee (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-07 Paris - L'international (w/ Ela Orleans & Holy Strays)
03-08 London - Cargo (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-10 Manchester - The Deaf Institute
03-11 Glasgow - 13th Note (w/ Golden Grrrls)
03-17 Hamburg - tba.
03-25 Berlin Kreuzberg - Madame Claude
03-26 Cologne - King Georg
For more dates, check their myspace and/or last.fm. Probably subject to change.
Terror Bird - Waiting for Nothing
Terror Bird - She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill)
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Following the glitchy electronic genius Seams' wonderful Tourist EP back in September last year, the darlings at Pictures Music finally bless us with yet another electronic release: Chairman Kato's Wildfire EP, due February 14th - better known as Valentines day, for those of you who may celebrate that tradition. However, if you expect to find some cute and bubbly indie pop love on this one, you're wrong. The production set up of the London based Chairman Kato may vary, "depending on what mood I’m in" as he says himself. He tweaks, turns and reshapes sounds on his analogue equipment until that rather interesting crunchy electronic landscape appears, of which he often rams through an old tape recorder to get that particular noisy, blown-out feel – a deep and uncensored sound you can place somewhere between abstract hip-hop and dub. Totally gonna grab a bottle and listen to this while everyone else are hanging out with their dear ones on Valentines. (forever alone)
Stream a track from the EP below, or grab the whole thing for $5 via Pictures Music here. Also, don't forget to stay tuned for their Koreless release in March, it's probably going to be just as amazing.
Read more →
Here's the brand new "Codeine Rebuild" of Stay Out Tonight, Lay Bac's terrific tropical floor filler from last summer, and Austin, Texas fellow Matthew Shogi aka Party Girl has turned the already quite sleazy original into an outright instrument of seduction, with all its heavy clipping, drowned vocals and slow burning, juicy bass line letting it sound like some five a.m. extravaganza you most likely don't wanna be reminded of the next day.
Lay Bac - Stay Out Tonight (Party Girl's Codeine Rebuild)
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