15 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann
The year 2010 just keeps on pleasing me with completely unanticipated pieces of the most amazing music. This time, it's California slacker Anthony Boruch aka
Swanox who's made my day with his terrific
Dawnrunner, a cassette just short of the forty minute mark that is a splendid take on slowly meandering, noise infused psychedelia, a night ride to dark yet appealing places. Britt Brown has dubbed this "loner drone-folk", and this just about nails it. Recorded at his San Francisco home on a
Fostex X-12 over a period of roughly eight months until this May before getting the thing mixed down in LA,
Dawnrunner is an amazingly tight and coherent effort both musically and atmospherically, hypnagogic yet with a personal and unique interpretation of the term. The tape is available now via
Not Not Fun at an edition of 100, and believe me you do want this.
Swanox - DawnrunnerSwanox - Ripley StationSwanox - Cross the Water
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14 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Josef of Austin's
Lay Bac put a new tune up last night:
"It's about a girl I had a feeling for a while ago but I wrongly analyzed the signals." No worries dude, happened to all of us. If all bitter sorrows sounded as easy and lush as this beautiful little gem. But that's why you're the artist, after all.
Lay Bac - Hopen
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13 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann
The Oakland, California three-piece
Beep! is a side project of the mighty and well-known
tUnE-yArDs, and the pretty heavily jazz-infused percussion-dominated banger
Wolf Pantolones is the first teaser of the band's forthcoming album
City of the Future, due later this year. Season of joy, folks.
Beep! - Wolf Pantolones
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13 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Some Washington, DC fella apparently blessed with the very German name Fritz has just sent me a mail to draw my attention to his little bedroom pop project
Long Walks On The Beach, and the tune he'd attached immediately made me forget about a way too long day at the library -
metaPhysical is a wonderful little pop gem, simply structured but with an absolutely irresistible melody and a rhythm that will keep your head banging in joy. And euphoric as I am right now, I've also attached another, equally compelling song I've just found over at the dude's
bandcamp.
Long Walks On The Beach - metaPhysicalLong Walks On The Beach - TRUE LOVE or bust
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13 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Brooklyn haunted folk experimentalist Kayla Cohen aka
Sultan has a new cassette tape release via our dearest friends over at
The Curatorial Club. Actually,
The Moon isn't that new, as Cohen had already finished the slowly enchanting gems in March and given them out to friends. In any case, though recorded in springtime, this is perfect autumn music, splendidly capturing the magic of falling leaves and a golden, mild October sun. Below, listen to one of the tape's sweeping and expansive tracks,
Sun Setting, Slow Walk, which serves as a gentle introduction into Sultan's beautiful music that is all about entrancing excursions into the darker shades of folk. You can listen
The Moon in full over at Cohen's
bandcamp. Also, you shouldn't miss
There Goes My Girl, which is not part of the cassette but of
Blackburn Recordings' wonderful and recommended
Various Deficiencies Vol. 1, available for free
over here.
Sultan - Sun Setting, Slow WalkSultan - There Goes My Girl
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13 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen
Seas-Of-Green is a five-piece from Leeds, UK, making quirky indie/experimental music with such elegance I literally jaw-dropped when I heard that the band is basically made up by 15 (!) years olds. With a sound that can be compared to the likes of Sufjy, Anathallo and (a slightly more experimental sounding) Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, Seas-Of-Green is love at first listen. Go grab their four so far released EP-s for free at
bandcamp.
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12 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann
This summer, Birmingham native James Welch spent a couple of months living and working in Berlin. While he apparently never felt like overcoming the status of a mere tourist (this city is known for that indeed), the town must have made some serious impression on him. At any rate, its atmosphere, the outdoor living of the city in the summer, was Welch's inspiration for a new EP under his moniker
Seams, aptly titled, well,
Tourist. Each track based on field recordings made with a tape recorder or his phone, he says he attempted "to recreate the feeling of being" in Berlin.
Hung Markets is the first EP track made available, a stunning and brilliant piece of electronica that indeed goes well with walking through this city's streets (I've done some field research on that). The whole EP will be released via
Pictures Music in roughly a month,and be sure to visit Seams'
bandcamp for more of his recent stuff.
Seams - Hung Markets
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