Northern summer vibes.
10 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
All the way from lovely Copenhagen, Aske and Zacharias of Age Of Giants bless us with two tunes of purest summer blissfulness, Scandinavian pop glory that'll make you wish you could just submerge into these cool waves of melody and get lost in that warm and lazy breeze of a rhythm.
Age Of Giants are now a five piece and busily working on their first EP that will hopefully come out soon.
Age Of Giants - Island Blues
Age Of Giants - Dreamy Nights
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All the way from lovely Copenhagen, Aske and Zacharias of Age Of Giants bless us with two tunes of purest summer blissfulness, Scandinavian pop glory that'll make you wish you could just submerge into these cool waves of melody and get lost in that warm and lazy breeze of a rhythm.
Age Of Giants are now a five piece and busily working on their first EP that will hopefully come out soon.
Age Of Giants - Island Blues
Age Of Giants - Dreamy Nights
Down To Provence Mix.
05 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
http://8tracks.com/mixes/140754/player_v2
NFOP is heading down to France for the weekend and will be back on Tuesday. Until then, I hope you enjoy the little mix I've compiled today. Listen to it above. All tracks are available for download as well.
1. Top Girls - Can't Stop
2. Guerre - Dress You Down
3. Teen Daze - Driving Home from the Beach (The Feeling of)
4. Danniel Radall - Alone Again
5. Neon Canyon - Fleties
6. Teenage Reverb - Double Exposure
7. Fanzine - Beetle Song
8. Lee Noble - Valley View
9. Coma Cinema - Greater Vultures
10. Porcelain Raft - Dragonfly
11. We Are Trees - Sunrise Sunset
12. Lord Huron - We Went Wild
13. Old Arc - Home
14. Yellow Ostrich - In The Past I Was An Astronaut
15. Holy Spirits - White Walls
16. Ghost Animal - Funeral Dreams (A Ghost)
17. Quiet Lights - We Live In Balloons
18. Mon Insomnie - River
19. Pandit - Feelin' Good Again (Robert Earl Keen)
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http://8tracks.com/mixes/140754/player_v2
NFOP is heading down to France for the weekend and will be back on Tuesday. Until then, I hope you enjoy the little mix I've compiled today. Listen to it above. All tracks are available for download as well.
1. Top Girls - Can't Stop
2. Guerre - Dress You Down
3. Teen Daze - Driving Home from the Beach (The Feeling of)
4. Danniel Radall - Alone Again
5. Neon Canyon - Fleties
6. Teenage Reverb - Double Exposure
7. Fanzine - Beetle Song
8. Lee Noble - Valley View
9. Coma Cinema - Greater Vultures
10. Porcelain Raft - Dragonfly
11. We Are Trees - Sunrise Sunset
12. Lord Huron - We Went Wild
13. Old Arc - Home
14. Yellow Ostrich - In The Past I Was An Astronaut
15. Holy Spirits - White Walls
16. Ghost Animal - Funeral Dreams (A Ghost)
17. Quiet Lights - We Live In Balloons
18. Mon Insomnie - River
19. Pandit - Feelin' Good Again (Robert Earl Keen)
Out of Cleveland’s garages.
05 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
(c) Jackie Bon
Martin Brass from Cleveland, Ohio started Ethiopians as a mere side project, but after being joined by his college friend Paul, the whole thing seems to become more serious now, and that's obviously a good thing as it means that we can expect further hazy and fuzzy garage gems in the future. For now, listen to the three raw diamonds below (recorded by Brass alone), reverb-heavy lo-fi splendor in the best sense of the term.
Up until now, Ethiopians have released two cassettes on Tye Die Tapes, one sold out split with bhurgeist and his eight track debut Beautiful Marmalade.
Ethiopians - Surrogate (Demo)
Ethiopians - Just Relax
Ethiopians - Dirty Glue
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(c) Jackie Bon
Martin Brass from Cleveland, Ohio started Ethiopians as a mere side project, but after being joined by his college friend Paul, the whole thing seems to become more serious now, and that's obviously a good thing as it means that we can expect further hazy and fuzzy garage gems in the future. For now, listen to the three raw diamonds below (recorded by Brass alone), reverb-heavy lo-fi splendor in the best sense of the term.
Up until now, Ethiopians have released two cassettes on Tye Die Tapes, one sold out split with bhurgeist and his eight track debut Beautiful Marmalade.
Ethiopians - Surrogate (Demo)
Ethiopians - Just Relax
Ethiopians - Dirty Glue
New version: Wolf Pyramid.
05 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Brooklyn rising newcomers Night Manager's (who we had on these insignificant pages roughly one month ago) drummer Ezana Edwards just sent over the band's most fabulous track to date, Wolf Pyramid, which has already been featured on Altered Zones a few days ago but which is now available here in a slightly different, a little more polished version with an altered mix mainly for the vocal and guitar tracks. In any case, the one thing that has not changed is the fact that Night Manager effortlessly continue to amaze us, Wolf Pyramid is another straightforward and powerful fuzzy garage tune that simply fulfills every criteria we've ever set regarding the perfect pop song.
Night Manager - Wolf Pyramid
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Brooklyn rising newcomers Night Manager's (who we had on these insignificant pages roughly one month ago) drummer Ezana Edwards just sent over the band's most fabulous track to date, Wolf Pyramid, which has already been featured on Altered Zones a few days ago but which is now available here in a slightly different, a little more polished version with an altered mix mainly for the vocal and guitar tracks. In any case, the one thing that has not changed is the fact that Night Manager effortlessly continue to amaze us, Wolf Pyramid is another straightforward and powerful fuzzy garage tune that simply fulfills every criteria we've ever set regarding the perfect pop song.
Night Manager - Wolf Pyramid
Dragonfly.
04 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Our favourite London dream pop artist Porcelain Raft has just dropped his latest gem Dragonfly along with this expectedly amazing video, and this tune is his Tony Bennett impersonation according to his website. Now while we're not entirely sure about the deeper meaning of this, we just leave it like that and confine ourselves to stating that Dragonfly is just another brilliant pop song with a melody that will just stick in your head all day, made for dreaming, drifting away, and ultimately, crying.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRIStmFw11o]
Porcelain Raft - Dragonfly
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Our favourite London dream pop artist Porcelain Raft has just dropped his latest gem Dragonfly along with this expectedly amazing video, and this tune is his Tony Bennett impersonation according to his website. Now while we're not entirely sure about the deeper meaning of this, we just leave it like that and confine ourselves to stating that Dragonfly is just another brilliant pop song with a melody that will just stick in your head all day, made for dreaming, drifting away, and ultimately, crying.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRIStmFw11o]
Porcelain Raft - Dragonfly
Introducing: Former Selves
04 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Sure, I do know what you wanna say now. You see the picture above. The video still below. And then you see the the songs' titles. And yes, you're so right, we are dealing with another lo-fi beach/surf pop artist here. So is there any need for posting this?
Well, let me put it this way: It's still summer (apologies to you people from the Southern Hemisphere, I am aware of you), and good music does not get worse just because we've had artists of the same strand before. Admittedly, the three tunes below do remind us of some stuff we've heard this year (the beginning of Endless Bummer in particular is heavily reminiscent of the Beach Fossils for instance), but somehow Berkeley's Paul Skomsvold aka Former Selves achieves to create something unique nonetheless. Where his more famous contemporaries simply celebrate the joys of life or at least show sincere longing for the easy days of childhood summers, there's something subtly dark and twisty about Skomsvold's output that won't easily fit into that common scheme (the artist himself refers to his music as "ghost-fi"), as if he knew that even lush beach parties know that certain guy who will just be ignored by the cool bunch. This considered, Why Not Chill Out? could actually be more than a mere rhetorical question. We won't, cause there's more to life, even in the summertime.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13637690&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0
Former Selves - Why Not Chill Out?
Former Selves - Life'z a Beach
Former Selves - Endlezz Bummer
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Sure, I do know what you wanna say now. You see the picture above. The video still below. And then you see the the songs' titles. And yes, you're so right, we are dealing with another lo-fi beach/surf pop artist here. So is there any need for posting this?
Well, let me put it this way: It's still summer (apologies to you people from the Southern Hemisphere, I am aware of you), and good music does not get worse just because we've had artists of the same strand before. Admittedly, the three tunes below do remind us of some stuff we've heard this year (the beginning of Endless Bummer in particular is heavily reminiscent of the Beach Fossils for instance), but somehow Berkeley's Paul Skomsvold aka Former Selves achieves to create something unique nonetheless. Where his more famous contemporaries simply celebrate the joys of life or at least show sincere longing for the easy days of childhood summers, there's something subtly dark and twisty about Skomsvold's output that won't easily fit into that common scheme (the artist himself refers to his music as "ghost-fi"), as if he knew that even lush beach parties know that certain guy who will just be ignored by the cool bunch. This considered, Why Not Chill Out? could actually be more than a mere rhetorical question. We won't, cause there's more to life, even in the summertime.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13637690&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0
Former Selves - Why Not Chill Out?
Former Selves - Life'z a Beach
Former Selves - Endlezz Bummer
Hope you’re ok.
04 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Love from the other end of this planet. Zach Webber aka Paper Ghost is hailing from Wellington, New Zealand, and his intimate and calm chamber pop is so hauntingly beautiful yet at the same time unsettling you might want to call your loved ones after listening to check if everything's alright. After all, the world is full of incertitudes, and Paper Ghost's music is a reminder of just that.
Very soon, we'll have the chance to hear more of Webber's sample-heavy and harmony-driven music, as his first full length The Teledermatologist Handbook is gonna be released in a couple of weeks.
Paper Ghost - An Endless Nest Of Scaffold
Paper Ghost - Did They Show You The World
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Love from the other end of this planet. Zach Webber aka Paper Ghost is hailing from Wellington, New Zealand, and his intimate and calm chamber pop is so hauntingly beautiful yet at the same time unsettling you might want to call your loved ones after listening to check if everything's alright. After all, the world is full of incertitudes, and Paper Ghost's music is a reminder of just that.
Very soon, we'll have the chance to hear more of Webber's sample-heavy and harmony-driven music, as his first full length The Teledermatologist Handbook is gonna be released in a couple of weeks.
Paper Ghost - An Endless Nest Of Scaffold
Paper Ghost - Did They Show You The World