Hew is the new collaborative project between Rachel Evans aka Motion Sickness Of Time Travel and Nevada City, California-based visual artist Juli Toro (who not only did the artwork on the left but also the cover art for MSOTT's self-titled LP on Spectrum Spools earlier this year). The two have just readied their first cassette named Domoboi, a four-track effort that's not too far away from Evans' ambient-leaning solo ventures. We're happy to premiere the video for one of the tracks off the tape, "In the Center of a Room", made by Rachel Evans herself. As usual with her work, sound and vision align perfectly, the restrained pictures creating a dense, absorbing atmosphere for the track's slowly meandering, careful synth patterns.
Stockholm-based trio Postiljonen, it becomes more and more obvious, not only are immensely talented musicians in the best of Swedish pop traditions (we might have mentioned that before), but they seem to be marketing geniuses as well. While there still is no word about any official release (or have we missed something?), single tracks are unveiled every other month, casually announced a day or two before via social media and usually accompanied by a professionally shot, blue-eyed video that is enough to create a remarkable hype, as it leaves us dreaming about the northern countries and how much more easy and above all how stylish life must be. Case in point is the group's latest coup "How Will I Know / All That We Had Is Lost", another picture-perfect dream pop single somewhere between Balearic summer vibes and wintry Scandinavian cosiness - as if there was a difference. Oh, and the video features young and pretty Swedish people in beautiful surroundings. Of course.
As we've implied before, Chris is right to call London/Brighton outfit Fear of Men one of the most exciting new bands in 2012. The band's latest single "Mosaic" once again combines Jess's sweet and enchanting voice with some of the most honest, pure and gifted indie pop we've come across in the last years. Get the 7" over here, and watch the aptly gloomy video below.
Delicate Atlanta synth pop duo Featureless Ghost have finally readied their much-anticipated proper debut LP. Personality Matrix is set to feature your recommended daily amount of outré synthesizer musings that are much more refined and sophisticated than your average dosis of retromaniac Mausian weirdo derivatives. Just like before, it's especially the candid male/female vocal juxtaposition that sets the record apart from most of its contemporaries. Watch the video for leadoff single "Flash" below, made by Fantastic Lands using footage from a passage from Chicago to Detroit shot during the duo's spring tour.
Personality Matrix is out tomorrow, November 6, via Night-People.
Having had our hands full with the relaunch of NFOP, Video Sunday has suffered a short break, but we're back again to give you our very favourite videos from the past week or so. Today's edition features excellent visuals from Young Magic, Pale, Wild Nothing, Desire, Steve Hauschildt and Arca.
Pale - Too Much
Young Magic - You With Air (directed by Sam Henry)
Wild Nothing - Paradise (directed by Matt Amato)
Desire - Tears From Heaven (directed by Albert Rossini)
Steve Hauschildt - Interconnected (directed by Sabrina Ratté)
Ceremony Recordings' excellent Malmö resident Bam Spacey returns with some mesmerizing visuals for the even better space-pop jam "Dessa Bränder", taken from his debut EP Land, released back in June.
Just in case you're not planning on hitting up Kyle Hall at Horst Krzbrg or Hudson Mohawke & Young Montana at Gretchen or the third Not ≠ Equal showcase at Berghain tonight in Berlin, well, you definitely want to pay the amazing Drop Dead Festival a visit (as we previously recommended), where our favourite Irish dance pop/cold wave duo Low Sea happen to make a presence. In anticipation of what to expect for tonight's show, we've got a hold of their brand new video for "Remote Viewing", a strangely enslaving dance jam which will surely get your post-Halloween mood back on.
Formerly Minneapolis, now Oakland-based imprint Moon Glyph, responsible for so many favourites on the shelves of the NFOP office, has unveiled a new compilation to showcase the label's stunning 2012 roster. The two-part selection, which is available for free download on the MG website, is entitled Opal Vol.I & II and features 26 fresh tracks by many artists that our readers will be familiar with, including The New Lines, Velvet Davenport, The Garment District, Deep Earth, Food Pyramid, Deep Magic, M. Sage, Meadowlands, and Future Shuttle. A lot of incredible stuff to discover, so head over here and get your copy.
Below, watch the video accompanying "Everybody Dies", the compilation appearance by our favourite Scandinavian psych poppers Halasan Bazar.
