New EP from Time Wharp from the hard to fail Astro Nautico label. After his self released GRN EP, Time Wharp returns with the BLK EP and his sophisticated space of electronic sounds. Check out the warm, post dubstep like haunted beats of the gorgeous ”mdat” featuring Divine Interface and make sure go to Astro Nautico’s bandcamp page to download the full BLK EP.
A darker, more sensual and kind of suffocated (that’s good!) take on Emika’s ”3 Hours” by my favorite Italian girl Mushy. This rework brings on the surface all these uncomfortable emotions that were painted in black via a dark electronic consequense of sound, ideal for a midnight to daybreak home listening! Listen it below and get ready for Mushy’s next full length sometime during the next months!!!
Remember these words. 2012 will be the year that fellow grecian, now based in Milan, producer Larry Gus is going to be…. HUGE. First came his remix to Yacht’s ”I Walked Alone” on DFA, then his mini album ”24 Beats” gets a free digital release through Waaga Records and now it’s time for the truly wonderful song (and personal favorite!) ”Her Arm Held High” which is available for free download at Melodics Records ”Hearing Aid Vol.2” compilation. And that’s just the beginning! Listen to this sunny, Koushik inspired flower pop going hypno-disco and… there it is. You’ve just experienced the highlight of your day!!!
”Hearing Aid Vol.2” compilation is available for free download via Melodic Records soundcloud page.
Loved this crunchy, dirty tune from Base Ventura. ”River” carries this raw Joy Division-esque sound played in a lo-fi, garage speed and manages to bring out all this sweat that you only get from a live which took place in a dirty, sealed basement! And it’s this dark, rough voice of his that awakens memories of the past you that you’ve forgotten there were there!!! After all, he hails from Manchester, UK.
Check out the black & white vid for the ex-model turned singer Hannah Cohen’s sadcore pop manifest ”The Crying Game” from her forthcoming Bella Union debut”Child Bride” out spring 2012. I missed it last year when it first came out but after all it’s never too late. This vid suits the sadness of this song sooooo well!!!
Apart from her atomic sonic explorations, Mia Voltag has another project going on. The Last Humans On Earth evolves her and the mysterious Alfa Kay wondering in the paths of electronic synth pop. In the wonderful ”This Love Kills Me 2”, which is uploaded on Venus Recordings soundcloud page along with 2 other tracks of theirs, Mia’s vocals are sleepwalking through a dark and long, minimal corridor in a Stereolab-esque universe letting the haunting piano notes to set the mood. And what mood it is, like walking in a grotesque alley in an adult fairytale!!!
More songs from The Last Humans On Earth are available for streaming at Venus Recordings page.
We’ve talked before about this Grecian guy who goes by the name Monday Night Fever. Well yesterday he returned with a brand new track, the charming cinemascope of ”Yellow Dots Under The Leaky Sun”. This time he creates these powerful technicolor sounds, drawing ideas from classic hollywood soundtracks with the imaginative use of these captivating, Henry Mancini like horns leading the way to a colourful road trip. Creepy romantic and indescribably nostalgic!
Date Rape just revealed a new track called ”Die Perfect”. If you think that the witch house sound belongs to the past, think again! Date Rape is probably the best band in this genre right now, always pushing the boundaries and creating a claustrophobic atmosphere drowned in it’s unmistaken melodism of emotions. ”Die Perfect” is the perfect soundtrack to a sweet nightmare. The one that you want to wake up but still begging to see what will happen, continuously hitting you with it’s blurred production and the ghostly vocals from the beyond!!! Probably, their best track so far!!!! Make sure to check it out….
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What a beautiful album…..
Stumbling upon an album as good as this duo’s debut LP is not the kind of luck that happens every day. Eric Hillman and Brian Holl’s music has the depth of a deep green lake, one you watch through the seasons; from summer swimming to frozen white. The richness here is full and deep, and you should find a good long book and a quiet corner and listen to the entirety of this record over and over with headphones and a pot of hot tea.
Get the Anywhere But Where I Am LP - “recorded in an abandoned office building in the dead of Wisconsin winter and our home studio in Nashville’s sweltering summer” - for a donation on their Bndcmp.
The king of freak folk is back! Ilyas Ahmed has a new LP/cassette coming out tomorrow called ”With Endless Fire”. Below you can hear the rockier side of Ilyas Ahmed on the psychedelic weirdo of ”Stained Sky”.
You can order your LP or cassette copy at Immune recordings.
It’s nice when you follow people who they recommend new artists. You come to hear good music that otherwise you would have surely missed. So, i would have to thank Pye Corner Audio for introducing us Vintage Rockers. These guys have just posted this wonderful three track EP, simply called ”Rockers Vol. 1”, at their bandcamp page, unleashing in a way their psych/surf/garage fury of editing. I don’t have the small idea what are the original songs that they’ve choosed to sample but tracks like ”Dodgem” makes you want to get up and start chasing this satanic, rocking dirty groove that they so easily create.
Make sure to visit Vintage Rocker’s site for future releases.
First release from Songs Of Green Pheasant since 2007. After three releases on Fat Cat records, Duncan Sumpner returns with another narcoleptic dream folk album on Rusted Rail. To be honest i was a bit surprised when i first read that he had a new album coming out, though ”Gyllyng Street” was one of my favorite releases in 2007. ”Soft Wounds” has everything i loved in Songs Of Green Pheasant records. Jazzy horns, freak folk interludes and psych folk melodies shuffled with AM radio pop tunes, all perfectly matched together like a midnight summer dream. Listen below the standout, nine minute long ”Flesheaters” and visit Rusted Rail’s site to order the ”Soft Wounds” cd.
There are little informations you can find out there about Nick Shapland except that he lives in Louisville, U.S and that some ridiculously well produced warm electronic pop/new wave songs are uploaded at his soundcloud page with no more than ten plays per track. Harm begins with his newest song ”In The Past”, a dark synth and beat oriented track that carries the charm and mood of the 80’s electro sound getting close to be named the male Laurel Halo!!! Then it’s the haunting ”New Knowledge”, a tribal electronic masterclass with some wonderful Mark Hollis reminiscent vocals and a sprite production that indicates the darkness in it!!! Here is someone you should definitely keep an eye on in the year 2012. I know i will!
Warp continues it’s weird choices after Grizzly Bear, Battles and Cant. This time the smokey americana act My Best Friend is set to release it’s debut album in late February via the prolific label. Below you can hear the excellent lead single ”Higher Palms” and you can pre order the album ”In Ghostlike Fading” at Warp’s webstore.
Here is another ”suicidal” rn’b song in it’s most addictive way from the wonderful Smoke Room. Sensual beats are surrounded by these smoked and chopped vocals, bringing on surface this dark sexuality that you will find difficult to resist. Listen to the foggy ”Blue Void” and check their bandcamp page to hear some of their older stuff.
