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SLAUGHTER BEACH, DOG – ” Birdie “

Posted: October 30, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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As the band Modern Baseball headed towards an extended hiatus, Jake Ewald — one of the band’s primary two primary songwriters has been investing more energy into his Slaughter Beach, Dog side project. He started it a couple years ago to release a handful of demos but picked it up in earnest last fall with Welcome, a charmingly low-stakes concept album about a fictional town called Slaughter Beach inhabited by characters that shared Ewald’s familiar sense of suburban disillusion. The project’s freedom from pressure and more freeform aspirations blossomed with the Motorcycle.jpg EP and Birdie LP this year. His newer tracks take cues from folk standards and confessional diaries, and they rival the great work he did with his main band, solidifying him as one of this generation’s most talented and adaptable young songwriters.

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FIRST AID KIT – ” Postcard / It’s A Shame “

Posted: October 30, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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First Aid Kit have announced the full details of their fourth album Ruins which will be out on January 19th, it is the follow up to 2014’s acclaimed Stay Gold.

The Söderberg sisters announced their return at the end of September with ‘It’s A Shame’. Ruins will come out on 19th January, and the band have shared another sample of the new record with ‘Postcard’.

The single leans heavily on the style of classic country ballads about a fading romance, with sliding guitar swells and ambling rhythms accented by sophisticated piano lines. The duo’s seamlessly blended harmonies bid a lover farewell: “Send me a postcard when you get to where you’re going / Send me a line to everything you’ve left behind.”

“‘Postcard’ is one of the most traditional-sounding songs we’ve ever written, and we wanted the production to mirror that,” the sisters have said . “It’s not a resentful song, but more of a reaching out to a lover to wish them well on their journey in the midst of having to let them go.”

The Swedish band’s Instagram reveals Ruins was produced by Tucker Martine and recorded at Flora Studios in Portland, Oregon. the girls collaborated with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and Midlake’s McKenzie Smith.

JUAN DE FUCA – ” Solve / Resolve “

Posted: October 30, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Lifting their name from a Greek maritime explorer in the service of King Philip II of Spain was a pretty boldly high-brow move for Athens, Georgia based band Juan De Fuca. The band, which began life as the solo project of Jack Cherry, have now morphed into a five-piece band, and will release their debut LP, “Solve/Resolve” early next year on Arrowhawk Records. Shortly after singer/songwriter Jack Cherry released a 6 song solo EP cavern of in 2015, he was fervently encouraged by friends in the Athens, GA scene to make something bigger happen with his material. Bassist Jack Webster and drummer Howard Stewart pushed for the formation of a full band, and when guitarists Clark Brown and Declan Farisee signed on, the group began work in earnest developing their sound.

Ahead of that release, this week has seen the band share their sprightly new single, All The Time. The track is a winningly shambolic affair, recalling the precise yet jagged guitar work of The Walkmen and the densely, layered experimentation of Cheatahs. The track seems to always teeter on the edge of collapse, an idea that ties into the lyricism, as Jack half sings/half yells, “I can’t escape, everything all the time, I can’t all deal with, or raise a fist at everything, all of the time”. There’s a real feel of cathartic anguish here; much of the record was inspired by a close friend’s suicide, and Jack has suggested Solve/Resolve is a record about not overcoming grief, but simply learning to live with it, as he explains,“it’s about trying to overcome something that you are just absolutely living with for the rest of your life”. In this blissful musical chaos, Juan De Fuca offer no resolution, just a helping hand that says we are not alone.

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The Band

Jack Cherry
Howard Stewart
Jack Webster
Clarke Brown
Declan Farisee

Solve/Resolve is out January 12th via Arrowhawk Records.

NERVOUS DATER – ” Bad Spanish “

Posted: October 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In Rachel Lightner, Nervous Dater boast one of the finest emerging lyricists in indie rock, one whose every neurotic couplet could be a self-contained story. Consider the chorus from “Bad Spanish,” the anthemic opener from debut album Don’t Be A Stranger: “It’s hard to ask for help if you don’t really want it/ Passed out on the train in your own vomit.” Or the many layers in this line on “Fun Dumpster,” the subsequent track: “I wore a dress for you/ ‘Cause you’re nicer when I do.” Or the breathlessly vulgar “Stockton Syndrome” climax: “Jackie’s got the drugs, and holy fuck he’s gonna take ‘em!” Lightner deploys these turns of phrase with a wide-eyed gusto that amplifies Nervous Dater’s prevailing feeling of barreling ahead while barely keeping it together, elevating their tremendous guitar-powered songwriting to ridiculous heights. Take the album title’s advice and get to know this band now.

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Nervous Dater is
Rachel Lightner, Kevin Cunningham, Andrew Goetz, & Yon Heenan

Additional Vocals – Megan Gouda & Kelly McGovern
Trumpet & Flugelhorn – Brad Lightner

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OLD SMILE – ” Elusive Day “

Posted: October 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Tom Herman Jr. aka Old Smile’s solo debut LP, Elusive Day a “Greatest Hits”? The twelve, snappy psychedelic jangle-pop jingles recorded over the course of two years, 2013-2015, range from derisive dirges to elated exclamations about lost loves, missed opportunities, and self-exploration. From the spirited psychedelia of “It Was Lie,” to soporific soundscape of “Slipping Away,” to the ear-worm licks on “Empty Lines,” the familiar feel of Herman’s compositions can be reminiscent of his former outfit, Philly-based Arches, or other-Jersey locals, Real Estate, but the influences run even deeper and maybe more classic, like The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, or early Rundgren. Sonically and Lyrically. On “Simple,” Herman paints a striking tableau of quotidian romance that resonates with just about anyone who’s been in love. Same on “No Reason,” a song that encapsulates a precise hopeless emotion we’ve all struggled with but can never quite enumerate.

Though the songs were recorded over a long period of time, they never lead you astray. The glue that binds it all together is Herman himself, who wrote, recorded, mixed, and played every instrument in this collection.

Tom Herman‘s featured video for his outstanding record that top-notch indie outfit Two Syllable Records. This whole album is exquisite, tempered with easy waves and washes of sunset strips. To know that it’s come from one man’s heart excites me to no end. You’ll thank me when you get the whole record and keep it spinning during the melting heat. From “Elusive Day”, out now on Two Syllable Records

ANNA ST LOUIS – ” Fire “

Posted: October 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Despite her last name, Anna St. Louis was born and raised in Kansas City. She grew up a painter and singing in punk bands, eventually leaving her hometown to attend art school in Philadelphia. After graduating she made the move to Los Angeles where she began teaching herself guitar, writing songs and recording them on her own in her bedroom. First Songs is the sound of someone discovering their talent in real time – a peak into the collage of a wonderful mind that is absorbing their new surroundings and using new tools to put them into the room. Listening to this collection you can feel the sun coming in through the window – Anna on the foot of the bed with a guitar on her knee, finding her voice. St. Louis wears her influences well – think Patsy Cline singing over John Fahey – but has a style all her own. And while you can take the artist out of the midwest, you can’t take the midwest out of the artist – so let this be known; this is Midwestern music ran through a California filter. I believe Anna will have many more releases in her lifetime, but let it all begin here – First Songs.

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GREAT GRANDPA – ” Teen Challenge “

Posted: October 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This ain’t your great grandpa’s Great Grandpa. Despite the name, Great Grandpa are planted firmly in their 20s, with all of the attendant disaffection, indecision, and general ennui that that entails. But, like a few other famous musicians from Seattle, they’ve turned the gray fog of youth into searing, lopsided guitar music, with the capacious depths of Alex Menne’s voice sounding just at home over the fiery squalls of “No Hair” as it does on the tender balladry of “All Things Must Behave.” Oh, and also, there are zombies.

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Great Grandpa’s debut LP, “Plastic Cough”, out on LP/CD/CS/Digital on Double Double Whammy Records, July 7th 2017.

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JULIEN BAKER – ” Turn Out The Lights ” Best Albums Of 2017

Posted: October 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Week in Music: Paste's Favorite Albums, Songs, Performances and More

It’s impossible to assess Julien Baker’s sophomore effort, Turn Out the Lights, without acknowledging the considerable shadow of its its predecessor, Sprained Ankle. released two years ago, the debut snuck up on all but a handful of people. Turn Out the Lights hopefully will sneak up on no one. It sounds lush and meticulously made. Sprained Ankle was stripped to the bone, sonically speaking, but its followup features lots of keyboards, plus string sections, vocal harmonies and more atmosphere.

From the new album ‘Turn Out the Lights’ out October 27th on Matador Records.

CARLA DAL FORNO – ” You Know What It’s Like “

Posted: October 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Before she started putting out music under her own name, Carla Dal Forno cut her teeth on scratchy lo-fi punk and murky experimental soundscapes. On her debut full-length, You Know What It’s Like, and its follow-up EP, The Garden, she plays with a fusion of the two, marrying pointed urgency with an atmospheric foreboding. Her music is characterized by a pervasive haunting, unfurling in smoke wisps and snaking base lines. Like a hypnotic soundtrack to the witching hour, where elements of sedulous noise, experimental pop, cheery dark wave and gentle drones artfully coalesce into a thoroughly fantastic listen!

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Songs like the creeping “What You Gonna Do Now?” and the bruised “Make Up Talk” explore not the unsettling unknown but the sort of everyday monsters that surround us,

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The title track from Carla dal Forno’s debut LP, You Know What It’s Like, released October 28th, 2016, on Blackest Ever Black.

TEN YEARS AFTER – ” 1967-1974 ” 10CD Box Set

Posted: October 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Limited to 1500 copies • 9 albums + unheard studio tracks from ’72

1967-1974 is a new 10CD box set that celebrates 50 years since the eponymous debut album of British blues/rock band Ten Years After.

This collection gathers long-players from the Chrysalis and Deram Records eras and includes eight studio albums, one live album and a bonus disc of never before heard recordings from 1972 called The Cap Ferrat Sessions, which is newly mixed by producer Chris Kimsey. All the albums have been remastered from the original quarter-inch production master tapes.

The package comes in hardcover book format (with slipcase) with extensive sleeve notes by Chris Welch. These notes include extensive interviews with the remaining band members, Alvin Lee’s family, and there is additional recording notes by Kimsey.

The unreleased material – The Cap Ferrat Sessions – exists thanks to Alvin Lee’s wife, who discovered a box of recordings in their house in Spain. Chris Kimsey recorded and engineered these tracks originally (they formed part of the Rock N Roll Music To The World sessions) which is why Chrysalis Records turned to him to mix them for the first time. Cap Ferrat is in the South of France, situated between Nice and Monaco.

Kimsey has set the record straight in terms of the quality of these newly-found tracks: “Alvin and the band were incredibly creative and abundant during this period. These re-discovered recordings were not rough demos, not rehearsals, but completed masters that did not make the album due to the time limitations of vinyl at the time. So these gems were left off. Mixing this in 2017 I began to study the parts, the playing, the response of each musician. It was amazing! It is what all great recordings are made of.”

Ten Years After 1976-1974 is limited to 1,500 copies worldwide and will be released on 22nd December 2017.

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