ROYAL CHANT – ” Minor Crush “

Posted: October 22, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Australian favs Royal Chant have consistently been purveyors of 90s injected power pop and they’ve perfected the sound on their new long player ‘Minor Crush‘.

Taking the College Rock torch from names like Dramarama, Guided By Voices, The Church, and The Replacements as well as a hint of Beatlesque psychedelia ‘Minor Crush‘ is a rewarding collection of hook-laden power-chord rockers with both brains and brawn.

Yes we have a new album out and yes we have a bunch of film clips to go along with with it because that’s how we roll. This is “Hearing Voices Movement” and this snazz-tastic clip was done by James Robert Carthew, forever in Royal Chant but blessed/cursed with perpetual shore leave.

Royal Chant is a 2-piece garage band from the sleepy coastal town of Port Macquarie. Fast & fuzzed, slanted & slurred, they have spent the last 10+ years playing shows across Australia on stages big & small. After a handful of singles and a smashing on Triple-J with their single “Somedays”, their debut LP Raise Your Glass & Collapse was named Indie Album of the Week by the Brag amongst a flurry of press, and their raucous live show gained the band some serious attention.

Recently returned from their maiden tour of the USA, the duo is back to recording and touring, carving their own strange path out of the spotlight but somehow never far from it. They keep their heads down and the distortion up, creating an alternate world of pounding drums, walls of sound, & songs that speak with the ache and numbness of existence.

Minor Crush is our 6th studio album and is available wherever you get your music kicks these days.

VARIOUS ARTISTS – ” The Reverb Conspiracy Volume 6 “

Posted: October 21, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Fuzz Club Records “The Reverb Conspiracy, Volume 6” It’s a double LP on white vinyl.

The aim and a desire with the Reverb Conspiracy compilations are to uncover and celebrate the best in fuzz, reverb and drone from every corner of the globe. Where the first five volumes were hailed as a Nuggets-like documentation of the European psych scene, Reverb Conspiracy Vol 6 sees the compilation go global: bringing together bands from South Africa, Australia, the USA, Germany, Brazil, the UK, Italy and Russia.

Also including the label’s own Medicine Boy’s shadowy noise-pop (DE) and Nest Egg’s motorik “mood music for nihilists” (US), plus Steeple Remove’s dub-inflected post- punk (FR) and Crimen’s heady, repetitive psych-rock (IT) – there is Aussie garage-psych outfit Nice Biscuit, a new cut of Bikini Kill-meets-Oh Sees noise from Julia Robert (SA), as well as lo-fi garage-pop from Super Paradise (UK) and the double-barreled psych-blues wig-outs of Frankie & The Witch Fingers (US).

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In the compilations darker moments, though, there is the hypnotically face-melting “space-surf” of Japanese Television (UK), goth-tinged post-punk from Float (UK), murky psychedelic stoner-rock from Brazil’s Firefriend, relentlessly driving krautrock courtesy of Verstärker (USA), the heavy space-rock drones of Psychic Lemon (UK) and Moscow’s Selbram, who deal in a jagged alt-rocksound that takes its cues from No Wave, psych and the “pulse and noise” of city life.

Tracklist:
1. Julia Robert – Mud Girl
2. Nice Biscuit – Out Of Sight
3. Frankie And The Witch Fingers – Underneath You
4. Medicine Boy – Water Girl
5. Firefriend – Surface To Air
6. Nest Egg – DMTIV
7. Steeple Remove – Ferris Noir
8. Float – Watch
9. Crimen – Flahzz
10. Japanese Television – Tick Tock
11. Selbram – This City You Know
12. Super Paradise – 6:30
13. Verstärker – Mit Glück
14. Psychic Lemon – Interstellar Fuzz Star

The FLAMING LIPS – ” The Soft Bulletin ” 20th Anniversary Edition

Posted: October 20, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Flaming Lips 'The Soft Bulletin'

In October, members of Vinyl Me, Please Essentials will receive an exclusive 20th-Anniversary Edition of The Flaming Lips’ The Soft Bulletin. Made in close collaboration with Wayne Coyne, this new edition comes on color vinyl, and is pressed from new lacquers cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, and comes with a lenticular cover insert. The art print was also picked by Wayne Coyne himself. You can sign up to receive it here.

Alex Berenson, A&R for VMP: That run from “Suddenly Everything Has Changed” to “The Gash” and “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate” is just devastating. It’s so good, but it’s heartwrenching. This is the record I used to listen to when I went through big life changes: When I moved from New York to Denver to work at VMP, this is all I listened to. I listened to “Suddenly Everything Has Changed” over and over because that’s how my life felt. I get really emotional when I listen to this album.

No, no, not like a crazy person: I think that really speaks to how personally we feel the projects we’re working on. This wasn’t a, “Oh, this album has an anniversary coming up” type of deal; we did this because you, and all of us, really, have really personal stories with this album. I remember finding it the first time when my mom was really sick when I was like 19-20, and the songs are like a big blanket of reassurance, in a way.

You worked on this album for a long time to make it happen this month, how long ago did we start this one? A year ago? Yeah, at least a year ago, but I know that I had it in the back of my mind since I started working here. So I guess call it three years.

If somebody doesn’t have any Flaming Lips records, why should someone listen to this one?

To me, this is their magnum opus. I love all their albums for different reasons, but everything on this album works with each other to deliver this whole experience. They worked on this a bunch to make it sound as good as it does. It has so many layers, and every time you listen there’s a new part that’s your favorite, or you learn more about.

Yeah, because in some ways, this album was their last chance; they were this major label band that hadn’t had a hit except for “She Don’t Use Jelly,” and the album before this was Zaireeka, an album basically impossible to listen to in full unless you had 4 CDs. That this personal, wrenching album was their breakthrough is kind of miraculous.

We worked really closely with Wayne Coyne to make this happen, Yeah, Wayne and the folks at WEA have been great partners on this. Wayne picked the color of the vinyl, suggested the holograph lenticular cover, and gave us the art print. We have some special things planned with VMP subscribers and Wayne, so get ready for that.

This one was recorded straight to DAT, so there aren’t master tapes to remaster, but we did have new lacquers cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, and it sounds amazing, but this is the definitive edition.

VAGANBON – ” Vagabon “

Posted: October 19, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) released a new self-titled album via Nonesuch. Earlier this week she shared one last pre-release single from the album, “Every Woman,” via a video for the track. Lino Asana directed the video, which features Tamko in a clear bubble house and out in nature.

Tamko had this to say about the song and video in a press release: “‘Every Woman’ is the thesis of my album so I wanted the visuals to represent transparency and to create a world for this thesis statement to live inside of. It’s an ode to all those who feel different and who actively search and fight for space. When I was approached by Cameroonian filmmaker, Lino Asana, I was really, really excited to work with an artist from my country. There was this immediate understanding of one another. So many scenes of this video feel reminiscent of my early life in Cameroon, the chores I would do as a kid, the way we lived simply and humbly. The bubble displayed in this video represents an invitation to find yourself in this world.”

Previously the album was titled All the Women in Me and due out September 27th, but in August Tamko announced that the album title and release date were both changing. Also, the album’s first single was originally titled “Flood Hands” but was then changed simply to “Flood” and another track from the album had a title change from “All the Women” to “Every Woman.” The lyrics for both songs were also changed. This was all because a poet wouldn’t give Tamko her blessing to reference her work in the songs.

“My original album title and two lyrics were inspired by and referenced poetry by a writer I greatly admire, Nayyirah Waheed,” Tamko said in a previous press statement about the changes to her album. “When I learned that she preferred I not quote her words, I made changes out of respect for her wishes.”

Vagabon is Vagabon’s second album, the follow-up to her 2017-released debut Infinite Worlds, and is her first for Nonesuch. Tamko wrote and produced the entire album herself. “Flood Hands” (or “Flood” now) Then she shared another song from the album, “Water Me Down”  as well as a stylish video for the song.

In a previous press release Tamko set the scene for where she was at prior to recording the new album: “I was in a pretty tortured headspace when I returned home from touring Infinite Worlds. That album contained some of the first songs I’d ever written, and more people than I could have ever imagined heard it. I was proud to become a full-time musician and recognized how rare of a thing that is, but was also debilitated by the very same fact. Fear overtook me and I couldn’t write. I felt stagnant and unsure of what to do next.”

Unlike Infinite Worlds, Vagabon has less of a straight up indie rock guitar sound, with more electronic textures. “With this album, I wanted to impress myself,” Tamko said in the previous press release. “I wanted to be curious and I wanted to make big leaps as a producer. All I had access to on the road was my computer and Logic, so naturally I started writing songs electronically with what was at hand.”

Tamko added: “The drums and vocal forward approach I took on [Vagabon] is drawn from my love for rap and hip-hop production as well as R&B and folk storytelling. That’s the music that got me excited about writing again.”

FOALS – ” Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost — Part 2 “

Posted: October 19, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Foals have had a busy year. They released their new album, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost — Part 1, back in March, were nominated for the coveted Mercury Prize for it and just unleashed its sister album today, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost — Part 2. A press release describes their brooding lead single, “Black Bull,” as “a bruising expression of conflicted masculinity & delusions of grandeur.” That certainly comes across during the song’s brisk runtime—it’s a bass-driven and reverb-heavy ripper that’s about as harsh as anything the band have ever done.

Previously Foals had shared Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2’s first three singles: “Black Bull” (via a video for the track), “The Runner,” and “Into the Surf” . They also released a remix album, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1: Remixes, featuring Metronomy and others. Then they shared a cinematic video for “The Runner” in which frontman Yannis Philippakis fights his doppelganger. Then they shared an animated an animated video for “Into the Surf.”

Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 was nominated for the Mercury Prize (it didn’t win). Previously Foals shared a cinematic video for Part 1’s first single, “Exits” a video for “On the Luna,” and a lyric video for “Sunday”.

Then once the album was released album track “In Degrees” Then the band shared videos for Part 1’s “White Onions,””Cafe D’Athens,””In Degrees,”and“Sunday.”

The albums are the follow-up to 2015’s What Went Down. Philippakis produced the albums, which were recorded at 123 Studios in Peckham, London with the help of engineer Brett Shaw. The band also features Jimmy Smith (guitar), Jack Bevan (drums), and Edwin Congreave (keys).

In a previous press release Philippakis had this to say about releasing two albums: “They’re two halves of the same locket. They can be listened to and appreciated individually, but fundamentally, they are companion pieces.”

Philippakis said that the albums do address the environmental crisis our planet faces. “There’s a definite idea about the world being no longer habitable in the way that it was,” he said. “A kind of perilousness lack of predictability and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the magnitudes of the problems we face. What’s the response? And what’s the purpose of any response that one individual can have?”

Philippakis added: “Lyrically, there are resonances with what’s going on in the world at the moment. I just feel like, what’s the utility of being a musician these days, if you can’t engage with at least some of this stuff? These songs are white flags, or they’re SOSs, or they’re cries for help… each in a different way.”

New album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 out 18 October.

JACK PENATE – ” Prayer “

Posted: October 19, 2019 in MUSIC
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This week English singer/songwriter Jack Peñate announced his first new album in 10 years, “After You”, and shared its new single, the dance-y “Murder,” via a video for the track. After You is his third album and the long-awaited follow-up to 2009’s Everything Is New. After You is due out November 29th via XL Recordings.

After You was produced in collaboration with Paul Epworth, Inflo, and Alex Epton. It includes the previously shared single “Prayer.” Eddie Peake directed the “Murder” video, created the album artwork, and also directed the “Prayer” video. The “Murder” video was filmed in Dorset, England at Winspit quarry and shot on an iPhone. Peñate’s long break between albums was the result of various things, including Peñate’s desire to master his craft and build his own studio.

‘Prayer’ is out now on XL Recordings.

VANCOUVER SLEEP CLINIC – ” Onwards to Zion “

Posted: October 19, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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23-year-old Australian ambient artist Tim Bettinson has shared his sophomore album as Vancouver Sleep Clinic, “Onwards to Zion”. “In a purposeful departure from his forays into electronically driven song construction, Bettinson wrote much of the album on a $100 nylon guitar bought at one of Bali’s only music stores,” per a press release. “I’d started getting used to making three-and-half-minute songs with a beat and a hook-but the thing is that I don’t really come from making beats,” Bettinson says. “I used to busk: that’s where I came from. The whole direction of this album changed for me once I realized I wanted to put the focus back on guitar again.”

the official video for “Summer ’09”, the second single off the album ‘Onwards to Zion’ by Vancouver Sleep Clinic.

ANNA St LOUIS – ” First Songs “

Posted: October 19, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“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—St. Louis on the foot of the bed with a guitar on her knee, finding her voice.

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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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ART SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND – ” Diving / Come Back To Me “

Posted: October 19, 2019 in MUSIC
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Introducing Art School Girlfriend – the most recent signing to Paul Epworth’s record label, Wolf Tone (The Horrors, Glass Animals). The musical project of Margate-based Polly Mackey, Art School Girlfriend was born out of the ashes of Welsh shoegaze outfit Deaf Club. Once the group disbanded in 2014, Polly, who was a founding member of the band, found herself drawn to London’s pirate radio networks and began making experimental electronic music, eventually releasing her debut EP as Art School Girlfriend, ‘Measures’, late last year.

Now preparing for its follow-up, Art School Girlfriend has shared another single Her music is atmospheric and stark in equal measure, exploring themes of lust, queer identity, infatuation and disillusionment

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PINK FLOYD – ” Money “

Posted: October 19, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Pink Floyd have unearthed the in-concert film that appeared on screens during the band’s performance of “Money” on their 1994 tour, one of the many audiovisual oddities featured in the upcoming box set The Later Years.

The quirky clip is like a Hipgnosis-designed album cover come to life, with a bizarre bartering system, a B-movie grade flying saucer and swimming pools full of money somehow weaving together to issue an allegorical warning about inflation and capitalism.

The “Money” film — one of the many made-for-concert visuals Pink Floyd rolled out during their 1994 trek in support of The Division Bell — features within the 16-disc The Later Years, due out November 29th. The box set is packed with the then-trio’s final studio LPs and live albums, plus rarities, concert films, unreleased music videos, two 7″ singles, a remixed A Momentary Lapse of Reason and more.

Pink Floyd previously shared an “early version” of The Division Bell closer “High Hopes,” which resides among the 13 hours of unreleased material stored in The Later Years.

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