NEW CANDYS – ” Bleeding Magenta “

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The album title can be read as a cinematographic reference, where there’s fiction there’s no real pain. During the writing process we kept in mind the release format of a 12” vinyl and treated it as an extra influential element. The first side at 33 rpm with most of the songs written meticulously, the second side (tracks 8-11) we acted the opposite way, no limits, one long medley without overthinking, at 45 rpm. Visually inspired by Refn’s last movies and Argento’s early movies.

Written, performed and produced by New Candys. 
Stefano Bidoggia: bass.
Dario Lucchesi: drums, percussion.
Diego Menegaldo: guitars, vocals.
Fernando Nuti: vocals, guitars, sitar.

Guest vocals on “Sermon” by Julia Hummer (juleah.com).

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KATIE HERZIG – ” Weight Lifting “

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I’m thrilled to be this close to Moment of Bliss finally coming out, March 2nd is just around the corner! Today I bring you the track “Weight Lifting,” the final song I’ll be releasing in advance of the full album release. Yesterday it was premiere’d it along with an interview about my production involvement with Ingrid Michaelson on her upcoming project and I got to share a few thoughts on the status of female producers.

From the day I started to write “Weight Lifting” to the day I find myself releasing it, this song seems to be living up to its name in a way that reminds me just how connected my life is to my art.  A few years ago I was having a breakthrough in my relationship, starting to see the light after a season that had lots of confusion… it felt like a weight had lifted and this song helped me to capture that feeling and hang on to it. 

This week I shared a Valentines Day post on my Instagram. It was a moment that snuck up on me, a complete whim, but finally felt like the right time to share publicly, my love for and relationship with Butterfly Boucher. If you don’t know who she is, she is an incredible musician and artist and human being, and a bit Australian:) While we’ve been open about our relationship in our personal lives for years, we’ve never announced it formally, for reasons that served their own purpose in that time. I’m already starting to feel the fruits of this kind of vulnerability, the love shared, coming back at us in so many beautiful ways. Another weight lifted… one day and one act of courage at a time. Life comes at you fast and as an artist, I haven’t always known how much of my life to share and how much to keep for myself. Mostly because I’ve never had it all figured out! (Can I get an amen?!) I’ve always counted on songs to help make that decision for me, my safe place:) I have a friend whose grandmother would tell her, “It tastes better when you share.” I think that means a lot on so many different levels. So if you’ve read this far… thanks for letting me share.

Love, Katie

New Single “Weight Lifting” off the upcoming album ‘Moment of Bliss’ due March 2nd, 2018.

SIMONE FELICE – ” The Projector “

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Lights down, curtain up, flickering camera on: this is the world of The Projector. A handcrafted album of lone guitars echoing in the twilight, nocturnal electronics and woodsy vocals in which you can hear and feel the grain. Of scenes and moods, shouts and cries and pleas, interweaving narratives lovingly birthed in Simone native woods, not far from the Kaaterskill Creek upon which he himself was born.

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The stunning album opener and title track of the The Projector “Spectral”, almost skeletal at first, before the mans resonant voice and spartan guitar are joined by shiversome choral vocals from Bat For Lashes Natasha Khan and haunted folktronica from London this genre-surfing experimentalist Four Tet. The track is a hallucinatory walk through the backrooms and hallways of modern human paranoia and tech-induced loneliness, as the warped choir sings: All the while you felt so alone/but all the while there were bugs in the phone and you were not alone.

PET FANGS – ” Gold Coast Dreaming “

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Josey, Davey, Jory, T’Ben, four fellas from Louisiana that are on a mission to bring the funk and good vibes to those ear drums of yours. The good news, reader – they do a real good job of that.

The funk-lords (well, half of them, Jory and Josey) are on a mid an epic drive towards Orlando,  digging into their wonderful minds on just how they’re producing these musical gems. “To be honest it’s usually a very collaborative thing – the way we started this project was ‘let’s just not have any rules’. No pre-conceived notion of what is should be. We’re just trying to let it fly.”

“We have this song on the album called ‘Barbarella’. And that was written cos Jory was watching TV in our favourite studio (Dockside in East Louisiana). Out by this swamp, retreat vibes. And he was watching this Jane Fonda movie (called ‘Barbarella’) and there she was in the intro just floating through space, clothes flying off and everything – it was insanity. I started scribbling some lyrics. And the next thing you know we had the song – it just kinda fell out of the sky.

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The first single we released ‘Gold Coast Dreaming’ – we were throwing darts, listening to French music, just so we weren’t getting caught up in being inspired by english lyrics. And then we decided to open up a notebook, and if you weren’t throwing darts, you had to write down the first thing that came to your mind while listening to this music. Jory had written ‘faded pink hair’. Then we decided to all trade instruments, so I sat down with drums, our drummer David sat down with a bass etc. And that little phrase stood out to me so much, within an hour we had a full verse and chorus. We took a break, and a couple of weeks later, went to a different studio and fleshed it all out.

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PALM HONEY – ” Starving Hysterical Naked ” (Official Live Session)

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Palm Honey are an interesting entity, ready to chew your ear off about their love for free jazz and Brian Eno as much as they are about how tour means the exciting prospect of a new Wetherspoons everyday. Their road is a consistently progressive one, especially so early on into their career.

The four-piece, all Reading natives, once dealt in sunny, reverb-laden fuzz before swapping it in for something a little bit more, shall we say, tainted. After forming three years ago over a mutual dislike of their college course, the band’s sound has mutated and developed into something which combines the sordid and the pleasant with a respectful mastery. Ultimately, it’s refreshing to see a band so at ease with going down whatever route feels natural to them, regardless of how much it may challenge their listeners.

Live session recorded on 8th October 2017 in London. Filmed by David Gourlay. Mixed by Scott Docherty.

PALM HONEY – ” Starving Hysterical Naked “

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This Reading quartet are one of the more left-field bands to watch out for this year. Their unique sound could be categorized as everything from psych-pop and synth-rock to krautrock, space rock and prog rock. Their debut EP, Tucked Into the Electronic Wave, released last year, was among the finest of the year, featuring standout tracks “Stick the Knife In” and “Going Normal.”

Palm Honey’s current trajectory is their best yet, from sleazy, experimental track, ‘Hot Simian Weather’ right up to their latest release, ‘Starving Hysterical Naked’. An ode to Allen Ginsberg’s infamous poem, HOWL, it’s heavy and tenebrous combining all the best elements of garage rock into one hell of a jam, touching upon elements of Thee Oh Sees. For a generation of music fans whose attention spans are shorter than ever, ‘Starving Hysterical Naked’ never stays in one place long enough to lose your interest, despite its nine minute running time. It’s just wholesome, fluid goodness.

The four-track EP is a mystical, memorable journey comprising cosmic synths, saxophone solos, insecure lyrics, meticulous guitar riffs and musical tangents that would signal their next release, “Starving Hysterical Naked.” In a lot of ways, Palm Honey are the antithesis of most guitar bands these guys, as evinced by their two-part, nine-minute jam, “Starving Hysterical Nature.”

Band Members
Joseph Mumford / Harrison Clark / Sebastian Bowden / Ayden Spiller

NIGHT FLOWERS – ” Cruel Wind / Losing the Light “

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Night Flowers have shared their gorgeous single, ‘Cruel Wind.’  “And now you have an epitaph,” sings Sophia Pettit with grace and feeling of loss, this shimmering wide-screen song possess a yearning melody and tumbling percussion that plunges deep into your heart.

‘Cruel Wind’ comes with an ingenious accompanying video made by filmmaking duo James Doherty and Laura Whittell. the brave astronauts featured, the training, the isolation, the pressure and the fear are obstacles they must endure to realise their dream – to explore the great beyond. Night Flowers vocalist Sophia Pettit is on hand to guide them through their journey with her white coat and round-rimmed glasses. Combining green screen, archive footage and some clever visual effects, the result is something different, and filmic.

Lifted from their forthcoming debut album, Wild Notion. Which was written in various London basements and bedsits, and recorded with longtime producer Adam Jaffrey in a studio that was later bulldozed to make way for luxury flats. The windswept north-east English coast collided with stateside sunshine when US-born vocalist Sophia Pettit joined the band in their new shared hometown of London in summer 2015.

The video, directed by long time collaborator and friend Darren Topliss, finds singer Sophia Pettit in a slow motion adventure, rediscovering the city around her with a childlike wonder and a new found sense of freedom, in a video that celebrates the importance of living in the moment. Released 18th January 2018

BEACH HOUSE – ” Lemon Glow “

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Beach House have shared a brand new song, ‘Lemon Glow.’

The track will appear on their forthcoming new album which is set to land laters this spring: “Wishing everyone out there love tonight,” they wrote on Instagram while announcing the news. Jam-packed with synths, Lemon Glow is a glimpse into what to expect from their new album which will be their seventh studio full-length and the follower to the 2015 double-release of ‘Depression Cherry’ and ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’.

Last year, they released a collection of unreleased music called B-Sides and Rarities.

 

I’M WITH HER – ” Game to Lose “

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The album was written in Los Angeles and Vermont and recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in a tiny English village near Bath, England. Co-produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Laura Marling, Paul McCartney) and the band, “See You Around” delivers a warmly textured sound that proves both fresh and timeless. Beginning with a jaunty fiddle vamp that leads into an eerie, three-part harmony verse, “Game to Lose” combines the members’ respective musical talents for a performance that’s both delicate and gutsy, seamlessly transitioning between sections. The chorus scales back to one voice, but the weighty lyrics explore the risk of a passionate pursuit under potentially dire circumstances.

This all-star Americana trio I’m With Her has been touring mid-sized theaters with impressive regularity for a group without a proper album on the market. On February 16th, the group – Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan and Sara Watkins known as I’m With Her will release their debut album “Game To Lose” is from I’m With Her’s full-length debut album, See You Around.

SUEDE – ” Suede ” 25th Anniversary Silver Edition

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A 4CD/1DVD deluxe edition of Suede’s 1993 debut release featuring the original album, period b-sides, a CD of demos, monitor mixes (several previously unreleased) and the band’s first BBC radio session, plus a concert from February 1993. Brett Anderson believes that Suede’s debut album, winner of the Mercury Music Prize in 1993, probably has more cultural resonance than any other of their albums, as a pre-cursor to Britpop and a supplanter of grunge. It is also home to four ground-breaking singles. This deluxe edition features the album; the b-sides; a CD of demos, monitor mixes (several previously unreleased) and the band’s first BBC radio session, arranged chronologically; plus a concert from February 1993.

The DVD features six contemporary TV performances (including their first ever TV appearance), and an hour-long film of Brett and Bernard Butler discussing the writing and recording of the album, all issued for the first time. Also included is a new note by Brett about his memories of the recording of the album, along with the lyrics, hand-written lyric drafts, tape boxes, and photos from the band’s collections. The AMAZON EXCLUSIVE EDITION contains a limited edition (750) print of Brett’s handwritten lyrics for “Metal Mickey”, signed by Brett himself.

The DVD features six contemporary TV performances (including the band’s first ever TV appearance).

Also included is a new note by Brett about his memories of the recording of the album, along with the lyrics, hand-written lyric drafts, tape boxes, and photos from the band’s collections.

Presented in a 36 page media book.

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