Posts Tagged ‘Bella Union Records’

MARISSA NADLER – ” Janie In Love “

Posted: July 5, 2016 in MUSIC
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I’m so excited to share with you the video I created for Janie In Love. It’s a mixture of stop motion animation and live footage. I worked on it for a very long time, but it was all enjoyable.. especially when things started to move… I can’t wait to make more.

I’m starting a long North American tour this week and looking forward to driving around and being inspired by the beautiful landscapes- and mostly – performing for you.
I’ll be bringing along Milky Burgess, who played some gorgeous guitar on my album Strangers and plays in a slew of awesome bands, including Master Musicians of Bukkake, as well as Don McGreevy, whom you may know as the current bassist in the band Earth.
All dates are opened by the wonderful musicians and people of Wrekmeister Harmonies & Muscle and Marrow
Taken from the album “Strangers” out now on Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union Records.

HORSE THIEF – ” Drowsy “

Posted: April 19, 2016 in MUSIC
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Two years on from their very well-received debut album Fear In Bliss, Horse Thief return with a new single entitled “Drowsy”, released as part of this year’s Record Store Day celebrations.

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PINS – ” Album Trailer “

Posted: January 8, 2016 in MUSIC
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In their ongoing attempt to be the garage rock Greta Garbo, U.K. act Pins have just released a teaser trailer for the fact that they will have a new album out this summer. We do know it was recorded in Joshua Tree, CA, and will be released in June of this year. Their 2014 debut, Girls Like Us  released on Bella Union , was a solid, shadowy slice of grrrl-garage, and last fall’s appearances during CMJ festival showed them getting a bit darker even, so we shall see what the follow-up has in store. If you are in the U.K. at the end of February you’ll be able to get an early listen, but for now the rest of us will have to be content with this album tralier.

LANTERNS ON THE LAKE – ” Faultlines / Through The Cellar Door “

Posted: October 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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Taken from the album ‘Beings’. The cover art of Newcastle indie-rock quartet Lanterns On The Lake’s new album, is at once soothing and unnerving. Warm, filtered light bathes an arid mountain-scape, and whimsical will-o-the-wisps bubble around the edges of the image. Yet, in the middle of the photograph, there sits an unadorned black heptagon, like a scorch mark. It’s a striking image.

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“Through The Cellar Door,” the album’s single, also cuts through brightness with sheaths of dark shadows. Even the song’s title implies the excavation of hidden spaces and diving into what can’t be seen. The opening guitar line is inviting — the bountiful pauses between its wavering notes creating open space and intrigue, clearly implying that the song is about searching. If the earthbound guitars are a persistent spirit of the quest, Hazel Wilde’s reverb-adorned vocals are wandering and airborne, adding to the effect. Both are a means to finding, and as the song picks up intensity, it melts into distortion, never chaos, pushing against limits and blurring the edges.

The mysterious darkness on the cover of Beings has the same effect. Out November 13th on Bella Union.

LANTERNS ON THE LAKE are

HAZEL WILDE – Vocals/ Guitar/ Piano, PAUL GREGORY – Guitar/ Production, OL KETTERINGHAM – Drums/ Piano, BOB ALLAN – Bass, Additional/ associated members:ANGELA CHAN – Violin/ Cello/ Viola

"Through the Cellar Door" is the latest single from Lanterns on the Lake.

FATHER JOHN MISTY – “I Love You Honeybear ” Best Albums Of 2015

Posted: June 12, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Father John Misty,”I Love You, Honeybear” aka Josh Tillman, has released the video for “I Love You, Honeybear” from this year’s album of the same name. Tillman co-wrote the video with his wife, Emma, and co-directed the video with Grant James, who also worked on two videos from Father John Misty’s 2012 LP, Fear Fun (“This Is Sally Hatchet”, “Funtimes in Babylon”). The video stars Brett Gelman (The Other Guys) and Susan Traylor (Greenberg). Tillman describes it as “a portrayal of an average night in the lives of two EMTs.”
He may sound like he wandered away from an L.A. ashram, but don’t be fooled by the beatific-hippie vibes. There’s a killer songwriter’s instinct beneath all those dreamy Laurel Canyon melodies the man can write a cutting lyric like nobody’s business).

Father John Misty’s “City of Music” session, featuring a performance of the song “I Love You, Honeybear”.
Directed/shot/edited/audio by Trent Waterman

On paper, “I Love You, Honeybear” is a nightmare: Suave yet cripplingly self-aware bearded bohemian millennial falls madly in love, grapples at length with becoming a different kind of walking cliché, and tops it off with an on-the-nose takedown of the American Dream. But what some listeners might register as smug self-indulgence strikes me as one of 2015’s realest and rawest dissertations. Josh Tillman’s misanthropy is far-reaching; he’s an equal-opportunity roaster, sparing no target including himself. His lyrical eviscerations are on-point and often laugh-out-loud funny, and they’re couched in throwback lounge-lizard arrangements far too pretty to be retro kitsch. Plus he sweetens the deal with some truly romantic declarations of love. This album is every bit as smart and beautiful as Tillman believes it is

PINS – ” Young Girls “

Posted: May 24, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Ridiculously rad Manchester, UK, quartet PINS are back with a new, second album, “Wild Nights”, out next month and we’re stoked to premiere the video for current single “Young Girls.” Sonically it’s indie-pop edged out with a feeling of questioning melancholy, and just a smidgen of menace, and from the second they hit the screen you wanna be part of their gang. We can barely keep up with these Manchester girls, who continue to make the city that birthed them turn into that proud, motherly type. Following a recent tour in the States with Sleater Kinney, the four-piece post-punk outfit is moving fast and strong through the international music circuit, and we couldn’t be prouder.

It’s not just that they look good—Saint Laurent’s Hedi Slimane is a firm fan—but even when they’re lazing listlessly on a bed, or staring impassively down the barrel of the lens, or, you know, casually wiping blood off a baseball bat, they’ve got a fall-in-line-and-don’t-fuck-with-us attitude that’s magnetic.

“Filmed in Manchester and at favourite look out point ‘The Edge’ in Alderly Edge,” explain PINS. “The video is the tale of four girls, thick as thieves. They are dreamers, they are bold and they are bonded by a secret. All for one and one for all.”
Meanwhile, director Amy Watson, had a very specific vision for this short: “I wanted to play around with the usual ‘girls just wanna have fun’ type of music video. You know, friendship, solidarity, road trips and all the usual tropes of girly bonding. I wanted to take that wholesomeness and push it to a weird place.”

Like we said, don’t mess with these young girls.

BC CAMPLIGHT – ” Just Because I Love You “

Posted: January 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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New Bella Union signing BC Camplight. The alter ego of American songwriter Brian Christinzio released two albums, Run, Hide Away (2005) and Blink Of A Nihilist (2007), both gems of a certain psych-pop vintage, But this sublime, maverick spirit, with a matching high-pitched, keening vocal and fearless approach to lyrical introspection, has another chance “How To Die In The North” is that very record he’d always dreamt of – a richer, more dynamic and diverse take on his epic pop pizzazz and simmering balladry. How To Die In The North begins with a definitive statement of intent. “You Should Have Gone To School” is dramatic, layered pop with a swooping chorus and a broader palette of sound than his previous piano-based arrangements. Echoes of Todd Rundgren at his finest here.

LANTERNS on the LAKE – ” Until the Colours Run “

Posted: January 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Lantern On The Lake second album “Until the Colours Run” is borne of loss, turmoil and doubt on every level: Adam and Brendan Sykes left the UK quintet following their 2011 debut “Gracious Tide, Take Me Home”, the remaining members were scrambling to finish the record with almost no financial resources. Singer Hazel Wilde has cited the grim economic outlook of her homeland as a main lyrical influence. And so, there you have it—“Until the Colours Run” certainly doesn’t lack for external drama, serving as both a make-or-break album and a reintroduction. This is progress for Lanterns on the Lake, based on Paul Gregory’s string-laden arrangements and production. “Until the Colours Run” is warmer and more organic than its predecessor, though still squarely within indie rock’s “baroque” settings, nearly every component given a pleasingly faded luster: silvery guitar figures that twinkle, glisten and decay, echoing drums that sound both intimidating and fragile, a sobering layer of reverb over Wilde’s vocals. Whether it’s the all-out, crescendoing assaults of “Elodie” or the one-take piano ballad “Green & Gold“, Until the Colours Run always bears the weight of its struggles, expressing even its joy in antiquated and Americanized imagery of unemployment lines and buffalos; as indicated by the record’s key line of “we’ll drink and sing on the breadline,” happiness rarely exists on its own terms, but rather as a counter to exceedingly difficult circumstances.

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