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CLOUD NOTHINGS – ” Enter Entirely “

Posted: May 6, 2017 in MUSIC
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Following their new album back in Life Without Sound January, Cloud Nothings have now released a brilliant new video for their track ‘Enter Entirely’. The video sees a very grainy recording of some summery scenes including a hella bunch of flowers.

The track follows on the band’s new approach, moving away from their previously heavier efforts. Dylan Baldi spoke about the track and album and had this to say. “There’s less inner turmoil,” Dylan explains, on what exactly changed. “I think I finally just accepted my existence. This is a weird metaphor, but every time we go to the UK to play shows, we have to go through customs and have to write our occupation on the landing card. I would always write ‘musician’, just because I didn’t know what else to write. It was always just, ‘Well, I guess that’s what I’m doing’. It’s weird and it doesn’t feel right, but that’s what I have to write. I felt that way about a lot of things in my life actually. But now, for the first time, I feel like I can confidently write ‘musician’ on my landing card. There’s less questioning of my own motives now.”

However you slice it, the new direction is a more populous approach, but based on Baldi’s words it is a natural one without reproach.

“Enter Entirely” is taken from Cloud Nothings‘ album “Life Without Sound.” Available now on Carpark Records.

PALM – ” Walkie Talkie “

Posted: April 28, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Palm does not write music for passive listening. Out of jagged edges and complex, interlocking pieces, the Philadelphia quartet makes off-kilter art rock that demands — and rewards your full attention. Guitarists and singers Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt write deeply intertwined melodies that seem to bounce off each other with razor-sharp precision; Gerasimos Livitanos‘ twitchy, punctuated bass lines mesh with Hugo Stanley’s hectic, forceful drumming. The overall effect of cohesion is transfixing. It’s immediately evident during a live performance: Often, the band hits on a groove onstage that seems to rely on a law of physics from another planet.

Palm’s 2015 debut album, Trading Basics, sounds like Spirit They’ve Gone-era Avery Tare made by riff-writing math majors. Experimental but precise, curious but composed, the songs feel put together like a Jackson Pollock jigsaw puzzle. Palm’s forthcoming EP, Shadow Expert, hones this sound. Shadow Expert is just as complex, but draws from the band’s sunnier side; the songs are slightly punchier and brighter.

“Walkie Talkie,” the first single from Shadow Expert, is breakneck and bouncy. It’s aptly named: Throughout the track, Kurt’s and Alpert’s guitars alternate in quick, janky riffs, their voices often echoing this pattern. The result feels like messy communication, like a two-way radio stunted by static or emotion.

Palm’s members explain that they have a propensity to deconstruct and reconstruct as they write. The band describes its songwriting process as an exercise in organization as much as creation. “Walkie Talkie,” the band says, was written this way, with the lyrics cut out of magazines — another creative means of organization.

Like much of Palm’s best work, “Walkie Talkie” is busy, but not crowded. It’s a dense collection of ideas that leaves you little room to collect your thoughts; by the time you do, the band has already reconfigured them for you.

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Palm’s new EP, Shadow Expert, comes out June 16th on  Carpark Records . The band goes on a U.S. tour this summer.

CLOUD NOTHINGS – ” Enter Entirely “

Posted: January 22, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Cloud Nothings have announced the follow-up to their 2014 album “Here and Nowhere Else” and last year’s Wavves collaboration “No Life For Me Without Sound” is out January 27th via Carpark Wichita Recordings. The announcement comes with a new single called “Modern Act” , along with the album’s artwork, tracklist, and the band’s forthcoming tour dates.

The album was recorded with producer John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie) in El Paso earlier this year. Dylan Baldi said in a statement:

Generally, it seems like my work has been about finding my place in the world. But there was a point in which I realized that you can be missing something important in your life, a part you didn’t realize you were missing until it’s there—hence the title. This record is like my version of new age music. It’s supposed to be inspiring.

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“Enter Entirely” is taken from Cloud Nothings’ forthcoming album “Life Without Sound.” Out January 27th, 2017 on Carpark Records.

SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Death Note “

Posted: May 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Speedy Ortiz turned in the very good Foil Deer just last year, and that album’s recording sessions yielded some leftover material.  the Massachusetts quartet will release foiled again on june 3rd via Carpark Records, a four-track ep containing two new songs and two remixes of album track “puffer.”  today, Speedy Ortiz shared “Death Note,” a heavy track that pairs Sadie Dupuis’ whip-smart poetry with a crushing guitar riff.

“Death Note” is taken from Speedy Ortiz’s “Foiled Again” EP, out June 3rd.

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SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Basketball “

Posted: May 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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Massachusetts quartet Speedy Ortiz have offered up a demo of this unreleased track for a 12-inch featuring acts from the Carpark stable to celebrate the US indie label’s 16th birthday. A lo-fi affair featuring Sadie Dupuis’ cracked vocal over acoustic guitars, it’s less immediately biting than much of their superlative 2015 LP ‘Foil Deer’, but still rolls along with enough melodic idiosyncrasies to elevate it from mere acoustic pleasantness. Fourth single from a special basketball-themed picture disc to celebrate Carpark’s 16th anniversary. This release consists of nine exclusive, full-length songs and 19 locked grooves by artists from all across the Carpark catalogue. All proceeds go to the Little Kids Rocks charity. Limited to 600 copies. Out in July 24, 2015.

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