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MORLY – ” Sleeping In My Own Bed “

Posted: August 27, 2017 in MUSIC
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Singer Songwriter Morly shares the poignant title track from her forthcoming Sleeping in my Own Bed 12″ — which also features the goosebump-inducing b-side “The Wetness” — out August 25th via Cascine Records .

The sublime piano-based affair finds Katy Morley elegantly and successfully exploring the familiar classic songwriter vibe of her favorite artists (Nina Simone, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan, according to a press release) with all of the heart and soul of her haunting earlier songs.

Morly says of the new song: “Lyrically I love how much it can say with such a simple thought. How it can twist to feel both lonely and empowered. It’s something I needed to hear.”

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YUMI ZOUMA – ” December “

Posted: August 1, 2017 in MUSIC
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Yumi Zouma are a New Zealand band based in Christchurch,The band have been honing their exquisite craft since 2014, at times separately, from all corners of the world, at others, in a collective space.  this meticulous, bountiful songwriting process had, up until today, yielded a pair of extended plays and last year’s full-length debut, Yoncalla.  it’s a very pleasant surprise, then, that Yumi Zouma has announced Willowbank, its sophomore album, due out october 6th via Cascine Records .

Willowbank marks the first time the band has had time to write and record a large group of songs together in their native New Zealand, so perhaps it’s fitting that the album’s first single, “December,” seems like the perfect distillation of summer at the bottom of the planet. as always, counter-melodic motifs are interwoven with ease, though Christie Simpson’s lead vocal sits more squarely in the mix than ever before, feeling less a part of the overall texture and more like a distinctly separate entity.  capped off by a stout, brassy coda, Yumi Zouma’s latest single retains a peaceful majesty that has easily become the outfit’s calling card.

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“December” is another gorgeous achievement for a pop group that seemingly has no ceiling.

 

HALF WAIF – ” Severed Logic “

Posted: February 21, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Half Waif’s New EP Is A Mesmerizing Collection Of Avant-Pop

Nandi Rose Plunkett writes, records and performs under the name Half Waif. Her music is deeply personal and engaging, reflecting her lifelong endeavor to reconcile a sense of place. Raised against the bucolic backdrop of Williamstown, Massachusetts, Nandi was the daughter of an Indian refugee mother and an American father of Irish/Swiss descent.

“My mood is a pendulum/ I don’t think you could handle it,” sings Nandi Rose Plunkett, the synth songwriter known as Half Waif, early on “Severed Logic,” her new EP’s opening number. After, a second-hand-like ticking gives way to a swell of choppy, hollow-sounding beats. It’s a gorgeous moment, the first of many on the six-song form/a, which drops this week on Cascine Records and is debuting below in full.
Plunkett, who also plays with the hyper-literary alt-country band Pinegrove, has a gifted ear for loops that sound huge but still feel like they were cut by hand, and each of these tracks unfurls like a slow-motion power ballad. The textures are immersive, and the lyrics are self-reflective. “And you have been patient through every storm/ Forgive me my baby but what’s one more?” she sings on “Cerulean,” her doubled-up vocals glowing like a lit match in a dark room.
“I set out to record form/a on my own, wanting this EP to be a record of what my moods sound like, if I could pull them out of my insides and amplify them,” said Plunkett. “This collection of songs is a look into how those moods affect my relationships, how they take me on journeys through my past, how they transport me into meditations on life and death.”

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YUMI ZOUMA – ” Short Truth “

Posted: May 12, 2016 in MUSIC
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Yumi Zouma will release their highly-anticipated debut full-length, Yoncalla, on may 27th via Cascine Records. there aren’t many adjectives left in our arsenal that haven’t already been bestowed upon the inimitable New Zealand quartet, so we’ll just leave you with “short truth,” a sprawling, synth-saturated dreamscape that further pleads the group’s case for having an album-of-the-year contender on their hands. take a listen below.

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YUMI ZOUMA – ” Barricade (Matter Of Fact) “

Posted: April 26, 2016 in MUSIC
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Yumi Zouma – Barricade (Matter Of Fact)

“Barricade (Matter Of Fact)” is the second single taken from Yoncalla, the debut album by Yumi Zouma. Yoncalla will be released May 27th by Cascine Records . This spring, the Yumis head out on tour that stretches across New Zealand, North America, Europe and Japan.

Where Yumi Zouma’s previous EPs were created in isolation, capturing the nuances of each member’s life half a world away, the new material was given a singular voice. “Yumi Zouma has always been an exercise in refining ideas and collaborating,” reflects guitarist Charlie Ryder, “but this was the first time we weren’t limited or protected by distance. With Yoncalla, the process was different, and it can be scary to present raw ideas to your friends ‐ but it’s also incredible to see songs evolve through the sparks of inspiration that bounce between people in the same room.” That intimacy is apparent on Yoncalla ‐ an album about being close to people, rather than miles apart. Yumi Zouma’s effortless waves of harmony have been redefined and the creative process laid bare to expose an act more unguarded and interconnected than ever before.

Yoncalla sees Yumi Zouma continue their tradition of creating collectable vinyl releases, with the new album including a limited grey 7” that features two studio outtakes from the recording sessions. The 7” will be bundled with the first 500 copies of the Yoncalla 12”. These outtakes are exclusive to the limited edition vinyl and will never appear digitally.

To capture the concepts on Yoncalla, New Zealand visual artist Henrietta Harris was tapped to create the cover art, illustrating the band together on a front cover for the first time.

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BRETT – ” Claire Drained “

Posted: February 13, 2016 in MUSIC
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Though they hail from Washington d.c., dreamy pop quartet Brett would sound right at home anywhere on the country’s opposite coast.  the band’s latest single, “Claire Drained,” is a sun-bleached, mid-tempo collision of analog and digital spheres bound together by a resolute lead vocal that periodically clouds the song’s forecast.  its near-universal themes of self-perceived shortcomings and inconsequential over-exertions are laced through a passionate, aural love letter to claire herself, an intimate confessional that’s ultimately refracted through a lens of prevailing optimism. “claire drained” is culled from Brett’s forthcoming album Mode, out march 18th via Cascine Records.

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MORLY – ” The Choir “

Posted: January 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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Morly’s debut ep, in defense of my muse, was a superb release of 2015, and Katy Morley has already put forth one of the most impressionable songs yet this year.  “The Choir,” a standalone single for Cascine, straddles the space between haunting and ethereal, pairing morly’s affinity for seismic bass tones with a commanding lead vocal that gradually cedes the foreground to distant saxophone bleats and sputtering drum production. Amazing instrumentals mixed with beautiful vocals. A heavenly experience for the ears. I can’t wait for more

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Her beautiful new EP In Defense of My Muse is made up of what the label calls four “lo-fi explorations into the transient space between joy and melancholy,” and is inspired, at least in part, by the “deep wintry sadness” of Morley’s home state. That sadness starts to fade, though, on the EP’s glorious emotional centerpiece “And Sooner Than We Know It…“, as the lonely, plaintive piano that opens the track slowly and steadily squads up with a gently rousing beat, sunbeam synths, and gorgeous, uplifting, wordless choral swells, and it feels like the ice is melting away,

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YUMI ZOUMA – ” Song For Zoe and Gwen “

Posted: February 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Yumi Zouma share another gorgeous cut from their upcoming  EP II, due out March 10th  via Cascine Records titled. “Song For Zoe & Gwen” follows the earlier tracks “Alena” and “Catastrophe.”

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