New York City has bred an intimidating young scene over the past five years, one not easily rivaled by any of the Empire State’s other musical epicenters. Mitski, LVL Up, Porches, and Crying are just a few notable names who hail from the college town, and now, Pupppy can be added to that list. Pupppy originated in 2013 as the solo project of singer-songwriter Will Rutledge, but it has since evolved into a quartet who will release their debut full-length, “Shit In The Apple Pie”, later this year on Father/Daughter Records. “Beans” is the album’s contemplative first single; a self-conscious effort to “tell it like it is” and attempt to conquer feelings of inadequacy. “My foot is stuck/ In my mouth/ Until I shove it all the way down/ To the bottom of my throat/ Then I puke/ Truth all over you,” Rutledge sings in the first minute. Shit In The Apple Pie has been a long time in the making,
Posts Tagged ‘Father Daughter Records’
PUPPPY – ” Beans “
Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSICTags: Father Daughter Records, New York City, Pupppy, Will Rutledge
DIET CIG – ” Harvard “
Posted: February 19, 2015 in MUSICTags: Alex Luciano, Diet Ciq, Father Daughter Records, New York
Upstate New York duo Diet Cig, Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman signed up to Father/Daughter Records home to the band Pure Bathing Culture to release their debut EP “Over Easy”.
The EP is five-tracks of fun and melodic lo-fi pop punk music and the video for the track ‘Scene Sick’, a song which addresses the self-importance of musicians in a band matches that visually in the opposite way, with Alex dancing along in cute fashion that trivialises all other music further.
SOFT CAT – ” Somebody “
Posted: February 13, 2015 in MUSICTags: All Energy Will Rise, Father Daughter Records, Folk, Soft Cat
Soft Cat are a hugely underrated folk act out of Baltimore who with “Lost No Labor“. After two years, they are releasing their third album, “All Energy Will Rise”, on April 7th via Miscreant/Father Daughter Records. Today we’re premiering “Somebody” as the first taste of “All Energy Will Rise”, an appeal to our endless search for intimacy, even when it’s an unspecified desire. At the epicenter of Soft Cat is Neil Sanzgiri, whose songs unfurl like ribbons, needling you with each new element: horns, flutes, cello, violin, banjo, and classical and electric guitar. Just days after the release of “Lost No Labor” in 2013, a fire devastated the artist-run gallery, performance venue, and library known as Open Space, where most of the musicians involved in Soft Cat lived. With seventeen members of this artistic collective now effectively displaced, and the recent death of a friend looming heavy, Sanzgiri relocated to a farm to work on new music. These circumstances fueled his songwriting, and “Somebody” feels especially laden with grief, as the whirring, urgent strings fade into quieter vocal melodies.
LVL UP – ” Somebody Kill Me Please “
Posted: February 12, 2015 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Compilation, Father Daughter Records, LVL Up
We reached out to Father/Daughter’s Records co-founder, Jessi Frick, to talk about her experience with Record Store Day, and how she’s releasing the next “Faux Real” compilation number two outside of the event. Premiering the first song from the new compilation: It’s from Brooklyn rockers LVL UP, who cover “Somebody Kill Me Please” as originally performed by Adam Sandler (aka Robbie Hart) in the movie “The Wedding Singer”.
DIET CIG – ” Harvard ” and ” Scene Six “
Posted: January 30, 2015 in MUSICTags: Alex Luciano, Diet Cig, Father Daughter Records
Diet Cig, are the rising New Paltz, New York duo who tell it like it is. Whereas the jangly indie poppers called out shitty bands and DIY-hypocrisy on debut single “Scene Sick”, their newest song, “Harvard”, finds them taking hoity-toity Ivy Leaguers to task.
Atop explosive guitars and ramshackle drums, Alex Luciano acerbically sings to her ex, “How’s your new Ivy League girlfriend? Is she boring too in the way I couldn’t stand to be?” It’s a biting, angry, and ultimately charming dose of pop punk. Along with “Scene Sick”, “Harvard” will appear on the band’s debut EP, “Over Easy”, which is out February 24th via Father/Daughter Records.
ANOMIE – ” So Long “
Posted: January 9, 2015 in MUSICTags: Anomie, Father Daughter Records, Field Mouse, Rachel Browne
I know we’re less than ten days into 2015, but I can safely say that Father/Daughter Records is already killing it this year. Earlier this week, a new song from newcomers Diet Cig that I haven’t been able to stop listening to since I first heard it. And now today, we can introduce another stellar EP that is coming out on the label next month by Anomie. The name might sound unfamiliar, but it’s the solo moniker of Rachel Browne, who’s the vocalist and guitarist of dream pop band Field Mouse. Anomie shows Rachel going in a new direction, and it’s one that I already can’t get enough of.
“So Long” is the first of four tracks on Anomie’s upcoming EP, and it rips and roars like nothing Rachel’s done before. There’s a visible urgency to the song, like Rachel has something she needed to get off her chest, The following track follows suit until Rachel slows it down for the latter half of the album, exploring the range of emotions and feelings that come from heartache. The album officially comes out on February 10th but you can listen to “So Long” .
Rachel Browne on Anomie:
“I wrote a bunch of songs while hiding out last year between moving out of my home in New York and into a totally new life in Philadelphia. I wanted them to reflect the exact moments that I wrote them in, and not look too far ahead. I’d finished writing for my band Field Mouse’s album and had these other ideas that I needed to get out. Anomie was a name I had used since high school to file writing and art I’d been working on, and it seemed fitting to continue on with that in this project.”
DIET CIG – ” Scene Sick “
Posted: January 6, 2015 in MUSICTags: Alex Luciano, Diet Ciq, Father Daughter Records
Outside of a handful of shows, Diet Cig have virtually no footprint; the song we’re premiering below, “Scene Sick,” is the first track they’ve ever released to the public. So I’m going to have to get a little personal to get my point across that you have to listen to this band. Their heart-stopping debut EP (which is out next month via Father/Daughter Records, I’ve been playing it non-stop it helped me get through a particularly depressing winter season with a smile. So who are they, Diet Cig are a duo made up of Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman, based out of the fertile ground that is SUNY New Paltz. Their clean-cut, driving punk isn’t treading any new sonic ground, but they have five stone-cold classics on their debut “Over Easy” EP, which is brimming with an intense and undeniable energy. They’re instantly likable, effortlessly anthemic, and delightfully easygoing — and they inspire a boundless enthusiasm in me that feels like I’m rabidly foaming at the mouth.
The EP plays like a greatest hits record, even though the band only came together this past summer. Luciano’s lyrics are incisive, endlessly quotable, and beg to be dissected and taken to heart. Noah Bowman injects these songs with a gooey and lived-in freneticism; his drumming is like oxygen fanning the flame. “Scene Sick” .
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