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TREVOR SENSOR – ” Audiotree Live Session “

Posted: July 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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From the first moments of Trevor Sensor’s debut EP for Jagjaguwar, “Texas Girls and Jesus Christ”, the Illinois-born 22-year-old singer/songwriter’s distinctive burr of a voice sounds aged decades beyond his years. The rest of the young talent’s music follows suit, too, with timeless-sounding melodies and a sense of songwriting that exudes maturity while still feeling fresh.

Sensor wrote the music featured on Texas Girls and Jesus Christ on a borrowed acoustic guitar that he has yet to return, composing songs that sound deeply felt and from a place of truth and honesty. “If I’m trying to do anything, it’s to be sincere,” he says about his songwriting approach.”A lot of singer/songwriters today are oriented in irony. It’s cooler to be lackadaisical rather than to try to be compelling.” And Sensor’s music, above all else, is compelling the proclamatory howls that close out the piano-ed “Pacing the Cage,” the dark desolation of “Satan’s Man”, and the dynamic blowout of the EP’s title track grab your attention and refuse to let go. “I think it’s very boring when people choose one dynamic and go with it,” Sensor opines on the full-band jolt that takes place in the thrilling back half of “Texas Girls and Jesus Christ. “It’s more interesting to me when people try to mix things up and treat every song as if it were its own person.”

“Songs are gateways into little worlds, and different worlds do different things,” Sensor states regarding his approach to songwriting.

Trevor Sensor performs on Audiotree Live, May 16th, 2016.

TREVOR SENSOR – ” Judas Said To Be A Man “

Posted: July 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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Trevor Sensor is a songwriter from Illinois. The Sterling, Illinois native washes his raw noises with modern US woes. Raised in an ailing rust belt town (formerly the ‘Hardware Capital Of The World’, now akin to the “Lynchian neighbourhood of Lumberton from Blue Velvet”), Sensor’s slogged through the fading American Dream.

With his interest in The Violent Femmes, Smashing Pumpkins, J.D. Salinger, Arthur Miller and more, it was clear that small town life wasn’t his future. On lone-wandering travels, Sensor learned from “ex-junkies” he washed dishes with, and began to set his troubles to music – the result’s a ground-down, but remarkably hopeful, voice searching for redemption, identity, and a place to call home.
His second EP, ‘Starved Nights of Saturday Stars, will be out AUGUST 5th

“Judas Said to be a Man” available on iTunes. Full single, including “Endless Shame” out May 27th, 2016 on Jagjaguwar Records.

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ANGEL OLSEN – ” Intern / Shut Up Kiss Me “

Posted: June 30, 2016 in MUSIC
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It appears we will be getting a new Angel Olsen album soon. The singer-songwriter debuted a video for a new track today that, according to Shazam, is titled “Intern” from an album called My Woman. The clip was directed by Olsen herself with collaborative input from Ashley Connor and Jethro Waters. Olsen’s last album, the remarkable Burn Your Fire For No Witness, was one of our favorites of 2014. Check out “Intern” below.

Angel Olsen last album was 2014’s excellent Burn Your Fire For No Witness (one of our favorites of that year), and it looks like we may get a followup soon.  she just put out a new song/video called “Intern” and Shazam says the song is on a release called No Woman. The song is closer to classic ’60s pop than the folk/rock vibes of Burn Your Fire, with her voice backed by nothing more than some atmospheric keyboards.
The video was written and directed by Angel Olsen with collaborative input from Ashley Connor and Jethro Waters.

Having announced her third studio album My Woman – out on September 2nd via Jagjaguwar Records – Angel Olsen has shared the video for excellent new single Shut Up Kiss Me.

Directed by Olsen herself, the video encapsulates everything that’s captivating about her and her music – fiery, yet beguilingly playful, whilst the song itself has a nervy, grungy quality to it with an edge of desperation.

BRIANA MARELA – ” All Around Us “

Posted: December 31, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This is the third album by the Seattle experimental ambient pop singer/songwriter. Her first two albums were self-released, but she joined the Jagjaguwar Records family for this album. In a separate development, she joined forces with st, who has produced records for Sigur Rós. So she’s got better production, she’s got label support, and she had a significant tour to support the new album, which came out on August 21st. Because of her sweet voice of an angel-child, she’s compared to the late Trish Keenan out of Broadcast, and to Jessie Stein out of The Luyas. As much as I like both of those bands and both of those singers, I like this even more. Again, this was an album that wasn’t really all that well-received by critics, .

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Briana’s lyrics are forceful, and throughout her second album, ‘All Around Us’, traditional song structure gives way to plainspoken declarations that pull back the record’s shroud. Her first single,“Surrender” is musically delicate at first, with flickering blips and chords that float into earshot like fireflies. “Take Care of Me” is the album’s brightest and most immediate song, a buoyant celebration of friendship with a skittering beat and a warm, sweet melody. And title track “All Around Us” is a stark but inspiring beauty, built on the memory of a family member of Briana’s who passed away, and the sadness of not being able to say “goodbye” or “I love you” one last time. It is the balance of the abstract and the intimate that makes Briana Marela and ‘All Around Us’ so special.

Utterly beautiful collection of heartfelt & dreamy songs, perfect for an evening of emotional self-indulgence

BRIANA MARELA – ” Surrender / Take Care Of Me “

Posted: December 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Briana Marela is an ambient pop/experimental singer/songwriter from Seattle. I don’t know anything about her and had never heard of her until I got an email promoting the new album, which came out this year on  Jagjaguwar Records.

She self-released a cassette-only album called Water Ocean Lake in 2010, followed by the Speak From Your Heart album in 2012. She immediately got to work on the new album, writing the songs in 2012/2013. Through a series of circumstances, her new songs found their way into the hands of Sigur Rós producer Alex Somers, and they started working together in Iceland to get All Around Us made. At some point in the process, she joined the roster at Jagjaguwar. While this is her third album, it’s the first with label support and the first that will have a significant tour to back it. Her tour, by the way, is a run through North America as the opening act for ambient/electro songstress Jenny Hval.

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”I started out that song with just the chorus, ‘you take care of me like I’m the only one’. I had written the first verse for it, then I felt that I wanted a song with a beat and I had a little Casio keyboard with beats on it. I’d recorded different beats and put them in a computer, then I panned one left and the other right before I put them together and slowed it down a bit. There was something with the beat that I liked. From there I just recorded the vocals I had over it and then started writing chords. There was an earlier demo version that was on a cassette compilation in a magazine called The Believer, a very early version of the song when I just had recorded it. This guy Calvin Johnson from K Records had asked me to put it on the compilation, and I was like ‘okay, it’s not really done yet but I’ll put it out”.

I wrote it about the person I was dating at the time. I’ve really only had two big relationships in my life, I’m kind of flick, I don’t really date people that much. I’m kind of shy and weird. So it was my second big relationship and it was a lot different than my first where I felt like I was the one nurturing the other person a lot, trying to help take care of him. Making sure things were okay for him, he was an artist and kind of unstable. Then the second was almost the opposite, I was the unstable one, frantic and weird and he was always helping me. I felt it was so nice to be helped and have someone who made things right when you were just feeling helpless and distraught.”

– Briana Marela

BRIANA MARELA – ” Surrender “

Posted: June 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Judging by the gorgeous, grand and glitchy sound of her new single ‘Surrender’, we’re pretty sure new Jagjaguwar signing Briana Marela is going to release one of the most enchanting and captivating albums of the year when it’s out in August. Produced by Alex Somers (Sigur Ros) and with strings by Amiina, Briana has certainly surrounded herself with some impressive cohorts…

Opening with Disney-fied synth-based atmospherics, Briana’s delicate vocals – which sit somewhere between Regine from Arcade Fire, Cat Power and Tegan and Sara – lilt over the elegant instrumentation as she sings: ‘I’ll give you all I’ve got’ over and over and again before demanding your attention with the line ‘I abandon my mind’ – just as the song hits its hypnotic peak. With its dreamy feel and the computer-based manipulation of melody and vocals, Briana will appeal to those who love Efterklang, Meursault and other bands who specialise in offbeat yet elegant pop.

Briana Marela – “Surrender”
New Record ‘All Around Us’ out August 21st on Jagjaguwar!

SHARON VAN ETTEN – ” Just Like Blood “

Posted: May 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sharon Van Etten is releasing the “I Don’t Want to Let You Down” EP on June 9th. She’s already shared the title track; now, she’s shared a new song called “Just Like Blood”. Listen to it above.

Sharon Van Etten could sing the instruction manual for a dishwasher and make it sound like lyrical poetry. Over the course of four full-lengths albums, her voice has only evolved and grown both bolder and more nuanced. Van Etten plays every word like an instrument, bending one note into the next with a woozy purr that’s sometimes sensual, sometimes heart breaking but always arresting. “Just Like Blood,” the latest single from Van Etten’s upcoming EP, It is a slinky slow burner that finds the singer rifling through the vestiges of a torrid love affair, recalling how it triggered her darkest impulses. As with most of Van Etten’s work, her voice is the centerpiece, curling around simple organ and piano lines. “You set me off just like a gun,” she sings. “Then you run just like blood.” It’s the moment in a tanking relationship when you realize the other person only brought out the worst in you.
New EP ‘I Don’t Want To Let You Down’ out June 9th on Jagjaguwar Records

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA – ” Multi Love “

Posted: February 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Unknown Mortal Orchestra have announced their new album “Multi-Love”, due out May 26th via Jagjaguwar Records. It follows 2013’s II. Along with the announcement, the band have shared the title track, which you can listen to above.  The Band have also annouced some UK dates. In a press release, frontman Ruban Nielson said:

It felt good to be rebelling against the typical view of what an artist is today, a curator. It’s more about being someone who makes things happen in concrete ways. Building old synthesizers and bringing them back to life, creating sounds that aren’t quite like anyone else’s. I think that’s much more subversive.

02-22 Newcastle, England – 6 Music Festival
05-20 Bristol, England – Thekla
05-21 London, England – Islington Assembly Hall
05-22 Coventry, England – Warwick University *
05-23 Liverpool, England – Liverpool Sound City

 

ANGEL OLSEN – ” Lights Out “

Posted: January 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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“Burn Your Fire For No Witness”, Angel Olsen’s new album, isn’t an experimental piece of work by anyone’s standards, but it represents a vast step forward for Olsen. Musically, she’s changed everything, combining her ghostly folk with some beautifully executed ’90s-style indie fuzz. But the real great thing about the new album is this: Olsen suddenly sounds like a real person.

Angel Olsen is singing about the same things on the “Burn Your Fire” as she was on “Half Way Home”: Loneliness and longing, and the way you look at the world when you’re always trapped inside your own head. But there’s also giddy elation there from time to time, and deep connection. The first words she sings on opener “Unfucktheworld” are these: “I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you / I started dancing just to be around you.” And even though it’s not a happy song — it’s about losing all that happiness, not finding it — there’s a conversational directness to it that I didn’t hear on her older songs.

 

VIET CONG – ” Bunker Buster “

Posted: January 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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Viet Cong feature two ex-members (bassist Matthew Flegel and drummer Michael Wallace) of Calgary band Women, who were a difficult listen indeed. Viet Cong offer more immediate pleasures, if you’re a fan of dark and dramatic, postpunk, goth-ish rock such as Joy Division, the Cure and even Psychedelic Furs. They’re very early 80s, not in the new romantic sense, but in the sense of bands indulging their miserabilist sides before the Smiths added humour to the mix. Their first EP Cassette came out on Mexican Summer but have since signed to Jagjaguwar, with an album . Expect it to include Silhouettes, which has an Interpol-like urgency to it, Continental Shelf, on which they channel the wild spirit of the Doors, and Bunker Buster, a hypnotic groove with jagged guitars slashing across the rhythm’s surface. And you can dance to it

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