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TALLIES – ” Tallies “

Posted: December 24, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The late 80’s and early 90’s were a huge influence for many new artists. But when they cite sounds from great artists like Johnny Marr, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, and the Beach Boys, you know they are on track to something great. Combining up-beat drum beats, melodic bass riffs, jingly guitar leads, and fluttery lighter-than-air vocals, Tallies gives out a soft, yet bouncy ray of sunshine not unlike The Sundays’ debut album Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Tallies bridges that long lost sound with yet a new and youthful take on something all their own.

Coming out of Toronto, this indie pop band recently formed this year by lead singer and guitarist Sarah Cogan and guitarist Dylan Franklin. With Cian O’Neill on drums and Stephen Pitman on bass they release their debut album via Kanine Records and Fear of Missing Out.

Jingly, jangly, and memorable, Tallies hit the mark and leave a lasting impression with their debut album.

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Band Members
Guitar/Vocals: Sarah Cogan
Guitar: Dylan Frankland
Bass: Patrick McCormack
Drums: Cian O’Neill
debut album from Toronto, Canada’s Indie pop. Memphis Industries Records.
released January 11, 2019

HONEY LUNG – ” Memory “

Posted: December 9, 2019 in MUSIC
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London quartet Honey Lung are one of the most promising bands of the past few years, and their recent vinyl-only EP, Memory, released on Brooklyn’s Kanine Records, is further evidence of their striking melodic intuition and incredibly moving woe. The eight-track EP, which was recorded with help from Yuck’s Max Bloom, consists of four singles and four demos that range from dejected lo-fi sketches to some of the most satisfying hook-driven rock tracks of 2019. Young adult depression, self-deprecation and the undying need for companionship fill the lines of Memory, and though post-night-out exhilaration and downcast, sleepless nights are what largely characterize this EP, Jamie Batten’s compassionate vocals and invigorating melodies are restorative. Honey Lung made their U.S. live debut at this year’s SXSW, where they also recorded an exclusive session for the blog Paste, performing two songs from Memory and an unreleased track. Following their EP, they released a new single and their best track to date, “Nothing,” which marries the off-kilter flourishes of their demos with the fierce catchiness of their singles.

Things are looking very bright for Honey Lung in 2020.

HONEY LUNG – ” Memory “

Posted: March 8, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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London four-piece Honey Lung have consistently churned out hyper-melodic rock with heart and bite, and it’s not a stretch to say they’re writing fiery, tender rock better than any young band out there today. Memory, their recent 12-inch release via Brooklyn’s Kanine Records, consists of eight well-crafted songs—half of them singles and half demos—each with mind-bogglingly dynamic hooks and punchy riffs.

Honey Lung was coined upon a hazy writing session at Jamie’s house as they were listening to Jesus & The Mary Chain ‘Just Like Honey’. You’ll hear a lot of 90’s grunge, shoegaze, and alternative rock influence (Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins and Dinosaur Jr) in their sound as the band got into this style of music though hearing it in their parents cars. Like many young new bands, the 90’s spoke to them as it was a time they didn’t really remember, but felt a connection to.

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With a do-it-yourself attitude Honey Lung wll do things on their own terms often creating to their own desires and interests. Drawing influence from Car Seat Headrest, Sparklehorse, Elliot Smith and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the band used their charity shop guitars and a modest home recording set-up to create songs. Memory is a collection of singles, and their first ever vinyl release out on Kanine Records February 1st, 2019.

The NATVRAL – ” Home “

Posted: December 7, 2018 in MUSIC
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Renowned songwriter, known for his main band and then you suddenly write a song that just doesn’t belong? It happened recently to The Natvral, aka Kip Berman from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, “I opened my mouth one day and heard a different voice. It was mine, but unfamiliar. I didn’t know – and still don’t know – where it’ll take me, but I’m going to follow it.” So far it’s taken Kip to his debut EP as The Natvral, Know Me More, and this week he’s shared a new video to stand-out track,”Home”.

“Home” is undeniably a different beast to Kip’s other band, it’s pretty much stripped bare, just a strummed electric guitar and Kip’s vocal, which as he himself noted sounds like an almost entirely different person. Lyrically, Kip has suggested the track is, “a reflection on the relationship that began seventeen years ago as a tumultuous and short-lived romance, and grew into a marriage with two children.” Passionate, minimal, raw and honest, The Natvral is a stunning re-invention of Kip Berman’s songwriting, and whisper it, might actually be even better than The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

Know Me More is out now via Kanine Records. released October 5th 2018

WOOING – ” Could Have Been “

Posted: October 30, 2018 in MUSIC
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“I went to the moon, I saw your head up in the clouds, What could I do?” is such a great opening line from this swoon-worthy NYC trio. Back in January we had the pleasure of sharing the premiere of Wooing’s “In Colour” video, a song taken from their debut EP, Daydream Time Machine, reissued at the start of the year via Ba Da Bing Records. The New York trio will bookend with 2018 with the release of The Clouds, a new 7″ due out next month on Kanine Records. The single’s a-side “Could Have Been” is another great psych pop song, led by Rachel Trachtenburg’s breathy vocals and visionary lyrics. Working itself into a claustrophobic space, Wooing dig into brightened pockets of layered melodies and dense textural effects that rest between haunting tension and soaring above the clouds. Trachtenburg sings “once I came back down to planet Earth” creating an inescapable feeling of an alien presence, and we’re ready for the invasion. Ultimately the song deals with relationships lost as we’re left with the repeated “you could have been dear to me.”

Wooing offer hauntingly beautiful vocals backed by echoing guitars: the urgency of underground 90s rock (i.e. Helium, Quasi) meets the psychedelic Syd Barrett sounds of the 60s.

From the forthcoming 7″ The Clouds on Kanine Records,

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Rachel Trachtenburg -Guitar & Vocals
Rosie Slater -Drums
JR Thomason -Guitar

WOOING – ” Could Have Been “

Posted: October 20, 2018 in MUSIC
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Model, solo artist and singer, Rachel Trachtenburg, has been performing live since the age of just 6. Originally with The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, best known for that song about Eggs, and then in Supercute!, her music has always felt on the verge of a breakthrough. Perhaps that will come with her latest project Wooing, who have this week shared one half of their new 7″ single, Could Have Been.

Could Have Been is the first track that Wooing have worked on collaboratively, guitarist JR Thomason, and drummer Rosie Slater contributing to what is their most exciting single to date. Could Have Been is a track of beautiful contrasts; there’s an intensity to the insistent guitar line and pounding tom-heavy rhythms, that perfectly juxtaposes the lightness of the vocals and the swirling, hazy quality of the production. It’s a trick equally matched in Rachel’s vocal, one second it’s bassy and mellow, the next it leaps to yelped shrieks, as she dissects, “the disappointment of shallow friendships and the need to move on from them”. It’s a song as good as their band name, and where Wooing are concerned, consider us completely wooed.

The Clouds 7″ is out November 9th via Kanine Records.

BEVERLY – ” South Collins “

Posted: December 8, 2016 in MUSIC
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Beverly the duo of Drew Citron ( The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Frankie Rose) and Scott Rosenthal, latest album, The Blue Swell. they’ve shared a video for the track “South Collins.” Directed and edited by Pitchfork the clip mingles shots of vast woodlands with footage of an eerie bar—which becomes “a wild and progressively sinister party,” according to Citron. Read her description below, and scroll down to watch the video.

I originally wrote the song “South Collins” as a noir film script, the music and lyrics describe a murder at an art deco hotel. One weekend after a friend’s wedding in the Catskills, I came across The Colonial Inn, and it was the perfect setting to film the video. It’s a 150 house replete with 150 years worth of taxidermy and tchotchkes. The place definitely had a surreal and creepy vibe, and the owner Steve was amazing. He has a friendly relationship with a brown bear named Baby, who comes into the hotel occasionally to eat leftovers, much to the dismay of the neighbors and wildlife protection service… Steve was totally down to let me and 20 of my friends take over the hotel for a weekend, and we ended up casting him as the older bartender.
The idea behind the video is that I walk into a hotel, and the sight of me triggers the bartender’s flashbacks to a nightclub singer he met decades before at the same hotel. A wild and progressively sinister party ensues. Years later he is still haunted by it – what happened that night? Director Jim Larson created the perfect look of an eerie “Twin Peaks” Shining-like world, without getting too overtly into ghost stories and the supernatural.

South Collins is from the Beverly album The Blue Swell.

 

 

KANINE RECORDS – Record Labels We Love

Posted: June 9, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Founded in 2002, We are a Brooklyn/NY based record label. We have releases by: Surfer Blood, Grizzly Bear, Chairlift, Fear of Men, Beverly, Pinact, Flowers, Leave the Planet, Eternal Summers, September Girls, Flowers, Bleeding Rainbow, Beach Day, Splashh, BRAIDS, The Depreciation Guild, Young Prisms, Four Volts and more. 

Kanine Records is an independent record label based in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York started at the end of 2002 by Lio and Kay. Their first release, NY: The Next Wave, was a 20 track compilation featuring mostly unsigned and emerging acts from the area. From there, they started to sign local bands and release CD EPs, 12 inch vinyl and eventually full length records. The label continues as an independent and continues to grow due to the continued success of artists like Grizzly Bear, Chairlift and Surfer Blood. Recent and upcoming releases include albums by The Blow, Bleeding Rainbow, Eternal Summers, Beach Day, Fear of Men, Valleys and Splashh.

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WEAVES – ” Weaves ” Debut Album

Posted: June 9, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In a little over two short years, Weaves has gone from a collection of voice memos on Jasmyn Burke’s iPhone to establishing themselves as one of the most stridently individual acts to emerge from Toronto’s fertile and multifaceted DIY scene. Led by the collaborative efforts of Jasmyn Burke and Morgan Waters, the band has built a devoted audience while capturing the attention of the international media with a brand of ebullient, art-damaged pop music as difficult to categorize as it is to ignore.

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Weaves has been working on their debut LP for almost as long as they have been a band, tracking with Leon Taheny (Dilly Dally, Owen Pallett, Austra) in sessions that span most of the last two years. Mixed by Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Melvins, At The Drive In) and mastered by John Greenham (Death Grips, Sky Ferreira), the result is an album that traverses the band’s history, exploring every facet of their always adventurous approach to pop music and leaving no idea unexplored. Filled beyond bursting with hooks and possibilities, it’s the sound of a band propelled forward by the thrill of discovering the limits of their sound and gleefully pushing past them. “We’re always trying to push ourselves,” says Waters, “sometimes it feels like bands aren’t necessary, like they’re not the one’s pushing music forward, so I think we’re trying to hopefully prove that bands aren’t boring. If we are going to be a band and if we are going to do this guitar, bass and drums thing then we might as well see how much we can fuck it up.”

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Weaves self-titled debut album is out June 17th, 2016 on Kanine Records

You can also catch Weaves on tour in the UK and Europe, including free instore shows at Rough Trade London and Nottingham. Full dates as follows:

Jun 08, London, UK, Dingwalls #
Jun 09, Birmingham, UK, Sunflower Lounge #
Jun 10, Edinburgh, UK, Electric Circus #
Jun 11, Liverpool, UK, Studio 2 #
Jun 12, Manchester, UK, Deaf Institute #
Jun 13, Nottingham, UK, Bodega #
Jun 14, Cardiff, UK, The Globe #
Jun 15, Cambridge, UK, Portland Arms #
Jun 17, Antwerp, BE, Trix
Jun 18, Hilvarenbeek, NL, Best Kept Secret festival
Jun 20, Nottingham, UK, Rough Trade (instore)
Jun 21, London, UK, Rough Trade East (instore)
Jun 24, Oslo, NO, Piknik I Parken
Jun 30, Derby, UK, The Venue
Jul 01, Bedford, UK, Esquires
Jul 02, Aldershot, UK, West End Centre
Jul 03, Brighton, UK, Hope and Ruin
Jul 04, Guildford, UK, Boileroom
Jul 08, Winchester, UK, Railway
Jul 09, Milton Keynes, UK, Craufurd Arms
Jul 12, Leicester, UK, The Musician
Jul 14, London, Shacklewell Arms
Jul 15, Southwold, UK, Latitude festival
Jul 17, Glasgow, UK, Nice N Sleazy
Jul 18, Newcastle, UK, Think Tank
Jul 19, Leeds, UK, Brudenell Social Club
Jul 23, Huntington, UK, Secret Garden Party festival
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FEAR OF MEN – ” Loom ” Best Albums Of 2014

Posted: May 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Loom is rife with allusions to water, employing it as a compelling motif for navigating through the complexities and paradoxes of romantic relationships. Throughout the album, frontwoman Jessica Weiss conveys her thoughts in an insular first person conversation with a nebulous “you”; arguably, not since The Smiths have we come across a group so hypersensitive of their own inner workings as Fear of Men. Brighton, UK based Fear of Men, first introduced in the US via 2013′s much praised singles compilation “Early Fragments,” then they presented their much anticipated debut album “Loom”

Fear of Men is Jessica Weiss (Guitar & Vocals), Daniel Falvey (Guitar), Michael Miles (Drums, Keys).

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