PSYCHIC ILLS – ” Inner Journey Out ” Best albums Of 2016

Posted: December 10, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The seekers in New York City’s Psychic Ills have spent more than a decade following their muse wherever it takes them. Inner Journey Out, the band’s highly anticipated fifth album and first since 2013, is the culmination of an odyssey of three years of writing, traversing the psych-rock landscape they’ve carved throughout their career and taking inspired pilgrimages into country, blues, gospel, and jazz.

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Inner Journey Out started out the way many Psychic Ills records have – with frontman Tres Warren’s demos. Like all of their records, Elizabeth Hart’s bass is the glue that holds everything together. Where other recent albums found Warren overdubbing himself to create a blown-out, widescreen sound, this recording handed the reigns to a multitude of guest players. A cadre of musicians and vocalists – including Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, who duets on lead single “I Don’t Mind” – join in on the journey. This is the first record to feature touring keyboard player Brent Cordero, his Farfisa and Wurlitzer work is a staple throughout. Rounding things out, is a platoon of drummers and percussionists including Chris Millstein, Harry Druzd of Endless Boogie, Derek James of The Entrance Band, and Charles Burst, one of the record’s engineers. These musicians build the frame on which Warren lays his hazy guitar and vocals. An endless array of friends and guests also provide pedal steel guitar, horns, strings, and backing vocals, which culminate in a career-defining moment for the Ills.

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Thematically, Inner Journey Out is a detailed exploration of the interior and the exterior, and the pathway between the two. The focused songwriting makes the stylistic departures fit seamlessly within the band’s dexterous ethos. The rousing gospel number “Another Change” and the far-out free jazz exploration “Ra Wah Wah” help shape Inner Journey Out into a multi-faceted, full album experience. It’s the most personal Psychic Ills album, too, hinting tantalizingly at love and loss but denying the listener resolution — asking questions, but never answering; seeking, but never fully concluding.

A decade on from releasing their critically lauded cult debut, Dins, and the deep dive into cosmic improvisation of Mirror Eye that followed, through the more recent and straightforward outings of Hazed Dream and One Track Mind, Psychic Ills have delivered their most remarkable statement yet with Inner Journey Out.

THE DRONES – ” To Think I Once Loved You “

Posted: December 9, 2016 in MUSIC
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The group has taken a serious left turn with their seventh album, “Feelin Kinda Free”. “We said ‘fuck it’ and went spaz, It’s a pretty weird record and you can dance to it,” Liddiard said of the album. “It’s time to have a groovy Drones record. We’re sick of being a bunch of drags.” The bands single “Taman Shud” voted the Australian song of the year was one of the most compelling singles of last year, but good luck to anyone who hit the dance floor to its skittish rhythms.

Boredom, the sixth track on Feelin Kinda Free, is in a similar vein. If the Drones once came on like the mutant, brawling blues-punk offspring of the Birthday Party and Beasts of Bourbon, this sounds more like the mostly forgotten Australian post-punk.

“The best songs are like bad dreams,” mutters Liddiard  It’s a fabulous opening line – and what follows is a succession of nightmares.
The Angry Penguins movement of the 1940s was an interrogation, and rejection, of an earlier kind of Australian nationalism represented by the bush balladeers. Feelin Kinda Free is as decisive a repudiation, both of the Drones’ past and of the mythic, The dominant themes here are immigration and its attendant cousin, paranoia. And Then They Came For Me finds Liddiard “feeling like I’ve overstayed”.

Taman Shud and Boredom aside, Feelin Kinda Free slithers by like a serpent in search of its next meal. The feel is unhurried, but menacing. While the songs still stretch out like elastic, there are only eight of them, so at 41 minutes, the album doesn’t outstay its welcome. The emphasis is mostly on bass and percussion: guitars are heavily treated; frequently, you’d be forgiven for thinking there are no guitars at all.

The closest thing to anything from the Drones’ past is the agonised To Think That I Once Loved You, which sits squarely in the album’s centre without dragging it down. Otherwise, Feelin Kinda Free sounds like the work of a less dour and far more subversive band.

The Drones – To Think That I Once Loved You
Tropical Fuck Storm Records – From the album Feelin Kinda Free

The JULIE RUIN – ” Oh Come On “

Posted: December 2, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Julie Ruin return with the album Hit Reset which expands on the band’s established sound: its dancier in spots and moodier in others, with girl group backing vocals and even a touching ballad closer. Hit Reset is the sound of a band who have found their sweet spot. Kathleen Hanna’s vocals are empowered and her lyrics are as pointed and poignant as ever. From the chilling first lines of Hit Reset (“Deer hooves hanging on the wall, shell casings in the closet hall”) to the touching lines of Calverton “(“Without you I might be numb, hiding in my apartment from everyone / Without you I’d take the fifth, or be on my death bed still full of wishes”), Hanna takes a leap into the personal not seen completely on the first album or possibly even in the rest of her work.

from the debut album THE JULIE RUN have issued some great videos,

The GHOST OF THE SABRE TOOTH TIGER- ” Poor Paul Getty ” live On KUTX

Posted: December 1, 2016 in MUSIC
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The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger is Sean Lennon and his girlfriend, the fashion model Charlotte Kemp Muhl. This song is an ode to the grandson of oil tycoon Paul Getty, who in 1973 was abducted for ransom by Italian kidnappers and had his ear cut off before his grandfather finally agreed to their demands. Paul III was permanently affected by the trauma and became a drug addict and later suffered a stroke, which rendered him speechless, nearly blind and partially paralyzed for the rest of his life.

Sean Lennon does currently resemble his father circa 1969. He and Charlotte Kemp Muhl have been songwriting partners (and also a couple) for six years, progressing from sweet acoustic sketches to the psych-rock of their current album, Midnight Sun, a big, crashy record that salutes Sgt Pepper and air-kisses the Flaming Lips.

With Muhl on bass and four capable, boho-looking utility players whipping up wigged-out guitar spirals and organ swirls, the GOASTT create a swampy, forceful sound. Lennon favours a mic that flattens and frazzles his voice.

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THE DRONES – ” I See Seaweed “

Posted: November 17, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Drones. On their fifth album proper, I See Seaweed, the Australian five-piece engage directly with the weirdness of the contemporary Australian experience. Here songwriter and lead Drone Gareth Liddiard eviscerates the hypocrisy of Australia’s conservative politicians, narrative-based songs are located firmly in terra Australis: ‘They’ll Kill You’ is a paean for an ex-lover who has, like so many others, gone off to Europe in a vain attempt to escape her own flaws; ‘Nine Eyes’ sees Liddiard using Google Street view to observe the social economic damage wrought on his home town of Port Hedland by “cashed-up bogan” mine workers.

The Drones have always traded in this kind of fire-and-brimstone, but it’s never sounded quite this good. One of the most obvious improvements has to do with new full-time member Steve Hesketh, whose piano and keyboard work seems not so much to add startlingly new elements to the band’s songs but to allow them to develop their artier ambitions and perform their more technically difficult material live. This personnel addition bodes well for Liddiard’s songs, though, as the additional textural detail Hesketh provides allows the songs to rely less on bludgeoning loud/soft contrasts than in the past.

Perhaps the most significant change in I See Seaweed, though, is a softening of Liddiard’s previously dogmatic misanthropy, which is on display in both the album opener ‘I See Seaweed’ and its closer, ‘Why Write a Letter That You’ll Never Send’ has plenty of zingers, but the structure of the song reveals that they’re equally self-directed: supposedly an email from a friend Liddiard is reading “verbatim” (in rhyming couplets?), its chorus features Liddiard chiding his “friend”: “Why write a letter that you’ll never send?” he asks, reminding us that “everybody’s hurting / and their needs are always stark.” It may be too late to avert the coming disaster, but we need not revel in the end – I See Seaweed’s ultimate message is that we can wait out the apocalypse and make the most of what little time remains with decency, tenderness and humour.

ECHO and the BUNNYMEN – ” Peel Session ” August 1979

Posted: August 30, 2016 in MUSIC
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they were first transmitted on The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1 on 22nd August 1979.

The complete session recorded at studio number four at BBC Radio‘s Maida Vale Studios by Echo & The Bunnymen on 15th August 1979 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and  they were first transmitted on The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1 on 22nd August 1979.

Echo and The Bunnymen were
Ian Mcculloch (Guitar, Vocals)
Will Sergeant (Guitar)
Les Pattinson (Bass)
Dave Balfe (Keyboards, Percussion, Drum Machine)

Tracklist:

1. Read It In Books (0:07)
2. Stars Are Stars (2:39)
3. I Bagsy Yours (5:46)
4. Villiers Terrace (8:41)

LUCIUS – ” Don’t Just Sit There “

Posted: December 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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From the excellent new album Wilderwoman, Lucius is a band that scales well, in the sense that they can sound good in just about any venue, with just about any set-up or aesthetic. You can take their show and shrink it down to the size of our intimate SXSW sessions with the band, reveling in the sumptuous, naturalistic vocals of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, or you can just as easily put them in a huge theater and crank things up to achieve a sound that is closer to the material found on their still-amazing Wildewoman debut LP. The two identities are quite distinct, and perhaps inspire strong feelings about which is the “real” Lucius, but both leave audiences equally rapt. We can’t wait to see how this facet of their live performance evolves as they tour for the release of their March 2016 sophomore album Good Grief.

LIVE at LEEDS FESTIVAL – Various Venue Leeds – 2nd May 2015

Posted: March 30, 2015 in FESTIVALS, WE LOVE
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Back for its ninth annual outing, Live at Leeds assumes its customary position over the early May bank holiday weekend. Buoyed by the success of having bagged last year’s coveted ‘Best Metropolitan Festival’ award, this time around it promises two hundred bands, twenty venues and one wristband – all for the unbeatable value of £27.

Live at Leeds has built a strong reputation upon an ethos of promoting local talent alongside more established national and international artists, whilst also being one of the very best places at which to catch the year’s breakthrough acts.

The festival has today revealed its venues and scheduling for the event that this year falls on May 1st. .

Eagulls, Hookworms, Carl Barat, Tobias Jesso Jr, Telegram and Meance Beach to name a handful will be in attendance. Add to that the plethora of bands who will be adorning your favourite magazines and site (ahem!) next year and the heart skips a beat.

Take a look at the newly added to the line-up below and in the midst of daydreams about destroying a beloved and old city full of blackened churches and deep dark basements of debauchery (Hyde Park, you know who you are!), try not to click this link for tickets.

Or here for the schedule. 

Full Lineup So Far Below:

THE CRIBS | LAWSON | SWIM DEEP | PALMA VIOLETS
CARL BARAT & THE JACKALS | DRY THE RIVER | DUTCH UNCLES | EAGULLS | EMMY THE GREAT | GAZ COOMBES | GEORGE THE POET HOOKWORMS | LAUREN AQUILINA | LUCY ROSE | MNEK | RALEIGH RITCHIE | RHODES | SAINT RAYMOND | SLAVES | SPECTOR STORNOWAY | STORMZY | SUNSET SONS | THE STRYPES | THURSTON MOORE BAND | WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

ARCANE ROOTS | BLOSSOMS | BOXED IN | BRAWLERS | CHILDHOOD | EKKAH
FLO MORRISSEY | H. HAWKLINE | JAGAARA | JOANNA GRUESOME | JP COOPER
LAURA DOGGETT | LONELADY | MENACE BEACH | MISTY MILLER | NIMMO
NOTHING BUT THIEVES | PALACE | PRETTY VICIOUS | REAL LIES | ROLO TOMASSI
SCARS ON 45 | SPRING KING | TELEGRAM | TOBIAS JESSO JR | TOM WILLIAMS | YAK

ACTOR | A.O.S.O.O.N | ADAM FRENCH | ADY SULEIMAN | ALEX BUREY | ALFIE CONNOR | ALMA ELSTE | AMY STUDT | AMY YON ASTRONOMYY | AYLEE | BAD//DREEMS | BEACH BABY | BILLIE BLACK | BLACK HONEY | BLACK PEAKS | BLOODY KNEES | BRONCHO BRUISING | BULLY | C DUNCAN | CAIROBI | CARNABELLS | CHAIKA | CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM | CHARLIE HOLE | CHLOE BLACK | CLAY | CLOUD CASTLE LAKE COLD OCEAN LIES | COLOUR OF SPRING | COMPNY | CROWS | DAN OWEN | ELDERBROOK | FEHM | FOREVER CULT | FOSSA FRANCES | FRANCISCO THE MAN | FRANKO FRAIZE | FRASER A. GORMAN | FREDDIE DICKSON & THE GUARD | GET INUIT | GLACIER PACIFIC GULF | HONNE | HOOTON TENNIS CLUB | HYENA | IYES | JAKIL | JAMIE LAWSON | JASMINE THOMPSON JET SETTER | JONNY O’DONNELL | JONNY QUITS | KATE MILLER | KELVIN JONES | KID WAVE | LAKE KOMO | LAUREL | LIVES | LONGFELLOW | LOUIS BERRY | MAN MADE | MARSICANS | MONOGRAM | NEW VINYL | NGOD | OCEAAN | OHBOY! | OLIVER PINDER | ONLY GIRL | OSCA | OSCAR | OSCAR AND THE WOLF | PINKSHINYULTRABLAST | PIXEL FIX | PLASTIC MERMAIDS | POLO | PORT ISLA | PROM PROSE | RACING GLACIERS | RAKETKANON | RAT BOY | REBECCA CLEMENTS | REDFACES | ROBYN SHERWELL | RUPERT STROUD | SAM GRIFFITHS | SAMUEL S.PARKES | SAMUEL FORD | SEA LION | SEAFRET | SHELTER POINT | SKINNY LIVING | SOPHIE JAMIESON | TALOS | TENTERHOOK | THABO AND THE REAL DEAL | THE ACADEMIC | THE AMAZONS | THE BEACH | THE COMPUTERS THE HALF EARTH | THE MAGIC GANG | THE MISPERS | THE MOON | THE ORIELLES | THE RIPTIDE MOVEMENT | THE VRYLL SOCIETY | TIBET | TREASON KINGS TWIN WILD | VANT | VAULTS | VENDETTAS | VITAMIN | WALKING ON CARS | WHILK AND MISKY | WOODEN ARMS | WULF | YURS | ZIBRA
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Tickets and full line-up information: http://www.liveatleeds.com/

MINOR ALPS – ” Waiting For You “

Posted: March 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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Here’s the new Minor Alps “Waiting For You” video directed by Emilie and Sarah Barbault. It was shot in the Bastille area of Paris and features the actors Julie Gayet and Philippe Rebbot. The album that Matthew Caws (of Nada Surf) and Juliana Hatfield is a new project called Minor Alps! Our album, Get There is out now

SWERVEDRIVER – ” Never Lose That Feeling “

Posted: March 28, 2015 in MUSIC
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the new track from Swervedriver is a little more grungy but with great duelling guitars,
It’s been a long time coming — seventeen years long, to be precise — but on March 6th, Swervedriver are ready to release a brand new album, I Wasn’t Born To Lose You, marking the shoegaze vets’ first full-length record since 1998’s 99th Dream.

The question isn’t so much why the wait, after all, as the band was broken up and had been silent for almost ten years before reconvening around 2007. Reunion tours do strange things to bands: they either revive old battles or, as in this case, remind them of great musical bonds. Still, a new album was a subject Swervedriver approached cautiously.

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