Matt turned me on to the fine folks of Guts Club. It’s some Be Good Tanyas with an edge shit and it’s great. So keep those Whale Legs beneath you and listen. You can read more via Tiny Mix Tapes.
Tag: audio
Katie Dey – fear o the light
The first single from Katie Dey’s forthcoming lp is just fantastic. Gives us hope that August will be all right. Album is due out August 12 via Joy Void Recordings.
NOTS – Entertain Me
Well, this is good news. The Nots are releasing a new album this September. Here is the first sneak peak and it does not disappoint.
All People – Of You
I was impressed how much this track made me think of ee/Korea Girl. Enough so that I double checked that Tobin Mori wasn’t in All People.
If you like this, I recommend checking out the rest of the album. It’s a nice blend of emo with music inspired by ee, Built to Spill, and i’m not even sure what. But it’s good.
Advance Base – Summer Music
Owen Ashworth, of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone fame, has a live album for his current project Advance Base coming out later this summer. Here is a sneak peak of Summer Music. Because it’s summer I presume.
Rancho Relaxo – If You Want To
I’m intrigued by this band’s music, but i’m also completely distracted by the idea that a Norwegian band is named in Spanglish. Does that seem as weird and awesome to everyone else? Well, probably not of much importance.
Rancho Relaxo is a bit shoegaze, a bit indie rock. This song actually calls back a bit of Roger Waters’ era Pink Floyd in my mind. This is off of their 2015 LP “White Light Fever”. I recommend listening to more when you have the time. It is in fact well worth your time.
EP Highlight: Boyfriend Material – Self-Titled EP
Cross posted at Interstellar Radio Shower…
Now this is catchy. Boyfriend Material has a new EP out on Community Records.
This first song “Small Talk” is absolutely promising. It’s a sort of indie pop/singer songwriter without being too poppy. “Two Steps Back” starts out like a Rainer Maria tune. In fact, this song could be a Rainer Maria song both lyrically and instrumentally. It’s really quite enjoyable.
“Good Graces” tones things down a bit. It’s pretty in a navel-gazing kind of way. Navelgaze should be a recognized genre. Whereas emo has become a certain brand of pop punk which sometimes is great, sometimes really sucks, navelgaze would focus on a certain brand of songwriters like Shauna Healey and Lou Barlow.
Anyhow, the last track is “Absentminded” which features the ukUlele. This calls back more to her earlier stuff (see below). This EP is a very worthwhile listen. The EP in it’s entirety was released on Friday. Here is another review worth checking out.
This is more of a full band sound. The core of Boyfriend Material is singer-songwriter Shauna Healey. On her first LP “Far From Home”, also on Community Records, her music is very stripped down. It’s that bare acoustic ukulele combined with raw honest vocals that is popular in certain circles these days. I just love this stripped down sound. In any case, there is much to love here.
JuliaWhy? – Painkiller
Good day. So, my fault but i failed to figure out how to get into the building for the holiday radio show. So no radio show last night. But today is a new day and i’m all ready to go for next week.
Apparently we got a new JuliaWhy? cd in at the station and it’s pretty good music. Here is a snippet from last year’s “Wheel” lp. And keep an ear out for their new lp sometime soon.
LeftyFish – Code Name: Mosquito
Time to stop with all of this melancholy stuff. Some horns and some noise. Ranging from God is My Co-Pilot styles to Boredoms experimentation to metal riffs, this song from LeftyFish is just great. Glorious kinds of great.
Be sure to check out the rest of their You, Fish! EP and not just track. All kinds of goodness. LeftyFish hails from Yogyakarta. So this is more Indonesian fun. Here they are live from the Nevada Cafe. Indulge yourself!
7″ Highlight: The Manhattan Love Suicides – Bikini Party / Birthday Kill
Cross-posted on Interstellar Radio Shower…
Reviving my effort to highlight particularly good new 7″ releases, today I want to bring your attention to the Manhattan Love Suicides new single on Odd Box Records. This single starts out with a bang on Side A with “Bikini Party / Birthday Kill”. First the industrial sounding drum beat. Second the repetitive tilting guitar riff, third the spoken haunting vocals.
I don’t know what’s up with the slashes, they clearly aren’t separate songs so I gather they are just compound concepts. I think this is true for the B side too which is titled “Deserted Coastal Town / Action & Memory / What Am I Supposed to Do?”
The B-side is much less aggressive at first. Soft and haunting to start. From there it builds to some Joan Jett-esque rock ‘n roll. In the last minute the song really climaxes with more aggressive guitar and reverb effects on the vocals. In this way it becomes more affecting. It’s well worth the listen as the pay off is great.