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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Morning After Girls - Shadows Evolve
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The Morning After Girls have been through a slew of changes since I last wrote them up for RCRD LBL, including relocations (eventually taking them from OZ to NYC) and line-up shake-ups. But the core has remained the same - Sacha Lucashenko and Martin Sleeman have continually written brilliantly swirling shoegaze pop bangers and with their new base in the States are churning out their wearily sexy songs for this part of the world. Check out "Shadows Evolve," from their upcoming release and if you're in NYC or LA, they're coming your way soon, check here for dates and get ready to fall for the Morning After Girls.
Sounds Like: My Best Fiend, Primal Scream, the Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Panda Bear
DOWNLOAD: Golden Boots - Love Is In The Air
Golden Boots is Dimitri Manos and Ryen Eggleston, two vagabonds from eastern PA that found themselves and one another under the heavy suns of Tuscon, Arizona. Specializing in tumbleweed pop that's been painstakingly filtered through miles and miles of American highway and tape, the two are preparing this month to release Winter of Our Discoteque, a forthcoming full-length celebration of their own weirdo Americana imaginings. "Love Is In The Air" is a real spicy meatball of a cut from that new album. Find it and hold it below.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Wetdog - 8 Days
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"It's all over now...Rock 'n' Roll is shit. It's dismal. Granddad danced to it. I'm not interested in it..I think music has reached an all-time low - except for The Raincoats."
That's one of the most blithely hyperbolic Johnny Rotten quotes, the kind that kept NME and Melody Maker all a-tingle for a good decade or so. While I'm not quite ready to sub London's Wetdog for the sublime Raincoats, I can definitely relate to Mr. Lydon's excitement at hearing the scraping and mewling of the new. "8 Days" has a simplicity and a lived-in newness that's both disarming and pleasantly off-putting, and I don't mind admitting that I'm a complete sucker for the British female voice. Their set was the centerpiece of one of my most enjoyable nights out in Albion, and I hope this song can do the same for you now.
Sounds Like: The Raincoats, Liliput, The Slits, The Fall
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Old Ceremony - Til My Voice Is Gone
Amidst some aqueous organ and a few prophetic lines from leadsinger Django Haskins (yes, dude's name is actually Django,) "Til My Voice Is Gone" begins like it's actually being played from the "seawall" Haskins sings about, a place where we imagine you can see orcas and sea lions and the water isn't overly salty. Then the drums kick in, and this tune turns into something like Whiskeytown on anti-depressants, super-optimistic Americana for the weekend warrior crowd. The Old Ceremony's third album Walk In Thin Air drops on February 9, so make sure to pick that up if this is your speed, it's solid.
Sounds like: Limbeck, Illinois, The Low Anthem
DOWNLOAD: The Points - Feeling Sorry + Never Trust My Heart
Having already been hailed by their city's Post (you know, the really good one) as DC's best live band by a long shot, the Points are something else indeed: purveyors of last year's best punk record. By a long shot. "Feeling Sorry" and "Never Trust My Heart" are two filthy yet lardless cuts from that self-titled full-length, one I really wish I could just share in its entirety. Your parents would hate this so much.
Sounds Like: The Stooges, Rocket From The Crypt
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - Fort Pork Chop + Dry Depths
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It's hard to talk about Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk without talking about Chomp Womp. BBDDM are three dudes from Lawrence, Kansas who make dreamy swirls of indie pop muted glory who have four categories of releases: Out Now, Featured On, Sold Out/Out of Print and Upcoming Releases. I don't even know which category "Fort Pork Chop" fits into, but it's real pretty. "Dry Depths" was featured on Chomp Womp Comp Vol. Tew, a free compilation from the folks at Chomp Womp, a Lawrence, Kansas based collective/label/family of kids who apparently love pop, shoegaze, beautiful tunes and good times. Listening to the comp and BBDDM's catalogue you get the feeling that in about 10 years these songs will be compiled on a Yellow Pills-like release and people will wish they "knew about them when..."
Sounds Like: Boo and Boo Too, Black Tambourine, Moon High, My Best Fiend
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Illinois - Are You Coming With Me?
Apparently, when asked to turn in a debut album to their label, Bucks County, PA band Illinois (yes, the second band-not-from-the-locale-they're-named-after in two days) handed over a hard drive crammed with 114 home recordings. Impressed by the productivity, the band's label +1 Music decided to do something special and announced a six-month-long release schedule for a series of EPs and films that would, as a whole, serve as the band's full-length debut. That project is called The Adventures Of Kid Catastrophe, a tale based around a pseudo-alter-ego of frontman Chris Archibald. We've been given an exclusive track from the third chapter of the series (watch it on YouTube here, the music will hit iTunes next week,) a tightly-arranged Americana jam called "Are You Coming With Me?". There's piano, three or so chords, and Archibald's lyrics about getting someone out of a bad situation, so make sure grab the tune and find out more about Kid Catastrophe at the band's website.
Sounds like: The Low Anthem, Motel Motel, Deer Tick
DOWNLOAD: The Still Out - Where We Go
My friend Mikey from GIRLS (nyc) sent me the Still Out record a little while back, I put it in my car stereo and it didn't leave for over a week. There has been a rumbling for a couple of years now coming from (mostly) Brooklyn of bands that get the magic equation of the Jesus & Mary Chain. Combining fuzz, distortion, sexy weary vocals and (the tricky part) catchy hooks, pop shoegazer gold is snaking it's way across the East River. The Still Out is Josh Stoddard and Arjun Agerwala and since the recording of their first record, they've added Matt Sumrow and Nicole Gehweiler (both formerly of the Comas who opened for the J&MC) and Mikey Jones (who plays in GIRLS (nyc) with Matt) to their live show. Crystallized will be re-released this spring on Hi-Speed Soul, grab "Where We Go" for a taste and keep an eye out for these 'gazers.
Sounds Like: My Best Fiend, GIRLS (nyc), the Comas, the Jesus & Mary Chain
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Invisible - Baby Doll
The Invisible formed back in 2006, a time when London’s musical mind seemed to have collapsed in on itself, struggling to decipher gestures of meaning from the cruddy soup of acts floating loosely in critical definitions of ‘nu-rave’. It shows – converging around a shared love of Prince, King Sunny Ade, Shuggie Otis and Radiohead, the trio hark back to root, their tracks furtively attempting to plant themselves in steadier ground. “Baby Doll” is one such track; pulling drug minds from post-millennial club muddle with lyrics keen to get existential crisis over and done with (“Do you remember how to be optimistic?/do you remember how to stand up for something?”). A ghost prompting reminiscence of a time before day-glo, “Baby Doll” will appear on a debut album forthcoming through Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records.
Sounds like: TV On The Radio, Kiss Me Deadly, Foals
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