The latest addition to the Temporary Residence family goes by the name of Watter. The newly formed trio is made up of Grails guitarist Zak Riles, Slint drummer Britt Walford, and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Trotter. “For Riles and Trotter, it’s a chance to dig deeper into the sandbox in which Grails have sculpted many mercurial masterpieces in recent years”, explains the press release, “for Walford, it’s the opportunity to play a substantial role in a new active band for the first time in nearly twenty years, since his days in the criminally-underrated EVERGREEN”.
Watter are set to release their debut album, This World, on May 27th. Ahead of it, they’re offering the first taste off it in the form of the excellent and seductive 7-minute instrumental ‘Rustic Fog’. Give it a listen below.
Seattle’s New Weather have recently paired the track ‘Slip’ with an equally trippy video. ‘Slip’ is taken from their self-titled debut album, released at the end of last year via Butterscotch Records. Designer and videographer Christian Petersen directs. Watch it now.
Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Adam Schatz is well know for his affiliation and collaboration with numerous bands. Landlady, his brainchild project, is described as the outfit where he “seems truly at home”.
This spring, and as a quintet including Mikey Freedom Hart, Ian Chang, Ian Davis, and Booker Stardrum, Landlady will release a new full-length album via Hometapes. The yet-to-be-titled effort follows Keeping To Yourself, self-released in 2011.
‘Above My Ground’ serves as the first enticing taste of what’s coming our way. Listen to it below.
Last week, without any announcement, Pevin Kinel unveiled a double A-side single entitled SEO Your Friends, featuring ‘Fifteen’ and ‘In a Way you would Care’. It follows his outstanding 2012’s Syntactic Sugars, which was one of our Album Picks of the Year.
The London based multi-instrumentalist and one-man-orchestra, got us used to expect anything from him, with his flair for experimenting and exploring an immensity of musical territories. With SEO Your Friends, Pevin delivers again a fascinating and unique project crafted with a strong social conscience. Other than the excellent two singles, SEO Your Friends comes laced with a heartfelt and moving short speech by Leslie Pickering, the former spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front Press Office. The speech was extracted from the film Testify by Michael Becker and Stephen Gamboa.
Here’s the blurb Pevin wrote to accompany the release:
“You would do anything for the people you love. That’s why the couple of songs I’m releasing today come in a neat wrapping entitled “SEO Your Friends”. Because when you stop a minute and really think about it, if you go calling someone your friend and then don’t do anything to improve their ranking in Google search results, can you say you care for them at all? Can you say you have their best interests at heart? Or are you simply trying to isolate them from the world like some possesive freak? Think about this for a minute, and then, do the right thing. Show the ones you love that they truly matter to you. SEO your friends.”
The other good news is SEO Your Friends can now be streamed or download for free on his website. Get a taste of this absolute must listen with ‘Fifteen’.
Last week saw the release of Christina Vantzou‘s second album, Nº2, via Kranky. The Brussels based composer, who is also an acclaimed filmmaker, has just unveiled a befittingly stunning self-directed video for the album’s sublime single ‘Going backwards to recover that which was left Behind’. Watch it beneath.
At the end of last year, Bristolian quartet Get The Blessing instantly conquered our ears and hearts with ‘Quiet’, the first single lifted from their fourth album Lope & Antilope. They have just unleashed a quirky video to accompany the single. Watch it now.
At the end of last year, Bristolian quartet 
