Brad Laner releases third solo album Nearest Suns

31 October 2013

Nearest Suns marks Brad Laner’s third solo album release and it has just seen the light of day earlier this week via Hometapes and Drawing Room.
The guitarist, songwriter, and producer composed, played, and recorded the album entirely in his Granada Hills, California home. The press release describes Nearest Suns as “an old new universe in twelve songs, shattering what it means to be called a singer-songwriter, messing around with the notion of getting older, and soundtracking the infinite distortion and infinite harmony of falling in and out of love”.
If you haven’t lent your ears to it yet, wrap them now around the warm, honey-soaked opening track ‘Be Gone’. It comes with a homemade video made by Laner and his brother illustrating the recording process. Here’s what he said about it:

“I filmed myself performing each instrumental and vocal part with my iPhone whilst recording the audio into Logic on my main computer. When finished I made a stereo mix to serve as the audio and sent all of the clips to my brother Josh who via his excellent taste and skill made it as entertaining to watch as is possible when viewing a scruffy 45 year old dude concentrating very hard on not fucking up”.

Here’s the live video for ‘Be Gone’ and the album version straight after.

Julia Holter premieres new video for ‘Horns Surrounding Me’

31 October 2013

Coinciding with a long European tour that kicks off today in Nantes at the Soy Festival, Julia Holter has unleashed a video for the unusually loud and infectious ‘Horns Surrounding Me’. The track is taken from her third album Loud City Song, released this summer via Domino. The video, based on a concept by Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, was directed by Angus Borsos who describes it as a “soft Disney nightmare”. Watch it below.

Jagwar Ma release Come Save Me Remixes EP, share Matthew Dear’s remix

30 October 2013

Australian outfit Jagwar Ma have just released the Come Save Me Remixes EP, lifting the track from their recently released debut album Howlin. The EP features the original cut and remixes by Matthew Dear, Andrew Weatherall, Pachanga Boys, and Flight Facilities. Coinciding with the EP release, Jaguar Ma have shared the Matthew Dear’s remix. You’ll be dancing.

Come Save Me Remixes EP is out now via Mom+Pop.

Body Double to re-release Philip Perkins’ Drive Time

30 October 2013

Philip Perkins, who was born in 1951 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and now resides in Northern California, is notable for his tremendous work and contributions not only to film, but also music, particularly electronic and avant-garde music. Perkins, who studied art and motion graphics with Robert Mullen and David Foster, played in several pop rock, country and experimental bands, and was a member of The Residents performance ensemble from 1979-84.
Drive Time, one of Perkins’ unique audio works, originally released in 1985, got the attention of Body Double, a reissue imprint of Captured Tracks, who are re-releasing the album. Drive Time is “a peace attack on what the radio was shoving into a man’s ears who refused to listen anymore” describes the press release. “The recordings are a direct affront to the banal, colorless “noise” that was the AM radio during mid-80s rush hour, but targeted at the same audience: commuters.”

Drive Time will be released on November 12th and can now be pre-ordered here. To whet your appetite, here’s ‘The Onion’, one of appeasing cuts featured in the album.

Devendra Banhart releases new video for track from latest album Mala

by Anemonkey - 30 October 2013

Just yesterday melancholy master Devendra Banhart honoured us with a new masterpiece video for ‘Fur Hildegard von Bingen’, a track featured on his most recent Nonesuch released album Mala. Visually clean frames paired with great cinematography skills set the background for a short and powerful song inspired by famous medieval philosopher and composer Saint Hildegard von Bingen. It’s thought provoking. And below is the video, directed by Isaiah Seret, with a small add-on, the still fresh remix of Devendra’s track ‘Golden Girls’ done by Hauschka – very good stuff indeed!

Shiny Darkly drop first single from upcoming debut album

29 October 2013

January will see the release of Shiny Darkly‘s debut full-length album, Little Earth, via Crunchy Frog. The album was recorded in Malmö and mixed in Berlin at Kaiku Studios.
The Danish trio, comprising Kristoffer Bech, Mads Lassen and Oliver Matthew Volz, oscillate through psychedelic and powerful sound waves. As the label describes, “Shiny Darkly create a crackling, high-voltage, narcotic universe you’ll never want to leave.”
Their first offering from the forthcoming Little Earth is the single ‘Dead Stars’, an epic 9-minute composition to fill our ears. It will be released on a limited edition 12″ on November 11th, and it comes backed by two tracks from the Little Earth sessions, which won’t appear in the album. Listen to ‘Dead Stars’ below.

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