The song original version of the song features on their 2021 album 'Volumen III', out via Handwritten Records. Get it here.
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
New Entry: Brother. Unveil "Honey (Reimagined)"
Watch: CDSM Share New Single/Video "GFH"
The song is out now and is taken from their forthcoming EP 'Hell Stairs', set to arrive on April 29th through Mothland and Exag' Records. Get it here.
While in the confines of their windowless subterranean concrete studio, CDSM is helmed by Ben Presley (vocals, guitar/bass, synthesizers, drums), Tyler Jundt (vocals, saxophone, synthesizers) and John Restivo Jr. (vocals, drums, percussion).
Hell Stairs is both glamorous and bleak, swanky and derelict, uplifting and crushing. It’s hedonism clinking in your glass, change jingling in the pit of your chest. Sure, it is post-punk meets darkwave meets no wave, but it’s even more so, an invitation to dance away the pain, in the form of croonesque laments, rumbling synths, swirling saxophone riffs and tight four-to-the-floor cadences. You now have the perfect clair-obscure soundtrack for a night at the local neon noir casino. You’re welcome.
Expect to be pleased with the contents of this first EP from Atlanta’s hot new commodity if you enjoy the musical tendencies of artists such as Viagra Boys, The Voidz, Total Control, Bodega or Fat White Family.
On “GFH”, CDSM alleviates our existential pain with a postmodern disco scorcher. Since the World is literally and physically crumbling around us, why not abandon ourselves to soothing rhythm sections, fierce saxophone flurries and manic synth modulations, as we’re told vivid tales of a double agent.
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Watch: Snapped Ankles Air New Single/Video "Barbecue In Brazil"
The song is out today (February 17) via The Leaf Label. Get it here.
From the band: "Have you ever taken a flight for a Barbecue In Brazil? This is a song sung from the nemophilic corner of our woods, railing against instaconsumerism and the globally connected luxury travel industry that surrounds it. Let’s all meet at the last ever grill!”
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Watch: Fontaines D.C. Release New Single/Video "I Love You"
The song is taken from their forthcoming third studio album 'Skinty Fia', set to be released on April 22 through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Accompanied by a cinematic video directed by Sam Taylor, Grian Chatten describes the song as “the first overtly political song we’ve written. It’s standing in the centre of our beloved home country as a multitude of things are brought to tragic ends in an apocalyptic state of affairs. That’s how it feels to me, and what I felt when I wrote it.”
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Watch: Junk Drawer Reveal New Single/Video "Railroad King"
The song is taken from their forthcoming EP 'The Dust Has Come To Stay', which will be available on March 11 through Art For Blind Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Recorded with Chris Ryan (Just Mustard, NewDad, Robocobra Quartet), "Railroad King" signposts another exciting release from Junk Drawer who are made up of four multi-instrumentalists: brothers, Stevie Lennox and Jake Lennox, Brian Coney and Rory Dee. The new single really turns the dial on the 60s-inspired garage-rock tones of the quartet who frequently turn to their crate-digging sensibilities for inspiration: Deerhoof, The Cleaners From Venus, Spacemen 3, Ween, Richard Dawson and Television.
Speaking about it, Jake says: "I’d written the lyrics to this song before I’d realised I was on the autistic spectrum, but the lyrics made total sense once the realisation hit. It’s about not wanting to be away from the public world, adventuring happily with my imagination; walking by myself and making up songs etc. It also references the autistic feeling of feeling like my body is just a vessel that I want to ‘zip off’ to be my true self.
Lyrically, as I noodled through the main melody, the primary influence was Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Free”. During the writing sessions for the song as I was improvising, one of the repeated verses became “I just walk along and stroll and sing. I see better days and I do better things.” Folk music has always been my favourite genre and I always subconsciously bring in those kinds of songwriting elements rather than more modern rock formats. For example, this song has no chorus as such, but it has a refrain at the end of each verse that performs that function. I much prefer that style, it means I can play with the rhyming a bit more and I can add more words."
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Watch: Spacey Jane Unleash Music Video For "Sitting Up"
The song is part of our current playlistand is taken from their sophomore full-length album 'Here Comes Everybody', set to arrive on June 10 via AWAL. Pre-order your copy here.
Caleb’s vocals are vulnerable and yearning as he sings about events close to his heart: " I wrote this about the way I was feeling and behaving when I was in my final semester of uni before dropping out. I left quite unceremoniously by not showing up to any of my final exams or handing in final assessments. I had no idea who I was, I was seriously depressed and completely spinning out. I felt like I’d created this terrible façade of myself for all of these people that I knew and that really I hadn’t been myself around someone or been truthful about my feelings in years. I didn’t care about my life or what I was doing to my body, I thought I was going to end up dead if I didn’t fix something. I felt like I was the only one going through those feelings and even though that wasn’t true, it made me feel so alone."
Watch the video below.
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New Entry: Web Premieres New Single "Heaven"
This is the first cut from her new album which drops mid-year through Group Therapy Records.
Inspired by the proto-house and post-disco sounds of early 80s New York and Chicago underground clubs, Heaven aims to capture that heady combination of dance floor euphoria and deep nostalgia.
Get it here and take a listen below.
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Watch: Sam Jr Drops New Single/Video "Sweet Face (ft. Tess Parks)"
The song is taken from their upcoming self-titled debut album, which will be available on March 10th through Arts & Crafts. Pre-order your copy here.
The shoegaze-inspired track shares similarities with spaces-out forefathers The Jesus & Mary Chain and Sonic Youth with a repetitious and hypnotizing lyrics “come on, baby, come on” lulling the listener into a rock’n roll trance.
Speaking about it, he says: "As my album approached mixing time I realized that I needed to have another voice on one of the songs to add some other colors. It actually had too much of me. “Sweet Face” was a song I felt would be a good candidate for a collaboration. I was stumped as to who to reach out to so I sent a smoke signal to "mr i know everyone" Brendan Canning and he said "Tess Parks would work really well on this song." I emailed her and she wrote back: "Hey! This song rules, I’m so down!" so that made my day. Her voice is so unique. Low and raspy with so much character. She makes the song."
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