The song is taken from their recent album 'Trauma Club', released in December last year via Starfield Music Van. Get it here.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Watch: Male Tears Drop Visuals For "No Reflection"
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Watch: Cigar Cigarette Unveils New Single/Video "Guilty Pleasures"
Cigar Cigarette, the solo project of producer, sound engineer, and multi-instrumentalist Chris McLaughlin, has unveiled the video for his new single "Guilty Pleasures".
His forthcoming debut Cigar Cigar Cigar Cigarette is an industrial-tinged alternative soundscape guided by anxious, apocalyptic mystique as much as it is by McLaughlin’s wide-spanning ear and expansive vision. Boasting ten years of production work ranging from Kanye West and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver to Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes’ machinegum collective and a recent Neon Indian remix, McLaughlin’s solo debut is a strange and stirring collection of songs that calls to mind The Smiths and The Virgins if they played on the ashes of a fallen city.
Guilty Pleasures is a data washed haze, captured through the lens of a VHS camera. Chris explains, “Guilty Pleasures is a song that takes place in an early period of the internet, and is built using sounds and memories from each of the last four decades. It’s about two people meeting on a road in the woods and exchanging briefcases which contain their own internal organs. I thought it would be funny to begin a song with the beat from the 80’s hit Come On Eileen, making hi hats from voices and chords from vocoder. Ultimately, it ascends into a wash of shoe-gaze guitars and heavy modular synths as the characters in the song take turns swallowing their own lungs. He adds “As an engineer I love the process of recording sounds; but as a producer and musician I’m more interested in resampling those sounds and creating a collage with them, rather than just letting the performances sit. I blended the vocoder and natural vocals for the same reason: I want the song to evoke the same cold unease of the uncanny valley, to feel like something a slightly imperfect copy of a human would make.”
The video was directed by frequent Cigar Cigarette collaborator Elyse Winn of MOTHERMARY, and shot by Michael Pessah (Scandalous, Insecure, Saving Flora, Smiley Face Killers, Viva La Causa). We wanted to use the “poor man’s process” technique of projecting a video behind a stationary vehicle to make it appear like its moving. Using these sorts of “movie magic” practical effects from another time period can create a much more surreal and disorienting world.
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New Entry: deep tan Share New Single "rudy ya ya ya"
Hackney-based post punk/atmospheric pop trio deep tan have shared their new single "rudy ya ya ya".
The song is taken from their upcoming new EP 'diamond horsetail', set to be released on May 6th through Practise Music. Get it here.
From the band: “rudy ya ya ya is a tale of being caught with your pants down, brown ooze slides down a furrowed brow as sacha interrupts — ! (aka the rudy giuliani diss track you never asked for)”
Watch: Micra Premiere New Single "Headroom"
Sydney dream pop duo Micra have premiered their new single "Headroom".
The song is taken from their debut EP 'Sunday', the first in a coming trilogy planned for release over this year via Liberation Records. Get it here.
As a whole, the EP is a sprawling, sonic journey through a range of genres and moods; moments of quiet contemplation are balanced by hits of euphoria and release, mirroring the sentiments of the title track, as the band explore ideas of introspection, isolation and freedom. Genre lines are blurred and blended to sweet effect.
“Each EP in this trilogy represents a different side to Micra. Over the last few years, we have been constantly creating and refining. Yet we have only presented a small glimpse into our musical world so far. From songs that came together quickly in one day, to songs that we have spent years tinkering with, each EP is a different exploration of sonics and moods.
“Our first EP explores the themes of introspection and isolation in different ways. These aren’t always negative emotions leading to negative moments. Sometimes they can be the exact opposite.”
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(facebook.com/micramusic)
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Leisure Twins Release New Single "Promises", & "Make It Better Single" Music Video
They are influenced by the likes of David Bowie, Hall & Oates, Roxy Music, Thompson Twins, Keane and Icehouse.
Stream the new single and watch the video for Make it Better below.