Brooklyn NY, post punk/psych band A Place To Bury Strangers have aired the video for their latest single "Nice Of You To Be There For Me".
The song is taken from their album 'See Through You', released back in February via Dedstrange. Grab your copy here.
Through a son's perspective we look back in time to reveal the significant moments that shaped the estranged relationship between him and his father.
Through tears, Riddlestone’s sepia-toned digital renderings tear at the thread binding the brutal disappointment, the lingering resentment and the rage to unravel once and for all any remaining trace of anger, bitterness or fear.
Northampton based dark/electronic/drone duo Boy Harsher (aka Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller) have released "Burn It Down - Rework".
The song is part of 'Burn It Down (From The Motion Picture 'Halloween Ends')', set to arrive on October 22 via Sacred Bones Records. Pre-order it here.
The duo have contributed a sumptuously eerie track for the David Gordon Green directed finale to the iconic Halloween franchise. Sacred Bones and Nude Club (Boy Harsher’s imprint) are joining forces and releasing a proper 12” maxi single containing four versions of the track “Burn it Down,” to be released in tandem with the original score provided by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies.
Boy Harsher said of the experience: “During an extremely brief period of rest between tours, we got this call from the music supervisor of Halloween Ends. The director, David Gordon Green, had listened to our music and wanted to use something for the final installment in the trilogy -Halloween Ends. We flew to New York the next day to meet the team and discuss the possibilities. It was totally surreal. Obviously we’re huge fans of Carpenter and the franchise is a fav, but to work with Gordon Green was also so special, his early films (George Washington,Undertow, Snow Angels) were heavy influences on our work. The real kicker is that Halloween Ends was shot in Savannah, GA - the birthplace of Boy Harsher and where we met. Unbelievable. It all felt too synchronous, and we knew we had to make something work although we were about to leave for a multi-month tour that week. We flew home to Massachusetts, dug through old demos, and found “Burn It Down”. In the end it was the perfect energy for the bittersweet love affair between Allyson and Corey, so during a couple days off - we cleaned it up and made it come alive.”
Toronto cyborg-funk/post punk artist Lee Paradise has dropped his new single "Not Practical" featuring the additional vocals of New Chance's Victoria Cheong.
The song is taken from his upcoming new album 'Lee Paradise & Co.', which will be out on October 28 via Telephone Explosion Records. Pre-order your copy here.
This new LP finds Lee flipping the shadowy nihilism of the project’s previous releases upward into a sort of cybernetic universality. This is Dan Lee in producer mode, veering away from the pursuit of a singular musical direction rooted in personal vision, towards of a process rich in collaboration, emotional expansion and tonal exploration.
Starting off as a set of mood-focused instrumental sketches drafted by Dan on his own, the compositions began coloring themselves in after he started sending the tracks out to collaborators, asking them to contribute without much in the way of direction or intention. With help from an ensemble cast of artists including Carlyn Bezic (Jane Inc.), Jonathan Pappo (Scott Hardware, No Frills, Ducks Ltd), Scott Hardware, Isla Craig, Victoria Cheong (New Chance), Jay Anderson, Charise Aragoza & Lukas Cheung (Mother Tongues) and Daniel Woodhead (Moon King), nearly every aspect of this album’s creation eventually became open to collaboration, from musical performances, lyric writing, and vocals all the way through to mixing and mastering.
"Not Practical" is another splendid example of this direction finding Dan tapping into some of his most synth-pop adjacent work to date, buoyed by Cheong's stunning vocals which are laced throughout. Echoed sounds whizz and whip around at the beginning of the track before clicking into chunky percussion, sci-fi synth and programmed beats flanked by repeated calls of "my love is unpractical".
