Chicago post punk/indie rock band Deeper have released the video for their latest single "Helena's Flowers".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their sophomore album 'Auto-Pain', which came out in March this year via Fire Talk. Buy your copy here.
Chicago post punk/indie rock band Deeper have announced the release of their second studio album 'Auto-Pain'.
Recorded and mixed by Chicago scene luminary Dave Vetraino (Lala Lala, Dehd) and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Greg Obis (Ne-Hi, Melkbelly), the 12-track album will be out on March 27th through Fire Talk and finds the band embracing open space, using synths to create shadows where bricks of guitars once would’ve blocked out the sun. Pre-order your copy here.
The group — singer and guitarist Nic Gohl, bassist Drew McBride, and drummer Shiraz Bhatti — were all graduates of Chicago’s rich DIY scene who came together around their love of Wire, Devo, Gang of Four, and Television.
While the new record is still within the Great Lakes post-punk tradition of their debut, the album isn’t as insular as its predecessor; it’s less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces. Guitars enter the picture precisely, locked bass grooves propel things forward. Drummer Shiraz Bhatti, who is half-Pakistani and half-Native American, embraced the drumming patterns he’d heard growing up at pow-wows, channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack. The result is an album both more nuanced and catchy.
Auto-Pain represents the constant wave of depression felt by many in everyday life. Stemmed from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, Auto-Pain is a concept meant to be an inverse to soma, a pill in the book which makes everything numb. The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity, which comes at the expense of feeling everything simultaneously. The album artwork features the now-demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago capturing the band’s rounded-off brutalism, and the album title appears in Urdu, a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti’s Pakistani heritage.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for their new single "This Heat" below.
Auto-PainTracklist:
01. Esoteric
02. Run
03. This Heat
04. Willing
05. Lake Song
06. Untitled
07. Spray Paint
08. 4U
09. VMC
10. Helena’s Flowers
11. The Knife
12. Warm
Berlin-based dark wave/post-apocalyptic/experimentalist musician Luis Vasquez aka TheSoft Moon has dropped the video for his current single "Like a Father".
The song is taken from his latest album 'Criminal', which came out back in February via Sacred Bones Records. Get it here.
The video was directed by Kelsey Henderson. Watch it below.
Berlin-based dark wave/post-apocalyptic/experimentalist musician Luis Vasquez aka TheSoft Moon has announced the release of his new album titled 'Criminal'.
The follow-up to 2014's Deeper, was also produced by Maurizio Baggio and recorded at La Distilleria in Bassano Del Grappa, Italy. It will be out on February 2th via Sacred Bones Records, and the first single is “Burn”.
“Guilt is my biggest demon and has been following me since childhood. Everything I do strengthens the narrative that I am guilty,” Vasquez says in a press release. “The concept of Criminal is a desperate attempt to find relief by both confessing to my wrongdoings and by blaming others for their wrongdoings that have affected me.”
Tracklist:
01. Burn
02. Choke
03. Give Something
04. Like a Father
05. The Pain
06. It Kills
07. ILL
08. Young
09. Born Into This
10. Criminal
Pre-order your copy here, and have a listen to "Burn", below.
NY based dark wave post-apocalyptic experimentalist The Soft Moon (aka Kelsey Henderson) has revealed the video for his current single "Deeper".
The song is part of our current playlist and is the title track of his latest album 'Deeper', which came out back in March via Captured Tracks. Buy it here.
The clip was directed by Henderson himself. Watch it below.
San Francisco based dark wave post-apocalyptic experimentalist Luis Vasquez aka TheSoft Moon has announced he will release his brand new album titled 'Deeper' in March.
This is Vasquez third studio album as Soft Moon, it follows his 2012's record Zeros, and was forged in "total solitude" in Venice and Berlin, miles from his usual Oakland base of operations. With producer Maurizio Baggio, Vasquez looked to create his most personal and emotional record yet with a renewed focus on songwriting.
According to press release, "The album is an inward-looking representation of a new man as he processes the relentless undercurrent of his internal battles with suicide, vulnerability, and healing."
During the writing process, Vasquez pushed himself to discover the reality and nightmare of living with yourself, in entirely foreign surroundings with nothing and no one to fall back on. Stepping back and letting inspiration fall where it may, Vasquez only had one goal in mind for this album: to pen his most emotional record yet. Between frequent visits to Berlin, Vasquez retreated to Venice’s Hate Studios, located in the mountains near electronic guru and spiritual anchor Giorgio Moroder’s hometown.
Tracklist
01. Inward
02. Black
03. Far
04. Wasting
05. Wrong
06. Try
07. Desertion
08. Without
09. Feel
10. Deeper
11. Being
Deeper will be out on March 31 via Captured Tracks. Pre-order your copy here, and have a listen to the album's track "Black", below.
This month's BOTM on Kool Rock Radio is London bedroom pop trio REAL LIES.
Revealed back in July without further information, this exciting new band caught our attention with their smashing single "Deeper". Sitting somewhere between old rave records and modern electronic pop acts, Real Lies present a sound that would do equally as well in a club as it would on stage at a large festival.
According to the press, Real Lies' music expresses late-night euphoria at the same time as it embraces the horrors of the following afternoon, twinning street bravado with bedroom vulnerability, loss with longing. It is music about burying yourself in an avalanche of words and warm bodies in an endless search for the right ones. We couldn't agree more.
'World Peace / Deeper' is the first of three double A-sides from the band, and the first ever 12" pressing from London label Sweet Exile. It will be out on November 4.
Both tracks are brilliant and have all the hallmarks of an early 90s anthem, fans of New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Perfume, Flowered Up and Happy Mondays are sure to find plenty pleasurable about these tracks.
London bedroom pop trio Real Lies (one of our new favourite bands), have premiered the video for "World Peace", taken from their double A-side single 'World Peace/Deeper', which will be released via Sweet Exile/Marathon Artists on 4th November.
'World Peace' it's brilliant tune that has all the hallmarks of an early 90s anthem, fans of New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Perfume, Flowered Up and Happy Mondays are sure to find plenty pleasurable about this track.
The video was directed by filmmaker Rollo Jackson, who also directed the clip for "Deeper". Watch it below.
London brand new bedroom pop trio Real Lies have revealed the video for "Deeper", the first of three double A-side singles they will release on the also new London label Sweet Exile.
About the (long) vocal, Real Lies say: "it's a confessional monologue about trying to recreate going on holiday in London… Have we tried it? Yeah, we've been doing it for the last three years! When the sun comes out in London there’s no better place."
The video was directed by Rollo Jackson, who explains: "I was trying to capture that feeling of drunken dreamy memories, feelings of total elation and then despair which at times are very close. It’s saying how important those memories and moments can be – things shouldn't be devalued just because they're hazy or distant."