New single by Cloud Tangle, following the “Pocket” E.P., released last year. Cloud Tangle is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Amber Ramsay, which combines video art and music to evoke a mood equally devastating and beautiful. Her ethereal vocals soar above silky guitar melodies, dragging you ever downward into a subdued, grimly content atmosphere. The…
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[streaming] Tambour – Silhouettes
Silhouettes’: a brand new track by Montreal-based pianist/composer Tambour (Simon P. Castonguay). Silhouettes pairs Tambour’s delicate, melodic piano with lush string and horn arrangements performed by the Mommies on the run string quartet (Patrick Watson, Ariane Moffatt) and Pietro Amato (Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre), who also co-produced the track. The eight minute piece is in…
[streaming] Ed Bannard – Be Kind
“Be Kind” is the first track out of the solo debut album by Ed Bannard, songwriter from the band hhymn. The album is a collection of songs too personal for use with the band. It was recorded at home in late 2017, all instruments played by Bannard except drums, which have been added later with…
[streaming] Drowse – Quickening
Taken from the new album by Drowse, “Cold Air”, out March 9th via The Flenser. Drowse is the work of Portland, OR artist Kyle Bates with visual and sonic contributions from Maya Stoner. “Why am I afraid of my own thoughts?” After a severe mental breakdown, Kyle Bates of Portland OR’s Drowse was prescribed a…
[streaming] Aukai – Colorado
Like every musician, Markus Sieber is used to going the extra mile to make the music he hears in his head and feels in his heart. There aren’t many, however, who would – or indeed, could – get to work in the mornings by strolling across a frozen lake before settling in a small cabin…
[streaming] Monarch Mtn – Overtime In The Underworld
Taken from “I Woke At The Station”, releases February 9th via Fox Food Records. Monarch Mtn is singer-songwriter and producer Logan Farmer. http://www.monarchmtnmusic.com/
[streaming] The Gentle Good – Y Gwyfyn
“Y Gwyfyn” is the opening track and title track of a new five songs EP by The Gentle Good, that will be released on February 9th via Bubblewrap Collective. The EP is entirely sang in the Welsh langauge to celebrate Welsh Language Music Day 2018. The EP contains brand new tracks and previously unreleased material…
[streaming] Simon Linsteadt – Pickleweed
Simon Linsteadt is a singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from California. He has recorded six studio albums, three solo and three with the San Francisco band Steep Ravine. He has toured extensively around the United States and into Canada, performing at venues including The Fillmore and Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, The Freight and…
[streaming] Nap Eyes – Every Time The Feeling
The acclaimed Canadians’ ambitious, allusive third album achieves a new sonic clarity, depth, and range to match the effortless melodies and extraordinary writing. It’s the band’s most transparent and personal set of songs to date, in which singer Nigel Chapman interrogates social, psychological, and spiritual milieus for clues about the elusive nature of knowledge. “I’m…
[streaming] Mute Forest – Pray For Hail
Written, recorded and mixed by Mute Forest. Mastered by Kirk Clausen and Kael Smith at Crosspoint. Photo taken in Denmark by Kael Smith. Single layout by Kelly O’Brien. lyrics called your phone / can’t find your son / when you wake up / the decade’s gone / It’s gone / prayed for hail / but…
[streaming] Dystopia – Living For Summer
In February, Dystopia finally release their long awaited second studio album, “Rough Art of the Spiritual”, eighteen years after their 2000 debut, “The Wisdom of Insecurity”. Featuring once again the exquisite poetry of Liz Maw set to music, the new album was fifteen years in the making with recording having begun in Auckland, New Zealand…
[streaming] Richard Luke – Beachcombing
Richard Luke is a multi-instrumentalist composer and producer based in Glasgow, Scotland making modern-classical, ambient and experimental new music. Recently signed to Swedish independent 1631 Recordings/ Decca Publishing, he’s announced his new album ‘Voz’ — a reference to Luke actually being voice-less for sometime earlier in the year — for a release date of February…
[streaming] Jessica’s Brother – Overnight Horror
Jessica’s Brother release their first ever track “Overnight Horror” on the 29th of December, ahead of their full length debut album in the spring of 2018. Jessica’s Brother first started playing together in October 2016 when Jonny Helm (drums, also of The Wave Pictures) asked Charlie Higgs (bass, previously of Ramshackle Union Band) to come…
[streaming] Those Unfortunates – Harvest Song
A Christmas gift from Those Unfortunates. Those Unfortunates are a four piece band from London, who release on their own Midnight Bell record label. They formed in January 2013, almost taking their name from B S Johnson’s 1969 ‘book in a box.’ Those Unfortunates wear herringbone coats and oxblood shoes without ever really managing to…
[streaming] The Perfect English Weather – Christmas In Suburbia
Taken from “English Winter” E.P., out now on Matinée Recordings. Brighton duo The Perfect English Weather return with the new 4-track ‘English Winter’ EP which marks an intriguing departure from last year’s much loved debut album ‘Isobar Blues’. The release sees the duo—Simon and Wendy Pickles—drawing further distinction from their other band The Popguns and…
[streaming] David Hurn – Into The Dawn
“Into the Dawn” was recorded in New Hampshire during September 2017. Written by David Hurn. Arranged by Hurn / Valentin. Produced and mixed by Marco Valentin from “Into the Dawn : Sat on a Table”, released December 19, 2017 David Hurn : vocals, guitar, keyboards, fender rhodes, found sounds. Marco Valentin : keyboards, percussion, programming….
[streaming] SPC ECO – Bleak Mid Winter
Words based on the poem A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti Voice and Melody Rose Berlin Music and Instruments Dean Garcia SPC ECO (pronounced Space Echo) are a British shoegazing band, formed in 2007. The band consists of former Curve member Dean Garcia (bass, drums, guitar and programming), and his daughter Rose Berlin (vocals); and…
[streaming] Greg Jamie – Inherit The Wind
Maine-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Greg Jamie combines the textural with the tuneful on his new album, “Crazy Time”. There are echoes of the dark, eerie qualities of Jamie’s previous work (with his bands O’Death and Blood Warrior), but his solo work inhabits a sonic space all its own. Traditional folk melodies contrast cold, synthetic…
[streaming] Snorri Hallgrímsson – Homeless
“Homeless”, the first single from Icelandic composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Snorri Hallgrímsson’s debut album, to be released 16th of March 2018. Snorri Hallgrímsson is a long-time collaborator of composer Ólafur Arnalds, and has worked with him on various projects, including ‘Island Songs’, ‘The Chopin Project’, and the BAFTA-winning score for ‘Broadchurch’. Snorri’s upcoming full-length was…
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