[video of the week] Promise And The Monster – Time Of The Season

From the upcoming album “Feed The Fire”, released January 22nd 2016 Idea and production: Billie Lindahl & Ellen Fiske Billie Lindahl, the woman behind the name Promise & The Monster, brings a vivid landscape to life on “Feed The Fire”, her first album for Bella Union. It’s a wondrous and haunting world, mixing light and…

[video of the week] Tiny Fireflies – Taken

From Tiny Fireflies’ debut album, “The Space Between”. Tiny Fireflies began as a collaboration that did not have any intentions of being a band. Chicago musicians Lisle and Kristine (whose solo projects are Fireflies and Tiny Microphone respectively) were asked to appear on “Between two Waves,” a compilation series driven by the concept of two…

[video of the week] Tindersticks – Hey Lucinda

Tindersticks “Hey Lucinda”, featuring Lhasa De Sela, from new album “The Waiting Room” Release date: 22 January 2016 Film by Joe King & Rosie Pedlow Colourist: Jason R Moffat Throughout their two-decade career, Tindersticks have become known as masters of restraint and human emotion, led by the sophistication and rich baritone of Stuart Staples. On…

[video of the week] The Ocean Party – Black Blood

November 13th will see the international release of The Ocean Party’s fifth album in three years. As their first album recorded in a studio, “Light Weight” has a refined pop sound coloured with touches of horns and pedal steel. Recorded in their adopted home of Melbourne with John Lee (Lost Animal, Love of Diagrams) at the…

[video of the week] Lights That Change – Starlight

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrlBFXPKJUc] Lights That Change is back with their new single “Starlight”, which features drum programming by Malcolm Holmes of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and is mastered by Ummagma, and an accompanying video that is equally stunning. Lights That Change is an alternative dreampop outfit, hailing from North Wales and headed by producer Marc Joy….

[video of the week] Crying Day Care Choir – Wonderlust

“Wonderlust” by Crying Day Care Choir the title track from the new EP, released 28th October 2015. Crying Day Care Choir is the universal phenomenon describing how a group of children (aged 0-5) by the act of “crying” simultaneously can create a “Choral perfection”.  A state usually short-lived, however argued to be breathtakingly beautiful. The phenomenon…

[video of the week] Daughter – Doing The Right Thing

Official video for Daughter’s single ‘Doing The Right Thing’. “Doing The Right Thing” is the first single to be taken from Daughter’s forthcoming new album “Not To Disappear”, which will be released on the 15th January 2016 via 4AD/Glassnote. Director: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard Producer: Vanessa Farinha Original Story: Dress’ By Stuart Evers http://www.ohdaughter.com/

[video of the week] Lontalius – All I Wanna Say

Lontalius is the project of Eddie Johnston, from Wellington, New Zealand. Johnston has been releasing music since the age of 13, but started to turn heads in the last year and a half with his gorgeous Casio covers of Top 40 songs from Nicki Minaj (“Pills N Potions”), Beyonce (a gently crooned “XO”), Ciara (“Body…

[video of the week] Mute Forest – Deforestation

“Deforestation” is the title track of the new album by Kael Smith’s Mute Forest, coming out November 13th on Lost Tribe Sound.  Recorded and mixed at home in Denver, the album sprawls across nine sonorous and meticulously wrought tracks containing elements of minimal electronic, ambient and folk. Large cavernous beats, micro-ambient deconstruction and nylon guitar all…

[video of the week] Chantal Acda – The Sparkle In Our Flaws

“The Sparkle In Our Flaws (Radio Edit)” – taken from the new same-titled album by Chantal Acda, coming 09/25/2015 at Glitterhouse Records. Guitar & vocals: Chantal Acda Violin & vocals: Peter Broderick Bass & vocals: Shahzad Ismailly Short Bio: Working under the Sleepingdog moniker since 2006 Chantal has made three acclaimed records that closed on…

[video of the week] Julia Kent – Invitation To The Voyage

Julia Kent has announced her new album “Asperities” with an evocative video for “Invitation to the Voyage”. Directed by Carmen Jiménez who Julia worked with on the award winning short film “Oasis”. As the title suggests, “Asperities” is a record born of conflict: internal, personal and global. Universal themes. The build of pressure and the…

[video of the week] Brideshead – At 45rpm

Shelflife presents the return of German pop heroes, Brideshead with their third album Never Grow Up, available on limited vinyl, CD and digital formats on September 18. “Never Grow Up” is comprised of nine newly recorded songs, plus last year’s single “The Mermaid” and the four gems from their “Comeback” 10″ EP. The album is a…

[video of the week] Jenny Hval – Sabbath

Track taken from Jenny Hval “Apocalypse, Girl” (Sacred Bones, 2015). “Apocalypse, Girl” is a hallucinatory narrative that exists somewhere between fiction and reality, a post-op fever dream, a colourful timelapse of death and rebirth, close-ups of impossible bodies — all told through the language of transgressive pop music. It is a very intimate, very visual…

[video of the week] Mouth 4 Rusty – The Last One On Your Mind

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q0hty8Y3iM] Taken from Mouth 4 Rusty’s 5th album, “Must Take More Care”, out on August 19th: http://mouth4rusty.bandcamp.com. “Drawn and animated by Matt, rendered beautifully by Stepan Kozlov. A million thanks to Jack Hunter, who introduced us to Stepan and acted as our go-between. Dedicated to Rose Alexander, a most wonderful friend, with love and thanks.”

[video of the week] Siv Jakobsen – Caroline

The song is a fictional story about a transgender male. We have chosen to visualize it through the eyes of our trans-feminine friend Miss MJ Rodriguez, to contrast the story of Caroline with MJ’s own journey. The pronouns in the lyric are not geared toward or in any way intended to mis-gender Miss MJ. We…

[video of the week] The Leaf Library – Rings Of Saturn

“Rings Of Saturn” is the first track out of “Daylight Versions”, the debut full-length album from London quintet The Leaf Library, due out on 30 October via WIAIWYA. The record is full of wonderfully woozy, drone-pop tunes about meteorology, the seasons and the incoming sea; from songs about the ghostly Suffolk coastline to the slowly…