Brooklyn's fine Blackburn Recordings recently released the self-titled full-length by this borough's sweetest noise pop group Sweet Bulbs, and here's another brilliant track fresh from the release for your ears to make sure you don't miss this piece that is deemed to become one of this year's finest in the still rising sub-genre of honest Black Tambourine devotees. Purest pop goodness drenched in a fog of thick guitar layers and heavily reverberated textures, Sweet Bulb's music is dark yet never too far away from the bright side, just like every true shoegaze ever was.
And if you need further arguments, be sure to head over to our beloved Pelly Twins who premiered the rough but wonderful Dilated Sleep yesterday. Also, ask them if you need more tracks and further insight.
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Brooklyn's fine Blackburn Recordings recently released the self-titled full-length by this borough's sweetest noise pop group Sweet Bulbs, and here's another brilliant track fresh from the release for your ears to make sure you don't miss this piece that is deemed to become one of this year's finest in the still rising sub-genre of honest Black Tambourine devotees. Purest pop goodness drenched in a fog of thick guitar layers and heavily reverberated textures, Sweet Bulb's music is dark yet never too far away from the bright side, just like every true shoegaze ever was.
And if you need further arguments, be sure to head over to our beloved Pelly Twins who premiered the rough but wonderful Dilated Sleep yesterday. Also, ask them if you need more tracks and further insight.
Sweet Bulbs - Fell In A Cave
We had to wait an awfully long time for their latest LP Human Culture to finally be released, but now that it's out, new gems of our favorite Vancouver band Terror Bird keep on dropping on an almost weekly basis. After their amazing Outside single on NightSchool Records, another London boutique label is about to put out an EP with some as yet unheard Terror Bird songs: Waiting for Nothing will be released by Verulamium Records on March 7, and below you can take an exclusive first listen to the title track as well as to the second a-side song, the particularly marvelous She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill), in fact one of the most dazzling tunes by Nikki Never and her pals that I've come across so far.
Pre-order the four track EP on brown 7 inch vinyl here. Limited to 500.
Also, Terror Bird are on an extensive tour all over Europe at the moment. Some of the dates are listed below:
02-13 Rome - DalVerme
02-21 Hamburg - Rote Flora
02-26 Berlin Mitte - Levee (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-07 Paris - L'international (w/ Ela Orleans & Holy Strays)
03-08 London - Cargo (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-10 Manchester - The Deaf Institute
03-11 Glasgow - 13th Note (w/ Golden Grrrls)
03-17 Hamburg - tba.
03-25 Berlin Kreuzberg - Madame Claude
03-26 Cologne - King Georg
For more dates, check their myspace and/or last.fm. Probably subject to change.
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We had to wait an awfully long time for their latest LP Human Culture to finally be released, but now that it's out, new gems of our favorite Vancouver band Terror Bird keep on dropping on an almost weekly basis. After their amazing Outside single on NightSchool Records, another London boutique label is about to put out an EP with some as yet unheard Terror Bird songs: Waiting for Nothing will be released by Verulamium Records on March 7, and below you can take an exclusive first listen to the title track as well as to the second a-side song, the particularly marvelous She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill), in fact one of the most dazzling tunes by Nikki Never and her pals that I've come across so far.
Pre-order the four track EP on brown 7 inch vinyl here. Limited to 500.
Also, Terror Bird are on an extensive tour all over Europe at the moment. Some of the dates are listed below:
02-13 Rome - DalVerme
02-21 Hamburg - Rote Flora
02-26 Berlin Mitte - Levee (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-07 Paris - L'international (w/ Ela Orleans & Holy Strays)
03-08 London - Cargo (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-10 Manchester - The Deaf Institute
03-11 Glasgow - 13th Note (w/ Golden Grrrls)
03-17 Hamburg - tba.
03-25 Berlin Kreuzberg - Madame Claude
03-26 Cologne - King Georg
For more dates, check their myspace and/or last.fm. Probably subject to change.
Terror Bird - Waiting for NothingTerror Bird - She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill)
Following the glitchy electronic genius Seams' wonderful Tourist EP back in September last year, the darlings at Pictures Music finally bless us with yet another electronic release: Chairman Kato's Wildfire EP, due February 14th - better known as Valentines day, for those of you who may celebrate that tradition. However, if you expect to find some cute and bubbly indie pop love on this one, you're wrong. The production set up of the London based Chairman Kato may vary, "depending on what mood I’m in" as he says himself. He tweaks, turns and reshapes sounds on his analogue equipment until that rather interesting crunchy electronic landscape appears, of which he often rams through an old tape recorder to get that particular noisy, blown-out feel – a deep and uncensored sound you can place somewhere between abstract hip-hop and dub. Totally gonna grab a bottle and listen to this while everyone else are hanging out with their dear ones on Valentines. (forever alone)
Stream a track from the EP below, or grab the whole thing for $5 via Pictures Music here. Also, don't forget to stay tuned for their Koreless release in March, it's probably going to be just as amazing.
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Following the glitchy electronic genius Seams' wonderful Tourist EP back in September last year, the darlings at Pictures Music finally bless us with yet another electronic release: Chairman Kato's Wildfire EP, due February 14th - better known as Valentines day, for those of you who may celebrate that tradition. However, if you expect to find some cute and bubbly indie pop love on this one, you're wrong. The production set up of the London based Chairman Kato may vary, "depending on what mood I’m in" as he says himself. He tweaks, turns and reshapes sounds on his analogue equipment until that rather interesting crunchy electronic landscape appears, of which he often rams through an old tape recorder to get that particular noisy, blown-out feel – a deep and uncensored sound you can place somewhere between abstract hip-hop and dub. Totally gonna grab a bottle and listen to this while everyone else are hanging out with their dear ones on Valentines. (forever alone)
Stream a track from the EP below, or grab the whole thing for $5 via Pictures Music here. Also, don't forget to stay tuned for their Koreless release in March, it's probably going to be just as amazing.
Here's the brand new "Codeine Rebuild" of Stay Out Tonight, Lay Bac's terrific tropical floor filler from last summer, and Austin, Texas fellow Matthew Shogi aka Party Girl has turned the already quite sleazy original into an outright instrument of seduction, with all its heavy clipping, drowned vocals and slow burning, juicy bass line letting it sound like some five a.m. extravaganza you most likely don't wanna be reminded of the next day.
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Here's the brand new "Codeine Rebuild" of Stay Out Tonight, Lay Bac's terrific tropical floor filler from last summer, and Austin, Texas fellow Matthew Shogi aka Party Girl has turned the already quite sleazy original into an outright instrument of seduction, with all its heavy clipping, drowned vocals and slow burning, juicy bass line letting it sound like some five a.m. extravaganza you most likely don't wanna be reminded of the next day.
Lay Bac - Stay Out Tonight (Party Girl's Codeine Rebuild)
Got hit up recently by some pretty weird project named Myrrh, consisting of "two gypsies with a laptop and some screws loose". The latter assertion we can confirm, the former remains rather shady or should be read metaphorically, if anything, as it turns out that Myrrh is in fact the latest side project of Arc Light's Ryan Gabel with his "buddy Landon", which after all makes an awful lot of sense - indeed we find Gabel's distinct take on screwed, lo-fi psych-pop in here, and after a few listens this whole thing becomes strangely captivating. So go join the N'ajzabi Nation and cop the whole EP for free over here, and then you should probably get some shrooms as well, we guess they might help enhancing the whole experience. Seriously.
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Got hit up recently by some pretty weird project named Myrrh, consisting of "two gypsies with a laptop and some screws loose". The latter assertion we can confirm, the former remains rather shady or should be read metaphorically, if anything, as it turns out that Myrrh is in fact the latest side project of Arc Light's Ryan Gabel with his "buddy Landon", which after all makes an awful lot of sense - indeed we find Gabel's distinct take on screwed, lo-fi psych-pop in here, and after a few listens this whole thing becomes strangely captivating. So go join the N'ajzabi Nation and cop the whole EP for free over here, and then you should probably get some shrooms as well, we guess they might help enhancing the whole experience. Seriously.
Myrrh - N'ajzabi Nation
We had to wait an awfully long time for their latest LP Human Culture to finally be released, but now that it's out, new gems of our favorite Vancouver band Terror Bird keep on dropping on an almost weekly basis. After their amazing Outside single on NightSchool Records, another London boutique label is about to put out an EP with some as yet unheard Terror Bird songs: Waiting for Nothing will be released by Verulamium Records on March 7, and below you can take an exclusive first listen to the title track as well as to the second a-side song, the particularly marvelous She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill), in fact one of the most dazzling tunes by Nikki Never and her pals that I've come across so far.
Pre-order the four track EP on brown 7 inch vinyl here. Limited to 500.
Also, Terror Bird are on an extensive tour all over Europe at the moment. Some of the dates are listed below:
02-13 Rome - DalVerme
02-21 Hamburg - Rote Flora
02-26 Berlin Mitte - Levee (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-07 Paris - L'international (w/ Ela Orleans & Holy Strays)
03-08 London - Cargo (w/ Former Ghosts)
03-10 Manchester - The Deaf Institute
03-11 Glasgow - 13th Note (w/ Golden Grrrls)
03-17 Hamburg - tba.
03-25 Berlin Kreuzberg - Madame Claude
03-26 Cologne - King Georg
For more dates, check their myspace and/or last.fm. Probably subject to change.
Terror Bird - Waiting for Nothing
Terror Bird - She Kissed Me (And I Fell Ill)
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Following the glitchy electronic genius Seams' wonderful Tourist EP back in September last year, the darlings at 
