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- A1: Sara Smile, Arranged By – Christopher Bond, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Written-By – Daryl Hall, John Oates
- A2: Rich Girl, Arranged By – Christopher Bond, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Arranged By
- A3: It's A Laugh (Single Version), Arranged By – Daryl Hall, David Foster, John Oates, Written-By – Daryl Hall
- A4: Wait For Me, Written-By – Daryl Hall
- A5: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, Written-By – Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector
- B1: Kiss On My List, Written-By – Daryl Hall, Janna Allen
- B2: You Make My Dreams, Written-By – Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen
- B3: Private Eyes, Written-By – Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen, Warren Pash
- B4: I Can't Go For That (No Can Do), Written-By – Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen
- B5: Did It In A Minute, Lyrics By – Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen, Music By – Daryl Hall
- C1: Maneater, Lyrics By – Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen, Music By – Daryl Hall, John Oates
- C2: One On One, Written-By – Daryl Hall
- C3: Family Man, Written-By – Maggie Reilly, Mike Frye, Mike Oldfield, Morris Pert, Rick Fenn, Kim Cross*
- C4: Say It Isn't So, Written-By – Daryl Hall
- D1: Adult Education (Promotional 12"), Lyrics By – Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen, Music By – Daryl Hall
- D2: Out Of Touch (Single Version), Mixed By – Arthur Baker, Written-By – Daryl Hall, John Oates
- D3: Method Of Modern Love, Written-By – Daryl Hall, Janna Allen
- D4: Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid, Written-By – Daryl Hall
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Blue Transparent Vinyl Limited
Repress of a Deep House Classic. 12inch comes as blue transparent vinyl.
Andy Vaz has a giant passion for cycling, precisely for extensive trips from his Hometown Cologne to Düsseldorf and other destinations around the area on his old school flavoured VITUS 979 Duralinox racing bike. “Bicycle Love” is his personal homage to it.
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- Carry On
- Teach Your Children
- Almost Cut My Hair
- Helpless
- Woodstock
- Déjà Vu
- Our House
- 4: +20
- Country Girl
- Everybody I Love You
The Wandering Hearts are a British Americana-Folk band known for their enchanting harmonies and heartfelt songwriting influenced by the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and have a similar sound to The Lumineers and First Aid Kit. Their new album, Déjà Vu (We've All Been Here Before), is a beautiful re-work of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 hit album of the same name. Recorded in one week in Joshua Tree, Taurus Rising Studios. This isn't an album out to besmirch the original, but to become a loving companion without being an overly reverential copy. With a band as distinctive and exciting as The Wandering Hearts, a note-for-note facsimile was never an option. One listen to how The Wandering Hearts have taken Déjà Vu's ten songs to new places and reimagined it over 50 years later, and it's clear this is a very bold, very new work by one of Britain's most accomplished Americana artists.
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- A1: Entering Lumon (Odesza Severance Remix)
- A2: Mammalians Nurturable (Odesza Severance Remix)
- A3: Music Of Wellness (Odesza Severance Remix)
- A4: Elevator Down (Odesza Severance Remix)
- A5: Morning Routine (Odesza Severance Remix)
- A6: Irving Watermelon (Odesza Severance Remix)
- A7: Muzak Kier Hymn (Odesza Severance Remix)
- B1: Entering Lumon (Odesza Severance Remix)
- B2: Mammalians Nurturable (Odesza Severance Remix)
- B3: Music Of Wellness (Odesza Severance Remix)
- B4: Elevator Down (Odesza Severance Remix)
- B5: Morning Routine (Odesza Severance Remix)
- B6: Irving Watermelon (Odesza Severance Remix)
- B7: Muzak Kier Hymn (Odesza Severance Remix)
Das dreifach Grammy-nominierte Duo ODESZA hat sich für eine neue 7-Track-EP mit der Apple TV+ Hit-Show, „Severance“, zusammengetan und den unverwechselbaren Klängen von Theodore Shapiros Emmy-Award-gekrönten Kompositionen ihre einzigartige Handschrift verliehen.
?Die Musik, die zum ersten Mal auf dem 8-stündigen Visual-/ Audio-Erlebnis, „Music To Refine To“, zu hören war, ist eine Anspielung auf die Idee eines Soundtracks für deinen „Innie“ bei der Arbeit. Der nahtlose 23-Minuten-Mix läuft in einer Endlosschleife und lässt die Hörer:innen in die verschiedenen Motive, Klänge und Atmosphären der Show eintauchen. Seit seiner Veröffentlichung vor zwei Wochen wurde das Video mehr als zwei Millionen Mal angeschaut, während ODESZAs soziale Posts über die Zusammenarbeit im gleichen Zeitraum mehr als 3,5 Millionen Aufrufe erreichten.
?In der mehrfach preisgekrönten Serie, deren zweite Staffel am 21. März 2025, zu Ende ging, leitet Mark Scout (Adam Scott) ein Team bei Lumon Industries, dessen Mitarbeiter:innen sich einer Trennungsprozedur unterzogen haben, die ihre Erinnerungen zwischen Arbeit und Privatleben chirurgisch trennt. Mit einer renommierten Besetzung, zu der auch Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus und John Turturro gehören, wurde die Serie von der New York Times als „ein fesselnder Thriller“ bezeichnet.
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- A1: Canopy
- A2: Iman
- A3: Alma’s Cove
- B1: Open At Noon
- B2: Into The Blue
Die vierköpfige Instrumentalband Yuuf signed bei Ninja Tune-Sublabel, Technicolour, und veröffentlicht ihre neue EP, „Alma's Cove“ am 20. Juni 2025!
„Alma's Cove“ umfasst fünf Tracks und ist eine meditative Klanglandschaft, die die Hörer:innen auf eine klangliche Reise durch die Natur mitnimmt, abseits des Alltagsstresses. „‚Alma's Cove‘ ist ein verträumter, tropischer Raum ohne Stress, in dem man sich zufrieden und präsent fühlen kann. Ein geschütztes Paradies, das man in aller Ruhe genießen kann.“, so die Band. „Als wir die EP schrieben, war das Hauptziel, einen Ort zu schaffen, der das komplette Gegenteil unseres Londoner Lebens ist und z.T. aus Stress, Angst und Überforderung besteht. Sich wieder mit der Natur verbinden und die Gegenwart genießen. Ein Traumland.“
Zusammen mit der Ankündigung veröffentlichen Yuuf den Titeltrack der EP, „Alma’s Cove“, der heute auf Technicolour erschienen ist. Reich an organischen Texturen, schimmernden Details und psychedelischen Rhythmen, lädt die Single Zuhörer:innen in die heitere Welt von „Alma's Cove“ ein. „Die Hörer:innen spazieren umher und nehmen die Natur, die Geräusche und die Aussicht in sich auf und schwelgen in ihrer natürlichen Schönheit.“. Zur Single gibt es auch ein offizielles Musikvideo, das eine komplette Live-Session zeigt, die während der jüngsten Reise der Band nach Kreta gefilmt wurde. Die Vermischung internationaler Klänge und globaler Einflüsse steht im Mittelpunkt des Ethos von Yuuf. Selbst die Mitglieder der Band kommen aus verschiedenen europäischen Ländern - aus der Schweiz, Dänemark, Frankreich und England. „Wir vermischen auf natürliche Weise unsere verschiedenen musikalischen Vorlieben aus der ganzen Welt, um den Sound unserer Musik zu formen.“, erklärt die Band. „Alma's Cove“ ist ein Paradebeispiel dafür, inspiriert von klassischer spanischer Gitarre, Americana-Soundscapes und der Musik der Filme von Studio Ghibli. Yuuf starten im Mai eine Europa-Tournee mit mehreren Stopps bei verschiedenen Sommerfestivals, darunter Wilde Weide Festival, Green Man, Chez Hubert und Psych Festival. Die Band hat im Sommer 2024 ihre Debüt-EP, „In The Sun“, veröffentlicht, die bereits über 1,5 Millionen Streams allein auf Spotify erreicht hat und von BBC 6Music, KEXP, KRCW und der Instagram-Plattform, Somewhere Soul (919K Follower:innen), unterstützt wurde. Das gleichzeitig mit der EP veröffentlichte virale Live-Session-Video von „The Sun“ hat mittlerweile beeindruckende 1,8 Millionen Views, 84.000 Likes und 4.000 Kommentare auf Youtube.
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- Never Again
- Next To You
- I Wonder If I'll Ever Forget This
- Never My Mind
- Carry My Home
- Tropical Storm
- From Way Down Here
- Feeling The Fall
- Enough
- Over It
Jess Kerber aus Nashville nahm im Alter von 12 Jahren erstmals eine Gitarre in die Hand, um mit ihren frühreifen Stimmungen und Zupfstilen zu experimentieren - beeinflusst von Gleichgesinnten wie Joni Mitchell und Susan Tedeschi. Dies führte zur Entwicklung einer einzigartigen Klangpalette und zu einem authentischen, persönlichen Zugang zum Songwriting. Inspiriert wurde sie gleichermaßen von ihrer Erziehung in Louisiana und dem Studium am Bostoner Berklee College of Music. Ihr Debütalbum "From Way Down Here" zeigt die Dynamik und Tiefe ihrer großartigen Stimme und ihrer nachdenklichen, humanistischen Texte, sowie die raffinierte Komplexität ihres Gitarrenspiels. Während der Entwicklung vieler dieser Kompositionen, bei frühen Live Auftritten in und um Boston und Cambridge, lernte Kerber den Songwriter Will Orchard kennen, der schnell zu einem Partner und Kollaborateur in der Entstehungsphase ihrer Aufnahmen wurde. Orchards Fähigkeiten als Produzent und Multiinstrumentalist heben Kerbers Arrangements auf eine neue Ebene, mit einer entwaffnenden Reinheit und Emotion in einer Dynamik, die derjenigen von Gillian Welch und David Rawlings angelehnt ist. Mit den Traditionen der Americana erschaffen Kerber und Orchard zusammen mit Mischtechniker Charlie Dahlke von The Brazen Youth ihr eigenes Subgenre, das gleichzeitig intim und und universell, tröstlich und rau ist. Über das gesamte Album hinweg erhält Kerbers reicher, samtener Tenor eine tiefe Zärtlichkeit und Wärme, während unterschiedliche Elemente wie Pedal Steel, Wurlitzer, Schlagzeug und Ambient-Gitarre für den schimmernden Background sorgen. Der Einfluss ihrer Erziehung - und und das, was sie liebevoll als ,Abgehobenheit vom Rest der Welt Gefühl" des tiefen Südens nennt - zeigt sich in den ehrlichen, geradlinigen und zeitlosen Qualität ihrer Kompositionen. "From Way Down Here" ist das seltene Debüt, das alle Merkmale einer erfahrenen Songwriterin aufweist. Sie konstruiert eine fesselnde Welt von rauer Schönheit und Wahrheit, deren Bann lange nach dem Verklingen der letzten Töne anhält.
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- A1: Booking Up Baby
- B1: Giving Up
The Topics waren eine Soul-Vocal-Band aus New York, die vor allem in den 1960/1970ern aktiv war und zunächst als The Uniteds startete. Im Laufe der Jahre kamen und gingen verschiedene Mitglieder. Ihre Singles, angefangen bei der Debüt-7" "The Girl In My Dreams" (1962) erschienen bei kleinen Labels, mit Ausnahme der beiden Songs auf vorliegender Expansion-Reissue, die 1973 direkt hintereinander bei Mercury Records erschienen. "Booking Up Baby" wurde von Dennis Williams (The O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, Jean Carn) co-produziert, der auch den Van McCoy-Song "Giving Up" arrangierte. Beide Soultracks sind anspruchsvoll und begehrt, eine Originalpressung kostet auf Discogs bis zu 850 Pfund.
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- A1: Look At Me Now
- B1: Look At Me Now (Alternate Take)
Terry Callier war ein angesehener Singer/Songwriter/Gitarrist und Soulsänger aus Chicago, der mit Curtis Mayfield, Major Lance, Jerry Butler und den Doo-Wop-Bands der frühen 1960er aufwuchs. "Look At Me Now" war ursprünglich die B-Seite seiner 1968er Debütsingle auf Chess Records, "You Goin' Miss Your Candy Man". Doch gerade diese Northern Soul-Hymne wurde zu einem wesentlichen Teil seines Vermächtnisses und seines bis heute anhaltenden Platzes in der Northern-Soul-Szene. Damals wurde auch der "Alternative Take" aufgenommen, der erst jetzt exklusiv auf dieser Outta-Sight-Reissue erhältlich ist. Originalexemplare von 1968 werden derzeit für bis zu 650 Pfund gehandelt.
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- A1: The Town
- A2: Kick Off
- A3: Blue
- A4: Underground
- B1: Lost
- B2: Two Sips
Stirring, snaking riffs, set closer to Josh Homme’s sun-bleached Joshua Tree compound, than the English Channel-lashed grin-and-bear-it character of Cleethorpes, sound the return of Lincolnshire teen-trio, Revivalry as they get set for 2025. Rushing and rattling into 2025, targeting fresh terrain as last year’s land grab of main stage festival and support slots becomes yesterday’s news, most recent single "Lost"'s three-and-a-half minutes of abandon pushes at the door of another sunny season of big shows and wild memories. School was out in 2024 as the teenagers took off from their hometown to first tackle the festival fields of Kendal Calling last summer, becoming the youngest ever band to play the Main Stage, having been hand-picked by bookers who spotted them mid-flow at one of their earliest shows. With trailblazing single, The Town, accompanying them on their way as thousands of new music-hungry gig goers caught the band on stages of increasing scale, their online listeners kept pace. Touring from sweaty venues to major outdoor support slots, their impressive run included a first, major Manchester headline, playing at Deaf Institute as the year met it’s festive close. Delving into record collections and distinct individual tastes, the three members of Revivalry refer with comfort to Rage Against The Machine and Bring Me The Horizon, as easily as fellow documentarians of youth, Arctic Monkeys or Supergrass, when discussing their beyond-years writing.
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- A1: Only Fair
- A2: Night And Day
- A3: Happy Person
- A4: Ants
- A5: Lost In A Daze
- A6: Always
- B1: Brighter Side Of Blue
- B2: How The Time Is Tickin
- B3: Ghost
- B4: Nothin' Left To Burn
- B5: Fade Away
'This exclusive re-issue of “Brighter Side of Blue” is limited to only 300 copies on baby blue heavyweight vinyl, with an individually-numbered obi strip, and bespoke essay from Amy Campbell.
This was one of our albums of 2023 (Double J agreed, too making #16 in their Album Of The Year Countdown). Released in mid-January, it soundtracked our late Australian summer. It’s not a record that’s easily pigeon-holed. Is it alt-country, with a nod to Gillian Welch? Is it classic rock, mined from a similar vein that Chrissie Hynde has drawn from? Is it indie-folk, a lighter, brighter Jen Choler? You tell us.
‘Brighter Side of Blue’ was recorded in Bellambi in the Illawara throughout 2022. Featuring Cecil Coleman from Body Type on drums, and Russell Fitzgibbon (who also released Skeleten’s ‘Under Utopia’) on bass and co-production, it’s a beautiful shiny record that glistens like the sea in that part of Australia, a place where the waves meet ancient escarpment.
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Fun Fun was an Italian Euro disco band produced by Dario Raimondi Cominesi and Alvaro Ugolini. The group was fronted by models, while the vocals were recorded by
original singers Antonella Pepe, Angela Parisi, and Ivana Spagna. Spagna left after the release of their first album in 1983.
Their breakthrough came with the hit “Happy Station (Scratch Remix),” by Ben Liebrand which climbed the charts in several European countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium.
The track became a staple in the hottest discos of the era. The Greatest Fun compilation album brings together their biggest hits, including “Happy Station (Scratch Remix),”
“Give Me Your Love,” “Baila Bolero,” and “Living in Japan.” Additionally, the album features the Fun Fun “Mega Hit Mix,” a special mix by
Dutch producer and DJ Martin Boer of 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor fame, along with many more Euro disco tracks.
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An’archives present the debut album by Tokyo avant-pop duo Jyuriaano, Dreaming Glass. Consisting of Morimoto Ariomi and Cobalt, the two members of Jyuriaano have long histories in Japanese underground music. Morimoto’s history traces back to the late nineties; his nascent interests in noise collage and solo acoustic performance slowly transmuted to group endeavours, and more recently he’s performed with the likes of Akiko Toshimitsu (Usurabi), Maki Miura (Shizuka) and Doronco (Los Doroncos).
Cobalt has released a string of excellent singer-songwriter albums, many on his Poet Portraits label, which has also released material by the likes of Kazumi Nikaido, Place Called Space, Cuthberts, and moools, the latter of which he also performs with on occasion. While Morimoto and Cobalt have known each other for decades, they decided to form Jyuriaano in 2016, and since then have performed at live houses and small bars in Japan, all while slowly working together on their gentle, spirited songs.
The group’s formation story is typically playful – “It all started when we brought an acoustic guitar into the car on a rainy afternoon and started writing songs while eating Japanese sweets,” Cobalt recalls. That sense of play is important to the songs on Dreaming Glass, which vary wildly, from bright, infectious pop songs with a sixties lilt (“Dreaming Baby”, “How Close”), through slinky jazz-pop numbers (“Drawing A Nude”) to melancholy folk laments (“Erica”, “Night Window”). There’s something in Jyuriaano’s collaborative dynamic that gifts Morimoto and Cobalt a particularly open field, when it comes to their creative endeavours.
Some of this might also be down to their listening habits. When asked about their interest in Japanese folk precursors, legendary groups like Folk Crusaders and Itsutsu-no-Akai-Fusen, Cobalt agrees that they have a place in the duo’s listening pantheon, but that’s not where the story ends. “We’ve also listened to commercial folk music outside of those core genres,” he reflects, “We don’t just listen to one genre, but also rock and roll, noise industrial, punk, new wave, jazz, chanson, and more.”
You might also hear touches of groups like the forementioned Usurabi, or Maher Shalal Hash Baz, or songwriters like Kazumi Nikaido and Shintaro Sakamoto. But Jyuriaano’s songs, somehow, feel quite sui generis in the way they magic up alternative visions for pop’s possibilities. Dreaming Glass is, quite simply, a lovely, unpretentious joy of an album.
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- One Of Us Is Losing (Feat The Anchoress)
- Green Plastic Bullets (Feat Gabriella Cilmi)
- Indian Summer (Feat Jim Kerr & The Anchoress)
- Celebrate You (Feat Shelly Poole)
- Heavens Fist (Feat Gabriella Cilmi)
- Utah (Feat Shelly Poole & Joe Hammill)
- The Lie That Tells The Truth (Feat Jim Kerr)
- The Stars Stand In (Feat David J.)
- Fireflies (Feat Shelly Poole)
- To England (Feat The Anchoress)
- The Dominant Colour Is Rust (Feat Jim Kerr)
The Dark Flowers beguile with their dark take on country music" ROLLING STONE. THE DARK FLOWERS release their second album `INDIAN SUMMER' with Paul Statham bringing together a unique collection of collaborators, JIM KERR, GABRIELLA CILMI, DAVID J, THE ANCHORESS and SHELLY POOLE in June 2025 on Loki Records via Cargo.With 2014 debut album. `Radioland', songwriter and producer Paul Statham brought together a group of guest vocalists for a collection inspired by Sam Shepard's `Motel Chronicles'. Featuring an all-star cast of Jim Kerr, Peter Murphy, The Anchoress, Shelly Poole, Dot Allison, Kate Havnevik and Helicopter Girl, the album was characterized by MOJO as "a perfect album for a lonely winter night" (4/5). The new album sees Statham, a member of Post Punk band B-Movie, and co-writer with a host of well-known artists including Dido, Kylie, Peter Murphy and Simple Minds retain his principal role in the project as both producer and songwriter. Once again, Shepard's prose plays a key role with `Hawk Moon', the companion volume to `Motel Chronicles', an additional source of inspiration. Jim Kerr from Simple Minds continues his involvement with 3 tracks as does Welsh songwriter and multi-instrumentalist The Anchoress. David J from Bauhaus/Love and Rockets is also a featured artist along with Gabriella Cilmi turning in 2 dark and beguiling tracks. The project is completed with Shelly Poole (from country/folk band Red Sky July and a long-time friend and co-writer on 3 songs.
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- One Of Us Is Losing (Feat The Anchoress)
- Green Plastic Bullets (Feat Gabriella Cilmi)
- Indian Summer (Feat Jim Kerr & The Anchoress)
- Celebrate You (Feat Shelly Poole)
- Heavens Fist (Feat Gabriella Cilmi)
- Utah (Feat Shelly Poole & Joe Hammill)
- The Lie That Tells The Truth (Feat Jim Kerr)
- The Stars Stand In (Feat David J.)
- Fireflies (Feat Shelly Poole)
- To England (Feat The Anchoress)
- The Dominant Colour Is Rust (Feat Jim Kerr)
The Dark Flowers beguile with their dark take on country music" ROLLING STONE. THE DARK FLOWERS release their second album `INDIAN SUMMER' with Paul Statham bringing together a unique collection of collaborators, JIM KERR, GABRIELLA CILMI, DAVID J, THE ANCHORESS and SHELLY POOLE in June 2025 on Loki Records via Cargo.With 2014 debut album. `Radioland', songwriter and producer Paul Statham brought together a group of guest vocalists for a collection inspired by Sam Shepard's `Motel Chronicles'. Featuring an all-star cast of Jim Kerr, Peter Murphy, The Anchoress, Shelly Poole, Dot Allison, Kate Havnevik and Helicopter Girl, the album was characterized by MOJO as "a perfect album for a lonely winter night" (4/5). The new album sees Statham, a member of Post Punk band B-Movie, and co-writer with a host of well-known artists including Dido, Kylie, Peter Murphy and Simple Minds retain his principal role in the project as both producer and songwriter. Once again, Shepard's prose plays a key role with `Hawk Moon', the companion volume to `Motel Chronicles', an additional source of inspiration. Jim Kerr from Simple Minds continues his involvement with 3 tracks as does Welsh songwriter and multi-instrumentalist The Anchoress. David J from Bauhaus/Love and Rockets is also a featured artist along with Gabriella Cilmi turning in 2 dark and beguiling tracks. The project is completed with Shelly Poole (from country/folk band Red Sky July and a long-time friend and co-writer on 3 songs.
expected to be published on 20.06.2025
- 1: This Music
- 2: Endless Summer
- 3: Abe’s Flamenco (Ft. Franco Franco)
- 4: The Urban Solitude
- 5: E-System (Ft. Manonmars)
- 6: A Feeling
- 7: Close Ur Eyes (Ft. Birthmark)
- 8: Overdrive
- 9: Walking Home (Ft. D. Ham)
- 10: Sunday Morning
Love in the time of collectively assured techno-capitalist-nuclear holocaust! It’s the endless summer the Brits have been harping on about since they think they won the World Cup. The soundtrack is the debut album of the Content Provider; where Octatrack illbient and industrial chanson mesh in a singed postcard addressed to the UK Border Force and co-signed by aliens plucked from the petri dishes of Young Echo, Cold Light and Avon Terror Corps.
It’s a name she tried to keep anonymous, but Drowned By Locals and Bokeh Versions are breaking contract to reveal that the Content Provider is in fact the shock production alias of DALI DE SAINT PAUL. Patron saint of Bristol’s self-destructive improv idols EP/64 as well as post-feminist chamber collective Viridian Ensemble, avant-terror duo Harrga and constant collaborator with the likes of *breathe* Moor Mother, Valentina Magaletti, Mariam Rezaei, Vincent Moon, Maxwell Sterling, Ossia, Ben Vince.
And isn’t it such a strange release? And won’t people be surprised? Endless Summer is grubby and heartfelt, defiant and hopeful, with flecks of warped reggae on E-System nudging the freeform dream balladry of A Feeling and Sunday Morning, Kode9 & Spaceape-worthy dread poetry of Close Ur Eyes next to anthemic electro-crush of Overdrive. Even to those that know her well, and EVERYONE with their belly in the Bristol underground knows her, Endless Summer is a revelation. Perhaps the apex of the known Dali-verse……where her live gigs have boiled with an experimental volcanic vocal force, Endless Summer is twisted, syrupy, sultry, POP.
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WHAT I SEE IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S ENOUGH. "I’m beyond thrilled to announce that my brand new novel, WE’LL NEVER BE FRAGILE AGAIN, is ready and waiting to enter the world. It’s my sixth novel, and a book that I’m really proud of. I feel it’s the best writing I’ve done so far and I’m excited to share it with you very soon. "And again, I’m honoured that the incredible Michael Salerno has given me his miraculous skills and created such gorgeous, beautiful artwork for the book. "It’s a strange, painful book about memory, regrets, art, friendship, desire and death." -- Thomas Moore 100 pp Original cover photography and design throughout by Michael Salerno. The dream team is back!
expected to be published on 20.06.2025
- A1: Patty Saturday– Ladies Choice
- A2: Ginger Davis & The Snaps– Laughin' 1
- A3: Ruth And Sherry– Nothin' Much Tom Cat
- A4: The Sapphires (3)– Where Is Johnny Now
- A5: The Tomboys– I'd Rather Fight Than Switch
- A6: Kathy Lynn & The Playboys– My Special Boy
- B1: The Swans (2)– He's Mine
- B2: Beverly Jones* And The Prestons– Hear You Talking
- B3: The Mckinleys– When He Comes Along
- B4: Audrey Slo– Gonna Find The Right Boy
- B5: Joy Dawn– Hang It Up
- B6: The Three Degrees– Bongos On The Beach
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- A1: Concrete Jungle
- A2: Things In Life
- A3: Things In Dub
- A4: Love Like That
- A5: Love Like Dub
- A6: Turn My Love Around
- B1: Lend Me
- B2: Real Rock, Organ – Johnny Mittoo Moody
- B3: I Spy Trouble
- B4: How Long Rastafari
- B5: In This Time
- B6: He Said She Said
- C1: Sunshine Love
- C2: Sunshine Love Dub
- C3: Mellow Sensimilla
- C4: Sensimilla Dub
- C5: Kindness For Weakness
- C6: Kindness Dub
- C7: Hold You
- D1: Saturday Night
- D2: Respect
- D3: Gimme Little Sign
- D4: Seven Days A Week
- D5: In Your Eyes
- D6: Wicked A Go Feel It
- D7: Vision In Life
expected to be published on 20.06.2025
- A1: A Certain Girl; Written-By – Neville*
- A2: I Ain't Got You; Written-By – Carter*
- A3: Got To Hurrywritten-By – Gomelsky*
- A4: Steeled Blues; Written-By – Beck*, Relf*
- A5: Still I'm Sad; Written-By – Mccarty*, Samwell Smith*
- A6: A Better Man Than I; Written-By – Hugg*, Hugg*
- A7: I'm Not Talking; Written-By – Allison*
- A8: New York City Blues; Written-By – Dreja*, Relf*
- B1: Jeff's Boogie; Written-By – Beck*
- B2: Psycho Daisies; Written-By – Dreja*, Beck*, Mccarty*, Page*, Relf*
- B3: The Nazz Are Blue; Written-By – Beck*
- B4: Puzzles; Written-By – Chris Dreja, Jim Mccarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf
- B5: Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor; Written-By – Chris Dreja, Jim Mccarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf, Traditional
- B6: Drinking Muddy Water; Written-By – Chris Dreja, Jim Mccarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf, Traditional
- B7: Think About It; Written-By – Jim Mccarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf
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expected to be published on 20.06.2025
- A1: Prologue
- A2: Terror
- A3: Preacher
- A4: Tainted Love
- A5: Blasphemous Girl
- B1: Close Your Eyes
- B2: Absolution
- B3: Horrible Pain (Within My Heart)
- B4: Monster
- C1: Sick With It
- C2: My Beautiful Flower
- C3: Diavolina
- C4: June 10Th
- D1: Bright Red Scream
- D2: Cosmetic
- D3: Sycophant
- D4: Epilogue
- D5: Beware Of God
expected to be published on 20.06.2025
- A1: Screaming At The Wailing Wall
- A2: The Seven Deadly Sins
- A3: Factory Girls; Engineer
- A4: To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh)
- A5: Whistles The Wind; Cello – Stefanie Fife; Viola – Novi Novog
- A6: The Light Of A Fading Star
- A7: Tobacco Island
- A8: The Wrong Company
- B1: Tomorrow Comes A Day Too Soon; Washboard – Craig Jackman
- B2: Queen Anne's Revenge; Lead Vocals – Nathen Maxwell; Lyrics By – Maxwell*
- B3: The Wanderlust
- B4: Within A Mile Of Home
- B5: The Spoken Wheel; Vocals
- B6: With A Wonder And A Wild Desire
- B7: Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering; Engineer
[c] A3 Factory Girls; Engineer [Lucinda Williams Vocals] – Derrick O'Brien*; Featuring, Vocals – Lucinda Williams
[m] B5 The Spoken Wheel; Vocals [Guest] – Noel O'Donovan
[o] B7 Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering; Engineer [Horns] – Jake Posner; Horns – Lee Thornburg
expected to be published on 20.06.2025
expected to be published on 20.06.2025
- A1: Carnal (2 00)
- A2: House On Sand (3 33)
- A3: If It Doesn't Hurt (2 59)
- A4: Angel Song (3 05)
- A5: Freefall (3 43)
- B1: Blame It On The Drugs (3 18)
- B2: Head (2 35)
- B3: Existential Dread (2 30)
- B4: Heart (3 42)
- B5: Down The River (3 04)
- C1: Give It Time (3 36)
- C2: Sight (1 12)
- C3: Stuck (3 29)
- C4: Run For Your Life (3 32)
- C5: Sound (2 53)
- D1: We're All Gonna Die (3 05)
- D2: Freefall (3 47)
- D3: Angel Song (3 24)
- D4: House On Sand (3 01)
- D5: Angel Song (3 48)
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- A1: Punishment By Roses
- A2: The Dream Collector
- A3: Blackmail
- A4: The Murder In The Rue Morgue
- A5: My Soul Was Still Shouting, 'More!
- B1: I Wish Those Spacemen Would Come
- B2: Badge Of Lead (A Western)
- B3: Small Death Of A Broken Doll
- B4: She Calls The Morning Cruel
- B5: Lady Bureaux
- B6: Is There Anybody There
- C1: The Wolf Knows
- C2: Castles Of Limburg
- C3: If Muzak Be The Junk Food Of Love
- C4: Homo Sapien Blues
- C5: This Town
- C6: Vincent In The Flames
- D1: They've Murdered Christ Again
- D2: Lucky Dog
- D3: Old Man In The Rain
- D4: Conspiracy Of Shadows
- D5: The Long Ride Home
- E1: Cruel Brittania
- E2: All The Pilgrims
- E3: It's Got To Be The Angels
- E4: I'll Put Off Thinking About You For Awhile
- E5: Or Do I Speak Too Soon?
- E6: Oh No! Not Another Songwriter!
- F1: Diamonds, Black Eyes And Valentines Blues
- F2: The Most Beautiful Girls In The World
- F3: Before The Positive Was Negative
- F4: At Paradise
- F5: New Year's Day
- F6: Leaning Towards The Falls
expected to be published on 20.06.2025
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Khadim is a stunning reconfiguration of the Ndagga Rhythm Force sound. The instrumentation is radically pared down. The guitar is gone; the concatenation of sabars; the drum-kit. Each of the four tracks hones in on just one or two drummers; otherwise the sole recorded element is the singing; everything else is programmed. Synths are dialogically locked into the drumming. Tellingly, Ernestus has reached for his beloved Prophet-5, a signature go-to since Basic Channel days, thirty years ago. Texturally, the sound is more dubwise; prickling with effects. There is a new spaciousness, announced at the start by the ambient sounds of Dakar street-life. At the microphone, Mbene Diatta Seck revels in this new openness: mbalax diva, she feelingly turns each of the four songs into a discrete dramatic episode, using different sets of rhetorical techniques. The music throughout is taut, grooving, complex, like before; but more volatile, intuitive and reaching, with turbulent emotional and spiritual expressivity.
Not that Khadim represents any kind of break. Its transformativeness is rooted in the hundreds upon hundreds of hours the Rhythm Force has played together. Nearly a decade has passed since Yermande, the unit's previous album. Every year throughout that period — barring lockdowns — the group has toured extensively, in Europe, the US, and Japan. With improvisation at the core of its music-making, each performance has been evolutionary, as it turns out heading towards Khadim. “I didn’t want to simply continue with the same formula," says Ernestus. “I preferred to wait for a new approach. Playing live so many times, I wanted to capture some of the energy and freedom of those performances.” Though several members of the touring ensemble sit out this recording — sabar drummers, kit-drummer, synth-player — their presence abides in the structure and swing of the music here.
Lamp Fall is a homage to Cheikh Ibra Fall, founder of the Baye Fall spiritual community. The mosque in the city of Touba is known as Lamp Fall, because the main tower resembles a lantern. Soy duggu Touba, moom guey séen / When you enter Touba, he is the one who greets you. After a swift, incantatory start Mbene sings with reflective seriousness. Her voice swirls with reverb, over a tight, funky, propulsive interplay between synth and drums, threaded with one-two jabs of bass. Cheikh Ibra Fall mi may way, mo diayndiou ré, la mu jëndé ko taalibe... Cheikh Ibra Fall amo morome, aboridial / Cheikh Ibra Fall shows the way forward, he gives us strength, he gathers his disciples... Overflowing with grace, Cheikh Ibra Fall has no equal.
Interwoven with Wolof proverbs, Dieuw Bakhul is a recriminatory song about treachery, lies, and back-biting. Over moody, roiling synths and ominous, lean bass, Mbene throws out fluttering scraps of vocal, as if re-running old conversations in her head. The music shadows her despair to the verge of breakdown, at one moment seemingly so lost in thought and memories, that it threatens to disintegrate. Bayilene di wor seen xarit ak seen an da ndo... Dieuw bakhul, dieuw ñaw na / Stop judging your friends and companions... A lie is no good, a lie is ugly.
Khadim is a show-stopper; currently the centrepiece of Ndagga Rhythm Force live performances. The song is dedicated to Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, aka Khadim, founder of the Mouride Sufi order. Serigne Bamba mi may wayeu / Serigne Bamba is the one who makes me sing. The verses name-check revered members of his family and brotherhood, like Sokhna Diarra, Mame Thierno, and Serigne Bara. Though Islam has been practised in Senegal for a millennium, it wasn’t until the start of the twentieth century that it began to thoroughly permeate ordinary Senegalese society, hand-in-hand with anti-colonialism. The verses here recall Bamba’s banishment by the French to Gabon, and later to Mauritania, in those foundational times. During exile, his captors once introduced a lion to his cell: gaïnde gua waf, dieba lu ci Cheikhoul Khadim / the lion doesn’t budge, it gives itself over to Cheikh Khadim. Deep, surging bass, steady kick-drum, and simple, reverbed chords on the off-beat lend the feel and impetus of steppers reggae. A reed plays snatches of a traditional Baye Fall melody; the dazzling polyrhythmic drumming is by Serigne Mamoune Seck. Mbene compellingly blends percussive vocalese, narrative suspense, exultant praise, introspection, and grievance.
Nimzat is a devotional tribute to Cheikh Sadbou, a contemporary of Bamba, buried in a mausoleum in Nizmat, in southern Mauritania. Way nala, kagne nala... souma danana fata dale / I call upon you and wonder about you... If I am overwhelmed, come to my aid. The town holds special significance for Khadr Sufism. An annual pilgrimage there is conducted to this day. The rhythm is buoyantly funky; the mood is sombre, reined-in, foreboding. Punctuated by peals of thunder, Mbene sings with restrained, intense reverence; huskily confidential, steadfast. Nanu dem ba Nimzat, dé ba sali khina / Let us go to Nimzat, to seal our devotion.
Mbene Diatta Seck: vocals.
Bada Seck: bougarabou, thiol, mbeung mbeung bal, tungune.
Serigne Mamoune Seck: bougarabou, khine, mbeung mbeung, tungune.
Text by Mark Ainley (Honest Jons).
Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Everything else by Mark Ernestus.
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- A1: Kristin Chenoweth, Sean Mccourt, Cristy Candler, Jan Neuberger, Citizens Of Oz– No One Mourns The Wicked
- A2: Students– Dear Old Shiz
- A3: Carole Shelley, Idina Menzel– The Wizard And I
- A4: Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Students– What Is This Feeling?
- A5: William Youmans, Idina Menzel, Students– Something Bad
- B1: Norbert Leo Butz, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Fitzgerald, Michelle Federer, Idina Menzel, Students– Dancing Through Life
- B2: Kristin Chenoweth– Popular
- B3: Idina Menzel– I'm Not That Girl
- B4: Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Denizens Of The Emerald City– One Short Day
- B5: Joel Grey– A Sentimental Man
- C1: Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Guards Of Oz, Citizens Of Oz– Defying Gravity
- C2: Kristin Chenoweth, Carole Shelley, Citizens Of Oz– Thank Goodness
- C3: Joel Grey, Idina Menzel– Wonderful
- D1: Kristin Chenoweth– I'm Not That Girl (Reprise)
- D2: Idina Menzel, Norbert Leo Butz– As Long As You're Mine
- D3: Idina Menzel– No Good Deed
- D4: Christopher Fitzgerald, Citizens Of Oz– March Of The Witch Hunters
- D5: Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth– For Good
- D6: Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Citizens Of Oz– Finale
expected to be published on 17.06.2025
Having James Shinra back on AF is always a cause for celebration, and doubly so this time because we present 'Meteorites', his second album following the highly acclaimed Vital Heat (2018). During 2023-24, James uploaded a series of digital releases called 'Meteorites', a set of dreamy and introspective tracks where the artist showed his evolution and maturity, refining the emotive sound that's his trademark and has garnered so much praise in recent years. We should do justice to that material, giving it a worthy treatment/format, so we decided to release all together. James has revisited and reworked many of the tracks for the occasion, polishing, adding, removing... and the result is 'Meteorites', the album. A MUST for all braindance sensibilities and nonconformist electronic heads. We're sure it will remind you exactly why you loved this talented guy for so long and why he's one of the most uncompromising artists working in electronic music these days.
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- A1: I’ll
- A2: Arne
- A3: Sad Premonition / Lilyum
- B1: Anne
- B2: Abandoned School Organ
- B3: Your Canon
- B4: Hymn
The analog version of the masterpiece EP "I'll", released in 2018 as a work that expresses the continuation of the world view of the debut album "Grace",
has been repressed on turquoise blue vinyl!
Haruka Nakamura herself is in charge of the lyrics, composition, and all the instrumental parts. Janis Crunch, who was in charge of vocals on "Grace",
is featured again. The dreamy number "I'll" evokes the beginning of spring and hope, which synchronizes with the fantastic world depicted by photographer
Shiori Iwakura, who collaborated with Haruka Nakamura on the jacket and music video, "Arne", a reconstructed version of the famous song "arne" from the
debut album "Grace", and "Lilium", a song that was used in the climax scene of the movie "Every Day", for which Haruka Nakamura was in charge of the
music, are newly recorded and included.
The B-side includes "Anne", which can be called a different version of "Arne", which was included in Schole's compilation "Joy" in 2013, and is exclusive to the LP.
It connects the worlds of "Grace" and "I'll". It also contains warm songs that bring to mind childhood scenes, such as the nostalgic "Abandoned School Organ" and
"Your Canon", which combine church organ, muted piano, and field recordings.
The artwork, like the 8cm CD, depicts beautiful natural scenery, and the jacket and insert feature a series of photos by the immensely popular photographer
Shiori Iwakura, creating a package that beautifully blends the sound world of "I'll" with the scenery. As with the analog version of "Grace", the mastering was
done by Gen Tanabe, a close friend of Haruka Nakamura's who works on the sound of his works. It is a deep sound production that will give new discoveries
to listeners who were captivated by the release of the 8cm CD.
expected to be published on 17.06.2025
- A1: With U - Karibu
- A2: Africanism, Bob Sinclar Feat Moonlight Benjamin - Zanmi Kanmarad
- A3: Arty & Haska Feat Jay Sorrow - In My Head
- A4: Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano Feat Inner City - Good Life
- A5: Kosheen, Marten Lou Feat Isidoros - Hide U
- B1: Bob Sinlar - World Hold On (Soubeiran & Sasson Remix)
- B2: Unfazed - A Gira
- B3: Ameme, Franc Fala - Wait For You
- B4: Cesaria Evora - Sangue De Beirona (Main Pass By François K )
- C1: Idq, Themba - Kumbuka
- C2: Lakou Mizik, Joseph Ray - Kite Zo A
- C3: Afronom, Marc Moon - Tiki
- C4: Africanism, Bob Sinclar, David Guetta, Joachim Garraud, Tim Deluxe Feat Ben Onono - Summer Moon (Eran Hersh & Stadiumx Remix Edit)
- C5: Armin Van Buurnen, Louis Iii - Part Of Me
- D1: Nico De Andrea, Vanetty - Ethnica
- D2: Luca Santiago - Pa Ti
- D3: Africanism, Arkadyan Feat Yana Mann - Forever We Young
- D4: Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas - Eye Nyam Nam 'A' Mensuro (Henrik Schwarz Blend)
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expected to be published on 17.06.2025
- A1: Spacemen's March
- A2: Space Attack "Q
- A3: Waltz 3
- A4: Ppu Dance
- A5: Fairy Wings
- A6: Improvised Song "Sweet Tea " (1981)
- A7: Long Time Ago Demo
- A8: More Deep Demo (1980S)
- A9: Small Gift
- B1: Love Me
- B2: M45
- B3: Echoes Of Unspoken Love Demo (1980S)
- B4: 大樹となかまたち Demo (1999)
- B5: プール Demo (1980S)
- B6: Improvised Song "To You" (2005)
- B7: Song Pop B Demo (1998)
expected to be published on 17.06.2025
expected to be published on 17.06.2025
- A1: Santa Claus Is Back In Town (Take 7, Master)
- A2: One Night (Of Sin) (Master)
- A3: It Feels So Right (Take 3)
- A4: A Mess Of Blues (Take 3)
- A5: Like A Baby (Take 2)
- A6: I Fee So Bad (Take 1)
- A7: Give Me The Right (Take 2)
- A8: Beach Boy Blues (Movie Version)
- A9: Reconsider Baby
- B1: Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Master)
- B2: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You (Take 13)
- B3: When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again (Take 10, Master)
- B4: Old Shep (Take 5)
- B5: Your Cheatin' Heart (Take 9)
- B6: A Fool Such As I (Take 3)
- B7: Just For Old Times Sake (Take 4)
- B8: I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
- B9: I Forgot To Remember To Forget
- C1: (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (Take 7)
- C2: It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) (Take 5)
- C3: His Hand In Mine (Take 4)
- C4: I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs (Take 5)
- C5: Milky White Way (Take 5)
- C6: I Believe In The Man In The Sky (Take 1)
- C9: Working On The Building (Take 4)
- D1: Mean Woman Blues (Take 7, Version 2)
- D2: Baby I Don't Care (Take 1)
- D3: King Creole (Take 17)
- D4: Blue Suede Shoes (Take 1, Master, Movie Version)
- D5: Rock-A-Hula Baby (Take 3)
- D6: What A Wonderful Life (Take 2)
- D7: King Of The Whole Wide World (Take 1)
- D8: Girls! Girls! Girls! (Take 3, Master)
- D9: One Broken Heart For Sale (Take 1, Movie Version)
- E1: Tonight Is So Right For Love (Take 7)
- E2: Wooden Heart (Take 1)
- E3: Tonight's All Right For Love (Take 8)
- E4: It's Now Or Never (Take 4)
- E5: Surrender (Take 6)
- E6: Can't Help Falling In Love (Take 26, Movie Version)
- E7: Almost Always True (Take 5)
- E8: No More (Take11)
- E9: Silent Night (Take 9, Master)
- F1: How Do You Think I Feel (Take 7)
- F2: Ito Eats (Take 2)
- F3: Kiss Me Quick (Take 4)
- F4: For The Millionth And The Last Time (Take 7)
- F5: You'll Be Gone (Take 4)
- F6: Fountain Of Love (Take 9)
- F7: We'll Be Together (Take 10)
- C7: Joshua Fit The Battle (Take 2)
- F8: The Walls Have Ears (Take 12, Master)
- F9: Mama (Take 9)
- C8: Swing Down Sweet Chariot (Take 3)
expected to be published on 16.06.2025
- A1: I'm Hurt (Trentmøller Remix); Remix – Trentmøller*
- A2: Hold On Tight (Wah Together Acid Remix); Remix – Wah Together
- A3: Love Reaches Out (Gift Remix); Remix – Gift (29)
- A4: Broken (Data Animal Remix); Remix – Data Animal
- A5: Let's See Each Other (Grimoose Remix); Remix – Grimoose
- B1: Love Reaches Out (Xiu Xiu Remix); Remix – Xiu Xiu
- B2: So Low (Ceremony East Coast Remix); Remix – Ceremony East Coast*
- B3: Nice Of You To Be There For Me (Annie Hart Remix); Remix – Annie Hart
- B4: My Head Is Bleeding (The Pleasure Majenta Remix); Remix – The Pleasure Majenta
- B5: Anyone But You (Tv Priest Remix); Remix – Tv Priest
- B6: I Don't Know How You Do It (Bdrmm Remix); Remix – Bdrmm
- C1: Love Reaches Out (Sonic Boom Remix); Remix – Sonic Boom (2)
- C2: My Head Is Lunacy (Lunacy Remix); Remix – Lunacy (16)
- C3: I'm Hurt (Glok Remix); Remix – Glok (2)
- C4: I Don't Know How You Do It (Dave Harrington Sweetener Remix); Remix – Dave Harrington (3)
- D1: Dragged In A Hole (Glove Remix); Remix – Glove
- D2: Love Reaches Out (Reality Delay Remix); Remix – Reality Delay
- D3: I Disappear (When You're Near) (Bodies Obtained Remix); Remix – Bodies Obtained*
- D4: Let's See Each Other (Davy Drones Dub Remix); Remix – Davy Drones
- D5: Anyone But You (Toflang Remix); Remix – Toflang
- D6: I'm Hurt (Melting Rust Opera Remix); Remix – Melting Rust Opera
expected to be published on 16.06.2025
- A1: じゃないんだよ Lyrics By, Composed By, Arranged By – Jon-Yakitory 2:59
- A2: 青春を切り裂く波動 Arranged By – Scrambles, Lyrics By, Composed By – 松隈チンタ* 3:34
- A3: Giri Giri Lyrics By – 新しい学校のリーダー達*, Lyrics By, Composed By – Yonkey 3:05
- A4: Suki Lie Lyrics By, Composed By, Arranged By – Yonkey 3:15
- B5: オトナブルーComposed By – Yonkey Lyrics By – 新しい学校のリーダー達* 3:05
- B6: 乙女の美学 Composed By – H Zett M Lyrics By – 新しい学校のリーダー達* 4:16
- B7: 踊る本能001 Composed By – H Zett M Lyrics By – 新しい学校のリーダー達* 3:17
- B8: オトナブルー(ハイパースクール Remix) Arranged By – Yonkey 2:54
expected to be published on 16.06.2025
L.A. Witch haben schon immer eine Aura müheloser Coolness ausgestrahlt, sei es in Form des Americana Noir und des lakonischen Back-to-Basics-Rock'n'Roll ihres selbstbetitelten Debüts oder des glühend strengen Abenteurertums ihres zweiten Albums "Play With Fire". Die Band - bestehend aus Sade Sanchez (Gitarre/Gesang), Irita Pai (Bass) und Ellie English (Schlagzeug) - begann als informelle Angelegenheit, aber die schwülen und betörenden, von Hall umhüllten Songs, die sie schufen, fanden beim Publikum Anklang und brachten das Projekt über den isolierten Raum von Freunden und Gleichgesinnten in Südkalifornien hinaus in die weite Welt. Auf ihrem neuesten Album "DOGGOD" geht das Trio über die bisherigen kreativen und geografischen Grenzen hinaus - das Material wurde in Paris produziert und die Tracks im Motorbass Studio in der Rue de Martyrs aufgenommen. "DOGGOD" erkundet ein breiteres klangliches Terrain, setzt ein größeres Arsenal an Sounds ein und erforscht größere existenzielle und kosmische Themen, ohne dabei den für die Band typischen Sinn für das Verbotene, das Verlassene und die Vorahnung zu verlieren. "DOGGOD" ist ein Weg, das universelle Rätsel der spirituellen Natur von Liebe und Hingabe anzugehen. "Ich habe das Gefühl, eine Art Dienerin oder Sklavin der Liebe zu sein", sagt Sanchez. "Ich bin bereit, für die Liebe zu sterben, indem ich ihr diene, für sie leide oder nach ihr suche - so wie ein treuer, ergebener Diensthund es tun würde." Der Titel des Albums ist ein Palindrom, das DOG und GOD zusammenfasst - eine Verherrlichung des Unterwürfigen und eine Subversion des Göttlichen. Es ist eine Anspielung auf die Reinheit von Hunden und eine Anerkennung ihrer bedingungslosen Liebe und ihres beschützenden Wesens, die im Widerspruch zu den verschiedenen abwertenden Assoziationen stehen, die mit dieser Spezies verbunden werden. "Es gibt diese symbolische Verbindung zwischen Frauen und Hunden, die die untergeordnete Stellung der Frau in der Gesellschaft zum Ausdruck bringt", erklärt Sanchez. "Und alles, was solche göttlichen Eigenschaften verkörpert, hat es nicht verdient, als Schimpfwort benutzt zu werden." Diese widersprüchlichen Erkundungen von Liebe und Unterwerfung manifestieren sich in der sanften und rauchigen Garagerock-Alchemie der Band, mit einer neu entdeckten Nutzung der disziplinierten Zurückhaltung und eisigen Instrumentierung des Post-Punk. Der Album-Opener "Icicle" zeigt, wie L.A. Witch aus dem Proto-Punk, der Psychedelia und den düsteren Riffs der 70er Jahre in die von Refrains durchtränkten Gitarren und den verlorenen Minimalismus von Joy Division und den frühen The Cure reist. Es wird eine Parallele zwischen romantischem Selbstmord und Märtyrertum gezogen, die sich im zweiten Song, "Kiss Me Deep", fortsetzt. Hier beschreibt Sanchez eine Liebe, die so rein ist, dass sie die Zeit übersteigt und sich über mehrere Leben erstreckt. Es ist ein Lied über Leidenschaft, vorgetragen mit dem weltlichen und verletzten Stoizismus der frühen Goth-Pioniere. Von dort aus geht die Band zur Leadsingle "777" über, einem Song über Hingabe bis hin zum Tod. Ein treibender Beat, ein treibendes, verzerrtes Riff und Sanchez' ätherischer Gesang vereinen sich zu einem Song, der sowohl düster in seinem Fatalismus als auch sinnlich in seiner treuen Leidenschaft ist. Auf dem gesamten Album "DOGGOD" weichen L.A. Witch nie von ihrer Muse ab. In "I Hunt You Pray" legt Pai einen hypnotischen Basslauf hin, während English einen zyklischen Krautrock-Groove einsetzt und Sanchez das Bild eines verlassenen Hundes am Straßenrand malt, der allein in der Nacht ist und sowohl als Jäger als auch als Gejagter lebt. Auf "Eyes of Love" macht sich die Band die meditativen Mid-Tempo-Wiederholungen, dekonstruierten Akkorde und esoterischen Betrachtungen über Liebe, Tod und Spiritualität zunutze, die Lungfish zu einer so beliebten Band gemacht haben. Es unterstreicht die Parallele zwischen der unerschütterlichen Liebe in den Augen eines Hundes und der Selbstaufopferung eines Erlösers. Auf "The Lines" nimmt die Band den treibenden Puls des Post-Punk und fügt dem Mix eine Extraportion Chorus hinzu. "Chorus ist ein moderner Effekt, der auf der Idee beruht, die leichten Tonhöhenunterschiede eines Chors nachzubilden. Es gibt eine schimmernde Qualität, die uns zurück zu diesem spirituellen, göttlichen Gefühl bringt", erklärt Sanchez. Gepaart mit dem Einsatz von Orgel und einer grüblerischen Moll-Melodie, beschwört der Song gleichzeitig das Heilige und das Sakrileg. Der Titeltrack "DOGGOD" hat vielleicht die größte Ähnlichkeit mit dem Material des Vorgängeralbums "Play With Fire", in den schlanken und gemeinen Gitarren auf eine raue Rhythmusgruppe und verträumten Gesang treffen. Aber während ihr vorheriges Album ein Aufruf war, seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen, bleibt "DOGGOD" dem "Bis dass der Tod uns scheidet"-Thema des Albums treu und geht sogar so weit, ein Maß an Unterwerfung zu beschreiben, das in gefährliche und ungesunde Gefilde übergeht, wobei Sanchez singt "hang me on a leash / `til I wait for my release". Letztendlich ist "DOGGOD" eine perfekte Verkörperung des Ansatzes von L.A. Witch. Es ist gleichzeitig romantisch und bedrohlich, ehrfürchtig und profan, eine Feier und ein Klagelied. Es spannt den Bogen zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, indem es vertraute Klänge aufgreift und sie für die Jetztzeit aufbereitet. Aber es läutet auch eine neue Ära für die Band ein, die über die Kodachrome-Erinnerungen an das Amerika der Jahrhundertmitte hinausgeht und tiefer in den mittelalterlichen und gotischen Energien von Paris und darüber hinaus gräbt, während sie gleichzeitig ein besudeltes Herz erforscht.
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