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Record Highlight — Silkie

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Silkie’s latest album Fractals on long-time friend and collaborator Distal’s newly minted  imprint ” might just be his most forward thinking work to date. Silkie has put together a psychedelically sexy and temperamental record that toys with new ideas, archetypes and bpm’s but still grounds itself in what makes dance music and his music so palpable… repetition.

Raised on-planet, Silkie grew up close to the heart of the people on the streets. At at young age he found a deep hidden connection with music that had been lost in the people for centuries. Leading a musical renaissance Silkie would broadcast his music to the people from a re-apropriated military pod. His pod was his home, his life, his love, and most importantly a platform of hope for the people left on the dying planet.  Read on here…..

 

Record Highlight — Vetiver

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Written by Andy Cabic:

Vetiver is what I’ve been calling my songs and recordings since about 2003 or so. I live in San Francisco, have since 1998. My touring band and the musicians I’ve recorded with over the years are always changing, though many friends and players have stayed with me over albums and tours. The one constant has been Thom Monahan who has engineered and co-produced every Vetiver album. Thom lives in L.A., where most of Complete Strangers was recorded. The album came together slowly over demos at my home in San Francisco and quick trips to L.A., continuing on with Thom at his studio. It moved in fits and starts for a couple years. Once we had the basic arrangements we jumped in the studio with Bart Davenport, Gabe Noel and Josh Adams for a few days to put down rhythm tracks. That’s when the album really took shape. Thom & I fleshed everything out with a few more musicians in San Francisco & L.A. and eventually Complete Strangers arrived. The songs on Complete Strangers bear some resemblance to the album’s title. They share things in common but come from different places, different times. “Stranger Still” is an anthem for insomniacs, illuminating the hours when the world exceeds our grasp. “From Now On” rings out some emotional tinnitus, the moment a night runs away from you, when freedoms turn into responsibilities. The album builds around dualities, the way people pair at parties. “Current Carry” percolates with the confidence of love, while “Confiding” reveals how vulnerable we are chasing love. “Backwards Slowly” and “Edgar” are vignettes of transition, more ebb than flow. As with many of Vetiver’s better moments, sunshine is only a chord away from melancholy. An introspective lyric underlies an extroverted chorus. Subtlety tries to be outgoing, loneliness familiar, in an effort to connect the dots of life’s ellipsis. I’m still figuring the album out. It feels like someone I’ve just met yet known for a long time.

Available now from Easy Sound Recording.

 

Record Highlight — Cory Allen

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Cory Allen‘s new album, The Source, travels to a place where avant-garde composition, free jazz drums, and eastern mysticism merge as one. Across the span of four long form pieces, the music shifts from lush string sections and gongs to passionate free drumming and Rhodes piano, to the meditative drones of Hammond organ, tanpura, and harmonium.

These works were composed using performance rules, pitch pools, and guided improvisation in a musical style Allen refers to as psychedelic minimalism. The sessions for The Source were superbly captured at three different studios in Austin: Estuary Recording Facility, Stuck On On, and Altered Ear.

Pre-order now from Punctum Records.

 

Record Highlight – Haynes Boys

 

This Columbus band’s one and only album is seeing the light of day on vinyl for the first time ever courtesy of Re-Vinyl Records.  The band is reuniting in celebration of its release (very likely for this weekend only) – catch them Friday, June 26 at Ace of Cups (Columbus), or Sunday, June 28 at Comfest in Columbus.

 

Record Highlight — Monk Parker

Monk Parker‘s first studio album – How The Spark Loves the Tinder is available now from Bronze Rat Records.  Parker serves up an alt-americana so sedating in its pace, that you might actually live a few years longer when you finally come back around from the time-slip it puts you in.  Pre-order now.

 

Record Highlight — Vision Control

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NYC skronk & dance by John Pugh (Free Blood,!!!).  Limited to 500 copies, with silkscreened covers….available from Fast Weapons.

 

Record Highlight — William Alexander

Residing on the Southern California coast, young songwriter William Alexander infuses sound and culture and turns them into compact pop gems. For years he has  been developing an extensive song catalogue as sun-streaked and sugary as his SoCal peers but with a relaxed modernity that is distinctly his own. Now with the help of east-coast indie upstart Yellow K Records, Alexander will finally share his recordings. His debut album, Strangest Things, is available on vinyl for the first time!

 

Record Highlight — Soft Sleep

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After sorting through a pile of micro cassette recordings he’d made over the last handful of years, Tony Ruland (The Lonely Forest) decided it was finally time to do something with them. He needed some help, so he called up Erik Walters (Silver Torches) and Kyle Holland (Cumulus), and thus, the core of Soft Sleep was born.  The project will feature many guest appearances from past bandmates and touring friends alike – a revolving door!

The Soft Sleep EP includes two of the first completed tracks from the project. Featuring Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) making bass, mellotron, and vocal contributions. This first release from Soft Sleep is divided into 200 clear and 300 pink 7″ vinyl records, and will be available for a limited time from Rocket Heart Records.

 

Record Highlight — Nick Ferrio & His Feelings

Nick Ferrio is a Canadian songwriter working in country and folk music. His sophomore album, entitled Amongst the Coyotes and Birdsongs examines the ferociousness of love.

Amongst the Coyotes and Birdsongs is a subtle, understated and confident collection of songs. Recorded partially in Sackville, NB and partially in Toronto, ON with producer Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky), the album features collaborations with Julie Doiron, Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station), Steve Lambke (Constantines), Ian Kehoe (Marine Dreams) and Evening Hymns. Building on his previous releases Introducing Nick Ferrio & His Feelings and Half the Time, Ferrio has come into his own with Amongst the Coyotes and Birdsongs, offering catchy and sophisticated songs, and claiming his place as one of Canada’s best kept secrets.

 

Record Highlight — Hypnotide

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Columbus, Ohio’s own Hypnotide is self-described as original, innovative surf music.  One spin of their new album Landlocked, and you will be riding the waves of the Olentangy in your eardrums.  Available in an extremely limited quantity now!

 

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