I’m aware of this and have been trying to remedy it, but I’ve had no luck as of yet. I’m a little baffled as to what the problem may be. If anyone has any insight, please, feel free to pass it on!
UPDATE: Fixed! / I’m an idiot.
Upon first hearing the bright, jangly guitars juxtaposed with singer Imran Haniff’s dark, brooding melancholy on “Never Speak Of It Again”, my mind most certainly did not jump to Scarborough, Ontario. But that’s where we find The Holiday Crowd—not in the rainy English countryside and not in 1989, but now, and in Ontario, making some genuinely admirable and seriously good guitar pop without stepping on too many toes along the way!
If you like the song (which you should!), you can head over to Soundcloud for a FREE limited-time download of “Never Speak Of It Again”!
The Holiday Crowd’s new EP, ‘Over The Bluffs’, will be out January 24th on Shelflife Records in the US and New Romantic in Canada. You can and should preorder now!
And here’s the official flyer! Save the date!
I cannot stop listening to this song today!
As the days start to grow increasingly colder my interest in dreamy soundscapes also tends to grow exponentially. Back in the Summertime I may have passed on London-based Pale Seas, but right now it’s taking all of my effort to not run back to bed and put this this song on repeat! Their debut 7” will be out in March on Japan’s Fastcut Records, as well as Fear & Records in the UK! For fans of reverb and things that are generally very pretty.
It’s coming! Stay tuned!
If I had any previous stylistic assumptions about Katy Goodman’s La Sera (I did), they were all proven quite false the moment I heard the first note of the super fuzzed-out bass on her new single “Please Be My Third Eye”. Some melodically beautifully melding of Snoozer and Henry’s Dress comes to mind—with less feedback, of course. “Please Be My Third Eye” precedes LA Sera’s sophomore LP ‘Sees The Light’, which will be be out March 27th on Hardly Art!
Obviously I don’t listen to new music all the time—in fact most of the time I’m not—so in addition to posting the new things swirling around in my head, I like to sometimes post some of the old. I don’t know if it’s the Winter in general, or the fact that there was a pinch of the snow the other evening, but I’ve been in a Field Mice mode that I haven’t found myself immersed in in actual years. They’ll always be one of my most favorite bands and it’s been a nice change of pace as I truly don’t listen to them all that much these days. Anyway, this song, “Annoint,” is probably my favorite Field Mice tune, yet it was never officially released. The only recording of it I am aware of is from their 1990 Peel session and it is a gorgeous pop song that builds into some really fantastic noise. Another notable track from that session is the really wonderful recording of “Fresh Surroundings”!
Happy New Year, pals! It’s the start of a new year, but also a new month—and that means a new monthly mix! This month’s mix includes a few new things that I’ve fallen pretty in love with, as well as a some older records that have been in pretty heavy rotation for me lately. Every now and then I go through month-long phases of not being able to put down Dislocation Dance’s ‘Midnight Shift’. This is one of those months. Anyway, I’ll probably be mentioning some of the newer stuff at more length later this month, so keep an eye out! Happy listening and happy new year!
Tracklist:
01. Blemishes “Keep It Quiet”
02. Dislocation Dance “Here Comes Love”
03. The Proper Ornaments “Who Thought”
04. The Relict “Along The Avenue”
05. Cassolette “Stay Heavy”
06. Snoozer “The Fuss”
07. Ghost Ship “Strange Fear”
08. Field Trip “You Make Me Sleepy”
09. Alison’s Halo “Wishes”
10. The Jesus And Mary Chain “Down On Me”
11. The Popguns “Every Dream”
12. The Airfields “Red Fox”
13. Gol Gappas “St. Lucy”
14. Siamese Twins “Ascension”
15. Je Suis Animal “It’s Love”
16. We Need Secrets “Melacholy”
I actually did do a ‘Favorite Albums of 2011’ post! You can find it here:
http://www.skatterbrain.org/post/14096294511
