January 2019 Roundup Mix

Liam Doyle — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 18:21:50 +0000

This first month of the year is over, the first roundup playlists of the year are here. Click below to hear music from every act we covered during January 2019. You can find all previous monthly roundups here.

Tracklist:

Act Of – I am Fungus
Static Animal – See You Around
Skirts – Brite Boy (Alex G cover)
Space Mountain – Cloud
Alexander – Going To Sleep
German Error Message – Murmuring
Thelma – Take Me To Orlando
Jeffrey Silverstein – Make Yr Peace (And Have It Too)
camp counselor – museum of broken relationships
Spartan Jet-Plex – Stop
Lala Lala & Why? – Siren 042
Shrimpwitch – Leerers
Sir Babygirl – Flirting With Her
Spielbergs – Five On It
Stella Donnelly – Lunch
Mentalease – Avert a Gaze
Priests – The Seduction of Kansas
Mike Pace and The Child Actors – Hazy, Hot & Humid
Swim Camp – Circle K
BURLY – Kent Lame
Miserable chillers – Cider Palace
Imp of Perverse – Tripping Thru a Hallway On Fire
Go Fever – Olivia
Polyan – Dan Song
Morning River Band – Bury Me
Nigel Wright – Overcast
Denmark – I Know
Sister Wanzala – I Went Whaling in My Gap Year
Body Meat – Nairobi Flex
Derek Piotr – Repeating Bloom (Simon Whetham Remix)
Michael Chinworth – Good As It Gets
Mesa Luna – Dispel
yot club – jaded

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BURLY – Kent Lame

Jon Doyle — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:49:01 +0000

If the cyberspace is a world of its own, then old-school forums and messages boards are its lithosphere—a vast deposit of detritus and dead ends pocked with unpolished gems and intriguing clues of creatures and cultures now long since past. Those brave enough to dig down will find a lot of dirt, and those determined to keep digging might find the remnants of something altogether more valuable.

‘Kent Lame’, the new single from upstate New York band BURLY, was born of such digi-palaeontology. Namely a post about a Grateful Dead show sometime in 1980, and the lost weekend that resulted from it. Taken from the EP Self-Titled Demon, forthcoming via Five Kill Records, the song excavates the story and reanimates its characters, reapplying meat to their bones and setting them within a hospitable atmosphere conjured from vibraphone, effected guitar, bass, saxophone, and drums.

The band cite a “hushed non-urgency” in the description of their style, and the idea is apparent across Self-Titled Demon. The lyric writing is shared by Ryan Stewart and non-performing member Timothy Furgal, the latter providing poetry which Stewart sets to music along with the other BURLY members Richard Nolan, Seth Tillinghast, Ian Nichols and Adam Muro. But, whoever is writing any given song, the unhurried sensation remains, a sluggish dreaminess permeating the songs that speaks of half-remembered things, small memories so far back in the subconscious that, when they are finally dredged up, they emerge significant and strange.

We’re sharing a video for ‘Kent Lame’ today, so take a look below and be sure to dive into the album after release.

Self-Titled Demon is set for release on the 25th January via Five Kill Records and you can pre-order it now.

Art by Brendan Dalton

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