July 2018 Roundup

Jon Doyle — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:29:43 +0000

With grass either dead yellow or on fire, this July might have served as a harbinger of a dire downward turn in global living conditions. Luckily, there has been no such dip in quality in terms of music. We’ve made a playlist that collects all of the artists we covered during July 2018 for your listening pleasure on both Playmoss and Spotify.*

Featuring:

Petal – I’m Sorry
Wild Pink – The Seance On St. Augustine St
Big Thing – Spin
Bombshell Nightlight – Death Day
Mount Goldie – Summer
Elsa Lester – Pretty Bad, Man
Why Bonnie – Gold Rush
Devon Welsh – Vampires
Max García Conover – Another Travelling Man
Floating Room – Dog
Izaak Opatz – Bathing in the Ganges
Free Cake For Every Creature – Around You
Indigo De Souza – Home Team
Museum Food Court – bad song
Crisco Dreams – I Like Your Bed
You’re Sister – I Think About You
Russel the Leaf – Let ‘Em Run
Fresh – Daytime
Stevhen Peters – Phone Talk
Tender Age – Don’t Mind
Lord Youth – Do You Have Anything To Add?
Quiet Hollers – Addicted
Blue J – Hard to Know
Post Moves – The Arc of Life
Angus & Julia Stone – Nothing Else
Gia Margaret – Birthday
Sun June – Discotheque
Campdogzz – Souvenir
Field Report – Every Time

*(Due to various issues of availability and licensing, neither playlist has the complete quota of acts, but welcome to the modern age).

You can find all of the previous instalments of Bright Sparks here, and be sure to check back in a few weeks to see what makes the next edition.

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Video Premiere: Crisco Dreams – I Like Your Bed

Jon Doyle — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:52:39 +0000

Raised in Brooklyn and now based in Baltimore, country rock band Crisco Dreams comprise of Charlie Perry, Miki Flores-Amper, Sam Tocci, Dean Freeman and Nicky Meara-Bainbridge. The band have a penchant for the loose and easy rhythms of country music, folk of the foot-tapping, finger-clicking variety, as highlighted by their latest album, Lovegrove, which was released back in January. As their bio puts it, the record shows Crisco Dreams as “just a couple of city slickers who blend country and rock music and channel the energy of magical spirits to write songs. Certified cowboys/ramblers.”

Lyrically, their songs perform the age-old combination of the genre, marrying themes of the serious and/or existential variety—heartbreak, loss and unrequited love—with a dusty, rollicking energy, the sense that everything will be just fine so long as the guitars keep strumming and the night does not end. As such, the mood veers somewhere between wistful and joyful, or perhaps both at once, a revelling in loneliness and heartache that marks the cowboy life.

We’re happy to share a brand new video for the single, ‘I Like Your Bed’. The name is appropriate for the sound, suggestive of the the playful aesthetic that permeates everything from the lyrics to the instrumentation, though beneath this lies a sentiment altogether more sincere and heartfelt. Here, the focus of a love is left unmentioned, though brought to life through a series of physical objects, items that take on a hallowed quality not through their own attributes but their connection with the person in question.

Lovegrove is out now and you can get it from the Crisco Dreams Bandcamp page.

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July 2018 Roundup

Video Premiere: Crisco Dreams – I Like Your Bed