February 2019 Roundup Mix

Liam Doyle — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:48:08 +0000

The year’s shortest month has been and gone, but it was anything but a shortage of music. Here’s a playlist featuring every act we covered during February 2019.

Tracklist:

Field Medic – henna tattoo
Leggy – Taffy
Myshiuno – Turf War In Chinatown, SF
Press Club – Suburbia
Shady Bug – Make it Up
Calicoco – Anchor Park
LUNCH – Forget Everything
krissanthemum – Honesty Hour
Wy – Pavements
UV Rays – Flowerhead
Fanclub – Stranger
Jeffrey Silverstein – Easy Rider
Ryan Dugré – Tonight
Okay Embrace – Phantom Text
Samia – Lasting Friend
community college – karaoke
runnner – eggshell
Fields of Heaven – Song of Loss
Minor Moon – Hold Me Up (Liar)
Lampland – You Little Liar
Westkust – Swebeach
kate can wait – licantropía
Bleeder – Rusted and Raw
Laveda – Dream Sleep
Pass/Ages – As It Rises
Yuri Tománek – In the end, we all fade away
Tender Glue – Dear Peri
Red Wedding – Bones
Women Tied to Railroad Tracks – Endless Carpet
Eyesore & the Jinx – On An Island
Bellows – What Can I Tell You About the World?
Merival – Sinner
Vassals – Lil Anvil
The This – The Strangest Ritual
Breakup Films – You Said You Hate Not Seeing Me
The Phone Booth – Healthcare
Seamstress – Everything
Zelma Stone – Light Bulb Boy
Charlotte Cornfield – Andrew
Wicketkeeper – Night Night (Whatever)
a. harlana – faces
Lady Dan – What Sanity
Tesha – Funeral

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Fields of Heaven – Songs of Loss

Jon Doyle — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 20:53:24 +0000

Fields of Heaven is the recording project of Boston’s Daniel Moro, who makes a lo-fi brand of bedroom pop that is keyed in to the quiet sadness of things. Christmas saw the release of his debut album Forgiveness Songs, a release which introduced the sincere sensibilities and fuzzy emotion, the sound ranging from R.E.M.-inspired earnestness to mean and twitchy guitar squalls.

Moro is back already with a new EP, Songs of Loss. Opening with the title track, the release makes clear its intentions from the off, the vocals lonely and probing but layered behind a gauzy curtain. The result is an honest and heartfelt, playing with a blend of modesty and desperation like midnight thoughts voiced in an empty room.

‘Lush Night’ reinforces this aesthetic, living up to its name with a muted warm that slowly grows into something more vivid, while ‘The Boy With Eight Mothers’ follows a similar pattern. The opening is suppressed and stifled, a song as heard through a wall, though the disparate energy coalesces into a keen rhythm by the close.

Closer ‘Hark, the Angel’s Quiet Eyes’ is bedroom pop at its best, gentle and sad and pervasive beyond its modest sound, the emotion leaking into every gap and crack. Again, the primary feeling is that of sincerity—all pretence dropped and every persona left behind in an attempt to communicate as truthfully as one can.

Songs of Loss is out now via the Fields of Heaven Bandcamp page, where you can also find Forgiveness Songs.

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February 2019 Roundup Mix

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