September 2018 Roundup

Liam Doyle — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 18:32:49 +0000

A week late, but here’s a playlist featuring all the artists we covered during September 2018. As usual, the labyrinthine licensing situation with Playmoss and the hit and miss library of Spotify means each playlist is missing a few tracks, but what can you do? Also, Red Wedding‘s ‘Lucy’s Song’ isn’t available on either but it’s really good so be sure to check it out. You can click through the tracklisting to see the specific posts.

Song list:

Options – Waiting
2nd Grade – Favorite Song
Alexander – Going to Sleep
Ryan Van Gonten – Fabrique
Haunted Continents – What Were You Born For?
Weakened Friends – Blue Again
Shybaby – Lazy Hazy
Frankie Valet – April
Primo! – You’ve Got a Million
Hypoluxo – Kentucky Smooth
Basement Revolver – Knocking
Dead Painters – Output
HALEY – Infinite Pleasure Part 2
Doe – Heated
Ing – Dust
Benjamin Shaw – Terrible Feelings!
internet boy crush – ghost friend
lowly loverboi – Dumb Phone
Dead Tooth – Liars
Kin Hana – You
Bodega – The Truth is Not Punishment
The Cordial Sins – Not Enough
Indoor Cats – Fun 2
Upstairs – Trust the Process
Sabriel’s Orb – Holding
John Atkinson – Bakwaves // Rye
Fanclub – Leaves
The Chairman Dances – Acme Parking Garage
Con Davison – Talk
Ivy Dye – Diminish
Elizabeth Owens – I Long
The Last Bison – Don’t Look Away
Our Fastest Typist – It’s Nice Outside, but My Head is Killing Me

You can find all of our monthly round-up posts here, and our complete array of mixtapes here.

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Haunted Continents – What You Were Born For?

Jon Doyle — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 18:28:59 +0000

Though Haunted Continents is the solo project of James A.M. Downes, you’d be hard pressed to realise it when listening to the Brooklynite’s sound. Far from the stripped back singer-songwriter staple, Downes crafts a vivid and fleshed out style, as set out in his previous release, Prison Font. The EP, released in 2017, drew influence from pop and rock, as well as a country twang that combined to form a notable sense of sincerity and feeling.

Starting this month, Downes plans to release a new Haunted Continents single every month for an entire year. Looking to establish a thematic and narrative depth, the tracks serve a higher purpose than merely earnest emotion. “These new songs give breath to narratives that teem with dark humor and humility,” says the bio, hinting at the ambition of the project, “taking the listener from debaucherous parties in the underworld all the way to the ghostly desolate bedrooms of former lovers, long since vanished.”

The first of these singles, ‘What You Were Born For?’, which serves as a case in point, taking the emotional intensity of folk songwriters like Noah Gundersen and setting it to an indie rock tempo. The result is a sound as stirring as it is heartfelt, and able to craft a good variety and range of feeling without sacrificing lyrical depth.

The track comes complete with a B-side, ‘Modern Love’. More restrained and patient, the song draws upon something of an emo style, exuding a tenderness familiar to the early 00s heartbreakers such as Death Cab For Cutie.

Haunted Continents can be found on iTunes and Spotify, so be sure to follow them over the coming months, and you can find the past releases on the James A.M. Downes Bandcamp page.

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