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April 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Mon, 02 May 2016 09:30:43 +0000

Spring seems a bit non-committal around these parts, with every day seeming like an advert for weather and all of its variety. If your days are similarly sunny/snowy/confused, fear not, we have just the tonic. Good music! Here’s a round-up of everything we covered during April 2016. As per usual, click on the artist’s name in the tracklist to be whisked away to the specific post.

Tracklisting:

1. Your Best American Girl – Mitski
2. Shine – Solids
3. Vertebrae – Sam Moss
4. Joy Lies Down – Cloud (Bern Yr Idols comp from Audio Antihero)
5. Near You – Adeline Hotel
6. I Saw You – Outer Spaces
7. Madeline – Yoni & Geti
8. Keep it Light – ARMS
9. Figure It Out – Jake Rollins
10. We Learned to Cry – Adeem The Artist
11. ant hill paradise – Bedbug
12. I’m Young – Erin Tobey
13. coca cola purgatory – Ryder Eaton
14. Muppet Babies – Nice Legs (FRY YR BRN comp from Cereal + Sounds & Z Tapes)
15. Dawn Raid – The Second Hand Marching Band & Benni Hemm Hemm
16. President – Nice Try
17. SHIP – Fake Boyfriend
18. If You Let It – Sioux Falls
19. sorry for not answering the phone, i’m too busy trying to fly away – In Love with a Ghost
20. Clueless – Holiday Home
21. Realistic Birthday Music – Hallelujah the Hills
22. Age of Consent – Cayetana
23. Seattle – Tincho
24. Lance bangs #1 single released on 4/20 – Lance Bangs
25. Cigarettes – Daytime TV
26. Everything Costs – Radical Face
27. Tired of IPAs – talons’
28. Soak – Good Good Blood
29. Heavy as a mountain – Moin Moin

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Album Première: Z Tapes & Cereal + Sounds – FRY YR BRN

Jon Doyle — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:45:21 +0000

We’ll stop writing about Z Tapes as soon as Filip and Co. stop releasing great music from all over the world. It doesn’t look like that day is coming any time soon though. To keep the winning streak going they’ve teamed up with the good peeps over at Cereal + Sounds to release FRY YR BRN, a benefit compilation based on theme songs of the televisual variety.

With an array of styles and influences across the twenty-three songs, there truly is something for everyone. Try Isabel Rex‘s oddly melancholic ode to amusing genetic copies of famous people, MagicPerm’s blissed-out memorial of a forgotten Toon Disney gem and WTD favs Nice Legs‘ surf rock anthem for everybody’s favourite infant puppets. Or maybe you’d prefer Queer Jane’s take on those meddling kids, Lake Michigan‘s bummed-out nod to a semi-fictional Will Smith or Ainsworth’s tribute to Mister Rodgers (and his inspirational acceptance speech)?

Elsewhere, Casper Heyzeus attack their pizza-loving effort with the hyperactive energy of child actors in action figure TV commercials, IZE offer something strange and sultry enough to make Lynch himself proud and Pet Cemetery takes the theme of your teenage angst and makes it seem insular and strange, a song for one of Orange County’s outsiders who never appeared on screen because they were always locked in their gloomy bedroom playing records.

In other words, this is a near-enough perfect compilation for those of us who grew up under the ever-present bombardment of photon-based entertainment. Listen to the whole thing below and let nostalgia burn through the white noise of your image narcosis:

FRY YR BRN (Theme Song Benefit Compilation) by Z Tapes
FRY YR BRN is out on the 22nd April and you can buy in now from the Z Tapes Bandcamp page or their online store. All digital sales will go to a Slovakian charity helping survivors of domestic abuse and children without a proper home.

Artwork by Mimi Jaffe

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Holiday Home – Greetings From

Liam Doyle — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:43:17 +0000

Holiday Home are perhaps the most aptly named band I’ve ever come across. The Manchester band’s entire aesthetic is based around that golden carefree vacation atmosphere. It not only shapes their moniker but the title of their EP (Greetings From), the postcard-inspired cover art and their brand of tropically-tinged sunny indie pop. As if to reinforce this idea, the EP’s opening track even begins with brief sample the world’s most famous summer holiday song, before side-stepping into lo-fi rock as cool and refreshing as a summer breeze. Follow-up ‘So Fresh, So Easy’ is like one of the breezier Brit-pop tracks, a love song on which declares:

“it’s you
it’s only you
i need you now i know for sure
a dimmer switch, a shutting door
i can never dream of more
it’s you”

Then comes a strange interlude, ‘Wish You Were Here’, with dog bark percussion, before the pensive acoustic pop of ‘Clueless’. Final track ‘A Place in the Sun (Imagine, Don’t Even)’ segues back into peppy indie pop territory, complete with a menagerie of samples, snippets from Clueless and the joyful cheers and “yays!” of a group of delighted children.

You can get Greetings From on cassette or name-your-price download via the Z Tapes Bandcamp page.

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