February 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:00:31 +0000

That’s right, February 2016 is a thing of the past. We think it’ll live on in our ears though, because there was some exceptional music floating around that we’ll be going back to all year. Here’s a playlist featuring every act we wrote about, hosted on the brand new (at least to us) Playmoss platform. As ever, click on the artist’s name in the tracklisting to be beamed off to the specific post.

Tracklisting:

1. A Hospital + Crucifix Made of Plastic – Florist
2. Richmond – talons’
3. Say – Indoor Voices
4. Aeroplane – House Plants
5. When I Was an Island – David Karsten Daniels
6. The Gentleman’s Apocalypse – JR Green
7. Hitman – Mrs. Hopewell
8. sun drops – ratbath
9. A Cruise – Brian S. Cassidy
10. Orpheus – Matt Kivel
11. Your Love – Jeremy Squires (INTERVIEW)
12. Blood Moon – C.M. Slenko
13. Bake – Broken Beak
14. Brushes Like a Fox – Saint Corsair
15. daniel – francie cool
16. Baby Blue – Mount Moriah
17. For You – Free Cake For Every Creature
18. Have This Dance – Govier
19. Goodness (trailer) – The Hotelier
20. The River Because – Sawtooth
21. why are you so cool? – Dying Adolescence
22. cockroach – tall friend
23. Waiting – Faint Peter
24. Heart Destroyer – Lazy Legs
25. Take it Forever – Beat Radio (INTERVIEW)
26. Every One of Them, Dogs – Quarterly
27. like a feather or a pawprint – Field Medic
28. Lay For June – Old Earth
29. 2 old 2 broke – Gorgeous Bully
30. Funny Man Routine – Table People
31. House & Home – Arlo Aldo
32. Cave Song – Sea Ghost
33. Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover) – Boosegumps (from Sugar Rush)

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House Plants – Fluffy Tales EP

Liam Doyle — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 19:03:52 +0000

House Plants are a lo-fi pop band from south London. Their debut release, an EP called Fluffy Tales, has recently been put out by the fine folks over at online radio station / indie cassette label Fresh Juice. We were fans of Fresh Juice’s debut compilation release earlier this month and tape number 2 continues the run of form, House Plants’ (formerly Tilapia) psych-tinged slacker rock vibes bringing an easy, sunny vibe to the wet and windy British winter. This welcome warmth may be in part due to the fact that the EP was mixed in LA by Adam Lasus (who has worked with fellow Londoners Happyness, as well as some genre heavyweights including Yo La Tengo and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah).

Opener ‘Aeroplane’ throws in some fuzzy shoegaze elements and impassively lazy-sounding vocals, resulting in a garage rock number that will undoubtedly appeal to fans of slacker rock vibes of 80N7.

‘Fluffy Tails’, the not-quite title track, has a similarly summery feel, beginning with a slow tropical wooze before shifting into something louder and more dynamic. Things get dreamier on ‘Romantic Lights’, a warm and pink-hued psych pop track, before the EP closes with ‘Under the Moon’ and it’s strange and surreal lyrics:

“There’s a terrapin up on the moon
there are terrible things upon the moon
whats the use of the moon, of the moon?
there’s fuck-all to do up on the moon
there’s a shopping mall up on the moon
whats the use of the moon, of the moon?”

Get Fluffy Tales EP now as a download or super-limited cassette via the Fresh Juice Bandcamp page.

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