Onlyness Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/onlyness/ New and independent music Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:08:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Onlyness Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/onlyness/ 32 32 88787050 June 2018 Roundup https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2018/07/03/june-2018-roundup/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:08:19 +0000 http://varioussmallflames.co.uk/?p=15451 A dry, hot month has just left us, but luckily we featured more than enough cool music to keep things bearable. Here’s a playlist featuring all the acts we covered in June 2018, except for Boreen‘s ‘Myers-Briggs’ and Color Tongues‘s ‘Adult Lessons’, which are not available for streaming just yet. We’ll add them once they are live, but otherwise listen below, and click through the links in the tracklisting to be taken to the specific posts. Tracklisting: Dear Nora – White […]

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]]> A dry, hot month has just left us, but luckily we featured more than enough cool music to keep things bearable. Here’s a playlist featuring all the acts we covered in June 2018, except for Boreen‘s ‘Myers-Briggs’ and Color Tongues‘s ‘Adult Lessons’, which are not available for streaming just yet. We’ll add them once they are live, but otherwise listen below, and click through the links in the tracklisting to be taken to the specific posts.

Tracklisting:

Dear Nora – White Fur
Lawn – 2000 Boy
Pearl Crush – True Blue
Dead Painters – Fool On Fire
Slowcoaches – Found Down
Two Meters – Left Behind
Kerem Atalay – Winter 2
Pat Moon – I Belong
Blood Hype – Not Too Good
Talons’ – Driving Home From Shows
The Nova Darlings – I Like Crashing My Car (Into Yours)
Dead Sullivan – Swallow
Onlyness – Comfortable
Of the Valley – Italy
Nice Knees – Backout
Suburban Pets – Candy
Minor Moon – It’s Okay
Caroline Lazar – Georgia
Heatwarmer – American Dog
Jacob Furr – Life Comes At You Fast
Deux Trois – Dave
Grace Turner – Dead or Alive
Britton Patrick Morgan – Southern Drawl

You can find all previous monthly roundup playlists here, and a variety of other such mixes here. Also, you follow us on Spotify or Playmoss to stay right up to date. Be sure to stay with us through July in what promises to be another great month for music.

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]]> 15451 Song Premiere: Onlyness – Comfortable https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2018/06/22/song-premiere-onlyness-comfortable/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:54:57 +0000 http://varioussmallflames.co.uk/?p=15339 Previously recording as The Firs, Albany-based songwriter Rick Spataro has made a name for himself crafting restrained, melodic songs that utilise an array of instruments while maintaining a personal, elegant sound. Next month sees Spataro return in a new guise, Onlyness, with his debut self-titled album to be released in July on Five Kill Records. You might also know Spataro as one-third of bedroom pop masters Florist, and the Onlyness sound certainly draws from the same well of muted intimacy. The […]

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]]> Previously recording as The Firs, Albany-based songwriter Rick Spataro has made a name for himself crafting restrained, melodic songs that utilise an array of instruments while maintaining a personal, elegant sound. Next month sees Spataro return in a new guise, Onlyness, with his debut self-titled album to be released in July on Five Kill Records.

You might also know Spataro as one-third of bedroom pop masters Florist, and the Onlyness sound certainly draws from the same well of muted intimacy. The new record sees him rely on perhaps more traditional instrumentation than that used by Florist and The Firs, but the same spirit lies behind the sound. As such, Onlyness merely uses different brushes and strokes with the same airy palette to produce pictures very much belonging to Spataro’s sonic world, but distinctive enough so as to be worthy additions.

We’re delighted to bring you a brand new video for the third single, ‘Comfortable’. As well as typifying the sedate yet uplifting rhythm of the Onlyness sound, the track also shows off Spataro’s songwriting and deadpan delivery. This creates the central tension of the track, a push and pull between the sincere emotion of the lyrics and sceptical distance of the vocals, though the song’s eventual rise into a warm singalong allows the former to win out.

“Beautiful God at the
heart of the hymnal
I know you’re not real
but I know you’re a symbol
and there’s a whole lot of people
who are asking for you
cos’ they all heard the same thing too”

Onlyness will be released on the 6th July via Five Kill Records and you can pre-order it now from Bandcamp.

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