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June 2018 Roundup

Jon Doyle — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:08:19 +0000

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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May 2018 Roundup

Jon Doyle — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:40:16 +0000

We’re creatures of habit here at Various Small Flames, so as usual, here is a mixtape featuring all the bands we covered last month. We think you’ll agree May 2018 was a kind one, musically. Hit play on Playmoss or Spotify and then follow the links to read reviews and buy your favourites.

Tracklisting:

Hop Along – How Simple
Remember Sports – Pull Through
Fresh Kill – San Diego
Badlands – Slow it Down
Foundlings – Misery
Squirrel Flower – Conditions
Valley Queen – Chasing the Muse
Nap Eyes – Every Time the Feeling
wished bone – reasons
Pearl Crush – True Blue
Samia – 21
plant food – baked beans
Gillian Frances – Blue Shit
Luton – Ice Museum
naps – ninth
Allison’s Gate – Traces
Mess – Cave
runner – awash
I’m Kingfisher – Sarajevo
Sam Moss – Snap
The Duke of Norfolk – Dylan Thomas / Bitter Bitter
Michael Nau & The Mighty Thread – Less Than Positive
lung cycles – dcs

You can check out all of our past monthly roundup mixes here, and be sure to follow us on Spotify and Playmoss for all our future playlists.

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Song Premiere: Pearl Crush – True Blue

Jon Doyle — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:10:16 +0000

Pearl Crush is the recording project of Mandy Kim Clinton from Houston, Texas. Utilising a brand of pop that is equally comfortable treading dreamy ambient paths as she is upbeat electronic avenues, Clinton uses the Pearl Crush project to explore themes too big to chart directly. Therefore, nebulous, shifting ideas such as identity and self-expression can be explored, the instrumentation allowing for far more nuance and depth than words alone ever could.

We’re delighted to be able to share a brand new single from the EP today. ‘True Blue’ is a languid dream pop track that utilises a variety of synths and sax to conjure its luscious ambience. Rising from this swirling atmosphere are Clinton’s words, her voice equally captivating as a dreamy croon or more urgent call, thus with an emotional range that ebbs and flows in great swells.

This serves as the perfect basis for the thematic resonance of the track, which details a relationship still unformed. However, rather than being full of promise, the amorphous nature of this tie casts doubt over everything, painting a picture of confusion where communication is attempted but never fully realised. As such, the participants turn to hoping and guessing, filling in the blanks with imaginings of their own. These might be rough approximations of the truth, or pure fictions, yet either way they only serve to reinforce the barrier through which sincere communication struggles to pass.

Coax Me Out is set for release on the 15th June via Poison Moon Records and you can pre-order it now from Bandcamp page. Pearl Crush is also heading out on tour in support of the EP, so check the dates below and catch her if she stops anywhere near you:

Fri, 6/29: New Orleans, LA at Banks St. Bar
Sat, 6/30: Atlanta, GA at Sofar Sounds
Sun, 7/1: Wilmington, NC at Modern Legends
Mon, 7/2: D.C. at Black Cat
Tue, 7/3: Brooklyn, NY at Wonders of Nature
Wed, 7/4: Brooklyn, NY at Alphaville
Thurs, 7/5: Pittsburgh, PA at Spirit Lodge
Sat, 7/7: Nashville, TN – TBA
Mon, 7/9: Austin, TX at Hotel Vegas

Artwork by Daniela Galindo & Victoria Pena

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