You can pre-order the self-titled Nudes début album via Dog Knights and Barely Regal.

The band are also embarking on a UK tour this month. See the dates below:

SEPTEMBER
26 Manchester, Fallow Cafe
27 Leeds, venue tbc
28 Sheffield, Golden Harvest
29 Birmingham, venue tbc
30 Cardiff, Full Moon Club

OCTOBER
1 Bristol, venue tbc
2 Brighton, venue tbc
3 London, Power Lunches

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Well, Amber Sweet, a two song tape, is the latest release from yet another project, a solo venture under the moniker Pet Cemetery. The title track kicks things off, a brisk song which falls between Brit guitar music and shoegaze, the lyrics occupying that strange space where sleep won’t come yet full lucidity is lost.

“stop
do you wanna talk about
all the things left in last year
you pain pictures in my skull
so I can’t get to sleep

let’s listen to william &
list our insecurities
your back came undone
i’ll sew until my fingers
bleed”

In the recent premiere of the track’s video over at Noisey, Watkins had this to has about it: “Amber Sweet was written 2 years ago and is the first song I wrote for Pet Cemetery, kinda to test the water. It’s about someone I didn’t get to know too well and don’t know anymore. It’s also about my favourite band William, Black Hole by Charles Burns, and how sometimes you can’t sleep because your brain has like a million thoughts and you’re so tired but you can’t turn your thoughts off.”

The second track on the release, ‘My Track ’92’, is what happens when punky kids write sad songs, slow and sad in a romantic way, reminiscent of the Washboard Abs album we reviewed a while back. The style leans more towards the bedroom pop end of the spectrum, with a wash of tape hiss ever present.

“we walk by the riverside
and we talk about our
futures and the things
we put in our hair
we walk by the riverside
and we talk
just to say

these small buildings
that house al of our
concerns
let the light in
like fireflies chasing birds
we spent our summer
sleeping outside
saying nothing ’til green
eyes fell tired

i don’t ever want to know”

You can buy Amber Sweet now from the Havana Records Bandcamp page, and be sure to check out the Pet Cemetery back-catalogue too.

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Tracklist:

1. Something About Us (Daft Punk cover) – Spazzkid
2. Waves and Waves and Waves (Playlounge cover) – Two White Cranes
3. Dogmas (Kississippi cover) – Cyberbully Mom Club
4. Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen cover) – The Yellow Dress
5. Clouds (One Direction cover) – Shunkan
6. Lodi (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover) – Advance Base
7. Emma’s House (The Field Mice cover) – Lost Film
8. Pitseleh (Elliott Smith cover) – Marissa Nadler
9. Pink Rabbits (The National cover) – Matt Paxton
10. Ontario Gothic (Foxes in Fiction cover) – Julia Brown
11. Australia (Attic Abasement cover) – R.L. Kelly
12. Sister of the Moon (Fleetwood Mac cover) – Globelamp
13. I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover) – Wakes
14. When the Sun Hits (Slowdive cover) – Mao Ra Sun (Feat Dems)
15. Tomorrow is a Long Time (Bob Dylan cover) – Phosphorescent
16. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover) – Noah Gundersen
17. The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton (The Mountain Goats cover) – Nathaniel Rateliff
18. Museum of Flight (Damien Jurado cover) – Winterpills

Covers Mix Volume #13 from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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Keep In Touch is a year long subscription series that re-imagines the bygone era of pen pals. Each month you’ll receive a 7” x 7” postcard with a record pressed directly into a full color image curated by that month’s artist.

Just to clarify- the postcard can be played on your turntable! If you’re as impressed with that as I am then you’ll be rushing off to sign up right now. There is already an impressive list of confirmed contributors – including:

The So So Glos
Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz
Ava Luna
Cloud Nothings
Ricky Eat Acid
Mutual Benefit
Big Ups
Into It. Over It.
TOPS
Girlpool

…and lots of more!

So if you know someone who likes really cool music, and you think that someone would like to receive said really cool music in the post every month (on a musical postcard!), then why not sign them up to Keep In Touch? They’ll have that Christmas-morning feeling once a month for a whole year!

Subscribe now on the KIT website. Do it before the 21st December to be in with the chance of winning a second subscription (you can keep TWO friends happy!)

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“Most of the songs have something to do with the fear of being trapped in a feeble body, dreams of a muscular form and the relationship between one’s environment, one’s body and one’s being an idiot. I don’t work out a lot, but I think about it often.”

If that sounds weird or in any way preachy, rest assured Working Out is only one of those things. The first single sees a nice dose of humour to back things up. “I think it sounds like a little dog or other animal trying to express malfunctions.” Levy told me in an email. “It also kinda sounds a little bit like scout niblett and saetia, but not really.” 

The first single ‘Dead Lamb’ is available now and seems to be pretty close to the comparisons above. Although, rather than a small dog, I’d compare his vocals to halfway between Daniel Johston and Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

Levy did send me some tour dates with Playlounge which I fully intended to share with you. Unfortunately, due to us being horrible, inefficient people, the tour ended earlier this week.

Working Out will be released on Art is Hard and Reeks of Effort on the 17th November. You can pre-order it here.

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If you’ve missed the previous editions, then check out January and February right now.

March Mix from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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You can also listen the first song off of the forthcoming record, ‘Zero’:

It may be an easy comparison to make for a noisy duo but I am getting a distinctive Japandroids vibe (think if the Vancouver band played covers of emo classics). The album promises to be one to look out for, and could be the soundtrack to your summer.

You can pre-order Pilot now on some lovely coloured vinyl via Dog Knights Productions. Their debut EP, Thrash Magic, is available via Fear & Records.

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We’ve tried to include new stuff but there are a few favourites thrown in. If any song has appeared on one of our mixes before, apologies but it probably just fitted in nicely to our idea of chronology. Hopefully it’s sunny with you this weekend to enjoy this.

Part I // Day – Tracklisting:-

1. Time To Run – Lord Huron
2. Who Knew – You Won’t
3. Murderous Joy – Carter Tanton
4. My Nature – Kissed Her Little Sister
5. Blood Brother – The Daredevil Christopher Wright
6. Messing Up My Mind – Fletcher C. Johnson
7. Summer Lawns – The Child Actors
8. Midnight Psalms (Alright!) – LANTERNS.
9. Football Hero – Bonjour
10. Oregon – Junk Culture
11. Conor, Oh Burst? – Playlounge
12. Heatstroke – Brick + Mortar
13. SOLO (‘4’ CLAIRE) – Wise Blood
14. This Summer – Superchunk
15. Electric Fever – Free Energy
16. About To Walk – Throw Me The Statue
17. All Of Me – Tanlines
18. Kiola Beach – HOT SPA
19. Whale Song – Lemolo
20. Summer Music – Advance Base
21. Mane – Conveyor
22. Certain Songs – The Hold Steady
23. Nothing To Say – Paul Baribeau
24. Late July – Shakey Graves
25. Bones -The Act Of Estimating As Worthless

Summer Mix – Day from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

Enjoy the mix and if you like what you hear, be sure to head over to the artist’s website to buy some music, a t-shirt or two and maybe some gig tickets. It’s the right thing to do!

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