Sun Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/sun/ New and independent music Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:17:20 +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 Sun Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/sun/ 32 32 88787050 PONY – CRUSHED https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2015/06/19/pony-crushed/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:19:31 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=4936 PONY are a garage pop band from Toronto. CRUSHED is their début EP, a release of four songs about romance and break-ups during the summer months. You might think romance and break-ups are pretty much the same regardless of the time or season, right? Wrong. Here the heat is a tangible presence, driving people together and apart, warming hearts and soothing blows. The narrator is sun-kissed and salt-lipped and held within a nonchalant sense of positivity that means while she does care about the relationships […]

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]]> PONY are a garage pop band from Toronto. CRUSHED is their début EP, a release of four songs about romance and break-ups during the summer months. You might think romance and break-ups are pretty much the same regardless of the time or season, right? Wrong. Here the heat is a tangible presence, driving people together and apart, warming hearts and soothing blows. The narrator is sun-kissed and salt-lipped and held within a nonchalant sense of positivity that means while she does care about the relationships in question, she’s not too hung up on them.

Opener ‘Don’t Go’ is a veritable jam, a summer rock song which resists the temptation to hide beneath reverb, like a Best Coast track that has been trawled from beneath the ocean haze and held aloft like a trophy. ‘Baby, Please’ is more laid back, a humid dose of teenage love and longing, while ‘My Only One’ picks up the tempo again, the jangly guitars and percussion charting a drop in the carefree attitude, the downer when you’ve been on the beach too long and your head is fried:

“Can’t stand this time of day,
sunshine won’t go away,
keeps burning at my eyes and skin.
I want to disappear
your sentiment is clear,
I waited up all night for you.
Think about the days in the sand and the sun
think about the days when you were my only one.”

Closer ‘Somethin’ About You’ sees the mood refreshed and narrator rehydrated, a sultry night-time rendezvous where the beers are sweating as much as the lovers. “I knew it was something when you came to say hi” she sings, “I didn’t know why but there was something about you.” Here every glance is loaded, every sipped drink choreographed with romantic intention. Exactly how much these girls and boys mean to one another is unclear but in these hot days and nights it doesn’t seem to matter. As she sings on ‘Baby, Please’: “I just want to have some fun.”

You can buy CRUSHED now on a pay-what-you-can basis on the PONY Bandcamp page.

 

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]]> 4936 WTD’s Summer Mix: Part II – Night https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/08/05/wtds-summer-mix-part-ii-night/ Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:58:00 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=553 The second part of our summer mixtape. The idea behind the mix was to capture the cyclical nature of the ideological endless summer; Part I took you from early morning to late afternoon and Part II (hopefully) picks up the baton and carries on into the night. It’s a rather eclectic mix with the four of us here each picking a few songs. The first few songs see you through early evening before an electronic-driven party atmosphere arrives. Catch a […]

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]]> The second part of our summer mixtape. The idea behind the mix was to capture the cyclical nature of the ideological endless summer; Part I took you from early morning to late afternoon and Part II (hopefully) picks up the baton and carries on into the night. It’s a rather eclectic mix with the four of us here each picking a few songs. The first few songs see you through early evening before an electronic-driven party atmosphere arrives. Catch a lift home with Ryan Gosling through the neon-drenched city and sit outside and watch the stars pass. See through the dead of night with Jason Molina before sunrise with Trouble Books. Hopefully you can then loop both mixes so the ‘day’ starts again. I’ve written a little bit more about the idea here.

Hope this works out.

Part II // Night – Tracklisting:-

26. Gospel – The National
27. Asa – Bry Webb
28. Ponytail – Talons’
29. Late July – Small Houses
30. Seeds of Night – The Cave Singers
31. Swamp Dragon – Spirit Tramp
32. Voyage – Kodak To Graph
33. Brooklyn Sunset – AFTA-1
34. Late Nitez – MedicineHat
35. Lost In Tokyo (Jacques Greene Remix) – Koreless
36. Sun (Midland Re-Edit) – Caribou
37. Higher Ground – TNGHT
38. Nostromo – Fortune Howl
39. Salt of Love – Groundislava
40. Cotton Flower – Future Islands
41. Fineshrine – Purity Ring
42. A Real Hero – College (Feat. Electric Youth)
43. Seventeen – Youth Lagoon
44. Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl – Broken Social Scene
45. Catharsis – The Wandering Lake
46. North – Arrange
47. Singing Sailors – Sad Souls
48. O’ River – The Horse Thieves
49. Long Desert Train – Jason Molina
50. Lurk Underneath – Trouble Books

2012 Summer Mix – Night from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

Again, please support the artists on this mix. Our intention is to share our favourite music with others so hopefully you like what you hear and buy some records.

We tried to do something a bit different with this mix and we’d love your opinion on the idea/track listing. Does it work at all or fall flat on it’s face? Do you have any good themes for a future mixtape? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook or the clunky Tumblr message system. We would love to hear from you.

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