It took a while for Slowdive to get their due, but now I can see their fingerprints on a seemingly infinite amount of bands taking cues from Creation Record’s noisiest, most soaring moments. It’s almost intimidating how many great new bands are emerging that could be classified as “shoegaze” by some measure or another. Fake Palms have a bit of a sinister undercurrent to them, and remind me a lot of the claustrophic psych of Lorelle Meets the Obsolete. Definitely worth paying attention to.
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Ultimate Painting features members of Manchester-based Mazes and contemporary Slumberland torchbearers Veronica Falls. They put out an extremely underrated self-titled debut last year, and they’re already about to follow it up with Green Lanes. “Sanctioned Blues” finds the duo back in their VUish wheelhouse, with just enough bluesy twang to needle itself into your brain and stay there all day.
Things got pretty heady on my SOTD yesterday, so let’s go with the polar opposite for today. 100% pop from Skylar Spence, nee St. Pepsi, with the perfect video accompaniment.
Got a half hour to kill? Morphing Turkish psych from Insanlar, who I know next to nothing about. So, uh, sorry about that, but enjoy the song!
New feature here on the blog, we’re gonna try to focus on live videos every Sunday to get things ramped up for the radio show. So here goes: let Widowspeak lull you into a blissful state of euphoria with a live rendition of “Gun Shy”, and then tune into WRCT (www.wrct.org) at 9PM tonight so Jim and I can finish the job and put you completely to sleep.
I don’t think the FCC would stand for this at all.
Luna says:
These are demo tracks from the period after Galaxie 500 broke up, recorded at Wharton Tiers’ Fun City Studios in New York City, featuring Dean Wareham accompanied by drummer Jimmy Chambers (Mercury Rev) and, on “I Can’t Wait” by Hamish Kilgour of the Clean. Later versions of the songs appear on Luna’s Lunapark album.Luna (at this early stage Dean Wareham) was signed to Elektra by A&R man Terry Tolkin who had previously worked at Rough Trade, Touch & Go and Caroline Records. Terry now lives in New Orleans and is gravely ill. He is fighting a rare and aggressive virus that has his doctors perplexed, and facing huge medical bills for hospital visits, thrice-weekly dialysis and prescription drug co-pays.All profits from the sale of this digital EP on Bandcamp are being sent directly to Terry to help pay his bills. Price is $7 but you are free to donate more…
Jim already posted “You Disappear”, the first single from La Luz’s upcoming Ty Segall produced album, and the band just let another song leak from Weirdo Shrine. I’ll let frontwoman Shana Cleveland get real with you for a moment:
That song is about when you lose somebody. A friend of mine died in Michigan, that I was close to when I was in high school. I was thinking about how when someone dies the world is almost physically changed because they’re not giving back to it and their breath isn’t in the atmosphere. That’s the lyrical meaning of the song, for me. But there’s also a lot of breath in the song. The first line is, “I don’t wanna be anywhere, you have not breathed the air.” A lot of that song is also just like breathing, all four of us breathing, all the aaahs and ooohs and stuff.
Back in 2006, Hebden and the late Steve Reid shared their take on Derrick May’s dancefloor staple.