SUPPORT FOR ‘SIX FEET UNDER’

“It’s pristine and soothing and has a bit of Flight Facilities about it. My fave of the recent Lamalo tracks, it’s got me laying back in the afternoon sun.” – 4/5 stars
– Declan Byrne – triple j (AUS)

“It’s an elegant, vibrant kaleidoscope of brooding electronica with irresistible disco grooves.”
– Music Feeds (AUS)

Sydney-based producer duo Lamalo have just unveiled their moving new single ‘Six Feet Under’ featuring Charlotte Adelle – mastered by Ben Feggans (Flume, Mallrat, Coda Conduct).

Opening with thudding kick drums and rumbling synth bass, ‘Six Feet Under’ is an exquisite amalgamation of deftly produced house music. The track immediately introduces Charlotte’s captivating lead vocals as the instrumentation dynamically dances around her melodies, creating a kaleidoscope of brooding electronica. Bright hi-hats splatter across serene percussion, building intensely as the vocal harmonies float effortlessly above.

Lamalo talk about the inspiration behind ‘Six Feet Under’:

“The song is about burying the love you had for someone. Realising all the things that weren’t right in the relationship and taking the rose-tinted glasses off.”

Previous singles have been strongly supported by Spotify and Apple Music, including an entry in the Spotify AU Viral Chart, with their single ‘Outside’ amassing nearly two million streams. They’ve also been widely embraced by Australian radio institutions triple j, triple j Unearthed, FBi Radio and various other community radio stations.

Their tracks have also seen online support from Pilerats, Acid Stag, Purple Sneakers, Discobelle (SWE), Project U, Surviving the Golden Age (USA), The Soundcheck and The Music.

In the live arena the duo has supported contemporaries The Kite String Tangle, Midnight Pool Party and Dekleyn, as well as playing boutique festivals Rabbits Eat Lettuce, Red Deer Arts and Music Festival and The Grass is Greener.

‘Six Feet Under’ Ft. Charlotte Adelle is available worldwide now

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THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHOW IS TOMORROW

PREVIOUSLY-UNHEARD SOUNDBOARD RECORDING
OF THE ORIGINAL STOOGES LINEUP’S FINAL PERFORMANCE
AT GOOSE LAKE FESTIVAL

It is with great excitement that Ivy League Records announce the release of Lewis Coleman’s beguiling debut album Method of Places – out Friday 20 November. Alongside the album’s previously-released offerings ‘Going Your Way’ and ‘Animal’ also comes the brand-new single, ‘Good Side’. Premiered last night on Triple R’s Out on the Patio, ‘Good Side’ is a mesmeric four-and-a-half minutes that encapsulates the depth and artistry of the Melbourne musician.

Lewis Coleman on ‘Good Side’: “Good Side is an all-encompassing crush. The limbo period of excitement and possibility, in combination with the fear of edging too close and dissolving the delicate fantasy.” The fruits of Lewis’s labour are on brilliant display on Method of Places. It’s an album which effortlessly straddles the worlds of indie rock, electronica, jazz and soul, bristling with big ideas and artfully arranged songs that are both abstract and melodic, shifting and morphing around you, pulsing with a hushed intensity, but always grounded by a rhythm section so spartanly groovy that your head can’t help but nod along in assent. Written, played and self-produced across five years, in five bedrooms, the record has a big kind of history in it, both sonically and lyrically. Ask Coleman and he’ll unassumingly tell you that for him each song is a micro-world containing multiple moments in time, each one swimming with memories and pieces of himself that span the last half-decade. In ‘Good Side’ he is a 15-year-old kid in Year 9, trying on corduroy pants at Savers (Melbourne’s much-loved Mecca for secondhand clothes), developing a personality, finding friends, having crushes. In ‘Going Your Way’ he’s six wines in, a piano stool creaking beneath him as he idly plays the keys. In ‘Is This Me Now’ he’s accidentally out of his mind on hallucinogens, as synths warp and crash around his distant voice, convinced he’s broken his brain forever.  When taken as a whole, Method of Places becomes a history of his young adulthood up till now. A Memory Palace, where all the songs are different rooms, co-existing under the album’s roof. As well as being championed by the likes of FBI & triple j unearthed, Coleman’s previous single ‘Going Your Way’ was CLASH (UK) ‘Track of the Day’, with the publication describing the song as “heady, bewitching, and ultimately immersive” and labelling him as ‘definitely an artist to watch as 2020 develops’.

‘Good Side’ Lewis Coleman Single out now through Ivy League Records Available to buy/stream here Method Of Places  Lewis Coleman  Album out 20 November 2020 through Ivy League Records Available to pre-order here Method Of Places tracklisting: 1. Face Transplant 2. Animal 3. Is This Me Now 4. Going Your Way 5. Good Side 6. Sing It Over 7. Can’t Face It 8. Cut It Out 9. Involved

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SUPPORT FOR ‘FALL IN LOVE’

“Will Clift feels like the intersection of many of his comparables; slices of Frank Ocean mixed in with a touch of The Weeknd and a dash of some unknown factor which gives Will Clift his own distinct charm, letting him stand out from the crowd.”
– Pilerats (AUS)

“Will dealing out these RnB slices that are hard to resist. Hearts will be melting at some of these.”
– Declan Byrne – triple j (AUS)

SUPPORT FOR ‘ONE TIME’

“The Melbourne-based musician’s debut single is a wind-swept R&B moment that feels like the future of Australian music.”
– Pilerats (AUS)

FROM EXILE

Philadelphia-based punk band, The Menzingers will release From Exile, a reimagined stripped down version of their 2019 release Hello Exile. From Exile was recorded from the band’s respective homes while in isolation during COVID-19 stay at home orders. The album will be released digitally on September 25 and on vinyl November 13. Fans can pre-order the vinyl now via the band’s webstore, here.

Today, the band share “Strawberry Mansion” and “High School Friend” from the forthcoming release.

LISTEN TO “STRAWBERRY MANSION” & “HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND” NOW

The Menzingers were on tour in Australia when the world seemed to abruptly stop due to COVID-19, forcing the band to cut their tour short and make their way back to Philadelphia. “The live music industry vanished before our eyes, and just like that we were out of work like tens of millions of others,” notes singer/guitarists Greg Barnett. “As the weeks progressed the upcoming tours got rescheduled, then rescheduled again, then effectively cancelled. There were times when it all felt fatal. There’s no guide book on how to navigate being a working musician during a global pandemic, so we were left to make it up as we went along. We wanted to document and create in the moment, and though we couldn’t be in the same room together due to social distancing lockdowns, we got creative.”

Over the next few months, the band would re-record Hello Exile from their separate locations. “We would track the songs from our own home studios, share the files via dropbox, and pray it all made sense when pieced back together. Initially, we planned for the album to be similar to our acoustic demo collection ‘On The Possible Past,’ but we quickly found out that this batch of songs benefited from more detailed arrangements,” adds Barnett. “We rewrote, and changed keys and melodies. We blended analog and digital instruments in ways we never had before. We dug through old lyric notebooks and added additional verses. We got our dear friend Kayleigh Goldsworthy to play violin on two songs. No idea was off limits. Hell, I even convinced the band to let me play harmonica on a song (no small feat!). The recording process ran from mid-March till June, and upon completion we sent it over to our dear friend and close collaborator Will Yip to mix and master.”

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SUPPORT FOR KIYANOSH

“The combination of boom-bap type flows over heavy 808 production from label mate shue which makes ‘KARMA’ unique.”
– AUD$ (AUS)

“Woozy left field hip hop definitely up my alley.”
– Gemma Pike – triple j (AUS)

“Riding that lo-fi beat with total confidence. Love the eccentric chaos of this record.”
– Tommy Faith – triple j Unearthed (AUS)

“Jazzy funk and soul over traditional Hip-Hop soundscapes.”
– The Word is Bond (USA)

Sydney-based Iranian jazz rapper Kiyanosh has just unveiled his daring new single ‘KARMA’ – lifted from his forthcoming EP ‘Dying Alone’ – produced by label-mate shue, mixed by Doebas Petes and mastered by Jack Prest at Studios 301.

Opening with ominous swirling sounds, ‘KARMA’ is a thought-provoking slice of introspective hip hop. The sincere and commanding cadences of Kiyanosh float effortlessly above the flawless and brooding production of shue, to create an infectious and bouncy track led by its subtle chaotic energy.

Kiyanosh describes the motivation behind the track:

“The inspiration for this one loosely stems from me comparing my life and what I’ve gone through to that of my Mother’s, and realising how much more cynical and jaded I am, even though I’ve kind of gone through nothing in comparison to her.”

Kiyanosh embraces the sounds of jazz, soul, electronic and everything in between. Born and raised in Sydney with most of his family overseas, Kiyanosh often explores his Iranian roots, his Australian upbringing and the inevitable clash of cultures, ideals and lifestyles between his two worlds.

Sonically speaking, Kiyanosh continues to consistently manipulate genre in order to better explore a wider range of emotions and ideas. In addition to his solo project, Kiyanosh is also a member of hip-hop duo SKID2 and founder of the Spretbot Syndicate record label and collective.

Previous releases have been strongly supported by the likes of triple j, triple j Unearthed, FBi Radio, 2SER FM, 2XX FM, The Word is Bond (USA), Hip Hop Magz (USA) and many more.

In the coming weeks Kiyanosh will reveal an accompanying music video for ‘KARMA’.

‘KARMA’ is out now via Spretbot Syndicate

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Rough Trade Records & Remote Control Records are excited to announce they will be releasing the debut album by Californian group Hello Forever, with two new tracks, on October 2nd, 2020. Check out the video for new track ‘Everything Is So Hard’ via the image below.

Based in Topanga, California, on a piece of land once used by the infamous Sandstone Retreat and free-love nudist commune, the art-pop collective Hello Forever are led by the eccentric, magnetic figure of Samuel Joseph. They live together, in this pastoral setting high above the Pacific Ocean – not far from where Neil Young recorded After the Gold Rush or Captain Beefheart laid down the tracks for Trout Mask Replica, the group forever expanding and contracting, with members coming and going as they please. However, the group adheres to a stringent five day a week rehearsal schedule, they fuse elements of the 60s West Coast sound with a DIY approach to music and creativity which has spawned their remarkable debut album, the aptly titled Whatever It Is. Joseph and company have created a contemporary throwback to a vibrant era with a set of songs that establish the collective’s exquisite harmonies and colourful instrumentation.

Hello Forever’s music is inextricable with the lifestyle and spiritual goals of its participants, a revolving membership that also includes, at various times, collaborators drummer/co-founder Andy Jimenez, Molly Pease, Jaron Crespi, Joey Briggs, Anand Darsie and Lina Kay. Walk into their communal compound and one of the first things one sees is a copy of the late Baba Ram Dass’ counter-culture classic, Be Here Now, perhaps the best description of the collective’s philosophy of life, creativity, art and music.

Sam explains a little about new single ‘Everything Is So Hard’, “It’s difficult to know what to say about this song. It changed how we think about what we can play, and it brought us closer together — because it came from a very raw place and deep suffering. A lot of our songs emerge through a narrow aperture of a very specific experience that drags up a feeling with broad roots — so everything is so hard kinda revealed itself in a moment when I was in a relationship that wasn’t working, but It hurt too much to leave. You know when you want to stay, even though the sadness you feel starts to taint even the good moments? Getting to the end of it feels like a death. I fear death. It kills me sometimes — the dread of the unknown can suck the life out of the beautiful moments that I love so much as to cause me to fear their ending in the first place. It’s a paradox, loving life, fearing death — my life can sometimes be framed by that suffering despite my best intentions. But still I worship it. I cling to it. Somewhere deep in me loves it all through the fog of fear and pain and grief and cruelty and desperation. In the rare spectacular moments, I get caught up, and I go through the fog and get to really get a glimpse of life, and it’s a blessing. It brings me home and sets me off. But it can’t erase the suffering.”

Stream / Download Hello Forever – ‘Everything Is So Hard’: https://helloforever.ffm.to/everything
Stream / Download / Pre-order Hello Forever – Whatever It Is: https://helloforever.ffm.to/whatever

Hello Forever – Whatever It Is is out physically on Friday 2 October via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records