Zero-Zero-Zero - Henry's Dress That's our emergency services number. I'm not sure what it is to Henry's Dress. Amy sings this song and i assume plays the guitar, so that means it is Matt playing the drums. Listen - isolate if you can - to him playing his ride cymbal on this song. The way it crashes and washes, fading in and out like some hypnotic wave, moving between sonic range and some nauseating blur. How even with all the noise that Henry's Dress [...]
Winter '94 - Henry's Dress Dummm dummm dum-dum-dummm . Try having that stuck in your head for four hours. It was quite wonderful, actually. Dummm dummm dum-dum-dummm . Possibly most fun thing you can play on guitar. Dummm dummm dum-dum-dummm . I love that they made a song out of that, though it should hold no surprise something so great could come from so little. Three people making such noise.
Running a long-standing independent label is really hard work. Fortunately, unlike their matress-making namesakes, Slumberland Records don't know when to lie down. Here is a nice dummy guide to their label and a mixtape to get you started.
**I LOVE this skirt! I am awesome! I managed to miss posting about the holidays this year, I also managed to not post any year-end lists once again this year. I think 2009 was a wash, I'm glad to see it go for many reasons. The last few months have been difficult for me for a variety of reasons but 2010 is a new year, a new decade and I suppose a new start (again), and thus far things seem to be going pretty darn well. [...]
Inveterate, jet-setting shoegaze junky and friend of Clicky Clicky mgrooves flew in from the left coast for the Slumberland 20th Anniversary shows in D.C. and Brooklyn last weekend, and captured the video above of Lorelei encoring with former labelmate Lilys ' kaleidoscopic debut single. It's not the entire performance (the beginning is cut off), but it is quite awesome, and we suspect that if you watch until the huge transition at 2:30 you're mind may be blown. So while our dream of Lilys performing a surprise set during the celebration did not come [...]
Well, I had an unusually active, yet music-less day yesterday - having to shift half the living-room furniture so my pal could plumb in a new radiator to replace the flaky-paint one that's been there, dropping huge curls of white-gloss, for ooh, ten years or more. Worst thing was (aside from the vast amount of dust & cat hairs), it meant removing the computer, which aside from a super-cool 1950's HMV snake-skin record player in another room, is the only source of music here - so a muted morning & afternoon was the result. I took the opportunity [...]
Well, I had an unusually active, yet music-less day yesterday - having to shift half the living-room furniture so my pal could plumb in a new radiator to replace the flaky-paint one that's been there, dropping huge curls of white-gloss, for ooh, ten years or more. Worst thing was (aside from the vast amount of dust & cat hairs), it meant removing the computer, which aside from a super-cool 1950's HMV snake-skin record player in another room, is the only source of music here - so a muted morning & afternoon was the result. I took the opportunity [...]
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In our estimation the classic Slumberland sound is a product of just the right proportions of melody and distortion, dreampop and shoegaze. Certainly, there are exceptions and outliers: the first period of work from the amazing, phenomenal, superlative (and so forth) act Rocketship hardly relied on distortion at all, while in places on its self-titled EP Henry's Dress buries melody almost completely under a narcotic, face-melting sonic (c)rumble. As we stated previously here, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 's music bears the hallmarks of the classic Slumberland sound, and so it [...]
Why it's significant: Just when I thought I could never love another Brooklyn-based band on principle alone, along come Vivian Girls , who's nearly flawless debut album delivers a beguiling mixture of addictive-like-crack melodies, dystopian yet upbeat girl group harmonies, deceptively simple distorted wall-of-sound guitars, and a conspicuous, effortless sense of cool as rare as an evil unicorn. I love good pop songs, especially when they're short, sweet, and melodic. They just beg me to listen over and over again. I usually consider it a treat when I find just one of [...]
Beirut - Nantes ( Res' Miracle Jackson Edit) What Beirut might sound like if Zach Condon had grown up clubbing instead of walking the land, chatting with serfs. It really shouldn't work, yet somehow does. I might hate it tomorrow. Amadou & Mariam - Sabali What Ladytron might sound like if they spent their youth in Mali instead of Liverpool. [...]
Henry's Dress - "Target Practice" Eventually the space between buildings will get so small that you can walk from window to window like you would some kind of pair of high doors. But don't drop your keys down the crevice, then you'll find yourself flat against the wall, shimmying your way down three stories to the dirty soft ground, softened by rain. Searching with your hands in the mud, trying to find your stupid keys, it's a good idea to have a friend to pull you up after. It's a great way to get close [...]
Breakneck split 7" released on Omnibus Speedway Records in 1995. Y'all know nuff bout the Dress, but be sure to check out Fluke's Superchunked Butterglory too. Side A mp3: Henry's Dress - All This Time For Nothing Side B mp3: Flake - Deluca Save me a shred o'bandwidth by downloading both songs here: http://www.zshare.net/download /61675746bf4ef5/
From around the sphere - by email, diligent seeking, pony express - myriad pleasure-inducing aural experiences aggregate in this little corner, begging to be bruited. I for one am thankful, and in the particular country in which I reside, that is especially appropriate tomorrow. "Shut up and post," booms my Blogospherial Overlord, and I am only too happy to comply. Just NowThe Manhattan Love
Have you ever listened to a song by a band you've not heard before and thought, "Wow! This is the best song I've heard in ages! I must hear the band's entire back catalogue right this instant!" And then when you finally manage to track down the band's tiny record label and listen to other songs it's horribly disappointing and you hate everything else they've ever recorded? If not, you're incredibly fortunate. If, like me, you've experienced this frustrating and annoying phenomenon then you'll probably appreciate the time I'm about to save you with this entry. The following bands have [...]
"Can you feel the feel the fun? You can almost reach out and touch the fun. You can almost taste the fun. Almost." -- Tom on the sensory overload of another installment of The Best Show "Sounds like what you read might've even been worse than what I saw somehow." -- Tom on the Cavemen sides a caller read during his audition "I need like a scrub brush now to scrub my brain clean of that." -- Tom, looking to remove the latest coat of Ken [...]
Fuco Ueda Oh, I most certainly used to be this kind of girl, all awkward closed mouth on campus in headphones and rolling around on my bed with argyle socks sticking up in the air while I read mix-tape liner notes written special by friends. Sometimes, at my most giddy (with a secret place in my heart [...]
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