Listening to Honeydrum is akin to listening to some slightly-out-of-tune Californian radio station. In the Summer of '72. We presume. At least that's the image that's created in our mind as we listen to their rather special new single Stranger Calls. The single contains four tracks but comes paired with a another four track EP when purchased. The entire double release clocks in at just over twelves minutes. Yep, eight tracks in twelves mintes. You do the math, as they say. Lucky then that every second - 720 by our count - offers up something magical. It's a [...]

Honeydrum - Do U Party? This quartet - " Joseph Black (voice & guitar), Raymond "Ray" Schwab (guitar & keys), Erik 'Dougal' Sandberg (bass guitar), Marc 'Klein-Goldblatt' Esterow (drums & magic act)" - seem to idolize Prince in the way Ariel Pink does. Except they squash the sound in a press and eek out only the essence of the waveform, like an echo of a distant past. Do You Party? EP + Stranger Calls 7" both out on May 9th May [...]

L'esthétique lo-fi ou l'apanage dionysiaque d' Honeydrum , quatuor de New Brunswick (New Jersey), réanimant l'Ariel Pink du début du second millénaire. Évoquée avec ambiguïté il y a tout juste un an à propos d'un EP cassette édité via Amdiscs ( lire ), la bande emmenée par Joseph Black remet le couvert, avec cette couardise psyché-pop désormais sienne, à l'occasion d'une double sortie associant l'EP CD, Do U Party? , au 73 vinyle, Stranger Calls . Les deux étant toujours à dénicher par ici , via le label pragois. Oh Donna , extrait de Stranger Calls mis en image par le renommé [...]
Honeydrum // "Suddenly Heaven" Check out this short vid from Cactus-Mouth regulars Honeydrum . It is probably as close to matching a visual aesthetic to their sound as you're gonna get. For some reason it reminds me of some eerie, never-before-seen footage of Laura Palmer. The track is a B-side off of the band's first 7" Stranger Calls which is being released by (surprise, surprise) Amdiscs . Listening to the four tracks on the 7" it's become apparent that the band continues to distill their sound down closer [...]
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Honeydrum created a video for the b-side on their upcoming Stranger Calls 73. This band is known for constantly putting out tapes and songs but I'm always befuddled at how they are never unsteady in the quality of work they release. Impose has quite a few choice words to say about the New Jersey band here . Amdiscs will be releasing this in April. previously: Honeydrum - Saturday Morning
MP3: Honeydrum - Stranger Calls Another couple in a steady series of tape pop hits from Honeydrum . Full scoop on their soon to be AM Discs -released Stranger Calls record is over at Impose . buy

While trying to piece together some words to describe the music of the New Brunswick, New Jersey "food court-core" pop band Honeydrum , I couldn't seem to string together anything as oddly poetic as what their current label, AMDISCS , wrote to describe the origins of their sound: "[it rides] under layers of coconut-colored zinc and drift[s] along the bubbly, wet walls of Jerzzy's (new) hypnogogic sea." Listen to "Stranger Calls", the A-side off of their upcoming 73 release, and you'll probably get a better idea of what that means. Of course, you can draw a quick and [...]
Honeydrum is back with a new time capsule cassette rock sound in "Stranger Calls". Devour some dimly lit lo-fi. mp3: Honeydrum - Stranger Calls previously: mp3: Honeydrum – Night... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Honeydrum - Traci's on the Phone If you were going to make a video for a chillwave song, it'd better have a ton of neon and 80's VHS rips. Video creator Behind the Walk-in does it right by those standards. The New Brunswick-based project's new Pleasures Of The Sun EP is out now on AMDISCS .
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Tweet vaso link This is far more delayed than I might have hoped, but I enjoy making this list of my favorite songs annually, so I can return to it and see where my thoughts were within the moment. Ultimately, this list serves mainly as a compelling iPod playlist. I concluded my first list in 2009 with 111 songs, and for posterity's sake, have continued along with that tradition. The actual rankings are generally quite fluid, as I could say [...]

Video Thrills // Video Thrills Featuring three of the four members of Honeydrum , this new side project Video Thrills is the most recent outing by these crazy New Brunswick dudes. If you're familiar with the pitch-perfect retro pop of Honeydrum then listening to Video Thrills self-titled album should not be too much of a mental stretch. They are definitely riffing off of the same era, albeit in a fundamentally different way. Just going off of the [...]

Let's switch gears and go back to the land of the ultra lo-fi with Honeydrum , the group that keeps on knocking out cassettes month after month. Here are a few legit tunes from their latest release Pleasures of the Sun , released on July 15. For all I know, there's probably an even newer release out there already, and if there isn't, expect one soon. Honeydrum - Skin City

New Brunswick, New Jersey Honeydrum W e have released a bunch of pop cassettes on Amdiscs over the past few months and we would like to continue to do the same until we become tired of it. Right now we are working on a noisier instrumental EP called "Parallels", it should be cool. When I was a kid I was obsessed with [...]
I posted on New Brunswick's not too long ago and low and behold they're back with a new/awesome faded glory of a track entitled "Night Runner". It's part of a sweet... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Honeydrum // "Night Runner" If I had to put into words what I feel like when I'm listening to Honeydrum I'd have to sum it up this way: It's 1985 and I'm on my way to pick up Molly Ringwald for our first date. My hair is slicked back with some L.A. Looks hair gel, I've got my Ray-Bans on and a dozen roses in the seat next to me. The window is down and the night is warm (I live by the beach after all). I pull up in [...]

Honeydrum still stands as our favorite bandcamp discovery of late, what with their mysterious aura and affinity for that lo-fi reverby sound. We don't know much about them (part of the intrigue?) but they do keep putting out consistently good albums, which we jump at the chance to download as soon as they're released. Today, you get a special visual treatment to a new one called "Night Runner." Download the track on the Beko/Crash Symbols Compilation here . Enjoy! Honeydrum - Night Runner from honeydrum on [...]
Remember the other day you were strolling beachside when you spotted an old cassette tape washed up on the shore. It was some random 80s new wave relic. To your surprise it actually played on the... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]

Way to go Joisey! New Brunswick's Honeydrum has put out a gnarly little 6 tracker. Lazy man description is a sunnier Ariel Pink vibe. If you asked me though..what I would tell you is that first.. this is rad syrupy, synthed out pysch pop and secondly Joseph Black's vocals are a standout. On one hand I am startled I haven't heard them until now, but on the other hand.. better now then never! I suspect if this keeps up there is a bril LP in Honeydrum's future. in other news, this is one of the first times I [...]

Honeydrum // Pleasures of the Sun The righteous bros in Honeydrum truly love making music. For the last seven months they've released solid cassette after solid cassette with Amdiscs (and one single with Crash Symbols ). Once I discovered how great their music was, their bandcamp site quickly became like a treasure trove to me. With a boyish, Goonies-meets-One-Eyed-Willy glee I downloaded as much as could as fast as I could and never once did I look back. Little did [...]