Artist: Western Affairs Song: Iowa Place of origin: Washington DC, U.S.A. Facebook: Western Affairs Twitter: Western Affairs WebSite: Western Affairs
Thanks to everyone for your support these past few days. I issued a challenge and your response was amazing. Thanks again to everyone who voted-I'm excited to bring you some fun new stuff here over the coming months! Western Affairs "Laura" from the 2000 EP [ released 7/10/12 ] [ download ] Poolside "Slow Down" from [...]
(Courtesy Banter Media) " Western Affairs is a three-piece dreampop group based in Washington DC. Originally founded by Alex Lee in 2009, the band has gone through an assortment of different members until finding a winning combination in 2011 consisting of additional members Davis Connors, and Andrew Monborne. Their eclectic sound comes from an array of influences from new experimental pop DC bands to bizarre avant-garde sounds. While staying true to their style, live performances turn into ambient experimental sessions, incorporating noise, orchestral key modulations, and oscillating drums you would only expect to hear in the soundtrack for Stanley [...]
I had Friday off and ended up spending most of the day sanding down cabinets. They came out looking great; a natural light pine distressed with a hint of dark stain peeping through. Ultimately they will get two light coats of matte brown followed by white paint and distressed lightly. Yes. We are re-doing the kitchen. And I still had time to take a nice 25 mile bike ride through the countryside (hence this post's photo, taken just outside Rexville, WA). After the cabinet distressing will [...]
Posted at 12:10pm, 8/13/2012 Every week we bring you the best cutting edge music from around the web. Our newest batch of uploads are ready for your listening pleasure. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO [...]
Posted at 12:10pm, 8/13/2012 Every week we bring you the best cutting edge music from around the web. Our newest batch of uploads are ready for your listening pleasure. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO [...]
Western Affairs - Iowa W estern Affairs is a three-piece dreampop group based in Washington DC. Back in July they released, 2000, a six track EP with single "Iowa," featured above. It's an eclectic dream-like state full of ambient spacey sounds that give the song a sense of solitude, and in these days of Mars exploration, this seems to fit right in. Western Affairs Web | Bandcamp | Facebook
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Iowa isn't a declaration of independence, no statement of rebellion, full of blighted triumphs. Like the rest of the American middle west, it is a profoundly liminal place, neither here nor there, a once proud frontier now tied to heavily subsidized monoculture farming or four decades of disappearing manufacture. Unless an avid reader of Kinsella's Field of Dreams , no American child fantasizes of growing up and moving to Iowa. Western Affairs , a dream pop band not from Iowa, address this sort of grinding sacrifice on their debut single that carries the name of [...]
Western Affairs The Washington D.C.-based band Western Affairs has released "Iowa" from their recently released album, 2000 . Listen to the space-pop tune in this post. Western Affairs "Iowa" The three-piece band, founded by Alex Lee, is heading back into the studio to work on a new release.
Western Affairs is a three-piece dreampop group based in Washington, DC. Influenced by new experimental pop and bizarre avant-garde sounds, try out their song " Iowa "; a slow burner with swirling guitars and droning harmonies.
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With summer finally coming into Seattle , your car/stereo/other music player is certainly in need of some fresh new music. One of this week's biggest releases is also one of the year's most anticipated: Swing Lo Magellan , the sixth studio album from Dirty Projectors . Dave Longstreth and company holed up in New York for a year to write the album, and the end result is definitely worth the wait. Our Music Director, Don Yates, says the album is full of "unusual musical textures, abrupt transitions, tricky polyrhythms and intricate yet gorgeous harmonies to flesh out [...]
Western Affairs are a three-piece from Washington DC. They've been through several hundred line-up changes since they got it together in 2009 - but have finally found a happy place. Their music is a spaced-out flow of dreamy-pop and atmospheric landscapes and they seem intent on taking it to the stratosphere. We had words before they took off. Bowlegs: So how did Western Affairs get together, I understand members have come and gone - is the current line-up feeling right? Alex: Over the past three years, we have gone [...]
El dream pop, la experimentación y un cierto sonido "espacial" son las señas de identidad de Western Affairs , nuevo trío procedente de la ciudad de Washington D.C. 2000 es su Ep de debut, al que pertenece la canción Laura . Mp3: Western Affairs. Laura
I'm in a reflective mood. Thinking back on my youth, there's so much that, at the time, I wished I could do. Looking at my life now, I think I'm right where I want to be in terms of who I am and what I am doing with my life. It's funny. You think about all the restrictions there are in life; I'm finding that I have more freedom as an adult to do what I want when I want to do it than ever before. I guess that's the benefit of being [...]
"Laura" by Western Affairs is not a song to take lightly. In the beginning, you get a cool, laid-back percussion paired with a surreal, echoing guitar. This ambient sound continues throughout the song and keep things hip and dreamy, but the vocals take things in an interesting direction. They're deeply emotive. They're personal. It's what made Western Affairs stand out upon first listen. It's a little different; doesn't seem like it should work, but it works very, very well. Formed [...]
Posted at 9:30am, 6/25/2012 Every week we bring you the best cutting edge music from around the web. Our newest batch of uploads are ready for your listening pleasure. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO [...]
Dear interwebbers, I may not have done a whole lot of scribing of late, but I have been listening and listening some more. Here’s a round-up of sonic nuggets and new discoveries that I’ve been wrapping my ears around recently: Western Affairs - 1999 Washington DC 3-piece Western Affairs deliver perfectly crisp soundscapes. Swooping guitar effects and dream pop vocals fill their sound with nods to synthier pop bands. ‘1999’ is the missing link between Beach House and Grandaddy, if [...]
Washington DC-based Western Affairs seem more concerned with internal affairs in their dream-pop creations than political ones. But that's cool - perhaps we have to fix ourselves...before we can fix the world around us...( applause ) Western Affairs - Laura
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