Space Junk, il nuovo album degli Halasan Bazar - psych/pop dalla Danimarca - è uscito questa settimana per Crash Symbols , a distanza di poco più di sei mesi dal precedente How To Be Ever Happy : Space Junk by Halasan Bazar
Si l'on a déjà couché et surligné le nom des Danois d’ Halasan Bazar à l'occasion de leur précédente cassette How to Be Ever Happy sur le label d'Oakland, Moon Glyph ( lire ), inutile de dire qu'on s'apprête à réitérer la chose autant de fois qu'il le faudra pour rendre mérite à leur tintinnabulante inspiration, trouvant en Space Junk - leur nouveau LP à paraître via Crash Symbols -, un écrin psyché-pop hautement recommandable. Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad , premier extrait dudit album et hybridation garage twee facétieusement mise en images par un Magnus [...]
Little-known Copenhagen pysch-rock outfit Halasan Bazar , who are a few weeks from releasing its Space Junk LP, have debuted the swirling "Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad." The track, which is available to stream and/or download below, floats freely through Americana-inspired garage folk. That attribution makes a little more sense when you find out that the band's new LP - with members from Denmark, Australia, and Northern Europe - is being produced by San Francisco label Crash Symbols . Grab Space Junk April 2 as both a 12" LP and digital [...]
The best DIY pop is open to everybody, and Little Spoon’s very sweet "Clouds Clear" would make a lot of sense soundtracking a children's parade, what with its playful, never-quitting opening loop dinging like something ... read more
Révélé en septembre dernier via le label californien Moon Glyph , le LP cassette How To Be Ever Happy des Danois d' Halasan Bazar n'a depuis pris aucune ride dans sa façon de jeter les bases d'une pop grandiloquente et psyché - en témoigne Scroll Down récemment mise en image à partir d'un footage de l'hexagonal réalisateur Jean Painlevé. De quoi patienter sans divaguer à l'annonce faite pour 2013 d'une nouvelle sortie cassette par le biais, cette fois, de la triade d'activistes de Crash Symbols ( lire ). Vidéo Audio
Londoner Soft Riot’s high-stepping remix of "Don't Let Me Down," by the weird-pop Window Twins (the Bay Area team of Tim Cohen of The Fresh & Onlys and Jon Bernson of Exray’s), sounds less like ... read more
... 24. Sirs // Sirs [ Topshelf Records ] As part of the booming SUNY Purchase music scene, Sirs perfectly encapsulate everything that is so wonderful about what is going on up there. They have a boundless energy that is totally infectious from the very first seconds of their self-titled album. Some might call this screamo, but don't let that scare you away. You see it's not so much screaming as the energy of pure, vocal force which reverberates down through the [...]
Altar Eagle 's Nightrunners album from earlier this year excelled at the kind of muffled, slow-motion pop that filtered wistful melodies through pop-synth washes. The No UFOs remix strips things right down to reconfigured Detroit industrial-scapes, with hardly a trace of the original. Nightrunners is available digitally through Digitalis and will be out on cassette on Crash Symbols by the end of the year.
El EP homónimo que sacó Outlands hace algún tiempo, vaya que es de recordar. Fue lanzado por medio de Chill Mega Chill Records (lo que de por sí ya es muy bueno) y ahora, tras agotarse éste, vuelve a ser editado por el label Crash Symbols . Decir que dos disqueras de semejante talla te ayuden a materializar tu trabajo no es cosa de todos los días. Pero como dije una vez: me sorprende que este disco no esté recibiendo la atención en medios mayores, a como [...]
Creo que todos estamos de acuerdo en que el álbum que soltó hace poco la banda que lidera Ryan Boos, Nomadic Firs , es sin duda uno a llevarse el título de mejor disco del año, o de perdis a mejor artista del año. Tampoco olvidemos que en este mismo ciclo sacó un proyecto alterno de nombre Case Point, cual si bien no se compara a la diversificación de sonidos que se ven en su banda principal, sí nos habla de que donde se lee el nombre de Ryan Boos, es practicamente como un sello [...]
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Cosmic Sound is the once-used moniker of producer Stephen Farris and back in 2010, he released a gem of an album in VHS Vision . Since then, he's gone on to use his given name and dropped a killer album that we raved about last year . But in the meantime, VHS Vision has built a buzz all of its own, thanks in part to Com Truise showering the project with his love. The connection between Truise and Farris is completely evident on the album, which Wilmington, N.C.-based label Crash Symbols re-released last month . [...]
Stephen Harris, the Houston production wizard behind last year's incredible VHS tape/album Cosmic Sound II, has found a new home for his 2010 LP VHS Vision, previously self-released in a bit of confusing foreshadowing using ... read more
Cosmic Sound es uno de los tantos seudónimos usados por el productor y compositor musical estadounidense Stephen Farris , quien nos regala un lanzamiento de nueve canciones bajo el nombre de VHS Vision , llevado a cassette gracias a nuestros amigos de Crash Symbols . Las nueve melodías de consistencia PsySynth-Pop bastante agradable son la clara prueba de que el ingenio y talento musical de la escena DIY no está -canalizada- merodeando sólo por los alrededores de su apogeo en este año y mediados del pasado: ésta [...]
Lo-fi bedroom pop that sounds like a dream permeating the confines of a bedroom. It's dreamy, charming, and uplifting -- a welcomed change, and reprieve, from all the depressing things we hear about in the world these days. Nomadic Firs (aka Ryan Boos) takes the warmth and intimacy of tape-based lo-fi music and mixes in elements of electropop as well as a sort of '60s sunshine pop glimmer, crafting something that's capable of being subtle and expansive. As the summer heat begins to settle in, it sounds like a fitting soundtrack for the months ahead. [...]
It may seem odd to call music released just two years ago “ahead of its time,” but that really is how Austin producer Stephen Farris Cosmic Sound project comes across in 2012. Farris, who has gone on to release music under his own name since , only briefly used the Cosmic Sound nom de guerre before switching appellations. While VHS Vision is necessarily a product of its time, Cosmic Sound is way more interested in chopping, dicing, and reprocessing his tracks than suspending the listener in the beachy smog that characterized much of 2010’s synthier releases. Opening track “Backyard [...]
The more I've listened to Nomadic Firs' debut S/T LP (out now on Crash Symbols) the more I'm swept in…the more I'm in love with it. Ryan Boos has taken some folk like po like... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
Por dónde empezar... Como ustedes podrán saber, Ryan Boos es uno de mis más queridos amigos virtuales, internet friends , o como les quieran llamar, y una de las personas más interesantes, talentosas y creativas que he conocido en mi vida. Sus proyectos, Case Point y Nomadic Firs, han estado variadas veces aquí en Matinée as Hell , e incluso el EP debut del primer mencionado fue lanzado oficialmente desde nuestro pequeño nicho discográfico digital al que llamamos Bad Pop . Hoy vengo a hablarles de algo que me emociona mucho [...]
Hotel of Lost Light è l’esordio di Some Ember - progetto molto interessante, un mix di synth pop sperimentale e dark wave - è uscito ad Aprile per Crash Symbols in audiocassetta e in versione digitale. Middle Wave by Some Ember Deep Ocean by Some Ember
Some Ember debuts a full length album entitled, Hotel of Lost Light , which is out now on Crash Symbols . The eerie vocal frustrations of Dylan Travis aka Some Ember are carefully gorged into a deep dark cave from which he sings his stories. His monumental transmissions in respect to time and space throughout his 8 track LP follows a grey-scaled color scheme that is named for a piece in Galway Kinnell's Book of Nightmares. Its on point beginning to end. 'Era of Wind' might just be one of my most favorite [...]
Pleasantly surprised and impressed with this kid known as Ghibli from Edmonton. I am not a fan of most sample-heavy music but the grainy beat and effortlessly-catchy rhythms caught me immediately and nestled my eardrums, post-club . Check out my favorite track "Little Clique" below and purchase the Rare Pleasures tape via Crash Symbols .
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