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WOOME 011CD
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Edgy Antipodean indie-rock/jangle for fans of The Clean/Flying Nun/Rolling Blackouts/The Vaselines/Goon Sax/Go-Betweens. From A View is the debut album from Melbourne's Floodlights. From A View explores themes of identity, personal cross-roads and the misuse of power. The band's first exploration into proper studio recording with a well-regarded sound engineer. It was recorded over two days onto a 24-track tape machine at Head Gap studios in Preston in November. Floodlights are made up of members Louis Parsons, Ashlee Kehoe, Joe Draffen, and Archie Shannon. They present a distinctly Australian perspective, with a shambolic, catchy sound that melds '80s indie-rock rock with '90s New Zealand jangle-pop. Following a tour of Australia's East Coast in October 2019 the band began working on From A View. The songs were arranged and performed as a band, but often began from Louis or Ash presenting ideas to the group and building on them from there. The songs themselves were written over various points in the bands short career, yet come together very fittingly to show their distinct sound. Lead single "Thanks For Understanding" is about two lives going in different directions. It describes the complicated process of growing apart from someone, even though you still care for them. Nao Anzai (Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever) engineered the album and then mixed it over the infamous Australian summer. Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddie Current) recently added the final touch with mastering.
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2022 repress. LP version. Yellow ochre vinyl. Edition of 400. Edgy Antipodean indie-rock/jangle for fans of The Clean/Flying Nun/Rolling Blackouts/The Vaselines/Goon Sax/Go-Betweens. From A View is the debut album from Melbourne's Floodlights. From A View explores themes of identity, personal cross-roads and the misuse of power. The band's first exploration into proper studio recording with a well-regarded sound engineer. It was recorded over two days onto a 24-track tape machine at Head Gap studios in Preston in November. Floodlights are made up of members Louis Parsons, Ashlee Kehoe, Joe Draffen, and Archie Shannon. They present a distinctly Australian perspective, with a shambolic, catchy sound that melds '80s indie-rock rock with '90s New Zealand jangle-pop. Following a tour of Australia's East Coast in October 2019 the band began working on From A View. The songs were arranged and performed as a band, but often began from Louis or Ash presenting ideas to the group and building on them from there. The songs themselves were written over various points in the bands short career, yet come together very fittingly to show their distinct sound. Lead single "Thanks For Understanding" is about two lives going in different directions. It describes the complicated process of growing apart from someone, even though you still care for them. Nao Anzai (Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever) engineered the album and then mixed it over the infamous Australian summer. Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddie Current) recently added the final touch with mastering.
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Aldous Harding is a Christchurch local, whose records are released in New Zealand by Lyttleton records (home of the mighty Marlon Williams and Delaney Davidson). Lyttelton is a gorgeous port town to the north of Christchurch. A home for Maori for about 700 years, Lyttelton Harbour was discovered by European voyagers passing by on February 16, 1770 during the Endeavour's first voyage to New Zealand. Today it is one of New Zealand's busiest ports. In popular culture it is best known as the location for most of the exterior scenes in Peter Jackson's 1996 horror movie The Frighteners. It is also a town surrounded by many historic buildings, many of which have been turned into bars. Aldous Harding's music has been the best thing that has ever happened to these bars, where wayfaring loners shuffle in at the wrong times of day. She has been the savior of those falling in home-cooked opium furrows. She has kept sailors in check with cheek and a strong-songed tongue. And now she will be all yours for an album-length period of time, and you may have your picnic and feast upon the music. So lucky one, close your eyes. Turn your nose towards river water. Twitch your ears as rabbits do. Settle in. Listen to this one closely.
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Tiny Ruins is the musical namesake of Hollie Fullbrook. After being raised in Bristol and then attending University in Wellington, NZ, Some Were Meant For Sea is Hollie's debut release. Both vocally and instrumentally, Some Were Meant For Sea exists in dappled warmness: Fullbrook's striking vocal timbre conjuring a natural imagery born from earth and sea. Recorded in a diminutive hall, once the local school of South Gippsland (Victoria), Fullbrook worked with producer J Walker (Holly Throsby, Machine Translations) and between the pair, some cello, violin, piano and accordion were added to the otherwise bare-boned songs, which were all recorded entirely live. So striking are Fullbrook's own live performances, that she was asked to be a special guest to Joanna Newsom, Beach House, Ólöf Arnalds and The Middle East across Australia and New Zealand.
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Australian singer-songwriter Holly Throsby presents a follow-up to 2009's A Loud Call (WOOME 007CD). The album included performances from a handful of very special guests including Bonnie "Prince" Billy and members of Lambchop and The Silver Jews (Matt Swanson on bass, Tony Crow on synth and William Tyler on electric guitar). Strings and horns were recorded in Kangaroo Valley by Tony Dupé. Now Holly has returned to her roots with long-time friend and producer Tony Dupé, recording a brand-new collection of songs in a 19th century Methodist church in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Mixed by Burke Reid (Jack Ladder, The Drones, The Mess Hall) at Sydney's Big Jesus Burger studios, Team is a warm departure that echoes contentment as the singer-songwriter begins her next chapter.
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This is the third full-length release from Australian singer-songwriter, Holly Throsby. The album includes performances from a handful of very special guests including Bonnie "Prince" Billy (singing duet on "Would You") and members of Lambchop and The Silver Jews (Matt Swanson on bass, Tony Crow on synth and William Tyler on electric guitar). Strings and horns were recorded in Kangaroo Valley by Tony Dupe. A Loud Call was recorded in a brick house on a leafy street in Nashville, Tennessee by engineer and producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Andrew Bird, Bonnie "Prince" Billy). Partly written on the road, partly at home, the songs on A Loud Call find their inspiration in the tenuous gaps between hope and resignation, romance and indecision, nostalgia and rejuvenation. From the swelling guitar feedback and beds of vocal harmonies which engulf the opening track ("Warm Jets") to the odd-pop, bicycle wheel percussion of "The Time It Takes" and the bright sparks of trumpets and pizzicato cellos on "A Heart Divided," this album is richer and more full-bodied than its predecessors. But for all its diversity, A Loud Call is effortlessly cohesive: quotidian narratives, epigrams against heartbreak, and vivid, otherworldly fragments are anchored by Holly's soft, distinctive phrasing and lyrical concision. Already receiving glowing reviews, A Loud Call is Throsby's most accomplished and most beautiful record yet.
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"Like her first collection of songs, On Night, Holly made Under The Town with producer Tony Dupe at his house on Saddleback Mountain on the New South Wales south coast of Australia over the summer. But other things are different. The songs still come from a thoughtful and quiet place, but on Under The Town they are orchestrated with richer detail and more colors. Holly (guitars) was helped in this by Tony (piano, bouzouki, clarinet, trumpet), Jens Birchall (cello, double bass), label mate Jack Ladder (bass) and Bree van Reyk (drums). And this time, Tony and Holly closed the cottage windows so you can't hear the birds and insects outside. The songs on Under The Town are strong and clear, alive with crisp detail and carefully wrought melodies. Holly is a songwriter who selects her words with a poet's precision; and conjures her imagery with a painterly eye. The words are sparse and well chosen, but build rich little worlds. There's darkness here, and images in sharp focus: dim things in a pond, crows in a bed, a heart like an apple (red round and shot), kids in the dust. But there's also humour and playfulness in the instrumentation and the intricate arrangements: from toy piano ('The Shoulders and Bends') to chopsticks drumming on a window sill ('Making A Fire'), to beautiful string flourishes ('If We Go Easy'). These are songs by an artist in sure command of her delicate craft, an artistic leap forward from her highly praised debut."
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"The album is licensed from Australia's biggest independent label Spunk, home to Antony & The Johnsons, The Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Alasdair Roberts, M Ward and more. On Night is a collection of eleven songs (one exclusive to this European release) which Holly wrote, sang, and played on guitar. Holly has played a ton of shows with such luminaries as Devendra Banhart and Micah P Hinson, and toured nationally with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Mark Kozelek, New Buffalo and Hayden. The Australian said 'Lyrics resonating like the economic precision of a poem. Beautiful, fragile...a real pleasure, while the Herald Sun in Melbourne said 'Picked guitar, wistful brass, strings and lilting piano. The album is a gem'".
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