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John Vanderslice Going For Adds

amapac — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:53:01 +0000

Dagger Beach, the new record from San Francisco songwriter John Vanderslice, arrives as his first self-released effort after releasing records through Dead Oceans and Barsuk. It delivers the same precise and carefully thought out sonics we know him for while moving with a deft lightness and fearless sense of exploration. During the early stages of writing, Vanderslice endured a break-up that indirectly inspired the record. It was not the heartache that yielded the songs on Dagger Beach, but the solitary hikes into the deep Northern California wilderness that came out of being left to himself. Surviving such drastic life shifts ultimately becomes liberating, and a sense of that is heard throughout the songs looser, weirder, and freer sound. Lead single, “Raw Wood”, exemplifies that with syncopated drums, fluttering piano chords and eerie back-up melodies that gently moves the song into Grizzly Bear territory. Check out the Rolling Stone premiere of “Raw Wood” here and download it below as it adds this Tuesday.

From the forthcoming album Dagger Beach due out on June 11.

RIYL: David Bowie, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens

FCC CLEAN

Going for Adds 5/20 & 5/21

Digital Servicing Only

Label: Tiny Telephone

The Crackling – Fearless Radio

amapac — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:52:23 +0000

Kenton Loewen of The Crackling talked to Fearless Radio around the release of their record Mary Magdalene. In the feature, he explains how he works creatively and how his grandfather served as inspiration for the record. Listen to the exclusive interview here. The Crackling is going for a new peak at CMJ this week so show your support!

Tarmac Adam – Music Video Premiere – On Tour

amapac — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:51:22 +0000

Blurt Magazine has the video premiere for Tarmac Adam‘s lush pop song “Giving It Back”. The video is visually stunning and shows the band colored by an outpour of psychedelic imagery. Watch the video here. Tarmac Adam will be flying out from Australia to visit the US for the first time since the release of The History Effect. Check out the dates below to see where they’ll be over the next couple weeks and contact us to set-up an interview/in-studio.

5/20 – Chicago, IL
5/20 – Burlington, WI
5/21 – St. Louis, MO
5/23 – Lincroft, NJ
5/24 – Charlottesville, VA
5/25 – Brooklyn, NY
5/28 – Seattle, WA
5/29 – Gresham, OR
5/30 – Eugene, OR
5/31 – Ashland, OR
6/3-4 – San Francisco, CA
6/5-7 – Los Angeles, CA

Also At Radio

amapac — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:50:30 +0000

Sam Amidon – Bright Sunny South (Nonesuch)

Mia Dyson - The Moment (The Co-Op)

Anchoress – Set Sail (Defiled Under Music)

The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Warner Bros)

Bombino – Nomad (Nonesuch)

Tarmac Adam - The History Effect (Onesize Records)

Devendra Banhart – Mala (Nonesuch)

Keaton Henson – Birthdays (Anti-)

The Little Ones – The Dawn Sang Along (Branches Recording Collective)

Bend Sinister – Small Fame (File Under: Music)

Yellow Red Sparks – Yellow Red Sparks (ORG Music)

Hidden Towers – Olympus Mons (Defiled Under Music)

Earlimart – System Preferences (The Ship)

Slam Dunk – Welcome To Miami (File Under: Music)

Old Time Machine - Old Time Machine (File Under: Music)

Onuinu – Mirror Gazer (Bladen County / BadCopBadCop)

Infantree – Hero’s Dose (Vapor)

The Black Keys – El Camino (Nonesuch)

Gaz Coombes - Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit)

George Sarah - Who Sleep the Sleep of Peace (Pusan Music Group)

New Music from John Vanderslice – Digital Servicing Only

amapac — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:38:32 +0000

Dagger Beach, the new record from San Francisco songwriter John Vanderslice, delivers the precise and carefully thought out sonics his eight other records have offered while moving with a deft lightness and fearless sense of exploration. During the early stages of writing, Vanderslice endured a break-up that indirectly inspired the record. It was not the heartache that yielded the songs on Dagger Beach, but the solitary hikes into the deep Northern California wilderness that came out of being left to himself. Surviving such drastic life shifts ultimately becomes liberating, and a sense of that is heard throughout the songs looser, weirder, and freer sound. Lead single, “Raw Wood”, exemplifies that with syncopated drums, fluttering piano chords and eerie back-up melodies that gently moves the song into Grizzly Bear territory. Check out the Rolling Stone premiere of “Raw Wood” here and download it below as it adds this Tuesday.

From the forthcoming album Dagger Beach due out on June 11.

RIYL: David Bowie, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens

FCC CLEAN

Going for Adds 5/20 & 5/21

Digital Servicing Only

Label: Tiny Telephone

Sam Amidon Pitchfork Album Review

amapac — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:35:59 +0000

London by-way-of Vermont artist Sam Amidon may have released his best album yet. Bright Sunny South is a just continuation of his musical practice whose use of isolation is underlined by the production of Jerry Boys (Vashti Bunyan). After streaming the album in full, Pitchfork gave the record a positive album review saying Amidon distinguishes himself from his peers by taking “liberties with the country’s past in order to document his own personal present.” Read the full review here.

Also At Radio

amapac — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:34:41 +0000

Mia Dyson - The Moment (The Co-Op)

The Crackling – Mary Magdalene (File Under Music)

Anchoress – Set Sail (Defiled Under Music)

The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Warner Bros)

Bombino – Nomad (Nonesuch)

Tarmac Adam - The History Effect (Onesize Records)

Devendra Banhart – Mala (Nonesuch)

Bend Sinister – Small Fame (File Under: Music)

Yellow Red Sparks – Yellow Red Sparks (ORG Music)

Hidden Towers – Olympus Mons (Defiled Under Music)

Keaton Henson - Birthdays (Anti-)

Earlimart – System Preferences (The Ship)

Slam Dunk – Welcome To Miami (File Under: Music)

Old Time Machine - Old Time Machine (File Under: Music)

Onuinu – Mirror Gazer (Bladen County / BadCopBadCop)

Infantree – Hero’s Dose (Vapor)

The Black Keys – El Camino (Nonesuch)

Gaz Coombes - Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit)

George Sarah - Who Sleep the Sleep of Peace (Pusan Music Group)

Sam Amidon Going for Adds

amapac — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:35:10 +0000

Nonesuch Records releases Sam Amidon’s label debut Bright Sunny South this Tuesday. Bright Sunny South follows 2010’s critically acclaimed I See the Sign, which earned Amidon praise from SPIN for his “quirky alchemy…contrasting pretty sounds with violent lyrical undercurrents”. Amidon describes his new collection of work as “a lonesome record” and a return to the more spare sound of his 2007 self-recorded debut, But this Chicken Proved Falsehearted that welcomed the listener into an intimate, personal space. His new album is self-described as “a journey, a winding path. The band comes rushing in and then they disappear. It comes from more of a darker, internal space.” In the forefront, is Amidon‘s sure yet frangible voice, hovering in a high register and as its accompanied instrumentation flows just below it. The movements on Bright Sunny South are gradual because they’re contemplative, yet the musical performances are raw. “It was very much a process of discovery for the both of us. At that point, the final take was the one where I was able to get all the way through without messing the guitar part up.” This counterbalance makes those rare occasions of accelerated instrumentation & unedited honesty all the more exhilarating. On “I Wish I Wish”, snare and piano chords are occasionally placed in off-beat moments, giving the song an eccentricity that separates it from traditional indie folk. Lead single “My Old Friend” is a nod to Amidon‘s American roots with “sun-warmed…acoustic guitar, capo’d high to give it a twinkling quality, edged by small cirrus clouds of electric lead”. Pitchfork premiered the track earlier this year and is featuring the album for stream here on Pitchfork Advance. Now married with English artist Beth Orton and a father of one, Bright Sunny South is a patchwork portrait of the Vermont-born and raised, London-based Amidon himself, with each of these tunes representing a facet of the singer and multi-instrumentalist’s own history, his memories, his travels, and his discoveries.

RIYL: Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Neutral Milk Hotel, Iron & Wine, Nick Drake

Recommended Tracks: #4 “My Old Friend”, #2 “I Wish I Wish”, #5 “He’s Taken My Feet”, #7 “As I Roved Out”, #11 “Weeping Mary”

Going for Adds 5/13 & 5/14

FCC CLEAN

Label: Nonesuch

Anchoress Going for Adds

amapac — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:34:05 +0000

Anchoress is a four piece hardcore punk band hailing from Vancouver, BC whose sharp wit only cuts deeper when grouped with their frenetic sonic attack. They’ve shared the stage with the likes of Trash Talk and Guttermouth and their sound takes from 80’s hardcore, old school punk, and powerviolence – making for a collection of furious explosions, relentless intensity, and choral screams many now associate with F*cked Up. Their new album, Set Sail, immediately grabs you by the collar and drags into the circle of their assault without your discretion. Album opener “Murder In the Sky Over Burnaby” begins with a thunderous eruption of distorted guitar and booming drums. Vocalist Rob Hoover strains his vocals with guttural screams of “Murder…”, setting the tone for the twenty-two minutes of flurry that is to follow. “Coral Bones” has references to the post-hardcore of the past twenty-five years & “Foul Bay” starts abrasively then breaks down to Hoover at the end of his rope encouraging, “When I’m gone, then you must be brave” before we’re hit once more w/ waves of distortion. On the penultimate song of the album, “Brooks Was Here”, the group pulls back the intensity a notch and drives through a chugging bridge to provide one of the album’s standout tracks. Set Sail is being serviced in the middle of a North American tour where they’re bringing their unhinged live show to the states.

RIYL: Ceremony, F*cked Up, Trash Talk, Japandroids

Recommended Tracks: Track #10 “Brooks Was Here”, track #3 “Coral Bones”, track #7 “Apocalunatics”, track #9 “Foul Bay”

Going for Adds 5/13 & 5/14

FCC WARNING: Track #2 “Cadillac”, track #4 “She-Devil”, track #6 “Curses”, track #8 “All Sweaty Dudes Stay True”, track #11 “Grease Fire”

FCC CAUTION: Track #10 “Brooks Was Here” (Says G*dd*mn) Going for Adds 5/13 & 5/14

CANADIAN CONTENT

Label: Defiled Under Music

Tarmac Adam Album Review

amapac — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:33:26 +0000

Australia’s Tarmac Adam will be traveling halfway across the world and visiting us here in the states for a string of shows and interviews this month! Their sophomore release, which features Crowded House bassist Nick Seymour, has been spinning since early spring. Singles “Chalk On Slate” & “You As Me” have already seen play, but its track “Bygones” that has caught the attention of Power Popaholic. In a review of the record, they called the song “a richly arranged mid-tempo gem” whose “dream-like quality is all over this album”. Read the review here. Contact us if you would like set something up with the band while they’re in the US!