Vinyl Moon alumni Freedom Fry is playing a show! They were featured on Volume 15: Taking Shapes with their terrific cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.
TBE fave (& Vinyl Moon artist), STAL, are also playing!
It’s going to be an excellent time, so hopefully we’ll see you there. Link to get tickets HERE!
Visual art above by Yusuke Ochiai [via]
The infectious R&B dance beat and the acid-y summer synth and guitar tones in Neil Frances’ “Dumb Love” call for a trippy good time. The clean vocals and distorted noises emulate a modern-day Funkadelic. Throw a fashion runway for the latest hipster summer collection in a snow globe of perpetual existence, and you get “Dumb Love” as the soundtrack.
Catch Neil Frances live in Los Angeles at The Echo on November 30th opening for our fave NoMBe.
Visual art above by Garret Kane [via]
Not every thing that goes bump in the night is scary. TBE Fave Kauf is one of our favorite nighttime bump-goers and “Limestone” from his recently released REGROWTH album is no exception. This BAILE remix picks up where the original left off and cranks things up a few notches, adding some smooth bumps along the way. It’s the perfect smokey and haunting groove to warm up a Halloween weekend. Set it on repeat, dim the lights and slip into something a bit more ghoulish.
Regular readers know that DYAN absolutely stole my heart last year with their stunning and immensely repeatable debut album Looking For Knives. Now, after great press from NPR, Billboard, Kick Kick Snare, & Indie Shuffle, (plus over a million Spotify plays of the album’s title track) it seems the rest of the world is taking proper notice! Today DYAN returns with their first video from new single “Of Love”, the tender and stripped back sleeper favorite from Looking For Knives. The video is a fantastic pairing to the music as it takes us on a visual adventure high above the frozen earth below. As if watching the world we live in through a lens of either hazy memories or wistful longing. It’s never quite clear with DYAN. That why it’s so perfect.
The video was directed by the amazing visual artist Sinziana Velicescu who shot DYAN’s album and single artwork as well as did photography for Vinyl Moon Volume 012.
Los Angeles, come see DYAN at School Night this Monday! Details below. RSVP for free entrance here.
Look & Listen! // Visual Artist: Cam Floyd [via]
Move too fast and you might miss it. Like a stunning sunset reflected in a rain puddle, you may miss the beauty in Esbie Fonte’s “Pools” if you aren’t paying attention. If you aren’t keeping your eyes and heart open to the tender voice singing to you from the other side of the water. So slow down this Friday. Breathe deep and soak this in. The weekend will come soon enough. For right now there is “Pools”.
Of the song, Esbie says:
Written in Cornwall, England on a rainy night, “Pools,†confronts the very genuine love of someone residing many miles away in America. The “someone†in the song is a childhood love who lingers painfully into the present.
“Pools†was recorded in Fonte’s home city, San Francisco, California – vocals in Fonte’s apartment closet vocal booth, and piano on a Steinway at Hyde Street Studios. A field recording of children splashing around in water is layered with various analog sounding synths reminiscent of a vintage record. Esbie elaborates:
The video is shot around Los Angeles and Laguna Beach capturing a down-tempo and cinematic atmosphere filled with symbolism of universally relatable feelings – feeling trapped and hopeless, but eventually breaking free, letting go, and as the video showcases, literally emerging from the “Pools†of one’s own confines.
