If you’ve been wondering why there was no weekend round-up this week, or wondering why there’s been such a lack of updates from me over the past few days – at least part of the reason is directly to do with Reading Festival having taken place over last weekend, and my absolute adoration for the selection of bands on this year’s festival line-up. Obviously I didn’t go anywhere near GnR, and avoided Blink 182 on the final night – but aside from The Arcade Fire, the main talent at this year’s festival lay beyond the veil of televised live music, on some of the smaller stages. I caught sets from Tame Impala, Free Energy, Four Tet, Caribou and Villagers to name but a few, and the next few dozen lines of text are going to detail what surprised and shocked me, and which bands absolutely blew me away.

The Friday was made up of mainly rain, but also ironically played host to the majority of the surf – we caught Surfer Blood on the NME in the early afternoon and San Francisco surf band Girls (my second time seeing them) 2 sets later. Surfer Blood weren’t quite there in full, but as ever at festivals, its often really difficult to tell whether its the band or the sound guys responsible for poor quality. The vocals were slightly out, which knocked the whole performance, especially since the frontman drives so much of the punk element to the band home. A brilliant rendition of Swim (To Reach The End) saved the performance close to the end.

Surfer Blood – Swim (To Reach The End) (MP3)

The last time I caught Girls was with Leeds hit parade band Spectrals at the Talking Heads Pub Southampton, and I left with the feeling that Girls were a band best heard with under 100 people in the room. Just a few months on, and the Radio 1 tent at Reading Festival was packed out for them. To be quite honest, they probably should have played some of their more upbeat songs. Although I can imagine their must be a certain feeling of resentment when the leeches of NME and BBC Radio 1 feed off your success to such an extent, there are still people who want to hear your music more than once - and putting on a good show to whoever is watching is surely one of the key components to long term success. Roughly half of the set was made up of the slower album tracks, but the last three songs really saved the show. A couple of cans flew their way during Hellhole Ratrace, before a minute or so of feedback led directly into an adrenaline fuelled Morning Light. Lust For Life is becoming almost a crowd pleaser, and as an immediate follow-up to this smooth changeover garnered the biggest reaction i’d seen at the festival thus far. If only Girls had kept the energy up the whole way through.

Girls - Hellhole Ratrace (MP3)

I don’t think I saw a tighter band the whole weekend than Yeasayer – watching their live set unfold made me realise exactly why this band are where they are today. I’m far less familiar with their first album, as i’m sure many of the attendees were – but the psych-folk jams of 2080 and others were delivered with just as much intensity as the material from Odd Blood. The vocals throughout were absolutely spot on tight, and the music infused with just as much disjointed psychedelia and dance beats as the record. The light show left much of the band exposed merely as silhouettes, and my frozen image of this resounding set is of a freakishly tall (or at least it looked that way) Chris Keating stood on the monitor letting out that hauntingly beautiful Madder Red wail.

Yeasayer – Madder Red (MP3)

Yuck are a baggy clothed shoegaze band from New York who play blistering lo-fi pop melodies with all the thrust of Neutral Milk Hotel and the chilling harmonies of My Bloody Valentine. They brought out the lead singer’s sister to guest vocal on song Georgia, and although she looked timid and had absolutely zero stage presence, it strangely worked. Their EP ‘Weakend’ is due out this month on Mirror Universe.

Yuck – Georgia (MP3)

Every Freelance Whales recording i’ve heard to date further confirms them as a true electro-folk band. The vocals wouldn’t be out of place in a pop punk track, but the fact that they aren’t means that their guilty pleasure value need not be forcibly ignored. It was a great shame that again the Festival Republic stage somewhat let the band down. The effect wasn’t nearly as clear cut and the whole sound was slightly ruined by a lack of clear projections. The result ended up sounding like a bit of a mess. I couldn’t really hear much that was going on, and although the band were really putting in a performance, the show was far more visual than audible – and got a little boring towards the end.

Freelance Whales – Starring (MP3)

I Blame Coco’s live show made me realise just how much she sounds like her father, Sting, in female form. They have the same kind of drag on certain words and syllables, if you get what I mean. Aside from the all too obvious comparison, the music was pretty nice too, even if I can’t help but feel that I Blame Coco may be stepping unawares into the shoes of female solo acts gone before them – Marina & The Diamonds, La Roux etc. For her sake, because she is genuinely talented as a writer as well as a singer, I hope that she makes it big in a less artificial kind of way. At least then she might have a chance of sticking around long-term. She announced ‘Quicker’ as her latest single, due out September 27th. You can watch the video for it over @ Sheena Beaston.

I Blame Coco – Quicker (MP3)

Villagers oversaw one of the friendliest atmospheres of the whole Reading Festival weekend – I don’t know why particularly, but we’d barely arrived before we were approached and quizzed about how we’d first heard of Conor O’Brien’s project, by a pleasant Irish man, who went on to articulate that the approaching performance would be his fifth Villagers show. The whole set was characterised by close knit storytelling, wonderful originality in arrangement and honest and emotional delivery. The songs come across devoid of any definitive style or era, yet at the same time not are not disconnected or abstract. The songs weave their way into your head and stay there for weeks and months. The live show was faultless.

Villagers – Twenty Seven Strangers (MP3)

On Sunday, the abysmal ‘Lock Up Stage’ became the Dance Tent, which went on to play host to the fantastic Sub Focus, Health, Holy Fuck and Four Tet amongst others. The latter two I caught in the mid afternoon – Holy Fuck having to battle with a leaking tent soaking not only their drum kit, but also any photographer in search of a frontal shot, and any central spectator more than about 20 feet back. With water streaming from the top of the tent, two huge boards of electronics which never ceased to amaze me, and four absorbed faces of the members, Holy Fuck’s set was second only to Four Tet in terms of that day’s music.

Holy Fuck – Latin America (MP3)

We managed to occupy a spot very near the front indeed for Four Tet’s surprisingly ill-attended set two slots later. It was only when I thought back after the show, through each individual track lodged in my memory, that my concept of time returned in full, and I realised that he in fact had played for a full hour. Something about Hebden’s music is just so beautiful and collectedly euphoric that you can get totally and utterly lost inside of it. The crowd barely moved, but at a show like this, mixing the subtleties of post-rock, folk and IDM, the lack of movement was quite obviously in undeniable and total appreciation. You have to see him wind the melodies and drop the beats in person to appreciate what i’m trying to communicate. Until that time, I advise a listen of Angel Echoes or his Burial collaboration (which surprisingly, he also played) at full volume, in your best headphones.

Burial & Four Tet – Moth (MP3)

Again, it was difficult to tell whether it was bad sound on the band’s part or bad sound on the stage’s part which made Tame Impala such a let down. But regardless, I ended up leaving with one or two songs to go. Their Beatles-esque brand of Aussie psychedelic rock didn’t come out like the record at all. Instead of vocals cutting through the waves of trippy guitar noise, the result was closer to all-encompassing feedback each time any attempt at intensity was made. The highlight had to be the set opener, the name of which I am unaware of, which featured subtle walking bass and dreamy psychedelics, which totally managed to do Tame Impala’s studio sound justice.

Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss (MP3)

GIRLS

YEASAYER

YUCK

FREELANCE WHALES

VILLAGERS

LOCAL NATIVES

HOLY FUCK

FOUR TET

It was seeming more and more likely that The War On Drugs would drift into obscurity following the moderate success of their debut LP ‘Wagonwheel Blues’, now almost three years ago. It was an album with no real structure or purpose, one song drifting into another with no constraints on length, order or timing. What held the album together was its sporadic bouts of brilliance – famously exemplified in songs such as “Arms Like Boulders” and “Buenos Aires Beach”. The new EP release comes as almost a relief, the Philadelphia folk rock band having every essence of a band comfortable to quit while they were ahead – such was the casual, first-off nature of so much of their music. As with “Wagonwheel Blues”, “Future Weather” comes via Secretly Canadian records, but this time, with infinitely more hype behind it.

With news of this release comes preview track “Comin’ Through”, recorded in December 2009, and the announcement of a second, as-of-yet untitled LP, which will follow ‘hopefully’ early next year. Its as upbeat as The War On Drugs ever manage to get, with a steady drum pattern binding swirls of neo-psychedelia and folky jams together to comfortably bed disconnected and distinct vocals, telling of subjects just out of reach, and synchronized stylistically with both the art and guitar work of the band’s past releases. “Future Weather” is due October 26th on Secretly Canadian.

The War On Drugs – Comin’ Through (MP3)

The War On Drugs on Myspace / Website

]]> http://www.thismusicwins.com/2010/09/new-the-war-on-drugs-comin-through.html/feed 0 http://www.thismusicwins.com/2010/09/hot-vamp-club-wild-fire-the-winchester-tmw-exclusive-track-waterproof.html http://www.thismusicwins.com/2010/09/hot-vamp-club-wild-fire-the-winchester-tmw-exclusive-track-waterproof.html#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:20 +0000 Peter Lanceley http://www.thismusicwins.com/?p=1116

I’ve briefly mentioned Hot Vamp Club before – I am really quite fond of their music, especially considering that their youthful pop melodies were spawned from my doorstep, the uninspiring and slow-moving town of Bournemouth. They invited me down to their gig last Friday night at The Winchester Pub for what marked their long-awaited return to playing shows, after a break to write and record demos from and for their upcoming EP. In support were a new band on the Bournemouth block, Wild Fire.

Both impressed suitably, but as always seems to be the case in the area, the turnout was poor. There’s nothing more demoralising than having under 30 people at your show, especially when you’re playing music like this – guitar based pop designed to keep packed out crowds in motion. The vocals came out much fuller in the live show than they did on record, the calming effect they have over the rest of the band was almost caricatured when in person – whilst the frontman remained well-spoken and authoritative, almost poetic – the guitar, bass and percussion created a bed of winding melodies – brought out in particular on standout ’Track 36′. Scattered throughout were songs from the upcoming EP, delivered with a resounding energy of a band out of the live loop for so many months, sounding very promising. In search of a continuation of that phenomenally successful Maccabees, Good Shoes and GoodBooks led formula of the three years passed, the band have struck gold with originality, and though there are undeniable echoes of the scene about them – its impossible to dispute their definitive, warm and enticing musical identity.

Hot Vamp Club - Waterproof (MP3) (TMW Exclusive download)

Hot Vamp Club on Myspace/Facebook

Showing equal promise were Wild Fire, a band far less grounded into the local Bournemouth scene. This is one of very few shows they’ve played to date, and the only music on offer in the months before their debut EP release comes in the form of a scratchy demo or two available up on the myspace. In spite of low quality, Silhouette is nothing short of stunning (particularly the chorus), although i’m not sure the Bombay Bicycle Club-esque intro is quite such a good indicator of the way their songs developed live. Whilst Hot Vamp Club were very much about the bands collaborative energy – watching Wild Fire I couldn’t help but focus on the lead singer, who held together the majority of the trio’s music with his complex guitar and captivating delivery. Again, we have a very unique voice on our hands, an unmistakable, idiosyncratic and undeniably vital part of Wild Fire. The grainy vocal suggests a more organic side to the music which taken down a notch away from indie rock, could well slip into folk music (a direction i’d love to see). Both acts, highly recommended.

Wild Fire - Silhouette (demo) (MP3)

Wild Fire on Myspace.

This week’s A-Level results provide confirmation that (by three marks overall) i’ll be moving to Brighton for Sussex University at the end of September. Which means, This Music Wins is going to be seeing a lot more live reviews by the time October and November come around. Off the top of my head there’s a bunch of shows from Yuck, Mumford & Sons, Johnny Flynn and more in my first week of living there, so look out, my gig schedule is going to be packed, for the next three years.

But aside from my celebrations, there’s been new material from The National, Fever Ray, Wild Nothing, Small Black and Glasser as well as very positive announcements from Esben & The Witch in terms of labels and tours. I also popped down to The Winchester Pub in Bournemouth to catch Hot Vamp Club and the new and totally ungooglable band Wild Fire this last Friday Night. Expect a Reading Festival review at the end of the month (and possibly a guest contribution from Green Man) in the coming days, and finally a lovely monthly mixtape as September dawns.

But for now, lets talk Wild Nothing. Jack Tatum’s debut album, Gemini, came out in May and since then the Virginian bedroom project has picked up a considerable amount of well-deserved press for his brand of nostalgia-ridden blurry pop songs. A recent guest contribution of mine over At The Sinema blog’s Summer Mix sheds more light on my love for its Robert Smith/Cocteau Twins stylings, which I remember enjoying for the first time at the height of my summer nostalgia around the close of last September. ‘Golden Haze’ is taken from his upcoming EP (due in the September 13th via Captured Tracks) and forms the first new material since the album; apparently the track listing is going to be different for each format. This one however, is a regular fixture.

Wild Nothing – Golden Haze (MP3) Myspace.

You may remember at the end of last year, when I couldn’t get enough of noisy pop duo/Pitchfork contributors ‘Small Black’. Well, truth be told, i’d almost forgotten about them until their latest release ‘Photojournalist’, a track they dropped earlier this week, from their upcoming debut LP ‘New Chain’. Its predecessor, the Small Black EP consisted of an evocative set of expansive lo-fi electronica tunes, in particular Despicable Dogs, which remains a favourite. ‘Photojournalist’ is as unclear as ever, as always heavily reliant on looping and effects to retain that almost hypnotic, industrial edge over other similar bands.

Small Black – Photojournalist (MP3) Myspace.

For one reason or another, Fever Ray chose to offer her new cover of Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street as a 24 hour free download from the esteemed pages of NME. An odd choice of publication, but i’d rather have it premiered on the Daily Star of music magazines, so to speak, than not at all. If you weren’t familiar with Peter Gabriel’s work, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was Fever Ray’s own song. The only give-away is the distinctively 80s song-writing, which shines through even the dark and depressive transformation that Dreijer-Anderson applied to it. As ever, her music is given a tribal and creaturesque production, which standing at a near-epic six minutes in length, only increases my excitement for her 2010 Bestival set further.

Fever Ray - Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel Cover) (MP3) Website.

My theory that Matt Berninger’s voice is actually getting even deeper was further evidenced this week, when during their session at Minneapolis radio station The Current, they unveiled a dark, dusty piano ballad called ‘You Were A Kindness’. When the song was written is unclear, but it certainly wouldn’t have made sense to include it on High Violet. Admittedly this version is live, but even the arrangement is much too stark and personal to fit in with the fuller orchestral guitar sounds the band came out with earlier this year. Pick up the new track below, a bit of a ‘Runaway’ but not quite so powerful.

The National – You Were A Kindness (MP3) Myspace.

Glasser’s album Ring, the culmination of Cameron Mesirow’s three years of musical efforts, will drop September 28th on True Panther Sounds. Following a UK only EP release on Young Turks in 2009, Mesirow spent three months working with producer Ariel Rechtshaid on incorporating synthesized strings as well as bass and woodwind into her recordings for her LP. The result is beautiful, almost spiritual synth pop, with balaeric house synths and brooding electronic strings. The result strongly reminds of School Of Seven Bells, and the lack of direction or adjacence of the vocals to the music adds a strong tendency towards psychedelia which the recordings never quite escape. The new song is somewhat of a departure from her old sound, but in turn demonstrates a hopefully very positive development. Highly recommended.

Glasser - Home (MP3) Myspace.

Finally, eery Brighton trio Esben and The Witch, whom I introduced on the blog earlier this year, have announced their marriage to Matador Records as well as a new EP in the works. ‘Marching Song’ will feature three tracks on strictly limited edition 12 inch, and is all set to drop in the UK on October 11th. They are heading out on tour with Foals in the US this month, before playing a string of UK dates in Leeds, Manchester, London and Glasgow through the Autumn. Check out the attached audio/video for their stunning EP title track, entitled ‘Marching Song’, which conjures vivid comparisons to early Massive Attack with its stark and brooding interpretation of British 90s trip-hop.

Esben & The Witch – Marching Song (MP3) Myspace.

I’m not massively into music like this as a matter of course, but Edinburgh indie rock trio Come On Gang! make swift and scratchy post-punk with such urgency and tightness that its surely impossible for anyone with both their sanity and hearing intact to ignore. Fronted (or backed, since the lead singer doubles as the drummer) by Sarah Tanat-Jones’ quivering yet powerful vocals and the juxtapositioned Maccabees-esque guitar bass entanglement of Mikey Morrison and Rob Howell, Come On Gang! sound most of the time as Laura Marling is filling in for Orlando Weeks on a Colour It In rework.

New single ‘Fortune Favours The Brave’ is out September 10th, and is taken from the upcoming album, which they’ve just finished recording with Mogwai producer Paul Savage. If you’re living in or near Edinburgh, then check out their launch party at Edinburgh Caves that evening on Facebook. Stream/Download the new single below.

Come On Gang! - Fortune Favours The Brave (MP3)

Our Husband read my mind in more ways than one when they sent over their latest track ‘Villages’ from Southern Australia last night. Not only had I picked up the track the previous evening from somewhere on the net; Freya and Nathaniel also couldn’t have picked a bigger fan of the kind of music they make. This is dreamy folk pop (think Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Venice Is Sinking), with shared vocal duties and plenty of quivering long notes. There’s ethereal interludes and background cries, rushed onwards by steady drum beats and ambient guitar layering keeping the song afloat. I hesitate before calling the outro a chant, but the vacant female cries which emerge from the mist really make the song. They’re currently working on a debut album which they say could drop before the end of the year. Until then, ‘Villages’ and ‘Dear’ at their Myspace will have to do.

Our Husband - Villages (MP3)

Our Husband on Myspace Music.

Ocean Age wound up in daily inbox scour this evening, and have already brightened up my rainy sunday with their steady, blissed-out jams. From out of Portland, Oregon (home also to Menomena, M. Ward and the wonderful Yacht) Ocean Ages dropped a 27 minute, six track EP (LP?) named ‘Forest’ in February and took the time out to send it my way.

The three guys and two girls give off faint echoes of Odawas and Fleet Foxes, but far more clean shaven, with steady beats and a repertoire of electro-organic folk sounds which hasten and fade seamlessly from the listeners attention. There’s some obvious Animal Collective influences, as well as an ambient sound inundated with a fresh and distinctive femininity. Intensity is evidently not a word Ocean Age are familiar with, since the waves of feeling which come and go throughout each song never quite explode. Track four ‘Stranger Friend + Tree’ shows off the first beat drop that ‘forest’ has to offer, and even that song descends into a choral psych-folk jam before its midpoint. Supposedly the second (and possibly most memorable) track on Ocean Age’s album, ‘Dalvik’s Tide’ is named after the sea’s daily fluctuations parallel to a small Icelandic fishing village – and as Local Cut similarly muses - i’m hoping this song is what that village sounds like.

Ocean Age - Dalvik’s Tide (MP3)

Ocean Age on Myspace Music.

]]> http://www.thismusicwins.com/2010/08/album-review-ocean-age-forest.html/feed 0 http://www.thismusicwins.com/2010/08/goodbye-technoir-ma-hello-bedfellows.html http://www.thismusicwins.com/2010/08/goodbye-technoir-ma-hello-bedfellows.html#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:22:52 +0000 Peter Lanceley http://www.thismusicwins.com/?p=993

It is with regret that we announce the demise of promising upcoming pop duo Technoir MA, who kept us more than entertained in February with the stunning ’2/B’ EP. It was 80s inspired guitar music accompanied by drum machines and the direct, confident vocals of singer/guitarist Justin Vassalo. Their crazed post-punk was noisy and abrupt, with that New Order style combination of melancholy overdrive and euphoric dance beats never straying far from the band’s ideals. ‘Roundabout‘ (MP3) in particular, was a rare gem of a song.

But there is good news – Justin Vassalo and former Technoir MA producer Shane O’ Connor have been in the studio working on some new tunes under the Bedfellows moniker, which at first listen, seem have taken the old formula and given it a Kevin Shields 90s makeover. ‘Burn Too Quick’ features emotionless Death To The Throne/M83 style electronic drumming and searing guitar noise. B-side “Undone” is a little cheerier, and drenched in just as much reverb as its partner, also weighs in at around 5 minutes. Both tracks have some great selling points, and their own distinctive sound.  Pick up both for $2 at the Bedfellows bandcamp, or grab “Burn Too Quick” below. Physicals coming soon.

Bedfellows – Burn Too Quick (MP3)

Bedfellows on Myspace Music.

This is a weekend round-up i’ve been excited about all week – new music from noise-punk outfit No Age‘s upcoming LP “Everything In Between”, a new track and world tour from Real Estate guitarist’s other project Ducktails, as well as the first drips of new material to emerge from Röyksopp’s album Senior. But first, having just gigged with him myself, the word goes out to Zac Harris & The Blackwater Caravan for their fantastic show at the Winchester Pub, Bournemouth this Saturday night. Now joined live by a drummer and bassist, the sounds this guy makes are not only incredibly loud, but also ride that line between grungy noise punk and indie rock, with vocals ranging sporadically from full volume to not more than a whisper. These songs are mind-blowingly loud, but demonstrate enough innovative guitar playing to stop anyone from wishing for something calmer. In the same way that its impossible to imagine a Sleigh Bells song quiet, Zac Harris’ demos translate into an unexpectedly unique show, packed with raw energy and volatile intensity. The new demos are up to stream on Myspace (can’t find them anywhere else), and you can pick up November 2009′s EP ‘Episode 2′ in its full, four-track form on Amazon MP3 store.

Zac Harris & The Blackwater Caravan on Myspace.

In the same speaker-clipping noisy pop vein as above, No Age‘s latest revelation is a double whammy of new MP3s, one of which is below, the other of which you can find on the Sub Pop Soundcloud page. Due to my absolute aversion of Soundcloud, I’m not going to host it here, but if you’re really desperate, you can find it on this link. Both are from the upcoming LP, “Everything In Between” which will drop September 28 in the US and mark an official end to the relentless touring in support of 2008′s Nouns. “Glitter” is an ethereal take; not quite verging on guitar noise, but definitely not quite there in terms of sound. The vocals are flat, and for once more spoken than screamed – i’d go even as far as to say that this lo-fi band are moving more towards pop than the verging-on-unlistenable punk their last two, “Nouns” and “Weirdo Rippers”, boasted. “Inforescence” is the B-side from the single, and whilst far more direct in arrangement, the vocals again, aren’t quite there. As a result, I find is a little dreamier, but maybe that’s just me. Pick up “Glitter” below.

No Age - Glitter (MP3)

Ducktails is the psychedelic pop project of Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile, now on his third Ducktails album. Contrary to popular belief, it actually vastly outdates the Real Estate project which brought it to my attention (and many others), and in the opinion of many more actually outdoes it. Certainly the two projects are similar, and new track “Hamilton Road” displays the same kind of whistle-along, beachy feel of the former. To say one is better than the other I think is a little much, but that’s for you to decide. ‘Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics’ is due out this Autumn on the Woodsist label.

Ducktails - Hamilton Road (MP3)

Finally, British producer Gold Panda has released the cover art (above) and tracklisting to his debut full length LP ‘Lucky Shiner’ which will be released on October 11th in the UK. The wonderful ‘Quitters Raga’ and ‘Back Home’ didn’t quite make the cut, but existing viral MP3s ‘You’ and its namesake did, as well as Snow & Taxi’s, streamable via Soundcloud on this link.

Gold Panda – You (MP3)

01 You
02 Vanilla Minus
03 Parents
04 Same Dream China
05 Snow & Taxis
06 Before We Talked
07 Marriage
08 I’m With You But I’m Lonely
09 After We Talked
10 India Lately
11 You
12 Greek Style *
13 Casio Daisy *
14 Rush Job #

21 year old lo-fi buzz artist Dream Cop is the latest shoegaze pop artist to emerge from Danger Village, riding on the buzz his scratchy Virginia Tech recorded demos created when they were unleashed on the blogs earlier this year. Hailing from the same US state which recently output Jack Tatum aka Wild Nothing, Dream Cop is by no means dissimilar in sound, both the bedroom projects opting for background guitars, lo-fidelity recording styles and budget drum machines. The result is icy pop music, with an aural blur accompanying frantic surf pop melodies. The bass lines are punchy and remind slightly of dance duo The Drums; though used in different ways, effect is uncannily similar, particularly on ‘Marooned’. The guitar sounds are almost discordial in the same sense I indicated when discussing ‘Women’, not that the notes need replacing, simply that there are times when notes don’t resolve quite so quickly as many would expect. The results are at times frantic and at times chilled out to glitch-folk artist Gold Panda standards, but despite differences associate themselves unmistakably with the growing demand for chill-wave; hazed out stoner folk music under the guise of 60s Beach Boys inspired surfer harmonies.

The latest instalment drops this October 26th (out of season, to be quite honest), on Tough Love Records in the US, just one week after digital single “Basement Tapes” comes out on appropriately named Output Noise Records. Pick up the jangling ‘Marooned’ and the whirring ‘Daily Mirage’ promo tracks below.

Dream Cop - Marooned (MP3)

Dream Cop - Daily Mirage (MP3)