[Resonance FM #25] Baklu, Gelatin Kids, Grimes, Elvis Depressedly, Lonesome Ghost, Evenings, Crystal Stilts

This week’s This Music Wins on Resonance FM goes out at 6.30pm (GMT), and features, amongst a sprinkling of top new songs from around the world, the demise of Coma Cinema’s Elvis Depressedly moniker, an increasing trend headed by Rawkblog, We Listen For You and now Turntable Kitchen of creating a monthly vinyl club, and lastly some excellent electronica from Baklu, Gelatin Kids and Grimes. Also the new song from Crystal Stilts’ forthcoming EP Radiant Door.

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DOWNLOAD: This Music Wins #25 (MP3)

1. Baklu - Dobre Myśli (MP3)
2. Gelatin Kids - #1 Downer Girl (MP3)
3. Grimes - Oblivion (MP3)
4. Elvis Depressedly - Crazier With You (MP3)
5. Lonesome Ghost - Seashell (Link)
6. Evenings - Babe (MP3)
7. Crystal Stilts - Dark Eyes (MP3)

New: Elvis Depressedly - Goner

A couple of months after announcing Coma Cinema’s demise - Matt Cothran’s alter ego, Elvis Depressedly, seems to have taken precedence. A new 5-track album dropped on Thursday night which appears to go against the very idea of the 6-7 minute drone pieces it was originally used for; Cothran now using the moniker to combine CC’s close-mic songwriting style with the airy industrial ambience we’ve seen to date in ED. ‘Goner’ as a five track record is painfully short, but similarly astounding, and perhaps as a highlight, it is the noise-ridden lo-fi punk song ‘Jesus Rots In His Grave’ which stands out. 

As ever, its a name-your-price download from the CC/ED band camp.

• Elvis Depressedly - Jesus Rots Inside His Grave (MP3)
• Elvis Depressedly - Kill Me, Mickey (MP3)

Resonance FM #21 - Deptford Goth, Ducktails, Dirty Beaches, Eternity Zone, Porcelain Raft, Elvis Depressedly

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A strong week indeed for experimental music, starting with an earlier post we made on London producer Deptford Goth’s new single “No Man”, which you can find here. Below we play an older part of his collecton, the Moby-esque “Real Love Fantasy”.

Deptford Goth - Real Love Fantasy (MP3)

We caught up with Ducktails at Field Day 2011, and were pleasantly surprised to find him band-less (though retrospectively this might have been predictable) and commandeering the electronics solo. Today we play the B-side from his A-side single with Animal Collective’s Panda Bear “Killin’ The Vibe”. Both extremely catchy, beware.

Ducktails - Sit Around With Ya (MP3)

Some research in to venues in the North of England which I’ve been concerning myself with in recent weeks led me to discover that Dirty Beaches has recently toured with WU LYF. Now what a show that would have been! This lo-fi, heavily stylistic 80s revival, and above-all, filmic arrangement is intense and evocative - lead single “Lone Runner” dropped earlier this week, as detailed here.

Dirty Beaches - Sweet 17 (MP3)

A song from little known project Eternity Zone, which serves as a track surprisingly pro-active despite its titles’ connotations. Its only after the three minutes have set in that its density and complexity reveal themselves as actively disengaging. Find them on Soundcloud.

Eternity Zone - Unconsciousness (MP3)

Porcelain Raft signed to Secretly Canadian earlier this year - and Memoryhouse have a big label to match, the latter release a re-recorded, re-mastered and re-released version of The Years EP on Sub Pop next month, and alongside that release comes an excellent remix they’ve done for Porcelain Raft. Download below.

Porcelain Raft - I Found A Way (Memoryhouse Remix) (MP3)

Closing today’s show is a piece from the droning side project of Mat Cothran’s excellent Coma Cinema project, which I’ve been an advocate of for some months now. Elvis Depressedly, who we wrote about in detail earlier this week, is dark and oppressive, and warrants repeated background listening. An interesting angle to pursue, but one which haunts you at the times you least expect it. Download below.

Elvis Depressedly - Bummer Dreams (MP3)

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New: Elvis Depressedly - Selfless Violence

The brevity of Matt Cothran’s referencing to Elvis Depressedly suggests that the August conceived side project was little more than a passing thought; certainly in relation to his usual emotively impressed lo-fi songs this new side project’s delving into spacey and ambient extended drone does seem fairly tangential. 

These 5-6 minute snippets of experimentation are ones which surely come from any guitarist and musician fascinated by the fringes of popular music - this EP is agreeable with the aesthetic of dark-wave avant-garde tribal shoegaze. The bass wallows in the low end depths with murmuring vocals, torn only by the occasional flutter of knife-edge overdrive and whirs of electronics.

The artwork is supplied courtesy of Warren Hildebrand of Foxes In Fiction, the music solely Matt Cothran of Coma Cinema, having felt inspired by recently moving in to a new home. All Elvis Depressedly songs to date are available to download free at the band camp page, but I’ve attached a few key MP3s below.

Elvis Depressedly - Bummer Dreams (MP3)

Elvis Depressedly - Selfless Violence (MP3)