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KAT PARSONS
It Matters to Me

Kat Parsons comes to the end of her trilogy releasing the final installment of her three-part EP series (following the previous Talk to Me and Oh!), each showcasing a distinct image and sound. Again, with this It Matters to Me, Kat Parsons brings her multifaceted personality and talent to the forefront, highlighting her writing style and singer/songwriter sound akin to a modern Carole King. Because pop is always a serious matter, even when it’s so sweet.

ARTIST: Kat Parsons
TITLE: It Matters to Me
LABEL: self-released
RELEASE DATE: April 9, 2013
TIME: 16:00 min.
WEB: http://www.katparsons.com/
PURCHASE: special offer – ONLY 4.96$

01. I’ll Be Here [04:23]
02. It Matters to Me [02:47]
03. I Won’t Ask [03:28]
04. Harder than This [02:34]
05. One Day [04:12]

PREVIEW: Kat Parsons – It Matters to Me

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THE SHAKING SENSATIONS
Start Stop Worrying

Start Stop Worrying is the second full-length album by the Danish post-rockers The Shaking Sensations. The band has expanded the classic rock constellation by the addition of a second drummer to develop a unique approach to the rhythm section and a fresh unconvetional take on instrumental music. Start Stop Worrying follow the steps of some monstre-names such as Mono, And So I Watch You From Afar or God is an Astronaut, but, without any doubt, showcases the courage of a young band to explore new approaches to music and sound, which clearly sets them apart from many of their peers whithin an over-saturated genre of music.

ARTIST: The Shaking Sensations
TITLE: Start Stop Worrying
LABEL: Pelagic
RELEASE DATE: March 25, 2013
TIME: 46:16 min.
WEB: http://theshakingsensations.tumblr.com/
PURCHASE: special offer – ONLY 5.94$

01. Rocket Summer [10:56]
02. We Ourselves Alone [07:36]
03. Anchors [05:08]
04. Gild the Lily [07:04]
05. Ravelin [05:07]
05. Heavy Entity [10:25]

PREVIEW: The Shaking Sensations – Anchors

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VAGUE-À-BONDE
222

You, RS reader, should know: Vague-à-Bonde is Nicole Brenny: a 24 year old French Language scholar turned producer, songwriter and musician who released her debut album Involution/Evolution nearly a year ago. Driven by the need to challenge herself beyond academia, Nicole used her awkward post-college years to teach herself production, all about analog synths and how to arrange and write songs: she quit most of her normal jobs and spent the majority of her time working on music & traveling throughout North America. So now the time has come for 222, a 5 song EP that catches the traveler at a moment of repose between journeys: these are deeply reflective tracks, digging through the past with an eye to the future, a moment of preparation & planning before the next journey begins. You can only enjoy this future-retro electro-pop ( but always lost into its strong roots made by earthy analog synths and live instrumentation) and then start again.
To nowhere, just like a Vague-à-Bonde.

ARTIST: Vague-à-Bonde
TITLE: 222
LABEL: self-released
RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2013
TIME: 20:16 min.
WEB: http://vagueabonde.tumblr.com/
PURCHASE: special offer – ONLY 4.95$

01. Broke [04:49]
02. Evolved [03:51]
03. Our Love [04:01]
04. BP! [03:23]
05. New Pop [04:12]

PREVIEW: Vague-à-Bonde – Our Love

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RS HOT SPOT – #12
Atoms For Peace Essential Mix

Did you like Atoms For Peace‘s Amok? Did you dance to Thom Yorke‘s Dazed Mix? Did you miss his brief DJ tour with Nigel Godrich in support of the brand new full-length debut? If the answer all of this questions is YES (or whatever, well, anyway), don’t worry. Here we are with a ready-made nearly two-hour set, including previously unreleased material from Radiohead and Yorke himself, as well as such s/t-approved artists as Aphex Twin, Luke Abbott, Shed, Oneohtrix Point Never, Diplo and Steve Reich. Always on the run.

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LAVA LAVA LOVE
Au Printemps

All things considered, this record it’s a matter of pop. But, think about it, pop is a matter of cooking. Then this record is a matter of cooking. First of all, the right ingredients: melodies, influences, sounds and fuzzy guitars, interweaving vocals, addictive choruses. Last but not least, the right doses: and here we enter a field called talent. A field where Lava Lava Love always feel comfortable. The band shakes everything together and provide us 12 catchy tracks ready to eat. Well, to listen, we mean. Put aside the zombies of their full-length debut and everything that could smell like “indie”, Lava Lava Love usher into spring in advance and, with this Au Printemps, they build the perfect place where almost everything (from Abba to The Smashing Pumpkins, from The Beatles to Foo Fighters, from Madonna to R.E.M. while winkling to every bubble that could float in that melting pot called “power-pop of the 90s”) can coexist. Pastel colors, tweeting birdies and blooming flowers: better times are yet to come, but you can already start smiling.

ARTIST: Lava Lava Love
TITLE: Au Printemps
LABEL: The Prisoner
RELEASE DATE: March 5, 2013
TIME: 30:37 min.
WEB: http://lavalavalove.tumblr.com/
PURCHASE: special offer – NAME YOUR PRICE

01. Both [02:55]
02. Before You Were Born [02:31]
03. (your heart) Beating the Wrong Time [01:59]
04. Don’t Try to Get in my Life [01:52]
05. It Snows in Hell [02:41]
06. All the Children Want Their Milk [02:11]
07. Right Time [02:41]
08. The Light at the End of the Tunnel [03:23]
09. I Hate the Summer [02:41]
10. Annie Serena Malahus [01:53]
09. Worth the Lie [02:47]
10. Another Love Song [03:03]

PREVIEW: Lava Lava Love – Both

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PHOENIX
Bankrupt!

Detalis have been leaking out since December, but now it’s the time: here’s the brand new highly awaited (and already highly-acclaimed) album from Phoenix. Bankrupt! is the follow-up to 2009′s breakthrough Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and was co-produced by the band and Philippe Zdar (word surfaced that the band purchased the recording console Michael Jackson used on Thriller to make the record). The Versailles-based band lead by Thomas Mars hits again the music scene with a truly catchy album: danceable but only a little disco, synth-driven but clubland averse. An easy record to like but a more difficult one to understand, and maybe love.

ARTIST: Phoenix
TITLE: Bankrupt!
LABEL: Glass Note
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2013
TIME: 40:36 min.
WEB: http://www.wearephoenix.com/
PURCHASE: price – 13.16$

01. Entertainment [03:40]
02. The Real Thing [03:23]
03. S.O.S. in Bel Air [03:42]
04. Trying to Be Cool [03:48]
05. Bankrupt [06:57]
06. Drakkar Noir [03:23]
07. Chloroform [04:05]
08. Don’t [03:17]
09. Bourgeois [04:52]
10. Oblique City [03:29]

PREVIEW: Phoenix – Don’t

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Push the Sky Away

Brand new studio album from the veteran singer/songwriter and his longtime backing band. Push the Sky Away (the first album on the band’s own label, Bad Seed Ltd.) was produced by Nick Launay and recorded at La Fabrique, a recording studio based in a 19th Century mansion in the South of France, where the walls of the main studio are lined with an immense collection of classical vinyl. Experimental yet built on superb songwriting, fresh and surprising but still somehow recognisably a BS record, the amount of innovation and inspiration found on Push the Sky Away proves that Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds must still care an awful lot about this rock ‘n’ roll stuff.

ARTIST: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
TITLE: Push the Sky Away
LABEL: Bad Seed Ltd.
RELEASE DATE: February 19, 2013
TIME: 42:49 min.
WEB: http://www.nickcave.com/
PURCHASE: price – 9.99$

01. We No Who U R [04:06]
02. Wide Lovely Eyes [03:40]
03. Water’s Edge [03:49]
04. Jubilee Street [06:36]
05. Mermaids [03:49]
06. We Real Cool [04:19]
07. Finishing Jubilee Street [04:29]
08. Higgs Boson Blues [07:51]
09. Push the Sky Away [04:10]

PREVIEW: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We No Who U R

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DIE! DIE! DIE!
Harmony

Hailing from what is considered NZ’s iconic music city, Dunedin, Die! Die! Die!‘s founding members Andrew Wilson and Michael Prain cut their teeth in the live music scene by playing in noise bands around town. This year, bringing back Shayne P. Carter on vocals, Die! Die! Die! release Harmony, their fourth studio album, recorded at Blackbox Studios, France, and produced by Chris Townend (Portishead, D12, Violent Femmes). Harmony proves the band continue on their evolution to perfect their sound bringing together the raw energy and emotion from their live shows, encapsulating savant pop elements with their DIY punk philosophy. Kindap Fugazi, keep them in a close garage for a couple of months listening to Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine 24 hours a day, then set them free and let them play: good, you’ve created Die! Die! Die!

ARTIST: Die! Die! Die!
TITLE: Harmony
LABEL: Golden Antenna
RELEASE DATE: November 9, 2012
TIME: 37:37 min.
WEB: http://it.myspace.com/diediedienz
PURCHASE: http://www.goldenantenna.com/

01. Oblivious Oblivion [02:45]
02. Harmony [04:24]
03. Erase Eaves [02:26]
04. Trinity [03:14]
05. Season Revenge [04:42]
06. No One Owns a View [03:11]
07. Changeman [04:34]
08. 16 Shades of Blue [03:01]
09. Twitching Sunshine [04:23]
10. Get Back [04:57]

Die! Die! Die! – Trinity

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PHOTEK
KU:Palm

Like smashing glasses on the floor and then counting pieces to re-build them into something different. With an ease that leaves you dumbstruck. Photek takes what you once called drum’n'bass and turns it into a strange, beautiful animal. This is no more dnb, this is no more dubsteb, this is no more experimental-ambient: this is all of these. KU:palm is a sneaky kind of electronic that creeps underneath your skin leaving an aftertaste of sampled warm shivers. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. So eat it: a mouth-watering preview down below with Photek‘s Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1.

ARTIST: Photek
TITLE: KU:Palm
LABEL: Ingrooves
RELEASE DATE: October 22, 2012
TIME: 66:52 min.
WEB: http://www.photek.fm/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. Signals [05:58]
02. Quadrant [05:22]
03. Aviator [06:24]
04. Pyramid [04:29]
05. Shape Charge [06:02]
06. Munich [04:35]
07. Quevedo [05:05]
08. Mistral [05:15]
09. Oshun [05:05]
10. Sleepwalking [06:12]
11. One of a Kind [05:49]
12. This Love [05:36]

Photek – Pyramid

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ACORN FALLING
Cabinet of Curiosities

Acorn Falling started in the winter 2009 by Lars Kivig. Initially it was thought as Lars’ solo project, but the creativity and ideas was evolving fast and he wanted new elements and instruments in the quickly growing track base. They say great things come to those who wait, and now we can proudly present the amazing and ambitious dark instrumental debut album from Acorn Falling, Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring members from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Thomas Wydler) and Current 93 (John Contreras). Experimental sound scapes with ambient, noise and electro-acoustic tendencies. A vibing desolate, but darly beautiful exploration of musical noise.

ARTIST: Acorn Falling
TITLE: Cabinet of Curiosities
LABEL: Vicious
RELEASE DATE: October 17, 2011
TIME: 39:59 min.
WEB: http://www.acornfalling.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. Thermal Climb [04:18]
02. The Master Dive [06:26]
03. Reaching for Stars [05:23]
04. Coherence Abnormal [03:04]
05. Metachild Awakes [05:18]
06. Shattering Surface [04:27]
07. Lullaby for Saplings [05:05]
08. Sunrise [06:58]

Acorn Falling – Shattering Surface

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LATE NIGHT VENTURE
Pioneers of Spaceflight

Recorded over the course of a year and a half (and subsequently mixed by long term collaborator Magnus Lindberg) the new album from Copenhagen-based five-piece Late Night Venture continues and expands the cosmic soundscape, which the band has refined since releasing their debut album in 2006. Located in the neverland between shoegaze-influenced, melodic songwriting and cosmic post-rock, inside that milky-way zone previously explored by bands like early-Mogwai and God Is An Astronaut, Pioneers of Spaceflight explores themes of isolation, hope and celestial beauty over 10 perfectly-structured songs. Follow them into this journey: you won’t be disappointed.

ARTIST: Late Night Ventures
TITLE: Pioneers of Spaceflight
LABEL: Dunk / Oxide-Tones
RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2012
TIME: 57:15 min.
WEB: http://www.latenightventure.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. Kaleidoscopes [07:35]
02. Peripherals [05:20]
03. Houses [04:18]
04. Birmingham [06:18]
05. The Empty Forest [05:41]
06. Hours [07:17]
07. Ready No [06:38]
08. Trust [04:02]
09. Glitterpony [03:04]
10. Carisma [07:02]

Late Night Venture – Trust

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HOW TO DRESS WELL
Total Loss

How To Dress Well is the stage name of songwriter and producer Tom Krell. Combining a gorgeous falsetto with fractured R&B-influenced beats, an instinctive ear for subtly devastating melody and elements of noise, sound collage and avant-garde composition, Krell’s debut album Love Remains offered a beautiful window into a startlingly realized artistic imagination. Total Loss is doing the same.

ARTIST: How to Dress Well
TITLE: Total Loss
LABEL: Acephale
RELEASE DATE: October 3, 2012
TIME: 42:36 min.
WEB: http://howtodresswell.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. When I Was in Trouble [03:22]
02. Cold Nites [03:39]
03. Say My Name or Say Whatever [04:29]
04. Running Back [03:17]
05. & It Was U [03:06]
06. World I Need, Won’t Be Without You (proem) [02:52]
07. Struggle [04:29]
08. How Many? [05:03]
09. Talking to You [04:18]
10. Set It Right [04:48]
11. Ocean Floor for Everything [03:13]

How to Dress Well – Struggle

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MUSEUM
Traces Of

Museum approach their design and their self-description in a rather minimalist way. Black and white, distinct lines, little information. “Museum are a band from Berlin”, as they write on their website, that’s it. Their music, on the other hand, is not at all minimalist: their exceptional cross between electronics and sexy rock reads as rampant, complex, sparkling and most of all really actual. With over 140.000 listeners they’ve been the unsigned band with the most listeners on last.fm worldwide for some time now and finally finished producing their debut-album Traces Of. Do we think they’re ready? Of course they are.
German indie-rock has never been so glitter-leaking loud.

ARTIST: Museum
TITLE: Traces Of
LABEL: Inakustik
RELEASE DATE: August 24, 2012
TIME: 50:37 min.
WEB: http://www.binarymuseum.net/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. A Feast Is A Feast [03:41]
02. For the Very First Time [04:02]
03. With Love [04:59]
04. To Have Or to Be [04:52]
05. The Law [04:40]
06. And Now [05:39]
07. Eden [04:16]
08. Calm [03:41]
09. Flowers and Dust [04:47]
10. Midwinter [04:43]
11. Uncorrupted [05:17]

Museum – Eden

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MKAIO
A Far Off Horizon

Mkaio (a.k.a. Matthew Kammerer) is an independent artist, where “independent” means he’s doing everything himself, where “everything” means everything. And he’s doing it well.
Yes, because Mkaio‘s music does not conform to any style or convention, but rather plays on audio archetypes & expectations, fusing field recordings, acoustic performances, electronic elements & engineering occassionally with vocals and lyrics. A Far Off Horizon is his debut album, an electronic jewel entirely composed, recorded and produced in his bedroom, but escaping to real wider atmospheres then four simple walls. This record is dedicated to Matthew’s best friend, Jennifer Perkins, who he lost to an aggressive and rare form of neuroendocrine cancer: the final three track on the album compose the Suite for Jen, and they contain the first music Mkaio began writing for this record and are the heart of the album.
A warm, cosy and beautiful heart.

ARTIST: Mkaio
TITLE: A Far Off Horizon
LABEL: self-released
RELEASE DATE: June 12, 2012
TIME: 78:04 min.
WEB: http://www.mkaio.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. A Far Off Horizon [03:42]
02. The First Kiss [04:44]
03. The Gold Was On You [04:51]
04. Light at the End [06:13]
05. Hold On But Not For Me [04:05]
06. Tried & True [06:30]
07. Summer Heart [04:54]
08. All Night [04:11]
09. Fall For You [03:43]
10. Naked in the Moonlight [05:24]
11. Brush of the Cheek [03:20]
12. Maui [02:30]
13. Is This Love? [03:45]

14. A Prelude [02:52]
15. Sunsets [05:41]
16. Adagio for Jen [11:39]

Mkaio – Tried & True
Mkaio – All Night

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WE LOVE YOU
We Got It

We Love You (physically speaking) is Michele Ventrella (vocals, guitars), Agostino Scaranello (bass guitar, background vocals) and Alessandro Ferrara (drums). We Love You (musically speaking) is a unexpected mix of sexless and ageless southern rock vocals striving to be heard before bizarre and undisciplined six-strings, a bass guitar playing like a crazed electrci whip, and a top-quality Swiss watch drumming along the way: they are the uncontrollable urgency of screaming and seducing, living and getting in flames on the background of a wild restlessness, a brutal sensuality. With We Got It the band digs with full hands into a desertic punk’n'roll recalling the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and deep in the grains of indie rock-blues, rather evoking some of the NY-band like Liars. Their sound embraces a chaotic and noisy frenzy whose reference points are fragmented melody, cyclic repetition of themes and aggressive pace: it winks to the rawest stoner rock and it adds some hypnotic and delicate extravaganzas to it. Rock’n'roll is back.

ARTIST: We Love You
TITLE: We Got It
LABEL: Otium
RELEASE DATE: May 18, 2012
TIME: 42:40 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/weloveyoubari

01. We Love You [02:29]
02. Honey [03:58]
03. Ready [05:00]
04. Honest [04:55]
05. El Carroña [05:42]
06. I Kill [04:08]
07. Motorhead Baby [05:10]
08. So Sweet [05:56]
09. Not For Me [05:22]

We Love You – Honey

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MATTHEW DE ZOETE
Colour Film

Where Nick Drake would have met Beck: that’s the place where Matthew de Zoete‘s new album Colour Films sounds have grown. Produced by Les Cooper (Jill Barber, Good Lovelies, Meaghan Smith) and graced with beautiful harmonies by Julie Fader (Sarah Harmer, Great Lake Swimmers), Colour Film displays the confidence and strength of a young man hitting his stride. Matthew’s intention with this album was to make a collection of songs that were direct and succinct enough to be the soundtrack for a short film: songs that have a tight focus, lots of visual imagery, and easily discernible characters, plot, and context. We must say that the score has been centered: sweet melodies, soft arrangements but a strong cinematic impact.

ARTIST: Matthew de Zoete
TITLE: Colour Film
LABEL: Ship Records
RELEASE DATE: May 8, 2012
TIME: 39:20 min.
WEB: http://www.matthewdezoete.com/

01. The Good Life [04:04]
02. Lost at Dawn [04:13]
03. Anything Is Possible [03:16]
04. Criminal [03:51]
05. Mexico the Free [03:33]
06. Going Nowhere [03:00]
07. Colour Film [03:47]
08. Nothing Special [03:49]
09. Who Do You Think You Are? [03:30]
10. We’re Dying [03:17]
11. Hunter’s Moon [03:55]

Matthew de Zoete – Criminal

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