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YOUNG GALAXY
Ultramarine

Ultramarine is the name and colour of Young Galaxy‘s 4th LP, the first album they have made away from Montreal, across the sea, all together. Like 2011‘s Shapeshifting, Ultramarine was made with electronic producer Dan Lissvik, but this time it was made in Göteborg, Sweden at Lissvik’s own studio. This time five musicians stood in a room with Lissvik, playing their instruments: this time every song was sung by co-founder Catherine McCandless, with eyes on a blue horizon. These are ten tracks of shining, glimmering electronic pop-songs that scatter across the dance floor, swim through headphones, ringing out like a cold new summer. A modern record, beautifully now, and in a way more direct than anything Young Galaxy have ever made. This band has always loved pop music: here they lean into this love, finding lyrics that speak more to the beat than to intimate autobiography.

ARTIST: Young Galaxy
TITLE: Monomania
LABEL: Paper Bag
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2013
TIME: 39:54 min.
WEB: http://younggalaxy.com/
PURCHASE: price – 11.99$

01. Pretty Boy [03:56]
02. Fall For You [04:24]
03. New Summer [04:13]
04. Fever [02:58]
05. Hard to Tell [04:38]
06. What We Want [03:57]
07. Out the Gate Backwards [04:10]
08. In Fire [04:29]
09. Privileged Poor [03:14]
10. Sleepwalk with Me [03:55]

PREVIEW: Young Galaxy – Fever

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YOU SAY PARTY! RemiXXXX

It’s been a heartbreaking year for members of You Say Party! We Say Die!, losing drummer Devon Clifford in a tragic series of events at one of their concerts. The band has since made the decision to move forward, changing its monicker only to You Say Party!, with new members, an upcoming tour, and an upcoming release. The release is called REMIXXXX and includes many remixes by a number of their friends and fellow artists of tracks off their recent album titled XXXX.

ARTIST: You Say Party!
TITLE: Margins
LABEL: Paperbag
RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2010
TIME: 48:42 min.
WEB: http://www.yousayparty.com/

01. Dark Days (CFCF mix) [05:53]
02. Dark Days (teen daze remix) [07:56]
03. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (mathemagic mix) [04:06]
04. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (backwith and tombstone remix) [05:54]
05. Laura Palmer’s Prom (johan agebjörn remix) [04:38]
06. Laura Palmer’s Prom (los campesinos remix) [04:35]
07. Dark Days (babe rainbow mix) [03:28]
08. Dark Days (landscapebodymachine mix) [04:44]
09. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (skullkrushers mix) [02:53]
10. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (teen daze mix) [04:34]

You Say Party - Dark Days (babe rainbow remix)

WINTER GLOVES All Red

For their follow-up to debut album About a Girl, also released by Paper Bag, Canadian foursome Winter Gloves returned to a hometown studio in Montreal to lay down some tracks that had been coming together over the previous year of touring. Production duties were handled by frontman/chief songwriter Charles F, who wanted to return to the sound of their first self-released EP. That means focusing on creating pop tunes out of frenetic synths, base lines and drum machines. Conceptually, All Red focuses on the anxieties and fears of adulthood, and is reminiscent of their pals and touring companions Tokyo Police Club.
And it sounds tremendously good.

ARTIST: Winter Gloves
TITLE: All Red
LABEL: Paper Bag
RELEASE DATE: September 07, 2010
TIME: 27:50 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/wintergloves

01. Glow in the Dark [02:44]
02. Strange Love [02:44]
03. Plastic Slides [02:49]
04. Use Your Lips [02:50]
05. Gym Class [02:49]
06. We Need New Transportation [03:04]
07. Tooth Fairy [02:38]
08. Jump [01:54]
09. Trap the Mouse [03:06]
10. Ending Soon [03:12]

Winter Gloves – Plastic Slides (teen daze remix)