Singles of the Week (46//21)

1) Stomp Talk Modstone - Wherever I Am

 

NB: For purchase digital version, please go through to Stomp Talk Modstone Bandcamp (stomptalkmodstone.bandcamp.com/music) page for support the band. 

On Gerpfast Records Bandcamp page, we only selling the cassette version. Released more than 30 works, this month Japan Shoegaze based band Stomp Talk Modstone will release a new mini album on a limted cassette from their selected works. 7 tracks inside this heavy and dreamy album, including Only Illusion, Supercar and Hurt. One of the most active shoegaze band in early 2021 until now! Japanese 5-member rock band (one is dormant). 

Started as Kawashima's solo activity in 2013 and formed a band in 2014. To date, he has released more than 30 works and is influenced by various music. In January 2021, he released his 9th album "Linger In Someone's Memory With A Lurid Glow". STOMP TALK MODSTONE Takamitsu Kawashima/Vocal, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synthesizer Naoki Nishino/Guitar, Vocal Kouta Hoshino/Bass, Vocal Megumu Asai/Drums, Vocal, Illustration Mimu Sano(Hiatus)/Vocal, Illustration credits releases November 14, 2021 Special Thanks Eriko (plant cell, Baby Ever Rain)/Vocal All Words & Music by Takamitsu Kawashima Recorded, Mixed, Mastered by Takamitsu Kawashima 

 

(EP / minialbum, cassette - Gerpfast)

2) SPICE - A Better Treatment / Everyone Gets In

 

 

 News from Rock 'n Roll band from California... 

SPICE singer Ross Farrar speaks of the band’s ambition to forge a sort of aesthetic patois: a mode of expression as strikingly regional as it is recognizable. Last year’s self-titled debut, released in the depths of the pandemic, fully achieved this goal, distilling decades of North Bay punk and post-hardcore into an urgent, artful set of emotive unrest. 

Their latest single, A Better Treatment b/w Everyone Gets In, further refines the group’s singular mix of weathered melody and abrasive poetics, equal parts bracing, bruised, and cryptic. “A Better Treatment” began as a song about a friend who died but through the turmoil of collaboration transformed into something more macroscopic and opaque, blurring the boundary between hopeful and defeated (“I thought loving someone would cure my self-hatred”). Bass and drums build against walls of guitar while the violin threads its own melancholy within the noise; Farrar is blunt about the intention: “The violin is an instrument of death you know.” “Everyone Gets In” is both poppier and more pained, an anthem for angst aging into the reverie of regret: “We lose our strength / along the way / we lose each other / the funeral sways.” The tempo sways too, gradually slowing to an anxious crawl before finally revving back into a storm of shimmering guitar and splashing drums, fighting against the dying of the light. It’s music of raw truths and rejected pedestals, storied but unswerving, a revolt against the great regress: “and my / my time is spent / adoring seasons / that I / I never should’ve.” credits 

releases November 19, 2021

 

 
(7" vinyl - Dais)

3) Snow Ellet & Quarter-Life Crisis - Cannonball

 

 

 News from Chicago, Illinois emo pop / punk... 

 

(digital - Wax Bodega)

4) We.the Pigs - Anyway

 

 

 
News from noise pop Stockholm, Sweden... 26/11/2021 out debut album 

 

 
(digital - 3444009)

5) Kyle Meadows - Shallow Water 

 

 

 New material from experimental indie - folk Pennsylvania... 

released November 13, 2021 Music & Lyrics by Kyle Meadows Drums by Zach Wagner Bass by Marc Adams Mixed by Allen Bergendahl Mastered by Carl Saff 

 

(EP - None)
 

vinyl:
EPs:
digi single, video:
Fir Cone Children - Knees in the Sand / The Age of New Biedermeier
Life - Friends Without Names
Been Stellar - Kids 1995
Bestial Mouths - Our Souls Take
Worst Party Ever - Prism on a Window
Pack Rat - Two Sides Of Your Heart
Die! Die! Die! - Losing Sight, Keep On Kicking
Loop - Halo
Just Mustard - I Am You
Drowse - Wait and Bleed
Kubatko - Pavouk
The New Division - Soft Sell
Seablite - Breadcrumbs
Horsegirl - Billy
Momma - Medicine
Aeon Station - Fade
Fleeting Joys - Something In Your Melody
Howless - Levels
Hazel English - Nine Stories
Deserta - Goodbye Vista
Zeměžluč - A ty to víš