Singles of the Week (16//22)

1) Hazel English - Summer Nights

  

New single from dreampop Oakland, California Directed by Colin Jones Shot and edited by Colin Jones Starring: Hazel English and Joseph Matick Production assistants: Marguerite Marcella Mannix, Cece Schönthaler Christiana Dunlap. 

 

 
(digital, video - Hazel English)

2) COOL HEAT - Lately

 

 

 
New single from Chicago, Illinois dreampop / shoegaze... COOL HEAT is a lo-fi artist hailing from Chicago. It is the solo project of Eden Sierotnik, member of the dream pop outfit, and fellow Green Witch Recordings artist, Color Card. COOL HEAT’s primitive post-rock and new wave tones create a feeling that is sonically minimal, and envelopes the listener in the music’s emotional gravity. Operating in a similar musical universe to bands like Cold Cave and Drab Majesty, COOL HEAT channels a sense of dreamy abandon while avoiding introspection, instead opting for a more outward-looking sound. 

 

(digital, video - Spirit Goth)

3) Naked Lungs - Database / Why Do People Change?

 

 

 
Naked Lungs are a four-piece DIY Noise / Shoegaze outfit from Ireland, blending harsh, heavy instrumentation with melodic hooks to create a cathartic, emotional release in their tracks. The band utilizes distorted soundscapes and driving rhythms, all the while maintaining their unique approach to both songwriting structure and lyrics. 

Released on: 2022-04-22 

 

(digital - Naked Lungs)


4) Say Sue Me - To Dream (feat. Kim Oki) 

 

 

 
News from Busan, South Korea indie-pop 

The Last Thing Left out 13/5/2022 After a flurry of international activity culminating with a debut North American tour at the end of 2019, like everyone else in the world, Say Sue Me were forced to take a touring hiatus in 2020, and quietly began work on a new album. ‘The Last Thing Left’ was self-recorded and self-produced during lockdown at the band's own Busan studio. “This album has the theme of some realization, eventually the realization of love. Love in relationships, love for oneself, and the ultimate love gained after realizing those two things!” 

credits releases May 13, 2022 Composed (1. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.) by 김병규 Byungkyu Kim Composed (2.) by 최수미 Sumi Choi Composed (3.) by 최수미 Sumi Choi & 김병규 Byungkyu Kim All Lyrics by 최수미 Sumi Choi Arranged by Say Sue Me, 김오키 Oki Kim(6.)

 

(digital, video - Damnably)

 

5) Sound of Ceres - Sunray Venus

 

 

 
New single from indie-pop New York 

Emerald Sea, the third album from New York-based audiovisual project Sound of Ceres, tells the story of how the universe comes to know itself. Rendered in dynamic, ambitious orchestral passages, it forms the basis of future stage performances intended to draw its half-submerged narrative into the visual sphere. In its dreamlike impressions, it could also be the soundtrack to a long-forgotten early musical film - an experience that delighted and transported audiences and then vanished from record, surviving only in the imprint of memory. Written in three acts, Emerald Sea follows two deities who trail each other through the furthest reaches of experience. There is the Universe, all that exists, voiced by performance artist Marina Abramović. And there is Venus, transformer of matter and avatar of love, sung by the group's lead vocalist Karen Hover (who goes by k). Through a dazzling suite of songs inspired by Les Baxter's midcentury exotica, Maurice Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé, and Gustav Holst's The Planets, Emerald Sea studies intimacy on both an interpersonal scale and a cosmological one. Connection and severance, joy and grief, wonder and bewilderment all tumble through its scope. In the widest frame, the universe begins, meets itself, and ends. In the closest frame, two people encounter each other, grow close, and then separate. These stories are two views of the same fractal. In every intimacy human beings cultivate, every rush of connection, no matter how fleeting, we reenact the universe for ourselves. "I envisioned myself journeying through these different realms -- space, the land, the sea, the heavens -- and following Marina's character," says k. "I always saw her as a shadow figure that I couldn’t quite figure out." Ryan says, "The album’s story is an allegory for the emergence of mind and meaning from the matter of the universe, and its eventual fading, with a glimmer of hope at the end." In its current cycle, Sound of Ceres is Derrick Bozich, songwriter, harpist, and flautist; Jacob Graham, synthesist, costumer, and light designer; K Hover, vocalist, lyricist, costumer, and choreographer; and Ryan Hover, songwriter and producer. They recorded Emerald Sea in collaboration with Jon Sonneberg at Ka-Boom studio in Ohio. It was mixed by Nicholas Principe and mastered by Kramer. When you receive it, when its sounds in motion light up your mind's eye, it is also created in collaboration with you. "Sunray Venus" performed by Sound of Ceres, off the album 'Emerald Sea' out June 17, 2022 on Joyful Noise Recordings. 

 

(digital, video - Joyful Noise)
 

vinyl:
The Heads - For Mad Men Only / Born To Go (7")
EPs:
Nrthrn - Endless Sail to the Edge of The World /EP/
Fearing - Desolate /EP/
Sugar Pill - Cursed Image /EP/
Green-House - Solar Editions /cassette EP/
digi single, video:
Orbital - Where Is It Going? (feat. Stephen Hawking)
Viagra Boys - Ain't No Thief
Riot in School - Wet Dream Valley
Modest - Pull Through
Stay Inside - Fracture
Long Distance Calling - Kamilah
After-Math - The Fault is Mine (feat. Greybloom)
CLAMM - Bit Much
Fracture - Merciless (feat. Chastity)
Bad Breeding - Prescription
Bleakness - Dancing With Darkness
LIFE - Almost Home
Hothouse - Shattered
Death Bells - Lifespring
Dottie - Flood
Hatchie - The Rhythm