Singles of the Week (16//23)

1) Holm - Lose the Shoes

 

New single from Denmark indie-rock frontman of Danish band Yung...

(Mikkel Holm Silkjær)

 

VIDEO CREDITS:

Cast Thief - HOLM Cutler - Tristan Petsola Crew Director . Manon Mugnaini Girault Co-producers - Manon Mugnaini Girault and Mikkel Holm Silkjær Director Of Photography - Isabella Maria Hale Production Assistant - Anton Dröscher Høpfner Post-Production Team Editor - Anton Dröscher Høpfner Grader - Anders Strøm Graphics - Matias Gulvad Special thanks to Lundsgaard Gods, Mia Fuglsang Holm, Elsebeth Iversen and Freddie Klavsen. 

 

Holm on the track: "Lose The Shoes is a song about being haunted by flashes of remembrance of a person you once loved but have now parted ways with. The song contemplates the figurative room you find yourself in when you detach yourself from this person. It’s a room of many sensations, racing thoughts, no lust and at times it feels like a room without a door, however, ultimately this room leads to change and sometimes when you’re stuck you don’t fully comprehend how freeing change can be."

The single is released together with a video directed by Manon Mugnaini Girault, he says: "Lose the Shoes is a powerful anthem about the journey of healing and finding peace after a major life event. Our music video follows the artist as he searches for comfort through the perfect chair, only to discover that sometimes the path to healing is filled with unexpected twists and turns. Join us on this visual journey of growth, resilience, and self-discovery.”

 

 released April 19, 2023 

 

(digital, video - PNKSLM)

2) Luster - Dopamine Loop

 

News from shoegaze / noise pop / electronic duo (Adrian Castillo + Shaun Aguilar) Regardless of ones own place in the world, it is without a doubt that Los Angeles has a sound. An extraordinary, unmistakable, and vibrant sound, colored by the people and cultures that embody it: Heat, high end fashion, dust, smoke, skate culture, punk, hip-hop, sampling, Hollywood, club culture, neon lights, late nights, deserted hills, hard work, and dreams both made and totally crushed. Lust, excess, passion, depth, shallowness, depravity, abandonment, love. This extreme duality of a place emanating its own strain of a quite palpable dream filled black magic has spawned some of the greatest and most highly celebrated cultural icons spanning film, music, art and beyond - and for every one single success story there is undoubtedly 1,000 opposites. It is this pressured, otherworldly environment and duality that explains how L.A. would spawn such a band like Luster. Utterly beautiful, yet melancholic - Damaged, yet brand new. A hungry, innovative shine and sheen of the now beyond rich (and often Los Angeles centered) scene of ‘post-post-synth / 80’s revival etc. - Far too often, bands of this nature in today's quick to summarize era, are pigeonholed as simply the retreading of sounds already once made - This would be an all too lazy observation of a shoe-gaze sound indeed all their own. From the first single, ‘Thorn In Yr Kiss’, it is greatly apparent the elegance and grandiose of Dopamine Loop’s songwriting and production while also retaining an immediate honesty and intimacy. 90’s throwback reversed and filtered drum loops, tear wrenching guitars, massive atmospheric tones and detailed textures all dripped with smoke and vapor hazed vocals. Each track holds interesting choices containing both a unique and unabashed use of electronics, while soaking tracks in stratosphere dwelling guitars and traditional, cult post-punk instrumentation. Ethereal and dreamlike, dark and dizzying, massive and exciting. The sound of Los Angeles. - Brandon Hill / Starved Relations 

credits releases April 21, 2023 

Written & produced by Luster Mixed & mastered by Nick Bassett 

 

(EP - Funeral Party)

3) Tanlines - The Big Mess

 

 

New single from New York electronic pop duo (Jesse Cohen + Eric Emm) 

Album "The Big Mess" is out May 19 on Merge Records 

 

Director: Eric Emm 

Producer: Jesse Cohen 

DP: Jon Shanahan 

AD: Jane Cohen 

Stylists: Jacqui Coleman and Sinead Corwin 

Editor: John Durgee 

 

 
(digital, video - Merge)

4) Melancholy Club - Delete This

 

 

News from Salt Lake City, Utah indie-rock / emo-punk band... 

releases April 21, 2023

 

 
(EP, CD - Sleepy Heart)

5) Temple of Angels - Tangled in Joy

 

 

News from US indie-pop / goth / post-punk band... 

"Tangled in Joy" by Temple of Angels, from the upcoming album Endless Pursuit out July 14th, 2023 via Run For Cover Records. 

Formed in 2017 in Austin, Texas, Avery Burton (guitar/vocals), Patrick Todd (drums/vocals), and Cole Tucker (guitar) had all played in various hardcore and punk bands around town for years, but were keen to explore the dreamier, moodier music they enjoyed as well. After recording a few demos, they recruited Bre Morell (vocals) to be their lead singer. The new group self-releasing two EPs–2017’s Temple of Angels and 2018’s Foiled–and a single on Funeral Party Records in 2019, and were soon performing with the likes of Beach Fossils, Iceage, Narrow Head, and Turnover as well as at festivals like Levitation and Not Dead Yet. 

 

(digital, video - Run For Cover)
 

vinyl:
Beach House - Become (12")
EPs:
SingingGum - Cloud Cover /EP/
digi single, video:
Goth Babe - Alone In The Mountains
VULPIX - Red Moon
GRMLN - Trees
Swiss Portrait - Before
Callière - Freefall Into Heaven (Single Mix)
Stuck - Time Out
The Soft Moon - The Pit (Gael Remix)
Gagarin - Pod skalama
Island of Love - I've Got The Secret
Better Lovers - 30 Under 13
Julie Christmas - Not Enough
Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes
Militarie Gun - Very High
Foo Fighters - Rescued