Go Dark x Sound of Ceres
Go Dark just gifted us the grand premiere for “Scream At Work” (Sound Of Ceres Remix) featured originally off the Brightwild EP that decks the track out in more ambient, and high-atmosphere wafting synths. The beats become elongated with synths that spring board like dive-boards that propel & catapult their subjects into the deep end of the sky’s extreme altitudes. The hooks go from their digitally altered utterances to more electric-analog progressions that urges on all the garbled vocals and edits that resound in an orchestrated & harmonious (and glorious) cacophony. Keys & beats dance about like an off-kilter ballroom blitz that requests the kinds of primal yells that only the nine to five grind inspires.
Go Dark’s own mystery man shared a few thoughts on the new remix with the following words:
Sound of Ceres turned “Scream at Work” inside out, allowing the synths to become guitars and the edgy to get lovely.
Catch Go Dark on the following dates with WHY? & Serengeti:
July
22-2016 Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst Club
23-2016 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
24-2016 Arcata, CA – the Miniplex (GO DARK only)
25-2016 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
26-2016 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
27-2016 Boise, ID – The Olympic venue (GO DARK only)
28-2016 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
Social Work
Bay Area’s Will Butler & friends are Social Work where they continue to do the lord’s work, sharing the single “Onda” that provides some bottled summer sun intended for immediate consumption. This is one of those sweeping gems deserving of being put on that special holiday road trip CDR or that overdue mixtape made for that special someone in your life. Having appeared on the scene late last year with the dance-floor bop of “Funny Dancers“, continuing the craftier side of arrangements with bubbling serenity heard & felt on the new “Onda” track. Will’s vocals get caught up in the ether of the sweetest & smoothest chords and progressions that feels like the warmth of a hundred shiny & sunny days that glow in consecutive succession. Will Butler provided us with the following exclusive introductory words about the new single & more:
I had this problem when I was a bit younger; I couldn’t write a happy song. I guess I seem like a pretty happy person because when I showed people my music it would catch them off guard, and they would even get kind of mad, like I was a Dole Whip machine spitting out lentil soup or something. I remember a music professor once suggested that I might alter my approach to emulate 80s era Elton John. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, I’m older now and I’ve gotten better at expressing myself. “Onda” is about getting free and not being too serious. Why do we let go of balloons even though we know exactly what will happen?
VUM
Jennifer Pearl presents a barrage of images filmed in Super 8 film filmed in locations like Denmark, Finland, Russia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, & Switzerland from director Andreas Attai for VUM’s single “Red Flag” off their Secret Lodge third album Cryptocrystalline. The images focuses on ancient structures, train stations, mountains, and more gorgeous locales with fixations on the symbolism behind the triangular crimson clothe that Pearl described with the following insights:
The red flag referred to in the song is the foreboding portent of war and the otherwise mundane daily life scenes mark the eve of an imagined (or real?) war.
Catch VUM on their following summer tour dates:
July
28 Los Angeles, CA @The Echo
29 S.F., CA @Amoeba Music
30 Nevada City, CA @The Curly Wolf
August
03 Salt Lake City, Utah @Albatross Recordings & Ephemera
06 Boise, Idaho @Neurolux
11 Portland, Oregon @The Liquor Store
LIFER captured the world’s attention this week with “NIGHTLIFE” where the Brooklyn artist stole all of our hearts with the chorus that kills with lyrics like, “If your love life’s killing your nightlife, is it the right time to get untied.” LIFER illustrates the the city struggle from the hapless romantic perspective forever on a quest to hold on to something more substantial than the fleeting advances of the temporal night. Listen to more from LIFER on the forthcoming album From Kuru available August 19 from Forged Artifacts.
Dear Boy presents the wild & emotive allure of “Alluria” from the forthcoming Parts of a Flower EP available August 5 from Easy Hell that provides endearing insights from the sanctuaries. “Alluria” translates the essence of what alluring characteristics and traits are like painted in pop arrangements that relay intimate connections that consume the entirety of our beings. Ben Grey of Dear Boy described the single with the following insights:
While we were recording this song, I can’t remember who it was, but somebody in the control room said that it sounded like if The Cure had written “American Girl.” After that, we all kinda quietly decided that that was what we were going for the whole time.
I wanted to classify a really specific feeling. There’s a special brand of displacement that only love does to you and it’s not always the healthiest thing. The word/name Alluria was just haunting me for weeks and I didn’t know what it meant until we started writing it.
“Alluria” is basically a story about bad and sad. Human beings are attracted to extremes, in others and in themselves. It’s very easy to fall in love with someone or something that pulls you to those places.
Get ready to stomp the “Pavement” with a series of fancy dance moves inspired by Stray Echo’s new single of the same name. Featuring the leader from The Postelles, Stray Echo provides kinetic audio textures that is sure to inspire instantaneous dancing in the streets, sidewalks, schools, offices, or anywhere “Pavement” is played.
Dizz1 ft. Hezekiah & Ralph Real dropped the Chrome Yellow directed video for the “Shots Fired” (DJ Manny Teklife Remix) that was inspired by the police shooting of Laquan McDonald where the following visuals features a list of those killed by police brutality over the years that scroll past in time to Hezekiah’s reiterations of “ever see a face of an angel in your reflection…shots fired…”
In case you missed it, assuage your fears with Montreal’s Project Pablo who discovers new pools of inherent tranquility with a remix of “Moai Y Yo” from Maria Usbeck’s debut solo album Amparo available now from Cascine. The most lush holiday hues will play about your ears and mind to make tropical mirages to dream on.
In further Cascine news, check out a listen to smooth-kinesis heard & found on Evan Michael’s recent Slept For Weeks EP available now via CSCN. Known for his behind the scenes work at Williamsburg’s Cameo & the Good Room; Michael brings about dance grooves to dream to with the title track, keeping the dialogue in movement on “Can’t Think So”, right before the entire soiree blasts off into space on “Ronda De Atocha”.
Victoria from Europe’s Pretty Sad is vivienxo who presents the following listen to her CSCN EP w84u that provides electro-pop impulses that assist with patience that add to the title’s phonetic sounded title of wait for you. The title track kicks it like an old school early 90s smooth-dance cut, entering the ultra ambient carnal waters discovered on the sensuous dream-stream of “fvck me”, right before closing with a cover of The 1975’s “sex” that channels further realized textures and dramas of crushes & wishes cast with the utmost of urgent desires.
