Watch The Dirty Nil’s video for “Zombie Eyed” directed by Cole Northey found off their debut album Higher Power available now from Dine Alone where we watch random folks fall victim to spontaneous human combustion on account of a back-packed heroine’s gaze. The Edel Kirke makeup & effects depict the weirdest macabre midnight suburban chiller that rocks in the gnarliest of ways to a supernatural freak show that would make George Romero weep. Just beware of the loathed “Zombie Eye”, dear readers.
Nick Waterhouse brought the modern cadences back to that life like those big production numbers from the days of analog yore on “It’s Time”, taken off the forthcoming album Never Twice available September 30 from Innovative Leisure. The west coast wonder continues to take his production styles deeper into the areas where anachronistic time tables dissolve.
Bells and Robes presented us with a listen to their brand new How Could We Have Known? EP available now full of tranquil trips to compliment what remains of our summer season. The opening title track sets the stage of unspeakable serenity, moving to the afternoon essences of “Latchkey” featuring vocals from Flat Land, to the duels of eternity heard on “Duality” ft. vocals & rhymes from Swain, taking you to the dreamland of “Dreamin'” ft. Miranda Realino, right as you are left with the closing tunnel careening closer “Follow” ft. vocal touches from Monica Legitski.In the words of Bells and Robes’ own Luke Sipka & Dean Spaniol on the new EP:
The EP was attempting to express a hypothetical or not so hypothetical sensation of feeling everything, all the highs and lows, the good and bad, the pain and joys in one single instant. Of letting the sorrows of your life overcome you and letting the joys overtake you and feeling it all more than you ever had while avoiding nothing. The rare feeling that makes us feel fully alive. The EP is a collection of short stories from some of those moments that are hard to feel.
NYC’s rising pop star Dominique dropped the single “Love You Better” that follows up her acclaimed track debut “It’s Only You” that presents intimate tones of affection that are conveyed through the electronic arrangement. The reiterations of “if you let down your guard, I can love you better babe” are expressed in hushed breaths that are delivered in atmospheric whispers amid a blend of percussive elements that Dominique elaborated on with the following insights:
“Love You Better” started out as a melody I couldn’t get out of my head for days. While trying to produce the track, it went through many different variations until I finally started to experiment with the beat and bass line. The bass instrument actually samples the one used in my debut track “It’s Only You” & the majority of the synths were created when I started practicing sound design.
Following up 2014’s Ways To Adapt EP and the 2015 cut “Low Cunning”; The Teen Age returns with their Stephen Venezia & Dan Giraldo video for “Liquor Store” from their recently released PaperCup EP Bad Seed. The dudes tap into that “Ed Sullivan Show” sort of Beatlemania vibe where every camera shot presents the quartet heart throbs doing their best Fab Four moves that brings the Mersey Beat into the pop-punk age (with face-melting/exploding consequences).
Adam Harding & all of his cool & popular friends are Dumb Numbers who are readying the album Dumb Numbers II for release August 19 through Joyful Noise, and we got your listen to the single “Will You Earn a Star”. Adam’s own dizzying personnel lineup that includes legends like Lou Barlow from Sebadoh & Dinosaur Jr, Dale Crover of the Melvins, David Yow from Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid, Murph from Dinosaur Jr, Kevin Rutmanis of both Cows & the Melvins, Alexander Hacke from Einstürzende Neubauten, Bobb Bruno of Best Coast, Bonnie Mercer of Grey Daturas, along with Useless Children’s Steve Patrick all together flext their heaviest guitars & harmonizing grit that shakes you up with a sense of familiarity & newly discovered fury.
Brooklyn’s Zula delivered the sunshine hazy warmth of “Getting Warm” taken off their new album Grasshopper available August 26 from Inflated Records. The track itself passes like a heat-sailing breeze through an azure sky on a day that feels like it could never ever end, or fall to surrender of night.
Boston’s Contact made contact with the entire world with the video for their ultra-synth-pop “Never Stop” that reiterates lyrics like “all your dreams are here” in a poppy dreamland where the visions are never ending.
