Frankie Rose

Interstellar

01. Interstellar
02. Know Me
03. Gospel Grace
04. Daylight Sky
05. Pair Of Wings
06. Had We Had It
07. Night Swim
08. Apples For The Sun
09. Moon In My Mind
10. The Fall

AWESOME ~ HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Memoryhouse

The Slideshow Effect

01. Little Expressionless Animals
02. The Kids Were Wrong
03. All Our Wonder
04. Punctum
05. Heirloom
06. Bonfire
07. Pale Blue
08. Walk With Me
09. Kinds of Light
10. Old Haunts

Memoryhouse new album is called The Slideshow Effect and its title speaks to what hasn’t changed for Memoryhouse: their continuing interest in the synthesis of the aural and the visual. It refers to the photographic/cinematic technique of zooming and panning to animate still images, often used in documentary film making to give movement to archival photographs. The 10-track album, produced by Abeele, with assistance from friend, collaborator, and occasional Memoryhouse bassist Barzin Hassani Rad, finds Memoryhouse heading toward a new clarity in composition as well as sound; a more organic direction for artists who are, in their own words, transitioning from a “bedroom recording project” into a fully realized band. Nouvion’s voice has never been more present than on the new album, which finds her stepping away from Memoryhouse’s past reverbed sound in favor of a more upfront, and intimate vocal approach. They half-seriously refer to their new sound as “Taylor Swift with Built to Spill as her backing band.” However The Slideshow Effect might be described, we fully-seriously love it.

AWESOME

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Human Tetris

Happy Way In The Maze Of Rebirth

01. Morning
02. Summer In Crimea
03. Cold Wind
04. Angel
05. Insanity
06. Sailor
07. Dreamland
08. Spread Your Wings
09. Silver Tears
10. Brotherhood

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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The Mary Onettes

Love Forever (EP)

01. Love’s Taking Strange Ways
02. Will I Ever Be Ready
03. A Breaking Heart Is A Brilliant Start
04. 8th Of June

Noir-pop group The Mary Onettes have teamed up with Dan Lissvik of the recently defunct Gothenburg production duo Studio for their new Love Forever EP. Producing two of the EP’s four tracks, Lissvik has masterfully mutated the Onettes’ often bleak 80s tinged sound into something strangely euphoric. No less still fuelled by Philip Ekström’s mournful croon, ‘Love’s Taking Strange Ways’  is a statement of intent that shapes up the remaining three songs contained within Love Forever’s short but undeniably sweet 15 minute run time.
With off-kilter drums and an irrestible bass line, the song erupts at the one minute mark with a chorus that conjurs up a ridiculous amount of emotion deep down in the pit of the stomach. Fuelled with longing and irrepressible heartache, Ekström’s lyrics some of his earnest to date: “You will never let me go, you will never take me back” / “I can’t sleep alone, I need a heart to breathe” – the meeting of Lissvik and The Mary Onettes has produced one of the finest Swedish pop singles in recent memory. Flawless.
Look out for a full stream of the Love Forever EP, exclusive to The Line Of Best Fit, in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, pre-order the EP via the Labrador webshop.

AWESOME

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Burning Hearts

Extinctions

01. On The Last Day Of The Decade
02. Into The Wilderness
03. Modern Times
04. Love And Dissonance
05. The Swallows
06. Burn Burn Burn
07. Trade Winds
08. The Beast
09. Deep Waters

AWESOME

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