Elika

Snuggle Bunnies 

 

1. Summer
2. Stand Still
3. Death & Avalanches
4. The Darkside
5. Seam
6. Less Than Greek
7. Near You
8. All The People Mourning
9. Polynya
10. Tidal Wave 

 

Brooklyn electro-pop duo Elika are set to release Snuggle Bunnies on October 29th. The album will be released via Automatic Entertainment, also home to Asobi Seksu and The Radio Department.

 

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Magenta Skycode

Relief

 1. The Simple Pleasures
2. Kipling
3. Night Falls On The Rifle
4. Sometimes
5. King Of Abstract Painters
6. Trains Are Leaving The Yard
7. The Old World
8. Escaping Outdoors
9. Montag
10. We're Going To Climb

 Finnish indie rock band. Melancholic and beautiful.

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Scarlet Youth

Goodbye Doesn't Mean I'm Gone

 1. Sofia C
2. Catch Me When I Fall
3. Farewell Ghosts
4. I Will Be Waiting
5. Between Summer And Spring
6. Somewhere
7. Twilight Room
8. Walls Of Freedom
9. Night Falls Over London
10. Sunshowers

Scarlet Youth is a shoegaze band rooted in Finland, which features in its ranks members from Iconcrash, ShamRain, Kemopetrol & Sidewaytown. The band took its first steps back in spring 2004; Back then the passion to create shoegaze music in a vein of the genre’s legends, such as Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse etc. finally came true in form of a few songs. In the beginning this yet unnamed band lived only in Kalle’s hard drive, with no further plans of releasing something or finding other musicians for the band.

In autumn 2007 the spark came alive again and many new songs were written as well as some re-arranging of the old songs was done. At the time Markus Baltes joined the Scarlet Youth as vocalist, as Kalle and Markus shared the same passion towards the beautiful shoegaze music.

During first part of 2008 Kalle and Markus worked on more demo tracks and in summer Jaani Peuhu joined the band and brought along Riku H. Mattila as bassist. The making of the first EP “Breaking the Patterns“ was initiated in the end of august and continued till november when it was mastered. During the process Marko Soukka joined Scarlet Youth as guitarist.

Scarlet Youth has claimed already much positive attention among the music fans around the world. The first release introducing band’s authentic yet innovative shoegazing sound will be out in 4th of march 2009 on band’s own label Homesick Music.

In January 2010 the band started the recordings of yet untitled debut full length. The recordings were done by the end of april and the mixing process took place between may-july. Album will be released in 4th of November 2010 and 17th of November in Japan and Asia by Quince Records.

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Le Futur Pompiste

Le Futur Pompiste 

1. Five Hundred Heartbeats
2. Communication
3. Mountain
4. Between Hours And Seconds
5. Delusions
6. Winter
7. My Trophy
8. Daydream
9. Hunter
10. Girls Of Those Days

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Playfellow

Carnival Off 

1. Your Ghost
2. Another Weird Place
3. No Melodies
4. Echoes
5. All's Asleep
6. Where April Woods Are Red
7. Voices From Downstairs
8. Sad Families
9. Carnival  

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Trembling Blue Stars

Fast Trains And Telegraph Wires

1. My Face For The World To See
2. All Our Tomorrows
3. In Arrivals
4. Frosting
5. The Imperfection Of Memory
6. The Dark World Of The Broken
7. Cold Colours
8. Half-Light
9. Tropic Of Capricorn
10. The Last Four Winters Of The WarGrey Silk Storm
11. The Hidden Quarter
12. The Floating World
13. The Lowest Arc
14. Radioactive Decay
15. Not For Second Prize
16. Outside
17. The Floating World (Reprise)
18. No More Sad Songs

The new record is now finished - mixed and mastered. The first disc 'Fast Trains And Telegraph Wires' will be an eleven track full length album. The song  'The Imperfection Of Memory' features guest lead vocals by Cath Carroll. The opening track 'My Face For The World To See' is currently featured on our MySpace music player.

The second disc 'Cicely Tonight Volume One' will be included with all copies of the album. This will not be a limited edition. This will be a mini album including a guest lead vocal from Anne Mari Barker-Davies on 'The Lowest Arc'( she also provides backing vocals on Cold Colours) and a cover version of the Nick Laird-Clowes song 'Not For Second Prize'.

A vinyl edition is still being debated as we will need to approach the album with that format in mind so a little rethink may be necessary.

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Stereolab

Not Music

1. Everybody's Weird Except Me
2. Supha Jaianto
3. So Is Cardboard Clouds
4. Equivalences
5. Lelekato Sugar
6. Silver Sands
7. Two Finger Symphony
8. Delugeoisie
9. Laserblast
10. Sun Demon
11. Aelita
12. Pop Molecules (Molecular Pop 2)
13. Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound Mix)

 

Over the Summer of 2007 Stereolab reconvened at Instant Zero, their studio in Bordeaux to record 32 luminous new songs which would become two distinct albums – 2008's Chemical Chords and this their new release, Not Music.

The recordings began when Tim Gane started messing with "a series of about seventy tiny drum loops" on top of improvised chord sequences using piano and vibraphone. "Building them up from there – later slowing the tracks down or speeding them up – a totally new way of doing songs for us..."

Not Music is Stereolab's twelfth album and is released during the band's self-imposed hiatus from recording and touring. The album is released via Stereolab's own imprint Duophonic UHF Disks.

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