October 23, 2019 video: SASSY 009 – Maybe in the Summer
Taken from SASSY 009‘s new KILL SASSY 009 EP, coming November 22nd on Luft Recordings. Directed by Kenneth Karlstad:
October 23, 2019 TOPS return with new label + two new songs
All-time favs TOPS are back with a sweet new 7″ single, out today on their newly formed Musique TOPS label. “Echo of Dawn” is lovely, cosmic drift, while “Seven Minutes” is an urgent, yet breezy guitar-pop cleansing. Jane Penny says this about both tracks:
“Echo Of Dawn” is “a love song to the thing deep inside of me that understands the scale of everything that existed before my time, to the forces of the universe that shape reality in such a powerful way, the awe-inspiring gift that we are here, and my fears about our ability to destroy ourselves.”
As for “Seven Minutes”, “I like the way a song can be upbeat and groovy and still deal with dark subject matter. The chords become a source of empowerment against those bad thoughts. It’s important to move past these feelings and keep doing your thing, but the negativity we hold for ourselves can make you feel like a fraud, the song is almost like an imposter syndrome anthem.”
Listen to the songs below + and pre-order the limited hand-numbered 7″ vinyl here:
October 17, 2019 Caroline Says announces OHIO RIVER EP; shares title track
Caroline Says is readying the follow-up to her gorgeous 2018 debut album No Fool Like An Old Fool, with her new Ohio River EP, coming November 22nd on Western Vinyl. She had this to say about the wistfully hopeful track, with a nod to Steely Dan and Bruce Springsteen:
This song is about growing up in a small southern town, having fun as a teenager while you’re there, moving away, and then visiting it later in life as a different person with a different perspective, but having fond memories of it there. I guess a common theme for me… also very Bruce Springsteen. They’re watching a river to distract themselves from a sad thing.
I had “Dirty Work: by Steely Dan in my head for this, although it sounds nothing like it. I used the Wurlitzer in the second verse because of it.