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[dustedmagazine]

Drahla — angeltape (Captured Tracks)

Photo by George Brown

On their 2019 recording debut, Useless Coordinates, Drahla was a power trio. For the band’s latest, they have added a second guitarist, Ewan Barr. In a sense, there is a fifth member; Chris Duffin from XAM Duo contributes to several of the recording’s songs. He  has added skronking saxophone and tape loops to both LPs. Duffins’ solo on “Under the Glass” not only helps to define the memorable song, but also assists in situating Drahla in the stylistic amalgam in which they reside, liberally drawing upon both post-punk and no wave in more or less equal measure.

Drahla excels at brief punchy songs such as “Second Rhythm,” in which overlapping guitars from Barr and Luciel Brown, who is also their vocalist, create a sweltering groove. They are abetted by powerful playing from bassist Bob Riggs and drummer Mike Ainsley. Riggs undergirds “Default Parody” with a staunch riff and is joined in the low register by the guitars on the thunderous “zig-zag.”

“Talking Radiance” is a standout. It features Brown’s characteristic speak-sing delivery, as well as a zesty left turn midway through, in which a new, faster tempo is undertaken and the guitars grow in ferocity, joined by howling saxophone from Duffin. “A,” on the other hand, focuses on a grunge-worthy riff, repeating it over and over with cascading loops and a distorted, sustained lead guitar atop.

The band is capable of surprises too. Overdubbed vocals and piano form the interlude “Venus,” a brief, gentle offering in the penultimate position on angeltape. The album’s final track, “Grief in Fantasia,” is also its longest, clocking in at a little over five minutes. Once again, Brown’s laconic declamation is positioned against saxophone wails, biting guitar duets, and a propulsive rhythm section. Eventually, Brown’s voice is offset from the guitars, creating a call and response with a two-note riff that is then followed by considerable collective instrumental mayhem. All of a sudden, the music halts, ending with a terse statement of the two-note riff.

Drahla clearly knows their progenitors, but one needn’t focus on this legacy when listening to angeltape. It is a singular document by a distinctive and up-and-coming group.

Christian Carey

#drahla #angeltape #captured tracks #christian carey #albumreview #dusted magazine #leeds #post-punk

[bandcampsnoop]

2/12/24.

I mentioned a possible new Lemon Twigs (New York) album on January 2nd. Here it is. It deserves a reminder post.

"My Golden Years" is still here and the 2nd song "They Don't Know How To Fall In Place" is here as well.

Sean Ono Lennon works with the D'Addario brothers on "In The Eyes of A Girl".

Apparently the brothers like to say this album was created in a mythical place called Mersey Beach (a place between Liverpool and Laurel Canyon).

Captured Tracks will be releasing this on May 3, 2024.

#The Lemon Twigs #Brian D'Addario #Michael D'Addario #Sean Ono Lennon #Mersey Beach #Liverpool #Laurel Canyon #Captured Tracks #New York #Bandcamp

[ourladyofomega]

📸 source: Captured Tracks (FB)

#Captured Tracks #cassettes #tapes #punk #alternative #spoken word #industrial #hip-hop #rap #omega #our lady omega

[disease]

REPTALIENS // LISTENING [WRESTLING EP, 2020]

#audio #reptaliens #synthpop #electro #captured tracks #wrestling EP #electronic #music

[chris-burden]

Heavenly Beat at The Roxy, Hollywood, CA (2015)

#Heavenly Beat #jordan stern #Jon Pena #Raz Khandpur #The Roxy #Hollywood #CA #Polaroid #Vitesse X #2015 #Captured Tracks #Dreampop #Dream Pop #Shoegaze #indie music #jangle pop #mac demarco #beach fossils #bedroom pop #hipster #nostalgia #alt #alternative

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years

#recommended #new music #music #track of the day #the lemon twigs #captured tracks #my golden years #Youtube

[usephemeral]

Old photo of @vitesse-x when she played guitar in Heavenly Beat (2015)

#vitesse x #us ephemeral #indie music #music website #dream pop #female producer #jordan stern #heavenly beat #captured tracks #beach fossils #indie pop #indie #alternative music #indie rock #Jon Pena #Raz Khandpur #2015 #Brooklyn #Brooklyn Band #williamsburg brooklyn #Bushwick #bedroom pop #Spotify

[robmoro]

Listen | Wild Nothing shares new single 'Suburban Solutions' from upcoming album

Wild Nothing has released another track from the upcoming LP “Hold”. The new track, titled Suburban Solutions’ features Ms. Dana and Molly Burch participating in a kind of pseudo-chorus while Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum advocates for self-improvement by using an anti-jingle inspired by 80s synthpop. The track follows the release of previous single ‘Headlights On’, both of which return to the…

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#alternative indie music #best indie music #best new indie music #blog #Captured Tracks #indie music #indie music artists #indie music blogs #indie rock #music #Music Blog #Music site #New Music #new music blog #new music discovery #robmoro #Wild Nothing

[stevenvenn]

Wild Nothing (f. Hatchie) - Headlights On (from Hold out Oct 27) New single from one of my favourite bands out now! New album Hold coming out Oct. 27th. Always have time for Wild Nothing!

#wild nothing #headlights on #hold #jack tatum #hatchie #harriette pilbeam #captured tracks #blacksburg #virginia #indie rock #indie pop #music #Youtube

[feastofbeast]

The Lemon Twigs: Any Time Of Day 

Second new track from The Lemon Twigs dropped and it’s another keeper, and now we have a vinyl pre-order up from Captured Tracks, shipping around the beginning of May.  

Everything Harmony LP is on limited edition Grape vinyl. Includes a printed eurosleeve, double-sided postcard insert and an exclusive flexi disc with bonus track "Some Love". Limited to 1000 copies! Pre-order now from their bandcamp or Captured Tracks

#bandcamp #The Lemon Twigs #Captured Tracks

[dustedmagazine]

Linda Smith — Nothing Else Matters/I So Liked Spring (Captured Tracks)

In 2021 Captured Tracks released Till Another Time: 1988-96, a collection of recordings by Baltimore musician Linda Smith. Culled from Smith’s trove of cassette recordings, this was the first time Smith’s music had been pressed to vinyl.

Bedroom recording has long held an allure, but that release was timely. Smith, trailblazer of home taping, was already known and loved in certain pockets, especially among DIY musicians. But Till Another Time connected with pandemic-era listeners, many of whom were exploring their own isolated musical setups.

Smith’s home recording was born of its own sort of necessity. She played in a few bands over the years, including Woods, which performed at Maxwell’s and CBGB in the 1980s. But she never loved performing live.  “I knew I wasn’t a rock star,” she told the Baltimore Banner last year. “But I still wanted to make music.” While in Woods she bought her first 4 track recorder, hoping to get her ideas out in a way that her bandmates could understand.  For the first time, she said in a 1991 Popwatch interview, “my songs really seemed to belong to me.”

This past March Captured Tracks reissued two of Smith’s records, Nothing Else Matters and I So Liked Spring, originally released in 1995 and 1996, respectively. By the mid- '90st Smith had graduated from a 4-track recorder to a Fostex 8-track, allowing her to explore more sophisticated compositions.

As a kid Smith was a fan of the Beatles and Motown and spent a lot of time listening to AM radio, which imbued her with a strong sense of pop structures. Later she got into the Raincoats and Young Marble Giants, artists she admired and resembled both musically and philosophically: Clearly none of them were in it for fame and fortune.

Nothing Else Matters includes a cover of Young Marble Giants’  “Salad Days” which retains the stately simplicity of the original but doubles the runtime, extending it with layers of hysterical laughter and a soft roar of distant conversation. This marriage of minimalist elegance and woozy playfulness is typical of the record. It’s full of boney drum beats and  “96 Tears”-esque Wurlitzer-y riffs, cool garage-rock hooks, clever melodies, dry humor and smart, idiosyncratic lyrics.

For I So Liked Spring Smith set music to the poems of late 19th/early 20th century poet Charlotte Mew. It's slightly softer around the edges than Nothing Else Matters but the tunes still twist in unexpected directions as Smith, a worthy and convincing ambassador, shapes her compositions around Mew’s words. In their relative simplicity these songs bloom with each listen.

Generally, Smith told the Women in Sound zine in 2015, she’d start with a sample beat, then she’d layer guitar, keyboard, and more guitar to fill things out, then vocals and handheld percussion. “I never had a very expensive microphone,” she said, “and sometimes preferred cheaper ones to get an interesting sound.”

As the glut of pandemic-era Bandcamp releases proved, a home recording is only as good as the artist behind it. Smith — a skilled writer and intuitive arranger — didn’t give herself many places to hide within her recordings, and she didn’t have to. As with her simple instrumentation Smith knows how to work the unique dynamics of her slightly husky, untrained voice. Sometimes wistful, sometimes sardonic, sometimes exuberant, it all sparkles.

Margaret Welsh

#linda smith #nothing else matters #i so liked spring #captured tracks #margaret welsh #albumreview #dusted magazine #home taping #lo-fi

[bandcampsnoop]

January 2, 2023.

Well...I meant to queue this until January 4th...but it looks like a twofer day.

I RARELY post single songs unless they're part of a preorder. I do this for The Lemon Twigs "My Golden Years" for a few reasons. First, Stacey and I saw them play in Sacramento at the beginning of December and were blown away again. They didn't rock as hard as they did in February 2019, but the albums they were touring were quite different ("Go To School" vs. "Everything Harmony").

Second reason to post this: Captured Tracks is most certainly hyping a new album. Third reason: while there isn't a physical release of this song (yet), there are literally over a dozen physical releases by the still young D'Addario brothers. Finally, this song is just great and fits nicely with their more recent records.

The Lemon Twigs (New York) have really leaned into their Beach Boys, Byrds, Raspberries sound. I also love that Reza Matin (Uni Boys) is their touring drummer and that they've worked with Billy Tibbals.

So, let's enjoy this song thoroughly. And if you wonder what they sound like live, by all means check out the digital only live album.

#The Lemon Twigs #New York #Captured Tracks #The Beach Boys #The Byrds #The Raspberries #Reza Matin #Uni Boys #Billy Tibbals

[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to musician Christina Schneider AKA Locate S,1. Originally from Westchester, New York, Christina began her career making music in various projects, such as C.E Schneider Topical, Christina Schneider's Genius Giant, and Jepeto Solutions., and in 2018, she began recording as Locate S,1. She's released three albums, Healing Contest, Personalia and her latest, Wicked Jaw, which was just released at the end of July by Captured Tracks!

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#beginnings #christina schneider #locate s #captured tracks #kevin barnes

[joanofarc]

never look down, the mctells (1987, 2011).

any work i’ve ever had is the biggest waste of all

#never look down #the mctells #mctells #1987 #2011 #expecting joe #bi-joopiter #jangle pop #indiepop #indie pop #tape music #captured tracks #ba ba ba #sing a song

[chris-burden]

Widowspeak at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar (2013)

#Widowspeak #Captured Tracks #Shoegaze #Americana #Dream Pop #Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar #2013 #Charlottesville #VA #Virginia

[burlveneer-music]

Thus Love - Memorial - really digging this vaguely-gothic postpunk band; reminds me of a lot of music I liked in the 80s. Baltimore band Vigil (fka Here Today), for instance

THUS LOVE is a band—but also so much more. The Brattleboro, Vermont trio stand together, a bond cemented by their experience as outsiders looking in. For THUS LOVE, DIY is an ethos that reflects not only their musical vision but their very existence as three self-identifying trans artists. From the band’s inception, Echo Mars (she/her), Lu Racine (he/him) and Nathaniel van Osdol (they/them) have lived together under the same roof, designed and produced their own merch, and even created their own recording studio from scratch. “I realize that most artists don’t live this way,” says Mars. “But for us, it was never really a choice. The art we make is so tied to who we are and the community we’re a part of, that this is the only way we can possibly do it.”

Drums: Lu Racine (He/They) Synths: Nathaniel van Osdol (They/Them) Bass: Sophia DiMatteo (They/Them) Guitar, Vocals & Cello: Echo Mars (She/Her) Upright Bass on track "Pith and Point": Jackson Stein (They/Them)

This album is dedicated to all the loved ones who have passed. We miss them dearly

#Thus Love #rock #gothic #postpunk #vermont #2022 #captured tracks