After a decade of an impressive path which included two split EPs and a notable debut album, Massachusetts natives, HarborLights, rightfully caught the attention of Deathwish Inc. which has just released their new endeavor, their striking album, Isolation Ritual.

The album's release coincides with the reveal of another video off it, this time for the rhythmic post rock tour de force, Skinwalker, through which the band showcases their palpable instrumental muscle.

HarborLights will be going out on a two-week tour throughout North America in support of their new album. Dates are listed below.







Artist Photo Caleb Gowett


HarborLights — On Tour:
September 21  Revere, MA @ Sammy’s Patio **record release show**
September 27  Lancaster, PA @ Station One Center for the Arts
September 28  Falls Church, VA @ VFW Post 9274
September 29  Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone
September 30  Valdosta, GA @ Valdosta DIY
October 1  Augusta, GA @ Soul Bar
October 2  West Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern
October 3  Raleigh, NC @ Slim’s
October 4  Baltimore, MD @ The Sidebar
October 5  Philadelphia, PA @ The Pharmacy
October 12  Allston, MA @ Great Scott
October 19  Portland, ME @ Apohadian Theater
October 20  Albany, NY @ Pauly’s Hotel
October 27  Salem, MA @ Opus


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With their roster including members from Have A Nice Life, experimental act, Consumer, unveiled a first specimen off their debut album, In Computers, coming out via The Flenser on October 25th, 2019.

Consumer formed in 2017, and are comprised of Tim Macuga from Have a Nice Life, Have a Nice Life’s live band Myke Cameron (bass), Rich Otero (drums, synths, programming), and Joe Streeter (guitar/engineering).

Quite differing from Have A Nice Life, Massive Subsidies is an immersive, dense piece which leans heavily toward noise rock, yet processed through a heavy sludge approach, and embellished with industrial and avant-garde electronics. It is heavy rock pushed to the extreme, and surely an exciting new thing to follow.









Artist photo by Sam Nikitas


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A little ahead of the release of their next record, C'est ça, Canadian experimental rockers, Fly Pan Am, unveil another single off it, a contemporary psychedelic rock piece of colorful feverishness, titled Each Ether.

Stretching their intricate art form even more, the band's description of the track reads quite elaborate: "numbed out escapist daydreamers addicted to infinite online vistas, obsessively streaming away from the void into a myriad of vain reflections..."

Fly Pan Am continue to overflow with notions and ideas, and are always tough to pinpoint, yet, their return after a significant amount of time since their previous records, comes confident and venturesome, and definitely highly anticipated.

C'est ça comes out September 20th, 2019 via Constellation Records.




FLY PAN AM LIVE DATES
20 September – Ritz PDB, Montreal, QC
21 September – Feast In East Festival, Toronto, ON
22 September – Niagara Artists' Centre, St. Catharines, ON
24 September – Meteor, Windsor, ON
25 September – This Ain't Hollywood, Hamilton, ON
26 September – The Mansion, Kingston, ON
27 September – Silence, Guelph, ON
28 September – 27 Club, Ottawa, ON


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Taking their fusion of post punk and noise rock to the borders of heavy rock, while sounding thoroughly minimal and precise, Chicago's Luggage reveal Shift, the imposing first single off their incoming third record of the same name.

Shift was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago with Matthew Barnhart (Shearwater, The New Year), and it was captured almost entirely live (with the exception of vocals and a few minor overdubbed embellishments).

"We all worked hard to create a mechanical delivery for the sound, vocals, and lyrics that all act in tandem," Michael Vallera says. "That is really what Shift is for me—an exercise in using as few things as possible to create something larger, something cathartic."

The lyrical influence for Michael Vallera came from the poetry of Louise Glück and Zbigniew Herbert, as the record's lyrics come brief and blunt with an almost epigrammatic approach which adds more sinister feel to the well crafted monotony of the instrumentals.

 "If a song would sound good with a beat played on a hi-hat, a kick drum, and a snare drum, I would remove the hi-hat. I spent the time writing this record figuring out a way to make space and absence sound loud and powerful," says drummer Luca Cimarusti.

Shift releases November 22nd, 2019








Video & artist photo by Joshua Ford


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Part of their EP, Organic Noise Kitchen, from November 2018, the frenziedly dynamic, Get On With It, by Oxford quartet, Self Help, is being released as a single, and comes accompanied by a charmingly plain clip depicting the band at a skate park, offering the best of what they do.

Self Help come through with a pretty sharp sound and advance as a very much hopeful underground act, mingling ways and ideas from punk, traditional rock 'n' roll, garage and slacker rock, all presented through a pop filter, and flat out energetic. A well structured cut, Get On With It, could belong in any of the last forty years of the ageless vitality that guitar-driven indie rock has had to offer, full of tuneful clarity, and representative of a tight band in full bloom.

The video was filmed and edited by Zak Watson, and directed by Sam Golding.





Album art by Léa Morales-Chanard



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A brilliant mind and a troubled soul, Daniel Johnston passed away at the age of 58 at his home in Waller, Texas, on September 10th, 2019.. He was mostly referred to as a cult musician, but in fact he was an inspirational figure for many musicians, some of them more mainstream-bent than others, while he was also a significant part in the popularization of lo-fi music and cassette culture, and the epitome of what we now commonly call bedroom recordings.

Sadly parts of his brilliance were bipolar disorder, manic depression and schizophrenia, as the man spent much of his life medicated, in and out of mental health facilities.

Daniel Johnston left behind a massive body of work comprised of excellent, extremely raw and extremely direct albums, most of them captured on tape, with the first six Songs of Pain (1981), Don't Be Scared (1982), The What of Whom (1982), More Songs of Pain (1983), Yip/Jump Music (1983) and the iconic Hi, How Are You (1983) being the most prominent ones for essential listening. He was also a great visual artist, as his drawings, paralleled to the music, had been equally organic, charmingly unrefined and beautiful.

The captivating 2005 film, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, by director Jeff Feuerzeig and produced by Henry S. Rosenthal, isn't only a fantastic chronicle of Johnston's life and struggles, but also one the best music documentaries ever put together, and it couldn't come more highly recommended.

In January 2018 we dedicated one of our Mixcloud shows to Daniel Johnston's magnificence, with a mix of tracks by Beach House, Teenage Fanclub, Television Personalities, Tom Waits and many more, which we revisit today.







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