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Canadian, brother and sister duo Holobody have released a new video for their track “Riverbed.” Sea Oleena and Felix Green (aka Luke and Charlotte Loseth), have just released their debut LP Riverhood via Mush Records. The dreamy pop song got a fantastic treatment for the video. It’s an animated, paper cut style full of color and beautiful style that seems to compliment the shoe-gazy, dream-pop style of the song.
If it tickles your fancy, I’d highly suggest checking out the the record over on Holobody’s bandcamp page. I have been listening to the record quite a bit since I got it.
Montreal born singer-songwriter Jesse Marchant, more commonly known to fans as JBM, just released his haunting new album “Stray Ashes,” a masterful follow up to 2008’s “Not Even In July,” and the years in between releases have seen the Canadian’s fanbase swell. A touring schedule with the likes of Elvis Perkins and St. Vincent, just to to name a few, has also opened new hearts to his captivating sound. He has been compared to one of the greatest singer-songwriters to pick up a guitar, Nick Drake, and that is praise not thrown around lightly. It appears the years have been kind to Mr. Marchant.
The album cover depicts a snow-covered rooftop with snow-covered mountains in the distance, giving the soon-to-be listener a sense that they are in for a stark, melancholy sound, reminiscent of a winter’s day in the woods contemplating loves lost and times gone by. This idea isn’t too far off with the opening track, “Ferry,” which immediately draws the listener in with the line “Given all I can/For the last time/Find an easier branch/To hang your heart around.” When an album opens with lyrics like these you should expect to be moved, perhaps even to tears. The second song on the album, “Only Now,” goes for the knockout blow as Marchant sings “Friend of mine/Where’s your heart reside?/You were here one day/The next day gone.” I know what you are thinking…. “how can an album have that much emotional weight in just the first few tracks?…clearly it will lighten up on the heartstrings as the album continues, right?” Not so. Marchant is just getting started tearing down your emotional barriers, and as the tracks go on and you find yourself at the exquisite track “You Always Keep Around,” you note that this is sometimes how music is supposed to make you feel. JBM is a master at pulling you in close, exposing those areas of your mind that you keep closed to everyone, creeping into the places in your heart afforded to only those deemed worthy.
“Stray Ashes” begs you to give in and accept, and by the time the closing track “Keeping Up” hits you, and the singer closes with the line “I’m afraid I can’t afford to wait,” you realize you have already given in. And you are a better person for it.
Buy Stray Ashes
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Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius is back again with a new single “Back Seat,” is a pop number that blends an infectious shimmering beat with a cool bass line that creates a slow burner; the kind of song that you listen to while cruising the streets late at night.
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One man recording project turned full on band, Bridge Underwater, has another sweet little indie pop track “Take a Piece of Me.” It seems as though, every couple months the band releases another darling of a track; they seem to be songsmiths of love, lovelorn, and pining over you kind of songs. On “Take a Piece of Me,” their jangly guitars comfort a warmhearted pop song.
Bridge Underwater on Facebook and Bandcamp
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Langhorne Slim’s new record comes out in a couple of weeks, his tour begins quite soon, and now he and the Law are releasing a video for single “The Way We Move.” Â Just like his live shows, and his music, this song and video is pure joy. Â Absolutely pure joy. Â Check out the video, and grab yourself a preorder of this record… its gonna be a good one.
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Pittsburgh pals 1,2,3 had divulged to me months ago that they had finished shooting a video for their track “Scared, But Not That Scared” off of their fantastic album, New Heaven
