Dee Dee, the original Dum Dum Girl, sent out an email with a new song and another incredibly intimate explanation including a poem from her favorite Pre-Raphaelite Brother (Rosetti was rad). “Bedroom Eyes” is much more uptempo but incredibly beautiful and harmonic. Here’s what Dee Dee had to say:
“Bedroom Eyes,” the first proper single off of Only In Dreams, will be released shortly in mp3 format and eventually as a 7″ with a dreamy b-side cover. It was the last song I wrote before we holed up in our LA practice space for two weeks before recording. It’s a special sort of confusion and frustration brought on by lack of sleep.
I remember reading the following poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as I saw trails and tripped out a bit before the pills finally kicked in.
Love within the context of insomnia and separation?
Kinda my thing
This version below is EXTREMELY high-quality, a 40MB wav file. That’s pretty unheard of–though its becoming evident Only In Dreams is very special.
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When I saw Mississippi oddity Cole Furlow at SXSW this year with a new lineup, an added guitar and a full year of releasing music on the Dead Gaze moniker I was completely blown away. He had found his sound. He had grown incredibly since he played our unofficial SXSW show in 2010. With this new release on record-makers Group Tightener, Furlow displays mature songwriting and further fine-tunage of his gonzo-pop. Check out the 2nd track on the 10″ below titled “It’s Not Real”.
Pre-order Dead Gaze 10″ over at Group Tightener
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Yours Truly pointed this out via a tweet a few min ago, and I had to post it regardless of the fact that it is now 2am. Crazy progression through the song–milk chocolate-smooth vocals surrounded by blocks of snare and synth. Deptford Goth is about one superstar producer and a cognac bottle away from R&B stardom.
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Hazy-ass new video from Still Corners, but it plays well with the ethereal instrumentation around a beautiful voice, a sound much indebted to Slowdive.
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It’s been a while since we heard Angel Olsen‘s splendid vocal-work, a voice that is at once tragic, anxious but sweet and posh. A voice you may fall for with each listen. Luckily her songwriting ability is also notable, the combination of the two plays like a heartbroken Judy Garland consoling herself by singing Tom Waits songs. This song “In The Morning” comes courtesy of the TwoSyllable Records Chicago Compilation, and you guessed it, all artists are from Chi-town. TwoSyllable actually refers to this as a “mixtape” but it has passion-project written all over it; there is an intimate write-up from one of the owners of the label, if you do anything, make sure you read it. Its also available for purchase via cassette and digitally. Also if you’ve never seen Yours Truly‘s private musical portrait of Angel Olsen, please watch, note how reticent she is at first but blooms through the song.
previously:
Angel Olsen – Creator, Destroyer
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Molasses-bubbling third-coast beat and dope-slow rhymes from a Harlem-born kid who is showing up all over the place these days.
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Lush Estonian sound-scape from Maria Minerva. Out on always awesome Not Not Fun.
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I can’t tell if I’m feeling serious Bossanova vibes from this Twin Sister track, or something like Eastern-European Harmonia, maybe both–either way its a hands-on-hip-shoulder-swaying gem from their new record In Heaven.
In Heaven is out on Domino Records September 27th.
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