Christmas Advent #6 – Skewed

Today’s treat comes via Melbourne’s shoegaze dream-Poppers Day Ravies. Their 2015 LP Liminal Zones rolls and spikes with synths, guitar hooks and slow burning melodies that burn like a drug you can’t put down. ‘Skewed’ is just one purler from their full box of shimmering Pop beauties.

Christmas Advent #5 – Sometimes The Doubles Just Don’t Go Your Way

Legends of Countries ‘Talk About Country’ glows beautifully like the tales of The Highwaymen and Townes Van Zandt, with the understated sadness of Withered Hand sprinkled on top. Country guitars and choruses bounce along with nods, winks and joined dots from Country music’s finest to DIY Punk hero Kathleen Hanna and Indiepop legend Amelia Fletcher. Lovely stuff, as Shakin’ Stevens would say.

Christmas Advent #4 – Love is a Drug, and a Kiss is a Hit

Today’s door opens to reveal a treat from San Diego’s wonderful TV Girl. ‘Like We Planned’ is another perfect Pop mosaic cut from the dreamland of electronic samples and outsider Pop with the added gift of Madison Acid taking the scissors for a spin.

Christmas Advent #3 – Dickhead

Christmas Advent number 3 comes via DIY Punk super-group No Ditching. Their 2015 EP Inseparable rages like Marceline and the Scream Queens busking on a Durham street corner. The one minute riot that is ‘Dickhead’ has never been so appropriate.

Christmas Advent #2 – Take Me By The Hand, I Don’t Give A Damn

WESTKUST’s ‘LAST FOREVER’ LP sounds like all your favourite songs being played in a row between Veronica Falls and Makthaverskan in the ultimate Goth party of Dai Disco’s dreams. Spiking guitars and thundering choruses collide in a tidal wave that sweeps you off your feet, leaving you breathless for 33 minutes of storming fuzzed-up pop euphoria. Dai Disco, Lesher, and Dai Goth have all succumbed to its beauty, sacrificing what could have been a bottle of Crumpton Oaks to secure it, here. Even Lesher (who values Crumpton Oaks over almost anything), believes it to be his finest purchase ever for under a fiver, and was heard recently saying “ahhh not even Frosty Jacks on cold winter night comes close to this, lovely stuff.”

Christmas Advent #1 – Hands That We Used To Hold

After a lengthy absence spent feeding cats and touching tips with the best and worst of them, Bruce Foresight's vision has come true. I can no longer resist the opportunity to lay some sweet beats down for you to chew up like Father Christmas chomping on the pie you keep your weed in.

To begin the journey we head back to 2010 in the form of Lucky Delucci’s beautiful December 1986. Magical melodies float around Josef Prygodzicz’s winter storm of love and loss, which seems to come to the front like Frankel in the last furlong during the cold slow days of Christmas.

Josef is now spinning magical landscapes here with his new band Winter Villains.

 

Reeling

Here's a mix found embedded in the walls of Dai Disco's lair that featured in the May edition of the free fishing, music, and poetry zine Fishin' Rod Reel Handle. Most of the music is available on bandcamp on the 'name your price' scheme, so give the ones that make you smile, cry, and throw shit at the walls all of your dole money.

1. Jump start - joyride!
2. Swirl - WESTKUST
3. Drifting - The New Romantics
4. Reeling - Feature
5. Last Year - Joanna Gruesome
6. Woman in the Shadows - Ghost Car
7. Hardcore - NO/NO
8. Come See Me - Love L.U.V
9. Sleeping in the Backseat - Tigercats
10. When I Was Your Age - Mammoth Penguins (debut album Hide and Seek is due out on Fortuna POP! on 10 July)
11. Stuck Up A Hornbeam - Half Man Half Biscuit
12. One Too Many Things - Surf City
13. Albany - Spinning Coin
14. Nobody’s Empire - Belle and Sebastian
15. The Legend of Chavo Guerrero - The Mountain Goats
16. Statues and Snowmen - Storm the Palace
17. Candy - Knickers

Reel in Side 1 and Side 2 by following the links