Leeds collective HONESTY have shared a brand new track titled ‘PUSHING UP DAISIES’. George Mitchell takes lead vocal duties, delivering a gentle, intimate performance that contrasts the song’s morbid subject matter. The result is a subtly exhilarating take on club music that’s become HONESTY’s signature and the reason they’re one of the most essential dance acts coming out of the UK. The track was released today in tandem with ‘MEASURE ME (ALT MIX),’ which injects even more rave-fueled vitality into the lead single from their debut album which came out this Feb, this time led by an ethereal performance from vocalist Imi Marston. Listen here:
Today, the hazy and hypnotic duo Belong share the closing track from their upcoming album, Realistic IX.
‘AM/PM’ is a driving track full of static which rounds off the album on an uptempo and propulsive note.
Realistic IX, the third full-length by the duo of Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich, aka Belong, is both an expansion and excavation of their signature acid-washed songcraft. Bleached guitars, metronomic drums, and buried voices rev, swirl, and seethe across shifting gradients of haze and hypnosis, alternately driving and diffuse. Melodies surge closer to the surface, flexing their form before resubmerging into quickening currents of feedback. Elsewhere the elements dissipate into a dusk of murk and microtonalities, electricity liberated back into infinite night.
Although it’s been 13 years since Belong’s prior Kranky offering, Common Era, none of the duo’s rare synergy has decayed in the interim. Jones and Dietrich’s commitment to oblique states of motorik drone and liminal emotion continues to evolve and unfold, increasingly tactile and unreal, an alluring glow glimpsed through fogged windows at witching hours.
Listen to ‘AM/PM’ here:
Realistic IX will be released via kranky on 9th August.
Nothing last forever. Yet moments are timeless and will always have existed. This is the song’s central theme. The video, directed by Jason P. Schumacher features Volstead’s Emporium, an underground speakeasy in Minneapolis. The video plays off of the lyrics which address feeling trapped in a melodrama.
"It’s about my divorce and all. The whole album is. I was feeling like a character at the time, like I was stuck in a movie where the end was clear, and my feelings were larger than life. I realize now I did have control and responsibility but in a lot of ways it feels like fate too.” – Carrellee
‘Stay’ is the hazy, electro-ballad from electronic artist Carrellee’s latest album, Scale Of Dreams. Watch the video here:
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CARRELLEE’S 2023 SCALE OF DREAMS TOUR
2/23 Indianapolis, IN @ State Street Pub 2/24 Louisville, KY @ Art Sanctuary 2/25 Lexington, KY @ The Green Lantern 2/26 Johnson City, TN @ The HideAway 2/27 Savannah, GA @ Lodge of Sorrows 3/1 Gainesville, GA @ Portal 4 3/2 Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub w/ Vision Video 3/3 St. Augustine, FL @ Sarbez! 3/4 Tampa, FL @ New World Music Hall w/ Vision Video 3/5 Jacksonville, FL @ 1904 Music Hall 3/8 Tallahassee, FL @ The Bark 3/9 Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box 3/10 Atlanta, GA @ Sweetwater 3/11 Huntsville, AL @ Gold Sprint w/ Snooper 3/12 Chattanooga, TN @ Exit Off Main Street 3/13 Nashville, TN @ The East Room 4/1 Madison, WI @ Mickeys Tavern w/ Scott Yoder 4/22 Madison, WI @ Crystal Corner 4/27 Tulsa, OK @ Sound Pony 4/28 Norman, OK @ Opolis 4/29 Wichita, OK @ Private Party 4/30 Colorado Springs, CO @ Fritzys 5/3 Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Mezzanine 5/4 Tucson, NM @ Groundworks 5/5 San Diego, NM @ The Comet 5/6 Los Angeles, CA @ Luna Negra Goth Nights 5/7 Oakland, CA @ The Golden Bull 5/9 Eugene, OR @ Old Nick’s Pub 5/10 Olympia, OR @ Le Voyeur 5/11 Seattle, OR @ The Cherry Pit w/ Scott Yoder 5/14 Vancouver, Canada @ Verboden Festival 5/18 Portland, OR @ Coffin Club 5/20 Boise, ID @ Boise Hive 5/23 Salt Lake City, ID @ Kilby Court 5/24 Fort Collins, CO @ Lyric Cinema 5/25 Denver, CO @ The Crypt 5/26 Kansas City, MO @ recordBar 5/27 Omaha, NE @ The Sydney 5/28 Ames, IA @ The London. Underground
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