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Squirrel Flower – Red Shoulder

admin — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:09 +0000

Squirrel Flower (he moniker of Ella O’Connor Williams ) has announced her debut album I Was Born Swimming, out January 31st on Full Time Hobby. First single Red Shoulder is a melancholic and atmospheric stunner, that simmers with potency, all soulful guitars, haunting vocals, and crashing choruses. Squirrel Flower’s music is steely and confident, at the same time as being gently ethereal. Brooding and delicate, she’s crafting something really special.

‘Red Shoulder is a song about destabilisation and dissociation,’ explains Williams. ‘Something soft and tender becomes warped and sinister, turning into sensory overload and confusion. How can something so lovely turn painful and claustrophobic? The song ends with a heavy and visceral guitar solo, attempting to reground what went awry.’

Katie von Schleicher – Shitty Hits

admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:01:03 +0000

Katie von Schleicher knows that these hits are anything but shitty. Shitty Hits, Von Schleicher’s self-produced and co-engineered debut, was created on a tape machine at her childhood home in Maryland. It’s a hazy album about growing up and the struggles of simply being a human. It’s not grand or profound, but just life. Packed with pop laden tunes it navigates all the vicissitudes of life, and does so in a way that makes you want to go along for the ride. Out now on Full Time Hobby.

Diagrams – Gentle Morning Song

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 08:24:13 +0000

‘Relationships are a constant thread. In all their frustrating, exciting, mundane, beautiful, wonderful, sexy, scary glory,’ says Sam Genders, aka Diagrams. On Gentle Morning Song we get the feeling that he is embracing that idea of life in all its glory. His clipped and soothing vocal tones over the soft jitter of guitars and eclectic dalliance into electric make this a busy but wholesome venture into the technicolour glorious frustrations of life. The ‘world isn’t waiting for us any more, but it whispers softly through the door’ he sings, in a mode of sanguine acceptance, before a rousing shiver of hopeful instruments and the sounds of birds twittering and happy chatter round things off. New album Chromatics is out on Jan 12th via Full Time Hobby.