NEW TRACK: Caroline Says – ‘I Tried’

Imaginative, delicate and tainted with sadness, Caroline Says‘ latest single ‘I Tried’ is a somber yet sweet affair. The Austin-via-Alabama songwriter penned the song “from the perspective of a washed up Hollywood actress, remembering her careless youth” and produced it in her “disgusting mildewed basement apartment”.

We’re impressed by her resilience, and her ability to create something beautiful whilst working three jobs, living in the damp, and putting up with noisy neighbours. ‘I Tried’ is taken from Caroline Says new album No Fool Like An Old Fool, which is set to be released on 16th March via Western Vinyl.

Listen to ‘I Tried’ below, and follow her on Facebook for more updates.

Pre-order your copy of No Fool Like An Old Fool here.

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WATCH: The Shacks – ‘Follow Me’

A polished collection of alluring visuals to accompany a graceful, alternative tune, New York band The Shacks have shared a new video for their latest single ‘Follow Me’. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming album Haze, which is set to be released on 23rd March via Big Crown Records.

Watch the ‘Follow Me’ video directed by Catherine Orchard below and follow The Shacks on Facebook for more updates.

Haze will be released on 23rd March. Pre-order your copy here.

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Track Of The Day: Mesadorm – ‘Yours And Not Yours’

An urgent exploration of insecurity and doubt, London-based collaborative project Mesadorm have shared their latest single ‘Yours and Not Yours’. Released via Babylegs Records earlier this month, the track is taken from the band’s upcoming album Heterogaster, which will be released in Spring 2018.

Formed in 2015 by a group of long term friends, Mesadorm are a combination of each band member’s musical and artistic influences. Every individual is a performer in their own right, having written and/or recorded with such artists as Goldfrapp, MIKA, Paloma Faith, Rae Morris, The Magnetic North, John Metcalfe, The Unthanks, Hannah Peel and Frank Turner.

‘Yours and Not Yours’ is an amalgamation of each band member’s talent, collectively exploring an intense sense of doubt, ricocheting between security and unease with the help of an abrasive synth line and urgent, rich vocals.

“’YANY’ is a purging song for me,” vocalist & songwriter Blythe Pepino explains about the track.”It has something of the moment when self-doubt and doubt in everything around us collides. A special kind of doubt I think us ‘beneficiaries’ of the Western Capitalist model are now experiencing. The kind where, perhaps at a certain destabilising point in your life, the kind faces of friends and family and lovers melt into the smiles of the adverts forced upon you for addictive crap you don’t need. It has something of the taste of looking for home when everything you’ve been grown to enjoy carries the smell of burnt flesh and deceit. After that you must learn to look for what joy really is to you because the potential to fill yourself up with the other stuff is very real and very easy and all the while someone else is dying for your comfort on the TV screen.”

Listen to ‘Yours And Not Yours’ below, and follow the band on Facebook for more updates.

Mesadorm are: Blythe Pepino (Vox/Keys), Aaron Zahl (Guitars/Production), Daisy Palmer (Drums/Bvs), David Johnston (Bass/Bvs), Jo Silverston (Cello/Bvs).

Photo Credit: Sarah Cresswell

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ALBUM: Screaming Females – ‘All At Once’

Screaming Females have been touring and producing records for just shy of a decade and they’ve managed to keep both their energy and integrity in tact with the release of their seventh studio album, All At Once.

Released via Don Giovanni Records and produced by long-time collaborator Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Mastodon, Murder City Devils), band members Marissa Paternoster (guitar, vox), Mike Abbate (bass), and Jarrett Dougherty (drums) spent a month recording in Seattle and the result is a relentless fourteen track record.

Powerful opener ‘Glass House’ is fueled by filthy bass lines and sturdy vocals from Paternoster. Despite sounding like a break-up song, following track ‘Black Moon’ is actually about “the planet abandoning humanity,” but thanks to the riotous guitar and knockout percussion it doesn’t sound as bleak as that.

‘I’ll Make You Sorry’ is no idle threat, even if Paternoster asks “am I losing faith in my own anger?” ‘Dirt’ kicks up the musical dust again, before ‘Agnes Martin’ busts wide open with its “emblems built of garbage” and devious riffs. ‘Deeply’ is a passionate two minutes of slow-building, burning vocals, whilst ‘Soft Domination’ is equally as heated.

Despite originally being conceived as a minimalist drum machine-driven demo, ‘End Of My Bloodline’ sounds fleshy enough, while bookend tracks ‘Chamber For Sleep (Part One)’ and ‘Chamber For Sleep (Part Two)’ ponder a similarly morbid subject: the afterlife. “It’s sort of about sitting around, fantasizing about your own funeral and kind of wishing you could be there to see what it would be like,” explains Paternoster. “I would consider that a very universal human experience. Or maybe I’m crazy. I have no idea.”

Crazy or not, ‘Bird In Space’ soars like “a bird in paradise” with its rich guitar sounds and contrasts well with the jarring opening on following track ‘Fantasy Lens’. ‘My Body’, ‘Drop By Drop’ and ‘Step Outside’ sound minimal, but they’re all loud lessons in self-restraint, something Paternoster said she was “conscious” of whilst writing this album, wary of adding too many layers to each song.

Screaming Females seventh offering is a lively affair that should be played loud and All At Once for full effect. It’s sure to please fans who have stayed loyal to the band along the way and grasp the attention of new ears too.

You can order your copy of All At Once here. Follow Screaming Females on Facebook for more updates.

Photo Credit: Farrah Skeiky

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