#Earth Libraries

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8/21/24.

Mother Sun (Kamloops, British Columbia) play the kind of indie pop that might be called sophisticated. The songwriting's structures and timing isn't necessarily predicatable and Jared Doherty's lyrics are thematic and thoughtful. In fact, he said, of "Meadow 6",

"On this record with a lot of the lyrics, I became really interested in plants and humans’ relationship with them and the earth; gathering & farming, commodifying & exploiting, researching & controlling, using to alter consciousness. A lot of the early musical ideas started sitting outside playing guitar in the garden. I think with these songs we wanted to create a record that sonically speaks to the magic that is constantly unfolding all around in the natural world."

This kind of makes me think of Elephant 6 bands, The Teeth, Starlight Mints, French Cassettes or The Botticellis.

This is released by the ever-reliable Earth Libraries label based in Birmingham, Alabama.

[dustedmagazine]

Friend of a Friend — Desire! (Earth Libraries)

Claire Molek’s voice has always been a little spooky, a clear art-pop soprano wandering through subterranean caverns of echo. She sounds a bit like Beth Gibbons, which is to say, a fragile spirit trapped in machine landscapes, and though she can unleash a powerful, gutsy belt, there’s something oddly disembodied about her vocal trills and flourishes. That’s truer than ever on this third Friend of a Friend album, recorded with partner Jason Savsani in a haunted house not far from their Chicago stomping grounds.

Beatique.net tells the story this way. Molek and Savsani booked an Air BnB for their recording sessions, a Victorian house in rural Illinois. They didn’t know, at the time, that the house been a gathering place for spiritualists or that it had served as the site for the first exorcism in Illinois. But they sensed an eerie vibe, even before the property’s owner called to warn them that they might hear weird stories about their rental from the neighbors. Creaks and knocks and an unsettling atmosphere set the artists on edge, but they recorded there anyway, and you can hear some otherworldly atmospheres floating through these gothy, dance pop songs.

Consider “Oasis,” the album’s tense, jangling opener, a hedge of strummed guitars framing Molek’s torchy alto. The music is all staccato, indie-rock introspection, a thump of drums, a slash of guitars, a cascading, flowering thread of vocal melody swamped in looming, king-sized sonic space. “I can see it in your eyes,” Molek spits, suddenly confrontational, as the dance pop drums and synths rear up behind her. It’s a fully charged, desperate turn in the music, that sounds like danger lurks in some dark corner you can’t see.

I like, too, how “FTV,” filters in from a distance, its confiding melody shrouded by hiss and static, its whispers nestled in your ear where only you can hear them. The tune is sweet and simple and inviting, but it has a ghostly, uncanny air. And “Beautiful People,” to my ears, the prettiest of these song, ululates with a nearly middle eastern flair, its wobbling guitar lick punctuated by box drums, Molek crooning and wailing like a spirit possessed. You wouldn’t want all your favorite artists to record in the midst of a séance, but it works for Friend of a Friend.

Jennifer Kelly

[verytinysongs]

Counterways by Arbes

Band Name: Arbes Label: Third Eye Stimuli Records(AU), Earth Libraries(US/EU) Location: Melbourne, Australia Release Date: November 1, 2024 Tags: alternative, dream pop, indie pop, indie rock, psychedelic pop, highly recommended  Recommended Tunes: Impasse, Full Sight Links: Bandcamp

[lupiiny]

Donna Noble

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Earth-138 (Spider-Punk) concept art for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse by Patrick O'Keefe

"It needed to feel like something that was wheat pasted on the wall of an illegal after hours punk venue. His world pays homage to the punk posters of The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, My chemical Romance." - Patrick O'Keefe on Twitter

[shisasan]

June 8, 1897 Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

[totallyottie99]

For our tomorrow

[wedarkacademia]

[wayward-banana]

second play through going well. very serious game

[cent-scratchnsniff]

hoptal

[arc-hus]

Library in the Earth, Kisarazu, Japan - Hiroshi Nakamura

[bandcampsnoop]

5/27/24.

I don't know why I'm surprised by this - given the sheer amount of music I listen to it's inevitable that I forget about bands I've posted here.

But this is the 3rd post about the work of this Melbourne, Australia based band that serves as the vehicle for the work of Dylan Young. In the past Lachlan Denton served as the drummer. Liam "Snowy" Halliwell mastered the last album "So Familiar" and plays saxophone here. Good Morning's Stefan Blair co-produced and engineered this. So Dylan Young has connections to some of Australia's best musicians

"Material" grooves and sounds more indie pop than other songs that are clearly influenced, as the Bandcamp page states, by The Beach Boys and Nillson. Previous posts also mentioned Field Music and Steely Dan.

This is being released by Spoilsport Records (Australia) and Earth Libraries (US).

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Wardrobe // Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) // Doctor Who Season 4 (2008) + specials

[rememberthelullabies]

"Oi, don't diss the sonic!"

(Do you think he was thinking of Donna when he said that? He was definitely thinking of Donna.)

-5x08 / 4x08

[mournivaldisco]

This is one of the funniest exchanges I've read in the Heresy:

Meduson: I'm tired.

Vulkan: I have been slain repeatedly.

Meduson: Fair.

[spiderverseconceptart]

Earth-42 "Villain City" and The Bar With No Name (both cut) concept art for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse by Peter Chan ( 1, 2.)

Created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary, The Bar With No Name debuted in CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #318. The location was originally intended as a peaceful place for villains to hang out. There’s even a policy against fighting, which has been on several occasions been enforced against heroes trying to bust villains For example, in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #563, Peter Parker entered The Bar With No Name in search of a villain. The location’s bartender stopped a fight and made clear that Spider-Man was welcome to drink at the establishment, provided he didn’t start any trouble. - via: Marvel.com