#Somewherecold Records

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The Beremy Jets — Careless. 2018 : Somewherecold.

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OUT NOW! A Journey of Giraffes: Retro Porter (Somewherecold Records, 2024)

OUT NOW! A Journey of Giraffes: Retro Porter (Somewherecold Records, 2024) Retro Porter is the lucky 7th album by A Journey of Giraffes for Somewherecold Records. Recorded in Barcelona and Baltimore, among other places, the album derives its inspiration from the architectural feats of Antoni Gaudi. Using Gaudi’s technique of trencadis- where cracked tile is rearranged and placed in a surreal yet somehow organized pattern- AJOG takes the fragments of sound and applies them in recursive formations. Motifs appear, dissolve, and reappear amidst other motifs undergoing the same process— familiarity escalates in tandem with unfamiliarity at a growing pace. Retro Porter also draws its breath from the idea of the flaneur (see The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin). As described elsewhere, the flaneur “sees the world through a kaleidoscope, finds solitude in a crowd, and delights in anonymity.” In short, everything connects neatly in Retro Porter though the pieces might appear disparate and diffuse. The sounds of this album disorient and orient simultaneously. The sum of all your daydreams writ large.

Retro Porter is the lucky 7th album by A Journey of Giraffes for Somewherecold Records. Recorded in Barcelona and Baltimore, among other places, the album derives its inspiration from the architectural feats of Antoni Gaudi. Using Gaudi’s technique of trencadis- where cracked tile is rearranged and placed in a surreal yet somehow organized pattern- AJOG takes the fragments of sound and applies…

[kimsonvalon]

(Somewherecold Records)

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Moments of Absence by Vision Eternel from the EP For Farewell Of Nostalgia

[musicmakesyousmart]

Blanket Swimming - Perpetual Seeds for Fleeting Time

Somewherecold Records

2019

[earinfluxion]

Ear Influxion 2020 Favorites

Life changes and priorities left me without much time to write about music in 2020. Despite that, Bandcamp Fridays have rekindled my love of discovering new music, connecting with and supporting artists directly, and engaging more deliberately as a listener. In a way, not writing about music allowed me to more fully do all of those things.

Here’s a list in alphabetical order of the various works that have moved me in some significant way. I’d planned to write a blurb about each one, but since that is taking some time, and we’re already into January, I thought I’d do this differently. Instead of linking to reviews from the past year, I will add links to this list as I add reviews after the fact. Many of them are already written, but it’s grown in scale to the extent that I don’t think it would make sense to publish them all in line here.

AHRKH: Beams From a Spiritual Panorama (Golden Ratio Frequencies)

Ellen Allien: Auraa (BPitch Control)

Atom™ <3 (Raster)

Autechre: SIGN (Warp)

Autechre: PLUS (Warp)

Daniel Avery: Love + Light (Mute)

Julianna Barwick: Healing Is a Miracle (Kranky)

William Basinski: Lamentations (Temporary Residence Ltd)

Bellows: Undercurrent (Black Truffle)

Frank Bretschneider: abtasten_holden (Faitiche)

Cabaret Voltaire: Shadow of Fear (Mute)

Caribou: Suddenly (Merge)

Richard Chartier: Variable Dimensions 1-6 (LINE)

CLEARED: The Key (Touch)

Lucretia Dalt: No era sólida (RVNG Intl)

Destroyer: Have We Met (Merge)

Beatrice Dillon: Workaround (PAN)

C. Diab: White Whale (Injazero)

The Fear Ratio: They Can't Be Saved (Skam)

Feu St-Antoine: L’eau Par La Soif (Éditions Appærent)

Gallery S & MoMA Ready: Gallery S (HAUS of ALTR)

Ghostwerk: Ghost Dive (Schematic)

Grand River: Blink a Few Times To Clear Your Eyes (Editions Mego)

Giuseppe Ielasi: Five Wooden Frames (12K)

Ital Tek: Outland (Planet µ)

KMRU: Jar (Seil)

Thomas Köner: Motus (Mille Plateaux)

Gabor Lazar: Source (Planet µ)

Sophia Loizou: Untold (Houndstooth)

Kevin Richard Martin: Frequencies for Leaving Earth Vol. 4 (Bandcamp)

Monolake: Archæopteryx (Imbalance Computer Music)

Morusque: The End of Music (Bandcamp)

Chad Mossholder: Receiver (Somewherecold)

Jake Muir: the hum of your veiled voice (Sferic)

Oneohtrix Point Never: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp)

ONO: Red Summer (American Dreams)

pinkcourtesyphone: Leaving Everything To Be Desired (Room40)

Potter Natalizia Zen: Magari (Ecstatic)

Lyra Pramuk: Fountain (Bedroom Community)

Ana Roxane: Because of a Flower (Kranky)

SAULT: Untitled (Black Is) (Forever Living Originals)

Scanner: An Ascent (DiN)

Simon Scott: Migrations (Touch)

Shit and Shine: Malibu Liquor Store (Rocket Recordings)

Geneva Skeen: Double Bind (Room40)

Richard Skelton: LASTGLACIALMAXIMUM (Corbel Stone)

The Soft Pink Truth: Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (Thrill Jockey)

Speaker Music: Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry (Planet µ)

Squarepusher: Be Up a Hello (Warp)

Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty)

Rian Treanor: File Under UK Metaplasm (Planet µ)

Yaeji: What We Drew (XL)

Ye Gods: Dumah (L.I.E.S.)

Flora Yin-Wong: Holy Palm (Modern Love)

Zakè: Orchestral Studies Collectanea (Past Into the Present)

[chaospanics]

January 2021 Roundup

Or a perpetually-incomplete list of new stuff I listened to (and actually liked lol) this month with a couple personal highlights. 

Some favourites from this month include:

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

Ignited by their love for each other, for playing music together, the sextet found themselves unspooling the most uncompromising recording of their career. Despite all its grandeur, ...The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings honours the very essence of punk rock: the notion that a band needs only be relevant to itself. At last, the Besnard Lakes have crafted a continuous long-form suite: nine tracks that could be listened together as one, like Spiritualized's Lazer Guided Melodies or even Dark Side of the Moon, overflowing with melody and harmony, drone and dazzle, the group's own unique weather.

The Body - I’ve Seen All I Need To See

The Body is a prolific musical force whose creativity is matched only by the astonishing weight of their sound. Duo Lee Buford and Chip King have established their own musical language that reimagines how rhythm, dynamics, and sonics can shape or dismantle song structure. Over the course of two decades, the duo has consistently challenged assumptions and defied categorization, redefining what it means to be a heavy band. On their new album, The Body are again pushing limits and testing the boundaries of the studio to explore the extremes and microtonality of distortion to find its maximal impact. I’ve Seen All I Need To See is The Body at their most incisively bleak, a towering monolith of noise.

Fax Gang - Aethernet 

When asked about what a listen through Aethernet is like, PK Shellboy describes it as “using a consistent sonic palette while also melding the influences of the whole group.” The way that the varying atmospheres find cohesion is through bitcrushed layers that provide a similar otherworldliness to the production on shoegaze albums. Unlike many experimental hip hop artists being enveloped by lo-fi production (intentional or otherwise), Fax Gang's material almost physically crumbles under its own weight. What is left is the rubble in which Shellboy manages to clear with his hypnotic vocal refrains & repetitious bars to completely entrance the listener.

Vicious Blossom - You Breathe Inside Of Me

Pennsylvania artist Viscious Blossom, in conjunction with EJ Hagen from the fabulous HIghspire, makes his debut on Somewherecold Records with this magnificent selection of tracks. Centered in shoegaze, the album harkens back to albums released in the early 2000's but updated with his own style.

Conny Frischauf - Die Drift

Viennese artist Conny Frischauf’s music is a whirl of Kraut, leftfield electronica and synth pop. She playfully shines a new light on on tradition to create a fresh, contemporary sound. Having released a brace of EPs – Effekt & Emotion“ (International Major Label, 2018) and Affekt & Tradition“ (Kame House, 2019) – Frischauf now presents her debut album, Die Drift.

The Notwist - Vertigo Days

On Vertigo Days, the first album in six years for The Notwist, one of Germany’s most iconic independent groups are alive to the possibilities of the moment. Their music has long been open-minded and exploratory, but from its engrossing structure, through its combination of melancholy pop, clangorous electronics, hypnotic Krautrock and driftwork ballads, to its international musical guests, Vertigo Days is both a new step for The Notwist, and a reminder of just how singular they’ve always been. Most importantly, the core trio of Markus and Micha Acher and Cico Beck are reaching out: as Markus reflects, “we wanted to question the concept of a band by adding other voices and ideas, other languages, and also question or blur the idea of national identity.”

Robbie & Mona - EW [nsfw]

EW experiments fearlessly with sonic textures and song structures, and yet the songs can still carry the emotional weight of a Magic Radio ballad. While the overall vibe of the record takes many cues from dream pop and lo-fi indie, nothing is certain on first listen. EW expertly toes the line between deep emotional resonance and alienating disarray.

Luis Vasquez - A Body Of Errors

With this album, Vasquez felt the urgency to break away from The Soft Moon realm and deliver an even more intimate, self-reflecting body of work, while further unveiling inner demons & vulnerability. He continues to explore his notorious angst and visceral pain, but places them in the context of his own physical being, creating the deeply personal, yet relatable and compelling oddity that is A Body Of Errors, which Vasquez describes as a collection of themes to living in the human body.

Full (for now.. still quite a bit in my backlog 🤦) list below.

LP/EPs:

Alphabet Holds Hostage - Truth In Habitual (EP)

Baio - Dead Hand Control

Bear Call - Systemizer

Beautify Junkyards - Cosmorama

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

The Body - I’ve Seen All I Need To See

Buke & Gase and Sō Percussion - A Record Of (EP)

Buzzy Lee - Spoiled Love

Carlo Alfonso - The Little Things We Both Shared

Carmen Villain - Sketch For Winter IX: Perlita

Cathedral Bells - Ether

Collapse Of Dawn - ... Of Dreams & Nightmares

Conny Frischauf - Die Drift

Dave Scanlon - Pink In Each, Bright Blue, Bright Green

Dekalb Works - Duologue

Divan Draw and the British Public - The New Chicago Sound

Dosser - Brainscan (EP)

dvr - u can call me dillon (EP)

ELLES and Violet - Midnight At The Premier Inn (EP)

Elori Saxl - The Blue Of Distance

Fax Gang - Aethernet

Foley - Songs Of The Lyrebird

Frat Mouse - Plywood

Hether - Sticky Thumb

Hilang Child - Every Mover

Kate Davis - Strange Boy

Katie Dey - Urdata

Kyozo - EP 01 (EP)

Lande Hekt - Going To Hell

Lauren Lakis - Daughter Language

LICE - WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear

Luis Vasquez - A Body Of Errors

Nicolas Fehr - Violet XLVIII

The Notwist - Vertigo Days

Robbie & Mona - EW

Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

Spirit Of The Bear - Spirit Of The Bear

The Spy - Deep Dream

Still Corners - The Last Exit

Subsonic Eye - Nature Of Things

Typhoon - Sympathetic Magic

Vicious Blossom - You Breathe Inside of Me

Widowspeak - Honeychurch (EP)

Singles:

Alice Glass - SUFFER AND SWALLOW

Amulets - Heaviest Wait

Bunny Hoova - WEAK

Cal Fish - Checking In On A Friend

caro♡ - 7 waves

Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle - Anhedonia

Cigarettes For Breakfast - Wait

The fin. - Deepest Ocean

Glass Beach - Beach Life In Death

Goat Girl - Badibaba

Half Waif - Orange Blossoms

Juan Wauters - Presentation (ft. Nick Hakim and Benamin)

Little Comets - Total Abject Paranoia

Mia Joy - Haha 

Mint Julep - Black Maps

Mogwai - Ritchie Sacramento

Ruby Haunt - Reverse Creek

Sarah Mary Chadwick - Full Mood

Sculpture Club - Just One More

Spunsugar - (You Never) Turn Around

Sweet Trip - Walkers Beware! We Drive Into The Sun

Tomaga - Intimate Immensity

Wy - Come Here 

Xiu Xiu - A Bottle Of Rum (ft. Grouper)

For the past 4 years I’ve always published my yearly playlist on my birthday at the end of December, but I’m considering sharing it earlier this year to make it more collaborative and maybe help people get more out of it by discovering new stuff at the same time I do... I just don’t like making public something so incomplete LOL. So for now, these monthly posts will do while I sit on this obviously very life-altering decision 😂If you’re reading this please always feel free to recommend anything to me 💚

my last.fm ～ spotify 

[freakflagbyiana]

A little over a year ago I had the honor of working on this Bowie tribute piece with @singlelash + @danieldidomenico for the release of their Heathen cover single. I did hair + makeup and I had to get his hair to dry really flatly slicked back before we could break it up like this... Watching Daniel work to get all the effects right was pretty amazing though, and Nic being able to nail this song in the first place is very impressive. 👏 Proud of y'all 👏 Check my story for the Spotify code to give it a listen! 🎧🎶⚡🎶 #Repost @singlelash • • • • • • Surprise! As many of you know, I’m a huge Bowie fan and today I’m happy to reveal a cover I recorded of his beautiful track ‘Heathen’. I even recreated the iconic album art with my friends @danieldidomenico and @freakflagbyiana ! Along with an original b-side, this whole project has been a fun way to pay tribute to the man I consider like a musical father! It premiered today on Somewherecold! (Link in bio!) In their words: “They do the track more than a justice and, with their own gorgeously dark flare, enhance the track’s more dulcet, darkly melancholy tones. Nicolas Nadeau‘s vocals are a beautiful double to Bowie‘s own rendition of the song and the acoustic guitar that flows throughout the track picks up on those more subtle currents that inhabit the original.” ***** @somewherecold16 #singlelash #davidbowie #bowie #heathen (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJzRBR9Fy57/?igshid=pnjzzlfrbbk

[visioneternel]

Ecstatic to announce that "For Farewell Of Nostalgia", Vision Eternel's newest extended play, will be released on September 14th 2020! The release will come out on compact disc, compact cassette and digitally through Somewherecold Records, Geertruida and Abridged Pause Recordings!

Read the full press release here: https://www.visioneternel.com/vision-eternels-for-farewell-of-nostalgia-extended-play-scheduled-for-release

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Pre-Orders and Updates: The Corrupting Sea, Odist, and Lavelle

Pre-Orders and Updates: The Corrupting Sea, Odist, and Lavelle

Hello Somewherecold Readers. It’s been a while since I have posted simply because my health and live in general have gotten in the way of so much of the things I do. Healing has been a huge part of that process. It’s 2024 and we have finally begun to roll out pre-orders, and I need to mention an album that came out the end of 2023 that garnered little attention due to my situation. First up, The…

[beatasticband]

#bandcamp day today, all proceeds go to artists and labels <3 Head to https://shorediverecords.bandcamp.com/ we have cds and vinyls left for a few artists . May we also recommend to you Blackjack Illuminist Records , Somewherecold Records Velouria Recordz and Last Night From Glasgow

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Find A Song about yearning to break out of the self-imposed chains but knowing that it will probably never happen

Tombstones In Their Eyes - Maybe Someday

LA’s Tombstones In Their Eyes announce ‘Maybe Someday’ single ahead of full LP. This is the LA shoegaze-psych rock's first release with Somewherecold Records.

Tombstones create walls of sound that are simultaneously sonorous and hazy. These are cavernous, stoner lullabies that are wrapped in dark shoegazing dreamscapes and descend into post-rock soundscapes.

"Maybe Someday is a magic song!  It came together quickly and I fell in love with the demo.  Was scared to re-record it in the studio, so we were very careful not to mess with the magic.  Maybe Someday says it all, as far as the theme of the song goes.  It's about yearning to break out of the self-imposed chains but knowing that it will probably never happen. So sad, really," says John Treanor. "It features some wonderful melody guitar playing by Josh in the breaks and Stephen even played a spring to make the beat sound more clock-like and hypnotic.  Mike plays a straight ahead bass line to further accentuate the steady movement towards the payoff of the final chorus.  One of my favorite songs and I've listened to it hundreds of times." (press release)

[musicmakesyousmart]

Nicholas Maloney - Grey Matter

Somewherecold Records

2019

[noiseartists]

Noise Artists' playlist: July 2019

And in no particular order:

Day and Dream just released a gem of a LP, both clever and simple.

This song, from the Parisian Band Marble Arch is a light and feet tapping Dream pop act. A great way to start your day with a smile.

New age healers just releasing a new album. New Age Healers is Owen Murphy, Scott Matthews (The Wannabes / The Piniellas) on drum / vocal bots, Adam Vernick (Lemuria / Devotion) on guitar based technology, and Allen Murray (Modern Athletics) on the bass propulsion system

From Indonesia a beautiful song from a really good band

From Mexico City, Rilev is one of the bands we will follow closely. Superb.

On Somewherecold Records, the new single of The Microdance is a little pleasure full of Noise Pop life

From Norway, this little space gem.

It is not very often that we have music from Uruguay. Shame when you listen to this post-punk piece.

Painted Mirror was formed in March 2016 in Baltimore, MD by vocalist/keyboardist Sam Morgan, bassist Brian Fee, drummer John Theuerkauf, and guitarist Jake Smith. The band combines elements of post punk, shoegaze, and darkwave electronic music to create an ethereal atmosphere housed in a traditional pop song format.

International experimental musical collective based in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. / Guangzhou, China / Amman, Jordan. Featuring members of Artificial Ghost, Lèng, If Signifying, CAssette and others.

[kimsonvalon]

The Corrupting Sea - "The Spark" (Somewherecold Records, 2020)

[kirigirisurecordings]

Ross Scott-Buccleuch runs the UK tape label Steep Gloss releasing dada, abstract, conceptual, sinister, delirious, unclassifiable and bewildering sounds. He also records solo under the name Diurnal Burdens and is 1/2 of the duo Liminal Haze (with Craig Johnson aka Rovellasca).

Steep Gloss bandcamp: https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com 1. Ingrid Plum , Anton Mobin & Graham Dunning - Mathematics of Navigation (Fort Evil Fruit) 0:00 

2. Karen Constance - Nothing to See Hear (excerpt) (Chocolate Monk) 3:54 

3. Kiera Mulhern - Cave Outside of Which (excerpt) (Amplify 2020) 9:02 

4. Cody Brant - Aurora Pink (Tunnel Secret) 14:05 

5. The Death & Beauty Foundation - Song Of The Houseproud Ghost (Somnimage) 17:04 

6. MVK - Mantle (Invisible City Records) 20:22 

7. Nicholas Maloney - Grey Matter (Somewherecold Records) 26:38 

8. Mattias Gustafsson - Epley Maneuver (Altar of Flies) 30:31 

9. Mt. Accord - Postcards from a Dream II (Czaszka) 38:50 

10. Ambasce - Il Nastro Non E' Vuoto (Falt) 42:32 

11. Guy Reibel - Granulations 1 (INA-GRM)  48:00 

12. La Fusiller - La Civilisation part 13 (Royal Sperm) 51:50 

13. Pituitary Hunter - Fleisch Pond Face B (excerpt) (Scum Yr Earth) 53:29 

14. Evicshen - Classical Mechanics (American Dreams Records) 55:20 

15. The Conduits - Negative Ion Therapy (Chair Chair Tapes) 57:11 

16. Bouchons D'Oreilles - The Errant One (Czaszka) 1:01:25