Category: Indie Rock Mixtapes

Back by popular demand, and because we have another collection of seven amazing artists and bands in this latest installment of 7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear takes us from Sweden and Australia to England and Portugal and Brazil.

In our last installment of the 7 Bands series, which was a hit with listeners, we featured artists and bands like The Bynars, Crash Island, Kid Cadaver and Sun Club.

In This Edition:

Gonçalo – Lisbon, Portugal
Brockley Forest – Bristol, England
Cat Dog Snake – Malmo, Sweden
John Alexander Ericson – Sweden
PFAU – Paris, France
Welcome The Wildfire – Perth, Australia
The Fake Vulgarys – São Paulo, Brazil

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Gonçalo – Portugal

We love rock, punk, classic metal, and other hard-hitting, fast, balls-to-the-wall music, whether it’s classic Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Cream, Black Sabbath, The Clash, Nirvana, and on and on, or modern day artists like The Black Keys, Jack White, Cage The Elephant, or whether it’s under-the-radar small label and DIY rock bands.

But we also love beautiful, organic mellow music as well, from dreamy pop to touching folk ballads. In fact, we have thousands of terrific mellow songs in our personal music playlists collection (which we share pieces of sometimes when we need a break from reviewing submissions).

There are just times when the mellow greats, whether it’s Sam Cooke, Iron and Wine, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell or The Eagles, is all you want to listen to – and great for reading or working on something.

That’s a bit of a long – but fitting – introduction for this newly formed solo project from Portugal musician Gonçalo Alvarez, on his solo path, far but always close to the warmth of his buddies that is now solidly on our radar.

As a member of the alternative Portugese band Long Way To Alaska, Alvarez decided last year he wanted to record a solo album and adopted the moniker, Gonçalo. He sent us two gorgeous singles that were so compelling that we sought out more of his music.

And yet that is one of the limitations, but also one of the hopes, that a talented artist with terrific debut album presents. The album, Quim, was dropped on February 3rd. With his main band, Long Way To Alaska, Alvarez has opened for big bands like The xx, El Guincho and The Fall.

“Criancas“ – Gonçalo from Quim

Gonçalo’s music stands out on its own because of the quality of his songwriting, singing and musicianship. You can tell Alvarez is a skilled artist with a rare ability to create and perform songs that touch the listener, and hopefully win them over as well.

We haven’t been able to find much information about him, so there’s a bit of a lack of insight as to who Alvarez is. Perhaps it’s on purpose, and if so, it may not be such a bad strategy. Raise the mystique if you will.

“Tuga“

Gonçalo on Bandcamp

Brockley Forest – Bristol, England

Sharing a bond similar to The Kills, and heavily influenced by many of the rock groups coming out of the underground scene in recent years, the Bristol indie rock duo, Brockley Forest, have been increasing their profile in the U.K.’s underground rock scene, and landed on our radar thanks to a couple of tracks they shared with us from the duo’s forthcoming E.P.

Although the two men, who we only know so far as songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, Dec, and drummer and vocalist, Seb, (and assuming perhaps one of them is actually named Brockley Forest), have been friends since the age of 11, their friendship wasn’t truly cemented until they embarked on a three- month cross-country trip in America, spanning 10,000 miles and culminating in two weeks in L.A where they ended up temporarily living in the Mojave desert, were adopted by a “hippie” commune (apparently in this decade), and hung out with celebrities at the Viper Room.

The duo got their first real big break musically after meeting two Australian millionaires who, Dec and Seb claim, “were out to blow their fortunes in Vegas.” Wait, so we deduce from that limited information that the millionaires “blew” some of their money promoting Brockley Forest? Without that backing, the band may have never launched, nor opened for artists like Fidlar, Bob Log III, and Balthazar.

There’s certainly more of a back story there than we’re willing to dig into – and to save time for reviewing more submissions – but the band has definitely earned a good deal of their praise for natural talent and hard work.

In fact, their semi-hit underground single, “Run For Your Money,” was featured in early February by BBC Introducing, a popular music series that profiles new bands, mostly in the U.K. The single is a tease for the band’s debut EP, expected to drop sometime in the spring or early summer. We were able to secure a second single, “Destroy The Room,” also from the forthcoming EP.

“Run For Your Money“ – Brockley Forest from Brockley Forest

“Out Of Control“ – Brockley Forest from Brockley Forest

See the “Out Of Control” music video

Cat Dog Snake – Malmo, Sweden

Straight outta Malmo, Sweden, the alternative rock band Cat Dog Snake, formed in 2012, got our attention with their riveting guitar riffs and American-sounding garage rock.

Ordinarily, we might have not even bothered with including the band because, as some, but few, other bands don’t do, they did not provide us with much more than a couple of lazy sentences about who they are – making, at best, a minimal effort to provide any insight as to who they are, what motivates them, what their background is, or anything else that you would think a band would want people to know about them.

Afterall, they’re certainly not at a level that anyone would ever say: “Oh, yeah, Cat Dog Snake? Everyone knows who they are.”

This is a good lesson for aspiring artists and bands – when you send a submission to any press or bloggers, make it shine. At the very least, provide the information requested; a bio/profile doesn’t need to be beautifully written with journalistic detail, but the person receiving the submission, along with hundreds of others, needs to know enough about who you are, your music, where you’re from, what notice you’ve received, how you met, and other details to write something meaningful.

A band or an artist can never build and sustain a loyal following (which is what keeps most bands afloat for many years) without being engaged with their fans and followers – through live appearances, events, and one of musicians’ best free tools – social media and the web. They’ve only posted a few times on Facebook so far this year and it’s May. All the criticism aside, these guys can rock, as the singles from their self-titled, debut album clearly show.

https://soundcloud.com/johnalexanderericson/black-clockworks

John Alexander Ericson – Sweden

John Alexander Ericson’s remarkable compilation Berlin Lullabies on Warsaw Recordings marks the culmination of a number of personal journeys, from his native Sweden via Berlin, London and back to Berlin again, where he now lives and works on his music, with a very personal blend of songwriting that draws on all these experiences.

Taking a distinctly European approach to his craft, which both recalls, and gives new perspective, to his musical influences such as P.J.Harvey, Jacques Brel and David Bowie and Brian Eno’s collaborations, it’s appropriate that Berlin is the central theme of the album.

In fact, Ericson wrote many of the songs during his stay in the Berlin, including standout tracks like “Black Clockworks” and “Cyanide.” The cover art of his album is a photograph of the bar Oberbaum Eck in Kreuzberg.

“I wanted to take the best piano ballads I’ve written for solo albums and various other projects and put them out as one independent album,” Ericson wrote. “You probably won’t get up and dance to this one (‘Black Clockworks’), but I’m very proud of this collection of songs and think it’s some of the best work I’ve ever done.”

Ericson is no stranger to the world of indie rock. In fact we’ve featured his band, My Empire of Sound (with collaborator Sidsel Marie), on the ‘7 Bands’ series before, and listeners really liked the band’s tracks.

In the later half of the last decade, he toured with his brother’s band, the popular Alberta Cross, and performed more than 150 shows in the U.K., including the V and Reading festivals. He has previously opened for Bat For Lashes and Edison Woods, and considers among his top musical influences artists like Lou Reed, Fever Ray, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen.

“Black Clockworks“ – John Alexander Ericson from Berlin Lullabies

“Midnight Warriors“ – John Alexander Ericson from Berlin Lullabies

PFAU – Paris, France

Gregopfo (cannot track down his last name), aka, Cousin Machewbacca, is a lo-fi, folk pop guitarist, songwriter and vocalist from Paris, France, who plays in a number of bands – Wonderflu, Sluggish and now, PFAU. Last fall, PFAU dropped its self-titled solo debut via Influenza Records.

“I was already in two bands,” Gregopfo wrote, “but I wanted people to hear my solo work, which is nothing too complicated or sophisticated, but it’s honest and from the heart.”

Although PFAU is considered a solo project, Gregopfo did have some help from other musicians in recording the songs, including ‘Marco’ (no last name provided) on drums; Raphael Zweifel on cello, and Antoine “Sulfateuse” Poncet mixed and mastered the songs.

Although we think the music is terrific, we hate the name; it means nothing, is impossible to remember or to say, and makes it very difficult to brand. In fact, we’re a little surprised that the folks at Influenza Records did not demand a better name before signing on to release the EP.

However, as we mentioned, the music is great, so we can see why they overlooked the terrible name. In addition to the fact that it’s an impressive debut, we’re partly featuring Gregopfo’s songs because he also is the lead vocalist in the French indie band, Wonderflu, which we have previously featured on IRC.

“Don’t Trust“ – PFAU from PFAU

“Fog“ – PFAU from PFAU

Welcome The Wildfire – Perth, Australia

In the Land Down Under – or more exactly Perth, Australia – is a new indie rock band, Welcome The Wildfire, which aims to make exceptional music that dynamically fuses together “smooth and melodic with hard and heavy.”

On the catchy, well-received single, “Making Mona Lisa,” which saw regular rotation on Triple J Unearthed radio last fall, the band crafts memorable indie rock arrangements that stick in your head.

Earlier this year, the quartet recorded five tracks at Fat Pig Studios (which produced such quality acts Mandalay Victory and Saviour) to release their debut, Where I Ignite, dropped in January, and includes the two singles below.

The band features Joel Bradbury (vocals); Dwayne Scott (guitar); Chris Dyson (guitar); George Hadnett (bass) and Aaron Muller (drums). Welcome The Wildfire have opened for bands like Black Birds, HYTE, and Calm Collected, and count among their top musical influences Karnivool, Emarosa, Birds Of Tokyo, Dead Letter Circus, and Incubus.

“In The Street Light“ – Welcome The Wildfire from Where I Ignite – Jan. 17th

“Curtains Closed“ – Welcome The Wildfire from Where I Ignite

Bonus: “Making Mona Lisa“ – Welcome The Wildfire from Making Mona Lisa 7″

Welcome The Wildfire on Facebook

The Fake Vulgarys – São Paulo, Brazil

The following double-shot is from a new alternative rock band from Itatiba, São Paulo, Brazil, the The Fake Vulgarys, which only formed less than a year ago and just released their debut EP in the U.S., A Man Who Says, which the band says pays homage to different influences from The Beatles to The Foo Fighters and from Oasis to Metallica. You can’t get any more DIY than these guys.

The four band members, Rafael Amaral Cataldo (vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Diego Machado (vocals, guitar, cello), Caio Guttner (bass) and Eduardo “Dú” (drums) built a home recording studio and wrote, recorded, tracked, mixed and mastered the EP themselves, putting in their own money, not to mention blood, sweat and tears.

The songs featured below confirm the band’s proclamation that they enjoy experimenting with sounds and constructs to blaze a path for their own music, which is stirring up a bit of a buzz in the Sao Paulo underground rock scene. Will they get a following in the U.S.?

“In Any Life With Her“ – The Fake Vulgarys from A Man Who Says

“A Man Who Says“ – The Fake Vulgarys from A Man Who Says

The Fake Vulgarys on Facebook

There’s going to be a rush of 2013 DIY, small label and under-the-radar releases in the coming weeks, and perhaps even into the first couple of months of 2014. It all goes by so fast. But we have some great songs from recent drops in September and October for you – altogether, 17 new songs. Stream all of the songs like a podcast by simply clicking the play button of the first song on below from Gang of Brothers.

This is the latest installment of 7 Bands You’ve Gotta Hear; the last ‘7 Bands’ was published in June. Another terrific series, with amazing bands making first-rate music, is a variation called 7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear.

Both series have been incredibly popular, and thus, the newest installment with: Australian funky R&B band, Gang of Brothers; Baltimore orchestra pop band Sun Club; Boston electro dance band, The Bynars; St. Louis indie rock band The Union Electric; Los Angeles indie pop trio Kid Cadaver; London tropical rock band Crash Island; and Los Angeles pop band Ocelot Robot.

Gang of Brothers – Sydney, Australia

A new Australia that crossed our radar with a submission of two singles is the soulful, R&B, funky band Gang of Brothers from Sydney. They blew us away with their retro late 60’s, early 70’s sounds.

The first track “Get Up On Ya Feet N’ Testify” is a straight out, fast moving, big bouncing R&B and soul music extravaganza that sounds so so good that if these guys were around 40 years ago, they could have been competition for Sly and the Family Stone – for reals. No wonder that the single has been No. 1 on some online charts (they didn’t tell us which ones though) for weeks.

With one exception, they really are a gang of brothers, and it came as no surprise when we read more about them that they all were born into, and raised around, music. Brothers Andro, Dauno, Fenix and Banel Martinez hail from “the prestigious musical” Martinez family (Martinez Akustica).

On the drums and lead vocals is a brother to the family (not genetically though) Buddy Siolo, whose talents have taken him around the globe to perform, and we can certainly see why.

While the band remains unsigned, MGM is in charge of their distribution. All we can say about that is they should have a big-time distributor because they belong in the big time. While there is yet no indication of when a debut album should be expected, we at least hope that it is coming soon.

Gang of Brothers have also performed at a number of jazz and rock festivals in Australia and New Zealand; somebody needs to book them to perform at a festival in the U.S. if they can bring it like they do on “Get Up On Ya Feet N’ Testify.”

The second track the band sent us, “She’s Gone,” is the polar opposite, a much slower, heartfelt track that furthers the band’s status as an excellent soul and funk band the soul is still there. Even though we know otherwise, it’s still hard to sink in that these cats are from Sydney – they sound like they’d be from New York, Philly, LA, Oakland, Chicago or some other big U.S. music city with a tradition of soul, R&B and funk. But the fact that they’re from Australia, you gotta say, is even more impressive.

“Get Up On Ya Feet N’ Testify” – Gang of Brothers from Gang of Brothers – Sept. 8th

“Shes Gone” – Gang of Brothers from Gang of Brothers

Sun Club – Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore band Sun Club creates upbeat indie orchestral pop tunes with flourishing, bright instrumentation, a series of musical stops and starts along with delirious stomping, joyful ohh-ohh choruses, melodic hooks and animal calls and howls (“Language Juice”) reminiscent of Brad Oberhofer (of Oberhofer).

We knew that someday we’d hear someone else emulate Oberhofer’s wild howls he so wonderfully mixed into his songs dating back to when we were the first blog to publish his demos in 2009, and part of what catapulted he and his band’s popularity.

Sun Club, formed in 2012, live up to their name; their songs are sunny, shiny and deliciously upbeat. They have toured as far north as Toronto and as far south as Austin. In May of 2012 the band released their debut LP and now they’re following up with this new double-track 7″ release.

Sun Club has opened for bands like The Spinto Band, Fang Island, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Morning Teleportation, The Weeks, and The Front Bottoms, and count among their biggest influences The Beach Boys and Animal Collective.

Kid Cadaver – Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles alternative pop rock trio Kid Cadaver, has been on regular rotation in the cafe for weeks. The band members all grew up in San Fernando Valley area and got together in 2010 thanks to friends. According to their profile, they “draw inspiration from girls, dread growing older, mask their emotions, and are constantly seeking to maximize their fun.”

Kid Cadaver released their debut EP, New Modern, in September 2011 and just dropped their sophomore, self-titled EP on September 23rd. The band has previously opened for bands like The Black and The White and Escondido and listed their top musical influences as Passion Pit, MGMT, Grimes, Bad Suns, Vampire Weekend, and Tokyo Police Club.

“Stable” – Kid Cadaver from Kid Cadaver EP – Sept. 23rd

“Stick Around” – Kid Cadaver from Kid Cadaver

The Bynars – Boston, Massachusetts

Put on your dancing shoes for the undeniably addictive electro pop dance single, “Dancing on a Dream,” from the Boston DIY band The Bynars. As with do with all posts featuring talented new artists and bands that are inexplicably under the radar for too long, we’ll watch the feedback and numbers to see how all of you take to this promising new band. Their sophomore album, X vs. X, officially dropped on September 17th. Good thing is that, judging the reactions of friends of the cafe, the cloak of obscurity is lifting off of The Bynars. In listening to X vs. X, we get the sense that this band is going to start breaking out soon.

“Dancing on a Dream” – The Bynars from X vs. X – Sept. 17th

It’s not really clear how to put a genre on the album’s second track, “Tired of Hooking Up With You,” featuring ATM. It’s a beat pop framework – that’s the best way to put it – with rolling waves of 80’s new wave synth coupled with 80’s electric guitar riffs, as if Prince, OMD and Eddie Van Halen were put into a blender.

There are times, on standout songs like “All I Wanna Do is Have Some Fun Tonight,” that you link you hear some Passion Pit, MGMT and New Order, but the truth is, and it becomes clear (although ultimately not) as you progress through each track that this band thrives off of experimental and taking a dabble from the spectrum of music genres to create an original, and interesting, musical journey.

On “All I Wanna Do…” a nearly 12-minute track, the band breaks out into an interesting and colorful free form-style jam somewhat characteristic of jazz jams, as well as some late 1960’s and early 1970’s rock, where players and their instruments, in intervals lead the song and step into the spotlight for a couple of minutes.

“All I Wanna Do is Have Some Fun Tonight” – The Bynars from X vs. X

The Union Electric – St. Louis, Missouri

The Union Electric, a St. Louis DIY band, has released four 7″s and their debut LP, Time Is Gold (2011), since their 2009 inception. Time Is Gold was the first record on the Rankoutsider label to make the CMJ Radio 200 chart.

The band has previously opened for artists like Deer Tick, Dax Riggs, Murder By Death, Puerto Muerto, and Gringo Starr, and their influences include Woody Guthrie, Nick Cave, Handsome Family, Richard Buckner, and Calexico.

“Words That Maketh Murder” – The Union Electric from Cover Charge – Sept. 24th

Crash Island – London, England

Dark tropical indie rock from London comes to us from the unsigned band Crash Island. The band gathers indie punk ethos with 80’s nostalgic synths, reggae rhythms and melodic vocal lines. They have so far played in the U.K., Germany, Switzerland and France.

The band’s debut studio EP, Strange Shores, was mixed by the famous Strokes‘ producer Gordon Raphael in Seattle and Buenos Aires, and released on October 21st. Crash Island’s top influences include Fatboy Slim, We Heart Sharks, Jack Savoretti, The Clash, College, !!! and Bloc Party.

Today’s post containing selected artist and their music is the first edition of the ‘7 Bands You’ve Gotta Hear‘ series that features overseas artists. This post begins with an incredibly diverse and talented artist, Justice Aaron, better known as Metaform. Other artists featured below include James Kerr of London; Matt Churchill of London; Heifervescent of Lancashire, England; Flat Ed of Carcassonne, France; Lillian Todd-Jones of Oxford, England; and Reebosound of Hannover, Germany.

Metaform – Tokyo, Japan

Metaform is the DIY music project, launched in 2005, of Tokyo-via-Los Angeles music producer and songwriter Justice Aaron. Metaform’s music has been compared to artists like Massive Attack and Tears for Fears, even though to his earlier fans he is considered to be a hip-hop artist. Aaron’s musical influences include Neil Young, Deftones and DJ Shadow. He’s also been featured in Remix and DJ magazines, among others. In 2008, he released his debut album, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, constructed entirely from dusted off vinyl samples. The album spent an entire month on the College Music Journal’s Top 20 and Alternative Press Magazine listed it as one of the Top 10 records of 2008, calling it “one of the best instrumental hip-hop records in years.”

Two years later, Metaform released the highly controversial album, The Electric Mist, which isolated a big portion of the fans he made from his debut because the newer album was largely synth-based. While he isolated many of his early fans with the release of The Electric Mist, he also picked up a whole new group of fans who praised the album’s dark and sexy electro-pop sound. Interestingly, the album was one of the most popular music torrents on the site Demonoid, where it remained in the Top 10 music torrents list for two years with a total of more than 300,000 downloads. Earlier this month, Metaform released Act 1 of his sci-fi opera trilogy, The Midnight Machine, that had been in the works since 2009.

“Winter City” – Metaform from The Midnight Machine – June 4th

Metaform’s Official Website

Matt Churchill – London, England

Originally from Watford, Matt Churchill is a singer/songwriter based in London and a former member of the band Cedar. On May 6th, Churchill released his first EP, Cause/Affect. The EP contains three songs, two of them included below, which demonstrate Churchill’s accomplishments as an acoustic folk musician and a songwriter. He shared two of the songs with us, the EP’s title track and “Of My Time.” The EP is also available in a limited edition cut cover package, available via his website. Produced, mixed and mastered by Hyperlion from Pariis Opera House, the three tracks are layered with dreamy vocals and intricate counter melodies. His musical influences include Nick Drake, Buffalo Springfield, Elbow, Neil Young, and Beth Orton.

“Cause/Affect” – Matt Churchill from Cause/Affect EP

“Of My Time” – Matt Churchill from Cause/Affect EP

James Kerr – London, England

London singer/songwriter James Kerr (not the Jim Kerr of 80’s super band Simple Minds) played in various bands over the years and opened for artists like The Bluetones, The Feeling, The Paddingtons, Wendy James (Transvision Camp), and Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols). But a couple of years ago, Kerr decided to strike out on this own, stating: “I’ve decided to go it alone and do everything myself, thus, removing the need to argue or get annoyed with anyone other than myself. I can cope much better this way.”

Last spring, Kerr released his debut album, from which we have two impressive singles, including the touching, rhythmic song of longing, “When We Were Young,” complete with hand-claps, a thumping bass, and a catchy, sing-a-long chorus. The second single, “The Ship,” has a dreamy, peaceful quality to it, and is more stripped down than the first single, consisting only of Kerr’s agreeable vocals and an acoustic guitar, with a brief infusion of an electric guitar solo and sparsely planted xylophone keys. His musical influences range from Bach to The Beatles and Jefferson Airplane to Jeff Buckley. We can only hope that more people will see the talent and potential that we do in Kerr’s solo project. We’re keeping our ears open for the next release from Kerr.

“When We Were Young” – James Kerr from James Kerr

“The Ship” – James Kerr from James Kerr

Heifervescent – Lancashire, England

Heifervescent is the Lancashire, England musical project of artist Andy Doran, who wrote, performed and produced each track from the May release of the album, Sheepyhead. Heifervescent’s songs are highly-charged pop rock tracks that overflow with electronic-influenced melodies and bright guitar hooks with moments of ambient string arrangements – all accompanying Doran’s fine vocal work. Long before he set out on his own to create Heifervescent, Doran was a singer/songwriter with Monkeyland, a fairly popular four- piece indie guitar band. In fact, Monkeyland, during the 1990’s BritPop craze, played alongside UK bands like Shed Seven, The House of Love, Power of Dreams and The Railway Children. However, when the decade came to an end, Monkeyland disbanded. Doran lists his major musical influences to be the Eels, Elbow, Doves, The Pale Saints, Susanne Sündfor and The Beatles.

In response to our question, ‘what is indie?,’ Doran wrote: “Music that retains all the original sentiments of the artist, in the recording, the mix and the presentation, with nothing taken out or added by corporate bystanders. Music that hasn’t perverted the course of justice.”

“Liberty Girl” – Heifervescent from Wake Up Sheepyhead – May 1st

“Try Again” – Heifervescent from Wake Up Sheepyhead

Heifervescent’s Official Website

Flat Ed – Carcassonne, France

Flat Ed is the one man band project of musician Stephane Iserable from Carcassonne, France. On June 21st, Flat Ed released his DIY debut album, Clapped Out, even though he began recording in 1995, releasing his first solo cassette that year. In addition to creating experimental and interesting pop, electro, folk and rock-inspired songs, Iserable has recorded and performed with various artists, and undertaken engineering, production and mixing for a variety of artists and bands for more than a decade. Clapped Out was recorded in France, England and Wales during an eight-year period that stretched from 2005 to 2013. With a couple of minor exceptions, Flat Ed played all of the instruments and did all of the vocals. “There’s a lot of care put into the words as well as trying to always get a unique and different sound for each track. I try to never repeat myself, if I do, I don’t release those tracks.”

“Late Autumn Walk” – Flat Ed from Clapped Out

“24 Hours” Flat Ed from Clapped Out

Check out Flat Ed’s website and Bandcamp page

Lillian Todd-Jones – Oxford, England

Lillian Todd-Jones is an unsigned indie solo artist from Oxford, England who made a little splash on some indie blogs recently with her single, “Butter Soul,” that highlights her haunting vocals and demonstrates her skills as a talented songwriter. She has also been working closely during the past year with producer Gordon Mills Jr. (Ed Sheerhan, Newton Faulkner) since launching her music career late in 2011. Of this partnership, she commented: “It has been an amazing experience working with Gordon. When working together in his studio, the world seems to disappear, when it returns… there’s a new song.” The video for “Butter Soul” was shot by director Garry Wood in a dilapidated mansion and sees Lillian in various montages, mostly bedraggled in her own nightmare.

“Butter Soul” – Lillian Todd Jones

Lillian Todd Jones Official Website

Reebosound – Hannover, Germany

John Reebo, a musician from Hannover, Germany, who has recorded under the moniker, Reebosound, for the past seven years, dropped his third album, Juicy Black, back in October, which also features a few of Reebo’s favorite guest musicians. Here are two tracks from the album that we think more people will want to hear. Reebo listed his biggest musical influences as the Eels, The Melvins, The Flaming Lips, David Bowie and Tribe of Noise.

“Lick My Blood” – Reebosound from Juicy Black

“The Ocean” – Reebosound from Juicy Black