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MIYA FOLICK GIVE IT TO ME EP OUT TODAY ON TERRIBLE RECORDS
MIYA FOLICK GIVE IT TO ME EP OUT TODAY ON TERRIBLE RECORDSWATCH THE VIDEO FOR THE TITLE TRACKhttps://youtu.be/YOpQYqNfdnc
Miya Folick (by Maya Fuhr)
LA-based artist Miya Folick has just released a new five-song EP Give It To Me on Terrible Records. Heralded by Stereogum as one of the "40 Best New Acts of 2017," Miya and her band have garnered attention from all quarters, including MTV, Noisey, NME, DIY, Refinery 29, LA Weekly, NYLON, Vogue, and more. States Folick, "Give It To Me is a collection of songs made from a solitary place in one of the most social times in my life. I had a teacher tell me once that it's ok to be a watcher, that you don't have to feel bad when you don't know how to participate. Observation is important as well. Some of these songs are about that to me. They were recorded mostly live with great love and tenderness for myself and for you."Miya has added a few dates ahead of her Los Angeles EP release show at The Moroccan on December 5th, including a show with Mitski at Lincoln Hall on November 7th as part of Red Bull's 30 Days in Chicago series and stops in San Diego and Santa Ana. Full dates below.Give It To Me follows 2016's stand-alone singles "Pet Body" and "God Is a Woman," the latter of which was named "World Record" on Zane Lowe's taste-making Beats 1 show and led to a slot inRolling Stone's 10 Artists You Need To Know.
READ MORE ABOUT GIVE IT TO MEhttp://www.laweekly.com/music/miya-folicks-give-it-to-me-on-terrible-records-is-a-breakout-for-the-actor-turned-singer-songwriter-8808890PURCHASE/STREAM GIVE IT TO ME HEREhttp://smarturl.it/GITMMF
SELECT PRESS QUOTES ON MIYA FOLICK"Folick has grown from an enjoyable singer-songwriter with adventurous tendencies into an artist whose every disparate creation seems to be summoning elemental forces." - STEREOGUM"There's something about the kind of song that demands you open your mouth and hold a note for more than the usual amount of time." - REFINERY 29"An absolutely stunning five-song EP that delivers a heavy dose of the brilliance hinted at by last year's stand-alone singles-'Pet Body' and 'God Is A Woman'-and hits with the heft of a polished and powerful full-length-LP." - LA RECORD
Give It To Me EP cover art
GIVE IT TO ME TRACK LISTING1. Trouble Adjusting2. Aging3. Let's Pretend4. Give It To Me5. WoodstockUPCOMING TOUR DATES11/7/17 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall (w/ Mitski) SOLD OUT12/3/17 - San Diego, CA - Space12/4/17 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory12/5/17 - Los Angeles, CA - The Moroccan (http://ticketf.ly/2fGFqqh)
Miya Folick (by Maya Fuhr)LA-based artist Miya Folick has just released a new five-song EP Give It To Me on Terrible Records. Heralded by Stereogum as one of the "40 Best New Acts of 2017," Miya and her band have garnered attention from all quarters, including MTV, Noisey, NME, DIY, Refinery 29, LA Weekly, NYLON, Vogue, and more. States Folick, "Give It To Me is a collection of songs made from a solitary place in one of the most social times in my life. I had a teacher tell me once that it's ok to be a watcher, that you don't have to feel bad when you don't know how to participate. Observation is important as well. Some of these songs are about that to me. They were recorded mostly live with great love and tenderness for myself and for you."Miya has added a few dates ahead of her Los Angeles EP release show at The Moroccan on December 5th, including a show with Mitski at Lincoln Hall on November 7th as part of Red Bull's 30 Days in Chicago series and stops in San Diego and Santa Ana. Full dates below.Give It To Me follows 2016's stand-alone singles "Pet Body" and "God Is a Woman," the latter of which was named "World Record" on Zane Lowe's taste-making Beats 1 show and led to a slot inRolling Stone's 10 Artists You Need To Know.
READ MORE ABOUT GIVE IT TO MEhttp://www.laweekly.com/music/miya-folicks-give-it-to-me-on-terrible-records-is-a-breakout-for-the-actor-turned-singer-songwriter-8808890PURCHASE/STREAM GIVE IT TO ME HEREhttp://smarturl.it/GITMMF
SELECT PRESS QUOTES ON MIYA FOLICK"Folick has grown from an enjoyable singer-songwriter with adventurous tendencies into an artist whose every disparate creation seems to be summoning elemental forces." - STEREOGUM"There's something about the kind of song that demands you open your mouth and hold a note for more than the usual amount of time." - REFINERY 29"An absolutely stunning five-song EP that delivers a heavy dose of the brilliance hinted at by last year's stand-alone singles-'Pet Body' and 'God Is A Woman'-and hits with the heft of a polished and powerful full-length-LP." - LA RECORD
Give It To Me EP cover artGIVE IT TO ME TRACK LISTING1. Trouble Adjusting2. Aging3. Let's Pretend4. Give It To Me5. WoodstockUPCOMING TOUR DATES11/7/17 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall (w/ Mitski) SOLD OUT12/3/17 - San Diego, CA - Space12/4/17 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory12/5/17 - Los Angeles, CA - The Moroccan (http://ticketf.ly/2fGFqqh)
'ADULT. Live At Third Man Records' 12" LP available today
ADULT. LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS
12" LP AVAILABLE TODAY
Third Man Records is excited to release ADULT. Live At Third Man Records, a 12" LP available today. ADULT. have been stalwarts of national independent music for almost two decades, releasing their perfectionist hybrid of darkwave and synth-pop with respected labels Thrill Jockey, Kill Rock Stars, Ghostly International and, most recently, Mute. The soundscapes this Detroit duo sculpts by synthesizer stabs and sparse drum machine rhythm are icy, dense and precise.
This release showcases the group in rare form, complete with the totally unexpected and somewhat jarring sound of raucous audience laughter in place of typical applause as the intro as well as a light audible fuzz created by the third member of the group that night: the fog machine. Best of all, two of the tracks, "Misshaped" and "Does the Body Know?," make their premiere on this release. ADULT. have outlasted any number of micro-electronic music scenes with whom they could have been grouped and, with their live show down to a science, prove that they will be worth a damn for a long time coming.
AVAILABLE NOW at your local, independent record store and on the Third Man web store.
For more information, please visit thirdmanrecords.com
12" LP AVAILABLE TODAY
Third Man Records is excited to release ADULT. Live At Third Man Records, a 12" LP available today. ADULT. have been stalwarts of national independent music for almost two decades, releasing their perfectionist hybrid of darkwave and synth-pop with respected labels Thrill Jockey, Kill Rock Stars, Ghostly International and, most recently, Mute. The soundscapes this Detroit duo sculpts by synthesizer stabs and sparse drum machine rhythm are icy, dense and precise.
This release showcases the group in rare form, complete with the totally unexpected and somewhat jarring sound of raucous audience laughter in place of typical applause as the intro as well as a light audible fuzz created by the third member of the group that night: the fog machine. Best of all, two of the tracks, "Misshaped" and "Does the Body Know?," make their premiere on this release. ADULT. have outlasted any number of micro-electronic music scenes with whom they could have been grouped and, with their live show down to a science, prove that they will be worth a damn for a long time coming.
AVAILABLE NOW at your local, independent record store and on the Third Man web store.
For more information, please visit thirdmanrecords.com
Azar Swan Share New Single "Territorial" with NPR Music; New Album Savage Exile due December 1 via Aufnahme + Wiedergabe
Azar Swan Share New Single "Territorial" with NPR MusicNew Album Savage Exile due December 1 via aufnahme + wiedergabe
photo credit: Angele-Leigh Breaux
“Prime industrial pop.” - Pitchfork
"If 2014's And Blow Us A Kiss sounded like Azar Swan's industrial take on Robyn's desperate and bright electro-pop, then Savage Exile is primed to be a caliginous chasm coiled in righteous noise." -NPR Music
“It's a totally heady and brilliantly catchy Gothic world music…There's nothing else out there that sounds like this, and if you're lucky to be in a place where it's warm right now this is going to resonate all the more.” - USA Today
“Azar Swan is a gypsy-punk-metal-industrial-pop-synth-rock band that – like its leading lady – defies a neat label.” - Bust
Stream: "Territorial" at NPR Music or SoundcloudAzar Swan have revealed their new single "Territorial" from their forthcoming release Savage Exile due December 1 via aufnahme + wiedergabe. "Territorial" premiered today at NPR Music and can also be shared at SoundCloud.About the song NPR Music's Lars Gotrich says: "You can feel the thud and clank of 'Territorial' unlike anything else in Azar Swan's catalog. That's due, in large part, to the duo trading in software for hardware instruments. 'The goddamn sun is a golden knife,' the duo sings. 'The goddamn sun is a dead bird smeared across the sky in violent light.' It's an arresting image seared into gossamer synths that almost choke the atmosphere. If 2014's And Blow Us A Kiss sounded like Azar Swan's industrial take on Robyn's desperate and bright electro-pop, then Savage Exile is primed to be a caliginous chasm coiled in righteous noise." Savage Exile is available to pre-order on limited edition vinyl at the label's online store and digitally at Bandcamp. Azar Swan has also announced a Brooklyn album release show coming on November 30 at Elsewhere. Advance tickets for the show are available HERE.
Azar Swan began in 2012 when the core members of Religious to Damn, Zohra Atash and Joshua Strawn, chose to reframe their collaboration. Religious to Damn relished in the strange results of collaborating with multiple, often virtuoso musicians to produce deceptively straightforward dream pop. Members of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, His Name is Alive and Time of Orchids made appearances alongside Tamaryn, and future members of Tombs and Pop. 1280 to create what The Village Voice called, “a mix of desert strum, hypnotic pulse, spirited-away synths, Lynchian weirdness, and Fleetwood Maximalism.” Azar Swan opted for a similarly eclectic collision, this time pared down to just Atash and Strawn, embracing their lifelong love of electronic music.
Azar Swan’s first two albums, 2013’s Dance Before The War and 2014’s And Blow Us a Kiss were exercises in finding out what might happen when hip hop’s increasingly industrial use of heavy drum samples and distorted synthesizers met with grandiose melodic tribalism and the get-up-and-dance of freestyle. But whereas experimental artists often belatedly decide to delve into “pop,” Azar Swan’s trajectory has gone in reverse, resembling artists like Talk Talk for which the pop records are a prelude to increasingly strange compositions and uncomfortably raw emotions. Atash says the forthcoming album Savage Exile “is a beautiful purging of anger.”
Savage Exile is as much of a reflection of the band’s personal experiences as their professional ones. On the professional side, as the band was finishing Dance Before the War, Strawn was releasing the first Vaura LP and Atash was touring with A Storm of Light performing parts that Jarboe had originally recorded. A remix by Coil’s Drew McDowall led to his appearance on the song “Mouth of the Sky.” Bookings alongside Cut Hands (former Whitehouse provocateur William Bennett) and Prurient were followed by 2015’s remix collaboration Variations featuring intense re-imaginings of “We Hunger” by Vatican Shadow and “For Last And Forever” by Cut Hands.
photo credit: Angele-Leigh Breaux“Prime industrial pop.” - Pitchfork
"If 2014's And Blow Us A Kiss sounded like Azar Swan's industrial take on Robyn's desperate and bright electro-pop, then Savage Exile is primed to be a caliginous chasm coiled in righteous noise." -NPR Music
“It's a totally heady and brilliantly catchy Gothic world music…There's nothing else out there that sounds like this, and if you're lucky to be in a place where it's warm right now this is going to resonate all the more.” - USA Today
“Azar Swan is a gypsy-punk-metal-industrial-pop-synth-rock band that – like its leading lady – defies a neat label.” - Bust
Stream: "Territorial" at NPR Music or SoundcloudAzar Swan have revealed their new single "Territorial" from their forthcoming release Savage Exile due December 1 via aufnahme + wiedergabe. "Territorial" premiered today at NPR Music and can also be shared at SoundCloud.About the song NPR Music's Lars Gotrich says: "You can feel the thud and clank of 'Territorial' unlike anything else in Azar Swan's catalog. That's due, in large part, to the duo trading in software for hardware instruments. 'The goddamn sun is a golden knife,' the duo sings. 'The goddamn sun is a dead bird smeared across the sky in violent light.' It's an arresting image seared into gossamer synths that almost choke the atmosphere. If 2014's And Blow Us A Kiss sounded like Azar Swan's industrial take on Robyn's desperate and bright electro-pop, then Savage Exile is primed to be a caliginous chasm coiled in righteous noise." Savage Exile is available to pre-order on limited edition vinyl at the label's online store and digitally at Bandcamp. Azar Swan has also announced a Brooklyn album release show coming on November 30 at Elsewhere. Advance tickets for the show are available HERE.
Azar Swan began in 2012 when the core members of Religious to Damn, Zohra Atash and Joshua Strawn, chose to reframe their collaboration. Religious to Damn relished in the strange results of collaborating with multiple, often virtuoso musicians to produce deceptively straightforward dream pop. Members of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, His Name is Alive and Time of Orchids made appearances alongside Tamaryn, and future members of Tombs and Pop. 1280 to create what The Village Voice called, “a mix of desert strum, hypnotic pulse, spirited-away synths, Lynchian weirdness, and Fleetwood Maximalism.” Azar Swan opted for a similarly eclectic collision, this time pared down to just Atash and Strawn, embracing their lifelong love of electronic music.
Azar Swan’s first two albums, 2013’s Dance Before The War and 2014’s And Blow Us a Kiss were exercises in finding out what might happen when hip hop’s increasingly industrial use of heavy drum samples and distorted synthesizers met with grandiose melodic tribalism and the get-up-and-dance of freestyle. But whereas experimental artists often belatedly decide to delve into “pop,” Azar Swan’s trajectory has gone in reverse, resembling artists like Talk Talk for which the pop records are a prelude to increasingly strange compositions and uncomfortably raw emotions. Atash says the forthcoming album Savage Exile “is a beautiful purging of anger.”
Savage Exile is as much of a reflection of the band’s personal experiences as their professional ones. On the professional side, as the band was finishing Dance Before the War, Strawn was releasing the first Vaura LP and Atash was touring with A Storm of Light performing parts that Jarboe had originally recorded. A remix by Coil’s Drew McDowall led to his appearance on the song “Mouth of the Sky.” Bookings alongside Cut Hands (former Whitehouse provocateur William Bennett) and Prurient were followed by 2015’s remix collaboration Variations featuring intense re-imaginings of “We Hunger” by Vatican Shadow and “For Last And Forever” by Cut Hands.
