Lucky Number Music

Burn The Fruit (Pegasus), directed by Brian Ziffer, further consolidates Seventeen Evergreen’s consistency in producing highly creative visual art around their music.

“The video is a continued exploration in real-time audiovisual cinema. A kind of ‘visual music’ where the process involves manipulating video in real time. With help from the Syphon Recorder, VDMX and other customized tools, the performance and capture of these live video mixes became analogous to the process of mixing and mastering music.” Seventeen Evergreen’s Caleb Pate.

We are delighted to announce that we will be releasing Reptar’s debut full-length album, Body Faucet, on July 2^nd.  Produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club), Body Faucet is the follow up to the group’s heralded debut EP Oblangle Fizz Y’all, which The Sunday Times praised as, “thrillingly good, off-kilter art pop”

Building on the infectious dance-driven melodies established by the band on Oblangle Fizz Y’all, Body Faucet finds the band delving deeper into world-music influences to compliment their unique blend of danceable and electro infused pop. More information here.

“There’s a psychedelic vibe here, a sense of exploration which is mixed with the bravado, the imagination of Prince”. Clash Magazine

To celebrate the announcement we have this wonderfully surreal, moving and inventive video for album track Three Shining Suns, directed by Ross Brubeck.

Caged Animals will be releasing a wonderful 5 track EP on June 11, called This Summer EP, more details  here .  The title track of the EP ,”This Summer I’ll Make It Up To You,”, is a romantic vision of Summer imagined but never lived.  Mr CagedAnimals, Vincent Cacchione, trades in hopeful couplets, promising to take the song’s subject to an idealized West Coast “where the sun is always shining,” a terminally East Coast perspective on the California Dream.  In its final verse, the narrator of Cacchione’s fraudulent summer begins to see through his own lie, realizing this ideal impossible and resigning himself and his lover to a trip “to the Jersey shore, if nothing better works out.”

The video for the track, directed by Ace Norton, beautifully compliments the song’s message and aesthetics and is premiered today on Stereogum.

Just 3 days to go until Record Store Day , and the release of Stuck In My Id as a very special limited seven inch single/CD EP package (only 300 copies worldwide). The single and EP, entitled Oblangle Fizz Y’all, have both been produced by Ben H Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club).

And we’re delighted to present another Video from the EP, this time for Blastoff:

After blazing out of Bushwick in 2011 with the two buzz-worthy singles, “I’m His Girl” and “Friend Crush”, a reputation for turning live gigs into spontaneous DIY parties (and vice versa), and a bio built to withstand the most cynical indie-blog cred-vetting – Brooklyn’s Friends will release their debut album Manifest!, on June 4th.

Produced by the band its twelve tracks were recorded between last summer and this spring with engineer Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather studios in Brooklyn.

Full track-listing and more details are forthcoming but, for now, as a further provocative taster we are delighted to present the anthemic “Mind Control”, which is to be the band’s next single and the album’s climax.

Mixed by Paul Epworth, it sums up the seditious streak of Manifest! The musical choices are brazen even by Friends’ standards: superfly bass, slinky synth, crybaby wah, bongo solo, group chants.  Lyrically, it also might be the Friends manifesto, were it not for the strong possibility that  the band are taking the piss, poking a bit of good-natured fun at their ‘indie’ image and at our expectations of it.

“I don’t want to rule or be ruled/I just want the right to be cool/However I chose to do what I do/Wherever I choose to be or with whom/Hey, I don’t need your money, I can grown my own food/I don’t need your beauty standard, I can be my own dude.”

With “Mind Control” already anointed the Hottest Record in the World by the Zane Lowe show on Radio 1, the band’s Spring tour close to selling out and more shows to come in the Summer, Friends look set to make the rest of the year theirs alone.