The British visual artist Mathew Sawyer play sometimes popy, sometimes rocky, sometimes punky chamber folk music with his band, The Ghost. He said 3 years before after the second album: „I wanted to make a happy record, but it didn’t really work. The next one will be so much fun… [laughs]. “ On his third album he analyses the relationship between Thanatos and Hypnos. They are twin brothers, personificators of the Death and the Sleep in the Greek mythology. Their parents, Erebos (Darkness) and Nyx (Night) born from the Chaos. And they have some children more: Moros (Doom), Momus (Mockery), Oizys (Misery), Nemesis (Revenge), Eris (Discord), Apate (Deceit), etc. Hey! What they have brought up their children for? I call the court of guardians at once.

The recordings were made in his home hand in hand with his everyday living. „The sound of cars come through the windows, the phone rings, floorboards creak. These sounds all played an important role in making this record. Studios are quiet and lifeless.”

Sleep Dreamt A Brother LP by Fire Records

Note: 1. He was the drummer of Television Personalities on My Dark Places album in 2006.  2. The drummer of this album comes from Freakapuss (ex-Tronics, Zarjaz).

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Short, intensive synth-punk songs by the Italian duo: Cane!

Sex, Love And Threesomes – digital EP by SMFSP + 7″ by Bored Youth Records

Note: this playlist includes 4 songs of the EP, except for one. (original)

Euro Tour Sept-Oct

Las Kellies from Buenos Aires play minimal punk while sing in Spanish, Catalan, French, Japanese and English languages.

from Total Exposure LP by Fire Records

They stand before Euro Tour Aug 5 – Oct 19 > Italy, France, Belgium, UK, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Austria, Croatia (Zagreb, Sept 18), Spain. Luckily they don’t want to save the World – „What do you daydream about when you are travelling to and from shows? – Buy a house in Uruguay by the beach with goats and ducks and growing tomatoes and buying really nice shoes.” – so I like them.

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The Destruction Unit started as a synth-punk solo project by Ryan Rousseau (Reatards, Black Sunday, Digital Leather etc.) in Memphis in 2000. Then Jay Reatard (Reatards, Lost Sounds, etc.) and Alicja Trout (Lost Sounds, Black Sunday, River City Tanlines etc.) joined to him. The first 2 DU album made by them. The band has been through many members and sounds. At the moment they play psychedelic space hard rock, but „we all come from punk backgrounds and we’ve always been a punk band.”

from Deep Trip LP by Sacred Bones

Euro Tour Oct 9 – Nov 16 > Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia (Ljubljana, Nov 11), Austria (Vienna, Nov 12).

„I’m a fucking furniture removalist from Adelaide. I write down-and-out pop songs. I write songs about every job that I do.” Songs about blue collar’s weekdays by Scott & Charlene’s Wedding:

Lesbian Wife + Fakin’ NYC + Gammy Leg from Any Port In A Storm LP by Fire Records

The SACW is the solo project of the Australian musician, Craig Dermody. I have been following with attention to his works since his Para Vista Social Club LP (2011).  Not long ago he moved to New York.

Beside the fantastic LP here is a Lantern 7″ too

Teresa Maldonado is a Texan singer/songwriter. „Drawing influences from her perennial favourites the darkly gothic Bauhaus, as well as Natacha Atlas’ exotic Mish Maoul, the black metal of Venom.” The songs were composed on her much loved piano which was tuning last time in 1992. She plays eclectic haunted folk under Georgia’s Horse moniker.

Ginger from Wheather Codes LP by Fire Records This track is free. Just click the arrow!

I didn’t wait very hard garage rock from Mikal Cronin (Charlie and The Moonheart, Epsilons, Party Fowl, Okie Dokie, Ty Segall), but in the first minutes I was surprised. Sha-la-la guitar pop. But I looked up suddenly several times during the listening – Hey, it’s good! And I listened it three times.

from MCII LP by Merge Records. Hear the full album here