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Back in the summer of 2012, however, Basement found themselves on the west coast of America for the first time, beginning to record their hotly anticipated new album. But the band had arrived slightly unprepared; guitarist Ronan Crix claims the band only had half the songs written for the soon-to-be massive album. His bandmate and other guitarist, Alex Henery, claimed it was Inchthe most chaotic process we have ever gone about writing a record.Inch Henery recalls that the band managed to Inchwork as hard and as quicklyInch as they could to finish writing the other half of the album, including staying up until 4 a.m. their first night in the studio. But the hectic pace and intense focus paid off, resulting in an ambitious musical evolution that drew together the threads of modern punk and emo with past widescreen guitar rock to create something that felt urgent and new.Colourmeinkindness found Basement pulling from not only one of emo's zeniths-early Sunny Day Real Estate-but also channeling heavy and sometimes hazy '90s alt-rock, with hints of behemoths like Pixies, Silverchair, and Catherine Wheel shaping the sound. Vocalist Andrew Fisher fit that grunge mold of a maudlin-but-thoughtful protagonist, ruminating on toxic relationships, personal desolation, and desperate longing, with slivers of optimism occasionally peeking through. From the dynamic one-two punch of churning opener InchWholeInch into the balladic doom of InchCovetInch, to the sneering grunge of InchBlackInch and gentle ease of InchComfortInch, Basement effortlessly moved between sounds and styles while keeping the underlying energy of their roots in punk and hardcore.Upon it's , Colourmeinkindness quickly won over fans old and new, but the members of Basement had already committed themselves to exploring other avenues in their lives and after a few impressive record shows, the group went on hiatus.

Los Angeles-via-Oakland musician Chris Adams who makes music under the moniker Pendant releases his Saddle Creek debut Harp, on April 8th. A rich, surprising new body of work from the producer and songwriter, Harp connects 90s house and rave music with hip-hop, shoegaze, and pop, and which serves as a culmination of years of painful emotional work for Adams brought on by the death of his Father over 10 years prior. Though Harp is Adam's sophomore album as Pendant it feels like a starting point. The of his 2019 debut Through a Coil was marred by the messy, public dissolution of the record tag it was released on the day it was to be released. A year later he was burnt out. Attempting to tour the album had been hard on his voice, and the structures of rock music, which had dictated his entire life as a musician, were beginning to feel claustrophobic. Pendant's salvation came, ironically, in the form of the pandemic. Adams was ready to make new music but was both mentally and physically marooned, unable to reach the tools he would ordinarily use to make music or the headspace he would ordinarily inhabit. Without a guitar, the crutch that had supported much of his music-making in the past, he was forced to sketch out Harp's world in a more impressionistic, free-associative way. Long a fan of dance and electronic music, he was suddenly without any good reason to not venture into that beat-heavy, synth-drenched world. The resulting Harp recalls the precise but emotionally rich landscapes of Arca or Oneohtrix Point Never, rendered in the watercolors of My Bloody Valentine.TRACK LISTING1. Laid in Orchids2. Static Dream3. Thorn4. Altered Destinies5. LED Head Rush6. Blue Mare7. Latex Heart8. Harp9. Contract10. Rights for an Angel11. Eventless Horizon12. Secret in the Dusk

The forward-thinking solo debut from 1/2 of famed Brooklyn production duo, The Stuyvesants. Here, Allan Cole (aka Allmos), ventures away from the sampled soul loops the group had become known for, instead utilizing more live instruments and pairing them with some subtle, yet tasteful, experiments in drum programming - resulting in one succint, cohesive, and endlessly replayable beat tape Details 1. Intro 2. Aromas Naturalle 3. Sorbae 4. Black Ting 5. Presque Vu 6. $'s to Donuts 7. So Remarkable 8. Interlude (Reprise) 9. Sometimes, Why? 10. Outro