Paris Green - Paris Green - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Minneapolis quintet She's Green - Zofia Smith, Liam Armstrong, Raines Lucas, Teddy Nordvold and Kevin Seebeck - known for their ethereal soundscapes and captivating live performances, their third EP, swallowtail, on Photo Finish Records / Virgin Music Group.

*BLUE VINYL RE-PRESS. MEMORIALS ON TOUR THE USA IN MAY 2026*. a-Memorial Waterslidesa is the debut album from MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire). This is an otherworldly, surrealist pop record that is both timeless and timely, displaying a rare mix of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes. MEMORIALS create panoramic pop that draws on both the familiar and the strange, while also treading new ground. With their playful and experimental style, combined with a love of good tunes, they sit comfortably alongside Broadcast, Portishead, Arthur Russell, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo and Tortoise. The album is awash with imagery evoking a lost future, a veiled present and a daydreamed past, each song playing a role in creating a swirling, widescreen atmosphere, the listener taken along for the ride. Produced entirely by the two of them, the sound of the record was inspired by the reel-to-reel tape experiments they first played around with onstage as they began to develop their multi-layered recordings for live performances as a duo. Following their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks a-Women Against The Bomba and a-Tramps!a, a European tour with Stereolab (theyave been called aœStereolabas evil twina) and a new music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity and Matthew arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their soundtracking day jobs to create cosmic journeys through the garden shed into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.

2024 . The Color Green can represent many things. It can symbolize money, of course, but also weed. And envy. It implies newness, the rebirth of spring, but it can also evoke illness and infection. It's an apt name for a band that is defined by it's adaptability, by it's knack for doing many different things all at once. On The Color Green's second full-length-their first as a quartet-they ground their cosmic jams in earthy melodies, drawing from '60s SoCal folk-r0ck, '70s classic rock, '80s underground rock, '90s psychedelic dance-rock, and many other sources. In the two years the band has been touring, it has already shared stages with a range of groups that reflect both the sophistication and the wild malleability of their sound, including Fuzz, Kikagaku Moyo, Circles Around the Sun, and Young Guv. InchWhen we play live, I don't really know what's going to happen,Inch says guitarist Noah Kohll. InchYou really have no idea what you're going to get with this band, which keeps things fresh for us and maybe makes the live experience special.Inch Adds drummer Corey Rose, InchOne thing about this band that I really appreciate is that we can camouflage into any environment or any show. We can play with Hiss Golden Messenger and lean into that funky country vibe, or we can play with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and get evil. We all love a variety of music, so let's not put ourselves in a box.Inch That wild, mercurial quality is reflected on Fool's Parade, a meditation on loss, grief, confusion, frustration, and the clarity to which they all lead. Their songs are vehicles for self-explorations, not just a means of putting their feelings into lyrics and notes but molding them, night after night, into different shapes to get different insights.