Girls In the Eighties // Teenage Royalty

Girls In the Eighties is a band/project/whatever that I’ve been following off and on for the last couple of years. The band has always been a little peculiar offering little to no information about themselves, and to be honest, the band sorta slipped from my memory after going somewhat silent since their last release Faceless Sonic Boom a couple of years ago.

If you do some digging into the band’s past you’ll find that the songs on the band’s most recent release, Teenage Royalty, were actually written and recorded in 2008 and released digitally in 2009. With surprisingly catchy hooks and tons of tingling fuzz, that super lo-fi first iteration of the album had a humble release but still managed to make some respectable blog rounds. Now here we are some three years later and the band has completely reworked and re-recorded the entire album. They’ve boosted the production value and given it a fuller sound and Teenage Royalty has never sounded better. I don’t think that these guys will be slipping from my memory any time again soon.

Teenage Royalty was released today on Ailanthus Recordings. If you are into super catchy pop punk/powerpop then you’ll definitely want to check this one out.

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BANDCAMP | SOUNDCLOUD | TUMBLR | FACEBOOK

 

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AFRIKA PSEUDOBRUITISMUS // Waikiki Kosmos

The internet is a strange place, guys. Where else could something like this exist? I mean, I can’t even pretend to understand exactly what this is and frankly I don’t really want to either. Released on the vibe-alicious label Ailanthus Recordings, Waikiki Kosmos is an amalgam of sample-collaging and internet drone that does its best to defy description. So bear with me, I’m going to try and somehow squeeze this into my box of understanding.

According to the label’s bandcamp page, AFRIKA PSEUDOBRUITISMUS operates two different soundcloud pages. One puts the project in Morocco, the other Spain. The project’s blog is a collection of bizarre collage work with accompanying soundcloud and youtube links. It’s this sort of messy ambiguity that defines the music as well as the overall aesthetic. Misplaced samples run rampant, interwoven into pools of watery, era-ambiguous, droning synths. It’s like the byproduct of a pseudo-tropical pool party hosted in ReBoot’s Mainframe City. Hands up if you know what I’m talking about.

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BANDCAMP | SOUNDCLOUD 1 | SOUNDCLOUD 2 | BLOGSPOT

 

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