#The Soundcarriers

[beatsforbrothels]

The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia

[dinosaursr66]

There is still nothing like discovering new music. I welcome The Soundcarriers into my weird little world. Incredible groove at work here.

SONG OF THE DAY - Sunday, December 8, 2024

[trevlad-sounds]

Levitation 2024

A warm up for the amazing Levitation Festival hosted by Castles In Space. Saturday 5th October.

Stone Anthem–Becoming Nobody-00:00 System 7–Faydeaudeau-03:06 DJ Food–The Rook + Type 3-10:05 James Adrian Brown–Terra Incognita-18:36 Paul Cousins–Floating Arithmetic-23:43 The Soundcarriers–Comet 4-27:45 Twilight Sequence–Rotating Seasons-31:48 Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan–A New Town With An Old Sense Of Community-39:31 A’Bear–Bleep Life Matters-44:47 James Holden–You Can Never Go Back-48:10 Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void–Phantasy-53:44 Loula Yorke–An Example of Periodic Time-54:55 Field Lines Cartographer–Transit Of Ariel-1:02:22 MSGG (Graham Dunning)–radiophonic edgecase-1:07:29 Polypores–The Egg-1:13:39 Jo Johnson–It just is the love it feels-1:20:06

[sonicziggy]

"The Return" by The Soundcarriers https://ift.tt/f6b0kQ1

[thegardencharts]

September

Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim & Moskus : Barefoot in Bryophyte

Vidění : The Land of Clouds

Holy Tongue Meets Shackleton : The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now

Hatti Vatti : Zeit

Fohn : Seanteach

Euan Dalgarno : Halves

Emily K : Wanna Ffoc Arse Bazooka Iawn !

Drew Holland & Garden Gate : Night Blooming Flowers

Scientist : Direct-To-Dub

The Soundcarriers : Through Other Reflections

[feastofbeast]

The Soundcarriers Reissue Highly Sought After OOP Celeste Album

Since stumbling upon The Soundcarriers in 2014 with their Entropicalia LP release to reliably excellent label Ghost Box I've been obsessed with their ethereal folk reminiscent of my all time favorite band Broadcast. Celeste marked their sophomore release in 2010, and I've been searching for a copy for >$200 for years, so this expanded repress is worth celebrating!

This is the second remastered and reissued album, with Entropicalia LP getting a small limited to 100 remaster in 2022 to coincide with the release of their new Wilds LP.

They have a devoted fan base and this one will go quickly. Dinked Edition is likely gone in 24hrs, and there's no pressing info on the regular black vinyl coming from Phosphonic, but probably also limited. This edition expands to include 5 bonus tracks featuring instrumentals and alternate mixes on side D.

The Soundcarriers: Celeste 2XLP Dinked edition 'Sunny-Side Up' orange-in-white vinyl. Remastered with newly designed artwork. Includes exclusive A3 poster and obi strip. Edition of 400 numbered copies. Pre-order now from a variety of UK record stores, I go with Norman Records for their reasonable US shipping, or Piccadilly Records

UPDATE: Wow, dinked is already sold out from Norman Records in under an hour (they still have the black edition) or grab Dinked from Piccadilly Records or where ever you can find it stat

[manysmallhands]

Reblogging for day nine of FearOfMu21c

#37: The Soundcarriers - Boiling Point

Released: 7"- 12 Sep 2012 ; Video Release - 21st Apr 2014

Highest UK Chart Position - Did not chart

Spotify streams to date: 149,946

First Heard - On re-release, 2014

I can remember Soundcarriers records from before this and, while they weren’t exactly bad, they did feel quite tame: coming off like reheated psychedelia, they had a distinct “Seekers joining a drug cult” vibe. In comparison, Boiling Point goes a lot harder, sounding more like they’ve taken over the movement completely and dumped acid in the local water supply. Their music was always built around revivalism, but this single gave their take on the late 60s more of a retrofuturist aspect, subtly throwing in some modern ideas which fit with the project so well that you might never notice the joins. The result is a kind of pop as head music, something catchy enough to be extremely addictive while having a kind of hypnotic whip-crack about it that could leave you staring blankly into space for hours at a time.

Once you get past the swirling drones of the intro, the drums are the thing that immediately jump out at you. Obviously it’s a kind of motorik beat but rather than recreating a live drum sound, it feels weirdly artificial, decaying in a uniform way as it drifts back under the mix, before cutting through hard again like something puncturing sheet metal. Alongside the loops of noise that form its nagging, almost ugly hooks, these elements have more in common with electronic music than a standard psych-pop act. But those 60s tropes are all here too, especially the coven-like male/female vocals and the heady musical swirl that threatens to swamp them: in what feels like an attempt to recreate the vibe of a trip itself, all of the song’s queasy energy and hurtling momentum is set against the sound of a choir singing calmly from the centre of the cyclone. While there has already been (and will continue to be) plenty of good old-fashioned nostalgia in this list, Boiling Point’s commitment to the bit does rather single it out. But its greatness comes from how it catches a band as they start to transcend their reference points, moving into more turbulent and interesting waters.

[parkerbombshell]

From Whispers To Screams -2014 part 2 //Cellophane

Thursdays 11:00am-1pm EST bombshellradio.com #indierock #neo-psychedelia #indiepop #artrock Repeats Fridays 3am EST   1. The1 I Prefer Your Love - St. Vincent 2 First love / late spring - Mitski 3 Chandelier - Sia 4 A Dream of You and Me - Future Islands 5 Anywhere - Interpol 6 Safety Net - Total Control 7 The Lord's Favorite - Iceage 8 Palidez - Jose Domingo 9 The Refractory - Wovenhand 10 Red Eyes - The War On Drugs 11 Rimbaud Eyes - Dum Dum Girls 12 John Michael - Russian Red 13 Tarifa - Sharon Van Etten 14 Witness - Joan As Police Woman 15 Ojos Color Sol - Calle 13 16 Floor of the Ocean - Mark Lanegan 17 One Breath Away - Billy Idol 18 Shelter Song - Temples 19 Somewhere To Land - The Soundcarriers 20 Keep It Healthy - Warpaint 21 Nothing But Trouble - Phantogram 22 Cellophane - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 23 Smell Of Gasoline - The Reverend Horton Heat 24 Come On Over - Royal Blood 25 Screen Shot - Swans 26 Retreat! - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings 27 Toumast Tincha - Tinariwen 28 Little Maggie - Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters 29 Morning - Beck 30 Is this dust really from the Titanic? - Car Seat Headrest     Read the full article

[flockdog]

What kinda music / musical artists you been listening to lately?

been listening to loads of elliot smith and slowdive, just recently relistened to entropicalia by the soundcarriers and its such a banger! everyone go listen now. im such a music boy

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: November 25, 2024

A more downbeat, wintry episode, with occasional bursts of sunnier psychedelia and pop-adjacent sounds. A throwback to prolific oddballs Zacht Automaat, heady sounds from Aidan Baker's Hypnodrone Ensemble, and other sonic escapism for these dark days.

Spotify and Soundcloud embeds are below, or listen at CJSW here, and track list is after the break.

Hour One:

Song to the Siren Various Artists, featuring Rachika Nayar, Julianna Barwick, Cassandra Croft • TRA​И​Ƨ​A

Amare Hollie Kenniff • Single

vermillion - Kilometre Club Remix IKSRE • Single

Solar Systems A Lily • Virgin Stoner: Works 2001​-​2004

Stan's Soluble Fish Animals on Wheels • Designs & Mistakes

Inspiration Me & My Friend • Imperfectionism

Garmonbozia (Instrumental) Flying Lotus • Spirit Box EP

Yellow Diamond Angell & Crane • Angell & Crane

How We Got Here Elori Saxl • Earth Focus (Original Score)

Space to Dream Philip Clemo • Through the Wave of Blue

Hour Two:

Ginger Island ermhoi • Single

Tout Cassé Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp • Ventre Unique

Higher KOKOROKO • Get The Message EP

AMAMA Crumb • AMAMA

Black Water Alan Sparhawk • White Roses, My God

Long Long Long Zacht Automaat • Zacht Automaat

Lost in the Peak District Zacht Automaat • Zacht Automaat

Odd Energy Echolalia • Single

Control Void Comp • Single

Before Your Very Eyes Atoms For Peace • Amok

Hour Three:

Winter Is Way Too Long Cloe Martin • Single

Free Energy Bananagun • Why is the Colour of the Sky?

With Us For Now The Soundcarriers • Through Other Reflections

Yo Gamma Gamma Sleepkit • Camp Emotion

Wave SUUNS • The Breaks

Black Water Emilíana Torrini • Miss Flower

Shadows & Form Bristol Manor • Nightlife

Hiss Release Jilk • Soft in Shape and Meaning

Spirit's Heavy, But Not Overthrown, Part 1 Yoo Doo Right • From the Heights of Our Pastureland

Desdemona Hypnodrone Ensemble • The Problem Is in the Sender - Do Not Tamper with the Receiver

[vmonteiro23a]

UNDER THE RADAR: New Album - The Soundcarriers – "Through Other Reflections", released on August 16, 2024

UNDER THE RADAR: New Album – The Soundcarriers – “Through Other Reflections”, released on August 16, 2024 “Fan of Broadcast and Stereolab? You need The Soundcarriers in your life and their fifth album is a great place to start.” .brooklyn vegan

[reconprate]

The Soundcarriers

The Soundcarriers “Already Over” Through Other Reflections (08-16-2024) This is the first single off of the fifth album from the Nottingham, UK band.  

[sonicziggy]

"Already Over" by The Soundcarriers https://ift.tt/0DGHMa7

[phlistopher]

Media Diet: February–April 2024

It’s been a while since my last media diet post—three months, I was horrified to learn. There’s a lot to get through, so I’m taking a whirlwind tour on this one. There’s no time! Including for any more of this introduction.

Music

David Comes to Life—Fucked Up

I saw Toronto’s own Fucked Up open for The Damned last Halloween, and they were great. Post hardcore blending melodic pop sensibilities with driving guitars and almost cookie monster vocals that honestly took me a bit to get used to. I picked up the album the punks at work recommended I start with, David Comes to Life from 2010. It’s loud, romantic, and, I’m told, a concept album, but I didn’t follow that. It’s so good. Makes you want to jump.

Choice Cut

David Comes To Life by Fucked Up

Scumdogs of the Universe—GWAR

I always knew of GWAR—the space barbarian outfits, the over the top staged violence at shows, randomly being in Empire Records—but I never actually listened to them. When they were a mainstream concern, I was too young and scared to seek them out, but last year I saw them on NPR’s Tiny’s Desk Concert and thought they were fun. I heard Sarah Squirm say she unironically wanted to be in GWAR in an interview, so I asked Uncle Internets which was the best GWAR album, and discovered that the band said they never were better than their second offering, Scumdogs of the Universe. It’s fun! Trashy gross out metal, violent, sex-dumb and cartoonishly nihilistic. There’s a decent amount of language that is not cool, but less than you’d expect from a band with their reputation, for whatever that’s worth.

Choice Cut

Scumdogs of the Universe by GWAR

Celeste—The Soundcarriers

Chill out music with an upbeat groove. Feels like driving through the Italian riviera in a convertible. I’ve never done that, so I can’t possibly know, and yet I have never been more certain of something in my life. The early 60s vocal harmonies meets the late 60s psychedelic vamps meets solid riffs.

Choice Cut

Celeste by The Soundcarriers

Peter Gabriel (Melt)—Peter Gabriel

I visited my friends Jon and Brynn in Massachusetts with my new friend Jon Christian. While we packed records, Jon-the-first put on Peter Gabriel’s third self-titled solo album. Peter Gabriel’s first four albums are self titled, so eye-twitch fans give them nick names from the artwork; in this case, Melt. It’s a fantastic record. Eclectic, weird, surprisingly danceable prog, and the whole thing is catchy. Dig it.

Choice Cut

Electrified Brain—Municipal Waste

Discovered this Virginia metal band from my roommate’s T-shirt: a two headed zombie crawling out of a Superfund swamp. Whip-crack, crunch-ass thrash. No song over three minutes. Blow it up.

Choice Cut

Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste

Big Time—Angel Olsen

I heard the title track on Aquarium Drunkard last year, and finally checked out the full album, from 2022. Wow, I’ve been sleeping on a major work here. Big Time is big emotions—cratered heartbreak, joyful infatuation, complex yearning, nuanced tenderness—wrapped in rock solid, mature songcraft. Angel’s voice has such range; the delicate quiet of a verse exploding into a belted gut rending chorus. Classic structure, timeless execution, modern sensibilities. Country music at it’s finest.

And! She has an EP from last year which I need to listen to. Maybe next month!

Choice Cut

Big Time by Angel Olsen

Blind Melon—Blind Melon

Again while visited Jon and Brynn, Jon threw on Blind Melon, the band’s break out self titled debut from 1992. Everyone knows them as essentially a one hit wonder behind No Rain, but when Jon says a band is worth digging into, he’s usually right. And he is! The album is wall to wall solid jams, and the gone-too-soon Shannon Hoon’s vocals are seriously underrated.

Choice Cut

Tonnes of Home

What Now—Brittany Howard

This is one of those albums I feel I’ll be coming back to over and over, pulling something new each time. It’s so complex, yet accessible, rich and powerful. The exuberance Brittany Howard brings to every naked emotion on this album is stunning. I am having trouble defining the genres this work spans—Funk? Rock? Soul?—and that is a high compliment. Sonically diverse, yet a whole piece that hangs together. I can’t stop listening to it. I liked her first solo effort, Jaime, but I love this one. I ordered the vinyl. Check it out or miss out.

Choice Cut

What Now

Books

Jesus, I barely read anything in three months. I read The Last Colony by John Scalzi, the last in the Old Man’s War trilogy. Fun, but the weakest in the series for me. I don’t think that was the only reason it took me so long to finish—lots of change and settling in to do—but it didn’t help. Still, I did enjoy it. Glad to be on to other books!

TV

Neon Genesis Evangelion

What a wild show. It’s just a ride you need to strap in for, not make sense of. Or, maybe there is a way to? There’s a lot of dense information flying at you a mile a minute, philosophical interrogations on the nature of self, unfortunate early 90s anime horniness, sad broken characters wading through a maelstrom of manufactured symbolism. Oh, and giant robots. I’ve been told it’s a big touch point in the trans community, and that certainly tracks with the themes of self discovery and mutability. Ultimately, I don’t know what I watched, but I enjoyed the experience.

30 Rock

I watched the show during its original run, and not since. It’s been really fun to revisit. The comedy mostly holds up, which is insane, and the characters are so great to revisit. Lots of, “Oh yeah, I kind of remember this!” moments. But of course, it’s all about who you watch it with.

Video Games

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

I’ve been slowly working my way through this one on my Miyoo Mini. I’ve played most of the Zelda games when they released, starting with A Link to the Past, but this one slipped by me at the time. It’s Capcom, not Nintendo, developed, and you can tell. The quality is still good, but doesn’t have quite the charm and design polish of a Nintendo release. Still, good for when I want to play a game but not have to think too hard or react too fast.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

The opposite of the Minish Cap experience, you do need to react fast. This game is so fun, so well designed, so great to look at, and so hard. But fair! When you die, you’re like, “Yep, that’s on me.” Well, that’s what a person who doesn’t spit expletives at the screen would say. Been playing off and on with my roommates. A+.

Movies

The Novice

Describes the filmmaker. Ya burnt!

No, but seriously, this sucked.

She Came to Me

A good cast (Peter Dinkladge and Marisa Tomei as a romantic interest) plodding through a pretty forgettable love triangle centered on a depressed Dinkladge as a frustrated opera composer. Anne Hathaway melting down later in the movie was pretty fun though.

Twin Dragons

Jackie Chan playing his own twin in a mistaken identity farce? Sounds great! I wish it was!

The Zone of Interest

This is an incredible film that I never want to see again. Even knowing the premise, it creeps up on, lulling you in, only hinting at the horrors. You watch the denial of the characters on screen, as you become invested in their domestic lives, then being jarred back to the truth with subtle prods. And that last scene. Wow. I’ll be thinking about this one for a while.

Knight of Fortune

This was by far the best live action Oscar nominated short. Of course Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptation won, and all the other’s where some form of student-film-level emotionally manipulative dreck, but Knight of Fortune was seriously good. Heartwarming, funny, believable characters you cared for in emotionally relatable situations. A perfect little slice of life, in a morgue.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

I had seen this once before, but this was my first time seeing it in the theater. You know what? It’s different on the big screen. Still weird as hell, and I can’t quite describe it, but I got more feeling out of it in a theater.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

This movie is a bonkers, gooey, self-satirizing romp. Money is all over the screen. All the puppeteering is amazing. What a good time.

Past Lives

A beautiful slice of life, unafraid of realism, unburdened by immaturity. A tender story about distance and connecting over it, and how that changes with time.

Godzilla: Tokoyo S.O.S.

There’s two six inch fairy twins who tell people about Mothra, who sparkles. A triumph in rubber suit cinema.

Perfect Days

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long while. A patient character study fascinated by nominal space and time. Kōji Yakusho’s performance is so compelling, so convincing, that you’re leaning forward in the quietest moments, pulling meaning from his every move. The movie has a lot to say about jobs. So many of us have jobs that we identify with our selfhood. The janitor character here is meticulous, and cares deeply about his job, but not for anyone other than himself. Words can’t describe. Go see it.

Drive-Away Dolls

The Cohen Brothers are known for their dark comedies, films that move effortlessly between the most grim moment to the funniest. Before the brothers started doing their own films apart, I have rolled my eyes at anyone who suggested that the “grim” and “funny” parts were separated neatly into a single brother, as being too simplistic. That may well be too simplistic, but you wouldn’t know it from the first two movies they made. Joel Cohen’s Hamlet from 2021 was all dour seriousness, excising any levity present in the play, while this year’s lesbian road crime caper Drive-Away Dolls from Ethan Cohen is all cotton candy comedy; all movement, no substance. I enjoyed it, but all the Cohen brother’s signatures where there, minus the emotional impact, so I left feeling nothing.

Gaslight

My second watch of the film, seeing with friends this time. The origin of the term. It’s fantastic. Keeps you guessing. It isn’t Hitchcock.

Some Like It Hot

I’ve seen this a bunch of times, and saw it again with friends. It’s a classic, and is on the AFI list. On this most recent viewing, there’s still a lot to like, mostly in the first third, but it can be hard to look past the dated/sexist attitudes on display.

Rory Scovel: Religion, Sex, and a Few Things in Between

It’s a bit provocative, pretty dirty, and very funny. I don’t remember any bits now though.

Dune: Part Two

I thought it was very pretty to look at, but kind of cold character-wise, and I didn’t end up getting invested. I had seen Part One, and read the book as a teenager. The book I loved, Part One I felt similarly to Part Two. I saw this with my dad, and he said, “You know Chris, I enjoyed it, they did a great job, but you know it was long and with all the action I didn’t understand what was happening.” Wise words, dad.

Love Lies Bleeding

Two lesbian crime movies in as many months? Incredible. This one is a whole A24 80s drug gym rat murder blast. Kristen Stewart at her best. See it with someone good.

Green Porno

Isabella Rossellini’s collection of campy deadpan ecological shorts, each tackling a different animal’s sex life. Rossellini dresses in costume as each animal. You can’t turn away.

Hardware

An unsuccessful post apocalyptic Sci-Fi movie with some odd pacing and some truly troubling side characters, the robot design and animation is pretty great.

Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness

Masterpiece. One of the movies I’ve seen the most. A perfect comedy. I see you Elijah Wood.

Speed Racer

Pure joy. This movie looks like nothing else. Still ahead of it’s time, this thing is candy that sticks to your ribs. Watchable forever. What are you doing if you haven’t seen this?

We Grown Now

Won a lottery for a free screening. I couldn’t get anyone to go with me, and that was for the best. A story about two young friends growing up Cabrini Green, and the struggles around racism they face. The script didn’t come together for me, the central game and metaphor of jumping in particular feeling like it had nowhere to live in the story (the game also makes no sense? It’s built up as the biggest recess cred-builder, and all it is is jumping onto a mattress. I buy that as a kids game, but one where someone is a legend at it? Or where the mom trots out the cliche of stopping all that jumping nonsense? I digress). As far as Cabrini Green films go, Candyman did it better.

Friday The 13th Part 2

I decided to watch all the Friday the 13th movies. They’re trash, they’re sexist, why even bother, I hear you say. Well, yes. I won’t argue any of that. And yet, I feel culturally compelled to understand this time in horror, this specific run of year after year sequels, this New Jersey killer. Also, my roommate Ivy has the collected Blu Ray box set. Part 2 was fun! Comfortingly trope filled, the teens were, for the most part, legitimately likeable, which is, I’m told, the only time that happens in this franchise.

Friday The 13th Part 3

We almost had the technology to watch this in 3D; we had the 3D Blu Ray, we had the 3D TV, but not the 3D Blu Ray player. Sad times. But, all those times the movie took a break to show shots where a Yo-Yo or a shovel handle pokes at the screen were still funny in 2D. The introduction of the hockey mask. It’s shot in California instead of New Jersey, and you can really tell. The theme song is, once again, incredible. Why does everyone go into the damn barn?

Civil War

Intense movie, great performances, really effecting, predictable but whatever. A movie about journalism, and the effects it has on journalists, and if that matters and is worth the cost.

Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter

Worth the price of admission for Crispin Glover’s dance alone. Tom Savini came back for this one, so the gore effects are good. Corey Feldman runs around. Some cool shots of bursting through glass. Hilarious ending freeze frame.

[koholint]

today’s playlist:

Wampire - The Hearse

Blouse - White

DIANA - Born Again

Sleep ∞ Over - Romantic Streams

Still Corners - Strange Pleasure

Beach House - The Hours

The Soundcarriers - Low Light

Melody’s Echo Chamber - You Won’t Be Missing That Part of Me

Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks - Strange Colores

Craft Spells - Komorebi

Snowmine - Columbus

Yumi Zouma - Sålka Gets Her Hopes Up

Warpaint - Disco//Very

The Casket Girls - Chemical Dizzy

The Raveonettes - Killer in the Streets

thanks for listening!