Lisel Releases Captivating New Music Video for Latest Single “The Past Is A Tiger”

Lisel releases the video for “The Past Is A Tiger” off The Vanishing Point, which comes out October 18, 2024. "The Past is a Tiger" is an emotionally direct and evocative song that blends both macabre and ethereal soundscapes (harsh growls, eerie industrial whistles, bell-like synths) with incisive, probing, and self-critical lyrics. The song reflects on how the past can be both elusive and dangerous—something that lurks and occasionally resurfaces. Lisel’s floating vocals and the intricate, dark, experimental production create a haunting atmosphere, inviting listeners to contemplate how memory and melancholy can often lead to self-obsession and self-absorption.

Director Julia Ponce Díaz says,  “We developed a series of visual ideas that were inspired by representations of the myth of Narcissus in painting and sculpture, reflecting on how we willingly contribute to our own self-destruction through thought patterns and behavior we know aren't worthwhile but can't give up. The element of the pond, and the emphasis on reflections and portraiture all derived from this simple concept.

The song and video balance opulent beauty and tension, offering a mesmerizing exploration of time and self-reflection. BAFTA Newcomer Fellow, Julia Ponce Díaz’s visually striking video pairs its stunning, lush scenery  and baroque, extravagant garments with the song’s eerie, mournful undertone. The video encapsulates the melancholy of the lyricism, juxtaposing dreamlike visuals with the raw emotion of Lisel’s performance. “The Past Is A Tiger” showcases the most evolved project between Díaz and Lisel, with stunning production value that is a continuation of their previous collaboration on Lisel’s “Blades of Grass.” 

CREDITS

Song Written, Produced & Performed by Lisel

Director: Julia Ponce Díaz 

Choreographer: Annalise Gehling

Producer: Gia Rigoli 

Cinematographer: Annalise Gehling

Production Designer: Kailah Armond

Editor: Colton Warren 

Wardrobe: Vera Moles

Gaffer: Micah Goldfarb

1st AC: Bella Parisot

Colorist: Taylor Black

Art Director: Demi Anjorin

Set Dresser: Amy Aivazian

Make-up Artist: Guity Rafik-Surrey

Hair Stylist: Graciella Padilla

Production Company Discordia & Vulnerable Ramble

Asher White's announces new album Home Constellation Study, first single "Downstate Prairie" out today

Home Constellation Study LP Out June 28th On Ba Da Bing & Feeding Tube, First Single “Downstate Prairie” Out Now.

On Asher White’s newest album, she invites you to step into her creation of a volatile, summertime musical odyssey.

Since her first record was made at fourteen years old (now 23), Asher has honed her songwriting, creating seas of melodies from her warehouse studio full of junkyard instruments. Home Constellation Study is a vibrant explosion of creativity, detonating the fussy chamber pop of last year’s predecessor, New Excellent Woman. These new compositions embrace transcendent horn sections, pulsating basslines, and intricate orchestral loops. White sings tales of bad dreams, the excitement of mobility, and the comfort of settling down, all while savoring the sweetness of sour straws and the optimism of newfound love. Her music is simultaneously witty and deeply hopeful, blending wit and honesty with inventive sincerity. 

“Downstate Prairie”, the first single from Asher White's upcoming album, Home Constellation Study, is being co-released in a special collaboration between Ba Da Bing and Feeding Tube. Opening with combustive, Swans-caliber heaviness, the song adds another piece to her elaborate, experimental folk diorama. “Downstate Prairie” questions the social geopolitics of the Midwest, using skittering drums and untamed guitar noise to color Asher’s composition.

Listen to “Downstate Prairie” here

Home Constellation Study is out June 28th.

Or Best Offer announces their debut album releases their single “Jacket”

Photograph by Ella Sinskey

Or Best Offer announces their debut album, ‘Center’, out January 26th, and releases “Jacket,” the first single.

On ‘Center’, Grace Schmidhauser and Brian Culligan invite us into a world of unstable nostalgia; footsteps, carnival noises, and sludgy guitars coalesce with moments of sublimity.

The experimental rock duo made up of primary songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Schmidhauser, and drummer and synthesist Culligan. They work with a sense of ceaseless wonder and invention, moving between instruments and technique with fluidity and intuition. After years of collaboration in various forms since their initial meeting in 2018, Or Best Offer’s debut album Center arrives as both a document of and extrapolation on their live sound. The album was created and mixed during a period of geographical transition for Schmidhauser, and fittingly, the world of Center has a unique physics and an unstable gravity, as prone to sudden weightlessness as it is brute force. Recorded and produced by the two entirely in Culligan’s Ridgewood bedroom, Center takes a sensitive, loving approach to its materials with both molecular precision and widescreen grandeur. Distorted ribbons of Wurlitzer twirl against clattering cymbals; signals cut in and out like farewell transmissions.

Listen to “Jacket” here

BARBARA MANNING HAS A NEW RECORD & IS PLAYING SHOWS WITH CODEINE

Barbara Manning’s new CD ‘Charm of Yesterday...Convenience of Tomorrow’ is out December 8th

In a four minute catchy song, Manning can communicate what others require novels to express. Whether it’s the songs she covers or her original material, Manning’s music is compact and succinct, and is steeped in multitudes of genre periods and styles.

With an upcoming tour joining Codeine, Manning felt the time was right for something new. Thus, ‘Charm of Yesterday...Convenience of Tomorrow’. It compiles a few different periods. ‘Chico Daze’ is a song cycle that absorbed the dark times and experiences she had in Northern California through the 2010s. ‘The Porch Series’ cover songs were Manning’s antidote to pandemic madness, and features the music by Elliott Smith, Edgar Winter, Richard & Linda Thompson, Galaxie 500, Bob Dylan and The Handsome Family.

The first two singles off of her new album are already out and give a taste of her genius; Her rendition of ‘Twilight’ by Elliott Smith, and her original ‘I’m Running’.

Listen to songs from the album and preorder here

Delia Meshlir Releases New Single, Announces Sophomore Album

Delia Meshlir announces sophomore album ‘Bring Back The Light’, out on November 10th.

Grief can open a window to the past. Nostalgia whelms, and childhood memories surface. We come face to face with a longing to feel grounded and alive, and in these moments, we can forget our purpose in the universe. While making ‘Bring Back The Light’, Delia Meshlir struggled with the loss of her grandmother and the severed ties she felt with her family. The phrase “bring back the light” served as a mantra, manifesting with return to authenticity and a celebration of healing.

Her first single off the new album, ‘Love’, is out today. The video for ‘Love’, directed by Stephane Ryter, is a moody backlit affair, where Meshlir slowly emerges from the dark to dance and sing. And that is precisely the feeling this song evokes. The song has a melancholy tone, while also making you want to lace up your dancing shoes to get up and boogie just like Meshlir does in the video. 

Watch the video here.

Big Blood Announce New Record; First Single '1000 Times' Out Today

Big Blood announces the upcoming release of another spellbinding LP, First Aid Kit, to be released collaboratively on Ba Da Bing Records and Feeding Tube Records. Out today, ‘1000 Times’ is a sincere teenage ode to crushing hard; intense and emotive psychedelic rock melodies are interwoven with orchestral harmonies and lulling guitar solos. All the while, the drum is steady and prominent - like a pulse. The record is out June 9th.

“She can be a real pain in the ass,” is how Big Blood’s Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella describe having their daughter as a member of the band they formed in the wake of Cerberus Shoal’s dissolution. A band made up of family seems like an ideal situation. You get to play with those you love, and practicing/recording is always just a matter of going into the next room. “If you don’t have kids, I can imagine that is an obvious assumption,” Caleb says. “However, if you do have children, I don’t need to explain how much of an emotional mess this can be.”

While any fan of the band will tell you that no two albums sound very much alike, First Aid Kit displaying for the first time their affinity for the emotional effects of bands like The Cure, Bauhaus and The Clean, there’s a clear thread throughout all their records. Their songs achieve the double satisfaction of being immediate, catchy and memorable, while also revealing inner depths at repeated listens. Some of the best experimental music is cloaked as mundane.

First Aid Kit was recorded entirely at the family’s home onto 1” eight-track tape. It achieves the magic of capturing a moment and making a lasting impression. There aren’t many family bands, and there’s definitely no other band like this.

Listen to “1000 Times”

Pre-order First Aid Kit

Lady Lamb announces 'Ripely Pine [2023 Deluxe Edition]

We are a decade on from the release of Lady Lamb's Ripely Pine, marking a nice round number to create this definitive, luxury edition of the album. With the original songs remastered, as well as reams of additional material produced and arranged by Spaltro and mixed by original co-producer Nadim Issa, Ripely Pine [2023 Deluxe Edition] captures the time, mood, art and ambition of Aly Spaltro in her early twenties, who had already accumulated years of playing and self-recording experience before laying down tracks for this giant of a debut record. She took her poetry, set it to music and fueled it with the energy she experienced sharing the songs with early audiences. The album was cause for immediate celebration in New England, while serving as a new talent clarion call around the world. 

Ripely Pine means so much to its fans that it’s become more than just an album. Many relate it to their own lives and wherever they were ten years ago, a testament to the raw emotion it contains. From her early days writing after-hours in the basement of her day-job video rental store, using her poetry as lyrics, Spaltro fueled the music with the energy and anxieties of the late teen she was. While many awaited the debut in her hometown New England, Ripely’s release brought international recognition of her burgeoning talent. In the ten years since her debut, Aly Spaltro has remained focused on music that connects, empowers and astonishes.

The Ten Years of Ripely Pine [5xLP box set] contains:

• The classic 2xLP Ripely Pine from 2013, newly remastered by original engineer Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound, including the bonus track "Up In The Rafters," long a mainstay of Lady Lamb live shows that in retrospect should have been on the record in the first place. 

• 23 new recordings made in 2023 with original producer Nadim Issa

• 9 songs from the Ripely Pine era, often played live but never put on tape.

• 7 songs from the Ripely years that have never been heard.

• 6 new arrangements by Aly Spaltro of Ripely classics, including acoustic, piano and strings versions.
• Completely new artwork and design by Aly Spaltro with imagery from the Ripely period




The Veils '...And Out of the Void Came Love' Out Now

Breaking a 7-year hiatus, The Veils make a striking return with the release of ‘And Out of the Void Comes Love.’

Recorded in New Zealand, the double album is the result of a tumultuous period of injury, isolation, and new life. Andrews crafted the music slowly and deliberately, playing the left and right hands' piano parts separately to construct the album around his injury and evoke his emotion through every chord. It is an album intended to be listened to in two sittings with a short break in the middle, or as Andrews instructs: “Make a coffee or smoke a cigarette – but don’t mow the lawn or go to the movies or something, that takes too long.”

Composer Victoria Kelly’s soaring string arrangements play an integral role in bringing the songs to life, as do musicians Cass Basil (bass), Dan Raishbrook (lap steel, guitar), Liam Gerrard (piano), Joseph McCallum (drums) the NZTrio and special guests the Smoke Fairies on backing vocals.

 Buy the record and digital album here.

Tiny Ruins Release Single "Dorothy Bay"

New Zealand band Tiny Ruins remain true to their dream pop roots in their latest release, “Dorothy Bay.” The song’s mellow vocals and beautifully simple chord progressions emulate the tide of the bay being described. Hollie Fullbrook, the band’s lead singer, has a voice that dances over the notes and relaxes into the story being told. She describes the ebb and flow of the bay’s tides, which reveal the mud underneath ever so often, just to be drawn back out by it’s “strong pull harbour-way.”

Just as Hollie describes the movement of the water, the harmonious instruments move in and out of focus over the course of the track. The bass, consistently thrumming in the background, suddenly becomes the most essential noise guiding the song, just to disappear undearneath layers of instrumentation again. Similarly, the electric guitar unexpectedly pulls forward to release powerful chords that add grit to the song’s entire sound. The pull of the psychedelia sound move the listener gently from verse to chorus and back again, creating a song that imitates the natural wonders of which Hollie so eloquently paints a picture.

Directed by Alexander Gandar, the accompanying video is an epic, psychedelic survey of the southern headland of the Manukau Harbour. It took the small crew and band two days of filming to capture the landscape in all its glory - the results are a buzzy, colour- shifting, dreamlike visual confection. Watch the video here