Alex Lilly shares “Pornographic Mind” music video; Vet of touring bands with Beck, Lorde, to support “2% Milk” debut with solo tour, launching Feb. 21st.

“Alex Lilly’s songs keep their cool,” proclaims The New York Times; She is “making three-minute modern art pieces out of musical Legos,” says buzzbands.la

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Alex Lilly as photographed by Nora Colie

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The New York Times says 2% Milk “delivers structural and emotional complexity with deceptive nonchalance. Through heartache, rejection, workplace harassment and pervasive disillusionment, Alex Lilly’s songs keep their cool.” Stream 2% Milk by Alex Lilly here

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Alex Lilly –In The Press

“Pretty freaking awesome.” — The FADER

“Lead single ‘Distracting Me’ is a light (but not slight) pop song with a punchy beat and engaging twisty-turny melodies.” — L.A. Record

“Madonna with a more poetic bent.” — PopMatters

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“In a landscape littered with overwrought pop stylists banking on social media currency, Alex Lilly is the genuine article,” says FLOOD in its premiere coverage of the music video “Pornographic Mind” by Alex Lilly. See the clip, directed by Inara George and Jeremy Cohen here or at the link below!

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcw99oxsv94

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Alex Lilly – On Tour

(* = w/ KOLARS)

02/21/2019: San Diego, CA @ Casbah *

02/22/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo *

02/23/2019: Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones *

03/01/2019: Costa Mesa, CA @ Wayfarer *

03/21/2019: Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge *

03/22/2019: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *

03/23/2019: Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival

03/28/2019: Eugene, OR @ Wildcraft Cider Works *

03/29/2019: Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern *

03/30/2019: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir *

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Los Angeles-based artist Alex Lilly is a renaissance female.

In addition to the writing, arranging, producing, and playing of her own music, Lilly has established a notable career out on the road as a part of the touring bands of such esteemed musicians Beck, Lorde, Ry Cooder, and the bird and the bee. When Lilly’s in L.A, she has stayed busy throughout the years with her own projects such as Obi Best, The Living Sisters, Touché, and Zero DeZire.

Now Lilly is bringing all of her talents, ideas, and her singular voice to the table in the form of 2% Milk, her debut full-length album, out now via newly-formed Release Me Records.

Lilly’s ability to take a song out of the realm of merely entertaining to intriguing is all over the album’s latest single “Pornographic Mind,” a tune dedicated to the idea of enjoying the annoying. See the music video for the song via an exclusive premiere at FLOOD.

“At first I was a little hesitant to even put out this song. My story was such a lighthearted version of workplace misconduct; I didn’t want anyone to think I was an apologist for badly behaving men! I'm not, but in this particular situation, it was more humorously pathetic than anything else,” Lilly explains of the tune.

The music video’s co-director, Inara George adds, “I think the first time I heard this song was when the idea for the video popped into my head. I think most women can point to a moment when they’ve experienced a little indignity at the work place.”

Lilly’s songs – she describes her sound as “sexy psychological thriller” – are synthy, syrupy, and suspicious i.e. there’s something going on here that’s not only pop, but actually pops. The intrigue that abounds on 2% Milk moves the listener beyond toe-tapping and finger-snapping, straight to brain-mapping.

2% Milk, the debut album from Alex Lilly, is out now. Lilly tours with KOLARS in February and March. See above for full itinerary. Alex Lilly is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Alex Lilly

2% Milk

Out Now

(Release Me)

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01. Confucius Says

02. 2% Milk

03. Distracting Me (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

04. Pornographic Mind (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

05. Boomerang

06. Night Drive

07. Infantile

08. Cold Snap

09. Hypothetical

10. Firefly

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Alex Lilly Links

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Texas soul mixes with soul of Alex Chilton on upcoming full-length from Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers.

Denton-based band’s “Shook” arrives Feb. 22^nd. See comedic music video for album track “Shoenapper” now!

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers (L-R): Clint Sawyer, Holly Manning, Dave Huff, Patrick Newkirk, Chris Welch, Kelly Evans. Photo by Aubrey Mortensen.

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“Shoenapper” by Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rCGzSgGbY4

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers – Live

01/31/2019: Austin, TX @ Hole In The Wall

02/01/2019: San Antonio, TX @ Beethoven Maennerchor

02/23/2019: Denton, TX @ Dan’s Silver Leaf (Record Release Show)

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 “Welch straddles the line between country and soul in a similar vein to how Mr. Orbison did it.” – Ghost of Blind Lemon

Denton, Texas is the home of Chris Welch & The Cicada Killers, introduced as the “fabulous Cicada Killers” on “Cicada Sweat,” the James Brown-inspired opening track of Shook, the north Texas band’s upcoming sophomore album, which follows-up its 2017 debut Faded & Frayed.

The pronouncement is the only vocal on the song, an improvisational moment that the band loved and kept, but it’s all that’s needed: The Cicada Killers’ unique brand of soul, shimmy, and shake speaks for itself.

Welch’s influences aren’t rooted only in Otis Redding, he also brings plenty of Alex Chilton, and even The Replacements’ “Alex Chilton” to the party, fronting an indie-rock rave-up sound with the lived-in voice of a guy who went to one-too-many parties. Additional influences on the band include the Stax and Hitsville label rosters, along with Kris Kristofferson, Lou Reed, and Afghan Whigs.

Unlike the band’s debut album, The Cicada Killers approached the songwriting on Shook as a fully collaborative effort, recording in a marathon five-day session in early 2018 at Cool Devices Studio with Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan of legendary pop-punk band The Marked Men.

Five days to make an album could have been a luxury, as the band is used to grinding it out. An early album track, “Shoenapper” details one of those bleary-eyed road stories, in fact.

As band member Kelly Evans (Vocals, Saxophone) explains, “Maybe we’d imbibed just a bit too much, but the day that we came up with this song was a little rough. We had to get back to Denton that morning, and our bass player (Dave Huff) headed out early, only to discover when he was stopped for gas that he wasn’t wearing his own shoes. He’d stolen our drummer’s (Clint Sawyer) shoes! We gave him a hard time for that one and this song was born.”

Shook by Chris Welch & The Cicada Killers arrives on Feb. 22, 2019. Chris Welch is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers

Shook

Goliad Media Group

(Feb. 22^nd, 2019)

Track Listing:

01. Cicada Sweat

02. Want You Back

03. Ill-Dealt Hand

04. Shoenapper (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

05. Knockin’

06. Black Dress

07. Borrowed Repertoire

08. Lie To Me

09. Stumbled

10. Objectify My Love

11. Shake ‘Em Down

12. Leaving Today

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers Links

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The Rad Trads – each band member is a songwriter, lead vocalist – to launch west coast tour in support of current album “On Tap,” out now.

Mixing rock n’ roll with punk rock energy, horn drenched soul, jazz precision, Brooklyn band’s high-energy show already selling-out NYC rooms.

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The Rad Trads (L-R): John Fatum, Alden Harris-McCoy, Patrick Sargent, Mike Harlen, Michael Fatum. Photo by John Carges.

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The Rad Trads – “Goin’ To California” Tour

02/06/2019: San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill

02/08/2019: Arcata, CA @ Humboldt Brews

02/09/2019: Sebastopol, CA @ Hopmonk Tavern

02/11/2019: Santa Cruz, CA @ Kuumbwa Jazz Center

02/12/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ The Hotel Cafe

02/14/2019:  Sacramento, CA @ Torch Club

02/15/2019: San Jose, CA @ The Art Boutiki (San Jose Jazz Festival)

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American Songwriter calls “Good Luck Unto Ya” by The Rad Trads a “funky kiss-off track with a killer guitar solo and plenty of horns.”  The song leads off On Tap, the latest album by The Rad Trads, out now on Hornblow Recordings. Listen to On Tap here.

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The gentlemen comprising the Brooklyn-based five-piece The Rad Trads distinguish themselves in ways few bands can. Already drawing lines around the block at home, the globe-trotting group’s singular take on rock n roll mixes punk rock energy, horn drenched soul, and jazz precision, all with a lighthearted but sincere delivery. It’s a sound and show that is gaining steam world over as The Rad Trads continue to tour in support of On Tap, out now from Hornblow Recordings. Listen to On Tap here.

Challenging but humorous, at times The Rad Trads bring to mind Springsteen and his “Big Man” Clarence Clemons, Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks-era vocal style, and Wilco’s epic guitar breakdowns. All of this sonic goodness is only upstaged by the fact that the guys in The Rad Trads manage to exist as five distinct songwriters and singers in a band that still sounds powerfully egoless, familial, and cohesive. And none of them even planned on being vocalists!

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The Rad Trads will launch a string of west coast dates on Feb. 6^th! See above for full itinerary. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more info and/or guest list.

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More about The Rad Trads

Meeting at New York University in 2012 as conservatory-trained instrumentalists looking to play with NYC’s best musicians, twin brothers John (Drums, Vocals) and Michael Fatum (Trumpet, Vocals), Michael Harlen (Bass, Vocals), Alden Harris-McCoy (Guitar, Vocals), and Patrick Sargent (Keys, Saxophone, Vocals) were, at that time, just “a bunch of buds looking to play the bars and drink for free,” according to John Fatum. “The Rad Trads started off with a bastardized jazz repertoire that was modified, on stage, into whatever seemed to get the audience moving.” The band quickly developed a loyal connection with its audiences. Michael Fatum agrees: “It felt amazing.”

It was at this time that each band member’s individual forays into original songwriting began, coinciding with the discovery that what its followers were enjoying most was the band members’ personal connections with each other. This, even more than the music itself, was making crowds come back for more. As the band’s live sets began to be filled more and more with original songs which all stuck to the “if you write it, you sing it” formula, the fans remained enthusiastically engaged.

With all of that energy flying around, The Rad Trads could have simply been perceived as just a party band, but the band’s booking agent realized that with those expert chops, there might also be a niche within the jazz festival scene for The Rad Trads, and he was right. Harlen explains, “It turns out that every jazz festival in the world needed a fun band to hold down the late night parties, and so we went to Europe for the first time.”

This initial excursion has turned into nearly ten trips to Europe for The Rad Trads, in addition to performances on four continents, in 15 countries, 41 states, and as of this writing, a string of dates in China. The diverse list of artists that the band has performed with in that time includes Lake Street Dive, Charles Bradley, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, and The Lone Bellow, among others. “We’ve loved every second of traveling and seeing the world,” John Fatum says.

Fatum is the composer and vocalist of “On Tap” album opener “Good Luck Unto Ya,” a soaring anthem with wall of sound-level overdubs, recently described by American Songwriter as a “funky kiss-off track with a killer guitar solo and plenty of horns.” It’s a stunning way to jump start the record, and for the uninitiated, will quickly bring to mind visions of what The Rad Trads’ race-out-of-the-gate live show must be like.

The album is bookended by closing number “Wishing Well,” which is, incredibly, the first song that Sargent ever wrote. “We played the song live for almost a year before recording it, so it had a chance to evolve organically before being put to tape,” he explains to MAGNET Magazine, which in its full-throated praise of The Rad Trads, also asserts, “We’ve been racking our brains trying to think of another band that has five leader singers, but we couldn’t come up with any.”

Obviously, while the songs on On Tap are exceedingly original, the band’s story is, too. Or maybe surviving the story is what’s most fascinating. As a group comprised of conservatory trained instrumentalists, it’s actually five individual writers and singers that glue The Rad Trads together, the sound of five artists that have found a common voice.

“Our unconventional process keeps The Rad Trads fresh for us, always,” Harris-McCoy explains. “The fact that our egos have not taken us down is somewhat of a modern miracle!”

On Tap by The Rad Trads is out now from Hornblow Recordings. Look out for new music videos for album tracks “My Place” and “Thumbtack,” coming soon. The Rad Trads will continue to tour throughout 2019.

Members of The Rad Trads are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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The Rad Trads

On Tap

Out Now

(Hornblow Recordings)

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Track Listing:

1.Good Luck Unto Ya (VIDEO)

2.Manhattan Bridge Serenade

3.Key Club

4.My Place

5.Thumbtack

6.Sarge’s Boogaloo

7.Vada Via

8.Little Pie Blues

9.Wishing Well (VIDEO)

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The Rad Trads Links

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J Hacha De Zola releases “Anarchy” single from upcoming John Agnello-produced (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr) “Icaro Nouveau,” out March 8th.

Tune beckons listeners “somewhere exciting and unfamiliar where menace looms heavy.” Hear Jersey City artist’s “Urban Junkyard” sound here.

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J Hacha De Zola as photographed by Robin Souma

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“Beckoning listeners somewhere exciting and unfamiliar where menace looms heavy in the air,” says BTRtoday about “Anarchy,” the first official single from J Hacha De Zola’s upcoming Icaro Nouveau (Caballo Negro, March 8^th.) J also recently kicked off the Jersey City episode of BTRtoday’s “Spotlight On The City. Click to listen!

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/JHachaDeZola-Anarchy

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J Hacha De Zola – In The Press

“The kind of alluring character found in old children’s books.” — UTNE

“A wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain Beefheart.” — Paste

“A large, spinning rock ‘n’ roll affair as enticing as it is distant and strange.” — MAGNET

“Dangerously delightful, whirling, and rhythmic.” — The Big Takeover

“Bound to light the way forward and inspire a legion of imitators.” — PopMatters

“A compelling all-over-the-map collision of jazz, blues, show tunes, garage rock, and Latino flavors.” — BLURT

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“This is an Urban Junkyard record.”

It’s a descriptor that J Hacha De Zola has been casually using over the course of three album releases. With the upcoming full–length Icaro Nouveau (out March 8^th), the Jersey City–based musician defines the genre in detail.

Produced by iconic engineer John Agnello, a career–long cohort of another “J” – J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, and most recently the man behind albums by Waxahatchee, the new Hacha De Zola songs are described by the artist as full of “villains, spells, desires, romance, danger, redemption, and revelations.”

He adds, “and a eulogy,” referring to “Ode To Ralph Carney,” about the late, legendary saxophone sideman of Tom Waits (and many others), who served not only as a player, but more importantly, as a spiritual guide for Hacha De Zola over the course of the latter’s young career.

“My heart aches,” Hacha De Zola says about the man he calls “Johnny Marinara” on the tune, directly lifting Waits’ own nickname for Carney. The “Icaro” of the new album’s title speaks to that aching; the word refers to “language taught through other worldly sources intended to heal those who hear it.”

Indeed, Carney was Hacha De Zola’s compatriot in developing the Urban Junkyard sound that now has a life of its own on Icaro Nouveau.

“He was an integral part of this sound. He was my secret weapon,” Hacha De Zola says. “His horns were ever–present, as was his input. Not having him around for Icaro Nouveau was unsettling for me.”

Fortunately, Carney’s spirit was still in the room, and helped Hacha De Zola get in touch with his creativity in a new way, with greater depth. More specifically, the “Nouveau” portion that completes the new album’s title.

“I’ve been developing my own new language, through the elements that are most familiar to me,” Hacha De Zola explains. “My neighborhood – ‘mi barrio’ – where I’m from, and the diversity of cultures and vibes there.”

“Environment is everything,” he continues, “There’s power in the intent behind words and in their delivery. You might not even understand a certain language, but can get a sense of the intent when it’s spoken.”

You can feel it in the Urban Junkyard.

J Hacha De Zola’s fourth full-length album Icaro Nouveau is scheduled for release on March 8^th, 2019. Hacha de Zola is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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  “Syn Illusión,” the current EP by J Hacha De Zola, is out now via the Caballo Negro label.

 “J Hacha De Zola sings a song of unrequited love with ‘Syn Illusión’. As songs on the matter go, this is one that’s bound to light the way forward and inspire a legion of imitators.” — PopMatters | Listen to J Hacha de Zola’s “Syn Illusión” at PopMatters or via the link below!

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/JHachaDeZola-SynIllusion

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjPfN_ApBF0

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J Hacha De Zola

Icaro Nouveau

(Caballo Negro)

March 8^th, 2019

Track Listing:

01. Anarchy (STREAM | MP3)

02. El Chucho (Hooko)

03. On A Saturday (STREAM | MP3)

04. Juan Salchipapas

05. A Song For Her

06. Hollow Trees

07. A Fool's Moon

08. Ode To Ralph Carney (STREAM)

09. Super Squeaky

10. Hacha's Lament

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J Hacha De Zola

‘Syn Illusión’ EP

(Caballo Negro)

Out Now

  

Track Listing:

01. Syn Illusión (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Otro Lado

03. Lejos De Mi

04. El Mago Negro

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J Hacha De Zola Links

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“Perfectly woozy” (FLOOD) “dreampop gem” (PASTE) duo Fawns of Love drops sophomore album “Permanent” today.

Hear “Mournful Eyes” at Grimy Goods, See the video at High Clouds. Band plays The Echo in Los Angeles this Monday.

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Fawns of Love (L-R): Jenny Andreotti, Joseph Andreotti. Photo credit: Jenny Andreotti.

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Fawns of Love – In The Press

“A dreampop gem.” — Paste

“Would fit right in at David Lynch’s Roadhouse” — MAGNET

“The soft gauze of Cocteau Twins and Slowdive. Perfectly woozy.” — FLOOD

“There is obsessive joy in the Fawns of Love’s take on shoegaze.” — The Big Takeover

“Psychedelic dream pop.” — MXDWN

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Hear “Mournful Eyes” by Fawns of Love at Grimy Goods or the link below!

 [LISTEN | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/FawnsOfLove-MournfulEyes

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See the “Mournful Eyes” video by Fawns of Love at High Clouds or the link below!

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXN5jEm7I0I

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Los Angeles! See Fawns of Love at The Echo this coming Monday, Jan. 21^st w/ Choir Boy and SRSQ! Tickets on sale now.

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“Built upon the shoulders of The Cure and Slowdive with its swimming guitar lines and washes of hazy, bright synths. – buzzbands.la

Bakersfield, California-based shoegaze / dreampop duo Fawns of Love (Jenny and Joseph Andreotti) issues its second album Permanent today. The album is the duo’s first album release for Test Pattern Records. Recent single “Mournful Eyes” can be heard via Grimy Goods and the music video for the track is streaming now at High Clouds.

Both full-time educators – Joseph teaches middle school, Jenny is a full-time instructor at CSU-Bakersfield – the Andreottis have been performing together for 16 years, recording, touring and releasing music throughout that time under various names and labels. In 2013, they began a break when Jenny enrolled in a history graduate program, but by 2017, it was time to begin being a band again, including choosing a new name.

“One of our favorite records is Hounds of Love by Kate Bush,” Joseph says. “We wanted a name that would pay homage to that.”

 In addition to Kate Bush, additional influences on Fawns of Love include familiar names such as The Chills, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Blur, Pulp, Slowdive, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Sparks.

 Fawns of Love takes all of these legendary sounds, which some might think of as cold or aloof, and makes them pop with overtones of The Smiths, New Order, and the warmth that comes from the Andreotti’s many years of making music together.

Permanent, the second full-length by Fawns of Love, is out now from Test Pattern Records. Jenny and Joseph Andreotti are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Fawns of Love

Permanent

(Test Pattern Records)

Out Now

  

Track Listing:

01. Someday (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. December (STREAM | MP3)

03. Horoscope

04. Permanent

05. Mournful Eyes (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

06. Divine

07. Anarchy & Kisses

08. Wasted Days

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Fawns of Love Links

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