On first day of Global Climate Strike, Simone White releases “Letter to the Last Generation,” an apology to the future, warning that “all the signs were there.”

First all-new album since 2012 features White’s trademark “voice like ether” (NPR), “cathartic intimacy” (MOJO). Hear Andrew Bird collaboration “Tiny Drop” now.

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Simone White (Credit: Self-Portrait)

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Simone White | “Letter to the Last Generation”

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/SimoneWhite-LetterToTheLastGeneration

Today is the first day of the Global Climate Strike, and songwriter Simone White has released the title track of her upcoming album Letter to the Last Generation to coincide.

Quoting the song’s “environmentally charged” lyrics in its coverage, Americana UK writes, “‘First we weren’t sure / Then we ignored / All the way down’ sings Simone White on this imaginary letter to a future generation enjoying the world we’ve bequeathed them after our concerted efforts to save the environment.  What’s that?  Oh, not so much enjoying as enduring the legacy of our failure to make any real efforts to protect the environment.”

Writer Jonathan Aird continues, “Simone White’s ethereal vocal is damning of inaction ‘all the signs were there, we simply did not care / No-one could be blamed for the lies / Everyone was named at the trials / Those hollow hollow hollow hollow hollow hollow promises.’”

White is currently in production with filmmaker Scott Cohen on a music video for “Letter to the Last Generation,” and is inviting contributions from fans. White is asking participants to “Film someone you love, and/or have them film you, looking directly into the camera lens, thinking about the planet Earth.” More info about how to get involved can be found here.

  

Simone White (feat. Andrew Bird) | “Tiny Drop”

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqZeRDao2k

Letter to the Last Generation’s unofficial global theme is also reflected in the song “Tiny Drop,” featuring collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Andrew Bird on violin, which premiered at UN World Environment Day in 2018.

“I wrote ‘Tiny Drop’ as an anti-war song, but the music video for it focuses on the effects of plastic pollution in the ocean,” White says. “We're all tiny drops that make up the world. Every small action you make, every vibration affects the whole.”

Letter to the Last Generation is an album with an atmosphere, a delicate blend of acoustic instruments and synths, and Simone White’s “sweetly airy and hypnotic” (NPR) voice. A natural evolution from her last studio album Silver Silver, White presents a collection of songs tinged with ache, longing and doubt in an apocalyptic landscape in the not-too-distant future.

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Simone White

Letter to the Last Generation

Oct. 18^th, 2019

Track Listing:

01. This Is All You Felt (STREAM | MP3)

02. Letter to the Last Generation (STREAM | MP3)

03. Little Heaven Little Blue

04. So It Goes (STREAM | MP3)

05. Genuine Fake

06. Harvest

07. Tiny Drop (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

08. Rain

09. Shadow Pass

10. Letter to the Last Generation (Demo Version)

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Simone White | More Info

While White’s activist voice is loud, Letter to the Last Generation will remind listeners of the “cathartic intimacy” and “mesmerizing intelligence” (MOJO) of her masterful songwriting, sung with a voice “like ether” (NPR).

“‘Letter to the Last Generation’ was originally going to be a one-off song,” White says of the tune that inspired the album. “But that day of recording felt so right. It was so much fun, we were playing live, everyone in the room. I felt excited about making a record for the first time in ages and I only really heard the kind of album I wanted to make on that day.”

That particular group of musicians includes Jebin Bruni (Aimee Mann, Meshell Ndegeocello), producer Pete Min, who co-wrote three of the album’s songs with White, and adored multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Andrew Bird. Grammy®-nominated bassist Kaveh Rastegar (Bruno Mars, CeeLo Green) also appears on the album.

“Kaveh was asking me how I came up with the melody of the first line of (album track) ‘Genuine Fake,’” White recalls. “He was grooving with it, playing it on the bass, and I answered him, ‘I don’t know, it was just suddenly there!’”

While the press has rightly praised White’s vocals and lyrics throughout the years, it is arguably these “suddenly there” melodies that keep people coming back.

Letter to the Last Generation, the sixth album by once again NYC-based (after 15 years in Los Angeles) singer-songwriter Simone White, arrives on October 18^th. Simone White is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Simone White’s environmental single “Letter to the Last Generation” out Sept. 20th, first day of Global Climate Strike; Fans invited to appear in video.

Globally conscious artist addresses ocean pollution in recent clip for Andrew Bird collaboration, “Tiny Drop,” streaming now; Album arrives Oct. 18^th.

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Simone White (Credit: Self-Portrait)

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Simone White | In The Press

“Brilliant whimsy.” — No Depression

“Not just a pretty voice but a mesmerizing intelligence.” — MOJO

“A voice like ether. It’s sweetly airy and hypnotic. Hearing it can pull you under to a strangely beautiful, glittering world.” — NPR

“The lean-in-to-listen compositions is what makes her performances so captivating.” — Time Out New York

“Already one of the really great American songwriters.” — Rolling Stone (Germany)

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Simone White | “So It Goes” & “Letter to the Last Generation”

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[STREAM]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/simone-white-letter-to-the-last-generation

“The good news is that Simone White is back preparing for the release of her latest full-length album Letter to the Last Generation," says Folk Radio UK, which is currently spinning the album’s latest single, “So It Goes”.

The album’s title track is streaming via Glide Magazine now, which notes the “eerie wonder” of White’s “soft and whispery yet impactful vocals.”

Letter to the Last Generation is an album with an atmosphere, a delicate blend of acoustic instruments and synths, and Simone White’s “sweetly airy and hypnotic” (NPR) voice. A natural evolution from her last studio album Silver Silver, White presents a collection of songs tinged with ache, longing and doubt in an apocalyptic landscape in the not-too-distant future.

“The song ‘Letter to the Last Generation’ is, like the title says, written to the future, an apology of sorts,” she explains. “And through that, I hope, a kind of startling viewpoint for us in the present. What would you say to children a hundred years from now? How would you explain what we're doing?”

White is in production with filmmaker Scott Cohen on a music video for the song, and is inviting contributions from fans. The track will be released on Sept. 20^th, the first day of the Global Climate Strike.

White is asking participants to “Film someone you love, and/or have them film you, looking directly into the camera lens, thinking about the planet Earth.” More info about how to get involved canbe found here.

Simone White (feat. Andrew Bird) | “Tiny Drop”

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqZeRDao2k

The album’s unofficial global theme is also reflected in the song “Tiny Drop,” featuring collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Andrew Bird on violin, which premiered at UN World Environment Day in 2018.

“I wrote ‘Tiny Drop’ as an anti-war song, but the music video for it focuses on the effects of plastic pollution in the ocean,” White says. “We're all tiny drops that make up the world. Every small action you make, every vibration affects the whole. "

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Simone White

Letter to the Last Generation

Oct. 18^th, 2019

Track Listing:

01. This Is All You Felt (STREAM | MP3)

02. Letter to the Last Generation (STREAM)

03. Little Heaven Little Blue

04. So It Goes (STREAM | MP3)

05. Genuine Fake

06. Harvest

07. Tiny Drop (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

08. Rain

09. Shadow Pass

10. Letter to the Last Generation (Demo Version)

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Simone White | More Info

While White’s activist voice is loud, Letter to the Last Generation will remind listeners of the “cathartic intimacy” and “mesmerizing intelligence” (MOJO) of her masterful songwriting, sung with a voice “like ether” (NPR).

“‘Letter to the Last Generation’ was originally going to be a one-off song,” White says of the tune that inspired the album. “But that day of recording felt so right. It was so much fun, we were playing live, everyone in the room. I felt excited about making a record for the first time in ages and I only really heard the kind of album I wanted to make on that day.”

That particular group of musicians includes Jebin Bruni (Aimee Mann, Meshell Ndegeocello), producer Pete Min, who co-wrote three of the album’s songs with White, and adored multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Andrew Bird. Grammy®-nominated bassist Kaveh Rastegar (Bruno Mars, CeeLo Green) also appears on the album.

“Kaveh was asking me how I came up with the melody of the first line of (album track) ‘Genuine Fake,’” White recalls. “He was grooving with it, playing it on the bass, and I answered him, ‘I don’t know, it was just suddenly there!’”

While the press has rightly praised White’s vocals and lyrics throughout the years, it is arguably these “suddenly there” melodies that keep people coming back.

Letter to the Last Generation, the sixth album by once again NYC-based (after 15 years in Los Angeles) singer-songwriter Simone White, arrives on October 18^th. Simone White is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Simone White | Links

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“Connecting the glistening AM radio pop of the late ‘70s to the shivering synth atmospheres of new wave,” latest The Late Innings album out now.

New music video from “Wild Places” LP is “Last Resort,” cleverly illustrating its narrator’s chaotic mind using machine translation software. Watch here!

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Vincent Sinex of The Late Innings as photographed by Dan Battista.

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The Late Innings | In The Press

“Sinex comes up with a whole slew of songs that should be hits. An incredible knack for coming up with cool melodies.” — Babysue

“Glistening synths waves, grounded by sonorous trumpets. Irresistibly catchy.” — Glamglare

“Beulah, if they were really into early Elvis Costello records.” — Austin Town Hall

“A sound as elusive as it is compelling. It’s a welcome blast of new wave nostalgia, DIY college rock unconformity and synth-pop elation.” — The Southern Sounding

“Packed with entertaining lyrics.” — Imperfect Fifth

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“Last Resort” (Music Video) & “Our Secret” (Music Video) & “Tonight” (Single) by The Late Innings

Visit Austin Town Hall or the link below to see the “Last Resort” music video by The Late Innings. Vincent Sinex explains, “I ran the lyrics through machine translation software, from English to other languages and back to English again. I wanted the constant churn of languages on the screen to reflect the racing thoughts in the mind of the narrator. In addition, the images of archaic technology (like telephone switchboards and computer tape drives) are intended to be a reflection of the fact that the rock star in the center of the story sees himself as a relic.

[VIDEO] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBBkMC4GrSs

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“I think of this track less like a ‘song of the summer’ and more like a ‘song of the bummer,” jokes Vincent Sinex about “Our Secret.” “The song is about a guy who returns to his favorite vacation spot, only to find that it is now overrun by tourists.” See the video now at Imperfect Fifth or the link below. Sinex made the clip using screen captures from United States Geological Survey topographical maps that illustrate not only the lyrics of the song, but also the types of places (beaches, coves and bays) the traveler encounters in the tune.

[VIDEO] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1gpGgRLBYM

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“Connecting the glistening AM radio pop of the late ‘70s to the shivering synth atmospheres of new wave,” says The Southern Sounding about “Tonight,” which Vincent Sinex explains is about “being willing to exposing your secrets. In the song, a reclusive film director, lured out of seclusion to receive a lifetime achievement award in front of a room full of Hollywood luminaries (and a giant television audience at home) throws away his prepared speech, and instead pours out his heart to tell a story about a lost love.”

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The Late Innings

Wild Places

Out Now

(The Late Innings Company)

Streaming Link:

STREAM FULL LP

  

Track Listing:

01. Last Resort (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Our Secret (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

03. The Name Above The Door

04. Tonight (STREAM | MP3)

05. It’s Not Over

06. Stand By My Side

07. Slip Out Of Your Fingers

08. Long Way From Home

09. You Got Me All Wrong

10. Blue Skies Every Day

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The Late Innings | About

Is Vincent Sinex a pseudonym?

It may be hard to convince you otherwise after listening to Wild Places, Sinex’s upcoming new solo album as The Late Innings, out Sept. 6^th. The album’s lead single “Our Secret” is streaming everywhere now. The Los Angeles native’s music sounds like his name. It rides that edge of time when the late 1970s became the early 1980s. When pop became new wave. When AM became FM.

“I have been recording since my early 20’s when I first got a four-track cassette recorder, a couple of guitars and a drum machine,” Sinex says. “I was inspired by the performances in the 1982 concert film ‘Urgh! A Music War,’ which captured the energy, intensity, and diverse sounds of 80’s new wave bands.  When I saw groups like XTC, Magazine, and Echo and The Bunnymen in that film, it made me want to pick up a guitar and try to make that kind of music myself.”

Based on those incredible influences, Sinex went on to teach himself some recording basics, knock out a few cover tunes, write and record some songs of his own, and ultimately form a short-lived band. Then, a ten-year detour into a more institutional type of education followed, earning Sinex a Master’s degree in Computer Science, but keeping him from music, and the march of technology.

“Once I had my degree, I returned to working on music, but technology had changed a lot,” he remembers. “Even though I had new gear, I initially struggled to write any new material.”

The dedicated science student that he is, Sinex decided to take an analytical approach to writer’s block.

“I had to teach myself the craft of song construction, so I got a bunch of songbooks by people I admired, and I started studying how their songs were put together,” he explains. This exercise led Sinex out of his slump and to the writing and recording of his debut album Arrived and Departed, released in 2015.

For Wild Places, Sinex performs everything you’ll hear, including the meticulously layered background vocals. The album explores themes that are particular to today’s cultural challenges, mostly relating to privacy in a society where almost nothing is private anymore.

Well, almost nothing. Because if Vincent Sinex really is a pseudonym, that secret is still safe.

Wild Places, the latest album by The Late Innings is out now, featuring the singles “Our Secret,” “Last Resort,” and “Tonight.” Vincent Sinex of The Late Innings is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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“We all belong to one race: the human race,” says LANDROID. See powerful, visually arresting performance clip for “So Say We All” single now.

“Beautifully melancholy” “paranormal punk” “kaleidoscope of sound” falling “somewhere between Pink Floyd and Beach House.” Debut LP out Friday!

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LANDROID (L-R): Cooper Gillespie, Greg Gordon. Photo credit: LANDROID.

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LANDROID | “So Say We All”

“Dreampop duo LANDROID delivers moody call for solidarity” with the new video for the “So Say We All” single. Yay! LA says there’s a “sensuous, sinful quality at play to this dance floor sweater.”

LANDROID’s Cooper Gillespie says, “For this video, we wanted to play with shadow and light, because the song deals in part with the shadow and light of human nature. ‘So Say We All’ was written in reaction to the current political climate. The message is that there is no such thing as race; we all belong to one race: the human race.”

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LANDROID-SoSayWeAll  

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Kwbj-_mO4

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LANDROID | In The Press

“It gives us weird... joie.” — buzzbands.la

“Haunting croons… Otherworldly melodics… somewhere between Pink Floyd and Beach House.” —  Grimy Goods

“Beautifully melancholy... inspired by the desolation and isolation of the desert.” — MXDWN

“It’s easy to imagine ‘Yellow Sea’ being performed during a dreamlike lounge scene in, say, Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive.” — PopMatters

“A kaleidoscope of sound… Meshes an array of styles from the ethereal to shoegaze... percussive power… astounding.” — Ghettoblaster

“Dark, throbbing... and dream-like.” — The Department of Tangents

“Paranormal punk.” — Aupium

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LANDROID | “Yellow Sea”

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LANDROID-YellowSea  

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Az-0V7yHs

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LANDROID | “Ça Plane Pour Moi”

The Big Takeover with the premiere of “this fun cover of the 1977 classic by Plastic Bertrand. Already a sweeping and up-beat track, LANDROID add a bit of warmth and sweetness to it with Gillespie’s softer vocals and a post-punk touch.” Check it out here or at the link below!

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LANDROID-CaPlanePourMoi

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LANDROID

Imperial Dunes

Sept. 13^th, 2019

(Mojave Beach Records)

  

Track Listing:

01. So Say We All (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Yellow Sea (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

03. Don’t Be Cruel

04. Closing Doors

05. Ça Plane Pour Moi (STREAM | MP3)

06. Wishbone Machine

07. Automatic

08. A Cloud Goes By

09. Set On Fire

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LANDROID | Live

09/20/2019: Landers, CA @ Landers Brew Co

10/21/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge

10/26/2019: Twentynine Palms, CA @ The Palms

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LANDROID | About

Cooper Gillespie (vocals, guitar, bass) and Greg Gordon (drums, sequences) of LANDROID are veteran performers that have traveled the world as professional musicians. Now they live in the California town of Landers. Population: 2,632.

The music that Gillespie and Gordon are making as LANDROID, so named as a reference to their new home, is as vast as the environment in which it was created. Following years of playing variations on the Los Angeles-based punk and rock hybrid, Gillespie and Gordon settled in a desert land and became a desert band. The duo’s debut album Imperial Dunes arrives on Sept. 13^th via their own Mojave Beach Records label.

“They are the largest mass of sand dunes in California,” Gillespie says of the actual Imperial Dunes, another real-life location that contributed to the name game. Turns out the “DROID” in LANDROID has a connection, too: “In Return of the Jedi, the Imperial Sand Dunes are the location of Jabba’s Palace,” Gillespie adds.

This bit of connect-the-dots finds its way back to the deeper substance that makes LANDROID’s songs stick. Giant production makes Gordon’s thudding kick drum sound as huge as the nearby Giant Rock Vortex, where it is believed that Earth’s magnetic energy lines intersect.

“They say it channels psychic energy,” Gordon says. “We know it sounds hippie-dippy, but we swear we can feel it.” Believe the mystical hype or not, Gordon’s drum sounds arrive from another planet.

“The dunes feel like an appropriate metaphor for life,” Gillespie observes, grounding her lyrical themes. “Nature is the ultimate power and just as the dunes change day-to-day, everything in life is constantly changing. We like to think we are in control, but nature reclaims us.”

LANDROID’s “Recommended If You Like” is more like a “Recommended If You’ve Lived.” It’s a list of inspirations and influences that read like whole lifestyles unto themselves.

Imperial Dunes sounds just like ‘em:

David Lynch, David Bowie, outer space, X, Cocteau Twins, William Blake, Blade Runner, Led Zeppelin, Buddy Rich, scuba diving, Portishead, Pink Floyd, Angela Carter, the ocean.

The album’s first single and music video “Yellow Sea,” proves the concept. Lush, but not lost in itself, the song is otherworldly and familiar at the same time.

“Yellow Sea” is a meditation on the hereafter,” Gillespie states.

Imperial Dunes by LANDROID arrives on Sept. 13^th, 2019, preceded by the single and video “Yellow Sea,” out now. LANDROID is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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