Seattle band Lux unveils its version of Black Tambourine’s “Black Car” via Cover Me.

Cover of influential twee-pop band’s tune to appear as hidden track on duo’s debut album.

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Lux (L-R): Leah Rosen and David Chandler. Photo by The Ripper.

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“The Window” is the first single from the upcoming debut album “We Are Not The Same” by Lux

 

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/lux-the-window

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/lux/mp3/lux-thewindow.mp3

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Lux Digs Deep into Indie with Dream-Grunge Black Tambourine Cover (Cover Me Premiere)

 

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/lux-black-car-cover

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“...filled with synthy goodness, fuzzy guitars, and purty purty duets, making them a band worthy of your attention” – Three Imaginary Girls

The Seattle-based duo Lux counts Velvet Underground, Magnetic Fields and Jesus & Mary Chain among its significant influences.  Lesser names have impressed the band as well, including influential late-80’s / early-90’s twee-pop band, Black Tambourine.   Lux was inspired to include a cover version of that band’s song “Black Car” as a hidden track on its upcoming album We Are Not The Same (out April 3^rd, 2012) and fans of both bands can hear the song now via popular cover song website Cover Me.  Click here to check it out now.

Inspired by some of the most essential artists of the indie and underground era, Leah Rosen and David Chandler trade off vocals, guitars, synths and drum programming on We Are Not The Same which they also wrote, recorded and mixed themselves. The pair originally met via Craigslist in early 2010 and quickly released the digital EP “Disorders” just a scant five months later in July of that year. Inspired by the DIY ethics of their heroes, Rosen and Chandler began to relentlessly promote the songs on the internet, gaining the attention of adventurous foreign blogs in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Italy, and Spain.

As the tracks began to rack up hundreds of plays a day, Lux quickly amassed 8500-plus Facebook “likes” – an impressive feat for a self-released, self-promoted act that was already doing everything else itself. Lux also printed up a couple hundred copies of “Disorders,” mailed them out themselves to a list of college radio stations, and promptly landed on the playlists of influential stations such as WNYU at New York University and KALX at the University of California at Berkeley.

Lux is still contemplating how it will play live (they never have!) as both Rosen and Chandler are self-confessed control freaks susceptible to the unpredictable nature of the stage. “Really, we just haven’t got around to it yet,” says Chandler. “We were actually offered a tour of Europe, but decided to focus on recording the album instead.” The debut Lux album We Are Not The Same is due for release on April 3rd. The album’s first single “The Window” is streaming and available for download now.

Leah Rosen and David Chandler of Lux are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Lux

We Are Not The Same

(S/R – April 3^rd, 2012)

Track Listing:

01. Coroner's Office

02. Out Of Love

03. The Window (STREAM | MP3)

04. Valerie, They'll Never Understand

05. Little Cripple

06. X

07. Cerebellar Ataxia

08. Candy Lux

09. Cachexia

10. A Study In Apathy (Drugs, Etc)

11. 1000 Airwaves

12. I'll Try To Ignore The Fact That You're Drowning

13. Blackout

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Lux Links

EPK : WEBSITE : BANDCAMP : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : TUMBLR : MYSPACE

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Robert Deeble debuts music videos for songs featuring folk heroine Victoria Williams, Over The Rhine co-founder Ric Hordinski.

Both clips to be featured on limited edition DVD following initial release of artist’s “Heart Like Feathers” out Feb. 7th.

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Robert Deeble as photographed by Xeandra.

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See the videos for “Sunflower” and “Eucharist,” two songs from Robert Deeble’s upcoming “Heart Like Feathers” album.

[YOUTUBE]: “Sunflower”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksc3pW-GGS0 (dir. Todd Zeller)

 

[YOUTUBE]: “Eucharist”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0td3zU2mm0 (dir. Tommy Harrington)

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“Deeble’s authentic lyrics, along with stunning instrumental arrangements, make this album one of his strongest.” – Performer Magazine

“Deeble’s new record seems limitless… It’s beautiful music for the sake of beautiful music, and what’s better is that it’s believable.” – Seattle Weekly

Seattle-based singer-songwriter Robert Deeble premieres two music videos today for songs from his forthcoming new album Heart Like Feathers.  The record, Deeble’s first full-length release in six years, is out February 7^th.  Heart Like Feathers is also scheduled for release in a deluxe limited edition version that will include a CD of acoustic demos, a DVD with the “Sunflower” and “Eucharist” videos among others, all packaged in a hardcover book bind.

Of the videos and the songs that inspired them, Deeble comments, “An interesting aspect to ‘Sunflower’ is the return of an old friend, Victoria Williams.” Named one of Paste Magazine’s “Top 100 Living Songwriters,” Williams appeared to sing a duet on Deeble’s first album, “So, I found it fitting to invite her back to add vocals to the last song on my latest album,” explains Deeble.  He continues, “We recorded in her California home, capturing her amazing spirit on tape and some great video footage, as well.  Our director Todd Zeller was able to use this beautifully in his video of the song.”

Of “Eucharist”, Deeble explains that the video features a new mix of the song from the upcoming limited edition of Heart Like Feathers. “In this version we completely recut the guitars to heighten the intensity and dissonant distortion that we felt the song called for.”  This recording of “Eucharist” also features ethereal guitar work by Ric Hordinski, a founding member of Americana favorites Over The Rhine.

In addition to Williams and Hordinski, joining Deeble on Heart Like Feathers is Stephen Hodges (drummer with Tom Waits and Mavis Staples), and Anna Lynne Williams of dream-pop band Trespassers William. Heart Like Feathers was produced by Dylan Magierek, founder of Badman Recording Co. (My Morning Jacket, Mark Kozelek, The Innocence Mission) and is scheduled for release on February 7^th via the artist’s own Mind Bomb Publishing in conjunction with Dead Letter Records.  The deluxe limited edition version of Heart Like Feathers is scheduled for release in April, 2012.

Robert Deeble is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Robert Deeble – Heart Like Feathers

(Mind Bomb Publishing / Dead Letter Records)

Release Date: Feb. 7^th, 2012

Track Listing:

01. Heart Like Feathers (STREAM)

02. Suzanne

03. Undertow (STREAM | MP3)

04. Eucharist (VIDEO)

05. Weeds

06. Exhale

07. Hearing Voices Seeing Ghosts

08. The Colors of Dying

09. Scarecrow

10. Sunflower (VIDEO)

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Robert Deeble Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : BANDCAMP : WIKI

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Painter Faris McReynolds steps away from fine art successes to release album as Exdetectives.

Taking cues from Blur, Ride, Elastica, “Take My Forever” pays tribute to the music of his youth.

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Faris McReynolds of Exdetectives as photographed by Maya Sofia Mercer

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“The Lawn” is the first single from Take My Forever by Exdetectives

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[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/exdetectives/mp3/exdetectives-thelawn.mp3

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“…a flight through the clouds. …listen to this album over and over again.” – The Aquarian

Unlike so many musicians that become painters, the Los Angeles-based artist Faris McReynolds found success as a fine artist first.  Showing his work in galleries before he was even out of art school, McReynolds thought his career path was mapped out for him. He was wrong.

McReynolds, who also makes music as the minimalist avant-garde pop project One Finger Riot, takes a totally different songwriting approach as alter-ego Exdetectives on Take My Forever due February 14^th from the Post Planetary record label.

"I’m paying tribute to the music of my youth,” McReynolds says about the record. “Britpop bands like Blur, Ride, and Elastica, first wave indie rock like Dinosaur, Jr. and also The Beatles which I didn’t hear until after I’d gone through punk. This music is about being straightforward and letting the songs do the work. It’s loose, casual and direct. Hopefully something I didn’t plan for comes out of that approach.”

Take My Forever’s first single “The Lawn” is a droning wash of guitars and live -- as in not programmed -- synthesizers. “I wanted it to be this mass of sound that stays in place all the way through the song. No dynamics, just this wide swirl of textures,” McReynolds says. “It’s got loud distorted guitars, yet it manages to come off as mellow. I’m proud of that because guitars can get old really fast.”

Created in a quick two-week fit of low-budget recording (vocals were tracked in a storage closet), McReynolds plays all of the instruments (save for the drums) on Take My Forever. It’s a radical approach to making a record that bears itself out all the way down to the title itself.  As McReynolds states, “The title of the album says, ‘Here, you can fucking have it. Make of it what you will.”

Faris McReynolds of Exdetectives is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Exdetectives

Take My Forever

(Post Planetary – Feb. 14^th, 2012)

Track Listing:

01. Cleaner

02. The Crown

03. Can You Feel It?

04. The Lawn (STREAM | MP3)

05. Careless Hysterics

06. Come on Down

07. Halcyon

08. New History

09. So Long

10. It’s Better

11. Pocket Rainbow

12. Closing Bell

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Exdetectives Links

EPK : FACEBOOK : POST PLANETARY RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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