No Pain In Pop

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A Grave With No Name’s debut album - ‘Mountain Debris’ - is out through No Pain In Pop now. Buy a copy direct on CD or digital release here.

“A uniquely 21st century take on lo-fi that compels spectral washes of sound to tussle with fuzzy guitar breaks in a considered game of cat and mouse. 8/10.”
NME

“A shoegazing masterpiece to round off a year of lo-fi brilliance.”
Dummy

“Overall contemplative and haunting, it takes several spins before the album’s full depths and stark beauty can be fully discovered. With this album they’ve cemented that they’ll be remembered, if not by the masses then at least by those that really matter.”
Loud and Quiet



MP3: A Grave With No Name - And We Parted Ways At Mt. Jade

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Work U Out

A stunning, opulent mix from dapper London gent Sam Butler, ‘The Workout’ features cuts from Claro Intelecto, D5 and Kenny Larkin, as well as a jaw-dropping centre-piece in the form of Orlando Voorn’s sullen and balmy ‘Power Of Beauty’. Techno and house music to kick you on through the snow and out the other side - tracklist after the fold.



MP3: Sam Butler - The Workout

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Ezra bounds

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Stick to your spokes

This one’s out to all the lonely souls. Seams is James Welch from London, who says ‘Nightcycles’ “is inspired by the freedom of 3am bike rides on deserted roads, and is constructed primarily from samples taken from a Nineties Elliott Smith documentary.”

It sounds nice if you play two versions of it at the same time. Start the second six seconds after the first, if you like.



MP3: Seams - Nightcycles



MP3: Seams - Nightcycles

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Totem flares

Zach Steinman of twilight marvels Blondes told me the only thing I know about CCHG.

“That track was made by my two friends at Oberlin [college, Ohio] while they were on a lot of ecstasy! Haha!”

Explains as much as and everything you need to know, really. Twilight is ecstasy’s time, find ‘Chinaman Papa’ standing between different shades of dark on a recent ‘Purple Glazed’ mix Blondes put together for Vice.



MP3: CCHG - Chinaman Papa

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Ecsttattix

Austin’s Pure Ecstasy are a hapless mob. All their songs sound like elegies for honourable intentions, downtrodden, friendless, loveably out-of-luck. More specifically, they’re fucking great - like optimism if it was alive today or The xx trapped in a hoover’s womb. Hear their moonshine lament, painted with all the ripe colours of woe - woe!

‘Easy’ and its twin, ‘Baby’, will arrive on a 7″ through the marvellous and nascent Light Lodge in the next couple of weeks (”hopefully”). 500’s your limit; all white vinyl - another 7″ will be out after that through Acephale.



MP3: Pure Ecstasy - Easy

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