Bandcamp Track of the Day: Ask For Joy. Everywhere.

Ask For Joy || Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover )

BANDCAMP.

 
Aaron Rossetto of Ask for Joy on covering "Everywhere":

Love Christine McVie and Fleetwood Mac, and they deserve a little cover love. This is from FM's top-10 1987 album Tango in the Night. It reminds me of being a teenager, listening to AM radio in the basement playing video games. Released 15 June 2013

Set List for WTSH on Strangeways Radio. Originally Aired July 3rd, 2013.

band name/track title

Your Safety Partner. Sight of You (Pale Saints cover).

Marnie. Submariner.

Weekend. Mirror.

Fleeting Joys. Cloudlike Mercury.

Siouxsie & the Banshees. Night Shift.

Drowner. Fear of Falling. 

Slowness. Race to Mars.

Ultravox. Vienna.

Skanfrom. Here She Comes (Slowdive cover).

Still Corners. Cuckoo.

Dead Parties. In Dreams of Decadence.

Lilies on Mars. The First Three Years.

VibraGun. Dream Disintegrate.

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Strange Week in Music on Strangeways blog, featuring Fleeting Joys and more...

When The Sun Hits is now contributing to a weekly blog feature on the Strangeways Radio blog called Strange Week in Music. The full article can be found on the Strangeways blog; WTSH cross posts it only partially, with a link to the full article provided.  

Strange Week in Music gives each Strangeways DJ an opportunity to highlight one track that is related to his/her show that week; the article will include information, links, images, a video/stream of the tracks and where they can be purchased. You can think of it as Strangeways' Week at a Glance. 

If you are new to Strangeways Radio, or are curious about other station shows aside from WTSH, this weekly feature on the Strangeways blog will be the perfect introduction. Below is WTSH's latest contribution.

Strange Week in Music || DJ Amber Crain Selection

 

Artist: Fleeting Joys

Album: TBA

Song: Kiss a Girl in Black

RIYL: My Bloody Valentine, IO Echo, Lush

Where to buy: Bandcamp

California-based husband and wife duo Fleeting Joys take their cue from the classic My Bloody Valentine sound, but the end result is a sound very much all their own. Swirling guitars, layers of noise, dream-like drugged-out male and female vocals fading in and out, sounding like part love, part death, part hope, part sadness. The band has released 2 previous LPs (Despondent Transponder and Occult Radiance) to critical acclaim. “Kiss a Girl in Black” is the first single from their forthcoming third album....

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Video: The Casket Girls. Sleepwalking.

 

Video shot and chopped by Kevin Canavan entirely on a broken VHS camcorder. 

The Casket Girls is a three-piece band hailing from Savannah, GA. Comprised of Ryan Graveface (Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Dreamend) who wrote and played all the song structures, as well as Elsa and Phaedra Greene, who wrote and performed all of the vocals. On Sleepwalking, the band's first release, the unique collaboration bears to be more than the sum of its parts - as the girls' haunting and upbeat pop sensibility imbues Ryan's inspired instrumental musings with such a sense of purpose that you must wonder how one could exist without the other.

But, The Casket Girls happened - as most things do - by accident. Ryan was visiting his future home, and in walking through one of the city's 22 squares, he happened upon two girls playing autoharp and singing bizarre songs. He watched from afar, eventually approaching them with the idea for the band. Ryan had been (and still is) obsessed with the Shangri-las, and the sisters personified his desire of a far darker and more complex version of the 60s group.

The band's debut album, Sleepwalking, came about rather quickly. Ryan sent Elsa and Phaedra 20+ songs he thought they could add to, and they came back with vocals for 15 of them. He asked TW Walsh (Pedro the Lion, Soft Drugs, Headphones) to throw down some substantial drums to contrast the weaker drum machines he had already recorded, and the album was finished. Sleepwalking has a number of exceptional tracks that are sure to be anything from radio hits to jams blasted in the privacy of a nerd's home.

Sleepwalking by The Casket Girls || Graveface Records