LAPD Let The Water And Wine Flow

Another day, another Los Angeles Police Department release it seems. 'Water & Wine' is the flipside to Ryan Pollie's incoming Insecurity 7", and it is a quieter but no less contemplative rumination of the Self, something Pollie is incredibly adept at producing. It drifts on the gentlest of breezes, a soft touch, and its simplistic beauty is alluring. Pre-order the 7" (out next week through Fat Possum) here.

Fighting The Good Fight With LAPD Insecurities

I have been sick with the flu three times in two months. This must be a record for me. I just cannot kick this bug. First it's just a lingering cold; then a quickfire fever; now it's sitting on my chest. If I wasn't more sure of the way the world works (and I ain't no expert), I would think that this bacterial bastard has a personal vendetta.

This is where Ryan Pollie comes in. His musical outlet, Los Angeles Police Department, has become a quiet, medicinal aphrodisiac for us here at Sonic Masala - and latest song 'Insecurity' is the top of the heap. It comes off an incoming 7" he is bringing out on Fat Possum later this month, and it is a typically blase yet affecting shuffle through a rumination on hedging bets and trying to win despite a plethora of neuroses - I think. I'm dosed up on a bunch of meds and buzzing on the fuzz. It's a goddamn corker that will ensure I fight this fungal nightmare for another day - and if that isn't an endorsement, I don't know what is. Pre-order the 7" here.

Relaxed Policing with the LAPD

(Post by Fred Savage Beasts)

You know those times in the morning when you take the time to let the day come to you before getting up? That’s what this Los Angeles Police Department record is like. It’s the looking out through a window as clouds pass by taking no heed of anything you have planned. And you feel insignificant but in a good way; insignificant but nimble.

The tracks blow in and blow out leaving piles of leaves arranged in ways that look sort of like faces until they get moved on. There’s a kind of haze covering the whole thing, but it’s less like something blocking your vision than something tinting it with an ever so slight nostalgia. This might just be your new soundtrack for the train to work. It’ll get you thinking how nice it is to be up and alive to see the clouds (and whatever it is coming through them).



Out now through Forged Artifacts.

Video Vacuum - Twerps, September Girls, Magic Bones, Los Angeles Police Department

It's starting to cool down/heat up in here (depending on your end of the world), but we all like music and not working, so let's link hands as one and skive off, yeah?

Twerps - Back to You (Official Music Video) from Merge Records on Vimeo.

Twerps' new single 'Back To You' makes me so happy. Its so bright and bubbling and happy (sounding) - and the random footage of Aussie exteriors, both commercial, industrial and residential - it really gives me the warm and fuzzies. That dog too, Jesus, did someone film a dream of mine? If so, I wouldn't mind this being my theme tune. And hopefully it all keeps coming back - to this, and to you.

The bewitching September Girls take things one step further on the video for 'Veneer', going deep Goth that puts the hex firmly on those Craft wannabes. The last frame, of the black dripping on the floor - for the woman to now have white hair - is a pretty cool concept. Shedding physicalities through a viscous liquid. A killer song (figuratively), a killer clip (literally).

Yet another addition to the burgeoning cesspool of Aussie garage rock antics, Magic Bones comes barrelling forth with a video for new track 'Anytime Anywhere', a song that holds firmly onto the nutso schizoid Thee Oh Sees mantra and doesn't quit. It's a really fun song. The video is normal garage lunacy - by which I mean it's anything but normal - further heightened by a drummer that is a mic between Wolf Creek's Mick Taylor and The Muppets' Animal (and a blink-and-you'll miss it floating head on a 70s Test batsman).

Finally, let's hang with Los Angeles Police Department! Not the force, just this one guy. Fred has been pretty much in love with LAPD's new album, and while I wait for him to put his skewed thoughts in check to write about it, I thought I would show off 'Enough Is Enough' in audio-visual form. It's a languid jam (as are all of LAPD's songs), but it is also pretty effortless, and the dude looks like a cool guy to hang around with. He also looks a bit like Brian Gibson from Lightning Bolt, but I'm pretty sure the polar opposites of those musical streams speak for themselves. A knitted Giants jumper is a nice touch too dude.

NOW GET BACK TO WORK!!!

FORGING BITS AND PIECES OR EARL

(Article by Fred Savage Beasts)

I am digging this new Earl Boykins record. What at first seemed like it was going to be a pretty straightforward deal took a nice turn for the strangely personal. Part confession, part airy feeling, and all in all pretty damn interesting, it feels really comfortable (but not too comfortable). And it’s growing on me big time. There are little licks in here worth going back for; scraps and bits to really pay attention to. It’s kinda like visiting some place you used to go on school holidays only to find out your parents used to score cheap weed there. And then finding out that you can get a family discount cause the guy remembers your mum or you have the same moustache as your dad, or something like that.


Get your hands on the record (out on tape through Forged Artifacts) now. And check out the rest of the roster while you’re there. The Los Angeles Police Department track is damn rad.