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Record Label: Tomlab Style: Indie Pop

Record Label: Tomlab Style: Indie Pop

Downloadcode.The songs on Some Waking Woman come up like ragged wildflowers in the unnameable heel of wasteland between the end house of the terrace and the already-dated concrete and plastic of the new business park. The songs come up from the hot gap between the weird dissociative dreamscape and the phone-alarm of a slate Tuesday morningtime. They look out from the record with a gaze that’s lost between doe-eyed affection and a murky voyeurism. They’re made of a music caught between the battered nylon-string and a layered orchestration turning between lush and gritty. It’s between the pottery and the calcified dogshit; between the filthy rebels and the eerie loyalists; between the probable cause of an action not quite either the Frenchman’s crime of passion or the English barfight. It’s a record of between-ness – like, this is just between us, right? It’s the same gap between the ballad and the mumbled apology, the love song and the exasperated sigh. My trousers have been pulled down in the playground again. Tsk. I love you and all of love turns out to be a colossal shitshow. Tsk. Some Waking Woman isn’t an anthem nor an elegy, although it has moments of both. It isn’t quite in the gutter, but it’s sure as hell not looking at the stars – the album has its gaze locked on the school playground, or the overgrown tarmac country-road corner, or another identical dawn colouring in the PVC windowframes. In the hands of O. D. Davey, the ordinary surfaces of a life like the one everyone actually has are made to glimmer weirdly with the inevitable love, misery and resignation underneath them. These are touching, intricate ballads with melodies of nursery-rhyme sweetness, as reimagined by a failed gameshow host humming his old theme-tunes as he staggers back home pissed after closing time. But they’re songs of love, for all that; his daughters haven’t called in months. The sense is that these narrators have more love than they know what to do with; move love than they can trust themselves to handle; more love than they can believe in. Davey handles the flaws and imperfections and fractures of day-to-day living; finds the gap and digs in. This is an attention paid to the agonising and lovely awkward corners of life that don’t get talked about. This is a record as in an LP, but a record too in the sense of a setting down of something true. Record Label: Tomlab Style: Pop

Artist: Misha Label: (Indigo)

The Irish wunderkind presents his own songs he wrote between 11 and 18 influenced by many styles like Punk, Folk, Electro, Avantgarde and Classic. Record Label: Tomlab Style: Pop

On his 2nd album Owen Pallett, string arranger and live member of Arcade Fire, shows his great talent for arranging a chamber music ensemble. The production is still intimate, full of surprises and catchy melodies, on top his introverted voice. Intense! Record Label: Tomlab Style: Pop

Owen Ashworth's fifth album strays from the strictly electronic instrumentation and trademark Casiotone keyboards of his earlier recordings. Instead, it's built largely on the sounds of piano, organ, Mellotron, and acoustic percussion, both live and sampl Record Label: Tomlab Style: Pop/Alternative

Intelligent and nice Li-Fi-Pop from Oregon/USA by Owen Ashworth. Record Label: Tomlab Style: Pop

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