Stadiums & Shrines

Youth Lagoon

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Even the landlocked blues of Boise, Idaho never stopped a kid from dreaming. Who’s to say there isn’t a lagoon past those trees or a shot to life that can’t feel like a cannon’s. Trevor Powers has “more dreams than you have posters of your favorite teams” and with the first two punches of his young venture landing in such conviction, we certainly will “never talk [him] out of it”—whatever or wherever that may be.

Youth Lagoon | Cannons
Youth Lagoon | July

The Year of Hibernation is a collection of mind trials Trevor preferred to write rather than talk about (anxiety, heartache, etc). It’s also an LP due out this summer with our friends, Juno Beach Records.

Small Prayer

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“You’ve got your finger on the trigger, point it at the hole in the world…”

Back on the hill where Matt Jones aka It is rain in my face. prolifically navigates, this time with some company. Most notably: a guitar.

It is rain in my face. | Small Prayer
It is rain in my face. | Too Blue

He offers the intimate, Small Prayer quite modestly “in the meantime” before what looks to be another EP this summer. It’s been zipped up in a link hosted on that ever-growing soundcloud.

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Processed Harp Works

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Above is a microscopic galaxy of one-celled plants that “lie dormant in winter and burgeon in the spring.” The process can make a pond glow. And if it made a sound…

Kris Keogh | You sat, looking out, but couldn’t begin to explain
Kris Keogh | Above Paris, with stars in our eyes
Kris Keogh | With our own atmosphere

This large body of harp glitchery has flooded New Weird Australia’s bandcamp (via). It moves below:

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Slow Motion: A Visual Mixtape

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The idea initially was to recruit a few meditative sounds and sequence them into auditory motion. Then it swelled into eleven videos, taking that notion of motion more literally. We (Tyler of Flashlight tag and S&S) saw an opportunity here not only to showcase some of our favorite musicians, but to highlight a growing number of talented visual artists; specifically those in the Vimeo community crafting outside traditional music video means. To our humble delight, each of the selected visionaries accepted the invitation as well as their assigned song (playing matchmaker was quite fun). The downloadable portion lives at Flashlight Tag, a limited run of 20 cassettes is being made possible by Orchid Tapes, and the video playlist follows all credits (link exploration encouraged), below.

01. Ricky Eat Acid – “Strawberries” (envisioned by BriAnna Olson)
02. Phantom Power – “I Don’t Get You” (envisioned by LAND O’ GOSHEN)
03. KYNAN – “Get Lost” (envisioned by The Tearist)
04. Cemeteries – “Home” (envisioned by Stephanie Cafarella)
05. Monster Rally – “Color Sky” (envisioned by Nathaniel Whitcomb)
06. It is rain in my face – “Fell Around” (envisioned by Wooden Lens)
07. Lizard Kisses – “Waywards” (envisioned by Dino Rossi)
08. Ra Cailum – “Asbel” (envisioned by Panaframe)
09. RxRy – “Strm Conjurr” (envisioned by RxRy)
10. Swartz – “Prayer for My City” (envisioned by Swartz)
11. Foxes in Fiction – “School Night” (envisioned by Jamie Harley)

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