These Words

Basel, Switzerland-based quintet Mantocliff's debut single "These Words" is stunning. Lyrically focused with an emotionally charged orchestral electronic arrangement and Nives Onori's impassioned vocals, it's absolutely one you have to hear.

The video's an art piece done to perfection, breaking out of her skin tight cage as the song climaxes and holding out for someone strong enough, it's done so tragically well you can really only watch it on repeat and fall a little bit deeper each time.

Culminating in the eloquently put, "sometimes these words just need to be dark", it's a love song about the difficulty of loving someone while still hating your own mind while a demonstrative instrumentation sweeps over it all and brings powerful verses to a heart-wrenching rawness that deserves to be heard.

If you're going to openly cry to one moving song and video this week, make it Mantocliff's beyond gorgeous track and more articulate video for debut single "These Words" and look for the group to release their debut album, Umbilical, tomorrow.

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Andromeda

Elephant Stone's off-brand style of psychedelic rock is so inherently refreshing it's redundant to call attention to the fact, and their new single "Andromeda" plays out like a really good high that gives you insight into the absolute beauty and impossible intricacy of really good music without getting too carried away.

It's just dreamy enough to have you hooked with a careful reverb and swirling riffs that lead to airy synths and trilling keyboards and news bytes in a hazy perfection we've got on repeat.

Check out Elephant Stone's "Adromeda" below and head to all those links for more.

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Get Out The Way

If there's one album we haven't been able to get enough of this year it's Glint's Inverter and we're stoked to be sharing their latest single with you.

"Get Out The Way" is a fresh, real relationship song that plays out more like an anthemic reminder for yourself to not stand in your own way and with such intelligent and unabashed honesty falling into a lush production and a huge chorus meant to be played at full volume, it's one you need to hear.

The beautifully twisted and oddly smooth way in which dark nostalgia gives way to hopeful outlooks and desperate optimism is buried beneath raw understandings is a good precursor to the album, so check out the single now and look for Inverter to be released March 11 via Votiv.

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1900 - Vi - Press Release

"I hadn’t thought about making another 1900 album. I felt that I had accomplished what I wanted to accomplish with the first album, and the thought of pulling out all those old worn tape recorders once again did not feel like an appealing thing to do. While recording the first album I used quite a few of those up. Some never worked, others stopped working right in the middle of recording. One even caught fire. It was a lengthy process and it felt good to put all that aside when I was done with it.

During all that time the 1900 music has lead a life of its own. I still get questions from people that just discovered the music, and it gets regularly played in TV and in movies. Maybe music just turns old much slower when it already sounds old when released?

After some time I started to get melodies stuck in my head that felt most suitable for something 1900 related.  I realized I miss that broken sound you get out of a tape recorder long overdue its intended life time. I like music that sounds torn and fray, and this way of making music takes me there fast. When I did get some time to spend I pulled out those old tape recorders and to my surprise they still worked. I started recording on them again." - Christian Gabel

 "Vi" was the first single out from the forthcoming 1900 album Tekno and today the video, made by Videomaskinen and Jonas Börjesson is out! Behind the name 1900 is Christian Gabel, of bob hund fame. On "Vi" the backing vocals is performed by legendary Swedish artist Thåström and Ossler.

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