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The Mad Walls

Somewhere Anywhere

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“I happened across Somewhere Anywhere like a troll... walking down web street, I walked by a window playing music and clicked on a door. I saw a rock in the middle of the room, and I looked underneath it. The moment I heard the title track “Somewhere Anywhere,” I thought I had unearthed a rarity, an old bootleg or new music from a lost group. The best part was that it came from the living, a band playing music at this very time in space. (This) (is) draped-static-dim-seed-Los-Angeles-music, a flame that gets passed on down and through the avenues. Designed to be found. This mini-album floats in its own universe, and is on repeat. That is all I am allowed to say about it. Las Murallas Mad.” —Tim Presley “The Mad Walls formed in Los Angeles in 2016, led by frontman/songwriter Christopher Mercado. The band started as a personal recording project, with early demo recordings that were captured on a four-track cassette recorder. With the addition of drummer Johnathan Martin, the duo have made music that highlights their influences from earlier sonic pioneers, blending styles, and adding depth to their frenetic pursuit of a post-psychedelic sound. Brushing against the Los Angeles landscape, The Mad Walls offer a subdued but exploratory vision of sound and fury.” —Sam Brown

Dingley, Alex

Beat The Babble

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“The first time I met Alex Dingley, he was standing in a dark rainy alleyway in the UK. I was halfway intimidated, him smoking a cigarette as he grinned wide… Two front teeth missing and he extended his hand… Mischievously laughing. Immediately I felt his kind and genial warm soul. I knew he was a longtime friend of Cate Le Bon, so I knew he was good people. When asked to “co-produce” his album with Cate I was so very interested to hear his life in music. Anyone with two front teeth knocked out must have a plethora of wild stories (and…he does). I couldn’t have been more curious. He comes from Wales, where he shares his life with his lovely wife Mared, who in 2010 collapsed and was diagnosed with a grade-three brain tumor. She was given 18 months to live, but is still here six years later. Touch wood everyday. She is a colorful, inspired artist, and uses her art to express this life reset. Alex has story, he has more than story, and these life-changing events have inspired a need to bleed the pen….This time they are both sharing this experience through the eternal beauty of love, art, and song. Bags were packed and Alex, Mared, Cate, myself and trusted (sonic master) recorder Samur Khouja all communed up in the panoramic house studio overlooking the ocean in Northern California. Far from Wales, but near a release, an unfettered Pacific expressional adventure. “When I heard the...

Drinks

Hermits On Holiday

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“Tim, do I like that dog?” A strange question, a queer query, an odd ask.The answer surely already known unless one mind knows the other. Which would appear to be the case with Cate and Tim. With Tim and Cate.Cate Le Bon, born in West Wales, raised under the shadow of a woolen mill, dressed by the field and by the rain. Tim Presley (a.k.a. White Fence), from San Francisco, grew under and over the bridges and streets, combed by corners and by concrete.A more different musical upbringing you couldn’t dream up. He a black thread strung through the eye of American hardcore, she a shard of glass tapped through a solid wall. Loop the thread around the shard and you have pendular device for predicting the sex. Will it be a boy or a girl?They both like to drink, coffee mostly and sometimes each other. And once the drinks are drunk, out it comes. The mud slicks and the plates click.Drinks is a solo project, not a collaboration. It has one mouth, one set of lungs, one mind and four legs.Drinks are the sound of hermits on holiday, having the time of each others lives.

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Laying Down Rock/I Could Loot You

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Second single taken from “Hermits on Holiday”, the debut album by DRINKS, the new project from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley aka White Fence. This digital single includes the non-album track "I Could Loot You".

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Hermits On Holiday/Eighteen Teenage Revenge Pair

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First single from DRINKS, the new project from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley aka White Fence, is the title track from the upcoming album, “Hermits on Holiday”, to be released in August. The digital single includes the non-album track "Eighteen Teenage Revenge Pair".

Pratt, Jessica

Jessica Pratt

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***BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL!!!  Received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork.  “I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn't let go of. It's an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. This ones a classic sounding voice. Not to mention her song writing, recording and guitar playing. JESSICA PRATT’s music feels like I have found a lost LP of an old forgotten mystical folk singer, that feeling of discovering a record all by myself: Without the help of friends or the Internet. Like Stevie Nicks singing over David Crosby demos, with the intimacy of a Sibylle Baier. I am in love with it. So much, that I saved up and threw all my money to get it into this world. I actually care about it, no matter which way the winds blow.”—Tim Presley, White Fence