Tera Melos premiere video via NPR featuring gamer champ Darbian in "Warpless Run"

"A refreshing step forward for Tera Melos." -- NPR

Tera Melos premiere the official video for "Warpless Run" from their recently released third album Trash Generator today via NPR. The clip features world record holding Super Mario Bros "speedrunning" player Darbian (more about that in a moment). The song itself is an album standout featuring guest vocals on the coda by Rob Crow of Pinback. Watch & share the video HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Tera Melos is currently in the midst of an extensive North American headlining tour with Speedy Ortiz supporting. Please see current dates below. 

About the video and "speedrunning", vocalist/guitarist Nick Reinhart explains:

"Speedrunning is when a human beats a video game as fast as possible. It's a FASCINATING practice that involves tons of bizarre in-game science to make these runs as fast as humanly possible. Darbian is basically the Michael Jordan of Super Mario Bros (SMB1). His speedruns are legendary. Darbian is the current Super Mario Bros Any% world record holder, and has been many times in the past ("Any%" is a record category that allows the use of every trick in the book in order to complete the game). 

"For a stretch of time, Darbian was working on the SMB1 'warpless run' world record. This is where you complete the game without using any of the warps (located in world 1-4 and 4-2). During one of these runs Darbian mentioned how there are things you don't get to see throughout the Any% runs. One thing in particular is world 3 and world 6. Those two worlds are set at nighttime and they have a very different look from the rest of the worlds. He talked about how they're the coolest looking levels that we never see because we're all too busy trying to beat the game as fast as possible. That really resonated with me, so we wrote a song about it! (and we got Rob Crow to be a part of it!)

"We had this wacky idea to try and recreate one of Darbian's speedruns with a made-up Tera Melos-style video game. I gave our longtime visual collaborator, Behn Fannin, a call. Then I wondered, 'it would be pretty cool if we could actually get Darbian in the video..." I figured there's no harm in asking, so i sent him a message and he was into it!! Next thing you know, Behn sends us this video game he had made from scratch plus a duplication of Darbian's live Twitch stream layout. It blew our minds. And finally, we got to have the legendary Darbian speedrun our own video game, in which the soundtrack is one of the weirdest songs we've ever written."

Trash Generator, the trio's third full length, is an astonishing blast of confidence and rejuvenation. It sounds as if the 4-year downtime since their last album has recharged the band with an entirely new sense of purpose. The performances are brilliant and sharp, the songs concise yet intricately detailed, and the album production deftly captures the band's strength as a live unit. Their dalliances with mellower psychedelic phrases on their previous two albums, X'ed Out (2013) and Patagonian Rats (2010) are significantly trimmed and instead utilized as colorations within a swirling maelstrom of righteous aggro punk-jazz abandon. As such, it sounds like Tera Melos has fully metabolized their pop tendencies and found a way they can coexist with the band's iconoclast origins. Tera Melos -- guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart, bassist Nathan Latona and drummer John Clardy -- have learned to stop worrying and just be Tera Melos. 

In the downtime since their last full length, Reinhart remained active in multiple endeavors: contributing guitar to Death Grips' The Powers That B and Bottomless Pit albums + the I.L.Y.'s (Zach Hill and Andy Morin's other band), Big Walnuts Yonder (with Mike Watt, Nels Cline and Greg Saunier), Portugal.the man and many others. Latona completed a college degree he'd put off for 11 years. Clardy became and integral faculty member at the School of Rock in Dallas/Ft. Worth, inspiring young musicians with his real-world approach to learning music.

"Wth this record it was 100% let's not concern ourselves with what we should be doing at this point in the band's lifespan, and just fully focus on what makes us happy," Reinhart says. 

Trash Generator is available everywhere as of August 25th, 2017 on LP, CD and download via Sargent House. Orders for LP/CD via HelloMerch and download via iTunes.

TERA MELOS & SPEEDY ORTIZ 2017

Oct 31 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair 

Nov 01 Hamden, CT @ The Ballroom Outer Space

Nov 02 Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel

Nov 03 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry @ Fillmore 

Nov 04 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel 

Nov 05 Carborro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 

Nov 07 Orlando, FL @ Backbooth 

Nov 08 Talahassee, FL @ Club Downunder (FSU) 

Nov 09 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade Purgatory 

Nov 10 New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa 

Nov 11 Houston, TX @ Secret Group 

Nov 13 Dallas, TX @ Three Links 

Nov 15 Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge 

Nov 16 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah 

Nov 17 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room 

Nov 18 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill

Artist: Tera Melos Album: Trash Generator Record Label: Sargent House Release date: August 25th, 2017 01. System Preferences 02. Your Friends 03. trash Generator 04. Warpless Run 05. Dyer Ln 06. GR30A11 07. Men’s Shirt 08. Don’t Say I Know 09. A Universal Gonk 10. Like a Dewclaw 11. Drawing 12. Super FX On the Web: teramelos.net sargenthouse.com/tera-melos facebook.com/teramelosmusic teramelos.bandcamp.com instagram.com/teramelos twitter.com/teramelos

Stream 'Brown Acid:Fifth Trip' comp of rare 60s-70s proto-metal singles in full now, album out Halloween 2017

"So rare that diehard fuzz junkies say you'd have a better chance of winning the lottery than finding a physical 45 rpm single by one of the bands featured on their latest installment." -- Dangerous Minds

"Does for proto-metal what Lenny Kaye's Nuggets did for garage rock." -- Brooklyn Vegan

The forthcoming edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid: The Fifth Trip, is streaming in full starting today ahead of its release on Halloween. Hear Brown Acid: The Fifth Trip in its entirety at Brooklyn Vegan HERE. (Direct YouTube HERE.)

Tiny Mix Tapes recently featured the anthology with the rousing "Icky Bicky" by 70s Canadian rockers Flasher HERE. Glide Magazine hosted the mammoth sounds of Mammoth's eponymous "Mammoth" HERE.

The series, curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records recently received the pinnacle of endorsements: Lenny Kaye, creator of the legendary Nuggets compilation series (and guitarist in Patti Smith Band & Creem Magazine scribe), picked up his own copies of the previous editions, seen here via Instagram:

Dangerous Minds featured the previous collection, The Fourth Trip HERE. 

About Brown Acid: The Fifth Trip:

We’re back! And the hits just keep coming. For the fifth lysergic journey, we’ve assembled 10 heavy slabs of obscure rock the likes of which have never been seen before... not in this form anyhow. And as usual, the tracks from these impossibly rare records have all been fully cleared through the artists themselves. We’ve gone to great lengths to get the best possible master sources, the worst case scenario being an original 45. ‘Cuz it ain’t worth doing unless you do it right. 

The legendary Captain Foam kicks off this Trip like an anvil to your skull with a rollicking stomper sounding like The Who with Matt Pike’s thunderous guitar tone. “No Reason” is a track we’ve been wanting to share with you boneheads since the start. Captain Foam (aka Richard Bertram) wasn’t easy to find, but lo and behold, our super sleuths located him and got his blessing to include the A-side of his sole single here for you. Good luck finding an original copy of the record. It’s rarer than raw beef.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The other nine tracks continue the onslaught in typical Brown Acid form. You may be familiar with George Brigman’s psychedelic punk masterpiece “Jungle Rot”, but you don’t know Split until you’ve heard the charmingly disjointed bedroom-fi production of “Blowin’ Smoke”. Finch sounds way out of time (1968) and place (Milwaukee) on the grungeadelic anthem “Nothing In The Sun”. Cybernaut’s heavy prog - giving their Canadian cohorts Rush a run for their money - and Flasher’s “Icky Bicky” boogie prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that our neighbors to the north can rock with the best of ‘em. Meanwhile, Fargo’s hallucinogenic BBQ sauce soaked “Abaddon” and Mammoth’s fittingly beefy eponymous riff-monger continue the long line of heavies from the Lone Star State. Ohio based screamers Lance features members of Inside Experience, whom you might recall from the Third Trip. Zebra’s gritty rendition of “Helter Skelter” is most likely the way Charles Manson heard the song in his head. And finally, the mysterious and previously unheard Thor appears here exclusively and for the first time ever with their unknown 45 track “Lick It”. Many thanks to our pal Mike Vegh for turning us on to this one.

About the Brown Acid series:

Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution is the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century -- particularly in genres that lacked hifalutin arty pretense. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins -- often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on Brown Acid: The Fifth Trip. 

Lance Barresi, co-owner of L.A./Chicago retailer Permanent Records has shown incredible persistence in tracking down a stellar collection of rare singles from the 60s and 70s for the growing compilation series. Partnered with Daniel Hall of RidingEasy Records, the two have assembled a selection of songs that's hard to believe have remained unheard for so long. 

"I essentially go through hell and high water just to find these records," Barresi says. "Once I find a record worthy of tracking, I begin the (sometimes) extremely arduous process of contacting the band members and encouraging them to take part. Daniel and I agree that licensing all the tracks we're using for Brown Acid is best for everyone involved," rather than simply bootlegging the tracks. When all of the bands and labels haven't existed for 30-40 years or more, tracking down the creators gives all of these tunes a real second chance at success. 

"There's a long list of songs that we'd love to include," Barresi says. "But we just can't track the bands down. I like the idea that Brown Acid is getting so much attention, so people might reach out to us."

Brown Acid: The Fifth Trip will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on October 31st, 2017 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available for digital (with immediate download of the first single) at Bandcamp, physical pre-orders at RidingEasy Records. 

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Brown Acid: The Fifth Trip 

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: October 31, 2017

01. Captain Foam "No Reason"

02. George Brigman "Blowin' Smoke"

03. Finch "Nothing In The Sun"

04. Cybernaut "Clockwork"

05. Fargo "Abaddon"

06. Mammoth "Mammoth"

07. Flasher "Icky Bicky"

08. Lance "Fireball"

09. Zebra "Helter Skelter"

10. Thor "Lick It"

On The Web:

www.ridingeasyrecords.com

RidingEasy Records - 2017 Year in Review: Monolord, Here Lies Man, 'Brown Acid', R.I.P., Blackout, et al.

It's hard to believe, but the time for your Album of The Year picks is fast approaching! 2017 has been an incredible year for RidingEasy Records -- including landmark releases from Here Lies Man (members of Antibalas), Monolord, R.I.P., TWO brilliant editions of the Brown Acid 60s-70s rare pre-metal singles compilations and more. 

Below are links and details on everything RidingEasy for 2017 for your consideration for those year-end picks.

RidingEasy Records - 2017 Year in Review: DUNBARROW Dunbarrow  (released 3/10) Full album stream Trondheim, Norway quintet Dunbarrow reissued their 2016 self-titled debut album worldwide with a special die-cut sleeve. Norwegian proto-doom with a back-to-basics sound, from Pentagram and Witchfinder General to Quicksilver Messenger Service. Dunbarrow's clean, unadorned sound is a classic in the sense that every song becomes instantly recognizable after just one listen.  HERE LIES MAN Here Lies Man (released 4/7) Full album stream  What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat? In short, that's the underlying vibe to the self-titled debut by Here Lies Man. The L.A. based quintet is founded and conceptualized by Marcos Garcia of Antibalas, bringing his erudite experience of World rhythms and music to the more riff-based foundations of heavy rock. The results are an incredibly catchy and refreshing twist on classic forms. VARIOUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE FOURTH TRIP (released 4/20) Full album stream The popular compilation series of long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles fourth edition continues the headbanging tradition.The series is curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records. The two have assembled a selection of songs that's hard to believe have remained unheard for so long and tapped a goldmine of hard rock brilliance.  BLACKOUT The Horse (released 6/23) Full album stream  NYC trio Blackout's take on doom and stoner rock is filled with a gritty, mechanistic heft unlike bands of their ilk from anywhere else. Subsumed within the greasy grooves of The Horse there are echoes of NYC heavy legends like Helmet, Cro-Mags, Judge, Prong and others -- not as intentional homage, but rather a vibe that permeates and inadvertently gives its bands a unique power that few can match.  SHOOTING GUNS Flavour Country (released 8/11) Full album stream  Shooting Guns is known (and oft-nominated) for their film soundtrack work, but Flavour Country is more like a collection of anthems for your jettison from this universe into the multiverse. While they're known for heavy and saturated sounds befitting crazed horror-comedy flicks like Netflix hit WolfCop, Flavour Country features some of the band's fastest, heaviest and most visceral material to date. Yet, it also features some of the band's most atmospheric sounds as well.  SPELLJAMMER Inches From The Sun (released 9/22) Full album stream   Swedish trio Spelljammer reissue of their celebrated 2010 debut Inches From the Sun. This is the album's first time on vinyl, and first proper release worldwide. Inches From the Sun is a hypnotic groove-based hybrid of classic Desert Rock and rumbling European doom that launched the band to international acclaim following its release.  MONOLORD Rust (released 9/29) Full album stream  Monolord is a rare breed: A band both encompassing and transcending genre; a vortex of heavy rock density that consumes all others. Their thunderous, tuneful heft has built a rabid international fanbase in short order since their 2014 debut. But Rust, the band's third full length, truly exemplifies why some refer to them as the Nirvana of doom. Universally praised and receiving countless perfect 10/10 ratings thus far since release, Rust is destined to remain a landmark album for the ages.  R.I.P. Street Reaper (released 10/13) Full album stream When R.I.P. came crawling out of the sewers of Portland, OR last year, their grimy, sleazy Street Doom was already a fully formed monstrosity that quickly infected the minds of everyone it encountered. Borrowing equally from 80s Rick Rubin productions and Murder Dog magazine aesthetics, Street Reaper is a streamlined, yet brutally raw manifesto of heavy metal ferocity hearkening to the era when both metal and hip hop were reviled as the work of street thugs intent on destroying America's youth. VAROUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE FIFTH TRIP (releases 10/31) Full album stream  The popular compilation series featuring long-lost 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles' fifth edition ups the ante evermore. The series curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records recently received the pinnacle of endorsements: Lenny Kaye, creator of the legendary Nuggets compilation series (and guitarist in Patti Smith Band & Creem Magazine scribe), picked up his own copies of the previous editions, seen here via Instagram

And So I Watch You From Afar streaming entire forthcoming album early via The Independent UK

"Combining a few slower, more contemplative yet complex melodies alongside passages of pure, blistering riffs and thunderous percussion, it shows off the raw energy that they aimed to instil into the whole of The Endless Shimmering."-- DIY “These guys have figured out how to make instrumental prowess and infectious songwriting go hand in hand.” — PopMatters "Ushers in a new chapter in the life of And So I Watch You From Afar. These 9 tracks are the band’s most focused and taut songs to date and yet they still sound thrillingly vibrant and full of life." -- The Independent  Northern Ireland's And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA) are streaming their entire forthcoming album The Endless Shimmering early beginning today via The Independent UK. Hear and share The Endless Shimmering alongside an in-depth interview with the band HERE. (Direct YouTube.) PopMatters recently hosted the track "Terrors of Pleasure" HERE. ASIWYFA previously launched a video for the first single, "A Slow Unfolding Of Wings" via DIY HERE. (Direct YouTube HERE.) Second album track "Dying Giants" is available via YouTube HERE.  In support of the album, ASIWYFA launch an extensive EU/UK tour this Fall. They will be joined by Gallops for all of their UK dates. Please see complete dates below,  ASIWYFA have a relentless thirst for touring and over the past 7-years they have tallied up almost 500 shows worldwide -- including less common tour stops such as China, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The Endless Shimmering will be available everywhere October 20th, 2017 via Sargent House. Pre-orders are available at iTunes HERE and LP/CD HERE. FULL BIO & TOUR DATES BELOW Instinct. We all know what it is, but are hard pressed to acknowledge just how it guides us. Instinct subtly defines our identities, despite our attempts to defy it. The Endless Shimmering, the fifth album by Belfast, Northern Ireland quartet And So I Watch You From Afar, is the sound of a band operating on its pure instincts.  Every individual is an algorithm of prior lives and experience acting as its own sovereign entity. Every band is itself a combined algorithm of those instincts, driven by unconscious will to replicate itself in the world as if it were flesh and blood like the people who embody it. The Endless Shimmering is visceral and expressive -- decidedly alive and purely instinctual; not conceptualized or postured. It's ASIWYFA -- guitarists Rory Friers and Niall Kennedy, bassist Johnathan Adger and drummer Chris Wee -- manifest as a being beyond itself.  "We laid everything bare and put everything we had into the songs," Adger says. "And we hope people can feel that and use that without us having to be to overt in how we present it. The album was charged with a lot of what we were all going through as individuals, but we wanted to allow it to become people's soundtrack to whatever they need in their life at this moment." Perhaps the most immediately noticeable difference on this album is that the ensemble vocals of the previous recordings Heirs and All Hail Bright Futures is dialed back considerably to allow the music to come to the fore. The difference gives the musicians freedom to stretch out and truly shine as performers.  The decision was made early on that this record would not be rushed toward completion and the band allowed themselves the time to let it come together organically. "We wrote around 30 tracks before deciding these 9 tracks would make the record," Friers explains. "We then spent a long time playing them everyday to allow them to become almost as if we'd already toured them, ingrained in our muscle memory." The band flew to Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, RI in March 2017, aiming specifically to record live performances of the songs. Just as they arrived, a major snow storm brought the Northeast coast to a standstill. "We tracked, ate, washed and slept at the studio," Friers says. "And 9 days later we had recorded and mixed the entire album just as the snow began to melt."  The album opens with a brief, hushed guitar murmur as Wee's forceful galloping beat sets course on "Three Triangles" while the guitars seem to slowly awaken with whining notes that slowly build upon one another until it all abruptly halts. The whole band suddenly kicks in with chopping start and stop blasts as the chirping lead melody leads the proceedings toward a swirling apex. Elsewhere, "All I Need is Space" and "Terrors of Pleasure" show the band at their finest, unfolding complex, bobbing guitar figures over propulsive and jagged rhythms, while occasionally lunging into ethereal blooms at the drop of a hat. The title track's unabashedly beautiful and hopeful melody begins so quietly it's as if it tries to sneak in under the radar as palm-muted arpeggiated chords and a clean plucked single note line asserts an optimism that finally infects the rest of the band, as they join the chorus of, well, near endless shimmering. Album closer "Chrysalism" is just the anthemic rush that makes ASIWYFA's live shows such transcendent experiences.  The Endless Shimmering will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on October 20th, 2017 via Sargent House.  ASIWYFA TOUR 2017 OCT 18 Haarlem, NL // Patronaat  OCT 19 Utrecht, NL // EKKO OCT 20 Nijmegen, NL // Doornroosje (Purple Room) OCT 21 Osnabrück, DE // KI. Freiheit OCT 22 Karlsruhe, DE // Stadtmitte OCT 23 Eindhoven, NL // DDWMusic Festival OCT 24 Rouen, FR // Le 106 Club OCT 25 Nantes, FR // Le Ferrailleur OCT 26 Bordeaux, FR // Le Void OCT 27 Barcelona, ES // AM Fest OCT 28 Madrid, ES // Sala Caracol OCT 29 Porto, PT // Hard Club OCT 30 Lisbon, PT // Musicbox NOV 02 Milan, IT // Magnolia NOV 03 Fribourg, CH // Nouveau Monde NOV 04 Winterthur, CH // Gaswerk NOV 05 Pratteln, CH // MiniZ7 NOV 06 München, DE // Ampere NOV 07 Prague, CZ // NoD Teatro NOV 08 Leipzig, DE // Conne Island NOV 09 Berlin, DE // Lido NOV 10 Hannover, DE // Bei Chez Heinz NOV 12 Cologne, DE // Gebäude 9 NOV 13 Wiesbaden, DE // Schlachthof NOV 14 Essen, DE // Zeche Carl NOV 15 Hamburg, DE // Knust NOV 16 Groningen, NL // Vera NOV 17 Maastricht, NL // Muziekgieterij NOV 18 Louvain-La-Neuve, BE // Festival La Ferme NOV 19 Kortrijk, BE // De Kreun NOV 21 Paris, FR // Maroquinerie NOV 22 Luxembourg, LU // Rockhal NOV 23 London, UK // Koko NOV 24 Manchester, UK // Academy 2 NOV 25 Glasgow, UK // Oran Mor NOV 26 Bristol, UK // Thekla - SOLD OUT DEC 28 Dublin, Ireland // Academy DEC 29 Castlebar Co Mayo, Ireland // Garbo's DEC 30 Cork, Ireland // Cypress Avenue DEC 31 Galway, Ireland // Roisin Dubh

Artist: And So I Watch You From Afar Album: The Endless Shimmering Record Label: Sargent House Release date: October 20th, 2017 01. Three Triangles 02. A Slow Unfolding Of Wings 03. Terrors Of Pleasure 04. Dying Giants 05. All I Need Is Space 06. The Endless Shimmering 07. Mullally 08. I'll Share A Life 09. Chrysalism On the Web: asiwyfa.com facebook.com/AndSoIWatchYouFromAfar twitter.com/ASIWYFA_band asiwyfa.bandcamp.com

And So I Watch You From Afar premiere "Terrors of Pleasure" single from forthcoming album

"Combining a few slower, more contemplative yet complex melodies alongside passages of pure, blistering riffs and thunderous percussion, it shows off the raw energy that they aimed to instil into the whole of The Endless Shimmering."-- DIY “These guys have figured out how to make instrumental prowess and infectious songwriting go hand in hand.” — PopMatters Northern Ireland's And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA) share a new track today from their forthcoming album The Endless Shimmering via PopMatters. This will be the eclectic quartet's fifth full length album following on from their widely acclaimed album Heirs. The song "Terrors of Pleasure" is available to hear and share HERE. (Direct YouTube HERE.) ASIWYFA previously launched a video for the first single, "A Slow Unfolding Of Wings" via DIY HERE. (Direct YouTube HERE.) Second album track "Dying Giants" is available via YouTube HERE.  In support of the album, ASIWYFA launch an extensive EU/UK tour this Fall. They will be joined by Gallops for all of their UK dates. Please see complete dates below,  ASIWYFA have a relentless thirst for touring and over the past 7-years they have tallied up almost 500 shows worldwide -- including less common tour stops such as China, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The Endless Shimmering will be available everywhere October 20th, 2017 via Sargent House. Pre-orders are available at iTunes HERE and LP/CD HERE. FULL BIO & TOUR DATES BELOW Instinct. We all know what it is, but are hard pressed to acknowledge just how it guides us. Instinct subtly defines our identities, despite our attempts to defy it. The Endless Shimmering, the fifth album by Belfast, Northern Ireland quartet And So I Watch You From Afar, is the sound of a band operating on its pure instincts.  Every individual is an algorithm of prior lives and experience acting as its own sovereign entity. Every band is itself a combined algorithm of those instincts, driven by unconscious will to replicate itself in the world as if it were flesh and blood like the people who embody it. The Endless Shimmering is visceral and expressive -- decidedly alive and purely instinctual; not conceptualized or postured. It's ASIWYFA -- guitarists Rory Friers and Niall Kennedy, bassist Johnathan Adger and drummer Chris Wee -- manifest as a being beyond itself.  "We laid everything bare and put everything we had into the songs," Adger says. "And we hope people can feel that and use that without us having to be to overt in how we present it. The album was charged with a lot of what we were all going through as individuals, but we wanted to allow it to become people's soundtrack to whatever they need in their life at this moment." Perhaps the most immediately noticeable difference on this album is that the ensemble vocals of the previous recordings Heirs and All Hail Bright Futures is dialed back considerably to allow the music to come to the fore. The difference gives the musicians freedom to stretch out and truly shine as performers.  The decision was made early on that this record would not be rushed toward completion and the band allowed themselves the time to let it come together organically. "We wrote around 30 tracks before deciding these 9 tracks would make the record," Friers explains. "We then spent a long time playing them everyday to allow them to become almost as if we'd already toured them, ingrained in our muscle memory." The band flew to Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, RI in March 2017, aiming specifically to record live performances of the songs. Just as they arrived, a major snow storm brought the Northeast coast to a standstill. "We tracked, ate, washed and slept at the studio," Friers says. "And 9 days later we had recorded and mixed the entire album just as the snow began to melt."  The album opens with a brief, hushed guitar murmur as Wee's forceful galloping beat sets course on "Three Triangles" while the guitars seem to slowly awaken with whining notes that slowly build upon one another until it all abruptly halts. The whole band suddenly kicks in with chopping start and stop blasts as the chirping lead melody leads the proceedings toward a swirling apex. Elsewhere, "All I Need is Space" and "Terrors of Pleasure" show the band at their finest, unfolding complex, bobbing guitar figures over propulsive and jagged rhythms, while occasionally lunging into ethereal blooms at the drop of a hat. The title track's unabashedly beautiful and hopeful melody begins so quietly it's as if it tries to sneak in under the radar as palm-muted arpeggiated chords and a clean plucked single note line asserts an optimism that finally infects the rest of the band, as they join the chorus of, well, near endless shimmering. Album closer "Chrysalism" is just the anthemic rush that makes ASIWYFA's live shows such transcendent experiences.  The Endless Shimmering will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on October 20th, 2017 via Sargent House.  ASIWYFA TOUR 2017 OCT 18 Haarlem, NL // Patronaat  OCT 19 Utrecht, NL // EKKO OCT 20 Nijmegen, NL // Doornroosje (Purple Room) OCT 21 Osnabrück, DE // KI. Freiheit OCT 22 Karlsruhe, DE // Stadtmitte OCT 23 Eindhoven, NL // DDWMusic Festival OCT 24 Rouen, FR // Le 106 Club OCT 25 Nantes, FR // Le Ferrailleur OCT 26 Bordeaux, FR // Le Void OCT 27 Barcelona, ES // AM Fest OCT 28 Madrid, ES // Sala Caracol OCT 29 Porto, PT // Hard Club OCT 30 Lisbon, PT // Musicbox NOV 02 Milan, IT // Magnolia NOV 03 Fribourg, CH // Nouveau Monde NOV 04 Winterthur, CH // Gaswerk NOV 05 Pratteln, CH // MiniZ7 NOV 06 München, DE // Ampere NOV 07 Prague, CZ // NoD Teatro NOV 08 Leipzig, DE // Conne Island NOV 09 Berlin, DE // Lido NOV 10 Hannover, DE // Bei Chez Heinz NOV 12 Cologne, DE // Gebäude 9 NOV 13 Wiesbaden, DE // Schlachthof NOV 14 Essen, DE // Zeche Carl NOV 15 Hamburg, DE // Knust NOV 16 Groningen, NL // Vera NOV 17 Maastricht, NL // Muziekgieterij NOV 18 Louvain-La-Neuve, BE // Festival La Ferme NOV 19 Kortrijk, BE // De Kreun NOV 21 Paris, FR // Maroquinerie NOV 22 Luxembourg, LU // Rockhal NOV 23 London, UK // Koko NOV 24 Manchester, UK // Academy 2 NOV 25 Glasgow, UK // Oran Mor NOV 26 Bristol, UK // Thekla DEC 28 Dublin, Ireland // Academy DEC 29 Castlebar Co Mayo, Ireland // Garbo's DEC 30 Cork, Ireland // Cypress Avenue DEC 31 Galway, Ireland // Roisin Dubh

Artist: And So I Watch You From Afar Album: The Endless Shimmering Record Label: Sargent House Release date: October 20th, 2017 01. Three Triangles 02. A Slow Unfolding Of Wings 03. Terrors Of Pleasure 04. Dying Giants 05. All I Need Is Space 06. The Endless Shimmering 07. Mullally 08. I'll Share A Life 09. Chrysalism On the Web: asiwyfa.com facebook.com/AndSoIWatchYouFromAfar twitter.com/ASIWYFA_band asiwyfa.bandcamp.com