Los Angeles – HighClouds

⚡ CITY FATHER’s “Coquette” is the sound of night-time noir Los Angeles

Ed Ledsham — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:56:15 +0000

After debuting last month with his remix of Saro‘s “Looking,” Los Angeles-based producer City Father is back with a lush new single, “Coquette.”

City Father is an LA-based musician who you’d swear was from London. His music is rich in the ominous bass sounds and irregular rhythms of that city’s distinctive club scene. “Coquette”, though, is more than a dull copy of a generically post-dubstep sound. The press release describes this track as existing “in that elusive space between club music and home listening”, an apt description of a track that seems almost to function as a condensed version of an hour-long DJ mix. While dance music might be known for its tantric repetition, City Father‘s “Coquette” hardly repeats itself at all. This feels more like a through-composed instrumental electronic piece than the minimal drum tracks of most house and techno. Each element that does appear in the track could be happily extended for several minutes, but the choice not to do so makes the track utterly addictive. Hearing each of these sounds once just isn’t enough.

Forget seedy jazz, City Father‘s “Coquette” is the sound of today’s night-time noir Los Angeles.

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Connect with City Father via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and re-discover his flip of Saro‘s “Looking” below!

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Twin Oaks sublimate fatality with shivering and hypnotic single ‘Collapse’

Arnaud Marty — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:09:50 +0000

Los Angeles-based Twin Oaks, a duo that are building bridges between post rock and dream pop, recently released a new EP: ‘Collapse’. Listen to the title track below.

Lauren Brown (Vocals, Guitar) and Aaron Domingo (Guitar, Programming, Keys) are the members of Twin Oaks. They started their music adventure back in 2011 as a bedroom folk act. For their latest EP, Lauren and Aaron teamed up with Grammy Award-Winning engineer Cassidy Turbin (Beck, Bat for Lashes, Thurston Moore) to helm mixing and post-production duties.

Following up to ‘Nothing’, Twin Oaks recently shared the title track of the ‘Collapse EP’. The song begins with a shivering and dreamy guitar riff that serves as a guide through those hypnotic four minutes. ‘Collapse’ is as beautiful as the lyrics are fatalistic. Brown’s vocals are perfect to give life to those words: ‘And I’ll watch them walk away, light the flame and throw it down. Watch a kingdom burn, no past for future.‘ A sublimate sadness that reminds us of wy at times.

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‘Collapse’ is the title track of Twin Oaks new 5-track EP and you can stream via Spotify.

Connect with Twin Oaks by visiting their official website and via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

G.Smith creates smart hybrid between alt-pop and electronic in “X”

Matias Calderon — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:58:27 +0000

Los Angeles-based artist G.Smith shares her brand new track “X” where the frontiers between electronic and alternative pop disappear.

As the picture of the post can say, the singer started her career as a visual artist. Using her own image surrounded by edgy, rough landscapes, her ethereal vocals will bring you to a dreamy place while her production is more down-to-earth, putting a pleasant balance into it. Are you going to notice the fact that she used a washing machine as part of the production? This song is for the fans of Grimes, Purity Ring or Shamir.

You can follow G.Smith over Soundcloud, Facebook and Twitter.