Sleeping Alone
To anyone who noticed our cold turkey blog detox, we’re very sorry for laying dormant in this small corner of the internet over the past few weeks, but what more apt way to crawl out from bleary-eyed hibernation than with this Ferry Gouw directed video for the carefully building, cavernous and cathartic, back-alley ballad “Sleep Paralysis” by gravel-voiced Transparent favourite/friend Gabriel Bruce.
“Sleep Paralysis” is released through Off Modern on 7” vinyl on December 5th, accompanied by an illustrated book on the song title subject.
TP030: Leopard of Honour
Time today to celebrate the release of Leopard of Honour wonderful new single, “Palais Royal Blue”, which is out NOW through us here at Transparent. You’ve heard the A-side jam already and now here’s its flipside accompaniment – “Good Wives” for your delectation:
Leopard of Honour – Good Wives
Leopard of Honour – Palais Royal-Blue
The “Palais Royal Blue” 7” is limited to 300 copies only. Order it here from us directly or look for it wherever good music lives.
New Girl
A few days ago we received an unexpected 12” package with a sparsely worded press release that simply read ‘ Kindness – Cyan’. Since getting obsessive over the terminally grooved-out Swinging Party on these pages back in Oct 2009, this was the first we’d thought about Adam Bainbridge in quite a while so naturally we ran with it straight to the turntable. Having been holed up recording his debut LP, “Cyan” is the exciting first glimpse into what we can expect and will be released in the UK by ‘Female Energy’ and Terrible Records in the US.
Grown Up
Hot on the heels of last week’s release of Blood Diamonds we’re already fired up to announce news of our next single courtesy of Manchester based songwriter Leopard of Honour AKA David Roocroft. The pitched-up pop of futuristic A-side “Palais Royal-Blue” was unwrapped by our friends at Guardian earlier today and is available to pre-order on 7” through Rough Trade / Plastic In Paper (US) now:
Star Dusted
By now you should have hopefully had time and SPACE to get to know the majestic Grins by Blood Diamonds and its wonderful remixes rather well. BD (Mike Tucker to his mum) is stepping out for his first north American show tonight (at Glasslands in Brooklyn) and here’s the appropriately celestial, beautiful b-side to “Grins” in celebration. Move The Stars…
Order the “Grins” 7” here
Fever Pitched
On Monday we release the towering, radiant “Grins” by Blood Diamonds on seven inches of wax barely able to contain its breathless majesty. Before that though, here’s our man Deptford Goth – fresh from the announcent of his beautiful forthcoming debut EP for Merok doing his thing with a mystic, shape-shifting remix.
Stay tuned for the b-side to “Grins” to explode shortly
Order the 7” here
Blood Diamonds – Grins [Deptford Goth Remix]
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Starring Role
Just had our attention diverted in the direction of this strange, sweet little pop song courtesy of Newcastle’s Fax Machine. The zoned-out, languid vocals wander through a weird, bipolar, shape-shifting patchwork of a melody on introductory track “1981”.
Wrong Key
It’s becoming a bit of a regular occurrence for tracks to drop on the welcome mat of our mailbox with the minimum of fanfare and it was off the back of a wordless correspondence that we came across the cathedral chords and chopped, down-in-the-dumps vocals of “Hurtlove” by attention-shy Manchester (?) based No Ceremony.