Paradise of Bachelors

Jennifer Castle: Angels of Death (PoB-041)

A sublime meditation on mortality and memory, ghosts and grief, Angels of Death casts a series of spells against forgetting and finality, in the form of mystic-minimalist country-soul torch songs about writing, time travel, and spectral visitations. "a new album for everyone to fall in love with" – The FADER Read More

by David Smith on Mar 7, 2018 • 1 Comment

DISCOGRAPHY / Mind Over Mirrors

Mind Over Mirrors: Bellowing Sun (PoB-040)

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for its world premiere performance, Bellowing Sun is the majestic culmination of composer, harmoniumist, and synthesist Jaime Fennelly’s immersive explorations of the natural world’s sensory dimensions. "A widescreen aura ... oxygen-rich music" – NPR Read More

by David Smith on Jan 29, 2018 • Comments Closed

DISCOGRAPHY / Nap Eyes

Nap Eyes: I’m Bad Now (PoB-033)

In the band's most transparent and personal set of songs to date, singer Nigel Chapman interrogates social, psychological, and spiritual milieus for clues about the elusive nature of knowledge. “Much ado about meaninglessness with rock 'n' roll songs that shake offbeat and smart lyrics wrapped in bemused ennui.” – NPR Music Read More

by David Smith on Jan 10, 2018 • Comments Closed

DISCOGRAPHY / Red River Dialect

Red River Dialect: Broken Stay Open Sky (PoB-039)

The London-based band (with Cornish roots) brings a windswept energy and daylight to a contemplative, gorgeously rendered suite of songs about inhabiting the landscape, and our bodies, in joy and pain alike. "Radiates a beaming light ... it feels like a burden lifted." – NPR Music Read More

by David Smith on Nov 14, 2017 • Comments Closed

DISCOGRAPHY / Gun Outfit

Gun Outfit: Out of Range (PoB-036)

Like a stone eroded by years in the arroyo, Gun Outfit’s “Western expanse” aesthetic has become gradually smoother. Their fifth LP ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet. “Cactus-chewing, smoke-signaled rock music that perpetually rolls towards sundown... cowboy poetry swirled in honky-tonk postmodernism” – NPR Music Read More

by David Smith on Sep 6, 2017 • 3 Comments

DISCOGRAPHY / The Weather Station

The Weather Station: The Weather Station (PoB-035)

On her fourth album, Tamara Lindeman reinvents her acclaimed songcraft, framing her precisely detailed prose-poem narratives in bolder musical settings. It’s her most emotionally candid statement to date, a work of profound urgency & artistic generosity. “Few songwriters capture these subtle moments with such fluidity” – Pitchfork Read More

by paradiseofbachelors on Jul 18, 2017 • 4 Comments

NEWS

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Jennifer Castle Brings Her Angels to Paradise.

by paradiseofbachelors on Mar 7, 2018 • No Comments

The Canadian artist Jennifer Castle has long been one of our favorite songwriters, and we are ecstatic to welcome her, and her haunting, transcendent new album Angels of Death, to Paradise. Today, The FADER has premiered “Crying Shame,” the devastating first single from the album they claim “everyone will fall in love with,” which is now available to preorder.

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Stream Nap Eyes’ I’m Bad Now via NPR Music’s First Listen.

by paradiseofbachelors on Mar 5, 2018 • No Comments

Nap Eyes are streaming their new album via NPR Music and CBC Music ahead of its March 9th release. NPR praises the band as “masters of subtlety,” evocatively describing the most transparent and personal Nap Eyes’ album to date: “I’m Bad Now slithers through 11 tracks like a phosphorescent python, its diamond-shaped scales emitting both glimmer and gloom.”

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Watch the Video for the New Nap Eyes Single “I’m Bad.”

by paradiseofbachelors on Feb 26, 2018 • No Comments

Nap Eyes have unveiled the next single from their forthcoming album, I’m Bad Now. Accompanying “I’m Bad” is a video directed by Halifax-based filmmaker Seth Smith and inspired by Renaissance portraiture, which The FADER premiered today. Also, Uncut declares the album a masterpiece on par with the Go-Betweens, Belle & Sebastian, and Television.