SZ, Autor bei Golden Glades

Unsolved Mysteries

Wieso wurde die Popmusik nicht schon längst begraben? Weshalb enden manche Songs als Ohrwurm, auch wenn man sie gar nicht leiden kann? Warum gibt es keine wasserdichte Pop-Formel mit Hitgarantie? Diese und andere cold cases stehen heute bei Golden Glades zur Wiedervorlage an. Lösungen können wir keine versprechen, wohl aber einen schönen Mix, der den Pop-Mysterien auf der Spur bleibt.

PlaylistGG_KW11

Artist	Track	Label
The Perfect Kiss	Broadcast (From You To Me)	Elefant
First Base	If I See You With That Girl Again	latidarecords.bandcamp.com
Gentle Brent	Never Wanna Make You Cry	Jigsaw Records
Julien Baer	Roi de l'underground	Le Pop Musik
Forever Calypso	Bungalows	Croque Macadam
Hong Kong In The 60s	Diaryland	hongkonginthe60s.com
Tennis	In The Morning I'll Be Better	Mutually Detrimental
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Sleep Drifter	Heavenly
Tall Tall Trees	A Place to Call Your Own	Joyful Noise
Rose Elinor Dougall	Take Yourself With You	self-released
Magnetic Fields	'88 Ethan Frome	Nonesuch
Lusterlit	List of Equipment	lusterlit.bandcamp.com
Merk	I'm Easy	merkscoolsongs.bandcamp.com
Harry Mud	My Heart Wins The Race	ussb.bandcamp.com
Balduin	Mirror, Mirror	Sunstone
Starwheel	Through My Window	starwheel.bandcamp.com
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever	French Press	Sub Pop
Temples	Mystery Of Pop	Heavenly
The Paperhead	The True Poet	Trouble In Mind
CaStLeS	Ffrwydriadau o Deimladau	castlesband.bandcamp.com
Steady Holiday	Superstar	Infinite Best
Carpenters	Superstar	A&M Records
Greek Theatre	Still Lost Out At Sea	Sugarbush Records
Happy Sadness	Alone	happysadness.bandcamp.com
Hand Habits	In Between	Woodsist
Ben Reed	Maniac Man	Gare Du Nord Records
Andy Reed	The Criminal	You Are The Cosmos
The Legal Matters	The Cool Kid	Omnivore
Frontier Ruckus	Gerunds	Loose Music
Nadia Reid	Richard	Basin Rock

Happy Sadness

Listen carefully with your headphones on, and it’s easy to get lost in these tracks. Happy Sadness knows pretty well how to create contemplative moments with his floating textures and warm compositions. Sometimes it’s like a soothing soundtrack that tells stories without words. But as well we have a few songwriter-based tracks where Jason Andrew Brown (multimedia artist and the man behind Happy Sadness) gets very close to you with his voice. In these tracks he shows his real quality as a versatile musician.

<a href="http://happysadness.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-window">From The Window by Happy Sadness</a>

The Fisherman

All frequent listeners of Golden Glades know by now, that the world is full of talented bedroom producers. Here’s a wonderful project hailing from Nafpaktos in Greece: Tony Panou alias The Fisherman. He calls himself an amateur, but I think he’s just being modest because he obviously has a knack for timeless melodies!

<a href="http://thefisherman.bandcamp.com/album/down">Down by The Fisherman</a>

Trials & Truths

Wir haben es ja derzeit viel mit falschen Wahrheiten und alternativer Faktenlage zu tun. Ein Glück, dass die Musik einen ganz anderen Zugang zur Realität erlaubt – einen, der von vornherein keinen Anspruch auf objektive Allgemeingültigkeit erhebt. Vielleicht ist das sogar ein Kriterium, nach dem wir versuchen, unsere kleine Sendereihe zu bestücken: Lässt sich in diesem Song ein eigener Weltentwurf erkennen, und sei er nur auf den 8 Quadratmetern eines Schlafzimmer-Studios gültig. Ihre ganz persönliche Wahrheit lassen in der heutigen Ausgabe erklingen: Lake, Molly Burch und Jens Lekman.

PlaylistGG_KW09

Artist	Track	Label
Blue Jeans	False Start	Jigsaw
Horse Thief	Another Youth	Bella Union
Otago	Ghost Stories	mairisch Verlag
LAKE	Work With What You Got	Tapete
Benny Sings	One Of These Hearts	Jakarta
The Sound Of Money	Tiger T. - Death Happens To A Few	BB*Island
Diners	In My Hometown	diners.bandcamp.com
Molly Burch	Try	Captured Tracks
Steady Holiday	Open Water	Infinite Best
Manuela	Supermarket	Lost Map / Schamoni Musik
Homeshake	Call Me Up	Sinderlyn
alphaequalsfoverm	Ashes	Oh, Sister
Dutch Uncles	Streetlight	Memphis Industries
Spiral Stairs	Dance (Cry Wolf)	Domino
Elephant Stone	Photograph	Elephants On Parade
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BeWider	Beneath The Sky	self-released
Jens Lekman	Hotwire With Ferris Wheel	Secretly Canadian
The Da Vincis	Friend Machine	thedavincis.bandcamp.com
Hippo Campus	Simple Reason	Transgressive Records
Merk	Melody	merkscoolsongs.bandcamp.com
The Fisherman	Down	thefisherman.bandcamp.com
Novella	Four Colours	Sinderlyn
The Proper Ornaments	Memories	Tough Love
Brent Cash	The Way You Were	Marina Records
Real Estate	Darling	Domino
Jay Som	Turn Into	Polyvinyl
Hand Habits	Sun Beholds Me	Woodsist
Christiane Rsinger	Lieder ohne Leiden	Staatsakt
The Everywheres	Concede	theeverywheres.bandcamp.com

Francis Macdonald & Harry Pye

Wow, I instantly fell in love with this new song by Francis Macdonald & Harry Pye! Watch out for their promising debüt „Bonjour“ by the end of May on Glasgow’s finest Shoeshine Records. A rich tapestry of lovely sounds and melodies will fill your ears – just what you need in these times:

You like that? Well, here’s another wonderful track:

Heaven For Real

It looks like Halifax is currently the place to be with its vibrant music scene: there are so many interesting bands and artists to discover. Heaven For Real play a melodic Indierock version with occasionally Pavementesque twists. It’s cleverly and well done.

<a href="http://heavenforreal.bandcamp.com/album/kill-your-memory">Kill Your Memory by Heaven For Real</a>

Cabin Essence

I’m very surprised this well-crafted and sixties inspired guitar pop has not more supporters: I love every moment of this collection! For me, it’s a best harmonized gem.

<a href="http://cabinessence.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-for-playing-games">A Place For Playing Games by Cabin Essence</a>

Dwight Smith

Astonishing, what an acoustic guitar, voices and occasionally a trumpet can do: here, it softly stirs emotions. Some of the tracks have a pastoral quality, others are merely sketches. The guitar picking ranges from folk to classical and creates a very pleasant atmosphere.

<a href="http://dwightsmith.us/album/lateral-drifts">Lateral drifts by Dwight Smith</a>

Wundertüte

Wer kann sich noch daran erinnern, an den Glücksmoment der guten alten Wundertüte? Aber nein, die gerollte rauschhafte Mischung ist damit nicht gemeint, sondern die verschlossenen bunten Päckchen für Kinder, in denen sich nebst Süßigkeiten noch einige Überraschungen befinden. In der Ungewissheit steckt das eigentliche Erfolgsgeheimnis, denn zunächst einmal wird mit der Wundertüte die Neugierde geweckt. Auch in der heutigen Ausgabe von Golden Glades wird vorweg nicht verraten was kommt, also: lasst euch überraschen!

PlaylistGG_KW07

Artist	Track	Label
His Clancyness	Pale Fear	Maple Death Records
The Pooches	Everything	Lame-O Records
Chook Race	Lost the Ghost	Trouble In Mind
The Prophet Hens	Oh Wait It's Me Isn't It	Fishrider Records
Dwight Smith	Sunday Morning	dwightsmith.us
Happyness	Anna, Lisa Calls	Moshi Moshi
Happy Sadness	Better Flower	happysadness.bandcamp.com
Marching Band	Creator (and I Notice)	Uncomfortably Numb Records
Mesita	Intimacy	mesita.bandcamp.com
Toothless	Sisyphus	Island
Zooey	Oh Stop!	Wonderfulsounds
Diners	Hear The World	Diet Pop Records
Heaven For Real	No One Knows Her	heavenforreal.bandcamp.com
The Proper Ornaments	Cremated (Blown Away)	Tough Love
TOY	Another Dimension	Heavenly
Geneva	Work of Art	Mint Tea Records
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The History Of Colour TV	Wreck	thehistoryofcolourtv.bandcamp.com
Fred Thomas	Brickwall	Polyvinyl
LOVING	Forgot Again	Human Sounds
VACATIONS	Away	Human Sounds
Skytone	On My Mind	skytone1.bandcamp.com
Other Houses	Pawn in the Pond	finalhouse.bandcamp.com
Frnois & The Atlas Mountains	Grand Drglement	Domino
Agony Aunts	Waterloo Sunset	agony-aunts.bandcamp.com
Jacco Gardner	Lazy Old Sun	Mojo Magazine - 3/2017
Wwoman	New Ferments	realwwoman.bandcamp.com
Menace Beach	Suck It Out	Memphis Industries
Sacred Paws	Empty Body	Rock Action
Mondo Fumatore	Where Are We Going	Rewika
Shugo Tokumaru	Route	P-Vine
The Flat Five	Blue Kazoo	Bloodshot Records
Nick Drake	The Thoughts Of Mary Jane	Island

Trip Down Memory Lane

Kaum ein vernünftiger Mensch wird bestreiten, dass die Popmusik der 1960er Jahre äußerst offen und experimentierfreudig war – und dass sich diese Haltung in einigen der besten Platten aller Zeiten niedergeschlagen hat, üppig instrumentiert und reich an Melodien. Heute wird sowohl in Sachen Soundästhetik als auch in der Harmonieführung wieder gern auf die Sixties Bezug genommen. Neue Platten u.a. von Brent Cash, The Proper Ornaments und CaStLeS zeigen auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise, wie sich das goldene Zeitalter in der zeitgenössischen Popmusik manifestiert.

PlaylistGG_KW05

Artist	Track	Label
Eternity's Children	Mrs. Bluebird	Rev-Ola
The Junipers	Like a Merry Go Round	thejunipers.bandcamp.com
The Fernweh	Brightening In The West	self-released
Richard Album	Neighbors	richardalbum.bandcamp.com
Baseball Gregg	Ulysses	baseballgregg.bandcamp.com
SheLoom	Prophet Approximate	Ray Recordings
Brent Cash	Out For Blood	Marina Records
Ben Reed	Only the Sun	benreed3.bandcamp.com
Lainie Hill	Time Marches On	New Voice Records
Fascinations Grand Chorus	Actor/Actress	fascinationsgrandchorus.bandcamp.com
Nancy Pants	Yin Yang	nancypants.bandcamp.com
TUNS	Lonely Life	Royal Mountain
The Da Vincis	The Shortest Race	thedavincis.bandcamp.com
West	Summer Flower	Epic
CaStLeS	Foresteering	castlesband.bandcamp.com
Super Furry Animals	The Piccolo Snare	BMG
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The Greek Theatre	Now Is The Time	theactivelistener.bandcamp.com
Cabin Essence	So Easy	cabinessence.bandcamp.com
Lake Ruth	The Only One Who Knows	The Great Pop Supplement
Rain Parade	This Can't Be Today	Enigma Records
Ultimate Painting	Monday Morning, Somewhere Central	Trouble In Mind
The Proper Ornaments	Back Pages	Tough Love
The Molochs	You And Me	Innovative Leisure
The Everywheres	I Still (Love You)	theeverywheres.bandcamp.com
Other Houses	Fabulous Dates	Aagoo Records
The Left Banke	I've Got Something on My Mind	Mercury
Ozarks	One Thing	castleozarks.com
Balduin	The Music	Sunstone Records
Kim Gray	Perfume Ghost	Resurrection Records
Swooning	Sun & the Moon	swooning.bandcamp.com
Fenwyck	I Wanna Die	Progressive Sounds Of America _
The Finks	Jamie's Got A Baby	Milk Records
Roddie Joy	Come Back Baby	Red Bird