A moving song about the endless-and-yet-ending relationship between child and parents, hugged by mellotron over a driving drum and tense saxophone. Merrill's incredible voice fills up everything.
"We all have doubts.
We all have rage.
We all have trouble being brave enough to turn the page.
We like to use it for early availability. Before appearing at the streamers, it’s there on our page. Two “sided” singles for June, July, and August, and the tenth album, “Constructivism in Blue”. You might enjoy something from “Too Lazy for Words: An Instrumental EP.”
Pretty much #Pop as the A-side evokes the 1960s James Bond Title Song style to our own leaning to the John Le Carré formulation of that world. (Yes, me for Shirley Bassey is admittedly a poor trade.) The B-side takes us to the US Southwest of the movies.
Over the weekend I tracked an instrumental, meaning I now have four unreleased ones. EP time for #ThePomegranateCountyIrregulars twist on #indiepop
Well, it might be a few months before I put it up at streamers.
Standout tracks (IMHO) “Lying to Me,” “Welcome to the Truthatorium, A.I.,” “Model Companion,” “Carpinteria Breakdown,” and a weird take on “Blue Tail Fly.”
The April single goes to streamers Sunday night and is at #BandCamp now, as a 4-for-1 EP. The A side is angry, listen to that bass line. The B-side is (another) self-mythologizing (not another) polka.
🖤 🎶 💿 "Neues Album von Kle.ze: German Gothic - Seit 2017 fällt Kle.ze mit einer eigenwilligen Interpretation von Gestus und Habitus der Gothic-Band The Cure auf. Das trifft auch auf „Erregung“ zu." (taz)
"Konzept und Schaffen der Band Klez.e sind sehr interessant schon insofern, weil ihre Musik sich auf latent bizarre Weise eigensinnig anfühlt. Das Befremdliche rührt daher, dass das Originelle bei Klez.e das Plagiat ist (...)
Klez.e veröffentlichten „Desintegration“, das nicht nur, was den Albumtitel anging, an die britische Gothicpopband #TheCure erinnerte. Siebert baut sozusagen den Habitus von The Cures 1989 erschienenem #Disintegration -Album in behutsam entstellender Weise nach. Nicht etwa, indem hier direkt gecovert wurde, eher im Gestus. Und vor allem in den Tonalitäten von Stimme und Bass. Das latent Vernebelte, das auch das Cure-Album „Faith“ an sich hatte, war gleichfalls präsent. Nicht zuletzt die Robert-Smith-Gedenkfrisur Sieberts ist ein starkes Zeichen.
Klez.e haben einen im England der mittleren Achtziger entstandenen Soundkosmos ins Deutschland des Jahres 2024 transferiert und daraus etwas im ansonsten ja flächendeckend eher austauschbaren hiesigen #Indiepop -Zirkus Eigenständiges, Unverwechselbares entwickelt.
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Für das neue Werk „Erregung“ haben Klez.e sich sieben Jahre Zeit gelassen. Der Sound ist lichter als auf „Desintegration“, es gibt sozusagen mehr Platz zwischen den einzelnen Tönen und damit mehr Transparenz. Aber die Sonne scheint hier nach wie vor nirgends, dafür sorgt gleich der siebenminütige Titelsong, der triste, angstbesetzte Schulhoferinnerungen mit einem ganz großen Weltverzweiflungspanorama verbindet.
German #Gothic, Nebel der Enttäuschung, Depression als Realismus. Die Welt durch die milchig-graue Brille betrachtet, aber mit messerscharfem Blick."
I needed Friday and Saturday to apply final tweaks, but now #ThePomegranateCountyIrregulars’ May single has #BandCamp early access. #IndiePop bordering on #AlternativeRock, but on the dark side, it’s Theme to an Imaginary Spy Movie (Deceivers Die) backed with A Hard Land.
On this day 10 years ago, Future Islands made their stellar debut on Letterman.
"This was the moment that the wider world really caught on. Letterman was delighted, the performance went viral, and Future Islands suddenly became a whole lot more famous."
"I don’t remember actually performing the song.
I was so overcome with the moment that I blacked out.
It was a life-changing moment, and it took me years to see the way that it opened up my life."
It's official. On May 1, we will go worldwide with the single "Theme to an Imaginary Spy Movie (Deceivers Die)" b/w "A Hard Land." I thought to myself, self, I want to do a spy movie theme. Then, I had to come up with a plausible spy movie title. For the B side, some artifice as a character in the last line of a verse appears in the first line of the next verse. It's set in the west and in the past.
#BandCampFriday yes, but meanwhile it’s also #NewRelease day for us. You may have noticed that we releasing tracks which are part of a July album. Nonplussed alert. The new single has tracks that are not on the album. The B-side almost made it, but was cut for time.
Two fun tracks about extraordinary (and fictional) people. The A-side jangles and the B-side imitates a 60 year ago Dylan intro and even older Bob Wills interjections.
Hey I just “updated” my website. I was using koji but it got bought out and rather than transfer to linktree my spouse coded a basic website for me. Can someone please check and make sure it all works? It’s pretty barebones at the moment, but hopefully functional.
It should be visible in both light and dark mode. Thank you! 🙏
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
A Flock Of Seagulls
1982 Canada pressing
All these years later… still a fun as hell #80s pop record.
One of my five or so preferred pop albums from that decade. “Space Age Love Song” is an incredible song, and it’s not even what this record is known for.