"Here we bring you three artists who couldn't be more different" - RDC
Miriam Clancy - Head Like A Hole
New York and Pennsylvania-based New Zealander Miriam Clancy builds a beautiful, grand, surreal universe on 'Head Like A Hole'. I get a sense of 80's baroque pop ratcheted up with current dream pop and synthwave adorations. Miriam's vocal countenance embraces you like a storyteller serenading you with a dark lullaby. There is so much to love here and I implore you to dive in, swim around and stay awhile.
Of the track she shares:
“Head Like A Hole” focuses on our co-dependency with the internet, its knobby fingers needling into all aspects of our lives: the good news, bad news, validation, cancelling, discrimination and faux-friending. Miriam says, "How can we hate this? The great library in the sky! But it's so good though! We are entranced yet anxious targets zooming around the internet and it's beautiful and connected, addictive and thrilling! I love it, can't look away. At the same time, it's a great vacuum of space that our cyber-dimensional lives are making in our minds, constantly claiming more real estate till we have no room left to recalibrate and regulate - only react."
“This album is about waking up and seeing the social order, and all the propaganda for what it is, but the ‘velvet dream’ always draws us back because we all have to survive out in the world,” Dr. Mary’s Monkey’s mad scientist, singer-songwriter-guitarist Shawn Gwin aka “Sage” shares. He continues: “But there is a lot of humor here—it’s just rock n’ roll, after all—turn it up, play some Chuck Berry, and dance.”
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/drmarysmonkey/
New York and Pennsylvania-based New Zealander Miriam Clancy builds a beautiful, grand, surreal universe on 'Head Like A Hole'. I get a sense of 80's baroque pop ratcheted up with current dream pop and synthwave adorations. Miriam's vocal countenance embraces you like a storyteller serenading you with a dark lullaby. There is so much to love here and I implore you to dive in, swim around and stay awhile.
“Head Like A Hole” focuses on our co-dependency with the internet, its knobby fingers needling into all aspects of our lives: the good news, bad news, validation, cancelling, discrimination and faux-friending. Miriam says, "How can we hate this? The great library in the sky! But it's so good though! We are entranced yet anxious targets zooming around the internet and it's beautiful and connected, addictive and thrilling! I love it, can't look away. At the same time, it's a great vacuum of space that our cyber-dimensional lives are making in our minds, constantly claiming more real estate till we have no room left to recalibrate and regulate - only react."
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Chum Lord - I'm Terrible At This
Chum Lord - I'm Terrible At This
Unbridled punk, garage rock, alt rocker Chum Lord slam down hard on 'I'm Terrible At This' somehow has me thinking of 80's East Coast turned West Coast alt punk outfit Dramarama (and I like that). From what I can gather this track is about the full admission that this singer / narrator is not the best boyfriend material. Self awareness is a good fucking thing.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Dr. Mary's Monkey - She
Step into 'She' by Dr. Mary's Monkey with it's 60's bohemian folk meets 80's baroque pop and doused with buckets of psychedelic glitter and you might feel transported (maybe even in Dr. Who's TARDIS telephone box) to some other place neither back or forward in time but sideways. An alternate universe of sorts. 'She' is from the band's debut album 'Velvet Dreams'.
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Dr. Mary's Monkey - She
Step into 'She' by Dr. Mary's Monkey with it's 60's bohemian folk meets 80's baroque pop and doused with buckets of psychedelic glitter and you might feel transported (maybe even in Dr. Who's TARDIS telephone box) to some other place neither back or forward in time but sideways. An alternate universe of sorts. 'She' is from the band's debut album 'Velvet Dreams'.
Check out the press notey stuff below
Velvet Dreams, the debut album from Dr. Mary’s Monkey, is a portal into the psychedelic experience in reverse. The 12-song collection of finely-crafted, mind-frying Nuggets-style rockers; psych-soul ballads; tuneful vintage punk; and dreamy Motown is a loose, semi-humorous concept piece about living through life in our dystopian world. Velvet Dreams will be preceded by the single "This Modern Nightmare." Welcome to the realm of Dr. Mary’s Monkey. Viva the revolution, and the evolution!
Velvet Dreams, the debut album from Dr. Mary’s Monkey, is a portal into the psychedelic experience in reverse. The 12-song collection of finely-crafted, mind-frying Nuggets-style rockers; psych-soul ballads; tuneful vintage punk; and dreamy Motown is a loose, semi-humorous concept piece about living through life in our dystopian world. Velvet Dreams will be preceded by the single "This Modern Nightmare." Welcome to the realm of Dr. Mary’s Monkey. Viva the revolution, and the evolution!
“This album is about waking up and seeing the social order, and all the propaganda for what it is, but the ‘velvet dream’ always draws us back because we all have to survive out in the world,” Dr. Mary’s Monkey’s mad scientist, singer-songwriter-guitarist Shawn Gwin aka “Sage” shares. He continues: “But there is a lot of humor here—it’s just rock n’ roll, after all—turn it up, play some Chuck Berry, and dance.”
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/drmarysmonkey/
American Pancake, shout out, triple threat, Miriam Clancy, Chum Lord, Dr. Mary's Monkey, indie rock, punk, alt rock, baroque pop, folk indie, 60's folk, psychedelic, surreal, synthwave,
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