Category Archives: Captured Tracks
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Clash the Truth, the new LP from Captured Tracks’ signees Beach Fossils, is due February 19. The band’s original lineup spawned a handful of other great bands. Bassist John Pena left to form Heavenly Beat while guitarist Zachary Cole Smith formed DIIV, both signed to the Captured Tracks label.
Founder and frontman Dustin Payseur has a new lineup for the Sophomore LP, including drummer Thomas Gardener, Craft Spells bassist Jack Doyle Smith and guitarist Tommy Davidson of Hoop Dreams.
Captured Tracks recently posted a great interview with the new lineup. Here are a few excerpts.
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It’s always a pleasure to see one of our favorite new bands perform on late night television. Even better when it’s a band you don’t see many live videos of. We were satisfied on both fronts last night when Brooklyn’s DIIV performed last night on the Late Show with David Letterman.
DIIV’s debut record Oshin (Captured Tracks) is dotting many Best of 2012 lists including Stangeways DJs, listeners and critics.
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Jangle Bells…Jangle Bells…Captured Tracks’ Indie-Jangle Popsters Beach Fossils have announced a release date for their sophomore LP, Clash The Truth. Following up on their 2010 full length self-titled debut and the 2011 EP What A Pleasure, the new LP is already sounding great. The track Careless (stream below) is exactly what we have come to love from Beach Fossils and their Captured Tracks contemporaries like DIIV (guitarist Zachary Cole Smith’s side project), Wild Nothing, Craft Spells and Heavenly Beat.
Clash the Truth features previous single, Shallow (stream below) as well as guest vocals from Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino on the track In Vertigo.
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The Soft Moon recently offered up a free download of their scorching new single, Die Life, from their forthcoming LP Zeroes. If at all possible, we are even more taken with its B-side; the Joy Division-esque, Insides. Like Die Life, Insides is available as a free download!
Catch The Soft Moon on tour thru the rest of 2012 with Cold Showers, Xiu Xiu and more..
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Captured Tracks latest star, DIIV is currently on tour through North America and have just announced an upcoming European jaunt.
DIIV is playing with some familiar acts while they are in Europe. The Raveonettes are joining them for some of their dates along with the indie band The Vaccines. During their North America Tour, their labelmates Wild Nothing will be the support act.
Their debut LP Oshin is out now featuring the singles, How Long Have You Known and Doused.
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We’ve had a great season of cheery, breezy summer tunes. As the calendar threatens to turn towards September, it may just be time to embrace some doom and gloom. If that sounds up your alley, we’ve got just the tour for you. Captured Tracks’ signees The Soft Moon are hitting the road with Mexican Summer’s Cold Showers.
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Continuing in the vein of recent releases from Blouse, Cosmetics, Soft Metals, Beach Fossils, DIIV, Craft Spells and Wild Nothing, Captured Tracks seem to have another winner on their hands with Heavenly Beat.
Heavenly Beat is yet another offshot of Beach Fossils, with bassist John Pena stepping out this time. Previous side projects include guitarist Zachary Cole Smith’s DIIV and drummer Tommy Gardner’s Crush.
Heavenly Beat’s debut LP, Talent is due in July and singles like Faithless, Suday and Messiah have fans and critics rabidly awaiting its arrival. While you wait, click the link below to go to the Strangeways Radio facebook page to access a free download of Messiah.
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Beach Fossils is a Brooklyn-based group, formed in early 2009 by Dustin Payseur. After signing to Captured Tracks, the band straightaway went on an extensive tour across the United States, playing an incredible amount of shows and, in so doing, gained quite a devoted fan base nationally.
In May of 2009, their debut LP, Beach Fossils, gained favorable reviews and the band became known for their jangly, single note guitar style, dusted with summer-fueled romance.
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Indie-Synth darlings Craft Spells, are back with a new single and a forthcoming EP. The band began as a Bedroom Pop project in 2009 for Stockton, CA’s Justin Paul Vallesteros. It didn’t take long, however, for Blogs like Weekly Tape Deck, Pasta Primavera, No Modest Bear and Pitchfork’s Forkcast to take notice as well as Strangeway Radio. We were all over their 2011 debut LP Idle Labor which featured a seemingly endless supply of heavenly pop bliss on tracks like For The Ages, Scandinavian Crush, The Fog Rose High, Party Talk, From The Morning Heat, After The Moment and more! They spent much of 2011 touring with The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart as well as Captured Tracks labelmates, Beach Fossils.
Craft Spells have announced a follow up EP called Gallery due May 15 on Captured Tracks. Meanwhile, the band will be on display at SXSW.
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Thieves Like Us are an Electropop band featuring American vocalist Andy Grier and 2 Swedish musicans, Bjorn Berglund and Pontus Berghe. Named after the 1984 New Order song, the Paris-based band first caught the attention of the Strangeways DJs in 2009. Their debut LP, Play Music featured infectious singles like Drugs In My Body and Your Heart Feels. In 2010, they furthered their vintage electronic sound, wearing their influences on their sleeves, with Sophomore record Again and Again as well as the 2 CD Again and Again Remixed.
2011 was a big year for the band, signing to one of our favorite labels, Captured Tracks for the Your Love Runs Still EP. Now, in 2012 the band is gearing up for a full length record on Captured Tracks. Their 3rd record, Bleed Bleed Bleed is coming soon and the band have just released the stellar first single, Marie Marie. Just TRY to get this one out of your head!
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C’mon, admit it. We’ve all seen High Fidelity and dreamed about starting a record label where you only release music you love, right? Enter Mike Sniper of Brooklyn’s Blank Dogs. A record geek like many of us, Mike finds bands that he loves and offers up affordable CDs, LPs, 7″, 12″, coloured vinyl and all sorts of goodies featuring the glorious sounds of Indiepop, Shoegaze, Synthpop and Dark/Cold/Minimal Wave.
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Portland Oregon’s Blouse seemed to just come out of nowhere, teasing us with the brilliant Bliss-Pop single, Into Black, followed by Shadow, Nights and Days and Firestarter.
Then, in preparation for their full length debut, on Captured Tracks, they began leaking nugget after nugget, including the standout, Videotapes. Led by the dreamy vocals of Charlie Hilton, the album is a modern, woozy take on 80s Retro Synth.
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