Category Archives: Craft Spells
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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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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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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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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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