2014, we bid you farewell

welp, another year in the books! where does the time go?!

it was a productive year for us. we put in some solid work writing our new album, and we are super proud of how its coming along! we spent a total of about 15 days together (5 in LA back in feb/march, and 10 this past october in NYC) this year and its paying off.

we compiled a couple of quick random video clips from our LA and NYC writing sessions, both featuring two new demos so you can hear some of what we are up to!

what else happened? hmm. rishi moved to london, thats pretty big news! so we went from being a bi-coastal US band to now being a tri-coastal international band! sounds fancy 🙂 if you ever wanted to know how we write and collaborate on new music given our distance, dave wrote a blog post which has a bit of insight to how we do it. take a read here if you wish!

also, we played a show in brooklyn back in october! it was our only show this year and it was a super fun time regrouping with our friends no grave like the sea and north end. we even pulled out luna park for our friend bill gordon; havent played that song since the more after we’re gone album release party mid 2009!

our setlist from the show

the dead vineyard
freelance forest
collide us
jammertime – new song – working title 😉
2551 hash – new song – also working title
luna park

here are a couple of clips from the show:

what does 2015 hold? not fully sure yet, though we hope to finish up writing and recording our new album at a minimum. given our progress so far, having a new record next year feels very possible! perhaps play a show or two! some interesting show opportunities have come up, trying to see if we can make em work.

overall, it has been a great year, and while our shows are few and far between, we are doing our best to keep making new music. we sincerely appreciate your support far beyond words and we cant thank you all enough for sticking with us!

and finally, what year end wrap up would it be without sharing some of the music we listened to and some of our favorite shows we attended this year. our individual lists are all below.

Brian

albums (no particular order)

Beach Slang “Cheap Thrills on a Dead End Street”
Beach Slang “Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken?”
Dads “I’ll Be the Tornado”
CSTVT “The Echo & The Light”
You Blew it! “Keep Doing What You’re Doing”
Owen “Other People’s Songs”
Pompeii “Loom”
Jenny Lewis “The Voyager”Iron Chic “The Constant One”

Inventions “Self titled”

songs (no particular order)

Gabriel Teodros “Re: Invent (feat. Luam Kidane)”
The Littlest Viking “Make Me a Mixtape”
Beach Slang “Kids”
Beach Slang “American Girls and French Kisses”

CSTVT “Narrow Hallways”

You Blew It! “Match & Tinder”

Owen “Just Like Them” (by ALL)

Owen “Under the Blanket” (by The Smokin Popes)

Pompeii “Loom”

Dads “But”

shows

De La Soul @ The House of Blues
American Football @ webster hall
American Football @ The Fonda
Mineral @ The Roxy
Mineral @ The Bowery Ballroom
Dads @ The Echo

Rishi

albums

nothing – “guilty of everything”

thom yorke – “tomorrow’s modern boxes”

owls – “two”

braid – “no coast”

damon albarn – “everyday robots”

whirr – “sway”

bibio – “the green EP”

mark mcguire – “noctilucence”

cloud nothings – “here and nowhere else”

real estate – “atlas”

songs

buho – “night clinics”

caribou – “silver”

whirr – “lines”

sarah p – “i misbehave”

alt-j – “hunger of the pine”

shabazz palaces – “forerunner foray”

apollo brown & ras kass – “too much of a good thing”

warpaint – “disco//very”

the soft moon – “black”

mogwai – “heard about you last night”

shows

nothing @ st vitus, new york city, 3/20

owls @ bowery ballroom, new york city, 6/11

owls @ tufnell park dome, london, 9/19

american football @ webster hall, new york city, 10/10

album artwork

bibio – “the green EP”

mark mcguire – “noctilucence”

shabazz palaces – “lese majesty”

11:11 – “11:11”

golden retriever – “seer”

Tim

albums (no particular order)

Beck – Morning Phase

The Knells – The Knells

Bibio – The Green EP

Books – Daytrotter Session 6/17/2011

Dosh – Daytrotter Session 6/23/2008

Elbow – The Takeoff and Landing of Everything

Death – …For the Whole World to See

songs

Dosh – First Impossible

What Made Milwaukee Famous – Down

Beck – Don’t Let It Go

Knells – Dissolve

Elbow – New York Morning

shows

Midlake – Bottom of the Hill 1/14

Elbow – The Wiltern 5/14

American Football – Webster Hall 10/10

Dave

albums (no particular order)

loscil – sea island

grouper- ruins

mark mcguire – along the way & noctiulence ep

sinoia caves – beyond the black rainbow OST

apollo brown & ras kass – blasphemy

thom yorke – tomorrows modern boxes

ditry beaches – statesless

mineral – the power of failing reissue

teebs – e s t a r r a

taylor mcferrin – early rising

tracks

tim hecker – amps, drugs, and harmonium.

thom yorke – the mother lode

run the jewels – crown

apollo brown & ras kass – h2o (featuring pharoah monch & rakaa iriscience & indjinous)

grouper – holding

loscil – sea island murders

sinoia caves – elena’s sound-world

teebs – wavxxes

taylor mcferrin – already there

future islands – seasons (waiting on you)

shows

ida – mercury lounge
mineral – bowery ballroom

american football – webster hall

taylor mcferrin – prospect park

happy holidays!

<3 signal hill