Yeah, get your authorized free beats. The Beechfields record label just released This City of Neighborhoods, a high concentration of complimentary Bmore dopeness including Among Wolves, The Seldon Plan, The Red Vines, A Cat Called Cricket, Infinite Honey, The Honest Mistakes, and the final two tracks from Private Eleanor (now on hiatus). Get it for free and learn about all of the artists here.
TRACKLIST: 1 Infinite Honey - Honeybees 2 Private Eleanor - Scare Yourself to Death 3 Among Wolves - Father Mother Sister Brother 4 The Seldon Plan - Our Time in Rockland County 5 The Red Vines - Madeline 6 A Cat Called Cricket - A Daily Reminder 7 Pupa’s Window - Warm Embrace 8 The Honest Mistakes - Sidekick 9 The Seldon Plan - Colored Lenses 10 Among Wolves - Letter (mp3) 11 Pupa’s Window & The Seldon Plan - Les Poupées Russes 12 The Red Vines - El Nuevo Mundo 13 The Honest Mistakes - Girl 14 Private Eleanor - Capitán 15 Infinite Honey - Travelers
It's hard to avoid the massive shadow the Beach Boys have cast across almost every sunny short wave synth harmony sung since. To make matters worse, Brian Wilson and crew also cornered the market for complex production arrangements, compacting multi-layered vocals and unorthodox instrumentation into a simple-sounding pocket symphony.
As you're reading this, Bmore's Among Wolves are putting together their own endless summer, recording and performing material for a promising sophomore LP tentatively titled 3 a.m. (see dates below). Not sure how they get inspiration for these vibrations in the city that reads, but the jams below are tighter than McNulty and a handle of Jameson. Have a taste.
"well the wolves are going to be recording our 2nd lp starting on saturday...hopefully coming out this summer/fall. it will be released on the beechfields record label. we are working with steve wright of wright way studios..he has recorded and produced the flaming lips and lake trout..among many others. we are so excited!!!!! the album will be a little less all over the place like our last one...or totally left field like our earlier work...more rock driven songs...but a bit darker material. you can expect synths..strange noises..along with the addition of horns on a few tracks. the title of the album is going to be possibly.... "3 a.m." ..not sure yet. the art work is going to be done by a local artist kathy from 2 hawks 2 fishes..great work. we have a whole mess of show coming up with more coming in each day. as usual you can expect drunken debauchery from us and the crowd."
Grab one of the last remaining copies of their self-titled 2007 debut through Beechfields here, and stay tuned.
Next Baltimore shows: 3/21 @ The Red House Tavern 4/11 @ Load of Fun Gallery 4/26 @ Fraziers 5/3 @ Charlotte's
Baltimore is known for its all-inclusive bootstrap DIY indie spirit - and with the number of startup artists, labels and legit/underground venues climbing faster than the city's body count (200+ this year, watch your back Detroit), we had plenty of gems to choose from for the first part of this series.
And yes, everyone that lives here wears neon fanny packs and likes to dance in sweaty sardine cans.
Wha: Among Wolves provides the perfect Grizzly Beach Boy/House harmonies to start and end your days...OCDJ makes sounds on laptop, guitar, kalimba, euphonium, bangs drums, shakes things, cites Master Blaster as a major influence...Small Sur is instantly familiar fire circle hymns...Thrushes are murky shoeglazed pop masters...Brian Adam Ant is psychedilifolk that doesn't sound like Neutral Milk Hotel...Shields drops stuttery butter for fans of Prefuse and Madlib...we'll get to some of his counterparts including Jones and Height next...Santa Dads are beatboxing ukelele costume kidz...The Death Set are brilliant noise...Ecstatic Sunshine are superbad instruminimalists...you already know and love the mazzed out Beach House...Cex changes skins regularly around experimental laptop hop...Pontytail will bite your face...The Oranges Band define their sound as "rock" so...Double Dagger will bite your leg...Basshound are a jam band that occasionally covers Daft Punk for the kids at CBGB...everybody thinks it's crazy...Video Hippos and Dan Deacon are well-known Wham City clan types and Jakuta and Carl are electronic clap clap clap clap.
