STATE OF SOUND is a feature on The Sights and Sounds where we select new electronically focused bands/artists (Soundcloud/Facebook followers < 3000) and bring their best songs to light. Getting traction on blogs can be a pain in the ass if you don’t already have traction in, but we happen to think there’s a whole sea of bands waiting to be discovered. Selection for these weekly Sunday ‘Soundcasts’ is highly selective on quality only, as we want to help select the next set of blogosphere buzz bands. So we hope you’ll share this list with your friends to give these artists the exposure they deserve and return each week for a new set. AZURA-“SMOKE” “My mind’s gone, but the sanity’s strong”. Emotions, the kind that can pummel you in the face upon first meet (and you let them), have turned all the boundaries of my mind moot. The walls, the rules and all the barriers fabricated for the sanctity of you, feel as poorly counterfeit construction as they always were as one smack of true feeling combusts them gaseous. Azura’s “Smoke” is that song, finding you freefalling through the vapors in your head. An inner world that used to find you bittersweetly groping your way around a concrete labyrinth designed to let you only feel parts of everything now has you suspended in the airy seas of Saturn; and it feels like freedom, replete with all the sweetness and danger that always accompanies it. Still, you wouldn’t trade access to stumbling around on everything in your mind for anything.
Follow Azura on Soundcloud / Facebook / Triple J Unearthed YOUNG THE GIANT-“ISLANDS (ARK PATROL REMIX)” Like a salve over an open, self-inflicted gash, Ark Patrol’s remix of Young the Giant’s ‘Islands’ hovers about, swimming amongst the pain, warming it to other possibilities. And as you let it soak in amongst you, it tenderly reattaches tendons, settles skin shouting to not be closed, and let’s the blood flow push placidly back to your pumping heart. In Ark Patrol’s hands, the first moments of Sameed Gharia’s vibrato in the song are so disabling, they’re like a tranq gun to the carotid for even the most restless emotional runners. Throughout the rest of “Islands”, the sparseness of his production instead fills your mind with snapshots of a wonderland that’s impossible not to yearn for, not to call up a lover on a rainy Sunday afternoon and snuggle the fuck out of them in bed. https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141518189 Follow Cloudy Sun on Soundcloud / Facebook.
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