Chrome Wings - Coast To Coast | Video Feature

Chrome Wings are back contributing 1/2 of a new split cassette on Deep Tapes. I have to say I've been digging what these have been up to more & more with each release. The pair offer up a haze of wonky electronic soundscapes mixed with the tight & rhythmic flare "Coast to Coast" probably epitomizes some of their best moments in a condensed package.

The tune really just floats by with some melodic synth lines that really hit the spot. I don't think this is miles away from what I've heard from a good bunch of folks from the North West US & beyond recently but has a more refined take that sets these guys apart from the pack. I think that the melodic aspects up front & present here is what does it. I mean Chrome Wings get out there sometimes but always bring it back into some warped yet structured instrumental which providing a counter point to the more exploratory sections. Maybe it is to satisfy some sort of pop urge, maybe it just feels right.

The Chrome Wings / Ladyshapes Split Tape is available now via Deep Tapes.

Images - Know What I Mean Available Today, album stream

Happy to announce that Images newest release Know What I Mean is available today and ready to order. We've definitely been hyping the album for a bit in these parts and for good reason! To mark the occasion we're offering a limited stream of the album available now. Beyond all the digital confusion we have also made up a special art-edition cassette version of the album. We've outdone ourselves with this one and look forward to continuing the trend.

Images have a been hard at work prepping new material and have some other releases on the horizon. Those in Brooklyn can also catch Images later this week (Feb 2nd) at Death By Audio for their album release show with Woodsman, Hubble, & Man Forever.

Images Know What I Mean is available today via Last Nights Records (Cassette) & AMDISCS (Digital)

Mind Alien - From Roswell with Love

Alien home world by cgifriday

The first couple copies of Mind Alien's From Rosewell With Love came with a bag of Doritos. Not that I think anyone is trying to promote the brand (& the larger corporation they are a wing of), or anything here, in all honesty the dude probably bought the chips himself . I just think they kinda say a lot here. For example I really get the vibe that Mind alien expects us to have the munchies while listening to this. As "Alien Home World" offers a dense mesh of aquatic bubbling & otherworldly incantations from the nether for one to sit back in and explore with a corn-based snack at hand.

Anyway Mind Alien is Shane 3McDowell (also of the Portland duo Twins, also, if I can be sidetracked for a moment, this is the 2nd underground music reference to the movie Twins starring former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger & Danny Devito. The other being Mudboy's R.A.F.) I ran into this by way of the wonderful Dog Daze Tapes who you may still be able to pick up a copy from.

Mind Alien's From Roswell With Love is available now via CGIFRIDAY, though we probably missed out on the chips as only the first 23 copies came with those. You can buy your own bag though, I'm sure.