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Lila Tristram – Sound Like Easter (Single Premiere)

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After two years hidden in a remote countryside studio, Lila Tristram, musician, fiction writer, artist and teacher based in East London, opens a new chapter.
Having spent four years crafting a name for herself with her atmospheric, bucolic folk releases (Our Friends pt. I & II were released in 2020; Black and White Memories Ignited by the Scent of Springtime Explode in Colour -a collaborative project with The Last Dinosaur’s Jamie Cameron- was released on December 2022; the EP home was released in May 2023) she put together a 5-piece band and emerged with an elegiac indie-rock record, described by Annie Needham as “a masterpiece.”
The first single from the album, Sounds Like Easter, will be available on all major streaming platforms tomorrow, 9th May 2024, but we have the honour and opportunity to have it on TRISTE© as an exclusive premiere.

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Jackie West – Close To The Mystery (Exclusive Album Premiere)

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The eponymous lyric from Jackie West’s debut album has been running through her head throughout most of her life: “Only the wind can pull my body/close to the mystery.” Before it found a home in her hazy, Julee-Cruise-like ballad Ethereal Nature the line functioned as a mantra for the Brooklyn singer-songwriter. It seemed to point her towards inspiration and clarity just out of reach. The breathtaking Close to the Mystery (out May 10 via Ruination Record Co.) threads together many moments of searching and reaching out—pulled from a variety of relationships and settings, articulated through a range of musical points. Its masterful baroque-pop songs form abstract scenes in a larger story about a self and worldview taking shape; in each, West assesses different, transient versions of herself, making revisions and absorbing the changes into a fuller, more finite draft. 
Today –after having her on our TRISTE© MIXTAPE feature– we have the great honour to host the exclusive premiere of her debut album!
Scroll on down below to listen to Close To The Mystery and don’t forget to click on through to the band’s Bandcamp page to pre-order it before it releases on May 10th. Do yourself a favor and don’t sleep on this one; it’s going to be one of the best album of the year.

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(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 153: forceghost

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Forceghost

Eric Kinlaw (Vocals/Guitar/Bass/Sound Design) and Marcus Barfield (Production/Sound Design) are forceghost, an electronic psych duo based out of Augusta, GA. Both members sport a long list of previous bands and projects, but are elated to be bringing forceghost into its fullest realization. After their initial formation in 2019, time and circumstance have led to the reshaping of the band into its current form. forceghost is the product of impromptu jam sessions, free form experimentation, and friendship. Many years of musical evolution and collaboration between the duo have culminated into a sound both piercingly focused, and kaleidoscopic in scope and texture. Creamy guitars, soaring synths, sharp drums, and hauntingly beautiful vocals will leave the listener enveloped in a radiant afterglow. All previous recordings have fallen by the wayside. Their debut EP, unknowing the known, is outnow and it is the definitive starting point for forceghost: the band hopes listeners find themselves enriched by its listening.

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Sarah Once Was – Thumbnail Moon (single and video premiere)

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Sarah Once Was’ sound reflects their origins in the redwoods north of San Francisco and their current urban landscape of smoggy LA sunsets. The artist’s comforting melodies sail sideways against the wind of sliced up rhythm sections, shrieking violins, strummy acoustics, and west coast synths. Sarah McNamara, the non-binary artist behind Sarah Once Was goes by the name “Mac.” Mac attended Mills College in Oakland, trained in audio production at Women’s Audio Mission, and soon after, migrated south to Los Angeles, where they work as a recording engineer, mixing engineer, “producer auteur,” and are on staff with several independent studios (Wiggle World, Universal Hair Farm, etc). 
In 2023, they recorded artists such as Kelsey Lu, Circles Around the Sun and Mikaela Davis. Mac toured as stage manager and tech for Dijon, tour managed Grateful Shred, and opened for Mikaela Davis on a tour.  As artist, recording engineer, and producer, Sarah Once Was collaborates closely with members of Worthitpurchase and artist Chloe Corley to craft folk songs in the quantum vein.
Thumbnail Moon is the third single released by Sarah Once Was, following 2023’s Honest which featured bassist Dan Horne (Circles Around The Sun, Grateful Shred) and earned them a supporting tour slot for Mikaela Davis. Serving as producer and engineer on Thumbnail Moon Sarah Once Was continues to evolve their folk songs crafted in the quantum vein, bringing in new collaborators to provide sliced up rhythm sections, shrieking violins, strummy acoustics, and west coast synths over the artist’s comforting melodies. 

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(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 152: Lightheaded

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Lightheaded

New Jersey’s Lightheaded are, simply, a great pop group. Their songs are full of melody and harmony, are bittersweet and memorable, familiar yet original. Their sound is a perfect mix of jangling guitars — featuring Sara Abdelbarry’s exquisite, tasteful, but punchy Gretsch lead played over Stephen Stec’s Rickenbacker chime — anchored to singer Cynthia Rickenbach’s Hofner Violin bass. Cynthia and Stephen write pop songs in the classic sense, and though they are young they’re already familiar with the good stuff. Cynthia wears a Gene Clark tee shirt and is a fan of Dusty Springfield, The Aislers Set, and Joan Jett. Stephen worships at the altar of Big Star, The Clientele, and The Go-Betweens. As with bands like The Aislers Set and Belle & Sebastian, you hear an aural kaleidoscope, the history pop music and the best rock and roll, in the music of Lightheaded. Good Good Great! EP was their first record for Sulmberland record, out in 2023. The band’s debut album, Combustible Gems, will be out 17th May 2024, again on Slumberland Records.

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