After releasing Chance Occurrence, their first single in eight years, back in november 2023, Postal Blue, Brazilian singer-songwriter Adriano do Couto own creature, is back with a new self-released double A-side digital single, I Should Have Known / When You’re Not Here, which will be out tomorrow, February 2nd, via their Bandcamp page.
We, at TRISTE©, have the honour to share with you, in advance, the first song from the single!

After two great cassette EPs, out on GoldMold Records in 2023, Dancer returns with their debut album, 10 Songs I Hate About You out on Spanish label Meritorio Records, out MArch 15th.
Written throughout 2023 and recorded over a weekend in August of that year, Dancer returned to Green Door studio and recorded this debut LP live to tape with Ronan Fay, as with their 2 proceeding EPs. Looking to strike the perfect balance between these previous extended plays and something more, they attempt to truly define a Dancer sound in the long play format. The 10 songs in question push, pull and then elaborate on former characteristics – only now they are skewed into greater pop forms; caressed by jittery rhythms and searing guitar-isms that dive into passages of melodic wool and warmth. All using an energy that even the band themselves are surprised to muster.
The first single out the album is Passionate Sunday and today we have the honour to premiere its beautiful video.

2024 marks 40 years of Pete Astor making records, a suitable anniversary point at which to take stock and double back on songs that first appeared on records by Astor-fronted combos such as Creation Records trailblazers The Loft and The Weather Prophets and Matador recording artists The Wisdom of Harry, as well as selections from solo albums that appeared on labels such as Danceteria and Static Caravan.
Astor’s motivation for Tall Stories & New Religions, his new album, which will be out on Tapete Records March 15th, 2024, is manifold: some songs are effectively re-examined in the way one might linger over a resonant picture from a box of old photographs -connecting with the essence of a younger self-, other songs are newly recast in wiser and more reflective hues, while others simply demanded exhumation from wilfully opaque, lo fi non- production.
The songs chosen are not the obvious ones – there’s no Up the Hill and Down the Slope or Almost Prayed here – but have been selected for more interesting, often esoteric, reasons.

Francesco Amoroso per TRISTE©

“I could call out when the going gets tough
The things that we’ve learnt wasn’t enough
No language, just sound, that’s all we need know
To synchronize love to the beat of the show
And we could dance
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio“
(Joy Division – Transmission)

Ci sentiamo davvero un po’ a casa, ormai, nel salotto virtuale di Matteo Maioli.
Sarà che da qualche tempo anche lui si sente a suo agio su TRISTE©, sarà che a Indi(e)pendenze si crea la stessa aria familiare che si respirava quando ci si incontrava nei negozi di dischi o negli studi delle radio libere, o, ancora, nei locali dove si svolgevano i concerti.
Che fossero luoghi piacevoli e confortevoli o (come spesso accadeva) fatiscenti, freddi e poco accoglienti, il solo fatto di essere insieme e condividere una stessa passione rendeva quei posti e quei momenti unici e indimenticabili. E, adesso che pressoché tutto è virtuale, anche molto rimpianti.