Bullion – Affection

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Francesco Giordani per TRISTE©

La recente prematura scomparsa di Steve Albini inevitabilmente ci spinge a riflettere sull’importanza che i produttori o, perlomeno, alcuni produttori hanno avuto nel nutrire e spesso anche orientare l’evoluzione della nostra prediletta popolar music.
Se sul contributo specifico (ovviamente gigantesco) di Albini ben poco possiamo sperare di aggiungere rispetto a quanto di bello e talvolta anche commovente si è potuto leggere in questi amarissimi giorni di maggio, non possiamo né dobbiamo dimenticare che nella musica contemporanea esistono ancora maestranze (come molto teneramente si usava definirle un tempo…), autori e produttori capaci di lasciare un segno tutt’altro che effimero su quanto giunge alle nostre orecchie, sebbene molto o quasi tutto, attorno a noi, paia troppo spesso suggerire l’esatto contrario.

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Herself – Spoken Unsaid

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Matteo Maioli per TRISTE©

Gioele Valenti, polistrumentista palermitano attivo musicalmente dai primi anni duemila, è un esempio più unico che raro di outsider di qualità che non scende a compromessi e ha più seguito all’estero che in Italia. Già protagonista con i Lay Llamas, negli ultimi tempi si è rivelato al pubblico con due distinti alter-ego, il primo di impronta indie-folk a tocchi noir (Herself) e l’altro maggiormente psychedelic-rock e kraut (Juju).

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Katherine Perkins – Day By Day (Video and Single Premiere)

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Katherine Perkins writes songs and paints in Maine. Her music and artwork explore light and color, the ocean and the human heart.
As the leader of the Brooklyn based band Rose Hips & Ships, she released The Seafarer, in 2013, and The Colors Now, in 2020. Her paintings have been shown at the Cynthia Winings Gallery, in Blue Hill, Maine and Swallowfield, in Northeast Harbor.
Through time spent in her earlier projects -apart from Rose Hips and Ships, the debaucherous basement rock band Harvey Eyeballs- Perkins discovered aspects of the self she wanted to be in her songs, gradually revealing what would become her new solo project of poetic personal reflections. Being Younger, her debut solo album, is a collection of  vivid, evocative songs about love in all its forms, in which Perkins assembles the perfect cast of seasoned and sensitive players to create the lush instrumentation and grounded, danceable grooves that make the ideal companion for her breezy vocals.
Her new record, Being Younger, is due out on Twelve | Eight Records on June 21st, 2024.

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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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