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Veteran NY psych-pop act Shana Falana just released her new LP Here Comes The Waves, her 2nd with Team Love Records. Emerging from New York’s vast drone/psych scene, Shana combines live looping of reverb-drenched vocals and guitar with tribal drums and stunning visual projections. Her live experience has often been described as transcendental.

“Psychedelic dream pop dashed on the rocks of goth defiance” -Stereogum

“If you want to zone out, Shana Falana’s alluring debut LP gives many opportunities to do so.” -Pitchfork

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Lip Talk is the music of psych-pop producer and songwriter, Sarah K. Pedinotti. She plays with a dynamic live band that have earned comparisons to “a vibey Battles” while Pedinotti’s vocals recall “Bjork’s charming acrobatics.” When she’s not making experimental pop music at home in Brooklyn she’s out playing bass with Kalbells and Cosmicide (ex-Secret Machines) or keyboards in Okkervil River. With the premiere of her single Artemis on CLRVYNT last year, Lip Talk announced her anticipated forthcoming debut album.

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With shades of art-pop experimentalism and electronic minimalism, New York’s Operator Music Band is a blend of the comforting analogue old and the kinetic digital new. Warbling synthesizers and waves of feedback noise wander over steady motorik beats, bringing krautrock into an exciting third wave of synthetic bliss. What ultimately defines their sound is an aesthetic and tonal malleability, never appearing too serious, or too silly.

At the center of Operator Music Band is the complex symbiosis between Dara Hirsch and Jared Hiller. Hirsch, a audio engineer by trade brings a cerebral intensity to her virtuosic guitar playing and vulnerable vocal delivery, while Hiller is all flash and noise, partly through his own audio effects tinkering, with a nasally baritone somewhere between Dylan and Cohen. They combine their efforts on their latest release (and first LP) Puzzlephonics I & II, which is a combination of older and newer material, all carefully mixed and mastered under the watchful eye of Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Cloud Becomes your Hand).

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