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LIFEGUARD - Ripped And Torn LPOn June 6, Chicago based Lifeguard will release their debut album, "Ripped and Torn," on Matador Records. The young trio, consisting of Asher Case (bass, baritone guitar, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, synth), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals), has been making music together since high schoolalmost a quarter of their lives. Loud and direct, cryptic but heartfelt, their songs draw inspiration from punk, dub, power pop, and experimental sounds,

Parade Ground march back to Dark Entries with The Hidden Side

Bartlett’s contribution to ‘Dark Eyed Messenger’ is variously unsettling

to plead for something

The session was a success and magic indeed happened as we all can hear from the recording

almost entirely acoustic approach consisting of piano

as they’re often both at the same time

a deep and soulful affair where stunning trombone solos by Hiroshi Suzuki flirt with Takeru Muraoka’s heavenly saxophone and the sensual rhythm section of Hiromasa Suzuki (keyboards)

with a former life stripped away

just as ‘Pure’ was upon it’s release in 1992

Their album STATIC THOUGHTS thrives on the taut-muscled tension to be heard in Joy Division’s sinewy rhythms and squalls of guitar

By reframing traditional music styles and lyricism with a feminist stance

and it was like listening to the precision of James Brown’s funk’

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