Shout out to Chaz Bundick for the heads up on the latest signee to his label Company Records, Oakland's Madeline Kenney, and her forthcoming new EP, recorded with Chaz in his Berkeley studio. Madeline's bandcamp bio says of her self-described "twang-hazy dream pop": "It's like if Loretta Lynn had a secret shoegaze project and an obsession with a looper pedal"...
Johnny Jewel is at it again over on soundcloud, offering up a previously unreleased version of probably my favorite Chromatics song ever for free download. Grab it below, and watch the video for the original here.
Johnny Jewel unveils the original 8 track version of "Candy", "recorded in a haze of nyquil & tequila", as well as a beautifully seamless mashup/collision of two Chromatics classics: