Insane week for new releases, highlighted by records from Jessie Ware, Arca, Young Ejecta, 박혜진 Park Hye Jin, Pottery, Ego Ella May, Grand Pax + others...
Leanne Macomber + Joel Ford share the poignant, ultra-modern breakup song/opening track from the beautiful new Young Ejecta LP Ride Lonesome, coming next month on Driftless Recordings...
Leanne Macomber + Joel Ford released the most epic Young Ejecta jam yet over the summer, and now they're dropping an extremely limited Build A Fire 12" featuring two inspired remixes of the soaring track -- including a beautiful, spacey re-imagining by Ford's regular collaborator Napolian + a pulsing dancefloor re-work by Ellie Herring, each taking Macomber's heartrending plea to entirely dif
Leanne Macomber + Joel Ford return with the biggest and most emotional Young Ejecta track yet: "Build a Fire" is a glittery, romantic electro-pop anthem, with Ford's skyscraping retro-futuristic synths and throbbing '80s dancefloor beats sending Macomber's ethereal, heartbreakingly bittersweet vocals soaring into the stratosphere...
Young Ejecta unveil their intensely personal memorial for an old friend gone way too soon. The Heidi Petty-directed video for "Your Planet" was filmed in SF "in the dead of winter of 2015." Young Ejecta's Leanne Macomber tells us:This video was made as a memorial for my dear friend Josiah who died right as we were entering adulthood. I'm often haunted by the fact that he never
Directed by Toshadeva Palani / dancing by Axel Getz. In other Young Ejecta news, the group is about to head out on tour with Lower Dens, and will be playing both official Gorilla vs. Bear V afterparties, 7/31 here in Dallas + 8/1 down in Austin at the Mohawk...
The starry, dreamy/dancey dynamic that Leanne Macomber + Joel Ford displayed on their stellar debut LP Dominae shines bright on new jam "Into Your Heart", the cathartic and tone-setting opening track from Young Ejecta's new mini-album. The Planet is out later this month on Driftless:
Slow dance through the tears to Young Ejecta's twinkling, intensely love-damaged new single/breakup anthem "Welcome to Love", taken from their excellent new mini-album The Planet, out January 27, 2015, on Driftless Recordings: