Tele Novella performs in Scottsdale tonight – Silver Platter has the show details here.
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Silver Platter details Tele Novella show in Scottsdale
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Sonic Masala features “Songs in the Key of Bob” + full stream
Sonic Masala has the full stream of Hibernator Gigs’ forthcoming GBV-inspired comp “Songs in the Key of Bob”, outlining the details of the project and claiming a favorite (Borrowed Beams of Light’s “Stonecutter’s Journal”) – check out the full piece here.
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Venture Magazine features Weird Mob
Weird Mob on Ice Cream Man Power Pop
Ice Cream Man Power Pop features Weird Mob’s debut in its singles round-up, calling it a “great piece of synth driven pop”.
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Impose Magazine features Tele Novella
Impose Magazine features Tele Novella and their new track “No Excalibur”:
Oh, hello there, sweet darling. In a musical landscape drowning in dark, youthful, boyish aggression, there sometimes rises to the top a band for the feminine side in us all (boys included). Tele Novella, the latest project from members of Voxtrot, Belaire, and Agent Ribbons, is all sweetness and sumptuous 60s melodies and vocals as soft as a kitten’s fur. This is not to say that the femininity in Tele Novella is a bad thing—in fact, it serves the band well in a way that has elevated great twee-pop acts like Camera Obscura and Rilo Kiley. And although the #twee label often gets a bad reputation, Tele Novella does everything in their power with this lovely, rich track, “No Excalibur”, to prove that a little lightness never hurt anyone. Roll around in these glockenspiel twinkles and cymbal splashes—you’ll feel warmer after.
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The Vinyl District features Tele Novella in Press Play
New Tele Novella track “No Excalibur” is included in The Vinyl District‘s Press Play feature.
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Full Stream: Songs In The Key Of Bob – GBV-inspired compilation by Hibernator Gigs Records
“Songs In The Key Of Bob” is a ten minute journey through a shared obsession, inspired by one man’s torment during a bleak stint sorting books in a library warehouse. Adam Brock, front man for Borrowed Beams of Light and drummer for Invisible Hand and Weird Mob, found his mind running to flights of fancy in an effort to stave off the boredom of book sorting, re-imagining the titles of the theses and journals which he came across as Guided By Voices song titles, encountering such names as Cream of the Jesters and Popular Dogs. Brock made up a list of the best titles, which he circulated to several of his favorite bands with simple instructions to pick a title and write the best approximation of a GBV song, keeping the songs short while utilizing 4-track or 8-track cassette recording technology, all in the spirit of Dayton, Ohio’s finest indie band.
The compilation features seven tracks, from the catchy crunch of Invisible Hand‘s opener “Dinosaur Treadmill” to the lowest of low fi burst of energy that is Left & Right‘s “Reexamination Of Fallout Materials”, the sinister groove of Borrowed Beams of Light‘s “Stone Cutters Journal” to the poppy balladry of Weird Mob‘s “Unified Warehouse Terminal”. The mighty Naked Gods throw down the triumphant minute and a half epic “Drinking Penicillin At The Wedding” and Digging Up Virgins conjure the spirit of Tobin Sprout with the gentle “Viet Cong Motivation”. The comp concludes with The Moore Brothers and their hauntingly beautiful “Alice Bird”.
The comp will be available on May 28th in limited quantities on blue vinyl, and can be streamed in its entirety here:
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