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Local Label Denmark Records' Denmark One Streaming and Available for Purchase Now

New local label Denmark Records, started by UNC-CH graduate and Vinyl Records creator Tripp Gobbel and NCSU graduate Logan Sayles, have just put out their first release, a split seven-inch between electro-soul duo ArnHao and the Flying Lotus-esqu Holygrailers. Entitled Denmark One, you can stream the seven-inch for free here and purchase a copy, including an expanded digital EP, here. Both acts play Friday at Local 506 alongside Cex, The ExMonkeys, Casual Curious, and The Biters as part of the fifth annual Signalfest.

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Pressed And Parties

Teetering on the line of what's been called "post-dubstep," and down-tempo ambient, is the latest addition to DIY label, Crash Symbols, Raleigh's Pressed And. This impressive first offering from Pressed And is a lovely experiment in pitch and beat frequency, with a heavy reliance on synthesizers.

Exploring spatial sound patterns, while doing a deep dive into the unknown are North Carolina's Andrew Hamlet and Mat Jones. Creating a droning atmospheric landscape using synthesizers and reverbed vocals, with flashes of electronic sounds layered in a way that opens Pressed And's sound up, instead of weighing it down. A common characteristic of  so many of the newer electronic projects popping up all over the net. The use of synthesizers on this EP seems painstakingly meticulous and lends to the albums exploration of a variety of genres from pop-heavy dance, dubstep, down-tempo ambient and beyond. Just fantastic.

The video below for "Parties" is a fascinating compliment to the song, again examining concepts of perception with Land O' Goshen's psychadelic version of a double take. He definitely leaves the viewer disatisfied and wanting more. The pensive look on the man's face in the closing shot says it all.

Get Pressed And's Imbue Up this Friday on limited edition cassette from Crash Symbols.

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Pressed And - Raid

Swinging and swimming, like a ricochet of waves, the upward bound smiles took off. And more and more contagious they became, reaching spine-chilling highs of highs. After emough spine-chilling smiling time, the night itself felt chilly. Sometimes we can't place where the upward bound frowns come from, as confused as we may be, the take off is always electrifying. Imbue Up is the upcoming LP from Pressed And, to be released on November 4th via Crash Symbols. 

The sea looked like a star-swelling nighttime. The stark whites of the smiling eyes were reflecting what looked like tiny white jewels of wave-crests, though there weren't any waves that night. The laughs swung like church bells, ringing with salt lined gravelly throats and whistling snares. The laughs swung like church bells, sketching ever widening circles into the water. The laughs swung, shattering like glass bells onto shores all over the coats. Wave after wave they gave in. The spine of the dock I was laying on gave way too, and I wonder what other boats were tied free by the laughing tide pool. 

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ArnHao - 'Love Fades'

- startling electronic pop with glassy vocals and lulling synth waves from Atlanta, Georgia. The pair are signed to Denmark Records with an EP available from their bandcamp below. 

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ArnHao - Love Fades

Photograph by: Lukasz Wierbowski

This track is one of the most stunning tracks I've heard in quite a while. You can get the free Love Fades Valentine Gift (which includes a song, Holygrailers remix, and the Love Fades music video) if you email [email protected] oh so endearingly or stream it at their bandcamp!

An abode they call it. Yet it feels so far from a home. An asylum I call it. A haven to heal the disquieted. Yet it is already silent but the ghost of the sound of the winter wind climbing up the walls, clawing at the walls, until it too crawls upon you. Camouflaged beneath the affectation of acquaintanceship, yet no more than frigid familiarity, an assemblage in the asylum that is so called shelter, you and the wind. Your shelter is your solidarity. Yet when the sun combats the cold, the solidarity does not melt with the sedative of the snowy night, but you do. It is strange isn't it? That what you crave seems to collapse under your capitulating clutch the moment it emerges beneath the lonely lavish smoke of the spiritless subdued souls.

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Love fades with the cold sun

As "Time", a passer by, points west

Valentine is only two more weeks ahead of us now and this is either a day you spend together with your significant other or a day you spend alone, pretending you don't care. It's a day that exploits couples and laughs in the face of singles (unless you really don't care of course). This song is meant for the singles among us.

ArnHao (Atlanta-based duo Andrew Hamlet and Arturo Holmes) will be releasing Love Fades as a 7" on Denmark Records on Valentine's day, February 14th. "Love Fades" is different from ArnHao's previous tracks in the sense that it's not beat or percussion driven, but relies mainly on the impressive vocal part. The music itself is very simple and consists only of a synthesizer loop assisted by a few well-placed piano and guitar melodies. The vocals build up slowly and culminate towards the song's ending with some very high notes, after which the songs slowly fades out, just like the love it has been talking about.

"Love Fades" will, apart from the 7", also be released as a special free Valentine gift for those who send an email to [email protected]. The gift includes an mp3 of this song, the video, the lyrics, a remix by holygrailers and a special note. Get it if you like.

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Email [email protected] for a "Love Fades" Valentine's Day digital bundle.