SVANAPAPER » Indie pop http://www.svanapaper.com music comes first, guts after. Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:35:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 Heavy Petal http://www.svanapaper.com/heavy-petal/ http://www.svanapaper.com/heavy-petal/#comments Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:24:55 +0000 Andriani N Pratiwi http://www.svanapaper.com/?p=4612 Remember Kip Berman from The Pains from Being Pure at Heart? Yup! The vocalist from..]]>
Remember Kip Berman from The Pains from Being Pure at Heart? Yup! The vocalist from New York based band is listing dashing and crashing indiepop from all over the world! Brooklyn, Glasgow, Helsinki, London, Osaka and Jakarta to name a few. Classic acts and new visionaries, creating a sound that’s booming and blooming.

Tracklist:

1. Single Bed - Nightflowers

2. When People Like You Filled The Heavens - French Films

3. You Held My Hand - Flowers

4. Curry Crazy - Bad Dream Fancy Dress

5. Night Time Made Us - The Pastels

6. I Am (If You Are) - Murder Mystery

7. Go Kid Go - My Favorite

8. Warm girls - Girls At Our Best!

9. Butterfly Kisses - Wallflower

10. Love and Death in Metroland - Always

11. Selangkah Keseberang - White Shoes and the Couples Company

12. Bounding - Ice Choir

]]> http://www.svanapaper.com/heavy-petal/feed/ 0 The Next Big Thing (No.19) : Half Moon Run http://www.svanapaper.com/the-next-big-thing-no-19-half-moon-run/ http://www.svanapaper.com/the-next-big-thing-no-19-half-moon-run/#comments Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:48:30 +0000 Alcander Alonzo http://www.svanapaper.com/?p=4449 As we all know, when you are asked about the music in Canada, the first..]]>
As we all know, when you are asked about the music in Canada, the first thing that will cross your mind might be Justin Bieber. That could be such a first world problem or first canadian’s problem, because Canada has so many great musicians like Arcade Fire, Feist, Purity Ring or the quirk Grimes. To enrich the list, that’s why we are about to bring up this week’s The Next Big Thing! We’ve got Half Moon Run, they are a Canadian folk trio from Montreal. The band consist of Devon Portielje (vocals, guitar, and percussion), Conner Molander (vocals, guitar, and keyboard), and Dylan Phillips (vocals, drums, and keyboard).

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The band have been making music for about two years and the name ‘Half Moon Run’ was inspired by the name that represent the three of them, “The name means different things to us all the time, and we hope that our fans feel the same way. On the most basic level, ‘half moon run’ is of three words that we like hearing next to each other.”said Devon on the band’s name. Half Moon Run have released their debut album, titled ‘Dark Eyes’. The debut received great critics from magazines like NME and Spin. And the same thing also went to their debut single, ‘Full Circle’. Eventhough the band are mostly inspired by folk and electronic music, the band themselves describe them more into indie pop as well. In creating the album, the songwriting process is a collective way, where the bands bounce off some ideas and try to harmonize each other. One of the most interesting critics to Half Moon Run is, their music is compared to Radiohead, on this matter, Dylan responded “We feel that for sure that our influences come through in our sound, but we have many influences and I think we are all conscious that our sound is something unique. That has always kind of been the requirement for ourselves, we never write to imitate something”. And another interesting fact about the band is eventhough they don’t sound like they’ll clash off your speaker, they are a huge fan of Sepultura!

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Half Moon Run’s work in harmonizing their music should be given an ‘A’. The balance that they produce is such a great satisfy to the music listeners, especially if you’re a fan of Fleet Foxes or Local Natives. The trio’s music displays a great virtue of how an indie rock-folk almost done amazingly. They have opened for Metric and Mumford and Sons, soon or later, they’ll get their own spotlight and blow up the catchiness harmony.

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