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Canopies And Drapes Preview New EP Violet Lilly Rose Daisy

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Canopies And Drapes debut EP Violet Lilly Rose Daisy comes out on October 5th, and you can check out a teaser clip of the four-song release right now. The project of former Nu Clear Classmate Chick, her new project’s first CD features the previously posted “Perfect Step” along with two new songs.

Oh…and a track I raved about earlier in the year. Back in February, Nu Clear Classmate posted something called “Sleeping Under The Maypole” to their SoundCloud page, and it was a wonderful inversion of the duo’s sound, loud turned soft with all the isolation expressed by the original noise retained in the more minimal structures. Then the group broke up in July, and sometime in August “Maypole” got pulled offline. Now it appears we know why…it will appear on Canopies And Drape’s debut, retitled “Sleeping Under The Bed.” It sounds virtually the same, save for what sounds like some lyrical changes. We will have to wait until it comes out next month, but here’s a release to watch. Check it out below.

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Anywhere Is OK: Moscow Club’s “Daisy Miller Pt. 1”

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Moscow Club’s official blog is a hodgepodge of English, Russian and Japanese (the latter being the language of their actual home country), an appropriate mix given their preference for the sort of indie-pop that transcends cultural barriers and goes straight for the heart instead. New track “Daisy Miller Pt. 1” further backs up this universal feeling via the hazy atmosphere of the whole thing, Moscow Club bypassing any sort of percussion for fading guitars and vocals that drift away, words coming out but run through such a dreamy filter that you can’t really tell what they are saying. Canopies And Drapes stops by to add some honey-sweet backing vocals, a nice touch to this, a very Radio Dept.-ish number. It’s the way everything just floats there…definitely helped by the lack of drums…that makes this such an inviting song, a moment frozen in time. Borders wouldn’t matter with this one. Listen below.

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Nu Clear Classmate Break Up, Chick Forms Canopies And Drapes, Posts Song “Perfect Step”

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Seems that sometime over the weekend Tokyo dance-noise duo Nu Clear Classmate called it a day. Vocalist Chick wrote about it a bit on her Twitter at various points over the last few days. Bit of a bummer considering the group’s debut EP Lick The Star sounds about as perfect as an EP can get, an under-20-minute affair that beat M.I.A. at her noisy game and made the idea of “suicide pop” seem like a really cool idea. What makes this even lamer is how good Nu Clear Classmate’s newest song “Sleeping Under The Maypole” sounded – it found them sorta inverting their style, letting space play a more prominent role as they crafted something just as isolating as the grimmer moments on Lick The Star without losing any of the catchiness. That song will most likely finish in my personal Top 10 come December. So yeah, weak news. Yet on the plus side, Nu Clear Classmate bids the world farewell with one excellent release and a killer farewell track. Few bands can boast that.

Yet all endings must lead to new beginnings…right right???…and alongside the announcement of NCC’s dissolution is the news of Chick stepping out to start her own solo project. Calling herself Canopies And Drapes, she’s posted one demo track to Bandcamp titled “Perfect Step.” A few elements of her old unit bloom through into her new work – “Perfect Step” is a busy track, piling sounds on top of one another to form a very danceable joint that at least hints at some sinister undertones (those space shuttle electronic ripples creep me out in a 2001: A Space Odyssey sorta way). Yet this isn’t a rehash, and Chick’s solo number comes off as a much cleaner track, free of the lurking guitar feedback ever-present on NCC’s tunes. Instead, she lets robo handclaps, old-timey synths and what sounds like a far-off Greek chorus surround her voice. This is a bit more club-friendly than Nu Clear, but also just as layered and interesting. Promising start from a project I’m extremely interested in. Listen below.

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