Just wanted to let you know, there’s a stunning new video for Magana‘s “Inches Apart.” It’s really quite lovely. You can watch that here. Directed by Lauren Finerman.
Plus, you can download the single via Bandcamp, backed with exclusive new remixes from Frog and Benjamin Shaw.
Today we have released a benefit compilation for Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Immigration Law Center entitled “Unpresidented Jams.“ I was delighted to receive recordings from Jeffrey Lewis, Yr Friends, Okin Osan, Pearl Crush, Deerful, Alex Chilltown, Mulligrub, Fridge Poetry, Vassals, Betsy Ross and more (including Audio Antihero regulars like Cloud, Benjamin Shaw, CHUCK, Jack Hayter and Frog‘s Tom White).
This nineteen track compilation is available for a low minimum donation of £2.99 so that everyone can hopefully afford it but anybody who can dig a little deeper is encouraged to do so.
In celebration of the fact that Magana is going on a little tour of NY and CA (and maybe more) over the next few weeks, we thought it’d be nice to give old live favourite “Pages” the single treatment. It’s free to download, so I hope you enjoy it.
Delighted to say that Magana‘s debut EP ‘Golden Tongue’ is out today from a wide array of digital oulets. I really hope that you’ll find a chance to give this a listen. I’m so happy with the music and I’ve really enjoyed working with Jeni on this release. It’s been fun. Find her on Twitter or Facebook to say Hi.
“Recalling Torres and Sharon Van Etten at their most intimate moments…Magana’s parched vocal is a complete heartbreaker.” – The Line of Best Fit
“There’s something beautiful in finding what you want and demanding it, and Magana perfectly captures that.” – The Grey Estates
“Magana enters the scene guns blazing with the simple request to be the real deal or no deal at all.” – IMPOSE
“Through music I have learned the shape of desire – contoured and faceted, with the texture of velvet and the sheen of spilt oil on the blacktop. In Magana I feel it again.” – Collapse Board
“Golden Tongue has enough range of emotion and musical variety to engage the attention from start to finish, and it feels like a journey in a way that many full albums fail to…It sounds like the birth of a new star.” – Musos’ Guide
“Jeni’s voice is entirely her own.” – For the Rabbits
“I truly can’t wait to hear what she does next.” – VAMP
“A whisper in your ear, bedroom acoustics performer who has broken out from the background of being a session musician to taking centre stage.” – Bearded Magazine
“When I hear a song like this, I start believing there is a primal source of strength that music, but only some music, manages to channel into the outer world. Magana does that.” – Beautiful Freaks
“I could see her (right now) opening up for St. Vincent on her next tour. Yes that should happen. It feels right to me. After that I want to hear Magana’s full length.” – American Pancake
I’ve been doing this way too long. Audio Antihero started in October 2009 and has been dying ever since. Thanks to everybody for their support in keeping this dream alive.
By way of a small celebration of the past seven years, you can download our two debut releases (Nosferatu D2 and Benjamin Shaw) for free via Bandcamp for the next seven days.
Thank you all so much.
If you’d like to continue to support Audio Antihero beyond our seventh year, our latest two releases from Magana and CHUCK are available to order now:
Spooky October time. I put together this Halloween mixtape, featuring lots of songs and scares from some of my favourite Horror soundtracks (and more).It’s hard to find good alternative Halloween / October music, so I really hope that you like it. Listen via Mixcloud or Soundcloud.
If interested in the Audio Antihero affiliated material in the playlist, you can hear more of those via Bandcamp or Spotify:
Really happy to announce a new addition to the Audio Antihero roster: Brooklyn’s Magana. Jeni makes beautiful beautiful music, it’s haunted, emotional and eclectic and I think you’re gonna love it. The “Golden Tongue” EP is out on October 28th. FREE DOWNLOAD + EP PRE-ORDER:
This release kind of came out of nowhere. I was just really lucky to get this opportunity and I totally wasn’t going to pass on it. I’m really excited for you to hear the whole EP but in the meantime, I hope you’ll enjoy Magana’s “Get It Right” single which I think is a pretty good introduction.
“He tells us of the forgotten people of New York City, the dead end jobs, the bottomless hopelessness of keeping a dying relationship alive….but also the romance of a night spent on a rooftop, or sleeping on a beach, or the chase for one last drink at one last bar.” – The Line of Best Fit
“Seriously, do not let this one pass you by.” – GoldFlakePaint
“Hopelessly optimistic? Or just hopeless? Winning compilation (and a) curious world.” – London in Stereo
“He is one of life’s great narrators; he invites us to join him in a world of doomed high school romances, ageing friendships and awkward bedroom encounter…My Band Is A Computer marks CHUCK out as part of a natural lineage of lo-fi experimenters, you can trace his songwriting through Daniel Johnston, Young Marble Giants, Galaxie 500, even at times Jonathan Richman.” – For the Rabbits
“Playing like a collaboration between Owen Ashworth and Bret Easton Ellis, the CHUCK brand of observant and at times cringe-inducingly honest indie pop will no doubt prove divisive…Covering everything that’s terrible and everything that’s not about being a young adult in the twenty-first century, somehow managing to tap into the human kernel at the centre of the zombified lurch of nostalgia and regret.” – Wake the Deaf
“Celebratory DIY freak-fun.” – IMPOSE
“CHUCK’s kooky collage-rock and lo fi wonky electronic pop, which congruously flows between The Magnetic Fields, Mercury Rev, Weezer, Apples In Stereo and even The Pixies, absorbs its influences to create a gorgeous, quietly optimistic, kind of melancholy and pathos.” – Monolith Cocktail
I also threw together a list of things on Mixcloud that I’ve been enjoying lately. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t mostly trying to push the CHUCK record tho. lol suckers.
Delighted to announce a new addition to the Audio Antihero family in CHUCK from Brooklyn. A polarizing artist, he’s been making weird kid pop for years and I’m excited to get to share what he does with some new people.
In other, stranger news, I thought it’d be a good idea to start a sub-label, by the name of Old Money Records(cos you probably gotta have a little bit of old money to run a fucking DIY label), so in addition to being AAH015, this will be OM001. Old Money Records, if it lasts, will be focused on archiving and celebrating lesser heard artists via compilations and reissues. We’ll see how that goes. Regardless, I’m really glad to get to share this remastered collection from CHUCK.
Thanks for giving this a try. Back soon with more.
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