Morgan and the Organ Donors
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The M.O.D.s are
rockers. There are many storied tales
of bands discovered in some forgotten record crate but no such tales of one in
such plain sight. Morgan and the Organ Donors
have been playing almost exclusively at one lone Olympia bar every December for
the last decade. Featuring Bikini Kill's Tobi
Vail, COCO's Olivia Ness, and Famed Husband and Wife Team of James Maeda and
Sara Peté, their songs belong in the
pantheon of Pacific Northwest Standbys such as the Wipers, Dead
Moon, the Wailers.
morganandtheorgandonors.bandcamp.com
Daisies
From the minds that brought you CCFX, "What Are You Waiting For?", and
Daisies "2" comes the 7th release from the purveyors of the electronic paisley
underground, "Great Open Big Sky" Out MAY 12th Check out their latest single
"Blue Cowboy"
Olympia, WA's Daisies feel like a band displaced from
time, specifically the mid-'90s when indie bands all discovered jungle and
drum-and-bass and started mixing jangly acoustics with amen breaks. (I'm
talking Saint Etienne, Mint Royale and Dubstar.) Daisies call their sound
"electronic paisley underground" which works, too. As the
soaring "Blue Cowboy" proves, it's still a potent combination. (Bill
Pearis -Brooklyn Vegan)
daisies.bandcamp.com
Star Party
Star Party began in March 2020 as a Seattle living room
project between Carolyn Brennan and Ian Corrigan (Gen Pop, Vexx) - both sharing
a love of high energy rock n roll music. The idea to start a band percolated
during trips to the high deserts of eastern Washington to pick sage and see the
sun as a brief reprieve from the misty and gray Pacific Northwestern Spring. A
few months later, Star Party released Demo 2020 on Feel It Records, featuring
two originals and covers of The Shop Assistants' "Something to Do" and
the classic "All I Really Wanna Do"
https://starpartyrocks.bandcamp.com/
The Moving Pictures
Fake Books finds the Moving Pictures four years
after their debut album with three less members and eight new songs. The
long-anticipated LP from a group not known for a continuity of sound might
surprise new listeners with its congruity and coherence in their most
Traditional rock n roll output yet. Traditional in the sense of an exacting
guitar tone as the ultimate guide. Traditional in that this iteration of M Pix
consists only of one person, in this case a poet and his guitar. Through this
lens we watch a reel of familiar concepts- flowers, books, loneliness- repeat
themselves reverberated through the artist's singular voice. And while sparse,
the songs are lush and expansive, every poem in strict adherence to a sonic
landscape where the form is as important as the content and each belabored
guitar tone feels like just another frame of the story. The story is not a
happy one- it's a raw and solitary affair punctuated with steel guitar, synths
and a 606. Such upbeats are necessitated when such a crushing narrative is laid
bare in between tremolo caverns. There are no easy answers on this landscape,
but instead when lent to repeated listens the sadness slowly morphs into pop
music and the songs linger for long after the record is done.
mov-pix.bandcamp.com