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Daydreamers HIGHLAND KITES Spellbind Again With Brand New Track – Here’s ‘WHAT LOVE IS’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

7 March 2020


(Artwork by Mallory Quinn)

Los Angeles’ daydreamers HIGHLAND KITES is a wonderfully captivating duo that spellbinds with every release. These artists deserve much more attention than they
had so far. Their brand new mesmerizing track is a tremendous pearl again.

Magical singer and songwriter Marissa Lamar says about –‘WHAT LOVE IS’ : “it’s
about love, inclusion, realizing even though we’re all individuals, we’re not all that different
from one another and want similar things in life. It’s me wondering about the bigger picture and having hope that love and compassion for others can fix a broken world. I hope it ends
up inspiring you in some way, or at least makes you feel some feelings.”

As well musically as vocally this duo comes up with another magnificent beauty that touches heart and soul. A gorgeous humdinger growing in vitality and fervency as the
impressive song moves son. The atmospheric orchestration is rhapsodic and bewitching and Lamar‘s vox is, as always, stupendous.

There’s something about the stars
the way they shine on
they shine on despite the dark
even a million years after they’re gone

Sit down, relax and enjoy…


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Here’s L.A.’s Dream Pop Duo HIGHLAND KITES And Their New Sorrowful Ballad ‘A THOUSAND REASONS’…

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week…

19 January 2020

Turn Up The Volume featured Los Angeles made/Nashville bound duo HIGHLAND KITES before, the brainchild of splendid singer-songwriter Marissa Lamar, who teamed up
with drummer, Neil Briggs a few years ago. They’ve already released four EPs (check
them on Bandcamp). And now the pair is back with a somber, heartbreaking love song.

‘A THOUSAND REASONS’ is a sorrowful and honest ballad about a doomed relationship Lamar had with an ex-lover. “We both know this was meant to turn into nothing / we both know we were meant to be free / me from, me from you and you from me”

Wonderful voice Marissa Lamar unveiled the overall sentiment behind this new tune: “You don’t have to dwell in crappy emotions, but pretending they don’t exist doesn’t make them go away. Life is life and it has ALL emotions, and we can experience every single one of them in any given day, and that’s ok. I have never been able to “just not care” about people or things and I don’t want to feel numb, because turning all this emotion into art is one of my greatest joys in life.”

Here’s the painful reverie…

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On-Repeat-In-January-2018… FOURTEEN KNOCKOUTS!

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Striking vibrations that good we play it on…

FOURTEEN KNOCKOUTS I played on repeat in JANUARY!
A versatile mix of electric eruptions and firework strokes
that energized all my senses and limbs this past month!
TURN UP THE VOLUME! Here’s plenty of sonic dope…

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1/ ‘Fol De Rol’ by THE FALL (Manchester, UK)
From the troubled genius’ final 2017 album – rest in peace…
Album: New Facts Emerge

2/ ‘Black Habit’ by MIEN (US, UK, Canada)
Supergroup hits it big psych time with debut single…
Debut album: out 8 April – info here

3/ ‘Love’ by ANTEROS (London, UK)
Striking pop pearl, as catchy as flaming hell…

5/ ‘Current Affair’ by SEXTILE feat SIENNA (Los Angeles)
Hyperkinetic electro whirlwind to go totally apeshit to…
Album: Albeit Living

6/ ‘The Gift’ by THE LIMIÑANAS feat. PETER HOOK (France/UK)
Sensual psychedelia with a sultry touch and legend Peter Hook on bass…
New album: Shadow People – just out now

7/ ‘Jukebox Babe’ by MOON DUO (Portland, US)
Portland’s mind-expanding pair covers Alan Vega in swinging style…

8/ ‘The Great Chain Of Being’ by KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
Another heavy eruption by the Aussie psych junkies…
Album: Gumboot Soup

8/ ‘Bubbilicious’ by TOKYO TABOO (London, UK)
Pschodelic glam punk, hot as an exploding volcano…
Album: 6TH Street Psychosis / Interview with TUTV!

9/ ‘Skin Spilling’ by BONNE APARTE (The Netherlands)
Weird and eccentric paranoia post punks…
Album: Scalps  – out 2 February – info here 

10/ ‘Ballad’ by NO FRIENDZ (London, UK)
Funky scream along indie kick for all useless people on this planet…
Album: split LP with Chupa Cabra – all info here

11/ ‘Luxury Animals’ by MUSH (Leeds, UK)
Jingle jangle noiseniks fronted by Lou Reed‘s ghost…

12/ ‘Black Smoke’ by BLACK FUN SURGERY (London, UK)
Glimmering disco ball electronics with a spell-binding edge…
New album: PATCHES – to be released soon

13/ ‘Serpent Speak’ by AURAL AIR (Dublin, Ireland)
Poetic guitar euphony and Laura Rai‘s remarkable voice…
EP: The Torpor OF Minds

14/ ‘I Didn’t Belong’ by HIGHLAND KITES (California, US)
Tremendous voice to solace your troubled heart and hurt soul in times of love sickness…
Debut EP: to be released this year

See/hear you next month, music junkies…

Los Angeles’ HIGHLAND KITES Will Capture Your Heart & Soul With Touching Single… ‘I DIDN’T BELONG’

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Daily fuel load your sonic batteries…

Band: HIGHLAND KITES

Base: Los Angeles, CA, US

Who: “the brainchild of singer-songwriter Marissa Lamar who teamed up with drummer Neil Briggs. By weaving hope, positivity and closure into their songs they create compelling and often dark content that ultimately feels uplifting. Their goal is to make people feel better even though most of the songs are themed around painful experiences.”

Track: I DIDN’T BELONG HERE

Score: I guess many of us experience(d) that weird, yet truly human emotion when
you use harrowing music as a remedy for a state of moodiness. A spine-tingling voice
to solace your troubled heart and hurt soul in times of love sickness, depression or any kind of sadness that brings your spirit down. Marissa Lamar definitely has that healing force. Her crystal clear vox, somewhere between Linda Rondstadt and Sharon Van Etten, somewhere between melancholic country and downcast blues, somewhere very special, will move you graciously and softly. This is the magnificent voice and this is the matching, downhearted ballad you want to hear on the jukebox when you have a drink, late night, somewhere in a bar in the city, lonely and affected by emotional damage. This is gloomy pearl ‘I DIDN’T BELONG’…

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Keep your handkerchief close by as full album I DIDN’T BELONG will follow…