Drinking Flowers / New Swirled Order
Album: New Swirled Order   Collection:General
Artist:Drinking Flowers   Added:May 2016
Label:Manifesto Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2017-09-08 Pull Date: 2017-11-10
Week Ending: Nov 5 Oct 29 Oct 22 Oct 15 Oct 8 Oct 1 Sep 24 Sep 17
Airplays: 3 2 2 1 2 3 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 08, 2021: Magnetized Toner (rebroadcast from Oct 3, 2017)
Cure
4. Nov 01, 2017: Brownian Motion
Simulated Happiness
2. Nov 02, 2017: Totally A
Public Servants
5. Oct 27, 2017: Quite Gnarly
Public Servants
3. Nov 01, 2017: The Fuzz Deli
Black Monday
6. Oct 26, 2017: Totally A
Public Servants

Album Review
Telepathic Juan
Reviewed 2017-09-08
New Swirled Order is the debut album by Los Angeles’ Drinking Flowers. They play a combination of goth, synth-pop, and psych-rock. Vintage electronic machine beats, classic Los Angeles darkwave vocals, as well as astute guitar riffs and effects scattered in all right places. Promising band.

RIYL: Magic Wands, Pale Dian, Drab Majesty, Boogarins and Cold Cave.

FCC CLEAN!
Recommended Tracks: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9

1. (4:35) *Bending Halos – Medium-up tempo track with a mechanical drumbeat, gloomy vocals and layers of synths. Factory records comes to mind.
2. (3:55) **Black Monday – Upbeat tempo goth punker. Cool guitars and vocals.
3. (3:18) Love Drug – Medium-up tempo recording led by a continuous guitar riff and surrounded with cool synth noises and a back and forth vocal duet.
4. (2:26) Your Own Sounds – Medium-up tempo piece with fast guitars and dramatic vocals a la early The Sound.
5. (3:34) *Special High – Slow tempo recording with whispery vocals and a appealing male/female chorus accompanied by a simple but effective keyboard riff.
6. (4:20) **Cure – Medium-up tempo modern rock influenced piece channeling The Cure from beginning to end. Not bad.
7. (3:28) Velvet Curtains – Synth-driven post-punk composition like those written at the beginning of the 1980s. Part glam, part synth pop. Medium tempo.
8. (3:02) **Public Servants – Contagious upbeat electro-pop recording with great synth/guitar riff. Killer vocals.
9. (3:34) New Swirled Order – Medium-up tempo gloomy recording that reminds me of early The Cult.
10. (6:05) *Simulated Happiness – Long slow tempo piece a la Tubeway Army. Epic.

Track Listing
1. Bending Halos   6. Cure
2. Black Monday   7. Velvet Curtains
3. Love Drug   8. Public Servants
4. Your Own Sounds   9. New Swirled Order
5. Special High   10. Simulated Happiness