| Drinking Flowers / New Swirled Order |
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| Album: | New Swirled Order | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Drinking Flowers | Added: | May 2016 | |
| Label: | Manifesto Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| 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 |
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| Telepathic Juan Reviewed 2017-09-08 | ||
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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 |
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| 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 |