Dignan Porch / Tendrils
Album: Tendrils   Collection:General
Artist:Dignan Porch   Added:Jul 2010
Label:Captured Tracks  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-08-15 Pull Date: 2010-10-17
Week Ending: Oct 10 Oct 3 Sep 26 Sep 19 Aug 22
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 03, 2010: FLASHBANG RADIO: THE SECOND GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Team Up
4. Sep 15, 2010: Brownian Motion
Team Up
2. Sep 26, 2010: the velvet futon
I'm Certain I'll Die
5. Sep 12, 2010: the velvet futon
I'm Certain I'll Die
3. Sep 19, 2010: FLASHBANG RADIO: DOS VECES MAS
No Pressure Baby
6. Aug 20, 2010: Leland Lives!
A Person

Album Review
HYPRK
Reviewed 2010-08-11
The very solid debut release from Dignan Porch, a lo-fi 4-piece outfit out of London. All songs were recorded for the cheap (literally out of their bedrooms), but are strung together in intricate and creative ways. All tunes are lo-fi and a spot hissy, but with chipper, clear instrumentation and a deliberate attention to melody and balance. (All songs are short, so keep an eye out on the time).

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1. Strummy acoustic guitar with eerie electronic warbling. Heavily distorted male vocals.
2. Hissy lo-fi with echoed vocals and high-pitched guitar strumming.
*3. Slow-tempo rocker with a simple, straight-forward structure of layered electric guitar, thudding percussion and forced, distorted vocals.
*4. A slow, epic buildup transitions into a downtempo ballad with distorted extra-terrestrial lyrics and reverberating guitarwork. U2 meets the Knife.
5. Mid-tempo rocker with loud percussion, lots of guitar pedals and repetitive lyrics.
*6. Washes of My Bloody Valentine guitar and sneering lyrics.
7. Slow, rambling acoustic with heavy-hitting drums.
8. 28 seconds of dreamy crooning with muted amplifier feedback.
*9. A high-energy guitar intro leads into a nasally-sung lo-fi rocker.
*10. Loud full, wall-of sound approach with tons of strummy guitars, echoing drums, and squealing waves of high-pitched guitar in the background.
*11. Sad, but in a very sweet, melodic way. Open and vulnerable with sweet acoustic plucking. The last minute or so is instrumental: intertwined strumming guitars of differing textures—one very blunt and straightforward and the other rather submissive and shy.
12. A lo-fi take on the classic romance impulse “let’s run away together and forget the world.”
*13. Lots of ethereal effects and weird jangling sounds. Smooth bedtimestory vocals.

Track Listing
1. The Game We Made   7. We Sat On A Hill
2. As You Were   8. I Am The Hedge
3. Flowers In May   9. Like It Was
4. Footsteps   10. No Pressure Baby
5. On A Ride   11. A Person
6. Team Up   12. Two Of Us
  13. I'm Certain I'll Die