:Kinema: free xmas single giveaway!

:Kinema: are on the cover of The Brighton Source magazine this month and they are also saying Merry Xmas to you all by giving away a free single 3 Wolf Moon a huge cold disco work-out of a track, minimal nervous guitar and great stabs of keys and a smooth dancey beat for sad dance floors, avoiding xmas and pulling in indie clubs.

What's great about the cover photo to the the left here is how Andy and Ross are all Xmased up with the holiday knitwear look while Dom (singer/front man/) seems to have refused to join in, instead looking his normal self.. well you cant let the ladies down!

Hit the download arrow on the Soundcloud player below to get your free Christmas giveaway.

3 Wolf Moon by :kinema:

Six of the best Chillwave bands in the Brighton Sauce magazine.

As The Brighton Sauce magazine only has a limited server, it only seems to archive the last few months of issues online. Thus my chillwave article is no longer available. I am remedying that with this post and a picture of the real world copy of the magazines article for you to click through and read. (Just click the picture to view big style!)

I managed to be the first person to write about Bye Bye Blackbird, now Blackbird Blackbird in a proper printed magazine and not just on a blog, I knew he was well worth including in any six of the best chillwave bands even though at the time he was almost unknown! (smiles smugly to himself!)

To be fair the inclusion of Best Coast was wrong in this list but I just wanted an excuse to put them in something..

I still stand by Pearl Harbour as being chillwave without the synths though!!

Chillwave 6 Of the Best, +5 more!

To accompany my "Six of the best Chillwave bands"article in the April 2010 issue of The Brighton Source magazine this month here are a bunch more of equally great bands that I had to leave out!

Featured in The Source were:

Washed Out,
Neon Indian,
Best Coast,
Pearl Harbour, (now Puro Instinct)
Memory Tapes
Bye Bye Blackbird (now Blackbird Blackbird)

First up is the amazing Memory House, the name sums it up really! Dreamy Hipstermatic induced and sleep washed pop tunes part folk tinged synth dreams and quiete blissful ambient lovelyness.

A Canadian boy/girl due, get their two EP's Caregiver and Lately from Bandcamp (Lately is free)

Small Black are a four piece with a great stage presence and an approach to music making that is fully Chillwave. Grooving pop tunes with a blissed out feel, dreamy and dancey, upbeat but medicated, Valium parties on sandy beaches underneath serotonin bloated full moons, staring wide eyed down onto the world.

Check their blog too for all the usual stuff and links to all their releases.

A Sunny Day in Glasgow are a six piece Philadelphian band who do a wonderful dreamy synth/guitar/samples/vocals thing that is more Chillwave than a memory of riding your bmx to the beach all cought on super 8 film! But is also a definate group creation not a Washed Out style solo effort. They have an album and 7" out and a bunch of internet presence! Myspace. Facebook. Website.

Real Estate are from New Jersey and make quiet, happy, psychedelic Chillwave for anti-folk fans.

Glo-fi, psychedelic, dream pop, instruments and garage sensibilities as much influenced by 60s psych bands as Housey synth chill-out.

Finally I've left the best to last with the brilliant Tory Y Moi, this dude is just immense, total full on, perfectly crafted, Housey blissful pop tunes. Smooth and dancey as if Prince had been reborn as someone who isn't uptight. Best to listen to while driving to your favourite hang out by the beach or up in the hills, not only is the sun shining but you know it will be all summer and although night is nearly upon you the warm summer breeze is keeping everything drifting along just perfectly.

Soundcloud. Facebook.

Read the "Six of the Best Chillwave" article below (its on the very last page):

(edited for clarity since first posted in April 2010)