ePop008 – Sometimes Always
COVER ART made by Andy Hart/A fog of ideas
. Visit Andy’s website http://afogofideas.blogspot.com/
We have done an interview with Andy, where you can read more about him and his art
. You can find the illustrator interview here.
THE BOOKLET is designed by Julia Pax and put together in InDesign by Andrej Dolinka. View the booklet.
PROBLEMS DOWNLOADING? If you have problems downloading the single-zip, try downloading through this link instead.
1. You Can All Hide
2. Old-Fashioned Baby
3. Ivory Tower*
4. Be True (Bonus track)
Tracks 1,2 and 4 are written by Sometimes Always. Track 3 is a cover of Sharesprings’ song “Ivory Tower”. More about this song further down on this page.
When you have listened to this EP, please take the “BEST OF EARDRUMSPOP 2010 SURVEY”.
This single is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Feel free to share it with your friends, play it on your podcast, use it on your mixtape etc, as long as it’s used non-commercially and as long as you do not edit the songs in any way. Please link back to this page if you use it online.
ABOUT SOMETIMES ALWAYS
. Tyo is much influenced by bands like Afraid of Stairs, The Tony Head Experience and of course the early days of My Bloody Valentine, and he’s planning to take the project from the studio to the live stage with the help of his friend Ucik.
Visit Sometimes Always on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/sometimesalwayssometimes
Special introduction to the bonus track, “Be True”:
“When I first heard the amazing ‘Be True’ from Sometimes Always, it blew me away. It brought back the sunshine of the finest summers of my youth, it brought back memories of cartrips with my friends and My Bloody Valentine’s “Thorn”, The Primitives’ “Thru’ the flowers” and The Field Mice’s “Emma’s House” on the cassette-player. It doesn’t sound like any of them, really, but it gives me the same good-good-good feeling inside. Like if there was no worries in the world, and there was always sunshine, joy and good music in your car’s tape-player
. Walk all over me, Sometimes Always, and BE TRUE!” – Knut, EardrumsPop
A PHOTO INTERVIEW WITH SOMETIMES ALWAYS
The innovative website A NEGATIVE NARRATIVE make interviews with bands, but instead of answering with words, the artists have to take a photograph for each question.
We are collaborating with A Negative Narrative on this single-series, and they have made photo-interviews with our single-artists. Visit http://anegativenarrative.com/ and see more bands’ photographic answers to their interview questions.
THE COVER SONG:
We have encouraged the single-bands to make a cover version of a song they think deserve more attention.
SOMETIMES ALWAYS have chosen to cover “Ivory Tower”, originally written and performed by Sharesprings.
THE COVERED ARTIST: SHARESPRINGS
SHARESPRINGS is a noisy pop-band from Jakarta, Indonesia, clearly inspired by indiepop of the 80s and shoegaze of the 90s. The four members, Abdul Wahid, Riftyza, Ardhi and Rusli have gained great reviews in blogs like indie-mp3 and skatterbrain!.
The band was formed in 2006, and have so far released a demo and been on several compilations. Unconfirmed rumours say that an EP is underway
. Let’s hope the rumours are true!
Comments
THE JOY OF NOISE | Sometimes Always « their bated breath
on November 10, 2010, 10:08
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on November 12, 2010, 20:49
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Chris
on November 15, 2010, 18:03
Gotta say, I’m instantly put off by the cover art, because I’m pretty sick of this new trend of sexually suggestive artwork on indie releases. I prefer the Sarah Records/old-school indie way, of making a point not to exploit women on their artwork to sell music, thus differentiating themselves further from major labels and mainstream industry machismo/sexism. I also think the music should speak for itself, and if it’s good enough it can stand on it’s own without using girls/sex to sell. I tend to assume the music sucks, if the band resort to desperate, tacky, obvious attention-grabbers. Although this Sometimes Always art isn’t as explicit or offensive as some I’ve seen in the indie-world lately, it still bugs me. The music may be good. Unfortunately I do judge a book or album by it’s cover, and am less inclined to check out what’s inside.
Knut
on November 15, 2010, 23:29
Thanks for your views, Chris. I can see your point, but do not share your views regarding this artwork. In general, I agree that there is too much focus on sex in the music industry. Sarah Records had a noble and good thought behind their cover-art. Our focus is on the art itself and the music itself.
People who know our label, know very well that we would not even think of using sex to “sell” our releases.
The illustrator Andy Hart’s idea behind the cover was to capture the atmosphere in the music. He says “My intention was to capture the energy, the roughness, sweetness, closeness, warmth, atmosphere…” and “I responded to the music in multiple ways: the energy of the music being reflected in the mark-making being one, but also that the photo I used as reference reminded me of my bloody valentine record sleeves, which seemed fitting… I’m pretty certain the female subject is not being objectified or subjugated, I felt that the image conveyed an air of intimacy and sensuality (but also sweetness) that seemed to this listener to be central to the music Sometimes Always make.” Unquote.
I understand that people can get tired of bands and labels using sex to sell in videos and on cover art, but this artwork is just beautiful, and not even close to “dirty” or sexually discriminating.
It radiates an atmosphere that you also can find in the music.
It makes us sad that the cover keeps you away from listening to the music.I hope you will reconsider this. The zip also includes an alternative cover, inspired by the title “old-fashioned baby”. Feel free to use this cover-art instead on your copy of the single. If you have any comments to what I have said here now, we’re listening, and welcome your thoughts.