{"title":"April Magazine","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"if-the-ceiling-were-a-kite-vol-1","title":"If The Ceiling Were A Kite: Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe purest a band can aim for is to present their milieu as a time capsule from the morning of. April Magazine deals deep in the hypnagogic charm of their surroundings. Since the 2018 release of “Shirley Don’t” a sneaky classic that first turned ears outside their SF Bay Area home the band has stirred out a handful of cryptic indie pop recordings nestled in warm aerosol hiss and scrappy hand-drawn cover art. Music that glints in the far back of an urban daydream where guitars could be bells, bells could be voices, and voices hardly find use in words.\u003ci\u003e If The Ceiling Were A Kite\u003c\/i\u003e is a document of things losing definition and time gone slack.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe songs on \u003ci\u003eIf The Ceiling Were A Kite\u003c\/i\u003e were recorded over a span of about two years, after Peter, Mike and Kati started playing together around a four track cassette player in Peter’s bedroom. Other kindred spirits like Julia Waves, Ian Collins, Anthony Comstock OBC, Zach Vito, and eventually David Diaz joined in on some of the recordings and live shows adding to the collective ‘whatever works’ ethos of April Magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of the Velvet Underground, Jesus and Mary Chain, Galaxie 500, Belle and Sebastian and Sarah Records.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Love","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50504653111627,"sku":"1129720","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c4bb53d4-82cc-45ba-be59-6fc1fa0635b6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727808519"},{"product_id":"sunday-music-for-an-overpass","title":"Sunday Music For An Overpass","description":"\u003cp\u003eTough Love brings to vinyl for the first time April Magazine's \u003cem\u003eSunday Music For An Overpass\u003c\/em\u003e, a nine track collection originally issued on cassette in vanishingly small number by Paisley Shirt in 2021. The kind of mythical recording you might have once needed to know the band to own. Alas, no longer... \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan the universe have two centres? Because if it's not Gothenburg it's San Francisco... It's impossible for me to think about what's going on in that particular part of the west coast right now without immediately being drawn to April Magazine, a comparatively loosely assembled three (sometimes four) piece centred around artist\/musician Peter Hurley, who seem to simultaneously operate at both the heart and the margins of the current Bay Area underground. On the one hand they share members with many other bands, their guitarist\/singer runs a gallery that functions as some kind of focal point\/social space, and Cindy even have a song named after them. On the other hand, their music is resolutely lo-fi and invariably couched in a mysterious haze, the live footage available online seems to suggest that they sound slightly different each time they play, and there are reports they have dozens of songs (possibly albums?) that have not and may never be released, hidden inside their own private universe. On its initial release, \u003cem\u003eSunday Music For An Overpass \u003c\/em\u003ewas an early attempt to drag the group a little closer into the light, yet inevitably made them feel as endearingly enigmatic as ever. Typically, this vinyl reissue some four years later only goes part way in clearing that alluring fog. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApril Magazine channel the greats - Spacemen 3, The Pastels, early B\u0026amp;S, Mary Chain, Rainy Day\/Opal\/Mazzy et al - but submerge their obvious melodic capabilities within seemingly infinite spray can hiss, as if the songs are being pulled backwards through some vortex to the past. Half of these tracks are instrumentals, and it's in those moments that the band are perhaps at their most expressive, suggesting a very inviting melancholy that can't quite be figured out. Though the LP remasters the original recordings and is a little cleaner sounding as a result, no secret is being given away. The appeal is that the more you hear from them, the less you really know, and all the better for it. Maybe, then, it's that April Magazine are here to show there is no centre to the universe, that instead it's always just off to the side...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Love","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":52027473002827,"sku":"R3411-8679","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/AprilMagazine-SundayMusicForAnOverpass.jpg?v=1749468155"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/april-magazine.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}