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This will be the first time in months that I'll be doing Fresh from the Post without the usual Q and A - mostly because of the sudden shift in the force and my midichlorian count hitting an all time low (in other words, life got in the way and I haven't had the time to set up proper interviews).  To accomodate me doing other 'important' stuff until I get substantial earnings from running this website (which at its current state is done all for the love of music, aka for free) - Fresh from the Post  will be done without the glamour of the Q and A, but still with the charm of all that's important -- new and exciting music.

This week, I've got some music courtesy of some amazing bands old and new - 

THE GENTLE ISOLATION

What better way to start our Fresh from the Post and bring sweet music to your ears than to listen to sugary twee pop via The Gentle Isolation. If you can hear a hint of 80s nostalgia in their new single Let's Go Slow, it's because the band started out as a new wave cover band before reformatting their sound to the ever lovable tune of indie pop. This four-piece, made up of Ness Urian (Vocals/12 String Acoustic), Monch Cristobal (Vocals/Bass), Joseph Rovero (Electric Guitars) and Batchie Rudica (Drums), is prepping up for the release of their first EP from indie label LilyStars Records come August 18th.

Let's Go Slow - The Gentle Isolation by Lilystars Records

This post is long overdue as I've had this neat little compilation stuck in my inbox for a couple of months now. For this week's Fresh from the Post, instead of an artist feature, we feature a couple of songs from A Cure for the Brokenhearted - a twelve-song compilation chocfull of unique indie gems care of our friends at the Edible Onion.

If you like DIY, this compilation is as endearingly DIY as it gets. Aside from the 12 heartfelt songs, the album also comes packaged in an artsy, hand-made accordion book, that features watercolor illustrations from Edible Onion founder Darian Scatton. For today's Q and A, Darian, who mastered the art of making the ultimate mix CD (which puts my ultimate 80's power-ballad songs mixtape complete with shooting stars illustrations to shame), tells us more about the dying art of the tactile musical experience and brings us back to what really matters most when listening to good music -

I am a Lucky Soul fan. Indeed I am.

From the first time I heard 'Lips Are Unhappy', I instantly got hooked - all the more with a full listen to their debut album The Great Unwanted. Ali Howard's sweet soothing vocals, partnered with 60's style upbeat soul, was the just the right combination that felt like drinking fizzy lifting drinks to remedy a drowning heart. So imagine how elated I was to know that the group was releasing another full length, and that I had the chance to get a Q and A with them.

For today's Fresh from the Post, Lucky Soul's Ali Howard talks to us about the band's new album A Coming of Age, shares one of the singles off their new album, as well as a new Lucky Soul video -

On our late Fresh from the Post this week, we have Brooklyn based band All Night Chemists.  

All Night Chemists is fronted by NYC musician, engineer and producer Len Monachello   He's one of those play-20-instruments-well-and-also-engineer-while-having-a-sandwich kind of guys. He plays almost every instrument on the band's new album 'Meet Me Again' and has written, produced and performed almost every song himself.

We had a chance to get a Q and A with Len to talk more about his music, sample a couple of songs and marvel how Sesame Street can actually be a significant influence in music - 

 I’m always curious as to how people get where they are. How did you get started playing music?

My parents had me modeling at 18 months old and so for me this was really the beginning of the entertainment world. I modeled until I was 7, giving it up to further my musical studies. By the time I was 7 years old, I already had an agent and a vocal coach in NYC. I was singing professionally and was playing the violin, drums and piano.

My mother was a classically trained pianist and my father was a rock 'n roll drummer so there was music playing in our house 24/7. It's just always been a natural part of my surroundings.

In this week's edition of Fresh from the Post, we sample a bit of Manila electropop with Techy Romantics. We caught up with the Techy Romantic's Dondi Virrey and asked him a few things about  his group's brand of music...

Remember that saucy little music video with naked girls in censor strips? Well, this week's Fresh from the Post artist would be the guilty party behind that.

Bark Bark Disco are Morris Woodcock, Charlotte and Antonio, three friends that form this little musical group, whose origins are split between Berlin and Malta. They produce their own unique brand of music which they dub as 'bedroom pop'. Today, they take a crack at this week's Fresh from the Post questions, as well as share a couple of songs to us from their newly released album -Your Mum Says Hello.

In an effort to break the 90's flashback theme going on in the past few posts, our Fresh from the Post artist swings us back to the present....an 80's themed present that is.

The Venus Stare are Anthoni "Toni" Lone, Edward Clipse, Angela Maze and Linda Ipgloss - four friends admittedly obsessed with 1980s powerballads and outrageous 80's fashion. The video above is their freshly released music video for their time-warp generating single Close To You - which the band debuts today on The Indie Music Database.

We had a quick chat with the group about their new release and how one little eighties movie started it all -