NC Ives - Ticket To Hiroshima / Chimp Assembladge

NC Ives - IDK

Following the footsteps of April's instant-classic record "Home Sweet Home", NC Ives linges in his hypnagogic pop realm a little longer to deliver this charming new single "IDK". It's marked on his Bandcamp with a note "guitar version", so it's fair to say there must be a more electronic rendition of this song somewhere... Anyway, it's amazing, and you can purchase it here. Support this guy, he's amazing!

NC Ives - Home Sweet Home

Australian country and outsider blues shape the sonic landscape of NC Ives' latest album, "Home Sweet Home". It was released three months ago, and I swear it hasn't left my speakers since. There's something incredibly alluring and hypnagogic about it that I can't quite pin down. It has the same kind of eerie mood that Twin Peaks radiates, with a hint of Dirty Beaches. Ives manages to inject some more lighthearted moments here and there (like the RJD2-inspired hip-hop beat in "Streetwalker" or the tambourine and looped female vocals in "Beg U" which give off a warmer vibe), but ultimately, it's the elements of doom jazz, sad crooning, and droning guitar that define the album's haunting core. Incredible record from start to finish.

Buy and download this album here. Stream below.

NC Ives - Breaking Dawn (Live at Signals Naarm 2023)

NC Ives' live set from his Dagger Forest cassette launch gig, recorded at Signals, in Naarm Melbourne on August 30th. Trippy tape manipulation, celestial psych-ambient and oceanic drones are expertly mixed into a one-of-a-kind performance. Wonderful stuff.

Download the set for free here, and stream all the parts below.

Dagger Forest Special: NC Ives - Breaking Dawn

NC Ives - Saturn Devouring

Nicholas Ives is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist, painter, sculptor and producer based in Melbourne, Australia. I discovered him by chance a few weeks ago, and his music totally took over my speakers lately. We're working on putting out his album "Breaking Dawn" on a cassette tape via Dagger Forest right now, but today I wanted to share his latest album "Saturn Devouring". It's a sonic response to his recent art exhibition entitled Saturn Devouring at Oigall Projects in Melbourne week ago. 45 minutes of sound collage, warped electronica and abstract beats that can bring to mind works of AFTA-1, Dem Hunger and Yuk, a psych-trip through delirious deserts and hazy hills of an imaginary Australian wasteland. So so good.

Buy the album here (including a super limited tape edition), and stream it below.