Porches

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Name for You – the Shins

2. Sleep Apnea – Beach Fossils

3. Let Down – Bored Nothing

4. 17 – Youth Lagoon

5. Paul – Big Thief

6. Rituals – Pill Friends

7. Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl – Broken Social Scene

8. Mood – Porches

9. Nobody’s Baby – The Sweater I Gave You

10. Swing Lo Magellan – Dirty Projectors

11. Radical – It Looks Sad.

12. White Gloves – Khruangbin

13. Katy Song – Red House Painters

14. Little Fang – Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks

15. Spoiled – Infinity Crush

16. Told Ya So – Adult Mom

17. Gloomy Planets – The Notwist

18. Goddess On A Hiway – Mercury Rev

19. Black Rice – Women

20. Sandy – Jackson Scott

A Year In Music: 2016 in Photos

Photos by: Isabella King and Oscar Moreno

Listen to Porches’ cover of Big Star’s “Morpha Too”

Porches have released a cover of Big Star’s song “Morpha Too.” Listen to it below. The original song was on Big Star’s second record, Radio City, in 1974. The band’s most recent release is the Water EP, which has demos from their album Pool.

Rivergazer, Japanese Breakfast, Porches at the Obsidian in photos

Porches release Water EP, shares new “Black Dress” video featuring Dev Hynes

Porches have released Water, a new EP that is the follow-up to this year’s Pool. It is comprised of stripped-down versions of songs from Pool, the “melodic skeleton,” as the press release puts it, as well as a few of unreleased songs. Stream it here. They also released a video for “Black Dress,” which stars Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes dancing in a studio with a few performers Watch that below.

Porches’ Aaron Maine released a statement about the album:

I spent the first year after releasing Slow Dance In The Cosmos teaching myself how to record music. I ended up with a bunch of pretty realized demos for songs that ended up on Pool during that process. It was a loose and explorative time for me. I wanted to release a select few of these “demos” because I always find the excitement captured by recording a song when you first write it to be almost impossible to recreate later down the line. I chose to rerecord all of the songs that were to be on ‘Pool’ because I felt like by the time I had a batch of songs that I felt would make an album, I had grown as a producer and wanted to give them another pass. Either way, it’s fun to listen back to these earlier versions of the songs and remember how they first existed.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. West Texas – PWR BTTM

2. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales – Car Seat Headrest

3. Everybody Wants to Love You – Japanese Breakfast

4. Be Apart – Porches

5. I Need A Forest Fire – James Blake, Bon Iver

6. Under the Sun – DIIV

7. Gone – Day Wave

8. No Woman – Whitney

9. Some Are Lakes – Land of Talk

10. Expanding Anyway – Morning Teleportation

11. Nova Scotia – Boyscott

12. The Hedonist – Foreign/National

13. Someone Disappeared – The Everywheres

14. In the Moonlight – Blithe Field

15. Cab Deb – Good Morning

16. I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore – Lucy Dacus

17. Little Fourth of July – Petite League

18. What Once Was – Her’s

19. Looking out for You – Joy Again

20. Milk – Magic Potion