Constant Smiles // Moonflowers LP [COLOR]

アメリカ・NYのドリームポップトリオShaki Taviが、2025年8月にLAのインディーレーベルFelte Recordsからリリースしたレコードです。

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RELEASE DATE: 7th November 2025

12" milky clear vinyl.
Edition of 1000. 

Tracklist:

1. Introduction (Song For Geoff)
2. Leave It at Why
3. Allowed to Be 
4. Everything Is Personal
5. Harriman 
6. In Place of Time
7. When You're Gone
8. Run Out on Life
9. I Know Your Name
10. Time Measured in Moonflowers 

Text excerpt written by Fred Thomas, via Felte Records:

"Much like the night-blooming flora the album takes its name from, Constant Smiles’ Felte debut Moonflowers is the product of slow, largely unseen patterns of growth. The New York-based band forged a strange and fascinating path all their own on the way here, one that has traipsed through various home bases, an exceptionally fluid lineup, and wild changes to their sound on almost every entry in a small kingdom of stylistically restless releases. Though the band gradually grew from existing as an amorphous collection of highly conceptual ideas and experiments into something easier to grasp, every step of their unlikely route has led to Moonflowers, a subtle masterpiece of internally-born ambient pop.

Constant Smiles was formed in 2009 by Ben Jones when he was living in Martha’s Vineyard. From the beginning, the project was as underground as is possible in the digital age. Every live show was dramatically unlike the last, as were the frequently-released, self-realized recordings. Jones was joined by different collaborators in versions of the band that manifested as noisy soundscapes, scenic chamber pop, or icy coldwave-adjacent synth-pop, often released on opaquely-designed, ultra-limited albums named after favorite film directors. These early phases captured the curiosity of a small but fixated group of fans worldwide, and the way Constant Smiles moved through the weird trajectory of their first decade made them feel like a closely guarded secret happening outside of the machinery of the music industry. A move to New York and a few records on Sacred Bones resulted in more people becoming aware of the band, but Jones and friends remained in constant flux. True to his d.i.y. roots, by the time one record was released, Jones had written a new set of songs and recalibrated the sound of the band from dismal electronic darkness to naturalistic dream pop.

The great unlocking of the Constant Smiles puzzlebox happened when the band solidified into a permanent core lineup when drummer/vocalist Nora Knight joined Jones and longtime bassist Spike Currier in the end of 2022. After years of being defined by visceral change and inconsistency, this stabilized personnel shifted the sound, emotional coloration, and impact of the band. A more intuitive kind of chemistry overwrote the searching energy of earlier output. With Knight and Currier providing counterpoint and structure to Jones’ always percolating creative drive, the songs became more streamlined and direct. The anxious buzzing that had been present in even the slowest songs uncoiled a little bit, and the band took on a tone that was more intentional, even observational. Still airy and dream-like, the trio version of Constant Smiles that produced Moonflowers has cleared away the clouds of vaguity and uncertainty that could make earlier versions of the band feel harder to connect with. Emotions once on display but always at a distance are now exhibited clearly, spoken plainly, and open to consideration by anyone who encounters them. [...]"

Artist : Constant Smiles

Label : Felte Records

cat no : FLT116lp-C1