‘Ping Pong’ by Stereolab

Tim Gane (Domino Publishing) and Laetitia Sadier (Complete):

It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery 

Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

You see, the recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry for, things will look after th...

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100 Gets ‘1000 Gecs & The Tree Of Clues’ out 10th July 2020

100 gecs 'money machine' Shot by gabe howell

Their debut album 1000 gecs was released in 2019, and they’ve racked up 9,000,000 Spotify streams on “money machine” alone. They are yet to break into the mainstream electronic world, however, but with music as wobbly and industrial as theirs, it’s anyone’s guess if they ever will – or if it even matters.

The duo’s remix album 1,000 gecs and the Tree Of Clues consists of nineteen outrageous mismatched and misaligned tracks featuring a hoarde of guests that would make the nearest...

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Adrian Crowley ‘Bread and Wine’

Second single from Adrian Crowley’s album ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’.

“I am an incessant doodler. The stars of the video for Bread And Wine were made with a scalpel, pen and a drawing book. And they were captured on my kitchen table. Even though I consider myself to be a patient individual, I didn’t feel like going through the painstaking process of making a stop-animation. So, instead, I went an easier route and made a kind of lo-fi, 21st century parlour cut-out puppet show. I...

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Adrian Crowley ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ out 30th April 2021

Northbound Stowaway - Directed by Niall Mc Cann & Adrian Crowley

“When Adrian asked me if I would work on the video for Northbound Stowaway the first thing we had to figure out was how we make it while not being able to leave the house. Restrictions are often a good thing when making something like this. Our ability to shoot footage or meet up was obviously curtailed, but constraints can be your friend. Adrian would shoot different takes of him singing the song and would send it over to me to work on. The video is kind of like how you might feel after 24...

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Adrian Crowley ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ Album le 30 Avril 2021

video réalisée par Niall Mc Cann et Adrian Crowley

À propos de la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway :

« Quand Adrian m’a demandé si je travaillerais sur la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway, la première chose que nous avons dû comprendre était de savoir comment nous y arriverions sans pouvoir quitter la maison. Les restrictions sont souvent une bonne chose pour faire quelque chose comme ça.

Notre capacité à filmer ou à nous rencontrer était évidemment réduite, mais les contraintes peuvent être parfois votre ami. Adrian tournait diff...

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Adrianne Lenker ‘Songs’ out 23rd October 2020

Filmed by Adrianne Lenker and Philip Weinrobe

Lenker made the record (out on 4AD) in a one-room cabin in the woods of Western Massachusetts where she holed up in spring, waiting out the early days of the pandemic and reeling from a broken heart. The simple pinewood planks of the shack’s interior reminded her, she said, of “the inside of an acoustic guitar,” which is to say it felt like home. Her friend Philip Weinrobe, a recording engineer, was summoned with a truckload of gear: half-inch tape machines, XLR cables, a binaural mic. ...

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Alabaster Deplume ‘Visit Croatia’ EP out 21st July 2020

Prominently sampled on Bon Iver’s recent track “PDLIF,” “Visit Croatia” is the title track from a new mini EP by Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator Angus Fairbairn, aka Alabaster DePlume. It’s taken from the album To Cy & Lee Instrumentals Vol. 1 (available on vinyl and via digital services now) which was released to tremendous acclaim in February.

“One day, I realized I was waiting for someone to give me permission to make t...

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Alejandro Escovedo ‘La Cruzada’ (the Crossing)

Interview CBS This Morning

Alejandro Escovedo’s critically acclaimed album ‘The Crossing’ with the vocals recorded in Spanish, pressed on red, white and green striped double vinyl for Record Store Day.

Scorching and cinematic ‘The Crossing’ follows the story of two young immigrants, one from Mexico and one from Italy, as they come to the United States to pursue their American dream and in search of their punk rock idols. He co-wrote and performed it with Italian band Don Antonio from Mogdilana led by guita...

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Alex Bleeker ‘Heaven on the Faultline’ out 5th March 2020

Mashed Potatoes

‘I want a cup of coffee mashed potatoes and juice I want peace and justice but really what’s the use.’ [1 min 32]

Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

“The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom … When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?”

Mashed Potatoes is one of those beautiful songs ilk of ...

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Alex Lahey ‘Let’s Go Out (Bedroom Version)’ – Official Lyric Video

“Let’s Go Out” has taken on a different meaning , with Alex taking a fan favourite sing along party tune into a chilled out moody iso piano ballad.

Performed By: Alex Lahey

Video Created by: Tom Nickeas

Illustrations by: Felicity Case-Mejia and Tom Nickeas

altopalo ‘farawayfromeveryoneyouknow’ out 24th April 2020

Art by Jackson Bernard

altopalo is the hive-minded project of Rahm Silverglade, Mike Haldeman, Dillon Treacy, and Jesse Bielenberg. The group met in New York and have spent the few years writing, recording, touring and making music with and around one another.

Individually the members have played live with Moses Sumney, Amber Mark, Kevin Garrett and beyond. 2018 marks the beginning of the release of their debut album ‘frozenthere’. The project spans across, rock, indie, soul, funk, and electronic soundscapes wh...

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Amy Douglas ‘Cities In Dust’ Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cover

Directed by Dave Baron

For her first release on Lady Balls, Amy Douglas covered ‘Cities In Dust‘ – Siouxsie Sioux‘s Epic tale of Pompeii.

“Hot and burning in your nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies, blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes
And ohh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend“

Angel Olsen ‘Whole New Mess’ out 28th August 2020

The Tonight Show Jimmy Fallon Directed by Josh Sliffe

Released on Jagjaguwar.

A super intimate and vulnerable emotional portrait that shows her grappling with a period of personal tumult, Whole New Mess presents Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest.

Whole New Mess follows All Mirrors. At least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to any of you who have heard All Mirrors. “Lark,” “Summer,...

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Art School Girlfriend ‘In the Middle’

Director - Tom Dream

London-based producer, multi-instrumental musician and vocalist Art School Girlfriend shares her new single ‘In The Middle’ via Fiction Records/Wolf Tone.

Torn from the pages of a diary kept by Art School Girlfriend’s Polly Mackey in 2019, her forthcoming debut album chronicles the period following her US tour in support of The Japanese House where, after returning to the UK, Mackey would end her six year relationship, leave her home of Margate and return to London. While sleeping on a ...

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Asian Dub Foundation ‘Access Denied’ out 29th May 2020

Filmed and edited by Global Faction

Out on X-Ray Productions with collaborations featuring incendiary Palestinian shamstep warriors 47 soul, radical UK comedian Stewart Lee (‘Comin’ Over Here’), and climate activist supreme Greta Thunberg.

The album showcases ADF in full spectrum mode from the tough Jungle Punk sound of “Stealing The Future” and “Mindlock” through to the orchestral meditations of “Realignment” and the reggae lament of the title track. Unbowed and undeterred Asian Dub Foundation continue their...

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Babii ‘iii’ EP out 27th March 2020

DiiRECTOR - BABii

BABii wrote and produced all the music for “SNAKE” as well as creating the concept, directing, producing, editing, styling and building the set for the video. Speaking about the meaning behind the song, BABii said “‘SNAKE’ is a vicious ode to a manipulative spiteful person who has caused me, and a lot of people who are close to me, so much emotional pain that it managed to manifest its self into this song. Making this song helped me heal and purge the poison, so I could m...

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BABii ‘Shadow’

DiiRECTOR - BABii & JOHNNY GODDARD

A MYSTERiiOUS SPiiRiiT DOOMED THE RUSTiiNG SCRAPYARD WiiTH LiiFE AND A BABY WAS BORN FROM THE TWiiSTED METAL OF CRUSHED MACHiiNERY AND THE BRUiiSED COLOURS OF ENGiiNE OiiL. AND SHE SOFTLY FELT THE LOSS OF A GUARDiiAN WHO WAS NEVER THERE. SHE WAS CURSED WiiTH AN ASPHALT HEART AND DiiESEL TAiiNTED BLOOD. EVERY WOUND AND SPiiLT DROPLET OF FOSSiiL OiLED BLOOD BROUGHT LiiFE TO A DEMON, WHO HAUNTED HER AND BECAME HER SHADOW FOR ALL ETERNiiTY. MANY DEMONS LATER, SHE CAME FACE TO FACE WiiTH A MYSTERi...

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Big Eyes Family ‘The Disappointed Chair’ out 13th November 2020

Video by LeeMondo

We’ve changed our name. It isn’t radical, but with the nature of how the band of how it has been for the last eight or so years (more of a group, less of a collaborative project), we’ve decided to shorten it to ‘Big Eyes Family’. I hope that is ok with you.

Four years have whizzed by since our last record (Oh!, 2016), and here is the follow-up. In a way it feels like a continuation of the same psychedelic pop project, except perhaps that the songs have become a little more odd and t...

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Black Midi ‘Cavalcade’ out 28th May 2021

'John L' Director/choreographer - Nina McNeely with the The Entity Dance Company

The experimental UK band ‘black midi’ have announced their second album, Cavalcade (Rough Trade). To mark the occasion, they have shared the single ‘John L’ and a music video directed by choreographer and creative director Nina McNeely, whose previous projects include Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer” visual and Gaspar Noé’s Climax.

After initially recording “John L” with producer Marta Salogni in London, the band found themselves in the aptly named Hellfire Studios, in the Dubli...

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Black Midi announce sophomore album ‘Cavalcade’ out 28th May 2021

The experimental UK band ‘black midi’ have announced their second album, Cavalcade (Rough Trade). To mark the occasion, they have shared the single ‘John L’ and a music video directed by choreographer and creative director Nina McNeely, whose previous projects include Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer” visual and Gaspar Noé’s Climax.

After initially recording “John L” with producer Marta Salogni in London, the band found themselves in the aptly named Hellfire Studios, in the Dubli...

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Brother May and Micachu Archives 2008-2014

Brother May and Micachu

Brother May and Micachu met in 2006 in an internet cafe on white-cross street- both putting songs up on myspace – Brother May was with some friends and his brother as well. They all ended up making music together and Brother May gave Mica the name Micachu. They have been making music now for 14 years. This release is some improvised freestyles and beat making from Brother May and Micachu. Made in kitchens and bedrooms.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ‘New Fragility’ Out 12th February 2021

Where they perform miracles

“Born in Philadelphia but now living in the south

Your hand slipped slowly into mine somehow

And who’s going to argue with a perfect start?

But will you still be there when I’m down and out?

I know a place where they perform miracles”

“These songs are politically motivated, which is unusual for me,” Alec Ounsworth says of “Hesitating Nation’”and “Thousand Oaks”. “The only other politically motivated song I’ve written is ‘Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’....

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The Coral ‘Coral Island’ Out 30th April 2021

Production and Direction by Edwin Burdis

The Coral return with a vividly evocative body of work in the form of their Tenth and first, ever double-album: Coral Island.

Squinting into the neon-lit penny arcades and draining an after hours glass with the displaced and dispossessed once the power is pulled, The Coral’s latest caper concerns listeners with the light, shade, thrills and profound melancholy of coastal palaces packed with fun and fright. Both now and then, or perhaps never as fiction encroaches on reality, the feverou...

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Cory Hanson ‘Angeles’

Directed by: The Coconut Brothers | Animation by: Casey Hanson

New video ‘Angeles’ from the album ‘Pale Horse Rider’.

Directed by: The Coconut Brothers Animation by: Casey Hanson

Cory Hanson ‘Pale Horse Rider’ Out 12th March 2021

Directed by: Cory & Casey Hanson Liquid Visuals by: the Mad Alchemist Liquid Light Show

Myths and truths of a country on the way down, viewed through a deep-focus lens trained on the city from the deserts on the east; a terminus of unoccupied residential parks and streets fading into craggy footpaths to nowhere, where our passage is seen as diligent, ephemeral and grotesque by turns, forgiven and made beautiful again by the sound. Drag City

Dan Rumsey & the Dark Days ‘The Darkest Day’ Out 15th May 2020

Shot & Directed by Molly Keane

The Darkest Day EP was written, and recorded, after The Wytches finished their hotly anticipated third album. These songs are a million miles away from The Wytches. They are brooding, filled with lyrics about anxiety, love, loss and redemption. ‘Into the Fire’ sounds like a heavier Interpol. Slabs of guitars get right in your face from the start and don’t let up until it ends. However, they are also packed with hope. A hope that the pain will recede, not go away, but lessen and that eve...

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DISCOVER Arthur Russell ‘Iowa Dream’

I Never Get Lonesome from Iowa Dream

Arthur Russell‘s climb to celebrated musician has for the most part taken place over the last 16 years, encouraged by a flow of compilation albums collected from the bottomless well of partially finished songs he left behind, much like his latest 2019 release ‘Iowa Dream’.

Nearly half the songs on ‘Iowa Dream’ are drawn from recording sessions with both Columbia Records‘ legendary John Hammond and Mercury’s Paul Nelson. Hammond considered Russell to have the potential to become ...

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DISCOVER Dur-Dur Band ‘Yabaal’

Yabaal - Fadumina - Jazz Cafe- Dur-Dur Band International

‘Yabaal’ from Dur Dur Band of Mogadishu Somalia – Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks by Dur-Dur Band originally performed 1986

Watching this joyful hand camera video of Dur Dur Band is indicative that it is impossible to stand still whilst listening to the Somalian funk. It’s too easy for us to forget that before the civil war, 1980s Mogadishu was a thriving cultural hub. It is our loss that, in their heyday, we in the West didn’t recognise the sensational Dur-Dur...

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DISCOVER Eilisio Vera ‘Capchona’

Eilisio Vera 'Capchona' from the album Space Echo compiled by Analog Africa

Analog Africa released the compilation album “Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed” in May 2016. Compiled and produced by label founder Samy Ben Redjeb, the album consists of upbeat and energetic tracks by various artists from the remote island of Cabo Verde off the West Coast of Africa, originally recorded in the 1970’s when the island was under Portuguese colonial rule.

The album is synth-heavy and almost futuristic sounding, but what reall...

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DISCOVER Gotts Street Park – Everything ft. Rosie Lowe

Gotts Street Park - Everything ft. Rosie Lowe

This beautiful collaboration between Leeds collective Gotts Street Park and Domino Publishing writer Rosie Lowe was created and released during lockdown, in October 2020. The band sent Lowe the instrumental without having met her yet, and she comments: “I had the melody in my head before the song was even finished. It sparked such a strong energy for me and I wanted to capture that as quickly as possible; by the end of the day the whole song was written.” Lowe’s vocals and the jazz/soul...

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DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself’

In such a chaotic time, it couldn’t be more important to check in and ‘be good to yourself’. Just as Johnnie Frierson sings on the ultra-rare home recordings drawn from his religious upbringing and his history in the music business, which was interrupted in 1970 when he was sent to fight in Vietnam.

‘Have You Been Good To Yourself‘ will come as a surprise to anyone expecting more of the beat-driven R&B Johnnie and his sibling produced.

With the year we’ve all had, these lyrics...

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DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Miracles’

As part of Light in the Attic’s on-going 7″ covers series we celebrate the song “Miracles” (written by Johnnie Frierson. The a-side includes Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (feat. Ty Segall) covering “Miracles,” while the flip-side includes Johnnie’s original version, taken from our reissue of his album Have You Been Good To Yourself.

Johnnie Frierson was a soul-singer/songwriter on the Memphis scene of the 1960s, perhaps best known for his role in The Drapels, tho...

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DISCOVER Late of the Pier ‘Bathroom Gurgle’

Photo credit: Jon Bergman

Click here to watch ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ by Late of the Pier

Forming in Castle Donnington in 2005, Late of the Pier were four school friends, Samuel Eastgate (vocals, guitar), Sam Potter (synths, sampler), Andrew Faley (bass), and Ross Dawson (drums) – or, as they called themselves: Samuel Dust, Jack Paradise, Francis Dudley Dance, and Red Dog Consuela.

With social media and streaming in its infancy, people had messy lives – partying went relentlessly unchecked and anything was possible....

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DISCOVER Touch and Go ‘Big Beat’

Taken from the 1999 Touch and Go album ‘I Find You Very Attractive‘, ‘Big Beat’ is an unexpected gem amongst an album of 90s classics.  It’s a catchy, happy, mischievous number with pop vocals, a jazzy joyful dance track with bebop sensibility . In the 90s this track was widely known to be used in comedy sketches and in clubs when the DJ wanted to get people on their feet. The most famous track of this record was ‘Would You…?‘ which achieved number 3 in the UK Charts and prov...

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Domino Publishing at The Grammys 2021

Devonté Hynes - Big Thief - Fontaines D.C. - Thomas Bartlett

Domino Publishing is very proud to have four of our writers nominated in six categories at the 2021 Grammy Awards.

Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album for ‘A Hero’s Death’. This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battere...

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DOMINO WELLNESS 2021

Welcome to 2021 – This year Domino bring music and wellness by creating motivating and healing playlists. 

WORKOUT PLAYLIST | CHILL PLAYLIST

We have been keen to give you the opportunity to use music and the senses to ground yourselves during these anxious times. Have we lost our minds? Probably multiple times lately. When you lose your mind, sensory grounding is a fantastic way of reconnecting you to your environment. Music can help with that.

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BODY AND MIND There’s been lots of he...
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Dub Pistols ‘Addict’ out 16th October 2020

Directed by Dean Hennessy

‘​Addict​’ is the eighth studio album from the highly respected group.  The record promises a melting pot of dubwise sensibility, junglist riddims and feelgood party anthems and is already shaping up to be one of the year’s essential releases.

“I recorded over 3 albums worth of music to get to the finished version of ‘Addict’,” says Dub Pistols mastermind Barry Ashworth.  “Every time I finished a song, I would come up with another idea for a track and an artist I wanted ...

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Edo Funk Explosion vol 1. out 26th March 2021

Akaba Man & The Nigie Rokets - Ta Gha Hunsimwen [Analog Africa]

It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born.
It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from West Africa ́s night-clubs. Unlike the rather polished 1980 ́s Nigerian disco productions coming out of the international metropolis of Lagos Edo Funk was raw and re...

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Emily Barker ‘A Dark Murmuration of Words’ out 4th September 2020

The songs on the album are an exploration of climate change, racism, sexism, and myths of economic progress through the lens of constant questioning of what it means to feel at “home.” – searching for connections between these themes and how they shape the rapidly shifting modern world we live in. Finding meaning becomes challenging with the deafening clamour of social media in this age of fake news and algorithmically filtered conversations, but it feels important to try.

The American ...

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EVENT Parquet Courts are 10! ‘On Time’ livestream 10th December 2020

On Time Trailer

Join us to celebrate Parquet Courts’ 10th anniversary at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works 10th December 2020

Parquet Courts have been praised as one of the decade’s essential bands. Over the years, they’ve released five acclaimed studio albums, countless EPs and singles, and played over a thousand shows.  Their influence reverberates not only through New York City’s music scene, but far beyond our shores. Lyrically, their songs have revealed a desperately prescient quality, as narratives o...

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Fontaines D.C. ‘A Hero’s Death’ out 31st July 2020

Televised Mind Director: Hugh Mulhern

Barely a year since their debut Dogrel earned them a spot as one of the most acclaimed new bands of 2019, Fontaines D.C. is back with ‘A Hero’s Death’. Arriving battered and bruised – albeit beautiful – the album is anything but a re-hash of the swaggering energy from their first record. Instead the music is patient, confident, and complex – full of heady and philosophical takes on the modern world and its great uncertainty. READ MORE

Fontaines D.C. en live pour Echoes with Jehnny Beth

produit par Walter Films

Près d’un an après la sortie de A Hero’s Death, le second album du quatuor post-punk, Jehnny Beth invite Fontaines D.C. live pour le quatrième episode d’Echo with Jehnny Beth diffusé sur Arte TV.
Après avoir reçu des artistes tel que Primal Scream, King Krule, Kim Gordon ou encore Rone, c’est au tour de ces cinq jeunes musiciens Irlandais d’y défendre cet album plus apaisé et introspectif que leur prédécesseur.
Une prestation intense et cérébrale qui nous réconforte alo...

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Fontaines D.C. perform ‘A Hero’s Death’ for The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Dir: Samuel Taylor

Filmed in London at The Auld Shillelagh pub (a band favourite) and directed by Samuel Taylor on air 28th January 2021 and 29th January 2021 on Sky Comedy at 10:50pm GMT.

Futurebirds ‘Teamwork’ out 15th January 2020

'Waiting on a Call' Director Alex Beaver

Athens, Georgia (USA), has been a hotbed for great rock music (and music of all types) for the better part of the last 50 years, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change in the next 10. Raspy roots-rockers Futurebirds are four albums deep a decade into their career, but the arrival of their fifth is still a cause worth commemorating. Their earnest brand of country-tinged, sultry singsong fits right in alongside all your favorite indie-folk and Americana records. But Futurebirds are...

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George FitzGerald collaborates with Lil Silva on Otherliine LP out 31st January 2020

'Chimes' by Otherliine

In 2018, Lil Silva featured on an co-wrote ‘Roll Back‘ with George FitzGerald. Released by Ministry of Sound Records, OTHERLiiNE is the debut collaborative project from producer George FitzGerald with Lil Silva.  Single “One Line” is carefully crafted, transcendent dance music – an elegant soon-to-be club classic from two of the UK’s most exciting underground producers. ‘Chimes‘ debuted on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show.

Tracklist:

  1. ONE LINE
  2. CHIMES
  3. iiNTERLUDE 1
  4. HATES ME
  5. WH...
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Georgia and François Marry en live pour Rone & Friends au Théâtre du Châtelet

Produit par Miligram

Georgia Barnes et François Marry (Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains) qui ont tout deux co-écrit respectivement ‘Waves of Devotion’ et ‘Quitter la ville’ ont interprétés ces titres lors du concert spécial de Rone & Friends au Théatre du Châtelet diffusé sur Arte TV. Un concert aux côtés d’artistes tel que Flavien Berger, Wanessa Wagner, Camélia Jordana, Jehnny Beth ou encore Dominique A qui célèbre la dernière sortie du musicien électronique sur lequel figure sa c...

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Good Bad Happy Sad ‘Shades’ out 16th October 2020

'Looking Up At The Sun' dir. Shane Connolly

Mica Levi’s band, formerly known as Micachu and the Shapes, embraces imperfection, evoking late-’80s indie pop in whimsical ideas, unsteady rhythms, and meticulous detailing.

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Heather Trost ‘Petrichor’ out 6th November 2020

Love It Grows

Third Man Records present the New Mexico-based artist Heather Trost’s second or third solo full-length.

Sonically, this modern psychedelic pop music is as experimental as it is accessible. Petrichor was recorded between 2018 and 2019 by Heather Trost and her husband Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel) at their home studio. The two are community activists in New Mexico, urban gardeners, and full-time musicians.

“As the rain renews the thirsty soil, let Heather Trost’s ‘Petrichor’ soot...

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Ian Chang ‘属 Belonging’ out 24th April 2020

Directed and animated by Qieer Wang

‘属 Belonging’, Ian Chang’s first full-length album, is like a cyborg – part purring mechanism, part animate bio-mass rising from primordial ooze. In nine concise, largely instrumental pop songs, Chang conjures a personal cosmos: the listener feels as if we might reach out and touch Belonging’s jagged and tender aural sculptures. At every level, his music sings with earnest and deceptive simplicity. The album’s melodies are intimate, its rhythms rewarding, and yet, just beneath t...

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Iglooghost ‘Big Protector’

“I recently started a research institute to study a special subgenre called Lei Music. This video documents an expedition we took to a place known as the M⚮rlands. This infinite biome of rugged granite and soil surrounds the towns that practice Lei Music & very little is known about it. It is inhabited by strange organic drones knows as Celles, yet the few people who have stepped into the M⚮rlands have struggled to form any type of contact with these beings. Our expedition’s purpo...

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Iglooghost ‘Lei Line Eon’ out 2nd April 2021

Sylph Fossil「Visualiser」by Iglooghost Violin arrangement by Vivek Menon Violin engineering by Drew Atz Additional vocals by Cuushe & BABii

“I have spent the past year researching a lost tradition of my hilltop birthplace called ‘Lei Music.’ This special genre has the ability to summon strange, squeaking entities from invisible zones. These songs are transcribed to special discs called ‘Lei Disks’ – and are now hoarded & traded obsessively by modern-day collectors.

There is no clear explanation of why the performance of Lei Music has such extraordinary effects. Some believe it could be related to a variety of pro...

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Iglooghost╰ ⋵ ⋰ ☼ ⑇ Eœ (Disk•Initiate)

Directed by Iglooghost. 3D Animation by Christopher Casey Denton.

This release is the first track marking a new era of Iglooghost. EΠis a departure from earlier IG works sitting in a more ethereal and stripped back realm and is his unique vision on an orchestral piece of piano and violins.

Accompanied by this release is a short film documentary. The documentary is an insight into the world of ‘Lei Music‘ , In IG’s own words “This special genre has the ability to summon strange, squeaking entities from invisible zones. These songs are transcribed t...

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Islands ‘Islomania’ out 11th June 2021

'Do It With the Lights On' directed by Tim Nackashi Nick Thorburn dancing alongside Gigi Todisco (Choreography)

“Do It With the Lights On” is a catchy bit of dance-pop led by an irrepressible bass line and a vocal performance from Nick Thorburn (Domino Publishing) that flits between blasé, charming, and exuberant: “Dance to the song, on and on,” he sings, “We do it with the lights on/We like to do it with the lights on/Bang on a gong, on and on/We do it with the lights on.”

Islands originally formed in 2005 and released seven albums before splitting in 2016; the group’s final two albums fro...

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Jackie Lynn ‘Jacqueline’ is out 10th April 2020

Casino Queen Directed by Haley Fohr & Krzys Piotrowski

Jackie Lynn is the fictional alter ego of singer/songwriter Haley Fohr who is also known for her indie folk project Circuit des Yeux. The debut album told the story of Jackie’s (fictional) life to date. On ‘Jacqueline’, Jackie Lynn returns and her continuing story is brought to us by Fohr, Cooper Crain, Rob Frye and Dan Quinlivan of Bitchin Bajas.

Along with the announcement, the band have shared the album’s first single, the driving and hypnotic opening song ‘Casino Queen’ which...

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James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra ‘The Wide Wide River’ out 22nd January 2021

'Struggle' Video director/photographer/edit: Sven Blume

‘I flew to Sweden and made this record within hours of meeting The Second Hand Orchestra. I played them the songs, we hit record, and from then, every note of every arrangement was spontaneous. The result: this fast-footed, free-wheeling album’ James Yorkston

Jennifer Castle ‘Monarch Season’ out 16th October 2020

'Justice' Animation by Jesi Jordan

Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle is as open-ended and unfurnished as folk music can get. Each of its songs was recorded at Castle’s Ontario home, the windows open to let in sounds from Lake Erie just outside. The lyrics are bound by a focus on the moon, but you would be hard-pressed to find anything resembling a narrative in her writing. “I see the wings in everything,” Castle sings in the title track, offering a key into the imagistic worldview that spans her music.

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Jens Kuross ‘The Man Nobody Can Touch’ out 25th September 2020

Jessy Lanza ‘All The Time’ out 24th July 2020

Directed by Winston H Case.

The early days of writing All the Time, Jessy Lanza’s first album since 2016’s Oh No, marked a sea change for Jessy and her creative partner Jeremy Greenspan (Junior Boys). After Oh No, Jessy left her hometown of Hamilton to go and live in New York. Written long distance for the first time, across Jessy’s new set up in New York to Jeremy’s home studio in Hamilton, and finishing in the recording studio Jeremy had been working on during this period.

Even though the move to New York and ...

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Joe Wong ‘Nite Creatures’ out 15th May 2020

The Long Parade

Joe Wong is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and podcaster based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently the host of The Trap Set, a weekly podcast and radio show about the lives of musicians. Out on Decca Records, the album ‘Nite Creatures’ was produced by Mary Timony (Ex Hex, Helium), who also plays guitar on the record, and it also features Mary Lattimore, Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd, War on Drugs’ Jon Natchez, Shudder to think frontman (and fellow film/TV...

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JW Francis ‘Maybe’

'Maybe' director David Kong

Filled with psychedelic grooves and laid-back vocals, ‘Maybe’ is the latest single in what will be a very busy year for the New York troubadour. Recorded in Hackney Studios, the track is about the anxiety of decision making; something JW himself has been dealing with personally after quitting his job to walk the Appalachian Trial.

Accompanying the new single is also the hilarious video directed by friend and collaborator David Kong:
“The music video for Maybe is the result of us drinkin...

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JW Francis ‘We Share a Similar Joy’ out 6th November 2020

Good Time Video by Clayton McCracken

JW was born in Oklahoma, raised in Paris, living in New York City, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and Murder Mystery business owner, JW Francis is now the newest signing to Sunday Best Recordings. His brand of lo-fi, utterly irresistible bedroom dream-pop takes its lead from the city JW lives in, with echoes of Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground and the lo-fi sound New York has been inspiring for decades.

JW Francis joins Domino Publishing

New York Video by Clayton McCracken

Born in Oklahoma, raised in Paris, living in New York City, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and Murder Mystery business owner, JW Francis is the newest signing to Sunday Best Recordings. His brand of lo-fi, utterly irresistible bedroom dream-pop takes its lead from the city JW lives in, with echoes of Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground and the lo-fi sound New York has been inspiring for decades.

The first single to be released by Sunday Best is the g...

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Kaki King ‘Modern Yesterdays’ out 23rd October 2020

Forms of Light and Death
Internationally renowned guitarist and composer Kaki King joins the Cantaloupe Music family with her latest album, Modern Yesterdays. Co-produced with sound designer Chloe Alexandra Thompson and recording engineer Arjan Miranda, it’s her first full-length studio project since the 2015 release of The Neck Is A Bridge to the Body (“bursting with masterclass talent,” as reviewed in PopMatters), and her first to be recorded almost entirely on acoustic guitar.

Rich in post-classical, jazz, f...

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Kris Delmhorst ‘Long Day In the Milky Way’ out 14th August 2020

Wind's Gonna Find a Way

With Long Day in the Milky Way, Delmhorst takes a surefooted stride forward. Listeners should expect lush, layered vocals and immersive instrumentation. The album finds the gifted lyricist at the height of her craft and working with a strong sense of purpose. World-weary but hopeful, the songwriter in her responds to a time of global anxiety with a missive straight from the chest. Delmhorst invites the listener to look both out and in, to take in the full kaleidoscope of life’s contradictio...

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L.A. Salami ‘Self Portrait in Sound EP’ out 4th February 2020

'We'll Solve it After' Lyric Video

After introducing the character of Papalious Stokely with the ‘L.A. Salami’s Walkabout’ EP, L.A. Salami builds towards the January 31st release of its second chapter, ‘Self Portrait In Sound’, by sharing its lead track ‘We’ll Solve It After’. 

 ‘We’ll Solve It After’ examines a relationship which seems to be doomed from the start. Yet it’s something both partners are more than willing to overlook as they’re caught up in the moment. At the same time, howe...

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L.A. Salami ‘The Cause of Doubt & a Reason to Have Faith’ out 17th July 2020

Video - The Talis-man on the Age of Glass (Redux)

The LP  sees Lookman explore experimental ground, touching on a bit of everything from rap to psychedelic folk, and sultry grooves which venture into extended hypnotic jams. This isn’t the music of a virtuoso: it’s explorative, daring, meditative and wild.  Lookman describes the inspiration behind his new album,  “I love the deliberateness, cleanness and colour of modern music, but I also miss the complete chaos of old, like some Captain Beefheart and Velvet Underground records, or e...

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Lauer feat. Dena ‘Make It Stay’

Video director: Tobias Becker

Dena joins Lauer on this single from his album Answers 2 Trouble (out 2nd April 2021 on Permanent Vacation)

“I’m feeling like the sun on my face now
Like on a hot summer day now
Lovе don’t always have to go away
Can we make, can wе make it stay?“

Laura Groves ‘A Private Road’ out 4th December 2020

Infinite Wisdom

Groves says: “This record, made mostly on my own, became both a channel for the expression of an inner world and an imagined soundtrack to my physical journeys through the city. It is rooted in the stories, atmospheres, mistakes and wrong turns, desires and layers of meaning that run through and play out in the landscapes we inhabit. The songs are snapshots of late night journeys across the river, the sparks of love that transform us and keep us going, the dead ends that the mind can lead ...

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Laura Groves ‘Foolish Game’

Foolish Game

I can’t hear your voice
In a long time when I hear coming around
To the heat of all we’re burning up
Can’t hear your voice
In a long time, there’s nothing to talk about
So good to facing now
You were a hobby, yeah
It’s just a hobby yeah

From the album A Private Road (Bella Union)

Lava La Rue ‘Butter-Fly EP’ Out 19th February 2021

Lava La Rue - Angel ft. Deb Never Director: Greedy Goons

Featuring the incredible singles “Angel” ft. Deb Never and “G.O.Y.D.” ft. Clairo, the project sees production from the likes of Isom Innis (Foster The People) and Vegyn (Frank Ocean).

Butter-Fly (Marathon Artists) showcases Lava’s incredible dexterity as an artist – flitting between a honey-tinged vocal and trademark rap flow. A collection of queer love songs in various guises, Lava takes us on a journey of her sonic capabilities; from the 2020 dream-like intro “Magpie” , thro...

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Lava La Rue ‘Magpie’

“The Magpie music video is London’s subcultural history timeline personified into a person walking through a tube carriage.

Showing many elements of how British Caribbean sound system culture, UK black punk, Notting Hill carnival,

2000s Grime & more, would become the blueprint of the contemporary music scene we know today.” Lava La Rue

Lawrence Hart ‘Surrender Yourself’ EP out 26th February 2021

Surrender Yourself (SSEM Records)

Lawrence Hart drops his debut solo EP with the final tracks ‘Surrender Yourself’ and ‘Sun Sets on The Eastern Bloc’. It delivers intricate electronic production, analogue mastery and a euphoric fragility through a momentous track, just begging for the return of the club dancefloor.

The EP follows his debut solo track ‘Try Repeat’ – named Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune on BBC Radio 1. ‘Sunsets on the Eastern Bloc’ arrives with an accompanying remix by electronic great Dark ...

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Lawrence Hart ‘Try Repeat’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmqLGN5TzKA

Lawrence Hart has collaborated with George Fitzgerald and Little Cub.

In advance of his DEBUT EP ‘Surrender Yourself’, we share ‘Try Repeat’.

Lawrence says “Clubs are like churches. Places, where people come to let, go of the individual, in order to connect with others, to something greater than themselves. This EP is an antidote to individualism.”

Luke Abbott ‘Translate’ out 20th November 2020

Earthship

Along with the announcement he has shared Kagen Sound, the album’s richly textured opener – menacingly driving but punctuated with endearing flourishes, it’s an assured and impossible-to-ignore return.

Speaking of the track Abbott says: “Kagen Sound is one of the simpler tracks on the record, it’s based around the Korg Monopoly, which is one of my favourite sounding synths. The track is named after an American puzzle box maker, he makes the most incredibly intricate wooden puzzl...

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Malcolm Goldie ‘The Sound of Malcolm’

'Ponytail'

Malcolm Goldie – Old chum of Trunk Records. “Very talented. Has been making insane sonic cut-ups and musical designs for advertising for a while – anarchic skits for things like adidas football boots and modern wacky make up. Anyway, I really like his work, his timing and his odd ideas, so I asked him to make me an LP, This is it.” Jonny Trunk

OVERVIEW:
Sounds totally insane. Like made by a cage of techno chimps or minions or something. Not sure it should even be allowed. Nearest th...

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Mara Carlyle ‘Lividly Lonely’

BANDCAMP

“I wrote Lividly Lonely during what can be best described as a ‘dry patch’ in my personal life in 2015. I stole some chords from Laurence Crane’s magnum opus Raimondas Rumsas, whacked on some clonky beats, played the spoons and then whinged all over it like a petulant teenager. Produced by moi with additional prodding from Paul White and Joe Goddard. …
Lividly Lonely was the first of a batch of songs that appeared in my noodle seemingly out of nowhere five years ago. The ot...
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Mdou Moctar ‘Afrique Victime’ out 21st May 2021

'Tala Tannam' Directed by Cem Misirlioglu Footage shot by WH Moustapha (Dynamique Image) & Mikey Coltun

Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music with his unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar. In 2019, he was described by the Guardian as ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara’. With “Afrique Victime” out on Matador Records, the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field rec...

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Melissa Mary Ahern ‘Stone by Stone’

Written and co-produced by Melissa Mary Ahern. Filmed by Albert Rudnitsky. Bass, mixing and co-production by Andy Stack. Drums by Dave Tedeschi. Hammond Organ by Jeremy Baum. Electric guitar and vocals by Melissa Mary Ahern. Released on FatCat Records, March 26, 2021.

 

(Verse 1)

Stone by stone

I will rebuild

Until I am whole again

Until I am whole again

The roses you gave hang to dry

A candle burns low

Its shadow dances on the wall

As I drift far away

(Chorus 1)

The roses you gav...

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Mia Doi Todd ‘Music Life’ Out 12th February 2021

Music Life

Mia Doi Todd 12th album, Music Life, was recorded in her native Los Angeles. The album features guest performances from Jeff Parker, Money Mark, Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Laraaji.

Ever since her debut release in 1997, singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd has created a body of work that is intensely personal and unique, with a rich variety of cultural and creative influences. A solo artist with an innate sense of connecting links between other musicians, Mia has ...

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Mica Levi signs to Domino Publishing

Taken from the score for "Monos" directed by Alejandro Landes.

Domino Publishing is happy to announce the signing of musician and composer Mica Levi. 

From South East London Mica has spent the past decade conjuring seminal pieces of work; from scoring major award nominated motion pictures to disturbing the notion of pop music. Emerging with a classical background they have navigated their career with a heavily collaborative and punk ethic, deftly invigorating electronic music from the underground to mainstream stages. Their singular vision is one we fir...

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Michelle Blades ‘Nombrar las cosas’ out 5th June 2020

'Amor sin destino' Music video by: ZEUGL

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Michelle Blades reveals a discography infused with multiple sounds as an extension of her nomadic life spent between Panama, where she was born; Mexico, land of her mother’s family; Florida where she escaped from Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship, Arizona, where the young woman met Phoenix’s underground and alternative culture and France to make up a music career spanning over ten years.

Shaping a multifaceted artistic universe

Michelle Blades gleans uni...

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Middle Kids ‘Questions’

Director & Producer W.A.M. Bleakley @wambleakley

‘Questions’ from Middle Kids’ album ‘Today We’re The Greatest’ out 19th March 2021.

Middle Kids ‘Today We’re the Greatest’ Out 19th March 2021

Questions' Director & Producer W.A.M. Bleakley

The Sydney-based three-piece Middle Kids, formed of lead singer and songwriter Hannah Joy, multi-instrumentalist Tim Fitz and drummer, Harry Day, announced ‘Today We’re The Greatest’  out on Lucky Number (Domino Records US/Domino Publishing Worldwide).

Recorded and produced in Los Angeles by Lars Stalfors (St. Vincent, Soccer Mummy, Purity Ring), the follow-up to the band’s award-winning 2018 debut, Lost Friends, is their most personal and courageous effort to date. Moving away from...

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Mikal Cronin ‘Switched​-​On Seeker’ out 30th June 2020

Guardian Well

Limited edition companion piece to Mikal Cronin‘s 2019 Seeker album, Switched-On Seeker (Merge Records) is a completely synth-based, full-length reworking of 2019’s Seeker in the vein of Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On series.

Mike Polizze ‘Long Lost Solace Find’ out 31st July 2020

Directed by Mike Polizze

The Purling Hiss frontman teams with Kurt Vile for a record of simple folk songs pairing blissful sounds with plainspoken sentiments. PITCHFORK

“So many of these songs give me chills. I wish I wrote ‘Cheewawa’ (guess I’ll have to cover it!) … Luckily I got to play harmonica and sing ghost vocals on it… I’ve been waiting for this kinda Polizze. I think we all could use these catchy, beautiful jams in our respective quarantines (physical and mental).” Kurt Vile

The debut solo al...

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Mike Wexler with Synthetic Love Dream out 30th October 2020

'Flying Islands'

In 2014, while wrapping up the mix sessions for Syntropy (three:four, 2016), Mike Wexler found himself writing a different kind of song. Whereas Syntropy had been beholden to a world of ideas laying just beyond the purview of the songs themselves, something new began to present itself – something more streamlined, more personal, direct, and grounded in a bedrock universality of form. Where was this shift coming from? – At the same time decidedly more straightforward and troublingly dark. ...

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Moon Bounce ‘Skip Intro’ out 21st February 2020

Art Directed by Troy Curtis Kreiner. Produced by Grind Select.

Following nearly three years of silence and a battle with anxiety disorder, Moon Bounce returns with his sophomore full-length LP, Skip Intro, a memento of panic-ridden ruminations. Combining soulful melodies, jilted percussion and hyper-controlled synthesis, the album does not shy away from difficult topics, bringing listeners into the darkness as Corey Regensburg unabashedly confronts himself.

Moon Bounce’s signature sound is still intact and more pristine than ever; obtuse rhythms, heliu...

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Mura Masa ‘R.Y.C.’ out 17th January 2020 featured artist

'Live Like We're Dancing' Mura Masa feat. Georgia performing. Directed by Thomas Hardiman

R.Y.C. is the second studio album by Guernsey-born music producer Alex Crossan, under his alias Mura Masa. It was released on Polydor Records and Anchor Point Records (Universal). The album of guest features also includes by Clairo, Slowthai and Ellie Rowsell.

Domino Publishing writing credits: Tirzah ‘Today’ and Georgia ‘Live Like We’re Dancing’

NiNE8 ‘FVR105’

Video Directed & Edited by @Jay__Green

Written by Bone Slim, LorenzoRSV, Lava La Rue Produced by Nige Additional vocals by Biig Piig

NOMINATION Domino at the Grammy’s 2021

Fontaines D.C. ‘A Hero’s Death’ Best Rock Album Grammy nomination - Photo Credit: Valerian7000 - play their performance of “A Hero’s Death” for Jools Holland

Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards for ‘A Hero’s Death’ (Partisan Records).

This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination, and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battered and bruised – albeit beautiful, with songs that are pat...

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Optic Sink out 2nd October 2020

Brendan Spengler, Natalie Hoffmann and Ben Bauermeister

Optic Sink’s Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) creates a musical paradox: an endeavor that doesn’t seem to belong to any particular time or place. She constructs with sounds that are synthesized and stripped down, yet bristling with urgency and brutalist emotion. With percussionist Ben Bauermeister (Magic Kids, Toxie, A55 Conducta) by her side, the two set up camp on the post-punk side of the minimal electronic scene.

Out on Goner following its lead single and video “Personified”. The track fea...

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Otta ‘Songbook’ EP out 10th July 2020

'Just Like the Rain' Directed by Lara Laeverenz and otta

Otta is a Finnish-British singer-songwriter from south London whose electronic pop songs are bright, sharp and strange. On her new EP, ‘Songbook’, they have a compelling DIY fidgetiness about them – hardly surprisingly, given that she records much of her material in her home studio: “a cupboard-under-the-stairs-meets-shed”, she explains, “but still a precious altar”.

Moving to the UK when she was five, Otta first dreamt of being a professional drummer, starting lessons at seven....

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Peter Oren ‘The Greener Pasture’ out 24th April 2020

Peter Oren LIVE "Whole World" release show 2020

The period of self-isolation that has been imposed across pretty much the whole of the globe has left everyone in varying mental states. Having your freedom or liberty evoked certainly puts things   into perspective – even when you know it is for a greater good. So to self-impose that isolation would seem a might bizarre thing to do, but for Indiana based songwriter, Peter Oren, the results of his time alone at his Nashville cabin last year have resulted in a quite sublime collection of th...

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Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay ‘Outsider’ out 5th February 2021

Directed by Gabriel Jacquel for Rainbox productions

‘OUTSIDER’ is a musical and visual extrapolation of celebrated artist Henry Darger by Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project) and Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP). A tribute to the brave and courageous spirit of children standing up against adult cruelty. This text, written 50 years ago by the famous raw artist Henry Darger, is set to music for the first time.

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PODCAST: Recent Peal with Wesley Gonzalez

A new monthly music podcast available on the last Tuesday of the month only on Spotify.

Raf Rundell ‘Monsterpiece’

'Monsterpiece' dir. Luke Ramsay

Last seen a couple of years back on his debut long-player Stop Lying, Raf Rundell emerges from his Forest Hill bunker with Monsterpiece, a joyful, larger than life, good-time party anthem.

His first release for Heavenly Recordings, the former 2 Bear, renowned DJ, and all round, man-about-town, said of this first taster from his forthcoming second album:

“Time for new JAMS. Under the light of a silver moon we work on our Monsterpieces. One Blockhead, one Stepkid, a Showboy and a Culpepper. N...

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Raf Rundell ‘O.M.Days’ Out 9th April 2021

Film by Milo at Speedwagon Productions

Earlier this year we were dreaming of a better future. Sequestered on a hilltop a plan floated over on the air. We would name the first full moon after summer solstice 2020 the O.M.Days moon. We approached a landowner who already had a small Viking encampment in his grounds. Could we..? Yes we could. We are still unsure what happened. Perhaps it was a profound magical experience. Perhaps it was a load of wankers from London who’d been indoors too long let loose on a midsummer night. Either...

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Ragz Originale ‘brush u’

Brush U Directed by Ragz Originale & CHAMU

Produced by E-Whizz and Ragz himself, “brush u” is a vibrant track which the north Londoner uses to detail a situationship. The difference in feelings between Ragz and a lady are shown in the colourful but dimly-lit visuals where the artist remains in a state of blankness while a lady continues to dance on.

Make sure you catch the video for “brush u” above while we wait for the release of Ragz Originale’s upcoming tape, WOAH.

Ragz Originale ‘txt ur x’ out 6th March 2020

'4am' Directed by Charlotte Toon

As a producer, Ragz Originale has worked with artists such as Chip, Skepta (three songs on Mercury award-winning album Konnichiwa, most notably ‘Shut Down’, were produced by Ragz) and Krept and Konan. This is alongside working with his fellow artists in the Mini Kingz collective, BenjiFlow, Oscar #worldpeace and CARTAE.

Ragz’s transition from producer to artist was ignited after the realisation that as a producer, you could go a year without profiting from your skills while waiting fo...

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Ragz Originale ‘WOAH’ out 29th January 2020

OG Lullaby from forthcoming EP 'Woah'

Ragz Originale makes a strong start to the year with the release of his highly anticipated mixtape WOAH. Singles such as ‘ring out’, ‘OG lullaby’ and ‘brush u’ have created buzz around the multidimensional artist with the likes of Tiffany Calver, Benji B and Jamz Supernova championing his latest work.

The canon of music that features on this project further cements Ragz as a leader of the underground scene with a rich and sophisticated palette, fusing elements of rap, R&B a...

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Róisín Murphy ‘Róisín Machine’ out 2nd October 2020

Murphy's Law

“Róisín Machine” is the culmination of a rich, decades long partnership between Murphy and one of her most trusted collaborators Crooked Man aka DJ Parrot. Although packed to the rafters with masterclass singles, including “Simulation”, “Jealousy”,  Narcissus” and “Murphy’s Law”, it is also an ingeniously and seamlessly edited listening experience, designed to be listened to in one uninterrupted sitting, from start to dazzling finish.

From the intoxicating disco-funk of...

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SAADI (self titled) out 13th July 2020

'Mephisto' Edited by Boshra AlSaadi

This is the first LP from songrwriter/multi-instrumentalist Boshra AlSaadi, known as SAADI. Created over the course of a decade, the album chronicles a fool’s journey in the digital age.

Boshra Al Saadi is a songrwiter/multi-instrumentalist hailing from Damascus Syria and living in New York City. With her solo project SAADI, her sound shows traces of her vast and diverse influences ranging from dancehall to traditional arabic dabke, from Brian Eno to Lady Saw, resulting in a real fusion of ...

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Sad13 ‘Haunted Painting’ out 25th September 2020

Written, directed & edited by Kimber-Lee Alston
For nearly a decade, Sadie Dupuis has been celebrated for her literary lyrics, accomplished guitar playing, and embodied ethos of empowerment, whether with rock band Speedy Ortiz or the pop-oriented solo project Sad13, which debuted in 2016 with Lizzo co-feature “Basement Queens.” It was followed by the self-produced Slugger, featuring “Get a Yes,” a glitter-bomb of an ode to consent, and other bedroom Top 40 tributes centering feminism and inclusivity. But in the ensuing years, recon...
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Snuff ‘The Wrath of Thoth’ out 28th August 2020

Snuff Live

Snuff release their EP meant to support their May 2020 UK Tour. Six punk tracks from Duncan Redmonds.

Originally formed in N.W. London 1986 as a three piece, Duncan Redmonds on drums and vocals, Simon Wells on guitar and vocals and Andrew Crighton on bass. Sadly Andrew Crighton passed away  1999. Original guitarist Simon can be found these days playing with his band Southport.

Early days and gigs were few and far between until the end of 1988, then offers came flooding in. Things really to...

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Son Lux ‘Tomorrows’

The Tomorrows artwork is by Mareo Rodriquez with additional layout and image editing by Yuanyuan Su. Photo credit: Djeneba Aduayom

More pervasive than a virus, anxiety and urgency has spread across our physical and virtual landscapes. The growing inequities of centuries old and current day complexes of oppression has reached a critical and necessary breaking point, forcing us out of our severe isolation back together in a call for justice. All the while, the continued trajectory towards climate catastrophe still creeps across the horizon into our view, another result of the valuing of profit over people.

These defining ...

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The Specials’ Terry Hall and Dub Pistols’ Barry Ashworth launch mental health programme with Tonic Music

Video: Dub Pistols vs Dubmatix "Blue Monday"

These New Puritans The Cut (2016-2019) out 14th February 2020

The Cut is the sister release to the 2019 album ‘Inside the Rose. It’s a vast collection of new music, orchestral interludes and reworking and remixes by friends and collaborators including the likes of Ossian Brown (Cyclobe, Coil) Andrew Lilies (Current 93, Nurse with Wound) and Scintii (Taiwanese Singer-producer featured on Inside the Rose).

Line of Best Fit

TRAAMS ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves (IRW)’

Video by Stewart Armstrong

Part motorik drum beats, part discordant guitars, pop melodies and hypnotic bass lines. All are present here. With a collection of three new tracks they have expanded further. Collaborating with friends and new instrumentation, each track is different from the last.

The second single to be recorded in Brighton with Theo Verney after a brief hiatus is ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves’. The track was written in Paris, whilst touring with Car Seat Headrest at the tail end of 2017. ‘Interconti...

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Trevor Beld Jimenez ‘I Like It Here’ out 6th November 2020

Get Ready to Fly

Everyone needs a moment, for Trevor Beld Jimenez that moment arrives with his solo debut ”I Like It Here”. LA’s finest singer/songwriter and best kept secret was born in Southern California in the 80s, raised on a steady diet of AM radio and soon youthful adventures like exploring the coasts, hiking the hills and Little League gave into a full-time obsession of music. If you’ve been paying any attention to the southern California music scene the last decade or so, you already know Tre...

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Tunng ‘Dead Club’ out 6th November 2020

'Scared To Death' Directed by Sam Steer

SONG BREAK DOWN BY TUNNG – TRACK BY TRACK

Tackling the still near-untouchable subjects – grief, loss, the act of dying, where we go, what becomes of those left behind – death is a taboo beyond all others.

Around the time of Tunng’s sixth album, 2018’s Songs You Make at Night, lyricist Sam Genders found Max Porter’s novel Grief is The Thing with Feathers, and was struck by its power. Its viscerality and rawness and rage. Its beauty and love and connection. He passed Porter’s book...

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Wasted Shirt ‘Fungus II’ out 28th February 2020

'Double the Dream' Animation by Somer Stampley

Wasted Shirt is Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) & Ty Segall

Rarely when formulating combinations of musicians you would like to hear play together do you get to actually hear it. If Brian Chippendale and Ty Segall made a record, would you want to hear it? If the answer is yes, read on. If the answer is no, it’s too bad you ended up canned, suspended in syrup with nothing but other peaches to keep you company.

Ty’s 2019 album First Taste and the new Lighting Bolt album Sonic Citad...

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Waxahatchee ‘Saint Cloud’ out 27th March 2020

'Can't Do Much' Directed by Anna Powell Teeter & the Saint Cloud Band

“you know, the last few years have been pretty transformative for me. for a while i was really burning the candle from both ends, running myself ragged & slowly but surely i’ve been working to get closer to myself again. i made a choice to take my time with this album – riding every anxious, emotional wave all the way out. i tried very hard to honor the vision i had for it & i was only able to do that with the help of many incredible people (all of whom are tagged above) but i n...

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Wayward ‘Back to the Old Days’

London-based duo Wayward cement their reputation as purveyors of transportive sounds with their next outing via Silver Bear Recordings.

Louis Greenwood and Lawrence Hayes have gained some serious steam in recent years. They’ve co-crafted cuts for artists across a spectrum of genres. From studio sessions with Grammy-winning creative giant Skrillex, to Ninja Tune’s Park Hye Jin, and alt-indie enigma Chelou. Firmly establishing themselves as broad respected producers. Releases have come thr...

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Wayward ‘Waiting for the World’ out 26th March 2020

'All A Bit Mad' Directors: Wayward Edit: Nathan Greenwood Animation and Effects: Lawrence Abbott

London duo Wayward bring their deftness in producing bold and emotive cuts to a revealing debut album Waiting For The World. A leap in artistry, it showcases what Louis Greenwood and Lawrence Hayes are capable of when calling upon intimate memories and feelings, with a diverse body of work that mixes mellowed electronica with breaks, DnB, jungle and techno.

An ode to records like Burial’s seminal opus Untrue, a constant source of inspiration which opened doors in the duo’s minds that elec...

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The Weeknd headline at the Super Bowl 2021 features “Happy House” parade

"House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" contains a sample of Happy House" performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees [cue 10 minutes]

The Weeknd headlined the Super Bowl LV halftime show 7th February 2021 with a career-spanning, sequin-bombed medley of his biggest hits — including songs from 2011’s House of Balloons – the debut mixtape by the Canadian singer. Accompanied by a stadium dance troop at 10 minutes “House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls” contains a sample of “Happy House” performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees (written by Steven Severin on Domino Publishing). Abel Tesfaye kicked things off in a ...

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Wesley Gonzalez ‘Appalling Human’ out 12th June 2020

Directed by Danny Nellis

Wesley Gonzalez, DIY indie punk’s enfant terrible turned pop sophisticate, returns with his second album ‘Appalling Human’ (Moshi Moshi). Ironically a more accomplished record than his 2017 debut Excellent Musician, here Gonzalez makes full use of a lithe band armed with an orgy of high-end synthesizers, all mixed for the dancefloor by James Greenwood (Ghost Culture, Daniel Avery, Kelly Lee Owens). Both its sound and emotional clout are huge.

Along with therapy, taking better care of...

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Wesley Gonzalez ‘Red Man is Back Again (With a Lonely Dose of Pain)’

“I wrote Red Man Is Back Again (With A Lonely Dose Of Pain) on Christmas Day 2019, My family had a traumatic year and decided to have a meal at a pub and go our separate ways, It was an awkward day as I was trying to reconcile with a family member and we hadn’t spoken in a long time, which was ultimately unfruitful. I went home and wrote this recalling the awkwardness and loneliness that comes with Christmas, I thought about the dysfunctional families pretending they didnt hate each other...

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Wilsen ‘Ruiner’ out 21st February 2020

'Ruiner' Director Stephen Michael Simon

Wilsen are the Brooklyn-based trio of Tamsin Wilson (guitar/vocals), Johnny Simon Jr. (guitar), and Drew Arndt (bass). Ruiner is the second album, follow-up to 2017’s I Go Missing In My Sleep.

With producer Andrew Sarlo (Bon Iver, Big Thief, SASAMI) at the helm, Wilsen’s new album ‘Ruiner’ dissolves both the heavy reverb and ethereal moments found on their first recording by instead letting the band’s essentials – drums, bass, guitar, and vocals – have centre stage. In the al...

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The Wytches ‘Three Mile Ditch’ out 30th October 2020

Music Video by Mark Breed - Puppeteering by Kristian Bell - Help from Johan + Ellie.

The album recorded with Luke Oldfield at Tile House Studios is released on their own label Cable Code Records. The album is an explosive collection of 10 tracks that weaves seamlessly between gut-wobbling monster riffs, swampy rock, slick surf, and finely tuned songcraft. It’s also the result of a band coming back from the brink of collapse.

Whilst the album is bursting at the seams with hard rock screamers, with hooks and riffs so infectious they burrow deep into the brain, there’s al...

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