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

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    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...

    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 hype machine explode, inclduing the likes of Charli XCX, Rico Nasty and Kero Kero Bonito.

    There’s nothing cohesive on this record other than its inconsistence. For a remix record chock full of cherrypicked edits and revisits, that’s not surprising, but it’s a bit of a difficult listen for those not wholeheartedly throwing themselves into the fray. It often feels like the sound crosses the faint line between music and Windows XP glitching which makes it a bit tricky to dance to, but then again, that’s probably not the intended vibe of this record.

    Whilst the album seems impenetrable on an emotional or classically thoughtful level, that’s not to say that there’s nothing of worth in these nineteen tracks. There are some melodic hooks in “ringtone”, innovative pop screeches in “gec 2 u”, heavy aggressive dubstep in “800db cloud”, and industrial country R&B in “gecgecgec”, but the general order is one of chaos that maybe one day will make sense.

    It feels difficult to give this album a coherent discussion. This is some of the most futuristic and far removed from mainstream music being made at the moment, and maybe that’s why the duo have sold out tours across the USA.  Line of Best Fit

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

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    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...

    “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 Zoom calls in a row, a pot of coffee and a smidgen of LSD. Like us all, I’ve had a lot of Zoom/ Webex calls this past year and it introduces a new type of anxiety into your day, it’s not enough to be heard, you have to be seen too. The video is a reaction to that anxiety, the sense of displacement and fragmenting that it brings, to be constantly looked at. Endlessly looking at yourself, looking at others, looking at yourself. The song itself builds and becomes more and more dense as it moves along and I wanted the video to reflect that also, to give a visual representation of this cacophony of instruments and voices.” Niall Mc Cann

    “Sometimes simple is just the way. I had thought about how to go about capturing the right imagery for this song. I spent time shooting the ocean waves, ships and seabirds, crashing waves, lighting, the whole she-bang…but then realised after sending the images to Niall that this approach had left little to the imagination. Also, Niall pointed out that he couldn’t see my eyes. And I reflected on this and thought about how sometimes the eyes of the storyteller can be the thing that invites the listener on a journey. Or voyage. I set up my camera and tripod directed at a wall opposite a south facing window in my house. And waited for the sun to travel to that right spot over the rooftops. I busied myself with other things and then just before sunset I pressed record. I did another take and then the sun set.” Adrian Crowley

    One stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley’s brother brought home a wounded crow.  After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a story, which would later become the aptly titled “Crow Song” on this, his brand new record & ninth studio album The Watchful Eye of the Stars. He sings, “And I was joyous for you, but shattered none-the-less.”

    Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes Watchful Eye’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in “Bread and Wine”), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing. “The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares.

    In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take”, says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes, and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking.

    These raw beginnings were then fleshed out more in the studio with Parish and additional musicians. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of Watchful Eye in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers, taking a day trip from London and Cardiff respectively. Parish himself contributed instrumentation as well, his signature sense of drama lending Crowley’s work a new edge overall without disrupting its minimalism. Having members of Crash Ensemble in Dublin to record for only a few days’ time, Crowley recalls staying up all night to write string parts for “Northbound Stowaway,” which was recorded the following morning. While an ominous and steady drumbeat carries the track, Crowley laments, “And it’s drowsy work / When you’re staying invisible.”

    An ethereal escapism shines through Crowley’s lyrical imagery (“Underwater Song”), detailing his tortured return to a flooded, old neighbourhood where an unnamed acquaintance resides: “Last night in the throes of a fever / I went floating over your house.” Crowley’s voice serves as the central instrument, his deep and conversational baritone anchoring the tone on the album’s more effervescent tracks “Ships on the Water” and “The Colours of the Night”. His presence permeates the sonic and lyrical content of Watchful Eye, carrying the sorrow of the string instruments (violin, viola, viola d’amore and cello) and adding dimension to the clarinet and keyboard.

    Final track “Take Me Driving” opens with an arpeggiation, then unfolds into a swaying, melancholy outro. It highlights Crowley’s skill at transforming a quiet, repeated phrase into something magnificent, mysterious, and wholly captivating – a story. Crowley leaves us here in his world, driving in a car with a flighty companion, unsure of where we’re going, but continuing nonetheless as he steps out the passenger side.

     

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    Adrianne Lenker ‘Songs’ out 23rd October 2020

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    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. ...

    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. They spent a couple weeks setting up and another three weeks recording, and the sense of presence they captured—in two cases, recording directly to Weinrobe’s Walkman—is almost overwhelming. The guitar sounds so close that you can hear the ridges of Lenker’s fingertips rubbing against coiled steel. Occasionally, her chair creaks or her foot brushes against the floor. Some songs wear a halo of birdsong or rainfall. Fragments from the sessions—orphaned chords strummed in the silence before a take begins, the thunk of what might be fingers pressing down on the keys of the tape machine—litter the final mixdown like leaves strewn across the cabin floor. PITCHFORK

     

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    Alabaster Deplume ‘GOLD’ Out 1st April 2022

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    Lost Map Records with Chicago label International Anthem and the Total Refreshment Centre in London for the release of the sensational new album by Mancunian born, London based poet-performer Alabaster dePlume. Released April 1, 2022,  GOLD is a tender record celebrating the spirit of being unconventional, consisting of 18 vocal and instrumental pieces that move between jazz, modern-classical and electronica. It features performers including Falle Noike, Sarathy Korwar, Rozi Plain and ...

    Lost Map Records with Chicago label International Anthem and the Total Refreshment Centre in London for the release of the sensational new album by Mancunian born, London based poet-performer Alabaster dePlume. Released April 1, 2022,  GOLD is a tender record celebrating the spirit of being unconventional, consisting of 18 vocal and instrumental pieces that move between jazz, modern-classical and electronica. It features performers including Falle Noike, Sarathy Korwar, Rozi Plain and Tom Skinner.

    GOLD is a sonorous double album that celebrates the communal act of making music and the relationships that can be explored when you purposefully avoid the standard way of doing things. It contains filmic pieces that oscillate between the otherworldly and the trenchantly grounded, rendered maximally human through the recording process. There is laughter mid-track and studio chatter. There is the music of shouting and applause generated by a handful of people who were listening from the doorframe and the corridor. Complex vocal harmonies circle the songs like small birds and there’s an undercurrent of steely toughness, necessitated by the musician’s engagement with personal vulnerability and collective politics.

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

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    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...

    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 this,” says Alabaster of “Visit Croatia.” “And at the same time, I realized – no-one could ever give me permission to make this. Not because they thought it was a bad thing. But because they didn’t know what it was. I can’t give you permission to do your awesome s**t. But someone else on this earth can. And I don’t mean Cy & Lee, and I don’t mean Bernie Sanders, and I don’t mean Karen either.”

    Of the mini EP’s two previously unreleased tracks, “The Good Wine” and “Black Drifts,” Alabaster writes: “They are two of the pieces prepared around the release ‘Peach’. Created in (optional, pre-lockdown) isolation, with the aim of celebrating human connections through the sheer act of yearning for them. I love music, and words and performance, but it will never be as good as people. So, if I’m going to get my work done, I must sometimes go away from people. In the middle of a heavy gigging schedule I chose to take two cassette recorders somewhere I could be unreachable, for a week. I made many things there, including these tunes. It was winter. I chopped firewood. A chinook flew over my head. I gradually came to trust myself, to be sincere.”

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    Alabaster DePlume announces upcoming album ‘A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole’

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    London-based Mancunian composer, poet, and activist Alabaster DePlume has announced details of his forthcoming album, A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole, set for release on March 7th via International Anthem.

    The 11-song album showcases DePlume’s signature musical touchstones: lush, gentle instrumentals informed by ghostly ancient folk melodies; groove-focused rhythmic explorations serving as a foundation for introspective spoken-word declarations; and sweeping, beautiful string arrangements ...

    London-based Mancunian composer, poet, and activist Alabaster DePlume has announced details of his forthcoming album, A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole, set for release on March 7th via International Anthem.

    The 11-song album showcases DePlume’s signature musical touchstones: lush, gentle instrumentals informed by ghostly ancient folk melodies; groove-focused rhythmic explorations serving as a foundation for introspective spoken-word declarations; and sweeping, beautiful string arrangements paired with his trademark vibrato-infused tenor saxophone “whispermoan.”

    The single “Oh My Actual Days” offers the first glimpse of the new LP and marks DePlume’s first release of new material since 2022’s acclaimed GOLD (a Pitchfork Best New Music selection) and 2023’s companion album Come With Fierce Grace. The track features DePlume’s distinctive saxophone vibrato and a rich, enveloping soundscape, with Macie Stewart contributing on strings.

    Listen above.

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    Alan Sparhawk of Low announces debut solo album, “White Roses, My God”

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    Alan Sparhawk, the singer and songwriter formerly of indie rock band Low, has shared details of his debut solo album, White Roses, My God, out September 27th via Sub Pop Records. Along with the announcement comes a brand new single, “Can U Hear”, plus a handful US tour dates for 2025.

    The upcoming album is particularly significant as it follows the loss of musician Mimi Parker, Alan’s musical partner, former bandmate, and wife. White Roses, My God draws from experiences of grief, makin...

    Alan Sparhawk, the singer and songwriter formerly of indie rock band Low, has shared details of his debut solo album, White Roses, My God, out September 27th via Sub Pop Records. Along with the announcement comes a brand new single, “Can U Hear”, plus a handful US tour dates for 2025.

    The upcoming album is particularly significant as it follows the loss of musician Mimi Parker, Alan’s musical partner, former bandmate, and wife. White Roses, My God draws from experiences of grief, making sense of the world, and revisiting the vault of older material created during the years of Low.

    Check out “Can U Hear” above.

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    Alejandro Escovedo ‘La Cruzada’ (the Crossing)

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    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...

    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 guitarist and composer Antonio Gramentieri who has a rich musical history of his own in Italy with his cult band Sacri Cuori.  The album was recorded in a month in Villafranca, Italy with Brian Deck co-producing.

    ‘The Crossing’ also features a host of guest musicians, including The Stooges’ James Williamson on Teenage Luggage and Wayne Kramer from the MC5 on ‘Sonica USA’ (both bands are name checked in the album’s lyrics as well). ‘Waiting For Me’ features Peter Perrett and John Perry from The Only Ones, recording together for the first time since 1980. Joe Ely appears on his own track, ‘Silver City’. ‘Rio Navidad,’ a spoken word song about a Texas ranger, was written by novelist and Richmond Fontaine/The Delines’bandleader Willy Vlautin and read by his bandmate Freddy Trujillo.

    VIDEO: Alejandro Escovedo is a musician who truly crosses boundaries. From leading a punk band that opened for the Sex Pistols to his latest album which he recorded with an Italian band in Rome, his career has been hard to define. “CBS This Morning: Saturday” co-host Anthony Mason sits down with the music pioneer to discuss his decades-long career and his new album, “The Crossing.”

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

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    'Heaven on the Faultline' Alex Bleeker (solo) Real Estate Out 05 March 2021
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    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 ...

    ‘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 Jack Johnson or Devandra Banhart that is so understated it is stupifying as the reaction shot of the majority of indie music makers during Covid.

    “This song is about eradicating toxicity from your life and concentrating on whatever it is that brings you joy,” he admits. “Cups of coffee, mashed potatoes, juice…. sometimes things really are that simple.” Ear Milk

     

     

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    Alex Izenberg ‘Caravan Château’ out 31st July 2020

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    The beguiling 11-song reflection on the house of mirrors that is love—Izenberg creates a sophisticated world of his own. Songs that are somehow understated but lavish map the vagaries of our uncertain hearts, the way wrinkles chronicle a lifetime of experience.

    Izenberg on Caravan Château:
    “Today it is my pleasure to announce  that my new album Caravan Château is coming out via Weird World on July 31st. I’ve been working hard on it and I’m extremely proud ...

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    The beguiling 11-song reflection on the house of mirrors that is love—Izenberg creates a sophisticated world of his own. Songs that are somehow understated but lavish map the vagaries of our uncertain hearts, the way wrinkles chronicle a lifetime of experience.

    Izenberg on Caravan Château:
    “Today it is my pleasure to announce  that my new album Caravan Château is coming out via Weird World on July 31st. I’ve been working hard on it and I’m extremely proud of these songs. It was recorded largely at Tropico Beauty with Greg Hartunian and Derek Korat with whom I’ve spent many long days and nights in the studio, retracing steps and forging new paths. Sometimes we hit walls and other times we found bliss, but those long nights were always chock-filled with lol’s.

    I hope my music can reach people like me who don’t have a lot of money or means and be a guiding light in their lives for good, serving as a safe haven in times of sorrow, happiness, loneliness or longing and know that I’m right there with you and always will be, even if our paths never directly cross.”

    With the help of a handful of collaborators including Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear), Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Whitney, Lemon Twigs), Ari Balouzian (Tobias Jesso Jr) and others, Izenberg creates songs that are easy to adore but hard to define. Izenberg’s sharp songs are the bait that first brings you into Caravan Château, but that deliberate ambiguity is what brings you back repeatedly, hoping to tease out the riddles of being inside these stunning tunes.

    In 40 minutes, Izenberg flings open another window onto a scene of fractured beauty and romantic longing, a place where music itself is a coping mechanism. From the narcotized sway of “Saffron Glimpse” to the charming bounce of “Sister Jade,” from the backmasked blues of “Dancing Through the Turquoise” to the peppy shuffle of “Lady,” Caravan Château is visceral and gorgeous, troubled and sympathetic, instantly likable and richly textured.

    Izenberg emerged in late 2016 with Harlequin, a fetching collection of hazy art-pop hymns praised for their “sweetness and heart.” Not long after the album’s release, Izenberg became emotionally unstable, though, beset by a failed relationship and inevitable post-debut questions about what came next. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2012, Izenberg has spent a lifetime learning to cope with and overcome fear, to turn doubt into power rather than paralysis.

    For Izenberg, music is a lifeline, or the lens that helps him refocus the world and make sense of his mess of feelings. He pulls art and existence together as if by tensile wires, one giving necessary support to the other. On Caravan Château, the intensity of that connection radiates through every song, Izenberg working through some of life’s hardest feelings by writing songs as soft as his heart.

    “Izenberg has discovered a way to make classic, quirky pop touchstones into something completely his own.” —CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

    “With its staccato trumpets and keys, Alex Izenberg’s “To Move On” sounds like it might’ve come straight from the 1970s. If only moving on always sounded this joyous.”  —THE FADER

    “as pretty as all heavenly nice things” —VICE

    “just enough sweetness and heart” —PITCHFORK

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    Alex Izenberg announces new album ‘Alex Izenberg & The Exiles’. Out 26th July

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    Alex Izenberg announces his fourth album and full-band debut Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, due for release on July 26th via Weird World/Domino. During the creation of the album, the Los Angeles artist was focused on a simple goal: making something built to last. The melodies are romantic and warm, and the arrangements are invitingly expansive, making expert use of a new ensemble formed around the strongest songs of his career.

    The core of the band is Izenberg’s childhood friend and primar...

    Alex Izenberg announces his fourth album and full-band debut Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, due for release on July 26th via Weird World/Domino. During the creation of the album, the Los Angeles artist was focused on a simple goal: making something built to last. The melodies are romantic and warm, and the arrangements are invitingly expansive, making expert use of a new ensemble formed around the strongest songs of his career.

    The core of the band is Izenberg’s childhood friend and primary collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Greg Hartunian. After spending time writing together as a pair over several inspiring months, they soon invited an array of collaborators into the conversation. This includes drummer Jay Rudolph (Weyes Blood), keyboardist Tyler Cash (Devendra Banhart), bassist Max Whipple (Sparks), pedal steel guitarist Connor Gallaher (Lana Del Rey), saxophonist Colin Kupka, guitarist Dashiell Le Francis, and vocalists Marina Allen, Juliana Giraffe, Gracie Jackson, and Colby Nathan. With alluring string arrangements from Izenberg himself and Cynthia Tolson (MUNA), the record marks a bold new introduction for a timeless songwriter. 

    On Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, Izenberg’s message has never been more direct, his voice has never been clearer, and his beautiful, untraceable logic has never felt more suited to the world around him. 

    Check out the music video for latest single “Drinking the Dusk Away” above.

     

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    Alice Jemima ‘Everything Changes’ out 28th February 2020

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    After a highly successful summer touring the UK with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alice Jemima announced , ‘Everything Changes’ and revealed a new single video for  ‘Dancing In Love’, which she co-wrote with Sophie Ellis Bextor and producer Simon Byrt.

    Alice’s new uplifting single ‘Dancing in Love’, is the second track to be revealed from her much anticipated second album. ‘Dancing In Love’  has an upbeat disco theme with retro synths and funk-infused basslines overlaid by Alice...

    After a highly successful summer touring the UK with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alice Jemima announced , ‘Everything Changes’ and revealed a new single video for  ‘Dancing In Love’, which she co-wrote with Sophie Ellis Bextor and producer Simon Byrt.

    Alice’s new uplifting single ‘Dancing in Love’, is the second track to be revealed from her much anticipated second album. ‘Dancing In Love’  has an upbeat disco theme with retro synths and funk-infused basslines overlaid by Alice’s sugar -sweet, sultry vocals. The video for ‘Dancing In Love’ stars Alice and is a sequined,  disco-ball themed affair filmed in a karaoke bar in London, where Alice is surrounded by fun party goers.

    In her own words Alice describes her new single ‘Dancing in Love’ as “…being about falling in love, and the push and pull of the relationship resembling a dance. Since the release of my debut album two years ago, I’ve moved out of my parent’s home and now share a flat with my boyfriend and so I think this record, like most of the tracks on my new album, reflects a more mature view of love and relationships.”

    Alice Jemima released her captivating debut self-titled album in 2017 to much critical acclaim and has achieved over 25-million album streams to date with several of the tracks being placed in adverts for Ralph Lauren, Simple Skincare, Macy’s and Topshop Radio support came from  Radio 1’s Huw Stephens (‘Tip Of The Week’ ) Annie Mac, Sophie Little & Monki and Alice achieved Radio 1 playlisting with her single ‘Dodged a Bullet’. Other supporters included John Kennedy (Radio X) and Tom Robinson (6Music).  Alice has also performed live at  Boardmasters, Bestival Lattitude, The Great Escape and SXSW. 

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    All We Are ‘Providence’ out 14th August

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    All We Are’s most euphoric and propulsive work to date, underpinned with a warmth that runs through everything the Liverpool-based trio do. With Providence, All We Are have created an album celebrating the universal virtues of love, loss, sex, friendship and dance. “The celebration of the positive things was our focal point with this record”, says Rich, “We could never have known what sort of world we’d be releasing this record into but our goal was always to try to bring people joy...

    All We Are’s most euphoric and propulsive work to date, underpinned with a warmth that runs through everything the Liverpool-based trio do. With Providence, All We Are have created an album celebrating the universal virtues of love, loss, sex, friendship and dance. “The celebration of the positive things was our focal point with this record”, says Rich, “We could never have known what sort of world we’d be releasing this record into but our goal was always to try to bring people joy amongst the sorrow”.

    Comprised of Ireland’s Richard O’Flynn (drums), Norway’s Guro Gikling (bass) and Brazil’s Luis Santos (guitar), All We Are have released two albums previously, their self-titled debut in 2015 that explored sublime late-night grooves and the psychedelia, krautrock and post-punk-informed Sunny Hills in 2017. On Providence, the band shapeshit once again.

    Having previously shared the simmering sensual “L Is For Lose” and the tropical-tinged “Bad Advice” from the album, on “Not Your Man”, amidst pulsating bass (“I think the bass line is the best I’ve ever written,” Guro proclaims) and bouncing synths, the three-piece sing the refrain: “Like a pina colada, you’re not going to waste me”,charming us into their technicolour world of expansive pop.

    All We Are describe the track: “‘If ‘Not Your Man’ wasn’t a song, it’d be your holiday romance: sticky, sexy, hot and you’re not going to waste it”.

    Moon, who directed the video for “Not Your Man” adds: “We managed to pull off a full on socially isolated lockdown shoot right in the middle of the pandemic. It was a lot of fun but both odd and unique, as there was only one person in the building at a time and because directing via the computer brings its own challenges. You have to have this whole different level of energy to keep everyone’s spirits up, and you run into the issues that become difficult to solve without any crew. All in all a fantastic shoot and I’m chuffed with what we managed to achieve despite the circumstances. All We Are did a great job, as always.”

    Having exorcised some of their collective demons about the world on Sunny Hills, All We Are took a different approach for their new record – for the first time they took time off from each other to work on other projects: “This break was much needed,” explains Luis. “Playing music outside of the band actually brought us together, helping us focus on what we do.” They came back to All We Are with a new joyful lease of life that wound itself into the music.

    Recorded in Liverpool in a retired school building (O’Flynn is a property guardian) that is integral to the group; a place that gives them both space and time to go at their own pace, the album is a cascade of colour and hooks, funky basslines and electric rhythms. Where its predecessor had been clouded by anxieties, manifesting in drone-indebted guitars and a dark heaviness, Providence lands with a lighter touch aided by working with producer Dave McCracken. Their goal whilst writing was to use it to soothe your worries and make you move. Offering respite from the gloom, the album’s driving force is the power of music to heal, no matter what your beliefs or worries.

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    altopalo ‘farawayfromeveryoneyouknow’ out 24th April 2020

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    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...

    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 while remaining cohesive through the writing and production tendencies of the group.

    FADER “altopalo is your new mood ring”

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    Animal Collective ‘Bridge to Quiet’ out 3rd July 2020

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    Lyric video by Jack Kubizne. Artwork by Brian DeGraw.

    Animal Collective constructed Bridge to Quiet from recycled music they had been making pre-pandemic. As the band explains, “During April and May, we took a look at some of our improvisations from 2019 and early 2020. We remixed them, collaged them, and built them into songs, finding our way to Bridge to Quiet.”

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    Animal Collective ‘Time Skiffs’ out 4th February 2022

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    Animal Collective announce their new album Time Skiffs, due out February 4 on Domino. Time Skiffs is the band’s full-length follow-up to 2016’s Painting With and features nine new tracks, recorded by Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, and Panda Bear across the course of 2020 and mixed by Marta Salogni.

    They share the record’s first single “Prester John,” a track created by weaving together two songs, one written by Avey Tare and one by Panda Bear. “Prester John”...

    Animal Collective announce their new album Time Skiffs, due out February 4 on Domino. Time Skiffs is the band’s full-length follow-up to 2016’s Painting With and features nine new tracks, recorded by Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, and Panda Bear across the course of 2020 and mixed by Marta Salogni.

    They share the record’s first single “Prester John,” a track created by weaving together two songs, one written by Avey Tare and one by Panda Bear. “Prester John” comes alongside a video directed by Jason Lester.

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    Anna Calvi ‘Hunted’ out 6th March 2020

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    18 months after the release of Hunter, which explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity, Anna Calvi revisited her initial, more intimate recordings of those songs. The versions on Hunted find her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals distilled to their bare essence, in the company of collaborators Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter. The tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the in...

    18 months after the release of Hunter, which explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity, Anna Calvi revisited her initial, more intimate recordings of those songs. The versions on Hunted find her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals distilled to their bare essence, in the company of collaborators Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter. The tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the innate fragility of the compositions to the forefront and exquisitely melds together the dichotomy of the hunter and the hunted, the primal and the beautiful, the vulnerable and the strong.

    In the summer of 2018, Anna Calvi released her critically acclaimed third album Hunter. On it, she explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity. Following a stellar 18 months, which saw Calvi write her first television score (for BBC One’s Peaky Blinders), receive her third consecutive Mercury Prize nomination (the first solo artist to achieve this feat) and play sold out shows across the globe to her largest ever audiences, Calvi has now crafted a stunning reworking of Hunter into Hunted.

    Having revisited her first ever recordings for Hunter, Calvi found they offered an intimate and private view of the songs’ initial intentions. Distilled to their bare essence on Hunted: her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals, Calvi then asked Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter to collaborate with her and further transform the songs.

    Calvi says of Hunted: “During a break from touring I went back and listened to the first recordings I ever made of ‘Hunter’. These recordings capture the very moment I first wrote these songs, and recorded them on my own, in my attic studio. I find something especially intimate about sharing these most private recordings with my favourite singers and asking them to lend their voices and artistic sensibility. Courtney Barnett is an amazing artist. Her voice and guitar playing together are mind blowing. Her ability to connect the profound to the smallest moments of human experience is the unique talent of a true artist.”

    Barnett said of working together: “Anna is a completely awe-inspiring performer, it’s impossible to take your eyes off her onstage. I love her songwriting for its beautiful and perfect balance between aggression and tenderness”.

    Rawer sounding than their original incarnations, the tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the innate fragility of the compositions to the forefront and exquisitely melds together the dichotomy of the hunter and the hunted, the primal and the beautiful, the vulnerable and the strong.

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    SIDE A

    • 1Swimming Pool (feat. Julia Holter)
    • 2Hunter
    • 3Eden (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg)

    SIDE B

    • 1Away (Hunted Version)
    • 2Don’t Beat The Girl out of My Boy (feat. Courtney Barnett)
    • 3Wish (feat. IDLES)
    • 4Indies or Paradise
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    Art School Girlfriend ‘Is It Light Where You Are’ out 10th September 2021

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    Debut album ‘Is It Light Where You Are‘ lands on September 10th, and it finds the artist – real name Polly Mackey – aligning with Fiction Records.

    Single ‘Softer Side‘ is out to accompany the announcement, the first song Art School Girlfriend recorded for the project.

    She comments: “The record starts with that feeling of being on the precipice of change. Before deciding to pull everything apart, go through it all and come out the other side.”

    Lyrically, it’s the diaristic ac...

    Debut album ‘Is It Light Where You Are‘ lands on September 10th, and it finds the artist – real name Polly Mackey – aligning with Fiction Records.

    Single ‘Softer Side‘ is out to accompany the announcement, the first song Art School Girlfriend recorded for the project.

    She comments: “The record starts with that feeling of being on the precipice of change. Before deciding to pull everything apart, go through it all and come out the other side.”

    Lyrically, it’s the diaristic account of a break up, set against beautiful, gossamer layers of digital sound.

    Polly explains…

    “I feel like it’s kind of human nature to project an ideal onto new love interests. To get infatuated and fall in love with this perfect person that you’ve created in your head. Then through no-one’s fault, we both slowly unpick this, and end up searching for this thing that never was. So when it came to the video, what better way to represent this than through a love story with the most mythical of all beings.”

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

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    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...

    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 sonic opposition to the powers that be.

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    Austra ‘HiRUDiN’ out 1st May 2020

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    Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. Every attempt to turn a corner lands you back where you started. HiRUDiN is both a bold acknowledgement of such patterns of behaviour and a testament to the power of breaking them.

    Named after the peptide released by leeches that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world, HiRUDiN is about the importance of healing the self, letting go of harmful influences, and finding the power to rebuild through exploring your i...

    Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. Every attempt to turn a corner lands you back where you started. HiRUDiN is both a bold acknowledgement of such patterns of behaviour and a testament to the power of breaking them.

    Named after the peptide released by leeches that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world, HiRUDiN is about the importance of healing the self, letting go of harmful influences, and finding the power to rebuild through exploring your innermost desires.

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    Austra ‘Hirudin’ remixed Out 30th April 2021

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    Directed / Edited by Trevor Blumas

    ‘The Shape Of You I Know Completely‘ is a short film that explores the thoughts and ideas behind “HiRUDiN,” Austra’s fourth record. Based on a conversation with Anupa Mistry (journalist and writer) and Sebastian Kvist (curator and invertebrates at Royal Ontario Museum), the film was directed by Trevor Blumas and shot between Toronto and Montreal during various stages of COVID-19 lockdown.

    Inspired by the secretions of leeches, Katie Stelmanis eloquently explains her album HiRUDiN. R...

    ‘The Shape Of You I Know Completely‘ is a short film that explores the thoughts and ideas behind “HiRUDiN,” Austra’s fourth record. Based on a conversation with Anupa Mistry (journalist and writer) and Sebastian Kvist (curator and invertebrates at Royal Ontario Museum), the film was directed by Trevor Blumas and shot between Toronto and Montreal during various stages of COVID-19 lockdown.

    Inspired by the secretions of leeches, Katie Stelmanis eloquently explains her album HiRUDiN. Released in lockdown, HiRUDiN explores the impact of toxic relationships and the empowerment one experiences. This film provides precious insight into a new era for AUSTRA whilst she explores what role musicians should play in the on-going battle for social justice.

    “Making HiRUDiN was about finding new ways of working, new people to collaborate with and also learning about how to participate in every part of the process. Although the territory was unknown it wasn’t scary – it was fun and the process felt like medicine”

     

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    Babii ‘iii’ EP out 27th March 2020

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    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...

    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 move on with my life and fill it with positive things instead.”

    On the video, she added “The concept for the video captures the essence of part of my childhood. I was.a grubby, feral child who spent a lot of time gazing out of a lorry window at the side of the motorway. For a longtime that transient world felt like my home in a lot of ways, so metaphorically it felt right to compliment the theme of the EP.”

    BABii’s debut album HiiDE only came out in July  2019, but she has not stopped creating. In September 2019 she released XYZ, a collaborative album with fellow GLOO members Iglooghost and Kai Whiston; a glitchy electronic work decribed as “the year’s most brilliantly alienating album” by Loud & Quiet. Following UK/EU tours with Chk Chk Chk (!!!) and WHY? she joined up with GLOO again for a sold out London edition of their interactive clubnight Grid. BABii built the machines in which attendees inserted tokens that had been hidden around the club to change the music and visuals onstage.

    Speaking about the new EP, BABii said “‘iii’ is three songs about the proximity of 3 different people in my life. One who I don’t want in my proximity, another who wants me out of there’s and one who I want in mine.” 

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    BABii announces her third studio album ‘DareDeviil2000’ alongside the brand new single “Scarface”

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    Avant-pop polymath BABii returns with her new single, “Scarface”, and announces her third album, DAREDEVIL2000, out October 11th via Boxset Recordings. Following the album’s first single, “Joyride”, BABii continues in her most courageous era yet with “Scarface”. The track is a deconstructed club gem, peppered with classic grime instrumentals and an edgy pop appeal, resulting from collaborations with the likes of Pholo, Warpstr, and Iglooghost.

    In the past few years, BABii has ra...

    Avant-pop polymath BABii returns with her new single, “Scarface”, and announces her third album, DAREDEVIL2000, out October 11th via Boxset Recordings. Following the album’s first single, “Joyride”, BABii continues in her most courageous era yet with “Scarface”. The track is a deconstructed club gem, peppered with classic grime instrumentals and an edgy pop appeal, resulting from collaborations with the likes of Pholo, Warpstr, and Iglooghost.

    In the past few years, BABii has radically changed the way she writes her captivating, boundary-pushing songs. On DAREDEVIL2000, BABii showcases her Björk-level aptitude and penchant for deep world-building as she delves into something akin to Dante’s Inferno, exploring the origins of violence and criminality and how hell relates to the real world.

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    BABii shares music video for latest single “JOYRIDE”

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    Sonic storyteller and introspective explorer BABii returns with her new single “JOYRIDE.” The near weightless concoction of sounds ranges from electronic, pop, and hip hop, further punctuated with elements of lush sound design. “JOYRIDE” is one of BABii’s most personal and open releases to date, utilising her creative talents as she navigates incredibly difficult themes. Her instantly recognisable nymph-like vocals blend effortlessly with textured and complex musical production, ear...

    Sonic storyteller and introspective explorer BABii returns with her new single “JOYRIDE.” The near weightless concoction of sounds ranges from electronic, pop, and hip hop, further punctuated with elements of lush sound design. “JOYRIDE” is one of BABii’s most personal and open releases to date, utilising her creative talents as she navigates incredibly difficult themes. Her instantly recognisable nymph-like vocals blend effortlessly with textured and complex musical production, earning her both industry support and a loyal following of fans.

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    Ben LaMar Gay ‘Open Arms to Open Us’ out 19th November 2021

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    Ben LaMar Gay’s critically-lauded 2018 break out ‘Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun’ was more like a greatest hits than a debut album, as it compiled the best of the prolific but obscurity-prone Chicago native artist’s previously unreleased music. ‘Open Arms to Open Us’ will be the first release of brand new, freshly baked tunes by Gay, a collection recorded entirely at International Anthem studios in Chicago between March-June 2021.

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    Beth Gibbons returns with her solo debut album “Lives Outgrown”

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    Featuring 10 beautiful new tracks recorded over a period of 10 years, Lives Outgrown was produced by James Ford and Beth Gibbons, with additional production by Lee Harris. By some measure, the album is Beth’s most personal work to date, the result of a period of sustained reflection and change. Lives Outgrown touches on topics such as motherhood, the menopause, and anxiety. Emerging from this decade of change and realignment, Beth has been left with what feels like a renewed sense of purpo...

    Featuring 10 beautiful new tracks recorded over a period of 10 years, Lives Outgrown was produced by James Ford and Beth Gibbons, with additional production by Lee Harris. By some measure, the album is Beth’s most personal work to date, the result of a period of sustained reflection and change. Lives Outgrown touches on topics such as motherhood, the menopause, and anxiety. Emerging from this decade of change and realignment, Beth has been left with what feels like a renewed sense of purpose.

    The evocative video for “Lost Changes” is the directorial debut by acclaimed British photographer Juno Calypso, known for her hyper-feminine, humour–filled and deeply sinister art. Watch above.

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

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    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...

    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 the sound a little more weighted towards synths/organs than guitars. Neal Heppleston has joined on double bass/electric bass (replacing Sharron Kraus) bringing with him some off-kilter sounds. Aside from that, the family are the same. Heather Ditch is the resident singer and wordsmith, Guy Whittaker a most creative drummer, Jim Street our organ/synth aficionado, and I play guitar and do a few other things.

    We recorded the album in Sheffield at Three Galleys Studio by Jim, and at The Bowling Green with Dean Honer (of I Monster/ Eccentronic Research Council/ Moonlandingz/ International Teachers Of Pop). We were also very fortunate to again get Dean to produce the album. In the process of recording and producing he really has become a sixth member of the band, and we really enjoyed working with him.

    There are ten songs. This time, the themes vary from the fate of a satellite orbiting Saturn (Cassini’s Regret), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ cousin Edie Bouvier Beale, who features in the documentary film ‘Grey Gardens’ (The Disappointed Chair) and difficulties in connecting with people ((Sing Me Your) Saddest Song).

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    Big Thief announce new album DOUBLE INFINITY and share lead single “Incomprehensible”

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    Big Thief have announced their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, along with its lead single and opening track, “Incomprehensible.” The album follows their Grammy-nominated 2022 release, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, and is set for release on September 5th via 4AD.

    To bring Double Infinity to life, the trio spent three weeks biking through frozen streets between Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering each day in the warm, wood-paneled studio at Power Station. There, joined by a ...

    Big Thief have announced their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, along with its lead single and opening track, “Incomprehensible.” The album follows their Grammy-nominated 2022 release, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, and is set for release on September 5th via 4AD.

    To bring Double Infinity to life, the trio spent three weeks biking through frozen streets between Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering each day in the warm, wood-paneled studio at Power Station. There, joined by a community of musicians—including Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen, Joshua Crumbly, June McDoom, Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery, and Mikey Buishas—they played together for nine hours a day. The sessions were recorded live with minimal overdubs, capturing the raw energy of their improvisations and shared discoveries. Longtime collaborator Dom Monks produced, engineered, and mixed the album.

    To celebrate the release, Big Thief will launch the first leg of their Somersault Slide 360 Tour. Marking their first U.S. shows in over a year, the tour begins in September with stops at iconic venues including Berkeley’s Greek Theatre, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, Boston’s MGM Music Hall, New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, and their debut show in Mexico at Teatro Metropolitan.

    Listen to the new single “Incomprehensible” above.

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    Black Midi ‘Cavalcade’ out 28th May 2021

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    '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...

    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 Dublin mountains, in summer 2020 under the eye of John ‘Spud’ Murphy. The track has a massive sound, driven by some gutsy Discipline-era King Crimson thrust, and energy wrought by the inclusion of Jerskin Fendrix on violin. The group tease the raging track to the point of nonexistence before leading it through caverns of reverb and gauzy snareskin landscapes, just for it to return, hitting hard as hell once more. The story painted is a jet-black comedy about what happens to cult leaders when their followers turn on them.

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    The groundwork for Cavalcade was laid in 2019 — musical sketches that had been brewing since the release of Schlagenheim began muscling their way into black midi set lists and finally became individual entities. But with this album, there was a “yearning” to be more considered and record something that was more harmonically interesting and challenging. “It’s easy to get wrapped up in the improvisation myth of divine intervention, that if a song doesn’t happen in the room naturally without it being guided by someone specifically, when we’re all just feeling the vibe, then it’s not proper and it’s not pure,” says Greep. “That’s kind of a dangerous thing because you end up never trying something different, or you just abandon an idea if it doesn’t work at first because you’re always waiting for that thing to arrive perfect.”

    With this new approach in mind, half of Cavalcade was written by individual members at home and brought to the table in rehearsal. black midi recruited two new members to play on the record: saxophonist Kaidi Akinnibi and keyboardist Seth Evans.

    Get to Know black midi, a New Type of British Guitar Band.

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    Bob Moses ‘Desire’ out 28th August 2020

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    Directed By: Owen Brown Animation By: Airplan

    Bob Moses (Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance) have announced their next release: a concept record for the club. Presented over six continuously mixed tracks, Desire  on Domino—is a love tale for the digital age: all about the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants, especially in these technology-driven times.

    The title track, a hypnotic late-night collaboration with Grammy-nominated electronic musician ZHU, is out now with an interactive animated video, directed by Owen Brown (c...

    Bob Moses (Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance) have announced their next release: a concept record for the club. Presented over six continuously mixed tracks, Desire  on Domino—is a love tale for the digital age: all about the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants, especially in these technology-driven times.

    The title track, a hypnotic late-night collaboration with Grammy-nominated electronic musician ZHU, is out now with an interactive animated video, directed by Owen Brown (creative agency CTRL5), and animation by Airplan Studio. The video is hosted on interactive streaming company Eko’s platform, with interactive production help from Particle3, and uses anaglyph imagery to display two different sides of desire. With the press of a button, viewers can switch between worlds of ‘pleasure’ and ‘pain’, manipulating a beating heart into a burning fire, lipstick into a bullet, joy into despair. It’s a deft and delicate dive into the ups and downs of desire.

    After making their second album 2018’s Battle Lines, which focused on a tighter, more traditional song structure and touring that around the world in their full band format, Bob Moses set off on a European club tour as their original two piece setup, which served as an inspiration for their next musical offering.  “It was great being back in that environment and feeling the communal energy,” Vallance says.  Feeling inspired, studio time was booked while still on tour. “We wanted to make something that was continuously mixed, something that would take the listener on a journey and replicate that feeling we try to create when we’re playing our sets in a club,” says Howie.

    As the ideas coalesced, they realized there was a thematic through line: desire, and the ways it presents itself in our current world. “Desire can become quite destructive if you’re not self-aware. With this record, we’re trying to be self-aware by looking at our own desires and reckoning with them,” says Vallance. “Stories about desire are timeless: Icarus flying too close to the sun and ending up falling to his death…that idea inspired the falling man on the album cover. That symbolized to us how desire can lead to a downfall.”

    Howie adds, “We’ve appreciated the worlds created in concept records from bands like Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails. We thought it would be interesting to combine that kind of songwriting with the flow of modern electronic music.”

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    Bob Moses ‘Falling into Focus – Live 2020’ Out 20th November 2020

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    Bob Moses have released a brand-new remix from Charlotte de Witte of their single “Desire” with ZHU, extending the song to a seven-minute plus deep techno take. Her reimagined version, out now on Domino, follows the release of Falling into Focus – Live 2020, Bob Moses’ first concert film and live album. Accompanying the remix is a video animated by Airplan Studio and directed by Owen Brown, which completes the arc of the original interactive ‘Desire’ music video by focusing on the...

    Bob Moses have released a brand-new remix from Charlotte de Witte of their single “Desire” with ZHU, extending the song to a seven-minute plus deep techno take. Her reimagined version, out now on Domino, follows the release of Falling into Focus – Live 2020, Bob Moses’ first concert film and live album. Accompanying the remix is a video animated by Airplan Studio and directed by Owen Brown, which completes the arc of the original interactive ‘Desire’ music video by focusing on the blue character’s storyline of pleasure; the video for Solomun’s ‘Desire’ remix focused on the red character’s storyline of heartbreak.

    The release of de Witte’s remix bookends an unprecedented year for Bob Moses as well as the entire music industry due to the coronavirus. Unable to tour, Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance (Bob Moses) took to the digital space with their weekly online ‘BobCast’ series, now streaming exclusively through Twitch.  They released their third studio project ‘Desire’, a six-track love tale for the digital age: all about the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants, especially in these technology-driven times, bringing together a thematic style of songwriting with the flow of modern electronic music.

    Falling into Focus – Live 2020, a concert film also directed by Owen Brown, and live album of the same name, followed. An hour-long set performed from an abandoned radio tower in Topanga, California, it comprised 13 tracks, highlighting material from Desire, their previous albums Battle Lines and Days Gone By, plus an exclusive live band version of Desire.  Starting atop the skyscraping structure as night took over, Bob Moses slowly worked their way down the tower performing multiple sets in a variety of configurations, both as a band and in their original two-piece setup.

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    Bolis Pupul “Letter to Yu” Out 8th March 2024

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    Hot on the heels of a whirlwind year touring the globe and releasing the acclaimed collaboration with Charlotte Adigéry, ‘Topical Dancer’, dance music’s suavest producer-singer-songwriter Bolis Pupul has today announced his debut album Letter To Yu, out 8th March 2024. The LP was made with Soulwax and will be released on their label DEEWEE.

    Letter To Yu is a love letter to Bolis’ late mother who passed away in 2008 in a traffic accident. Born to a Belgian father and Chinese mother, g...

    Hot on the heels of a whirlwind year touring the globe and releasing the acclaimed collaboration with Charlotte Adigéry, ‘Topical Dancer’, dance music’s suavest producer-singer-songwriter Bolis Pupul has today announced his debut album Letter To Yu, out 8th March 2024. The LP was made with Soulwax and will be released on their label DEEWEE.

    Letter To Yu is a love letter to Bolis’ late mother who passed away in 2008 in a traffic accident. Born to a Belgian father and Chinese mother, growing up in Gent, Bolis had not negated his Chinese roots exactly –his mother was born in Hong Kong –but he certainly hadn’t embraced them. However, in the wake of his mother’s passing, he began coming to terms with his heritage.

    “When I started to think about my roots, instead of being ashamed of them, I started to embrace them,” he recalls. “And so it became more and more important for me to get in touch with them. I went to evening school here in Belgium and began learning Chinese. I did that for four years. That was the first step.”

    His first visit to Hong Kong in 2018 further crystallised how Bolis wanted to incorporate his Chinese legacy into his music. A primary intention on his first trip to Hong Kong was to locate where his mother –Yu Wei Wun –was born. Notwanting to forget this overwhelming experience, Bolis began writing a letter to his mother so he could properly grasp his thoughts. Much later, when the album began to properly take shape, he remembered the letter. “It became the centerpiece of this album,” he says matter-of-factly.

    The album’s first single/video “Completely Half” (built around field recordings on the Hong Kong subway) is a beautifully filmed art-house video by Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorterin the heart of Hong Kong, who follows Bolis exploring its streets and buildings in search for his late mother. The women in the video welcomed Bieke into their homes and daily routines to let her film intricately composed tableaux of their everyday lives, in which Bolis seeks the spirit of his late mother.

    The creation of Letter To Yu has been a pivotal and liberating experience for Bolis. “Even though this trip was very emotional and at times sad, I also had some great times that just made me really happy,” he concludes. “This resulted in a veryuplifting melody where I felt like I could handle my life.”

    Letter To Yu tracklist:


    1. Letter To Yu
    2. Completely Half
    3. Goodnight Mr Yi
    4. Frogs
    5. Doctor Says
    6. Spicy Crab
    7. Ma Tau Wai Road
    8. Causeway Bae
    9. Cantonese
    10. Kowloon
    11. Cosmic Rendez-Vous

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    Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces new album ‘The Purple Bird’ out January 2025

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    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – the persona/stage-name of musician Will Oldham – is set to release a new studio record titled The Purple Bird on January 31st via Domino Recording Co. Made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians, The Purple Bird could be called “a proper Nashville record”, made up of a collection of songs primarily written around Ferg’s kitchen table. The latest single “Our Home” features Grammy-winning mandol...

    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – the persona/stage-name of musician Will Oldham – is set to release a new studio record titled The Purple Bird on January 31st via Domino Recording Co. Made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians, The Purple Bird could be called “a proper Nashville record”, made up of a collection of songs primarily written around Ferg’s kitchen table. The latest single “Our Home” features Grammy-winning mandolinist Tim O’Brien, who also serves as a co-writer on the track.

    Check out “Our Home” above.

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    Braxe + Falcon release new single “All This Love (Feat. Bibio)”

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    Braxe + Falcon, the French electronic duo of cousins Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, today share their summery new single “All This Love,” featuring the acclaimed British artist Bibio on vocals and guitar, via Smugglers Way. 

    The duo will tour the East Coast of America in support of Justice next month, and return to North America in September for a series of headlining dates and an appearance at San Francisco’s Portola Festival.

     

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    Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network ‘Ballet of Apes’ out 20th June 2020

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    The striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. “Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls – in Australia with Mikey Young (Total ...

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    The striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. “Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls – in Australia with Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring), in San Francisco with Mike Donovan (ex Sic Alps), Shayde Sartin (ex Fresh & Onlys/lifetime ringer) and Mike Shoun (ex Oh Sees/Peacers), and in Brooklyn with instrumental heavy-weights Sunwatchers – and the results are spellbinding. At the focal point of this maelstrom, our lady, as if illumed by candlelight, intones, pleads, consoles – white magic perhaps but it carries with it the anodized tang of blood. 

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    Brother May and Micachu Archives 2008-2014

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    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.

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    Buscabulla ‘Regresa’ out 8th May 2020

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    Buscabulla has released the single “Vámono”, with a music video directed by Claudia Calderon. Watch above.

    It is the first song both written and conceived since the duo’s members, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, moved home to Puerto Rico, from New York. The song is a rally to those who have returned as well as those whom have left. It is an urgent reminder to connect with your history, your roots, your very own self. Buscabulla were born and raised in Puerto Rico. Yet ...

    Buscabulla has released the single “Vámono”, with a music video directed by Claudia Calderon. Watch above.

    It is the first song both written and conceived since the duo’s members, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, moved home to Puerto Rico, from New York. The song is a rally to those who have returned as well as those whom have left. It is an urgent reminder to connect with your history, your roots, your very own self. Buscabulla were born and raised in Puerto Rico. Yet it wasn’t until 2011 while living in NYC that the producer, designer, songwriter, and DJ Berrios teamed up with producer and multi-instrumentalist Del Valle. Together they formed “troublemaker“, or “Buscabulla”, as it’s known in Puerto Rican slang. Buscabulla’s debut EP was co-produced with Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and subsequently released on the Kitsuné Musique label in 2014. Buscabulla’s second EP, II, was self-produced and self-released in January 2017.

    The video for “Vámono”, is an amalgam of Neo-Cultural expressions inspired by ancestral traditions which are celebrated in regions close to the group’s own personal history in Puerto Rico. The Vejigantes, from Ponce, where Del Valle was born and raised, and Festival de Las Mascaras in Hatillo, where Berrios’ ancestors are from and, like her, emigrated to NY, made a life there and came back to Puerto Rico to live out the rest of their lives.

    “With the mass-exodus of Puerto Ricans to the mainland U.S. as well as economic decline accompanied by displacement of our people and traditions, we hoped to capture the essence of these festivities,” the band says. “By their very nature and existence, these festivities are a form of celebratory resistance.”

    Regresa was recorded in its entirety in Raquel and Luis Alfredo’s home studio in Puerto Rico, and is an emotional roller coaster in which they face and ponder the issues affecting them and Puerto Rican society at large: the frustration at the lack of opportunities for locals while tax breaks lure rich investors, self-doubt and anxiety, even the rise of religious fanaticism. Full of angst and an underlying sense of loss, Regresa — which means “return” or “to come back” — is a bittersweet, introspective, eye-opening journey.

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    Cass McCombs releases ‘Seed Cake On Leap Year’ via Domino

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    Cass McCombs has released a surprise album, Seed Cake on Leap Year, out now and marking his return to Domino Recording Company. The release follows the recent reissues of 2002’s EP Not the Way, 2003’s A, and 2005’s PREfection via 4AD. Seed Cake on Leap Year is a collection of early, previously unreleased music recorded at Papercuts’ Jason Quever’s flat in San Francisco whilst McCombs was living in Berkeley between 1999 and 2000, at the turn of the century.

    Always driven by a mindset...

    Cass McCombs has released a surprise album, Seed Cake on Leap Year, out now and marking his return to Domino Recording Company. The release follows the recent reissues of 2002’s EP Not the Way, 2003’s A, and 2005’s PREfection via 4AD. Seed Cake on Leap Year is a collection of early, previously unreleased music recorded at Papercuts’ Jason Quever’s flat in San Francisco whilst McCombs was living in Berkeley between 1999 and 2000, at the turn of the century.

    Always driven by a mindset of moving forward, this period marked a brief but productive phase in McCombs’ career before he hit the road, travelling across the country and eventually landing in New York City, where he would create the music that would go on to reach a wider audience. What’s remarkable about Seed Cake on Leap Year is how vibrant and raw these songs remain, full of insight and wonder, unknowingly in conversation with everything that was yet to come.

    A music video for “Baby” is available above.

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    Cat Power releases album Wanderer

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    Songwriter, musician, and producer Chan Marshall better known as Cat Power produced Wanderer in its entirety. The album includes appearances by longtime friends and compatriots, as well as guest vocals courtesy of friend and recent tour-mate Lana Del Rey. Written and recorded in Miami and Los Angeles over the course of the 2016-2018 Wanderer’s 11 tracks encompass The course my life has taken in this journey – going from town to town, with my guitar, telling my tale; with reverence to the ...

    Songwriter, musician, and producer Chan Marshall better known as Cat Power produced Wanderer in its entirety. The album includes appearances by longtime friends and compatriots, as well as guest vocals courtesy of friend and recent tour-mate Lana Del Rey. Written and recorded in Miami and Los Angeles over the course of the 2016-2018 Wanderer’s 11 tracks encompass The course my life has taken in this journey – going from town to town, with my guitar, telling my tale; with reverence to the people who did this generations before me. Folk singers, blues singers, and everything in between.

    They were all wanderers, and I am lucky to be among them.”

     

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    Cate Le Bon ‘Pompeii’ out 4th February 2022

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    ‘Pompeii’, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated ‘Reward’, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe — global pandemic plus climate emergency’s colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. “What would be your last gesture?” she asks.

    But just as Vesuvius remains active, ‘...

    ‘Pompeii’, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated ‘Reward’, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe — global pandemic plus climate emergency’s colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. “What would be your last gesture?” she asks.

    But just as Vesuvius remains active, ‘Pompeii’ reaches past the current crises to tap into what Le Bon calls “an economy of time warp” where life roils, bubbles, wrinkles, melts, hardens, and reconfigures unpredictably, like lava—or sound, rather. Like she says in the opener, “Dirt on the Bed,” Sound doesn’t go away / In habitual silence / It reinvents the surface / Of everything you touch.

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    Charif Megarbane ‘Marzipan’ – July 14th

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    Charif Megarbane share Souk El Ahad and announce first album on Habibi Funk.

    Out on July 14th “Marzipan” is Habibi Funk’s first full length contemporary release courtesy of Beirut’s multi-instrumental producer phenom Charif Megarbane, also known as the man behind prolific Cosmic Analog Ensemble. The LP is a journey into Charif’s styling, one he terms “Lebrary”: a vision of Lebanon + Mediterranean expressed via the kaleidoscopic sonics of library music. Drawing influence from ...

    Charif Megarbane share Souk El Ahad and announce first album on Habibi Funk.

    Out on July 14th “Marzipan” is Habibi Funk’s first full length contemporary release courtesy of Beirut’s multi-instrumental producer phenom Charif Megarbane, also known as the man behind prolific Cosmic Analog Ensemble. The LP is a journey into Charif’s styling, one he terms “Lebrary”: a vision of Lebanon + Mediterranean expressed via the kaleidoscopic sonics of library music. Drawing influence from artists that encapsulates the Habibi Funk sound such as Ziad Rahbani, Ahmed Malek and Issam Hajali, Charif translates these influences into an LP.

    Following his previous release of EP “Tayara Warak” in 2022, “Marzipan” is a sonic journey that seeks to capture the full scope of Chairf Megarbane’s habitus in 17 tracks. As a composer and producer, Megarbane touts hugely versatile, sometimes volatile musicianship — his 100+ catalogue of projects (including groups like the Cosmic Analog Ensemble, the Free Association Syndicate, Monumental Detail, etc.) features a huge domain of sonic direction. This collection was previously developed in Megarbane’s own Hisstology which hosts a wealth of collaborative efforts. Now, Habibi Funk represents Megarbane under his own name. Megarbane finds a sonic through-line in his surrounding soundscapes as he draws on the chaotic energy of the crowded Beirut metropolis (“Souk El Ahad”), the warm atmosphere of the Lebanese countryside (“Chez Mounir”), or the lushness of a Mediterranean beach resort (“Portemilio”). Reflecting the aural composition of his direct surroundings into kaleidoscopic instrumentation provides a unique insight into how one musical phenomenon transposes sight into sound.

    Despite the magnitude of his catalog, Megarbane’s LP sounds as fresh—as resolutely inspired—as a debut record. “Marzipan” continues down the winding path he trod on his first Habibi

    Funk foray, EP “Tayyara Warak” which features solid footing in the hectic city sounds Megarbane hears as home. Despite his obvious musical acumen, Megarbane’s greatest talent seems to be his open ears.

    In many ways, “Marzipan” is a cartographic feat — it travels and traces a journey across many dimensions (both sonic and physical). Charif’s instrumental catalogue is vast: toy glockenspiel, harpsichord, pedal steel, a classic Wurlitzer, et al are used liberally on the record. The resultant sound is as sprawling as the musician’s instrumental dexterity. “Marzipan’s” closing track “Bala 3anouan” can be translated loosely to “without address” — a fitting final word. Despite the entire record being a sincere testament to Megarbane’s environmental approach to music-making, the record is not bound to any particular coordinates, or any particular sound for that matter. The vastness of his influences — beloved artists like Ahmed Malek and Issam Hajali; West African funk deep cuts; European cinematic scores; et al — result in a record of somewhat unparalleled expansiveness. Floating melodies and frantic rhythmic interludes both find natural homes across “Marzipan.” The record is tinged with psychedelic elements—fuzz-drenched guitar, sliding microtonal interludes, hypnotic rhythmic breakdowns.

    Reflecting on his creative process, Megarbane cites a stream of consciousness approach: “It’s a very spontaneous, playful, and diary-like approach and workflow…I trust my instinct because instinct is based on experience.”

    “Marzipan” will be available physically and digitally everywhere on July 14, 2023. Uncover greater insight into the world of Charif Megarbane in the booklet accompanying the LP and CD.

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    Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘Topical Dancer’ out 4th March 2022

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    Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul release their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ via Soulwax’s iconic label Deewee.

    Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’. The Ghent-based ...

    Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul release their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ via Soulwax’s iconic label Deewee.

    Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.

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    Charlotte Adigéry and Panda Bear collaborate on Bullion’s album ‘Affection’. Out now

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    Bullion is Nathan Jenkins, an enduring cult figure of electronic music. A producer and songwriter quietly to be found connecting artists, genre and UK subculture. His credits range from Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Howard, Nilüfer Yanya and Avalon Emerson’s breakout album & The Charm to records for Westerman and Joviale.

    Latest surprise record Affection (Ghostly International), started life upon Nathan’s move back to London from Lisbon, where he relocated in 2018. Back then, the comfort of...

    Bullion is Nathan Jenkins, an enduring cult figure of electronic music. A producer and songwriter quietly to be found connecting artists, genre and UK subculture. His credits range from Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Howard, Nilüfer Yanya and Avalon Emerson’s breakout album & The Charm to records for Westerman and Joviale.

    Latest surprise record Affection (Ghostly International), started life upon Nathan’s move back to London from Lisbon, where he relocated in 2018. Back then, the comfort of the crowd suited him: self-confessedly passive and faltering by nature, the opportunity to exist somewhere without any personal history proved liberating. Returning home, Nathan increasingly found himself reflecting on his place in the world, seeking affection in place of cynicism.

    Bullion’s music has always been difficult to pin down, but entirely distinctive. On ‘Affection’, Bullion collaborates with Domino Publishing artists Charlotte Adigéry and Panda Bear (Animal Collective), on songs “A City’s Never”, and “World_train”, respectively. “World_train” is an eccentric and brilliantly odd angle on Bullion’s love of pop, its locomotive power summoning a lost past amidst the uncertainties of the everyday. ‘I can hardly understand what it takes to be a real man’, Bullion sings. ‘…and nobody can’, Adigéry confirms. “A City’s Never” emerging after Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) and Nathan lived in Lisbon at the same time but never actually met. For Bullion, the willingness to allow others into his songwriting process is as much about opening up the world of the album as it is about bettering the work and the person.

    Affection is an unassumingly powerful pursuit of a more compassionate form of confidence, in which Bullion cements his place in the present-day by entirely surrendering to the future.

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

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    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’....

    “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’.” That track helped launch the landmark self-titled debut back in 2005. And now, after 15 years, Alec felt compelled to once again tackle politics, and what’s happening in the US indicating how serious he believes the situation to be.

    “‘Hesitating Nation’ is a song meant to convey my sense of disappointment and alienation with the rewarded mentality of getting ahead at all costs, inevitably to the detriment of those who didn’t sign up to be part of the experiment.”  Describing “Thousand Oaks,” Ounsworth says, “In 2018, there was a shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA which killed 13 people. This song has to do with the impotence of the American government in the face of such tragedies.”

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    Clinic ‘Fantasy Island’ out 22nd October 2021

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    Clinic announce their ninth studio album ‘Fantasy Island’, due October 22nd via Domino. A vibrant and eclectic LP, over twelve tracks, the Grammy-nominated North West-based duo transport us to tropical climes.

    Alongside the album announcement, Clinic are also pleased to share the title track “Fantasy Island” with a video directed by Emily Evans. The band say about the single: “Get out of your tree tonight with Clinic’s new electro-rockabilly shebang.”

    ‘Fantasy Island’ ...

    Clinic announce their ninth studio album ‘Fantasy Island’, due October 22nd via Domino. A vibrant and eclectic LP, over twelve tracks, the Grammy-nominated North West-based duo transport us to tropical climes.

    Alongside the album announcement, Clinic are also pleased to share the title track “Fantasy Island” with a video directed by Emily Evans. The band say about the single: “Get out of your tree tonight with Clinic’s new electro-rockabilly shebang.”

    ‘Fantasy Island’ was recorded in an old studio on Merseyside during the summer of 2019, with good vibrations seeping into the grooves, “Clinic look to a brighter future,”reveal the band in a soundbite. Their last album, 2019’s Wheeltappers and Shunters, found the band satirising British culture and wallowing in sleazy Seventies nostalgia. This time they are embracing the “the idea of looking at the future and the different ways it can unfold”, with their most electronic and pop record to date.

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    The Coral ‘Coral Island’ Out 30th April 2021

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    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...

    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 feverous anticipation of a night amongst the screams, fights and romance of the fair become part of life on the newly-built Coral Island.

    Recorded in a sense of barely-controlled, copy and paste chaos at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, Coral Island was written and performed by the multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented line-up of James Skelly, Ian Skelly, Nick Power, Paul Duffy and Paul Molloy plus a special guest.

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

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    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

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    Cosmic analog Ensemble “Les Grandes Vacances” Out 19th January 2024

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    Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Les Grandes Vacances Charif Megarbane (Cosmic Analog Ensemble) Out 19 January 2024
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    Jakarta Records announced “Les Grandes Vacances” courtesy of Beirut’s Cosmic Analog Ensemble, aka multi-instrumental phenom Charif Megarbane. Out on January 19, 2024, the LP is an expansive musical odyssey, one that paints a melodic tapestry woven from an eclectic panorama of sonic tools. Funky beats, dreamy melodies + cinematic flair combine to create an experience that transcends time. From vibrant funky energy to introspective moods and library-inspired tunes, “Les Grandes Vacan...

    Jakarta Records announced “Les Grandes Vacances” courtesy of Beirut’s Cosmic Analog Ensemble, aka multi-instrumental phenom Charif Megarbane. Out on January 19, 2024, the LP is an expansive musical odyssey, one that paints a melodic tapestry woven from an eclectic panorama of sonic tools. Funky beats, dreamy melodies + cinematic flair combine to create an experience that transcends time. From vibrant funky energy to introspective moods and library-inspired tunes, “Les Grandes Vacances” captures the essence of past and present, inviting you to indulge in the perfect balance of “groove-stalgia.”

    Cosmic Analog Ensemble, the prolific one-man band helmed by Charif Megarbane, the staggeringly prolific producer, instrumentalist, and all-around musical mastermind, returns to his “Ensemble” with LP “Les Grandes Vacances.”

    Megarbane’s artistry has garnered widespread recognition, with notable placements in Spotify Editorial Playlists like “Global Groove” and “Folk Fabrique,” along with coverage from platforms / publications such as BBC Radio, Bandcamp, The Vinyl Factory, Time Magazine, and Esquire, among a host of others. Building on the success of his debut solo release “Marzipan” in 2023 via Habibi Funk, “Les Grandes Vacances” is a sonic journey that captures the full scope of Megarbane’s sonic habitus. As a composer and producer, Megarbane touts hugely versatile, sometimes volatile musicianship — his 100+ catalogue of projects (including legendary groups like the Free Association Syndicate, The Flying Turbans, Monumental Detail, etc.) features a huge domain of sonic direction. Jakarta Records presents here a new expansion in the sonic universe of Megarbane.

    In the enchanting sonic world of “Les Grandes Vacances,” Cosmic Analog Ensemble expertly combines diverse musical elements to craft an immersive experience. From vibrant funky energy to introspective moments and library-inspired compositions, the album’s sonic palette is rich and varied. The meticulously designed artwork by Simone Cihlar (known for collabs with Anderson .Paak, Tom Misch, Ivan Ave, Tapioca and others) complements the album’s thematic depth, enhancing the visual and auditory journey for listeners.

    Reflecting on his creative process, Megarbane cites a stream of consciousness approach: “It’s a very spontaneous, playful, and diary-like approach and workflow…I trust my instinct because instinct is based on experience.”

     

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    Dan Deacon ‘Mystic Familiar’ out 31st January 2020

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    Dan Deacon’s most emotionally open and transcendent record, Mystic Familiar’s 11 kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic synth-pop exponentially expand his sound with unfettered imagination and newfound vulnerability. It’s the first album where Deacon presents his natural singing voice, unprocessed and with only minimal accompaniment; a vulnerable shift in a songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and distorted vocals.

     

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    Dan Deacon ‘Well Groomed’ out 13th November 2020

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    If you were making a documentary about people who dye their dogs neon hues and trim their fur into the shape of the Cheshire Cat, Dan Deacon would be the first person you’d call for the score. Since his arrival with 2007’s Spiderman of the Rings, the Baltimore producer has wielded candy-coated synthesizers and jewel-toned vibraphones with radiant joy, combining conservatory-honed classical minimalism with the all-night-rager energy of a Jersey Shore DJ. His music is bright, pastel-colored...

    If you were making a documentary about people who dye their dogs neon hues and trim their fur into the shape of the Cheshire Cat, Dan Deacon would be the first person you’d call for the score. Since his arrival with 2007’s Spiderman of the Rings, the Baltimore producer has wielded candy-coated synthesizers and jewel-toned vibraphones with radiant joy, combining conservatory-honed classical minimalism with the all-night-rager energy of a Jersey Shore DJ. His music is bright, pastel-colored, pumped full of the boundless energy of a puppy who’s just been let off its leash—and, increasingly, it’s got a lot of heart. Frankly, it’s hard to believe it took him this long to do something with dogs.

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

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    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...

    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 everything will eventually get better, most notably on ‘Our Illusion’. Here Rumsey appears to be lamenting the end of the relationship.

    The Darkest Day is a fun EP. The five songs are packed with the kind of dark, throbbing energy that made The Wytches such an exciting prospect. But, unlike Rumsey’s day job, there is a massive dollop of pop. Catchy choruses that demand to be sung out loud. The downside is that it never quite hits the highs of The Wytches and it’s slightly unfair to compare the two. Rumsey is one member of that powerhouse of a group; here everything is on his shoulders. He has no one to confer with, no one to bounce ideas off. But what is remarkable though, is how it nearly does reach those highs. The title track could easily hold its own on a Wytches album. We are currently living in dark days but maybe, just maybe, Rumsey can illuminate that darkness with this collection of captivating songs. Taken from this article

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    DEMISE OF LOVE: The new collaborative project from Daniel Avery, Ghost Culture and Working Men’s Club

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    When three of the most forward-thinking minds in electronic and alternative music collide, the result is bound to be expansive. Demise Of Love is the thrilling new project from Daniel Avery, James Greenwood’s Ghost Culture, and Working Men’s Club—a studio collaboration forged from mutual admiration and an unrelenting drive to break new ground. Today they share their debut single ‘Strange Little Consequence’ alongside the news of their eponymous debut EP, which will land digitally an...

    When three of the most forward-thinking minds in electronic and alternative music collide, the result is bound to be expansive. Demise Of Love is the thrilling new project from Daniel Avery, James Greenwood’s Ghost Culture, and Working Men’s Club—a studio collaboration forged from mutual admiration and an unrelenting drive to break new ground. Today they share their debut single ‘Strange Little Consequence’ alongside the news of their eponymous debut EP, which will land digitally and physically on 10” limited edition vinyl on May 30th, via Domino Recording Co.

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    Dirty Projectors ‘Windows Open’ EP out 27th March 2020

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    If you’ve seen Dirty Projectors live in the last two years (2018-2020), you no doubt saw Maia Friedman rocking the Silvertone and Stratocaster stage left – now she sings lead on all of ‘Windows Open’.

    ‘Search For Life’, a classic Projectors ballad with a stunning string arrangement from Oliver Hill (Vagabon, Dust Rider). In the context of this month’s global crisis, it seems to carry a different and deeper resonance.

    Windows Open features  ‘Overlord’, a “tongue-in-cheek c...

    If you’ve seen Dirty Projectors live in the last two years (2018-2020), you no doubt saw Maia Friedman rocking the Silvertone and Stratocaster stage left – now she sings lead on all of ‘Windows Open’.

    ‘Search For Life’, a classic Projectors ballad with a stunning string arrangement from Oliver Hill (Vagabon, Dust Rider). In the context of this month’s global crisis, it seems to carry a different and deeper resonance.

    Windows Open features  ‘Overlord’, a “tongue-in-cheek critique of surveillance” (UPROXX) that’s been praised as both “disconcertingly serene” (Rolling Stone) and “a beautiful, moving, simple pleasure that’s hard to resist” (Consequence of Sound). Another track, “On The Breeze,” feels generous and retrospective, like a peace offering to an impulsive trickster spirit. And closing the collection is “Guarding The Baby,” a song of flint-eyed catharsis. An atmosphere of lightness prevails over Windows Open, and flashes of humor and sweetness carry the day.

    The music of ‘Windows Open’ was written, produced and mixed by Dave, who co-wrote the words with Maia. The whole thing was recorded at Ivo Shandor in Los Angeles, CA.

    Dirty Projectors is Dave, Maia, Felicia Douglass, Kristin Slipp and Mike Johnson.

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    DISCOVER King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Bubble’

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    “So who’s been unfair, Who causes you sorrow? And who’s been unkind, Who burst your bubble?”

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    Nothing quite like a pandemic to help your life flash before your very eyes but it occurred to us that 28th March 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Diamond Mine, a collaborative album from Domino and Double Six artists, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. We’ve selected the song Bubble to share with you whilst we revisit...

    “So who’s been unfair, Who causes you sorrow? And who’s been unkind, Who burst your bubble?”

    Lyric to Bubble by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins (video)

    Nothing quite like a pandemic to help your life flash before your very eyes but it occurred to us that 28th March 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Diamond Mine, a collaborative album from Domino and Double Six artists, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. We’ve selected the song Bubble to share with you whilst we revisit this remarkable album.

    ‘From squeezebox lullaby to tranquilized electronic waltz, this stunning track glides and flickers with all the grace of the Northern Lights in bloom’ – Bubble in Q magazine’s Q50 

    The album was launched with a breathtaking show at Union Chapel – a memorable moment being the mesmerizing repeat of Your Young Voice echoing through the hallowed rafters: “It’s your young voice that’s keeping me holding on to my dull life.” 

    Featuring lyrics and vocals from King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) sung over musical backdrops arranged and recorded by Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine is a genuine labour of love, recorded over a number of years without the pressure of deadlines, whenever Jon and KC could get together.

    The album, featuring instrumental moments as affecting as the lyrical, consists of newly interpreted obscure delights picked out from 20 years of King Creosote’s treasure chest of a back catalogue. Intended to be heard as a single experience, Diamond Mine produces a near classical suite of emotion ranging from cracked despair to patched-up euphoria. Described by King Creosote as a ‘soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village’, the record weaves in slices of Fife life, bike wheels, spring tides, tea cups and café chatter to produce a beautiful, unique and timeless album.

    Following a the Mercury nomination they followed this up with an EP, Honest Words featuring a reworking of album track Bats In The Attic as well as songs ‘Honest Words’ and ‘Aurora Boring Alias’. The press release called this the teasing out of the truth in an obfuscating lyric, or contemplating the truth as laid bare by feline nature and star fields. The music underneath follows these thoughts into more expansive, crystalline realms, far away from the harbours and tea-rooms where they began. The album took on a deluxe version in 2012 with the Jubilee Edition featuring extra songs (Missionary, Starboard Home) and KT Tunstall supplying vocals on Third Swan.

    Revisiting Diamond Mine through the lens of the past decade – the profundity of the concept album is heart wrenching and it’s hard to imagine the record is anything other than an anecdotal document of human experience. Featuring themes of humility, fatherhood and mortality – it is a sobering and fragile record. The instrumentation itself mixes tradition, spoken word and experiment as if it is musically stumbling it’s way through the changes from traditional to modern times.  The lonely spaces of Jon’s treatment of organic, found and piano sounds, profoundly distill Kenny Anderson‘s songwriting. The result is a potent mix and this album marks a strong milestone in the careers of two of the UK’s musical artisans.

    We would suggest that collaborations between electronic and independent songwriter whilst now fairly commonplace were still relatively pioneering when Jon and Kenny first got together to set about on this piece. It will be interesting to look back on this record in 10 years time and trace a potential musical lineage inspired by Diamond Mine.

     

    Praise for Diamond Mine

    Mercury Music Prize Nomination 2011 The Guardian

    The Guardian, Mojo, Q and Uncut listed Diamond Mine in their top albums of 2011.

    ‘[..] fragile and lovely, adjectives that apply to the whole gig: an album on which everything just clicks, deservingly getting a night on which the same thing happens’ – 5* Guardian live review

    ‘ancient and modern, complex yet blissfully sparse, and very, very beautiful’- Evening Standard – 5*

    ‘Extraordinary album? Definitely’ – Sunday Times Culture – 5* CD of the Week

    ‘a song -cycle that illuminates the exceptional in the everyday’ – Independent – 4*

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Late of the Pier ‘Bathroom Gurgle’

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    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....

    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. You might share a toilet cubicle with Amy Winehouse and split a cab fare with a z list celeb without thinking to document it. People were still spending any money they had on going ‘out out’. There were no pop-up gastro experiences, tattoos were still Chinese mottos, the only vegan option was asking for salad pitta and chips after you checked the chippie didn’t cook the battered sausage in the same oil. The provincial towns of the UK were loaded with DIY music makers excitedly experimenting with gear they found in someone’s loft. It never occurred to anyone to sell it online. You’d get your pals round and make something with the treasures you’d find to try and make life more interesting for yourselves. Most parents would not mind – they had a music interest themselves. This is how you would end up with bands like Late of the Pier.

    2008 marked the end of an era of blind optimism in the music business. The seismic tremors of the credit crunch were underway. Venture capitalists grabbed Caesar hair-cut music executives by the ankles and yanked them abruptly into the rapidly opening crevasse which was ripping across companies like EMI Music. The Parlophone imprint was home to one album – 2008’s ‘Fantasy Black Channel’ by Late of the Pier. Caught in this metaphorical ice flow – this album became a landmark, frozen in time. They marked a new dawn of genre binaries, art and energy. Its young creators would later grow up through the Domino roster to become Soft Hair, LA Priest and perform song-writing duties with Domino artists like Franz Ferdinand and Xenoula.

    Wrestling free from usual genre constraints, Late of the Pier‘s only album release was hotly tipped at the time. Put out through EMI Music on Parlophone’s A&R structure it released on the imprint Phantasy Sound – the label founded by DJ Erol Alkan.  Based in Hoxton, the area was just on the turn to gentrification – clinging on to it’s lively arts scene. Alkan produced this album. One half of psychedelic rock group Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve (BTWS), it’s worth mentioning that the wizzard sleeve sound encapsulated the post 9/11 New York new wave sound of the mid 00s. People were tiring of 4 piece bands and tongue-in-cheek novelty rock bands. People were looking for something authentic, expressive and joyful. Unusual rhythmic patterns were popularised by a wave of Brazilian music. The music scene was bubbling with baile funk and burgeoning British hip hop – hints of fresh new music buds were appearing. BTWS had remixed Peter Bjorn and John, Midlake, Simian Mobile Disco, Franz Ferdinand, The Chemical Brothers and Goldfrapp. Their mixes filled the  impromptu dancefloors of bohemian dive bars across Europe.

    Late of the Pier shows were the most sought after to attend at a time when people could be bothered to go out. The band would crush onto small stages in silver hoods and robes of ‘neon grey’. It was almost impossible to ever describe their music or remember their song titles. Their music consumed synth pop, glam rock, IDM and thrash metal. Someone told me I had to go see this band – ‘they use wooden planks in their set mate, you gotta check em out‘. We did all pile down to UCL union bar in London to ‘check em out’. Late of the Pier kept everyone happy from the indie band guys to glam rock fashionistas.

    “Starting off like Haircut 100, this morphs into ‘Mechanical Animals’-era Marilyn Manson, followed by The Strokes’ ‘12.51’ riff, then ‘There, There’ by Radiohead, through to MGMT and Gary Numan. Just when you think it’s over, Rage Against the Machine metal-funk appears with added cock-rock guitar. Thus it is everything ace ever, distilled into a pendant of liquid-pop platinum.” NME 1st August 2008

    Whilst the band never officially split, Sam Eastgate aka Samuel Dust now better known as La Priest, worked with Sam Potter aka Jack Paradise on Fantasy Black Channel’s tenth anniversary in 2018 by creating a pamphlet for Rough Trade Books titled Ecstatic Data Sets: The Chorismos Apeiron Scanner (2028 Edition) a manual for a music-making machine of the near future.

    This entry is dedicated to the memory of drummer, Ross Dawson.

    DAZED: remembering Late of the Pier – one of the UK’s most forward thinking bands

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS WRITTEN BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DITZ announce 2025 album ‘Never Exhale’ alongside lead single “Space/Smile”

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    DITZ are back, announcing their brand-new album, Never Exhale, due on 24th January 2025 via Republic of Music. Alongside the announcement, they share their raging new single, “Space/Smile.”

    Never Exhale is the sound of a band that’s never slowed down. With themes around unnecessary hatred and division, personal demons, politics, and what it would be like to weigh your impact on the world, more layers reveal themselves on further listens.

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    DITZ are back, announcing their brand-new album, Never Exhale, due on 24th January 2025 via Republic of Music. Alongside the announcement, they share their raging new single, “Space/Smile.”

    Never Exhale is the sound of a band that’s never slowed down. With themes around unnecessary hatred and division, personal demons, politics, and what it would be like to weigh your impact on the world, more layers reveal themselves on further listens.

    Following their debut The Great Regression released in 2022, it’s a document of what the 5-piece band has been up to since, as well as where they were when writing and rehearsing the record—mostly between touring. DITZ made use of borrowed rehearsal spaces, sometimes donated by the bands they played with the night before—they even ended up debuting a newly written song live the next night. The plan was to record Never Exhale in a more traditional setting, but it was abandoned when they were offered a support tour with IDLES.

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    Dub Pistols ‘Addict’ out 16th October 2020

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    ‘​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 ...

    ‘​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 to work with. It’s been incredible to collaborate with all the legends that I have on this record, but it’s also the new emerging talent such as Natty Campbell and Gardna that have really given me new enthusiasm.  The album has taken two years to record but has been 25 years in the making.”

    Singles – Quotes from Barry Ashworth:

    Stand Together

    the Rhoda Dakar collaboration was penned “about how far we’ve come, but how much further we still have to go when it comes to the war against racism”.

    The single’s accompanying video intersperses new clips with footage from the civil rights movements of the 1950s and ’60s. “To watch what is going on over in America and how racism is still so seismic in our society is devastating,”

    Dark Days Dark Times

    “This was one of the first songs recorded for the album, drawing on the problem of gang related gun crime from a disenfranchised youth and the county line gang issue. All the while, highlighting how austerity and its effects, like closing youth clubs etc,  has driven kids onto the streets and into these gangs.”

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    Ela Minus ‘Acts of Rebellion’ out 23rd October 2020

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    Ela Minus’ debut album is a collection about the personal as political and embracing the beauty of tiny acts of revolution in our everyday lives. Throughout, a sense of urgency and a call to arms is mixed with this love and appreciation for reality—because even revolutionaries need to leave space for simple human interaction.

    Colombia-born/raised and Brooklyn-based musician Ela Minus debuts her new single, “megapunk”. It follows “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong”,...

    Ela Minus’ debut album is a collection about the personal as political and embracing the beauty of tiny acts of revolution in our everyday lives. Throughout, a sense of urgency and a call to arms is mixed with this love and appreciation for reality—because even revolutionaries need to leave space for simple human interaction.

    Colombia-born/raised and Brooklyn-based musician Ela Minus debuts her new single, “megapunk”. It follows “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong”, an invigorating single Minus released this spring that was recently remixed by Fort Romeau, DJ Python and buttechno.

    “megapunk” is on the same motivating wavelength. It’s driven by an array of shifting instrumentation – blipping techno, a thumping drum beat, and Minus’ tempered vocals. Written last year and prescient given today’s progressive social movements, “megapunk” is defiant, and an encouraging reminder to surge forward, despite resistance: “you don’t want to understand // you’re choosing to lead us apart // but against all odds // you still won’t make us stop.”

    Ela comments, “When I wrote this song last year, I was worried it would lose context if not released immediately. I could not have been more wrong. This is the perfect time to put this out. We have to keep going. Ánimo y fuerza.”

    Preceding her path of making electronic music, Ela drummed in a teenage hardcore band. She joined the band when she was just 12 and played with them for almost a decade. Then, Ela moved to the United States, where she attended Berklee College of Music and double-majored in jazz drumming and synthesizer design. This expansive background instilled in Ela a belief that we all have the power to change things, and as she delved deeper into her work with synthesizers, she saw a clear connection between the freedom of the DIY scene she grew up in and club culture.

    Ela uses only hardware synthesizers to perform, write, produce and record. Her music exudes a vibrant warmth, and a stark, celebratory affirmation that our breaths aren’t infinite.

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    Ela Minus releases new single & video for “UPWARDS” off upcoming album ‘DIA’

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    “UPWARDS”, the latest single from Ela Minus, presents Ela relishing pure pop splendour. An unabashed and addictive theme song for safeguarding yourself, your body, and your soul, “UPWARDS” is unforgettable on its first listen. The song is propelled by an unrelenting pulse and sharp refrain, as Ela chants repeatedly, “I’d love to save you, but you’ve got to save yourself,” while aggressive, busy synths bounce underneath, evoking the feeling of lasers waging war against the song...

    “UPWARDS”, the latest single from Ela Minus, presents Ela relishing pure pop splendour. An unabashed and addictive theme song for safeguarding yourself, your body, and your soul, “UPWARDS” is unforgettable on its first listen. The song is propelled by an unrelenting pulse and sharp refrain, as Ela chants repeatedly, “I’d love to save you, but you’ve got to save yourself,” while aggressive, busy synths bounce underneath, evoking the feeling of lasers waging war against the song itself.

    The music video, which sees Ela collaborating with directors Albert Estruch and Marc Sancho (of Querida), creates a unique visual and auditory experience. It features Ela at the centre of a circle with her instruments, surrounded by cameras and screens that capture and display different angles of the action in real time.

    Check out the video above.

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

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    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 ...

    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 writer Emily Dickinson once said that “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves” – like the starlings in a murmuration, where the movement of each individual bird is related to just seven of its closest neighbours, none of them aware of the mesmerising, fluctuating shapes being created by the flock.

    This album is my way of reaching out; to start a conversation that might form a small part of the larger pattern of a better future; a future we can all play an equal part in.

    Released on Thirty Tigers.

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    Fat Dog release new single “Running” and announce their debut album “WOOF,” out 6th September.

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    8 months on since their sprawling debut single “King of the Slugs” was released, the sentiment remains strong as the first words of Fat Dog’s debut album WOOF. are bellowed out by frontman and squadron leader Joe Love, real name Joe Love.  

    One of the most exciting breakthrough bands of the past few years, conjurers of the sort of frenzied and wild live shows not seen in the capital for years, and with only two tracks out thus far (the menacing “All the Same” was unleashed in Janu...

    8 months on since their sprawling debut single “King of the Slugs” was released, the sentiment remains strong as the first words of Fat Dog’s debut album WOOF. are bellowed out by frontman and squadron leader Joe Love, real name Joe Love.  

    One of the most exciting breakthrough bands of the past few years, conjurers of the sort of frenzied and wild live shows not seen in the capital for years, and with only two tracks out thus far (the menacing “All the Same” was unleashed in January), Fat Dog are now the creators of WOOF., a brilliant and mind-bending record, due for release on September 6th via Domino.  

    Today, they share new song “Running”, a slice of unhinged, hook-heavy twisted trance. The video, directed by Stephen Agnew, hints to Ken Russell, Ingmar Bergman and MANDY whilst revealing the true origins of the cult of Fat Dog and their real leader.   

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    Fat Dog share new song “I am the King”

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    Fat Dog have released their latest tune, the expansive and epic- “I am the King”. “It was written in the toilets of the Wetherspoons pub in Forest Hill,” says frontman Joe Love, thereby ensuring the pub will one day get a blue plaque. 

    Directed by Dylan Coates and Travis Barton, the video for “I am the King” opens on a scene of the band mourning and weeping at the side of Joe’s grave and progresses to the King himself parachuting from the sky out of a helicopter. Classic Fat Do...

    Fat Dog have released their latest tune, the expansive and epic- “I am the King”. “It was written in the toilets of the Wetherspoons pub in Forest Hill,” says frontman Joe Love, thereby ensuring the pub will one day get a blue plaque. 

    Directed by Dylan Coates and Travis Barton, the video for “I am the King” opens on a scene of the band mourning and weeping at the side of Joe’s grave and progresses to the King himself parachuting from the sky out of a helicopter. Classic Fat Dog. The music video is out now.

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    Fat Dog unleash vibrant new single “Wither” alongside music video

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    Fresh from their four delirious shows at Glastonbury last month, Fat Dog has released a new single, “Wither”, from their forthcoming debut album WOOF, due September 6th via Domino Recordings. Kicking things off with a propulsive drum roll, “Wither” captures the intoxicating energy of the band’s epic live performances. The video, directed by Ryan Vautier and inspired by 90s video games, is knowingly awash with unnecessary somersaults and wonky graphics.

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    Fresh from their four delirious shows at Glastonbury last month, Fat Dog has released a new single, “Wither”, from their forthcoming debut album WOOF, due September 6th via Domino Recordings. Kicking things off with a propulsive drum roll, “Wither” captures the intoxicating energy of the band’s epic live performances. The video, directed by Ryan Vautier and inspired by 90s video games, is knowingly awash with unnecessary somersaults and wonky graphics.

    After a summer of festivals including Latitude, Truck, Lowlands and Pukklepop, Fat Dog will return to the US for their second run in October before their UK wide tour in November including London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town. 

    Enjoy “Wither” above.

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    Fat Dog’s sensational debut album ‘WOOF’ – out now

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    One of the most exciting breakthrough bands in recent memory, Fat Dog are known for conjuring the kind of frenzied and wild live shows that haven’t been seen in the capital for years. Now, they’ve created WOOF., a brilliant and mind-bending debut record.

    In July, Fat Dog released an epic, ’90s-inspired music video for their song “Wither”, directed by Ryan Vautier. The band have had a busy few months, performing at festivals such as Latitude, Truck, Lowlands, and not one, but four sh...

    One of the most exciting breakthrough bands in recent memory, Fat Dog are known for conjuring the kind of frenzied and wild live shows that haven’t been seen in the capital for years. Now, they’ve created WOOF., a brilliant and mind-bending debut record.

    In July, Fat Dog released an epic, ’90s-inspired music video for their song “Wither”, directed by Ryan Vautier. The band have had a busy few months, performing at festivals such as Latitude, Truck, Lowlands, and not one, but four shows at Glastonbury Festival.

    Fat Dog will return to the US for their second run in October, before embarking on a UK-wide tour in November, including a stop at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town.

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

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    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

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    Fontaines D.C. announce highly anticipated fourth album ‘Romance’ and share brooding first single “Starburster”

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    To be released on 23rd August via XL Recordings, ROMANCE is the band’s first album with producer James Ford and is without doubt their most assured, inventive and sonically adventurous record yet. It’s set to build on the success of the Dublin-made, now London-based band’s acclaimed 2022 album Skinty Fia, which reached number 1 in the UK and Irish album charts and saw the band receiving a host of accolades including “International Group of the Year” at the 2023 BRIT Awards.

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    To be released on 23rd August via XL Recordings, ROMANCE is the band’s first album with producer James Ford and is without doubt their most assured, inventive and sonically adventurous record yet. It’s set to build on the success of the Dublin-made, now London-based band’s acclaimed 2022 album Skinty Fia, which reached number 1 in the UK and Irish album charts and saw the band receiving a host of accolades including “International Group of the Year” at the 2023 BRIT Awards.

    Heralding Fontaines D.C.’s latest creative evolution is the explosive lead single “Starburster”. Inspired by a panic attack lead singer Grian Chatten suffered in London’s St Pancras station, the song is punctuated by sharp feral intakes of breath. Its propulsive beat and unrelenting lyrics establish self-destruction as fantasy.. It’s accompanied by a cinematic music video from director Aube Perrie (Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Styles, The Hives) that captures the song’s cathartic intensity to brilliant effect.

     

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    Fontaines D.C. drop anxious new single “Here’s The Thing” alongside horror-inspired music video

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    “Here’s The Thing” is the third single to be released from the highly anticipated upcoming album, Romance, out on 23 August via XL Recordings. The song itself is anxious, and conjures a sense of urgency. In a recent press release, frontman Grian Chatten described it as “searching for autonomy in emotional extremes” sonically. Alongside the track comes a seven-minute short film/cinematic music video directed by indie filmmaker Luna Carmoon.

    Fontaines D.C. have also announced details ...

    “Here’s The Thing” is the third single to be released from the highly anticipated upcoming album, Romance, out on 23 August via XL Recordings. The song itself is anxious, and conjures a sense of urgency. In a recent press release, frontman Grian Chatten described it as “searching for autonomy in emotional extremes” sonically. Alongside the track comes a seven-minute short film/cinematic music video directed by indie filmmaker Luna Carmoon.

    Fontaines D.C. have also announced details of their largest headline show to date, taking place at Finsbury Park next July, with support from Melbourne-born Amyl & The Sniffers and fellow Irish artists Kneecap.

    Ticket for the Finsbury Park headline show are on sale now.

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    Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten drops his debut solo album Chaos For The Fly, with single All Of The People

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    Following the global success of Fontaines DC’s third album ‘Skinty Fia’ just last year, and ahead of the band’s mammoth 30-date US tour this autumn supporting Arctic Monkeys, few could have anticipated the news of a solo record from the band’s talismanic frontman Grian Chatten – or for it quite to sound quite as fragile and exposed.

    More Donovan than ‘Dogrel’, ‘The Score’ offers up a strikingly pared-back sound; all acoustic guitars, romantic string arrangements and wh...

    Following the global success of Fontaines DC’s third album ‘Skinty Fia’ just last year, and ahead of the band’s mammoth 30-date US tour this autumn supporting Arctic Monkeys, few could have anticipated the news of a solo record from the band’s talismanic frontman Grian Chatten – or for it quite to sound quite as fragile and exposed.

    More Donovan than ‘Dogrel’, ‘The Score’ offers up a strikingly pared-back sound; all acoustic guitars, romantic string arrangements and whimsical melodies. A far cry from the bedevilled yet empowered shaman of Fontaines fame, soothsaying in the heated crucible of rock‘n’roll rage, Grian Chatten the solo artist comes across like some Marty Robbins-type folk troubadour, cast adrift in the barren wastelands of bleak consciousness, chowing down on his hard luck stories.

    Venting the exhaustions of heavy workloads and relentless touring schedules, album ‘Chaos For The Fly’ is, in one sense, a cathartic expulsion of all the darker aspects of fronting one of the fastest rising rock bands to emerge in the past five years. “There was an end-of-my-tether kind of feeling on the last American tour,” Grian confesses of the songs’ conceptions. “There were things in my personal life that were finally starting to really disintegrate as a result of not really having a consistent life anywhere, nurturing my relationships with my family or my friends. So there were a lot of dark moments of isolation with nothing but a guitar, and I think I became a bit obsessed with digging into that sense of despair to be honest, in a kind of self-indulgent way. And in order to contextualise the way that I was feeling, in lieu of probably a social life or friends or a therapist, I think the songwriting became really important.”

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

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    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...

    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 différentes prises de lui en train de chanter la chanson et me l’envoyait pour travailler dessus. La vidéo est un peu comme ce que vous pourriez ressentir après 24 appels Zoom d’affilée, un pot de café et un soupçon de LSD. Comme nous tous, j’ai eu beaucoup d’appels Zoom / Webex l’année dernière et cela introduit un nouveau type d’anxiété dans votre journée, il ne suffit pas d’être entendu, il faut être vu aussi. La vidéo est une réaction à cette anxiété, au sentiment de déplacement et de fragmentation qu’elle apporte, à regarder en permanence. Se regarder sans cesse, regarder les autres, se regarder.

    La chanson elle-même se construit et devient de plus en plus dense au fur et à mesure qu’elle avance et je voulais que la vidéo le reflète aussi, pour donner une représentation visuelle de cette cacophonie d’instruments et de voix. »

    -Niall Mc Cann

    «Parfois, la simplicité est la meilleur manière de faire. J’avais réfléchi à la manière de capturer les bonnes images pour cette chanson.

    J’ai passé du temps à photographier les vagues, les navires et les oiseaux en bord de mer, les vagues qui se brisent, l’éclairage, etc… mais j’ai ensuite réalisé après avoir envoyé les images à Niall que cette approche avait laissé peu de place à l’imagination. Niall soulignait également qu’il ne pouvait pas voir mes yeux. J’ai réfléchi à cela et pensé à la façon dont parfois les yeux du conteur peuvent être la chose qui invite l’auditeur à un voyage. J’ai installé ma caméra et mon trépied dirigés vers un mur en face d’une fenêtre orientée au sud de ma maison. Et j’ai attendu que le soleil se trouve au bon endroit sur les toits. Je suis retourné à d’autres occupations puis juste avant le coucher du soleil, j’ai lancé le disque pour faire une autre prise, puis le soleil s’est couché. »

    – Adrian Crowley

    Une nuit orageuse en Irlande, le frère d’Adrian Crowley a ramené à la maison un corbeau blessé. Après avoir pris soin de lui pendant un certain temps, le corbeau s’est envolé de lui-même, laissant une impression derrière lui: Crowley a écrit une histoire, qui deviendra plus tard le bien intitulé «Crow Song», tiré de son neuvième album studio The The Watchful Eye Of The Stars, Il chante: «Et j’étais joyeux pour vous, mais brisé quand même.»

    Imprégné d’une qualité brumeuse et surréaliste, Crowley décrit les récits poignants de Watchful Eye comme ceux qui insistaient sur lui. Après coup, il semblait que ces chansons lui venaient plus ou moins tel quel. «C’est une chose belle et mystérieuse», dit-il. Peut-être est-ce une tendance à garder les souvenirs qui lui permet de les libérer lyriquement. Pour Crowley, le processus créatif est un événement organique plutôt qu’une pratique qu’il se sent obligé de réguler ou de contrôler. Il aborde les paroles comme il écrit une nouvelle. «Les chansons chevauchent le monde conscient et subconscient et certaines sont même psychédéliques dans mon esprit, mais pour moi, ce sont toutes à la fois des histoires vraies et nées d’un autre endroit».

    Lors de la réalisation de l’album, Crowley est passé d’un enregistrement en studio à un enregistrement à domicile, tandis que John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) le produisait.
    Le duo travaillait à partir de morceaux initialement écrits par Crowley sur une guitare ¾ à cordes de nylon  et au Mellotron: «De cette façon, John voulait garder une partie de la magie de cette première prise», dit Crowley. Les contradictions et les complexités sont laissées intactes, les enregistrements initiaux ont été limités à une ou deux prises, et les chansons ressemblent davantage à un rêve raconté au réveil.

    Ces enregistrements ont ensuite été étoffés davantage en studio avec Parish et d’autres musiciens. Jim Barr de Portishead a contribué à la contrebasse et a été amené à créer des parties de Watchful Eye à Bristol. Nadine Khouri et Katell Keineg ont été invitées en tant que choristes et Parish lui-même a également contribué à l’instrumentation, son sens dramatique caractéristique donnant au travail de Crowley un nouvel avantage global sans perturber son minimalisme. Ayant des membres du Crash Ensemble à Dublin pour enregistrer pendant seulement quelques jours, Crowley se souvient être resté debout toute la nuit pour écrire des parties de cordes pour «Northbound Stowaway», qui a été enregistré le lendemain matin. Tandis qu’un battement de tambour inquiétant et régulier porte le morceau, Crowley se lamente: «Et c’est un travail assoupi / Quand vous restez invisible.»

     

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    FRANCE Alex Izenberg ‘I’m Not Here’

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    L’auteur-compositeur et interprète Alex Izenberg annonce aujourd’hui la sortie de son troisième album, I’m Not Here, à paraître le 20 mai chez Weird World. Izenberg en dévoile un premier extrait, « Egyptian Cadillac », un titre entraînant et enjoué, paré de bois et d’une guitare plaintive. Il est accompagné d’une vidéo réalisée par Giraffe Studios, mettant en scène Ray Wise, qui tenait le rôle de Leland Palmer dans la série télévisée culte de David Lync...

    L’auteur-compositeur et interprète Alex Izenberg annonce aujourd’hui la sortie de son troisième album, I’m Not Here, à paraître le 20 mai chez Weird World. Izenberg en dévoile un premier extrait, « Egyptian Cadillac », un titre entraînant et enjoué, paré de bois et d’une guitare plaintive. Il est accompagné d’une vidéo réalisée par Giraffe Studios, mettant en scène Ray Wise, qui tenait le rôle de Leland Palmer dans la série télévisée culte de David Lynch, Twin Peaks.

    Izenberg explique : « J’ai presque réussi à rendre l’inconscient conscient avec cette chanson et les autres. C’est difficile d’écrire quand on est constamment confronté à ce qui est bien ou mal, j’ai commencé à me recentrer plus qu’avant ».

    Lorsqu’on lit des articles à propos d’Alex Izenberg, on remarque l’usage récurrent de certains adjectifs comme « énigmatique » ou « solitaire ». Izenberg transcende ces premières impressions et réussit un tour de force étonnant et visionnaire avec son troisième album, le majestueux I’m Not Here : il disparaît complètement tout en se révélant plus que jamais.

    À l’instar de son premier album Harlequin (2016), et de son ambitieux successeur Caravan Château en (2020), ce nouvel album s’inscrit dans la lignée des artistes des années 70 préférés d’Alex Izenberg tels que John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman et Lou Reed. I’m Not Here a été enregistré aux Tropico Studios, produit par Izenberg et Greg Hartunian, et masterisé par Dave Cooley à Elysian Masters à Los Angeles. Les arrangements de cordes et de bois réalisés par son collaborateur Dave Longstreth de Dirty Projectors rappellent le style caractéristique de ceux de de Van Dyke Parks.

    S’inspirant de l’écrivain et théologien Alan Watts, qui a écrit et parlé de la vie comme d’un drame dans lequel nous mettons et enlevons des masques en fonction des moments, les nouvelles chansons d’Izenberg ouvrent des voies vers une conscience universelle tout en conservant un sens du jeu. Passant d’un mode à l’autre, les chansons d’Izenberg rappellent l’une des célèbres citations de Watts : “Tu n’es pas obligé d’être la même personne qu’il y a cinq minutes”. La pochette de l’album présente ainsi l’image austère d’un masque, un clin d’œil au sens malléable de l’identité qu’Izenberg explore dans l’album. “Par-dessus tout, ma plus grande inspiration en écrivant ce disque a été l’idée du joker, celui qui peut être n’importe quelle carte du jeu”, explique Izenberg.

    Assumant son diagnostic de schizophrénie paranoïde, Alex Izenberg n’hésite pas à aborder des sujets complexes dans sa musique : chagrin d’amour, confusion et deuil. Le travail sur I’m Not Here a commencé après le décès de son chien et meilleur ami Larks, nommé d’après Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, l’album de King Crimson (1973), l’un des groupes préférés d’Izenberg. Le monde qui l’entourait s’effondrant et son fidèle compagnon disparu, Izenberg s’était replié sur lui-même et dans son imaginaire, cherchant à s’échapper et à s’apaiser.


    Tracklisting :
    1. Ivory
    2. Gemini Underwater
    3. Egyptian Cadillac
    4. Breathless Darkness
    5. Broadway
    6. Our Love Remains
    7. Ladies Of Rodeo
    8. Sorrows Blue Tapestry
    9. Juniper & Lamplight
    10. Sea of Wine

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    FRANCE Alex Izenberg “Sorrows Blue Tapestry”

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    Le mystérieux auteur-compositeur et interprète Alex Izenberg a annoncé la sortie de son troisième album, I’m Not Here, à paraître le 20 mai chez Weird World. Après le premier extrait “Egyptian Cadillac,” Izenberg dévoile son titre rétro-pop accrocheur “Sorrows Blue Tapestry” et son clip mettant en scène une vraie girafe.

    “Toute ma musique est une réponse défensive à mon environnement qui est en constante mutation comme mes pensées. J’ai écrit “Sorrows Blue Tap...

    Le mystérieux auteur-compositeur et interprète Alex Izenberg a annoncé la sortie de son troisième album, I’m Not Here, à paraître le 20 mai chez Weird World. Après le premier extrait “Egyptian Cadillac,” Izenberg dévoile son titre rétro-pop accrocheur “Sorrows Blue Tapestry” et son clip mettant en scène une vraie girafe.

    “Toute ma musique est une réponse défensive à mon environnement qui est en constante mutation comme mes pensées. J’ai écrit “Sorrows Blue Tapestry” pour ma chienne Larks après sa mort. J’ai réalisé que j’allais également mourir et j’ai arrêté de manger de la viande et j’ai commencé à écrire des chansons qui étaient plus influencées par mon environnement comme pour reconnaître que nous sommes tous les rayons du même Soleil plutôt que 6 milliards d’esprits individuels. Si tu aimes quelqu’un, il sera toujours avec toi, même s’il meurt, tu le sens.”

    À l’instar de son premier album Harlequin (2016), et de son ambitieux successeur Caravan Château en (2020), ce nouvel album s’inscrit dans la lignée des artistes des années 70 préférés d’Alex Izenberg tels que John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman et Lou Reed. I’m Not Here a été enregistré aux Tropico Studios, produit par Izenberg et Greg Hartunian, et masterisé par Dave Cooley à Elysian Masters à Los Angeles. Les arrangements de cordes et de bois réalisés par son collaborateur Dave Longstreth de Dirty Projectors rappellent le style caractéristique de ceux de de Van Dyke Parks.

    S’inspirant de l’écrivain et théologien Alan Watts, qui a écrit et parlé de la vie comme d’un drame dans lequel nous mettons et enlevons des masques en fonction des moments, les nouvelles chansons d’Izenberg ouvrent des voies vers une conscience universelle tout en conservant un sens du jeu. Passant d’un mode à l’autre, les chansons d’Izenberg rappellent l’une des célèbres citations de Watts : “Tu n’es pas obligé d’être la même personne qu’il y a cinq minutes”. La pochette de l’album présente ainsi l’image austère d’un masque, un clin d’œil au sens malléable de l’identité qu’Izenberg explore dans l’album. “Par-dessus tout, ma plus grande inspiration en écrivant ce disque a été l’idée du joker, celui qui peut être n’importe quelle carte du jeu”, explique Izenberg.

    Assumant son diagnostic de schizophrénie paranoïde, Alex Izenberg n’hésite pas à aborder des sujets complexes dans sa musique : chagrin d’amour, confusion et deuil. Le travail sur I’m Not Here a commencé après le décès de son chien et meilleur ami Larks, nommé d’après Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, l’album de King Crimson (1973), l’un des groupes préférés d’Izenberg. Le monde qui l’entourait s’effondrant et son fidèle compagnon disparu, Izenberg s’était replié sur lui-même et dans son imaginaire, cherchant à s’échapper et à s’apaiser.

     

     

     

     

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    FRANCE Animal Collective ‘Walker’

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    Posted on 20 December 2021
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    Réalisté par Abigail Portner et Dave Portner

    Animal Collective publie son nouveau single “Walker” avec un clip réalisé par Abby et Dave Portner. ” ‘Walker’ est principalement un hommage à Scott Walker, décédé au moment où je débutais l’écriture du morceau “, a déclaré Noah Lennox dans une interview avec Zane Lowe. “La musique de Scott a beaucoup compté pour moi et il sera toujours une grande source d’inspiration. Mais il y a aussi une sorte d’épuisement et de résignation chez le chanteur de ‘Walker&#...

    Animal Collective publie son nouveau single “Walker” avec un clip réalisé par Abby et Dave Portner. ” ‘Walker’ est principalement un hommage à Scott Walker, décédé au moment où je débutais l’écriture du morceau “, a déclaré Noah Lennox dans une interview avec Zane Lowe. “La musique de Scott a beaucoup compté pour moi et il sera toujours une grande source d’inspiration. Mais il y a aussi une sorte d’épuisement et de résignation chez le chanteur de ‘Walker’ qui cache une facette plus sombre.” “Walker” et le single précédemment publié “Prester John” figureront sur le nouvel album d’Animal Collective, Time Skiffs, à paraitre le 4 février 2022 via Domino. Le groupe partira en tournée aux États-Unis en mars 2022, avec L’Rain en première partie.

    Comme le décrit la réalisatrice Abby Portner : “Il y a eu tellement de dessins et d’appels téléphoniques pour trouver comment donner vie à la pochette du disque et tant d’expériences avec les acrobates pour trouver le bon rythme sur les mouvements du groupe. Je n’ai jamais été sur un plateau avec autant d’excitation et d’applaudissements après les prises. C’était une équipe si chaleureuse et si productive, elle nous a permis de trouver la méthode pour que tout se passe bien. C’est l’une de mes meilleures expériences en tant que réalisatrice.”

    Time Skiffs, le premier album studio du quatuor en 5 ans, résonne telle une conversation entre quatre vieux amis, comme à l’époque de leurs débuts incertains ou de l’apogée de Strawberry Jam. Ces neuf chansons sont des lettres d’amour, des signaux de détresse et des hymnes à la relaxation : neuf échanges entre quatre personnes qui ont grandi au fil de leurs relations, leur vie de parents et leurs soucis d’adultes. Elles sont imprégnées du don d’émerveillement si singulier d’Animal Collective pour l’exploration. On y trouve des harmonies si riches qu’elles nous transportent dans l’air qu’elles dégagent, des textures si fascinantes qu’on désire en décoder la magie, des rythmes si remarquables qu’on cherche à en démêler les sources. Voici Animal Collective, post 2020, toujours en avance sur notre temps.

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    FRANCE Animal Collective ‘Crestone’ (Bande Originale)

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
    Un film réalisé par Marnie Ellen Hertzler

    Crestone est le premier documentaire écrit, produit et réalisé par Marnie Ellen Hertzler en partenariat avec Memory, il sera disponible en vidéo à la demande le 16 février 2021.
    Crestone suit une communauté de rappeurs Soundcloud pendant huit jours dans le désert de Crestone dans le Colorado, vivant dans la solitude, cultivant de l’herbe et composant de la musique pour Internet. Lorsqu’un vieil ami arrive pour faire un film, la réalité et la fiction commencent à se confondre.

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    Crestone est le premier documentaire écrit, produit et réalisé par Marnie Ellen Hertzler en partenariat avec Memory, il sera disponible en vidéo à la demande le 16 février 2021.
    Crestone suit une communauté de rappeurs Soundcloud pendant huit jours dans le désert de Crestone dans le Colorado, vivant dans la solitude, cultivant de l’herbe et composant de la musique pour Internet. Lorsqu’un vieil ami arrive pour faire un film, la réalité et la fiction commencent à se confondre.

    La musique originale a été composée par Animal Collective, l’un des plus grands groupes expérimentaux du 21ème siècle, et sera disponible le 19 février 2021 chez Domino Soundtracks à l’occasion de la sortie du documentaire.

    Crestone (Original Score) est la première musique originale de film du groupe.

    Brian “Geologist” Weitz et Josh “Deakin” Dibb racontent à propos de la composition de la musique originale :
    Ayant vécu dans le désert de Sonoran au début des années 2000, après de multiples années à New York, cette expérience m’a profondément et durablement marquée. Depuis, j’ai gardé une vague idée de ce que pourrait en être la bande-son mais aucun projet ne m’y avait poussé. Les images, les sons, les histoires et les séquences créées et documentées dans ‘Crestone’ m’y ont finalement entrainés. Un grand merci à Marnie, son équipe, Dead God, les terres et comme toujours, à mon frère Josh pour l’inspiration et l’opportunité de travailler sur ce projet. – Brian

    J’ai rencontré Marnie lorsque je vivais à la Nouvelle-Orléans en 2015 pendant une courte période et nous sommes rapidement devenus amis. Lorsqu’elle m’a contacté pour me proposer de composer la musique originale de ‘Crestone’, j’en étais très excité. Il m’a semblé tout naturel de proposer à Brian de faire équipe sur ce projet, nous avions déjà collaboré en duo à plusieurs reprises l’année dernière. Nous voulions composer la musique d’un film depuis de nombreuses années, alors c’était le projet idéal pour réaliser cette envie. Pour moi, la première étape de création consistait simplement à regarder une scène, m’asseoir au piano et improviser selon l’énergie et mon interprétation. De nombreuses fois, ces premières étapes ont été enregistrées et utilisées pour la musique finale. Ce processus d’utilisation des images, des personnages, du montage et du son, comme une sorte de partition, était vraiment libérateur et inspirant. – Josh

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    FRANCE Animal Collective ‘Strung with Everything’

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    Posted on 19 January 2022
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    Réalisé et animé par Abigail Portner

    Animal Collective dévoile son nouveau single “Strung with Everything” et son clip réalisé par Abby Portner. “Pour les récents concerts d’Animal Collective, j’ai conçu et animé l’ensemble du contenu vidéo à partir de papier découpé”, explique Abby Portner. “J’ai assemblé des symboles et des silhouettes statiques colorées qui reflètent la sensation et le rythme de la musique. Les vidéos sont comme des pictogrammes qui racontent une histoire de manière organiqu...

    Animal Collective dévoile son nouveau single “Strung with Everything” et son clip réalisé par Abby Portner. “Pour les récents concerts d’Animal Collective, j’ai conçu et animé l’ensemble du contenu vidéo à partir de papier découpé”, explique Abby Portner. “J’ai assemblé des symboles et des silhouettes statiques colorées qui reflètent la sensation et le rythme de la musique. Les vidéos sont comme des pictogrammes qui racontent une histoire de manière organique et simple. Pour le clip de “Strung with Everything”, nous voulions poursuivre ce processus dans le but de reproduire le style des concerts du groupe dans une vidéo musicale.” L’album d’Animal Collective, Time Skiffs, qui comprend également les titres “Prester John” et “Walker,” est à paraitre le 4 février.

    Regardez Animal Collective interpréter deux morceaux inédits de Time Skiffs, “Car Keys” et “Dragon Slayer”, ainsi que le morceau phare de Merriweather Post Pavilion, “In the Flowers”, au Pitchfork Music Festival 2021 ICI.

    Le groupe a par ailleurs publié l’enregistrement d’une performance in situ réalisée au Music Box Village à la Nouvelle-Orléans en mars 2018. Le Music Box Village a été créé et construit par New Orleans Airlift, une organisation à but non lucratif dirigée par des artistes, dans le cadre de la réalisation de projets artistiques communautaires à grande échelle. Les recettes récoltées sur Bandcamp sont destinées aux trois musiciens additionnels impliqués dans le concert – Helen Gillet, Aurora Nealand et Marion Tortorich. Regardez la performance sur YouTube.

    Time Skiffs résonne telle une conversation entre quatre vieux amis, comme à l’époque de leurs débuts incertains ou de l’apogée de Strawberry Jam. Ces neuf chansons sont des lettres d’amour, des signaux de détresse et des hymnes à la relaxation : neuf échanges entre quatre personnes qui ont grandi au fil de leurs relations, leur vie de parents et leurs soucis d’adultes. Elles sont imprégnées du don d’émerveillement si singulier d’Animal Collective pour l’exploration. On y trouve des harmonies si riches qu’elles nous transportent dans l’air qu’elles dégagent, des textures si fascinantes qu’on désire en décoder la magie, des rythmes si remarquables qu’on cherche à en démêler les sources. Voici Animal Collective, post 2020, toujours en avance sur notre temps.

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    FRANCE Animal Collective ‘Time Skiffs’ – 4 Février 2022

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    Posted on 20 October 2021
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    réalisée par Jason Lester

    Animal Collective annonce la sortie de son nouvel album Time Skiffs, à paraître le 4 février chez Domino. Time Skiffs succède à Painting With, paru en 2016 et se compose de neuf nouveaux morceaux enregistrés par Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist et Panda Bear au cours de l’année 2020 et mixés par Marta Salogni. Le groupe en dévoile le premier single, « Prester John », un titre mêlant deux morceaux, l’un écrit par Avey Tare, l’autre par Panda Bear. « Prester John » est acco...

    Animal Collective annonce la sortie de son nouvel album Time Skiffs, à paraître le 4 février chez Domino. Time Skiffs succède à Painting With, paru en 2016 et se compose de neuf nouveaux morceaux enregistrés par Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist et Panda Bear au cours de l’année 2020 et mixés par Marta Salogni. Le groupe en dévoile le premier single, « Prester John », un titre mêlant deux morceaux, l’un écrit par Avey Tare, l’autre par Panda Bear. « Prester John » est accompagné de sa vidéo réalisée par Jason Lester.

    Time Skiffs, le premier album studio du quatuor en 5 ans, résonne telle une conversation entre quatre vieux amis, comme à l’époque de leurs débuts incertains ou de l’apogée de Strawberry Jam. Ces neuf chansons sont des lettres d’amour, des signaux de détresse et des hymnes à la relaxation: neuf échanges entre quatre personnes qui ont grandi au fil de leurs relations, leur vie de parents et leurs soucis d’adultes. Elles sont imprégnées du don d’émerveillement si singulier d’Animal Collective pour l’exploration. On y trouve des harmonies si riches qu’elles nous transportent dans l’air qu’elles dégagent, des textures si fascinantes qu’on désire en décoder la magie, des rythmes si remarquables qu’on cherche à en démêler les sources. Voici Animal Collective, post 2020, toujours en avance sur notre temps.
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    FRANCE Arctic Monkeys “The Car” – 21 Octobre 2022

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    Posted on 30 August 2022
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    Réalisé par Alex Turner

    Arctic Monkeys dévoile “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball”, le premier single de son nouvel album, ‘The Car’, dont la sortie est prévue le vendredi 21 octobre.

    Septième album studio du groupe, ‘The Car’ se compose de 10 nouvelles chansons écrites par Alex Turner, produites par James Ford et enregistrées au Butley Priory (Suffolk), aux RAK Studios (Londres) et à La Frette (près de Paris).

    Successeur de ‘Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino’ sorti en 2018 , ‘The Ca...

    Arctic Monkeys dévoile “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball”, le premier single de son nouvel album, ‘The Car’, dont la sortie est prévue le vendredi 21 octobre.

    Septième album studio du groupe, ‘The Car’ se compose de 10 nouvelles chansons écrites par Alex Turner, produites par James Ford et enregistrées au Butley Priory (Suffolk), aux RAK Studios (Londres) et à La Frette (près de Paris).

    Successeur de ‘Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino’ sorti en 2018 , ‘The Car’ saisi Arctic Monkeys en liberté dans un nouveau paysage musical somptueusement orchestré qui compte certaines des performances vocales les plus majestueuses et renversantes de la carrière d’Alex Turner.

    Pochette de ‘The Car’, photo : Matt Helder

    Tracklisting : 
    There’d Better Be A Mirrorball 
    I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am 
    Sculptures Of Anything Goes 
    Jet Skis On The Moat 
    Body Paint 
    The Car 
    Big Ideas 
    Hello You 
    Mr Schwartz 
    Perfect Sense

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    FRANCE Bolis Pupul “Letter to Yu” 8 Mars 2024

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    Posted on 30 November 2023
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    Directed and shot by Bieke Depoorter

    A la suite d’une riche année à parcourir le globe auprès de Charlotte Adigéry avec la sortie de leur album « Topical Dancer », le producteur-chanteur-compositeur le plus suave de la musique électronique Bolis Pupul a annoncé aujourd’hui son premier album Letter To Yu. Annoncé pour le 8 mars 2024, le LP a été réalisé avec Soulwax et sortira sur leur label DEEWEE.

    Letter To Yu est une lettre d’amour adressée à la défunte mère de Bolis, décédée en 2008 dans un accident ...

    A la suite d’une riche année à parcourir le globe auprès de Charlotte Adigéry avec la sortie de leur album « Topical Dancer », le producteur-chanteur-compositeur le plus suave de la musique électronique Bolis Pupul a annoncé aujourd’hui son premier album Letter To Yu. Annoncé pour le 8 mars 2024, le LP a été réalisé avec Soulwax et sortira sur leur label DEEWEE.

    Letter To Yu est une lettre d’amour adressée à la défunte mère de Bolis, décédée en 2008 dans un accident de la route. Né d’un père belge et d’une mère chinoise et ayant grandi à Gand, Bolis n’a pas nié ses racines chinoises – sa mère est née à Hong Kong – mais il ne les avait certainement pas embrassées. C’est à la suite du décès de sa mère qu’il a commencé à accepter son héritage.

    “Quand j’ai commencé à penser à mes racines, au lieu d’en avoir honte, j’ai commencé à les accepter”, se souvient-il. “Il est donc devenu de plus en plus important pour moi d’entrer en contact avec celles-ci. Je suis allé à l’école du soir ici en Belgique et j’ai commencé à apprendre le Chinois. J’ai fait cela pendant quatre ans et ce fut le premier pas.”

    Sa première visite à Hong Kong en 2018 a encore plus cristallisé la volonté de Bolis d’incorporer son héritage chinois dans sa musique. L’une des principales intentions de son premier voyage à Hong Kong était de localiser l’endroit où sa mère – Yu Wei Wun – était née. Ne voulant pas oublier cette expérience bouleversante, Bolis a commencé à écrire une lettre à sa mère pour qu’il puisse bien comprendre ses pensées. Plus tard, lorsque l’album commença à prendre forme, il se souvint de la lettre. “C’est devenu la pièce maîtresse de cet album”, dit-il d’un ton neutre.

    Le premier single/vidéo de l’album « Completely Half» (construit autour d’enregistrements fait dans le métro de Hong Kong) est une vidéo d’art et d’essai magnifiquement filmée  par la photographe de Magnum, Bieke Depoorter. Elle suit Bolis au cœur de Hong Kong, explorant ses rues et ses bâtiments à la recherche de sa défunte mère. Les femmes de la vidéo ont accueilli Bieke dans leurs maisons et dans leur routine quotidienne et lui ont permis de filmer des tableaux complexes de leur vie quotidienne, dans lesquels Bolis recherche l’esprit de sa défunte mère.

    La création de Letter To Yu a été une expérience charnière et libératrice pour Bolis. “Même si ce voyage a été très émouvant et aussi triste, j’ai aussi vécu de très bons moments qui m’ont fait vraiment plaisir”, conclut-il. “Cela a abouti à une mélodie très inspirante où j’avais l’impression de pouvoir gérer ma vie.”

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    FRANCE Braxe + Falcon ‘Step by Step’

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    Posted on 29 March 2022
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    Réalisé par Pete Gibson

    Figures emblématiques de la French Touch, Alan Braxe et DJ Falcon dévoilent aujourd’hui leur toute première collaboration Braxe + Falcon avec deux nouveaux singles « Step By Step » feat. Panda Bear et « Creative Source ». Les deux titres sont une exploration sublime de l’essence même de la dance et sont extraits de leur premier EP ‘Step By Step’, à paraître en vinyle le 26 août chez Smugglers Way, le nouvel imprint dance & électro de Domino.

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    Figures emblématiques de la French Touch, Alan Braxe et DJ Falcon dévoilent aujourd’hui leur toute première collaboration Braxe + Falcon avec deux nouveaux singles « Step By Step » feat. Panda Bear et « Creative Source ». Les deux titres sont une exploration sublime de l’essence même de la dance et sont extraits de leur premier EP ‘Step By Step’, à paraître en vinyle le 26 août chez Smugglers Way, le nouvel imprint dance & électro de Domino.

    La collaboration entre Braxe et Falcon, alias Alain et Stéphane Quême, façonne un duo moderne, tant par son envergure que par ses talents. Braxe est reconnu pour avoir réalisé certains des disques de house les plus importants et les plus iconiques de la fin des années 90 et du début des années 2000, notamment « Music Sounds Better With You » (The Upper Cuts) sous le nom de Stardust avec Thomas Bangalter de Daft Punk ou encore pour ses remixes officiels pour Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Kelis, Kylie Minogue et bien d’autres. Bangalter a également collaboré avec DJ Falcon, leur titre « So Much Love To Give », de leur duo Together, est un classique de la French Touch. En plus de sensationnels remixes pour Phoenix, Cassius et Justice, Falcon a également co-produit, co-écrit et figure sur « Contact », l’explosif morceau qui clôture le mythique album de Daft Punk, ‘Random Access Memories’ sorti en 2013.

    « Fin 90, début 2000, nous avions chacun sorti nos premiers titres en collaboration avec Thomas Bangalter sur son label Roulé. C’était une époque assez insouciante, pleine de découvertes. Nous faisions de la musique sans idées préconçues, sans nous soucier des règles, tout en découvrant le matériel. Notre état d’esprit à l’époque était très DIY, assez similaire au punk mais en utilisant d’autres instruments. Une vingtaine d’années plus tard, les scènes musicales ont évolué, les instruments également, de manière exponentielle, tout en devenant parfois plus complexes. Dans ce contexte nous nous sommes intéressés particulièrement aux synthétiseurs modulaires. Les perpétuels heureux accidents que ces machines génèrent, nous ont permis de retrouver notre insouciance des débuts, tout en nous libérant des conventions. Notre amour pour l’oscillation entre mélancolie et espoir, exprimé au travers de la répétition et des loops, est resté intact, c’est tout aussi inspirant aujourd’hui que ça l’était il y a vingt ans. »

    « Step By Step », tout comme « Creative Source » témoigne de l’engagement des deux producteurs en faveur de la simplicité. « Step By Step », chanté par Panda Bear, grand fan de la French Touch, dont la voix se mêle aux accords enivrants et aux doux synthés est un titre resplendissant de pureté et de simplicité. Braxe + Falcon racontent : « L’instrumental pourrait être perçu comme une sorte de variation downtempo des titres sortis à l’époque sur Roulé. Panda Bear a écrit et chanté un superbe vocal qui a transformé cet instrumental en une belle chanson, qui dans sa forme finale pourrait être définie comme une sorte de balade intense avec un ADN French House. » 

    « Creative Source », composé autour d’un ancien sample de DJ Falcon, est un titre fort et entraînant, riche en contrastes. Le duo découpe, modifie et répète un refrain court et ambigu – tiré de la chanson de Creative Source « I’d Find You Anywhere », écrite par Pam Sawyer et la grand-mère de Flying Lotus, Marilyn McLeod – qui oscille autour d’un sample de cuivres.

    Bien que cousins, les deux producteurs se retrouvent pour la première fois en 2022 avec l’intention de créer quelque chose de nouveau. Ils reviennent ici à ce qui les a poussés à faire de la musique en premier lieu : la joie de la création, une perspective nouvelle et la valorisation des imperfections.

     

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    FRANCE Charif Megarbane “Tayyara Warak”

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    Posted on 19 December 2022
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    Charif Megarbane alias Cosmic Analog Ensemble signe chez Habibi Funk et dévoile un premier single.

    Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 1960/1970, afrobeat, musique psychédélique moyen-orientale et breakbeats hip-hop.
    En un peu plus d’une décennie, Megarbane a sorti plus de 100 albums, offrant un journal intime musical de ses sessions d’enregistrement nocturnes...

    Charif Megarbane alias Cosmic Analog Ensemble signe chez Habibi Funk et dévoile un premier single.

    Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 1960/1970, afrobeat, musique psychédélique moyen-orientale et breakbeats hip-hop.
    En un peu plus d’une décennie, Megarbane a sorti plus de 100 albums, offrant un journal intime musical de ses sessions d’enregistrement nocturnes à Beyrouth, Nairobi, Paris, Londres ou Lisbonne – les différentes villes dans lesquelles il a vécu. Utilisant de multiples autres pseudonymes tels que Trans-Mara Express, Tapeman No.1, Free Association Syndicate et Monumental Detail, la vaste discographie de Megarbane est disponible sur son propre label indépendant et plateforme numérique Hisstology Records, véritable fenêtre sur son univers musical, dans lequel il joue (presque) tous les rôles.

    Depuis 2009, Megarbane a sorti 31 albums sous le nom de Cosmic Analog Ensemble, à travers lesquels il a développé une forme de signature sonore, à savoir une library music analogique et abstraite du 21eme siècle, imprégnée du soleil des côtes méditerranéennes.

    “Tayyara Warak” est le 1er EP de Charif sous son propre nom en dehors de ses sortie sur son propre label Hisstology Records. Son titre éponyme évoque le chaos de Beyrouth, les trajets en taxi à travers la ville accompagnés d’une mélodie douce et nostalgique et des sections rythmiques mouvantes comme des oiseaux de la ville volant aux travers des klaxons des voitures. “Commencer La-Bas”, expansif et narratif, mélange des cordes highlife et orchestrales, le nouveau départ de l’exil et de l’exode. “Flat Foot” quand à lui, boucle la sortie sur un “pied” plus léger avec un groove teinté de hip-hop et un motif mélodique qui pourrait illustrer quelqu’un descendant un escalier chaussé de tongs mouillées.

     

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’

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    Posted on 28 January 2022
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    Réalisé par Bob Jeusette

    La provocatrice belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, partagent ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’, un nouvel extrait de leur album à venir.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 via  DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l’un...

    La provocatrice belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, partagent ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’, un nouvel extrait de leur album à venir.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 via  DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l’une des phrases les plus copiées de l’art, à l’origine par l’artiste surréaliste belge René Magritte.
    En parlant des origines du morceau, le duo explique : « Cette chanson est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées si souvent utilisées dans la musique pop. L’idée est arrivée en tournée lorsque nous avons entendu une chanson à la radio qui commencait avec “Je marchais dans la rue”, ce qui nous a fortement fait grincer des dents. Mais le fait est que grincer des dents est une passion commune de Bolis et moi. Nous en avons donc passionnément fait une chanson intitulée “Ceci n’est pas un cliché”. Encore plus passionnément, nous avons interprétés dans une vidéo, tous les clichés que nous voyons dans le monde magique des genres musicaux. Les musiciens dans toute leur splendeur, capturant l’élan et livrant une performance de premier ordre, regardant dans la lumière que l’on appelle l’inspiration. Alors, une fois pour toutes, laissez Magritte tranquille… !”

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets que l’on entend habituellement sur le dancefloor, mais Charlotte Adigéry et Bolis Pupul s’affranchissent des règles avec ce premier album. Le duo Gantois qui s’est fait connaître en 2019 avec leur EP Zandoli sont des storytellers hors-pair. Un subtil mélange de synthés enjoués et des paroles ancrées dans le contexte sociétal actuel, jamais didactiques et toujours avec un clin d’œil complice.

    Un premier disque studio qui les associe en duo sous leurs deux noms pour la première fois et qui est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax. Il est à la fois un triomphe de l’électro-pop kaléidoscopique et “un instantané de la façon dont nous pensons à la pop culture dans les années 2020. » Il capture les conversations que Charlotte et Bolis ont eues au cours des deux dernières années en tournée, ainsi que leurs perspectives en tant que Belges d’origine immigrée, Charlotte d’ascendance guadeloupéenne et franco-martiniquaise et Bolis étant d’origine chinoise.

    Pour célébrer la sortie de leur premier album, Charlotte et Bolis se lanceront dans une tournée mondiale en avril et mai 2022 avec un passage au Trabendo à Paris le 25 Avril.

    4 Avril – Bristol – Rough Trade
    5 Avril – Brighton – Green Door Store
    6 Avril – Manchester – YES
    7 Avril – London – XOYO
    10 Avril – Glasgow – Broadcast
    11 Avril – Edinburgh – Sneaky Pete’s
    17 Avril – Amsterdam – Melkweg
    19 Avril – Berlin – Berghain Kantine
    20 Avril – Brussels – Ancienne Belgique
    25 Avril – Paris – Trabendo
    10 Avril – New York – Bowery Ballroom
    12 Avril – Montreal – Bar Le Ritz PDB
    13 Avril – Toronto – Velvet Underground
    14 Avril – Chicago – Empty Bottle
    17 Avril – Los Angeles – Moroccan Lounge
    18 Avril – San Francisco – Popscene at Rickshaw Stop
    20 Avril – Seattle – Barboza

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Concert à Jools Holland

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    Le duo Gantois Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul nous livre une superbe performance de leur titre “Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché” sur le prestigieux plateau de Later… with Jools Holland.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est disponible depuis le 4 mars 2022 via DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l&#...

    Le duo Gantois Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul nous livre une superbe performance de leur titre “Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché” sur le prestigieux plateau de Later… with Jools Holland.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est disponible depuis le 4 mars 2022 via DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l’une des phrases les plus copiées de l’art, à l’origine par l’artiste surréaliste belge René Magritte.
    En parlant des origines du morceau, le duo explique : « Cette chanson est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées si souvent utilisées dans la musique pop. L’idée est arrivée en tournée lorsque nous avons entendu une chanson à la radio qui commencait avec “Je marchais dans la rue”, ce qui nous a fortement fait grincer des dents. Mais le fait est que grincer des dents est une passion commune de Bolis et moi. Nous en avons donc passionnément fait une chanson intitulée “Ceci n’est pas un cliché”. Encore plus passionnément, nous avons interprétés dans une vidéo, tous les clichés que nous voyons dans le monde magique des genres musicaux. Les musiciens dans toute leur splendeur, capturant l’élan et livrant une performance de premier ordre, regardant dans la lumière que l’on appelle l’inspiration. Alors, une fois pour toutes, laissez Magritte tranquille… !”

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets que l’on entend habituellement sur le dancefloor, mais Charlotte Adigéry et Bolis Pupul s’affranchissent des règles avec ce premier album. Le duo Gantois qui s’est fait connaître en 2019 avec leur EP Zandoli sont des storytellers hors-pair. Un subtil mélange de synthés enjoués et des paroles ancrées dans le contexte sociétal actuel, jamais didactiques et toujours avec un clin d’œil complice.

    Un premier disque studio qui les associe en duo sous leurs deux noms pour la première fois et qui est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax. Il est à la fois un triomphe de l’électro-pop kaléidoscopique et “un instantané de la façon dont nous pensons à la pop culture dans les années 2020. » Il capture les conversations que Charlotte et Bolis ont eues au cours des deux dernières années en tournée, ainsi que leurs perspectives en tant que Belges d’origine immigrée, Charlotte d’ascendance guadeloupéenne et franco-martiniquaise et Bolis étant d’origine chinoise.

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry ‘Topical Dancer’ – 04 Mars 2022

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    L’artiste belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, annoncent la sortie de leur premier album Topical Dancer à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 sur DEEWEE, le label emblématique des frères Soulwax. Pour célébrer cette annonce, Charlotte et Bolis partagent leur nouveau titre “Blenda”.

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets...

    L’artiste belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, annoncent la sortie de leur premier album Topical Dancer à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 sur DEEWEE, le label emblématique des frères Soulwax. Pour célébrer cette annonce, Charlotte et Bolis partagent leur nouveau titre “Blenda”.

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets que l’on entend habituellement sur le dancefloor, mais Charlotte Adigéry et Bolis Pupul s’affranchissent des règles avec ce premier album. Le duo Gantois qui s’est fait connaître en 2019 avec leur EP Zandoli sont des storytellers hors-pair. Un subtil mélange de synthés enjoués et des paroles ancrées dans le contexte sociétal actuel, jamais didactiques et toujours avec un clin d’œil complice.

    Au-delà de sa portée thématique, Topical Dancer illustre bien la spécificité du son de Charlotte et Bolis : profond et efficace à la fois. Ils ont l’art et la manière de revisiter certains genres pourtant familiers avec toujours un petit côté décalé ; des chansons qui ne semblent pas achevées ou un peu bancales, mais qui font un carton en club. “On aime bien brouiller un peu les pistes,” déclare Bolis en riant. “Si jamais on a l’impression de faire quelque chose qui existe déjà, on change de cap aussitôt, nous sommes en permanence à la recherche de ce petit quelque chose qui fait que ça ne sonne pas vraiment comme de la pop ou du R&B, ni comme de la techno. Nous mélangeons constamment différents univers. Lorsque c’est trop prévisible, Charlotte et moi on s’ennuie.”

    Topical Dancer foisonne d’idées – parmi les 13 titres de l’album, aucun ne semble dispensable. Mais surtout cet opus est animé d’une certaine fébrilité, d’un souci permanent d’éviter d’entrer dans une case quelconque et d’échapper à toutes les catégories étriquées dans lesquelles on voudrait les classer. Une notion parfaitement résumée dans le refrain de leur deuxième single, ‘Blenda’ : “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” (Ma musique ne me ressemble pas, je ne ressemble pas à ma musique). Et Bolis d’ajouter : “De même, les gens me considèrent toujours comme le producteur et Charlotte comme la chanteuse. Ou encore, en tant que noir on est censé faire de la musique ‘urbaine’. Autant de cases dans lesquelles nous ne voulons pas être classés.”

    ‘Blenda’ en particulier explique dans quelle mesure “Je suis un produit du colonialisme,” déclare Charlotte, “et je me sens coupable de prendre de la place dans un pays blanc.” La chanson s’inspire en partie d’un livre de Reni Eddo-Lodge, traduit en français sous le titre “Le racisme est un problème de blancs”. “Ce livre évoque le passé colonial et le présent post-colonial du Royaume-Uni,” poursuit Charlotte, “mais il ne s’agit pas uniquement d’un problème britannique ou américain, la Belgique y participe également.” Et d’ajouter que son pays a aussi “oublié des pans entiers de son histoire” ce qui “entraîne une ignorance générale et un manque de compréhension et d’empathie envers les Belges issus de l’immigration.”

    Topical Dancer n’est cependant pas un album qui cherche à pointer du doigt, ni à être dogmatique, mais plutôt à parler d’émancipation par le biais de l’humour. “Je ne veux pas sentir tout ce poids sur mes épaules,” poursuit Charlotte. “Il n’est pas question pour moi de porter ces croix. Topical Dancer est une façon pour moi de me libérer de ces sujets. Et de m’amuser.”

    Tracklist:

    1. Bel DEEWEE
    2. Esperanto
    3. Blenda
    4. Hey
    5. It Hit Me
    6. Ich Mwen (with Christiane Adigéry)
    7. Reappropriate
    8. Ceci n’est pas un cliché
    9. Huile Smisse
    10. Mantra
    11. Making Sense Stop
    12. HAHA
    13. Thank You
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    FRANCE Clinic ‘Fantasy Island’ – 22 octobre 2021

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    Clinic annonce la sortie de son neuvième album studio, Fantasy Island, prévue le 22 octobre prochain via Domino. Avec son nouvel album vibrant et éclectique, composé de douze titres, le duo originaire de Liverpool et nommé aux Grammy Awards, nous transporte dans des climats tropicaux.

     

    Pour accompagner l’annonce de son album, Clinic est heureux de dévoiler la chanson titre “Fantasy Island” avec une vidéo réalisée par Emily Evans. Le groupe déclare à propos de ce single : ...

    Clinic annonce la sortie de son neuvième album studio, Fantasy Island, prévue le 22 octobre prochain via Domino. Avec son nouvel album vibrant et éclectique, composé de douze titres, le duo originaire de Liverpool et nommé aux Grammy Awards, nous transporte dans des climats tropicaux.

     

    Pour accompagner l’annonce de son album, Clinic est heureux de dévoiler la chanson titre “Fantasy Island” avec une vidéo réalisée par Emily Evans. Le groupe déclare à propos de ce single : “Lâchez-vous avec la totale électro-rockabilly de Clinic.”

    Fantasy Island a été enregistré dans un vieux studio du Merseyside durant l’été 2019, avec de bonnes vibrations infiltrant le groove de chaque titre. “Clinic regarde vers un avenir plus brillant”, révèle le groupe dans une brève déclaration. Dans son dernier album, Wheeltappers and Shunters sorti en 2019, le groupe faisait une satire de la culture britannique et se complaisait dans une nostalgie sordide des années 70. Cette fois, il embrasse “l’idée de visualiser l’avenir et les différents scénarios qui auront lieu”, avec son disque le plus électronique et pop à ce jour.

    Faisant référence à ‘Message et Massage, un inventaire des effets’ de Marshall McLuhan, ‘Les Mondes futurs’ de H.G. Wells et ‘Retombées de sombrero : roman japonais’ de Richard Brautigan, les thèmes explorés par Clinic sur cet album sont le temps, la musique et le divertissement. Pour résumer, Clinic s’est mis au disco-funk, élargissant sa palette sonore grâce à l’ajout de plusieurs nouveaux gadgets, dont une machine à basse électronique acide, un clavier Cocktail Rhythm des années 70, un cor numérique Casio et une batterie spatiale. Cet équipement est mis en évidence dans la pièce maîtresse de Fantasy Island, l’incroyable “Refractions (In the Rain)”, qui fait un clin d’œil à Human League avec ses lignes de synthétiseur stridentes et ses rythmes dansants, avec la menace groovy et décalée que Clinic apporte toujours à la fête.

    Ailleurs sur l’album, Clinic reprend de manière délirante “I Can’t Stand The Rain” d’Ann Peebles. “C’est une boîte de cocktail de fruits”, dit l’un des membres du groupe, et il y a définitivement une ambiance plus légère et plus rêveuse dans Fantasy Island. Outre Human League, les autres influences musicales de l’album comprennent Fun Boy Three, Kid Creole and the Coconuts et la musique pop du début des années 80, mais aussi les mixtapes de Cosmic disco italienne et les éléments primitifs de la musique de rue, comme le Memphis Jug Band et la vieille musique blues, qui équilibrent le son et donnent à Fantasy Island son énergie brute. Seul Clinic est capable de rassembler ces références disparates pour en faire un ensemble cohérent et passionnant, le mixage étant assuré par Claudius Mittendorfer (Parquet Courts, Neon Indian).

     

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    FRANCE Cosmic Analog Ensemble ‘Expo Botanica’ – 24 Juin 2022

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    Cosmic Analog Ensemble dévoile “Holy Mackerel” et annonce son prochain album Expo Botanica à paraître le 24 Juin 2022 sur Hisstology Records.

    Derrière Cosmic Analog Ensemble se trouve le multi-instrumentiste libanais Charif Megarbane, artiste unique en son genre qui écrit, interprète et produit toutes ses musiques. Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 196...

    Cosmic Analog Ensemble dévoile “Holy Mackerel” et annonce son prochain album Expo Botanica à paraître le 24 Juin 2022 sur Hisstology Records.

    Derrière Cosmic Analog Ensemble se trouve le multi-instrumentiste libanais Charif Megarbane, artiste unique en son genre qui écrit, interprète et produit toutes ses musiques. Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 1960/1970, afrobeat, musique psychédélique moyen-orientale et breakbeats hip-hop. En un peu plus d’une décennie, Megarbane a sorti plus de 100 albums, offrant un journal intime musical de ses sessions d’enregistrement nocturnes à Beyrouth, Nairobi, Paris, Londres ou Lisbonne – les différentes villes dans lesquelles il a vécu. Utilisant de multiples autres pseudonymes tels que Trans-Mara Express, Tapeman No.1, Free Association Syndicate et Monumental Detail, la vaste discographie de Megarbane est disponible sur son propre label indépendant et plateforme numérique Hisstology Records, véritable fenêtre sur son univers musical, dans lequel il joue (presque) tous les rôles.

    Depuis 2009, Megarbane a sorti 31 albums sous le nom de Cosmic Analog Ensemble, à travers lesquels il a développé une forme de signature sonore, à savoir une library music analogique et abstraite du 21eme siècle, imprégnée du soleil des côtes méditerranéennes. Expo Botanica est le nouvel album de CAE, qui sortira en vinyle via Hisstology Records le 24 juin 2022. “Expo Botanica” complète une trilogie, faisant suite aux albums déjà cultes « Une Vie Cent Détours » et « Les Sourdes Oreilles ». « Une Vie Cent Detours », a été décrit par Pitchfork comme « un tournant majeur dans les voyages musicaux de Megarbane ». “Les Sourdes Oreilles” de 2017, première sortie en vinyle de CAE, a été salué par Bandcamp comme “un rêve de digger, un tour de force de grooves contagieux et de mélodies prêtes à être samplées qui semblent rares et familières à la fois”.


    Orné d’une peinture abstraite de Megarbane, “Expo Botanica” comprend 16 pistes instrumentales, chacune représentant un thème de la vie imaginaire d’une plante. Capturant l’insouciance d’une cour de récréation dans ses mélodies sinueuses, “Expo Botanica” pourrait facilement être la bande originale d’un film pour enfants des années 70, rappelant une époque où de tels projets pouvaient être signés par des compositeurs légendaires tels que Piero Umiliani. L’album illustre la maîtrise de Megarbane dans la confection de mélodies magnifiquement simples et accrocheuses, habillées d’arrangements ludiques. L’album repose sur deux parties: la face A crée une atmosphère paisible et pleine de fantaisie au style cinématographique d’inspiration Franco-Italienne, tandis que la face B propose des grooves avec orgues contagieux, breaks de batterie et mélodies pop psychédéliques qui regardent vers l’Est de la Méditerranée. Maître illusionniste sonore, Megarbane dirige ainsi son propre orchestre fictif.

     

    TRACKLISTING

    1. Executive Summary (1:28)
    2. La Grande Bellezza  (2:24)
    3. Le Cinéma Intérieur (2:35)
    4. Vol de Jour (2:22)
    5. Ohms and Watts (3:38)
    6. Version des Faits (2:16)
    7. À Bras le Cœur (3:01)
    8. Le Droit à L’Oubli (2:30)
    9. La Corde Sensible (2:16)
    10. Holy Mackerel! (2:53)
    11. Parachute Jellyfish (2:17)
    12. The Age of the Interrobang (3:10)
    13. Unlearning to Swim (4:06)
    14. Ever So Slightly (3:50)
    15. Public Transit Limited (3:00)
    16. Mare Nostrum (4:03)

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    FRANCE Domenique Dumont – nouvel extrait de Deux Paradis – album à paraître le 20 Juin 2025

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    Le duo letton dévoile aujourd’hui le titre “Visages Visages” extrait de leur nouvel album Deux Paradis à paraître le 20 juin sur le label parisien Antinote

    Après deux premiers singles “Deux Paradis” et “The Order Of Invisible Things” révélés au cours de ces derniers mois qui annonçaient le retour du duo, Domenique Dumont dévoile aujourd’hui “Visages Visages”, le dernier extrait de leur nouvel album avant sa sortie le 20 juin sur le label Antinote.

    Le quatrième al...

    Le duo letton dévoile aujourd’hui le titre “Visages Visages” extrait de leur nouvel album Deux Paradis à paraître le 20 juin sur le label parisien Antinote

    Après deux premiers singles “Deux Paradis” et “The Order Of Invisible Things” révélés au cours de ces derniers mois qui annonçaient le retour du duo, Domenique Dumont dévoile aujourd’hui “Visages Visages”, le dernier extrait de leur nouvel album avant sa sortie le 20 juin sur le label Antinote.

    Le quatrième album de Domenique Dumont, Deux Paradis, arrive comme les trois précédents – avec un air de mystère et d’émerveillement. À ce stade, nous devrions savoir à quoi nous attendre : Comme Ça (Antinote, 2015) et Miniatures de Auto Rhythm (Antinote, 2018) ont discrètement construit leur propre mythologie au fil du temps avec leurs morceaux entraînants et pleins d’esprit, tandis que People on Sunday (Leaf, 2020) a déjà développé une réputation culte parmi les amateurs de musique ambiante. Pourtant, cette musique envoûtante continue de surprendre – et Deux Paradis ne fait pas exception.

    Ce nouvel album complète ces enregistrements antérieurs en introduisant une dimension plus humaine et introspective à Domenique Dumont. L’ambiance reste amicale et accueillante, teintée de dub ondulant et de mélodies tendres, mais cette fois, Arturs Liepins – le producteur letton et francophile derrière Domenique Dumont – a créé son propre type d’Eden musical, un paradis pastoral pour explorer la mythologie personnelle, les systèmes de croyance individuels et, bien sûr, l’amour. Une musique dansante pour les mondes intérieurs – rituels, révélations et rêveries.

    Deux Paradis a été composé, arrangé et enregistré par Arturs entre 2022 et la fin de 2024 dans des studios à Riga et à Paris, et sur l’île estonienne de Hiiumaa. Les paroles ont été écrites à Hiiumaa, où la chanteuse Anete Stuce – aussi photographe et ethnomusicologue – passe la plupart de son temps. « Nous avons vécu dans un vieux moulin à vent et avons installé un petit studio à l’un des étages. Pendant la journée, nous montions à cheval avec nos amis et nagions dans la mer Baltique, et la nuit, nous écrivions des paroles à la lumière des bougies et enregistrions des voix. ».

    Tout comme la musique, les paroles de Deux Paradis sont suggestives et poétiques – contes d’amoureux, offrandes païennes ou vignettes spirituelles – comme si elles étaient tirées de textes classiques ou de folklore ancien. Pour Arturs, il était important d’écrire des paroles qui auraient pu être écrites à n’importe quel siècle, pas nécessairement ancrées dans les temps modernes. Jusqu’à présent, la langue avait toujours été une préoccupation secondaire pour Domenique Dumont ; ils s’efforçaient de suggérer un monde au-delà des mots.

     

    Deux Paradis tracklist :

    01. Enchantia
    02. La Vie Va
    03. Amants Ennemis
    04. Bonjour Tristesse
    05. Au St Sein
    06. The Wishing Well
    07. The Order of Invisible Things
    08. Visages Visages
    09. Deux Paradis
    10. Visiteur de la Nuit

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    FRANCE Ela Minus ‘UPWARDS’ Nouvel album DIA le 17.01

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    Réalisé par Albert Estruch & Marc Sancho (of Querida)

    En octobre 2024, l’artiste colombienne Ela Minus annonçait la sortie de son nouvel album DIA, prévu pour le 17 janvier 2025 chez Domino, accompagné du single “BROKEN”, décrit par Brooklyn Vegan comme un “hymne de danse cathartique”.

    Aujourd’hui, Ela révèle un nouveau titre, “UPWARDS”, une création éclatante qui sublime l’essence de la pop. Puissant et addictif, ce morceau célèbre l’importance de se protéger – son corps, son esprit, son âme – et s’im...

    En octobre 2024, l’artiste colombienne Ela Minus annonçait la sortie de son nouvel album DIA, prévu pour le 17 janvier 2025 chez Domino, accompagné du single “BROKEN”, décrit par Brooklyn Vegan comme un “hymne de danse cathartique”.

    Aujourd’hui, Ela révèle un nouveau titre, “UPWARDS”, une création éclatante qui sublime l’essence de la pop. Puissant et addictif, ce morceau célèbre l’importance de se protéger – son corps, son esprit, son âme – et s’impose dès la première écoute. Sur un rythme irrésistible et un refrain marquant, Ela scande : “I’d love to save you / but you’ve got to save yourself” (“J’aimerais te sauver / mais tu dois te sauver toi-même”). En toile de fond, des synthés intenses et frénétiques insufflent une énergie brute, illustrant une fois encore la maîtrise d’Ela Minus dans l’art de tisser des tensions musicales saisissantes.

    Le clip de “UPWARDS”, fruit d’une collaboration entre Albert Estruch et Marc Sancho de l’agence barcelonaise Querida, propose une expérience sensorielle captivante, mêlant image et son. On y voit Ela installée au centre d’un cercle formé par ses instruments, tandis que des caméras et des écrans diffusent en temps réel des perspectives multiples de sa performance.

    Ela dévoile également de nouvelles dates de tournée pour 2025, avec des concerts en tête d’affiche à travers l’Australie, ainsi qu’à Londres, Barcelone, Bogotá, Los Angeles, New York et Chicago.

    Dates de concert :

    Samedi 14 décembre – Berlin, Allemagne @ Silent Green (OPIA)

    Vendredi 17 janvier – Bogotá, Colombie @ Homecoming Release Day Show

    Samedi 1er février – Manchester, Royaume-Uni @ Victoria Warehouse ^

    Lundi 3 février – Paris, France @ Zénith * 
    Mardi 4 février – Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Rockhal *
    Mercredi 5 février – Utrecht, Pays-Bas @ Tivoli *
    Jeudi 6 février – Londres, Royaume-Uni @ Roundhouse *
    Vendredi 7 février – Londres, Royaume-Uni @ Roundhouse *
    Samedi 8 février – Londres, Royaume-Uni @ Roundhouse *
    Dimanche 9 février – Leeds, Royaume-Uni @ O2 Academy *
    Lundi 10 février – Bristol, Royaume-Uni @ Bristol Beacon *
    Mardi 11 février – Bruxelles, Belgique @ Ancienne Belgique *
    Mercredi 12 février – Bruxelles, Belgique @ Ancienne Belgique *
    Vendredi 14 février – Berlin, Allemagne @ Velodrom *
    Samedi 15 février – Barcelone, Espagne @ Astin (Nitsa)

    Jeudi 20 février – Londres, Royaume-Uni @ Oslo

    Vendredi 7 mars – Moyston, Australie @ Pitch Music & Arts

    Samedi 8 mars – Meredith, Australie @ Golden Plains XVII
    Dimanche 9 mars – Adélaïde, Australie @ WOMADelaide
    Samedi 15 mars – Los Angeles, Californie @ Zebulon
    Mercredi 18 mars – Brooklyn, New York @ Public Records
    Vendredi 21 mars – Chicago, Illinois @ Schubas
    Jeudi 27 mars – Mexico, MX @ Foro Puebla

    Dimanche 30 mars – Bogotá, Colombie @ Estéreo Picnic

    * en première partie de Caribou (Live)

    ^ en première partie de Floating Points (DJ Set)

    Après acts of rebellion en 2020, Ela Minus fait son retour avec DIA, une œuvre singulière dans le domaine de la musique électronique. Cet album combine une production audacieuse et des sonorités marquantes, tout en explorant des thématiques d’introspection et de quête personnelle. À travers des textes empreints d’une grande authenticité, Ela se dévoile avec profondeur.

    Tandis qu’acts of rebellion plongeait dans une ambiance intimiste, capturant l’énergie effervescente des clubs, DIA s’affirme par son envergure et sa richesse. Chaque morceau ouvre de nouvelles perspectives, dessinant un portrait nuancé et fascinant de l’artiste en tant que chanteuse et productrice visionnaire.

    Confié à Marta Salogni pour le mixage et à Heba Kadry pour le mastering, DIA atteint un équilibre subtil entre une pop accrocheuse et une approche sonore novatrice. Les refrains entêtants se mêlent à des arrangements riches et inventifs, construisant un univers musical profondément original.

    Cet album explore la transformation, résultat d’un voyage introspectif. À travers ses morceaux, il pose une question essentielle : que se passe-t-il entre le moment où nous sommes brisés et celui où tout semble irrémédiablement perdu ? Sur le titre éponyme, Ela exprime cette lutte intérieure avec intensité : “I want to be better. I thought I was better” (“Je veux être meilleure. Je pensais l’être déjà”), sa voix tranchante contrastant avec une basse enveloppante.

    En exposant ses doutes et ses réflexions, DIA marque une nouvelle phase dans le parcours d’Ela Minus. Plutôt que d’imposer une direction, l’album s’attache à révéler la beauté du cheminement et de la métamorphose.

    Synth History a annoncé une série documentaire approfondie consacrée à l’histoire et à la musique d’Ela Minus, avec un premier épisode déjà disponible, suivi d’un second. L’artiste a également récemment lancé la plateforme www.forthebirds.xyz, un espace où ses fans peuvent lui écrire et recevoir des réponses personnelles. Elle y aborde des sujets variés, qu’ils soient intimes, techniques ou simplement inspirants.

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    FRANCE Fat Dog ‘Woof.’ Premier album le 06 Septembre 2024

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    “It’s fucking Fat Dog, baby” – Huit mois se sont écoulés depuis la sortie de “King of the Slugs”, le premier single époustouflant de Fat Dog. Mais l’émotion demeure aussi forte à l’écoute de la phrase d’ouverture de son premier album, WOOF., clamée sauvagement par le leader et capitaine d’escadron Joe Love (son vrai nom).

    Fat Dog, l’un des groupes les plus prometteurs de ces dernières années, maître dans l’art des concerts endiablés, avec seulement deux m...

    “It’s fucking Fat Dog, baby” – Huit mois se sont écoulés depuis la sortie de “King of the Slugs”, le premier single époustouflant de Fat Dog. Mais l’émotion demeure aussi forte à l’écoute de la phrase d’ouverture de son premier album, WOOF., clamée sauvagement par le leader et capitaine d’escadron Joe Love (son vrai nom).

    Fat Dog, l’un des groupes les plus prometteurs de ces dernières années, maître dans l’art des concerts endiablés, avec seulement deux morceaux publiés jusqu’à présent (le menaçant “All the Same” est sorti en janvier), présente WOOF., un premier album brillant et hallucinant, prévu le 6 septembre sur Domino.

    Le groupe dévoile son nouveau single “Running”, véritable transe accrocheuse et sans retenue. Le clip, réalisé par Stephen Agnew, évoque Ken Russell, Ingmar Bergman et MANDY tout en dévoilant les origines de la secte Fat Dog et son véritable gourou.

    Lorsque le tumultueux groupe du sud de Londres, connu sous le nom de Fat Dog, a vu le jour, il s’est imposé deux règles : il sera un groupe qui prendra soin de sa santé et qui bannira toute présence de saxophone de sa musique. Deux directives simples à suivre, mais depuis longtemps abandonnées par le quintet de Brixton. “Ouais, tout cela a été balayé,” déclare Joe Love.

    La vie est bien trop courte pour demeurer fidèle aux plans établis lors des temps troublés et contraignants de 2021. Car c’est à cette époque que Fat Dog est né, Love prenant la décision de former un groupe et de dévoiler au monde les démos qu’il avait enregistrées chez lui pour préserver sa santé mentale durant le confinement. Avec l’arrivée de Chris Hughes (claviers/synthés), Ben Harris (basse), Johnny Hutchinson (batterie) et Morgan Wallace (claviers et, euh, saxophone), Joe a trouvé des esprits similaires au sien, des mavericks, pour l’aider à concrétiser son rêve. “Beaucoup de musique aujourd’hui est très cérébrale et ne suscite pas le désir de danser,” explique Hughes. “Notre musique est tout le contraire de la musique intellectuelle.”

    Avant de rejoindre la formation, Chris Hughes était un fervent admirateur du groupe qui commençait alors à se faire connaître grâce aux concerts palpitants et parfois étranges qu’il donnait à travers le sud de Londres. Ces prestations fondatrices ont forgé les bases de l’identité de Fat Dog : saisir l’instant, se laisser emporter, rentrer chez soi en s’étant brouillé avec l’instant, mais se réconcilier avec lui dès le lendemain.

    Il n’a pas fallu longtemps pour que les fans se rassemblent, chaque concert de Fat Dog à Londres surpassant largement le précédent et rapidement cet effet s’est répandu au-delà des frontières anglaises. Il se produit quelque chose de plus profond que la simple expérience du spectateur. Tout le monde est impliqué. “Il y a un véritable sentiment de communauté chez Fat Dog,” explique Johnny Hutchinson.

    Le groupe a récemment conclu une tournée aux États-Unis, accueillie avec enthousiasme, incluant un concert triomphant dans un restaurant de tacos où personne n’est resté sur sa faim. Il repartira en tournée au Royaume-Uni dès le mois prochain, avant d’entreprendre une série de festivals en Europe et en France cet été, notamment au Printemps de Bourges, au Foul Weather Festival au Havre, au festival Art Rock à Saint-Brieuc, aux Eurockéennes de Belfort, au festival Pete The Monkey à Saint Aubin sur Mer et à La Route du Rock à Saint-Malo. Fat Dog reviendra dans l’hexagone cet automne à l’occasion d’une tournée headline qui passera par Rouen, Rennes, Paris et Tourcoing.

    Selon Joe Love, Fat Dog, crée une musique faite pour être criée dans un oreiller. “Je voulais faire quelque chose de ridicule parce que je m’ennuyais tellement,” déclare-t-il. C’est un mélange palpitant de punk électronique, de grognements rock’n’roll, de paysages sonores techno, de pop industrielle et d’euphorie rave. En somme de la musique pour se laisser aller. Produit par Joe Love, James Ford et Jimmy Robertson, WOOF. file tel un éclair. Ses influences incluent Bicep, I.R.O.K., Kamasi Washington et le groupe russe d’EDM expérimental Little Big.

    L’album est une visite dans l’esprit de Joe Love – soyez reconnaissants de n’avoir obtenu qu’un pass temporaire. “La musique est tellement banale. Je n’aime pas la musique aseptisée. Même cet album est aseptisé par rapport à ce qui se passe dans ma tête. Je pensais que ça sonnerait nettement plus détraqué.” explique-t-il.

    Tracklisting :

    1. Vigilante
    2. Closer to God
    3. Wither
    4. Clowns
    5. King of the Slugs
    6. All the Same
    7. I am the King
    8. Running
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    FRANCE Fat White Family “Forgiveness Is Yours” nouvel album le 26 Avril 2024

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    Fat White Family - Forgiveness Is Yours Out 26 April 2024
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    Réalisé par Niall Trask

    Fat White Family est de retour avec l’album le plus sophistiqué, flamboyant et essentiel de sa carrière. ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’, quatrième album resplendissant du groupe culte du sud de Londres, sortira le vendredi 26 avril via Domino. Ce nouvel album a poussé le groupe non seulement aux limites de son talent créatif, mais aussi de sa santé physique et mentale, de son existence.

    Le groupe dévoile aujourd’hui le clip splendidement exubérant de “Bullet Of Dignity“, nouveau ...

    Fat White Family est de retour avec l’album le plus sophistiqué, flamboyant et essentiel de sa carrière. ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’, quatrième album resplendissant du groupe culte du sud de Londres, sortira le vendredi 26 avril via Domino. Ce nouvel album a poussé le groupe non seulement aux limites de son talent créatif, mais aussi de sa santé physique et mentale, de son existence.

    Le groupe dévoile aujourd’hui le clip splendidement exubérant de “Bullet Of Dignity“, nouveau single extrait de l’album. La vidéo, réalisée par Niall Trask, met en scène le groupe dans un hommage piloté par l’IA aux créateurs d’images Pierre Commoy et Gilles Blanchard. “Bullet of Dignity” fait suite à la sortie récente de ‘Religion For One’, également présent sur l’album.

    Selon Lias Saoudi, ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’ évoque « la vie en tant que contingence éternelle… de ne plus soupçonner, mais de savoir que les choses ne deviendront jamais plus faciles… en réalité, tout va s’empirer, votre corps se détériorer et les gens que vous aimez vont lentement disparaître… mais d’une manière ou d’une autre, vous avez suffisamment réduit vos attentes en la vie jusqu’à présent, vous vous en sortez plutôt bien… vous acceptez ». Ces onze titres sont comme une sorte de chronique du temps qui s’écoule de manière chaotique. Malgré les épreuves endurées par le groupe (notamment le départ abrupte et définitif de Saul Adamczewski lors de l’enregistrement) Forgiveness is Yours est une véritable explosion de plaisir.

    On peut prendre au mot les paroles de Lias lorsqu’il affirme : “Les thèmes esthétiques prédominants ici sont la léthargie et une léthargie encore plus profonde”. L’album témoigne de la volonté de créer même lorsque les catastrophes s’accumulent, que l’on sort du brouillard de la drogue pour réaliser que les dommages sont irréparables, que les trêves sont éphémères et que le jeu n’en vaut pas la chandelle. Débarrassé des illusions, Forgiveness Is Yours est la quintessence du désenchantement et le fruit aigre-doux d’une époque vicieuse et sinistre. Profitons-en tant que nous le pouvons, il n’existe rien de comparable !

    Depuis ses débuts, Fat White Family a instinctivement compris le pouvoir depuis longtemps négligé du mythe dans le rock’n’roll, la nécessité de donner aux gens quelque chose (ou rien) en quoi croire. Dans un univers musical terne et dominé par des carriéristes pop jouant la sécurité, Fat White Family porte la flamme sacrée. En tant que groupe capable d’inspirer, il reste farouchement punk, non pas dans le son, mais dans l’esprit, et ses performances live sont devenues légendaires — des murmures passionnés évoquant une force chamanique brute, une férocité débridée, des actes choquants de transgression et d’auto-humiliation.

    Au cours de la période tumultueuse entourant l’enregistrement du nouvel album, le groupe a maintenu une activité soutenue sur divers fronts. Des projets parallèles et des initiatives solos ont proliféré, dont la recréation du film ‘Les Évadés’ sur leurs téléphones via Instagram, la première partie de Liam Gallagher lors de son plus grand concert solo à Knebworth, la réalisation et la diffusion d’un court métrage exquis inspiré de Bergman, intitulé ‘Moonbathing in February’. Simultanément, Lias a créé la surprise pendant le confinement en se métamorphosant en l’un des auteurs de prose les plus divertissants et courageusement sincères, d’abord avec sa chronique pour The Social, ‘Beyond the Neutral Zone’, puis en collaborant avec l’écrivaine Adelle Stripe à l’un des grands ouvrages de rock’n’roll de cette décennie ou d’une autre, Ten-Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure.


    Tracklisting de Forgiveness Is Yours :

    1.   The Archivist
    2.   John Lennon
    3.   Bullet Of Dignity
    4.   Polygamy Is Only For The Chief
    5.   Visions Of Pain
    6.   Today You Become Man
    7.   Religion For One
    8.   Feed The Horse
    9.   What’s That You Say
    10. Work
    11. You Can’t Force It

     

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    FRANCE Fontaines D.C. ‘Skinty Fia’

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    Posted on 29 March 2022
    Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia Out 18 June 2025
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    Réalisé par Hugh Mulhern

    Après  avoir dévoilé « I Love You » et « Jackie Down The Line », deux singles créant un enthousiasme généralisé pour le troisième album du groupe, Fontaines D.C. – qui vient d’être consacré “Meilleur groupe du monde” aux BandLab NME Awards 2022 – dévoile le titre éponyme de l’album “Skinty Fia“. Il s’agit du dernier extrait de Skinty Fia avant sa sortie le 22 avril 2022 sur Partisan Records.

    Skinty Fia est une expression irlandaise qui se traduirait en fr...

    Après  avoir dévoilé « I Love You » et « Jackie Down The Line », deux singles créant un enthousiasme généralisé pour le troisième album du groupe, Fontaines D.C. – qui vient d’être consacré “Meilleur groupe du monde” aux BandLab NME Awards 2022 – dévoile le titre éponyme de l’album “Skinty Fia“. Il s’agit du dernier extrait de Skinty Fia avant sa sortie le 22 avril 2022 sur Partisan Records.

    Skinty Fia est une expression irlandaise qui se traduirait en français comme « La Damnation du Cerf ». La pochette de l’album représente un cerf arraché à son habitat naturel et confiné dans le hall d’une maison, illuminé par une lueur rouge artificielle. L’expression, qui est utilisée pour afficher la déception ou l’agacement, a résonné chez le chanteur Grian Chatten comme l’expression correcte de ses sentiments envers la «mutation» de la culture irlandaise à l’étranger. La chanson explore cette idée à travers le prisme d’une relation condamnée par la paranoïa, l’alcool et la drogue. Le clip vidéo qui l’accompagne, réalisé par Hugh Mulhern, capture la tension dans la chanson, alors que Grian se fraye un chemin, inaperçu, à travers une foule animée de fêtes, dans ce qui s’avère être un paysage de rêve surréaliste et désorientant. “Skinty Fia” fonctionne comme l’ancre de l’album, donnant le ton pour le reste du disque, alors que le groupe explore de nouveaux terrains musicaux. Dans les paroles, ils sont aux prises avec un besoin d’élargir leurs horizons suite à un récent déménagement à Londres.

    Il y a des échos de la tourmente rock’n’ roll de Dogrel et des atmosphères sombres de A Hero’s Death, mais Skinty Fia, le troisième dans le triumvirat, est bien plus expansif et cinématique. Fontaines D.C. est un groupe en constante évolution et cette fois, le résultat est un album plein d’humeurs changeantes, d’idées surprenantes, de maturité et de force émotionnelle.

    Skinty Fia tracklist:

    1. In ár gCroíthe go deo
    2. Big Shot
    3. How Cold Love Is
    4. Jackie Down The Line
    5. Bloomsday
    6. Roman Holiday
    7. The Couple Across The Way
    8. Skinty Fia
    9. I Love You
    10. Nabokov

     

     

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    FRANCE Franz Ferdinand ‘Curious’

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    Posted on 27 January 2022
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    Réalisé par Andy Knowles
    Franz Ferdinand vient de dévoiler la vidéo de “Curious”, son tout nouveau single extrait de Hits To The Head, le best of réunissant 20 de ses plus grands titres disponible le 11 mars 2022 chez Domino.

    “Curious”, comme “Billy Goodbye”, a été produit par Alex Kapranos, Julian Corrie et Stuart Price (Dua Lipa, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys) et s’accompagne d’un clip réalisé par Andy Knowles.

    A propos du titre, Alex Kapranos raconte :

    Quelle est la signification de ce morceau...

    Franz Ferdinand vient de dévoiler la vidéo de “Curious”, son tout nouveau single extrait de Hits To The Head, le best of réunissant 20 de ses plus grands titres disponible le 11 mars 2022 chez Domino.

    “Curious”, comme “Billy Goodbye”, a été produit par Alex Kapranos, Julian Corrie et Stuart Price (Dua Lipa, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys) et s’accompagne d’un clip réalisé par Andy Knowles.

    A propos du titre, Alex Kapranos raconte :

    Quelle est la signification de ce morceau ? J’ai eu cette idée pour les paroles – un peu à l’inverse d’une de ces scènes de film où la vie défile devant vous lorsque vous mourez – où toute une relation défile devant vous à l’instant où vous tombez amoureux…

    Il ajoute sur la vidéo :

    En pensant au clip, on s’est dit c’est une chanson dansante. Nous avons toujours joué de la musique pour danser, remarque Bob, alors pourquoi ne pas danser dans la vidéo ? Nous avons donc fait appel à notre vieux copain Andy Knowles, qui était dans la classe de Bob à l’école d’art et qui a joué avec Franz Ferdinand en 2005-2006 et il était sur la même longueur d’onde. Vous pouvez voir le caméo et oui, c’est bien nous en train de danser.

    En près de deux décennies, le groupe est devenu d’un point de vue commercial et critique, l’un des plus grands groupes britanniques au monde, vendant ainsi plus de 10 millions d’albums, avec 1,2 milliard de streams à ce jour, 14 albums de platine, remportant des Brit, Ivor Novello et Mercury Prize Awards, des nominations aux Grammy et écoulant 6 millions de billets pour leurs concerts incendiaires autour du monde.

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    FRANCE Georgia “Euphoric” – 28 Juillet 2023

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    Georgia annonce la sortie de son incroyable nouvel album Euphoric prévue pour le 28 juillet. Coproduit par Rostam (Haim, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clairo), c’est la première fois que Georgia travaille avec un autre producteur sur ses propres chansons. Le résultat est un troisième album studio pêchu composé de dix titres vibrants d’énergie.

    Euphoric fait suite à Seeking Thrills (2020), universellement remarqué et acclamé par la critique, qui a définitivement consacré Georgia comme l...

    Georgia annonce la sortie de son incroyable nouvel album Euphoric prévue pour le 28 juillet. Coproduit par Rostam (Haim, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clairo), c’est la première fois que Georgia travaille avec un autre producteur sur ses propres chansons. Le résultat est un troisième album studio pêchu composé de dix titres vibrants d’énergie.

    Euphoric fait suite à Seeking Thrills (2020), universellement remarqué et acclamé par la critique, qui a définitivement consacré Georgia comme l’une des meilleures productrices et compositrices du Royaume-Uni. Depuis, Georgia a collaboré avec des artistes tels que Mura Masa, Gorillaz, Shygirl, Baby Tate, Dan Carey, Rone et David Jackson. Plus récemment, elle a écrit avec Olly Alexander (Years and Years), et participé à l’album Queen Of Me de Shania Twain. Toutes ces expériences ont été mises au service de son nouvel album.

    Georgia dévoile également le premier single de son nouvel album, “It’s Euphoric”, accompagné d’une vidéo énergique réalisée par Fa & Fon. Animée par une douce extase, la chanson s’ouvre sur une ligne de basse qui s’ancre et avec laquelle Georgia joue grâce à ses rythmes vocaux enjoués (“I wasn’t saying much/ It was on the tip of my tongue”). “It’s Euphoric” est le premier morceau que Rostam et Georgia ont écrit ensemble, il a donné le ton à l’univers sonore coloré de l’album.

    Ayant écrit ses deux premiers albums dans un rayon de trois mètres autour de sa chambre, il était important pour Georgia de trouver un nouvel espace physique et émotionnel pour écrire : “Je voulais une aventure ! En tant que musicienne autoproduite, il est facile de s’enfermer dans une seule chose ou dans un seul endroit.” Le destin a voulu que l’estimé producteur Rostam envoie un DM à Georgia après l’avoir entendue sur le titre “Live Like We’re Dancing” de Mura Masa. Peu de temps après, Georgia s’envolait pour Los Angeles.

    Après avoir travaillé essentiellement seule pendant 10 ans, une partie cruciale du processus d’écriture a été d’apprendre à renoncer au contrôle. Pour Georgia, cet album est une sorte d’abandon “de mes problèmes, de mon passé, de mes défauts et au processus de guérison”. Grâce à lui, elle a pu avancer vers une nouvelle forme de libération sans contrainte. Euphoric voit Georgia sortir de derrière la console d’enregistrement et s’imposer comme une artiste pop unique et avant-gardiste. C’est le son de la vie, accepter de vivre le moment présent plutôt que de le fuir.

    Par ailleurs, Georgia a annoncé un concert intime à l’Omeara de Londres le mois prochain et se produira dans plusieurs festivals cet été, notamment au Radio 1 Big Weekend, Reading & Leeds, ou encore Primavera. Retrouvez toutes les dates ICI.

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    FRANCE HARD FEELINGS ‘HARD FEELINGS’ – 05 Novembre 2021

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    En mai dernier, HARD FEELINGS, le nouveau projet collaboratif de l’énergique chanteuse et songwriteuse, Amy Douglas, originaire de New York City et de Joe Goddard de Hot Chip, dévoilait son premier single “Holding On Too Long”. Aujourd’hui, HARD FEELINGS a le grand plaisir d’annoncer la sortie de son premier album éponyme le 5 novembre 2021.

    Parallèlement à l’annonce de l’album, HARD FEELINGS dévoile son nouveau single, “Dangerous”, et son clip réalisé par Katie Pau...

    En mai dernier, HARD FEELINGS, le nouveau projet collaboratif de l’énergique chanteuse et songwriteuse, Amy Douglas, originaire de New York City et de Joe Goddard de Hot Chip, dévoilait son premier single “Holding On Too Long”. Aujourd’hui, HARD FEELINGS a le grand plaisir d’annoncer la sortie de son premier album éponyme le 5 novembre 2021.

    Parallèlement à l’annonce de l’album, HARD FEELINGS dévoile son nouveau single, “Dangerous”, et son clip réalisé par Katie Paul. Le morceau au rythme puissant et entraînant est conçu pour danser.

    Amy explique : « ‘Dangerous’ porte bien son nom : séduisant, sexy et imprégné de hip-hop. De tous les morceaux de l’album, c’est l’un de ceux pour lesquels Joe et moi avons travaillé à l’envers, notre processus étant généralement que j’écrive la mélodie et les paroles et qu’elles se marient à ses incroyables productions. Là, c’est une ancienne chanson que j’ai ressuscitée. Introduite par de lourdes basses et l’incroyable production de Joe, on a fait renaître la chanson ! Cela nous a également montré, à Joe et moi, qu’il n’y a absolument aucune méthode qui ne nous permette pas de créer rapidement ces tueries. Nous écrivons par télépathie! ».
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    FRANCE Hayden Thorpe ‘Metafeeling’

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    Posted on 08 September 2021
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    Hayden Thorpe partage son nouveau single “Metafeeling”, extrait de son deuxième album Moondust For My Diamond à paraître le 15 octobre via Domino.

    Le clip de “Metafeeling” a été réalisé par Percy Dean et filmé dans le Lake District, mettant en valeur le paysage exceptionnel de la région natale d’Hayden, qui joue de la guitare dans un costume tout aussi spectaculaire. Cette guitare baryton Hagstrom Viking est centrale à Moondust For My Diamond, Hayden l’a achetée à ...

    Hayden Thorpe partage son nouveau single “Metafeeling”, extrait de son deuxième album Moondust For My Diamond à paraître le 15 octobre via Domino.

    Le clip de “Metafeeling” a été réalisé par Percy Dean et filmé dans le Lake District, mettant en valeur le paysage exceptionnel de la région natale d’Hayden, qui joue de la guitare dans un costume tout aussi spectaculaire. Cette guitare baryton Hagstrom Viking est centrale à Moondust For My Diamond, Hayden l’a achetée à Brooklyn le jour de la Saint-Valentin 2019 et explique : “si le piano était mon instrument totem pour ‘Diviner’, alors cette guitare est devenue l’amulette pour mon nouveau disque”.

    Hayden Thorpe à propos de “Metafeeling” : “J’ai été inspiré par des études sur les potentielles propriétés curatives des champignons psilocybines en psychothérapie. Je me suis inscrit à un programme phare aux Pays-Bas, car je voulais explorer la conscience d’une manière sûre. La phrase ‘ce qui était était, maintenant ce qui est est’ m’est venue et a distillé une grande partie de ce que j’avais vécu pendant cette période.”

    Moondust For My Diamond succède à Diviner, le premier album de Hayden publié en 2019 et son EP Aerial Songs sorti en 2021.

    Contrairement à Diviner, son premier album encensé par la critique et teinté de solitude et de fragilité, Moondust For My Diamond s’oriente vers une palette visuelle et sonore plus naturelle. Hayden s’intéresse, raconte-il, « au point de rencontre entre la science et la religion, à la lutte pour la réalité qui façonne une grande partie de notre époque ». Thorpe délivre un album qui est à la fois galvanisant, rassurant, élégant et séduisant : il dégage une grande énergie cosmique.

    La production technicolor de Moondust For My Diamond réunit pour la première fois Hayden et le brillant producteur Nathan Jenkins (Bullion) ainsi que son collaborateur de longue date Richard Formby, le tout masterisé par Heba Kadry.

     

     

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    FRANCE Hayden Thorpe ‘Moondust For My Diamond’ le 15 Octobre 2021

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    Posted on 06 July 2021
    Réalisé par Tom Haines

    Moondust For My Diamond, le secon album solo de Hayden Thorpe est paraître le 15 octobre 2021. Le disque succède à Diviner publié en 2019 et son EP Aerial Songs sorti en 2020.

    En parallèle de l’annonce de son album, Hayden dévoile « The Universe Is Always Right ».
    Contrairement à Diviner, son premier album encensé par la critique et teinté de solitude et de fragilité, Moondust For My Diamond s’oriente vers une palette visuelle et sonore plus naturelle. Hayden s’int...

    Moondust For My Diamond, le secon album solo de Hayden Thorpe est paraître le 15 octobre 2021. Le disque succède à Diviner publié en 2019 et son EP Aerial Songs sorti en 2020.

    En parallèle de l’annonce de son album, Hayden dévoile « The Universe Is Always Right ».
    Contrairement à Diviner, son premier album encensé par la critique et teinté de solitude et de fragilité, Moondust For My Diamond s’oriente vers une palette visuelle et sonore plus naturelle. Hayden s’intéresse, raconte-il, « au point de rencontre entre la science et la religion, à la lutte pour la réalité qui façonne une grande partie de notre époque ». Thorpe délivre un album qui est à la fois galvanisant, rassurant, élégant et séduisant : il dégage une grande énergie cosmique.
    « Et la nature ? Qu’en est-il du cosmos ? Qu’en est-il de toutes ces choses qui brisent la tyrannie du moi ? Nos sens portent le monde en nous après tout, je n’avais plus qu’à le chanter. J’étais de nouveau ébahi par le mystère de la science et par la façon dont je pouvais parler avec mon cœur à une époque où la métrique est sacrée ». Moondust For My Diamond est le résultat d’un mécanisme de défense : l’exploration des mondes du mythe numérique et le besoin d’estomper la réalité puis de la remodeler quand tant de choses semblent irréelles.
    L’évolution bucolique que l’on retrouve dans l’EP Aerial Songs, sorti l’an dernier, laissait présager une palette plus étendue, reflétant le retour de Thorpe dans le Lake District, l’environnement naturel dans lequel il a grandi. Ces influences supplémentaires transparaissent dans Moondust For My Diamond, tout comme l’implication de Hayden dans Wavepaths, un projet novateur intégrant la musique dans la thérapie psychédélique, mais aussi des concerts « hybrides » et des ateliers de respiration avec le pionnier Richie Bostock. Ce sont ces engagements, ces expériences et ces collaborations qui font de ce disque un album aussi séduisant, sensoriel et stimulant pour l’âme.
    La production technicolor de Moondust For My Diamond réunit pour la première fois Hayden et le brillant producteur Nathan Jenkins (Bullion) ainsi que son collaborateur de longue date Richard Formby, le tout masterisé par Heba Kadry.

     

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    FRANCE Hot Chip ‘Freakout/Release’ – 19 aout 2022

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    Hot Chip est heureux d’annoncer la sortie de son huitième album Freakout/Release, le 19 août via Domino.

    Freakout/Release est un nouveau sommet vertigineux dans la carrière de Hot Chip, longue de plusieurs décennies, qui voit le groupe perpétuellement innover et développer une écriture riche et résonnante. Portant le groupe à son apogée, l’album est aussi un nouveau chapitre pour Hot Chip, il y déploie une collection de chansons bouleversantes, démontrant une fois de plu...

    Hot Chip est heureux d’annoncer la sortie de son huitième album Freakout/Release, le 19 août via Domino.

    Freakout/Release est un nouveau sommet vertigineux dans la carrière de Hot Chip, longue de plusieurs décennies, qui voit le groupe perpétuellement innover et développer une écriture riche et résonnante. Portant le groupe à son apogée, l’album est aussi un nouveau chapitre pour Hot Chip, il y déploie une collection de chansons bouleversantes, démontrant une fois de plus sa capacité à puiser dans l’obscurité pour émerger comme une véritable unité créative, le regard confiant et fixé vers l’avenir.

    Le groupe, composé de Owen Clarke, Al Doyle, Joe Goddard, Felix Martin et Alexis Taylor, dévoile également le premier extrait de l’album, le vibrant titre d’ouverture “Down”.

    “Down” a été la première chanson sur laquelle le groupe a travaillé pour l’album. Articulée autour d’un sample de “More Than Enough” de Universal Togetherness Band que Joe Goddard avait mis en boucle, elle a donné le coup d’envoi du processus d’écriture et le groupe a terminé la chanson dans un élan d’énergie. La vidéo réalisée par Douglas Hart et Steve Mackey mêle lumières stroboscopiques, soudures métalliques, images déformées du groupe et une référence à The Shining.

    Freakout/Releasea été écrit et enregistré dans le tout nouveau studio du groupe Relax & Enjoy à l’est de Londres, un espace créatif qu’Al Doyle a mis en place avant et pendant la première année de la pandémie de la COVID-19. Le fait de se réunir dans le studio Relax & Enjoy a été essentiel pour établir le son entraînant et complet de l’album. En se réunissant tous dans la même pièce pour la première fois post tournée de l’album A Bath Full Of Ecstasy (2019), c’était aussi la première fois que tous les membres de Hot Chip commençaient à travailler sur un nouveau disque tous ensemble au même moment.

    L’énergie irrépressible de Hot Chip en live a été au centre des préoccupations du groupe, qui s’est particulièrement inspiré de sa reprise de “Sabotage” des Beastie Boys, devenue un incontournable de sa setlist de concert. “L’idée d’être hors de contrôle est toujours présente dans la musique dance, dans un sens positif”, explique Doyle en parlant de l’influence de cette reprise sur le nouvel album.

    “Au moment où nous avons pu nous retrouver, nous avons ouvert les vannes et beaucoup d’idées ont jailli rapidement”, ajoute Alexis Taylor. Joe Goddard décrit le plan d’attaque créatif comme une écriture ” naturelle, sans trop de discussion ou de grand plan”. Cette ambiance d’improvisation a été soutenue par le nouvel espace du studio, ajoute Doyle : “Tout est allumé en permanence, et il est très facile de d’enregistrer ce que nous faisons”

    Sur le plan lyrique, Freakout/Release explore des émotions plus sombres que les précédents albums de Hot Chip, puisant dans le personnel et le politique pour décrire les façons dont les gens survivent même au milieu de luttes inébranlables. “Nous vivions une période où il était très facile de sentir que les gens perdaient le contrôle de leur vie de différentes manières”, explique Goddard. “Il y a une noirceur qui traverse beaucoup de ses morceaux”. Hot Chip s’est entouré de plusieurs artistes pour explorer ce territoire émotionnellement incertain. Le rappeur canadien Cadence Weapon participe à “The Evil That Men Do”, la DJ et musicienne britannique Lou Hayter prête sa voix à l’onctueux “Hard to Be Funky”, tandis que le légendaire duo de producteurs Soulwax ajoute sa magie à “Freakout/Release”.

    Au cours des 18 dernières années, Hot Chip s’est imposé comme l’un des groupes britanniques les plus influents aux côtés de Pet Shop Boys et Depeche Mode, établissant un véritable pont entre les mondes de la pop et de la dance music, avec un catalogue de chansons qui font bouger les corps et touchent les cœurs avec la même force. Les onze titres de Freakout/Release sont la preuve que le groupe n’est pas près de ralentir, même s’il est clair que le poids du monde s’est infiltré dans les coins et recoins de ses chansons.

     

    Tracklisting de l’album :

    1. Down
    2. Eleanor
    3. Freakout/Release
    4. Broken
    5. Not Alone
    6. Hard To Be Funky feat. Lou Hayter
    7. Time
    8. Miss The Blues
    9. The Evil That Men Do feat. Cadence Weapon
    10. Guilty
    11. Out Of My Depth

    Hot Chip sera en concert à l’Olympia à Paris le 8 octobre.
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    FRANCE Jaakko Eino Kalevi ‘Chaos Magic’ – 17 Novembre 23

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    Jaakko Eino Kalevi revient avec l’annonce de son nouvel album Chaos Magic, dont la sortie est prévue le 17 novembre sur Weird World. Un double album de pop élémentaire et d’électronique baroque, teinté de mélodie et de mystère, c’est la déclaration la plus folle du Finlandais à ce jour.

    Jaakko dévoile également un nouveau single aux synthés brûlants, “I Forget”. Avec la voix de Sigurlaug Gísladóttir, c’est un voyage sonore séduisant et un aperçu de l&...

    Jaakko Eino Kalevi revient avec l’annonce de son nouvel album Chaos Magic, dont la sortie est prévue le 17 novembre sur Weird World. Un double album de pop élémentaire et d’électronique baroque, teinté de mélodie et de mystère, c’est la déclaration la plus folle du Finlandais à ce jour.

    Jaakko dévoile également un nouveau single aux synthés brûlants, “I Forget”. Avec la voix de Sigurlaug Gísladóttir, c’est un voyage sonore séduisant et un aperçu de l’univers sonore éblouissant que Jaakko crée. “C’est à propos de faire un black-out et de tout oublier – qui vous êtes, où et pourquoi“, explique Jaakko. “Cela peut sembler sérieux, mais c’est amusant quand c’est sur ce rythme. ”

     

    Réalisée par Frank Holbein, la vidéo de “I Forget” est une représentation délirante, remplie de néons, d’une soirée où l’on n’est jamais tout à fait sûr de ce qui se passe. “L’idée de la vidéo est que le personnage principal oublie toujours qui il est, et finit par devenir différents personnages vivant différentes vies”, explique Jaakko. “L’idée vient de l’époque où je jouais en Égypte, il y a quelques années. Je me suis évanoui sur une chaise de plage après le spectacle. Lorsque je me suis réveillé, j’avais des souvenirs d’un autre endroit et je ne savais pas où j’étais, ni pourquoi. Puis j’ai appelé ma sœur qui m’a raconté, et tout est rentré dans l’ordre.”

    En grande partie écrit et enregistré à Athènes, sa nouvelle ville natale, Chaos Magic trace une route palpitante dans l’univers de Jaakko, puisant dans le jazz cosmique, le reggae dub, la synthpop néon, les ballades tendres et le space-rock nirvana. Des contributions musicales de l’actrice et chanteuse française Alma Jodorowsky, de Jimi Tenor, de Faux Real, de Yu-Ching Huang et de John Moods sont également au rendez-vous.

     
    Sur le plan stylistique, l’album couvre un large spectre, de la new-wave glacée de “I Forget” au délirant “Dino’s Deo” en passant par le disco évocateur de “Galactic Romance” et de “Night Walk”. L’album a pris forme au cours des deux dernières années. Les premières démos ont été réalisées dans divers endroits d’Europe – lors de résidences d’artistes à Genève et à Maajaam, en Estonie, dans des studios à Berlin et sur l’île grecque d’Hydra – avant d’être développées à Athènes, aux Mutual Sound Studios, un endroit cher au cœur de Jaakko, dirigé par son ami Teemu Takatalo, qui a coproduit et mixé Chaos Magic aux côtés de Jaakko.
     

    Un album fondé sur la beauté de la collaboration et, selon les mots de Jaakko, “un album de retour aux sources“, Chaos Magic “est une collection de chansons d’une certaine période sans essayer de les relier entre elles”. Inspiré par sa nouvelle maison et par le mot grec kháos, “qui signifie un abîme ou un vide créé lorsque la Terre et le Ciel ont été séparés“, les sons éclectiques et merveilleux de l’album trouvent la beauté dans la nature chaotique du quotidien.

    Bienvenue dans le jardin des délices terrestres de Jaakko Eino Kalevi !


    Tracklist:

    1. Chaos Magic
    2. Drifting Away 
    3. Dino’s Deo 
    4. Hell & Heaven 
    5. Night Walk
    6. Palace In My Head
    7. I Forget
    8. The Chamber of Love
    9. Cyborg
    10. L’horizon
    11. Galactic Romance
    12. Trouble Man 
    13. Let’s See How Things Go
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    FRANCE Julia Holter ”Something In The Room She Moves” le 22 mars

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    Julia Holter, chanteuse, auteure et compositrice basée à Los Angeles, annonce la sortie de son sixième album studio intitulé Something in the Room She Moves, le 22 mars chez Domino. Les précédents enregistrements de Julia Holter ont fréquemment sondé la mémoire et un futur empreint de rêverie, tandis que son nouvel album se concentre sur le moment présent : “Il y a un accent sur le corporel, inspiré par la complexité et la transformabilité de nos corps”, déclare-t-elle. Ses...

    Julia Holter, chanteuse, auteure et compositrice basée à Los Angeles, annonce la sortie de son sixième album studio intitulé Something in the Room She Moves, le 22 mars chez Domino. Les précédents enregistrements de Julia Holter ont fréquemment sondé la mémoire et un futur empreint de rêverie, tandis que son nouvel album se concentre sur le moment présent : “Il y a un accent sur le corporel, inspiré par la complexité et la transformabilité de nos corps”, déclare-t-elle. Ses choix de production et ses arrangements dessinent une suite de notes de basse électrique sans frettes en contrepoint de mélodies vocales éthérées, tandis que les lignes de Yamaha CS-60 glissent pour se mêler aux instruments à vents et aux anches. “Je cherchais à créer un univers sonore fluide, semblable à l’eau, évoquant le monde sonore interne du corps”, explique Holter.

    L’annonce de l’album est accompagnée de la sortie de son nouveau single “Spinning”, morceau central et incantatoire de l’album : “What is delicious and what is omniscient ?” chante-t-elle, “What is the circular magic I’m visiting?” Holter déclare : “Il s’agit d’être dans un état passionné de création : être dans ce moment, et qu’est-ce que ce moment ?”

    “Spinning” est accompagné d’une vidéo réalisée par Giraffe Studios.

    “Spinning” fait suite au single précédemment sorti, “Sun Girl”, salué comme “un voile d’extase, une déambulation néo-psychedelique” (New York Times), “un morceau tourbillonnant de psychédélisme qui brouille la frontière entre illusion et réalité” (Pitchfork),et une “chanson kaléidoscopique” (The Guardian).

    Ces dernières années, Julia Holter s’est concentrée sur la nature des relations humaines, naviguant à travers les tumultes émotionnels causés par la perte de proches, notamment son jeune neveu auquel l’album est dédié, et par la naissance de sa fille. Avec ‘Something in the Room She Moves’, elle aborde avec intensité la complexité, la profondeur et l’émerveillement de cette juxtaposition d’expériences. Elle décrit sa musique comme étant “sensuelle”, “fluide” et “nocturne”, reflétant comment l’amour, malgré ses obstacles, “réoriente les circuits neuronaux”. Le pochette de l’album, réalisée par Christina Quarles, une amie d’enfance de Julia, met en lumière la dualité des relations intimes : les figures s’étreignent-elles ou sont-elles en lutte ?

    Le titre Something in the Room She Moves est venu spontanément à Holter alors qu’elle nommait le fichier du projet Logic sur son ordinateur pour une démo de ce qui deviendrait la piste titre de l’album. Quelques mois plus tard, par un curieux hasard, elle a été captivée par le documentaire des Beatles, “Get Back” (2021). Le titre de son album réinvente la perspective des paroles des Beatles (“Something in the way she moves…”) ; la femme n’est plus observée passivement, mais elle agit activement pour élargir son espace. Holter a toujours été une admiratrice des Beatles depuis son enfance, mais considère son titre moins comme un hommage direct que comme un morceau semi-surréaliste issu de l’écriture spontanée de son subconscient. (Elle chantait des chansons des Beatles à sa fille le soir.)

    Après une série d’albums de dream pop qui ont établi sa voix avant-gardiste dans le paysage musical indépendant – depuis 2012 avec Ekstasis à Loud City Song et Have You in My Wilderness – Holter a sorti le vaste et captivant Aviary en 2018. Depuis lors, elle a composé des musiques de film comme Never Rarely Sometimes Always, réalisé une partition live commandée pour La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc avec le Chœur de l’Opéra du Nord, et collaboré avec son partenaire, le musicien Tashi Wada, qui joue du synthétiseur et des cornemuses sur son nouvel album. Something in the Room She Moves est une progression remarquable dans l’œuvre de Julia Holter, synthétisant son énergie libre et spontanée avec l’élégance qui la caractérise.

    Julia Holter a confirmé une tournée européenne en avril, incluant une date en France au Festival Variations à Nantes le 7 avril. Retrouvez l’intégralité des dates de sa tournée ici.
    Tracklisting :

    1. Sun Girl
    2. These Morning
    3. Something in the Room She Moves
    4. Materia
    5. Meyou
    6. Spinning
    7. Ocean
    8. Evening Mood
    9. Talking to the Whisper
    10. Who Brings Me
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    FRANCE LA Priest “Fase Luna” – 5 Mai 2023

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    LA Priest, alias Sam Eastgate, annonce son troisième album, Fase Luna, concentré de pop chancelante et inspiré par l’océan, dont la sortie est prévue le 5 mai via Domino. Faisant suite à GENE (2020), nommé d’après une boîte à rythmes modulaire que Sam avait conçue en utilisant 150 circuits électriques qu’il avait lui-même construits, Fase Luna se résume à Sam et à sa guitare : neuf titres ensoleillés de pure félicité.

    Pour accompagner cette annonce, LA Priest dévoi...
    LA Priest, alias Sam Eastgate, annonce son troisième album, Fase Luna, concentré de pop chancelante et inspiré par l’océan, dont la sortie est prévue le 5 mai via Domino. Faisant suite à GENE (2020), nommé d’après une boîte à rythmes modulaire que Sam avait conçue en utilisant 150 circuits électriques qu’il avait lui-même construits, Fase Luna se résume à Sam et à sa guitare : neuf titres ensoleillés de pure félicité.

    Pour accompagner cette annonce, LA Priest dévoile un premier extrait, la chanson d’amour funky “It’s You”, un classique instantané qui vous restera dans l’esprit longtemps après ses dernières notes.

    “C’est l’histoire d’un homme qui tombe amoureux d’une sirène ou d’un esprit de l’eau et qui doit choisir entre la vie sur terre et la vie dans l’océan”, explique Sam. “Certains passages donnent l’impression qu’il est au bord de la folie.”

    Le clip de “It’s You” a été réalisé par Eoin Glaister (Glass Animals, Joji) et raconte l’histoire d’une femme, interprétée par Juliet Cowan (The Power, PhoneShop), qui tombe éperdument amoureuse d’un fatberg des égouts. Touchant, doux et parfois burlesque, c’est une représentation simple et belle de l’amour que l’on peut trouver dans les endroits les plus étranges.

    Tracklisting de Fase Luna :
    1. On
    2. Silent
    3. It’s You
    4. Misty
    5. Star
    6. Sail On
    7. Neon
    8. Ocean
    9. No More

    En concert en France :
    30.09 – La Boule Noire, Paris
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    FRANCE Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Resist the Urge’

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    Matt Sweeney et Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy présentent le single “Resist the Urge” extrait de leur album à paraitre Superwolves.

    Le clip a été réalisé par le légendaire skateboardeur Kevin “Spanky” Long et le photographe/skateboardeur Atiba Jefferson. On y voit Spanky skater dans son style inimitable à travers un paysage rappelant directement l’univers de Bonnie et Sweeney. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (aka Will Oldham) explique : “La vidéo de Spanky et Atiba déchire. No...

    Matt Sweeney et Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy présentent le single “Resist the Urge” extrait de leur album à paraitre Superwolves.

    Le clip a été réalisé par le légendaire skateboardeur Kevin “Spanky” Long et le photographe/skateboardeur Atiba Jefferson. On y voit Spanky skater dans son style inimitable à travers un paysage rappelant directement l’univers de Bonnie et Sweeney. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (aka Will Oldham) explique : “La vidéo de Spanky et Atiba déchire. Nous essayons de faire en sorte que l’auditeur se sente follement à l’aise dans un espace musical. Atiba et Spanky nous ont donné l’impression de posséder une part du monde du skate”.

    “Resist the Urge” a été enregistré au Butcher Shoppe à Nashville par Sean Sullivan et David “Fergie” Ferguson. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy : “Nous avons demandé à David Ferguson de sortir de derrière la table d’enregistrement pour jouer de la contrebasse sur ce morceau. Il avait besoin de l’ascendant que seul un Ferg pouvait lui donner.”

     

    “J’ai toujours voulu voir un clip avec un seul skateur, et lorsqu’on m’a demandé de travailler sur une vidéo pour ce disque, j’ai su que Kevin ‘Spanky’ Long était parfait – sa façon de découper, de redimensionner, de déplacer et de manipuler les photos et les vidéos est incroyable, mais c’est aussi un incroyable skateur professionnel. J’en ai demandé beaucoup à Spanky : je voulais qu’il apparaisse à l’image, qu’il réalise, qu’il monte, qu’il filme et qu’il fasse tout le travail artistique ! C’était un défi de taille, mais je savais que son amour pour Matt et Will transparaîtrait. Cette vidéo a été réalisée pendant la pandémie, donc il n’y avait que lui et moi pour tourner ensemble. Nous avons tourné à Los Angeles pendant 14 jours sur une période de 4 mois. C’était génial de travailler aussi étroitement avec la vision de Spanky tout en l’ayant devant la caméra. Cette collaboration était formidable parce que nous sommes deux générations différentes de skateurs, mais nous avons tous les deux le point de vue d’un skateur professionnel.” – Atiba

    “C’était juste une bonne excuse pour faire une vidéo de skate avec un meilleur ami pour mon groupe préféré. J’ai transféré les séquences en haute définition et les films super8 dans mon iPhone, où j’ai minutieusement coupé image par image avec des outils numériques relativement bas de gamme, pour réaliser l’animation en stop-motion et les éléments de collage numérique. C’était, en fin de compte, la seule façon d’obtenir le look que nous recherchions. Et nous avons intégré des couches de mer et de ciel pour répondre aux grands thèmes de “Resist the Urge”. Les restrictions du COVID ont rendu la tâche difficile pour réussir à avoir Matt et Will, mais nous nous délectons des limites.” – Kevin “Spanky” Long

     

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    FRANCE Matthew E. White ‘Let’s Ball’

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    Pour célébrer la sortie de son album K BAY, Matthew  E. White dévoile le clip de “Let’s Ball” 

    Accompagné d’une troupe de danse habillée en Matthew E. White, découvrez son premier clip de danse chorégraphié pour le charismatique titre “Let’s Ball”. “Premièrement, j’ai toujours voulu faire une vidéo de danse, et deuxièmement, je voulais gentiment me moquer de l’égocentrisme du tournage d’une vidéo”, explique Matthew (qui joue ici le rôle du réalisateur...

    Pour célébrer la sortie de son album K BAY, Matthew  E. White dévoile le clip de “Let’s Ball” 

    Accompagné d’une troupe de danse habillée en Matthew E. White, découvrez son premier clip de danse chorégraphié pour le charismatique titre “Let’s Ball”. “Premièrement, j’ai toujours voulu faire une vidéo de danse, et deuxièmement, je voulais gentiment me moquer de l’égocentrisme du tournage d’une vidéo”, explique Matthew (qui joue ici le rôle du réalisateur de la vidéo). Le vrai réalisateur du clip, Wes Parker, ajoute : “Lorsque Matthew m’a appelé avec le concept de ‘Let’s Ball’, j’ai su que cela allait être très amusant à réaliser. Nous avons essayé de créer ce personnage de réalisateur absurde et sévère qui, au fil de la vidéo, commence à s’adoucir. J’ai toujours aimé faire des sketchs – mettre des gens dans des costumes, peindre une scène ou un personnage – alors cela semblait tout à fait dans mes cordes.”

    Les trois premiers singles extraits de K Bay “Nested,” “Genuine Hesitation” et “Electric” ont tous reçu les louanges de Pitchfork, NPR Music, Stereogum, Under the Radar, BBC 6 Music, Double J, Brooklyn Vegan et bien plus.

    K Bay – son deuxième album en 2021, après sa collaboration avec Lonnie Holley – est le disque sensationnel qu’il a toujours rêvé d’enregistrer. Proclamation audacieuse d’indépendance et d’identité, K Bay fait de Matthew E. White l’un des artistes les plus imaginatifs de son époque. Ces 11 morceaux sont des tours de magie rétro-futuristes qui semblent instantanément classiques et contemporains, le produit d’un esprit musical qui a intériorisé les leçons de ses idoles et les a utilisées pour construire un monde brillant qui lui est propre.

    Plus que l’amour, la romance ou l’indépendance, c’est l’idéal qui anime K Bay, à savoir que nous pouvons toujours aspirer à quelque chose de meilleur, quelles que soient les faiblesses ou les bénédictions que nous ayons eues. Il y a dix ans, Matthew E. White a réalisé un disque d’une beauté classique auquel personne ne s’attendait. Avec K Bay, il a réalisé un chef-d’œuvre en utilisant ce qu’il a appris de sa communauté et de la vie elle-même de manière totalement inattendue et électrisante.

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    FRANCE Melody’s Echo Chamber ‘Emotional Eternal’ – 29 Avril 2022

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    Melody’s Echo Chamber dévoile un nouvel extrait de pop psychédélique céleste et annonce la sortie de son magnifique troisième album studio, Emotional Eternal, le 29 avril 2022 chez Domino. Le premier extrait de l’album est un hymne radieux intitulé “Looking Backward”.

    Emotional Eternal, troisième album studio de Melody’s Echo Chamber, est une brillante consolidation des leçons apprises en cours de route, la vision sans détour de quelqu’un qui a pris le recul nécessa...

    Melody’s Echo Chamber dévoile un nouvel extrait de pop psychédélique céleste et annonce la sortie de son magnifique troisième album studio, Emotional Eternal, le 29 avril 2022 chez Domino. Le premier extrait de l’album est un hymne radieux intitulé “Looking Backward”.

    Emotional Eternal, troisième album studio de Melody’s Echo Chamber, est une brillante consolidation des leçons apprises en cours de route, la vision sans détour de quelqu’un qui a pris le recul nécessaire. Comme pour son précédent album, Bon Voyage (2018), ce nouvel opus a initialement été enregistré dans la banlieue de Stockholm, avec Reine Fiske, multi-instrumentiste et membre du groupe de rock suédois Dungen (qui a travaillé entre autres avec Travis Scott et Anna Järvinen) et Fredrik Swahn, musicien, producteur et ingénieur, connu pour son travail avec le groupe indie-rock suédois The Amazing.

    « J’espère que ce disque sera exaltant pour ceux qui l’écouteront », dit Melody. « Je voulais être plus enracinée et plus consciente tout au long du processus. J’ai guidé les séances avec simplicité – un contraste avec le maximalisme de Bon Voyage et le désert de mes illusions. J’ai pris des décisions importantes et radicales, effectué des changements dans ma vie. Cela m’a amené vers plus de paisibilité, ce qui je pense, se reflète sur l’album. C’est plus direct. »

    “Looking Backward”, le nouveau single disponible dès aujourd’hui, met en scène le falcetto espiègle de Melody accompagné d’une batterie et d’une basse enjouées et de doux synthétiseurs. A la fois exaltant sur le plan sonore et introspectif dans ses paroles, il marque le brillant retour de cette artiste toujours aussi envoûtante.

    Pour le clip de “Looking Backward”, Melody a collaboré avec l’artiste 3D Hyoyon Paik (Chlöe), spécialiste du moteur de jeu Unreal Engine, pour mettre en image l’histoire du mystérieux voyage d’une méta-femme dans un monde magnifiquement construit mais déformé.

    « ‘Looking Backward’ est une marche vive, nonchalante et poétique vers l’inconnu », dit Melody à propos du morceau. « J’ai écrit les paroles en me rendant à Stockholm, en transit à l’aéroport, il y avait cet homme qui créait des reflets lumineux avec sa montre, jouant avec la lumière sur les sols et les murs. Cela m’a semblé être un acte de créativité pure dont j’étais l’heureuse témoin et qui m’a inspiré l’écriture de la chanson ».

    « Ce fut une expérience vraiment réjouissante de puiser dans le monde de Melody et d’utiliser mes compétences en CGI pour le mettre en image », explique la réalisatrice Hyoyon Paik à propos de la vidéo de “Looking Backward”. « Cette œuvre démontre comment les artistes peuvent utiliser des avatars numériques et des CGI pour offrir une narration sans limite et immersive en cette période passionnante, où le monde numérique et la réalité sont plus que jamais entremêlés ».

    Emotional Eternal est une collection profondément personnelle de chansons riches de transcendances sonores – un disque qui révèle clairement sa maturité mais qui observe toujours le monde avec un émerveillement enfantin. Il inclut, ‘Alma The Voyage’, un hymne à la maternité s’achevant sur des violons et des archets électriques retentissant ; « Personal Message » présente une performance vocale étourdissante de Melody, vertigineuse et haletante ; ainsi que le chamarré et accrocheur « Where The Water Clears The Illusion ». L’écoute de l’album donne l’impression de tomber sur un abondant coffre au trésor. Attachez-vous et préparez-vous à être transporté dans un autre monde paradisiaque, méditatif et plein de groove.

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    1.     Emotional Eternal
    2.     Looking Backward
    3.     Pyramids in the Clouds
    4.     The Hypnotist
    5.     Personal Message
    6.     Where the Water Clears the Illusion
    7.     A Slow Dawning of Peace
    8.     Alma_The Voyage

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    FRANCE Melody’s Echo Chamber ‘Personal Message’

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    Après la sortie du radieux “Looking Backward”, Melody’s Echo Chamber dévoile aujourd’hui son majestueux nouveau single “Personal Message”, le deuxième titre extrait de son troisième album studio, Emotional Eternal, qui sortira le 29 avril 2022 chez Domino.

    Comme “Looking Backward”, “Personal Message” a été enregistré avec Reine Fiske du groupe de rock suédois Dungen et Fredrik Swahn du groupe de rock indé The Amazing. Rayonnant de chaleur et de charme,Me...

    Après la sortie du radieux “Looking Backward”, Melody’s Echo Chamber dévoile aujourd’hui son majestueux nouveau single “Personal Message”, le deuxième titre extrait de son troisième album studio, Emotional Eternal, qui sortira le 29 avril 2022 chez Domino.

    Comme “Looking Backward”, “Personal Message” a été enregistré avec Reine Fiske du groupe de rock suédois Dungen et Fredrik Swahn du groupe de rock indé The Amazing. Rayonnant de chaleur et de charme,Melody offre une performance vocale d’une assurance épanouie et enrichie de cordes triomphantes. “J’ai joué du violon avec Gustav Esjtes de Dungen et Josefin Runsteen”, explique Melody. “Josefin a transcendé la section de cordes vers une autre dimension grâce à sa virtuosité chaleureuse”.

    Et poursuit : “Je pense que la musique s’est révélée si naturellement, nous n’avons pas changé grand-chose à la version originale. L’histoire est inspirée d’un lieu où j’ai vécu au bord de la mer dans le sud de la France. Lorsque quelque chose de désagréable arrivait, je me réfugiais près de ma maison sur la presqu’île sous les pins, un sanctuaire naturel où j’envoyais des vœux au rivage, j’étais apaisée par sa beauté. La chanson a cette vibration boisée et salée comme un oiseau marin.”

    Réalisé par David Corfield (BBC) de 422 South, le clip de “Personal Message” capture magnifiquement “le sanctuaire naturel” qui a inspiré Melody. “En surface, une forêt peut s’assimiler à une accumulation d’individus, qui se révèlent unis sous terre”, explique Corfield à propos du clip. “Une forêt est un système qui s’épanouit grâce au partage”.

    Emotional Eternal est une brillante consolidation des leçons apprises en cours de route, la vision sans détour de quelqu’un qui a pris le recul nécessaire. C’est une collection profondément personnelle de chansons riches de transcendances sonores ; Un disque qui révèle clairement sa maturité mais qui observe toujours le monde avec un émerveillement enfantin. Il inclut, “Alma The Voyage”, un hymne à la maternité s’achevant sur des violons et des archets électriques retentissant, “Looking Backward” exaltant sur le plan sonore et introspectif dans ses paroles, ainsi que le chamarré et accrocheur “Where The Water Clears The Illusion”.

    L’écoute de l’album donne l’impression de tomber sur un abondant coffre au trésor. Attachez-vous et préparez-vous à être transporté dans un autre monde paradisiaque, méditatif et plein de groove.

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    FRANCE Panda Bear ‘Sinister Grift’ disponible le 28 Fevrier 2025

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    Panda Bear, le projet solo de Noah Lennox, membre d’Animal Collective, annonce la sortie de son nouvel album Sinister Grift, prévue pour le 28 février 2025 sur Domino. Enregistré dans son Estudio Campo à Lisbonne, au Portugal, cet album a été co-produit avec son acolyte d’Animal Collective, Josh “Deakin” Dibb. Lennox dévoile le premier single, “Defense”, sur lequel on retrouve à la guitare Cindy Lee, l’alter ego du musicien canadien Patrick Flegel.

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    Panda Bear, le projet solo de Noah Lennox, membre d’Animal Collective, annonce la sortie de son nouvel album Sinister Grift, prévue pour le 28 février 2025 sur Domino. Enregistré dans son Estudio Campo à Lisbonne, au Portugal, cet album a été co-produit avec son acolyte d’Animal Collective, Josh “Deakin” Dibb. Lennox dévoile le premier single, “Defense”, sur lequel on retrouve à la guitare Cindy Lee, l’alter ego du musicien canadien Patrick Flegel.

    Le vinyle 7 pouces du single “Defense” sera disponible en exclusivité dans une sélection de disquaires indépendants à travers le monde ce vendredi 18 octobre. La face B, un titre inédit “Virginia Tech”, sera exclusive à ce format.

    Cela fait désormais deux décennies que Noah Lennox, alias Panda Bear, a fait ses débuts en tant que batteur et chanteur masqué d’Animal Collective. En vingt ans de carrière, il a exploré multiples directions artistiques et laissé son empreinte sur tant d’enregistrements emblématiques qu’on pourrait facilement en oublier la constance de sa vision créative. Des albums solos marquants comme Person Pitch (2007) et Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (2015) aux succès d’Animal Collective, tels que Sung Tongs (2004) et Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009), sans oublier ses collaborations audacieuses avec des artistes comme Daft Punk, Solange, Dean Blunt, Paramore et Jamie xx, chaque œuvre de Lennox s’articule autour d’un fil émotionnel distinct et reconnaissable. Son travail a profondément influencé plusieurs générations et styles musicaux.

    Avec Sinister Grift, son premier album solo en cinq ans, Noah Lennox signe une œuvre à la fois rétrospective et inédite dans sa discographie. Si ses albums solos ont navigué entre des expressions intimement poignantes de la douleur et des fresques électroniques éclatantes, jamais sa musique n’avait paru aussi chaleureuse et immédiate. Enregistré dans son studio à Lisbonne avec la collaboration de Josh “Deakin” Dibb, membre d’Animal Collective, Lennox transforme Panda Bear en une sorte de groupe de rock à l’ancienne, jouant lui-même la majorité des instruments tout en faisant appel à des esprits créatifs similaires. Parmi eux, Cindy Lee, Rivka Ravede de Spirit of the Beehive, et pour la première fois sur un album solo de Panda Bear, chacun de ses camarades d’Animal Collective.

    « Travailler sur cet album fut une expérience sacrée et chaleureuse, comme un retour aux sources. Noah et moi avons commencé à enregistrer de la musique sur cassette multitrack en 1991. 32 ans plus tard, nous travaillons toujours de la même manière : deux amis seuls dans une pièce, à la recherche de sons et d’émotions qui nous touchent. Je suis extrêmement fier de ce que nous avons créé ensemble. Sinister Grift incarne le songwriter que je connais depuis plus de 30 ans, tout en marquant une nouvelle étape dans l’évolution de Noah. Je ne pourrais être plus satisfait du résultat. » Josh “Deakin” Dibb

    « Un rêve de rock classique qui se transforme magnifiquement en un léger cauchemar. »
    Daniel Lopatin

    Sur Sinister Grift, Panda Bear se dresse en solitaire, affrontant les vents du destin et de la calamité. Les lamentations pures et poignantes de Noah se révèlent cette fois moins évanescentes, comme si notre narrateur s’était éveillé d’un rêve révélateur. En chantant un air familier sur un chemin périlleux, Panda Bear offre une série de chansons porteuses de flambeaux, témoignant d’une sagesse durement acquise, tout en demeurant légères malgré le poids qu’elles portent. » Jessica Pratt

    « Noah a le talent d’être incroyablement concis dans son écriture. Chaque idée, chaque mot et chaque son semblent avoir un but précis : celui de servir la chanson elle-même. Sinister Grift dégage cette impression intemporelle, comme si les morceaux existaient depuis des décennies tout en étant baignés d’une nouvelle lumière, comme s’ils désiraient aller de l’avant. » 
    Maria Reis

    « Nous avons tous besoin de musique pour traverser ces temps sombres. Panda Bear possède cette magie ; sa voix semble être le remède pour apaiser ce monde. Noah nous offre Sinister Grift, et je me sens détendu, comme si la plage n’était pas loin. Merci, Noah, pour ce cadeau. »
    DJ Falcon

    « Sinister Grift est un album magnifique. Tout y sonne authentique et naturel, comme si cela avait toujours existé et continuera à le faire. Vraiment intemporel. Merci, Noah. »
    Alan Braxe

    Panda Bear annonce sa tournée nord-américaine 2025, qui inclura des concerts avec Toro y Moi, ainsi que des dates en Europe et au Royaume-Uni en décembre de cette année et en mars 2025. Il se produira au Hasard Ludique à Paris le 13 décembre. Retrouvez la liste complète des dates ici.

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    FRANCE Porches ‘All Day Gentle Hold !’

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    Porches, alias l’artiste new-yorkais Aaron Maine, annonce la sortie de son cinquième album ‘All Day Gentle Hold !’, à paraître le 8 octobre chez Domino. Porches en dévoile un aperçu, son nouveau single « Okay » et le clip qu’il a lui-même réalisé. Après un an d’isolement, « Okay » révèle sa détermination à se reconnecter au monde.

    Maine raconte : « J’ai enregistré cet album dans ma chambre entre octobre 2019 et avril 2021. Le monde était sans dessus-dess...

    Porches, alias l’artiste new-yorkais Aaron Maine, annonce la sortie de son cinquième album ‘All Day Gentle Hold !’, à paraître le 8 octobre chez Domino. Porches en dévoile un aperçu, son nouveau single « Okay » et le clip qu’il a lui-même réalisé. Après un an d’isolement, « Okay » révèle sa détermination à se reconnecter au monde.

    Maine raconte : « J’ai enregistré cet album dans ma chambre entre octobre 2019 et avril 2021. Le monde était sans dessus-dessous et je voulais faire quelque chose infusé avec autant d’amour, d’instantanéité et de soif d’humanité que possible. ».

    All Day Gentle Hold ! est une collection festive de chansons. Plus fort, plus rapide, plus court et plus bruyant que n’importe quel autre album de Porches, le disque est direct et précis, intense et bouleversant, décrit par Maine comme « les passages les plus énergiques et improvisés qui ont été rassemblés pour former les morceaux les plus captivants que j’ai pu faire ».
    Après des années d’expérimentation, cet album est un accomplissement où Maine compose et écrit le plus naturellement, la musique étant réduite à ses qualités fondamentales. Privé de structure de la vie quotidienne, il s’est concentré sur l’élan aveugle de faire de la musique sans se soucier de ce qui pourrait arriver à sa carrière, à l’industrie et au monde en général.
    Embrassant complètement ses racines rock et la guitare comme instrument principal, Maine a concentré le maximalisme de Ricky Music à deux guitares, un clavier, une batterie et une boîte à rythme. Les 11 titres, écrits pour fonctionner ensemble dès le début, s’inspirent de la cadence des Ramones, de la force de Nirvana et de l’influence de l’adolescence passée à écouter du pop punk et du grunge. L’angoisse existentielle exprimée dans chaque titre en devient symbolique.
    À la fois personnel et universel, puisant dans des moments intimes, absurdes, banals et étrangement quotidiens, All Day Gentle Hold ! entraîne l’auditeur dans un voyage onirique et primitif dans l’esprit d’un homme confronté à une époque incompréhensible, se réjouissant de la joie et de la confusion de vivre tout cela. L’album a été enregistré par Maine dans son home studio à New York, puis mixé et masterisé par James Krausse.
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    FRANCE Sam Mehran ‘Cold Brew’

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    Le 28 juillet, marque le troisième anniversaire de la disparition du producteur aux multiples talents, auteur-compositeur et savant musical, Sam Mehran. Une âme partie trop tôt,  dont Weird World commémore l’héritage avec la sortie de Cold Brew, un album de rock instrumental sur lequel Sam travaillait avant sa mort, à présent disponible en digital et le 30 juillet en physique. Compilés sous la direction du père de Sam, Abbas Mehran et ses amis Nicholas Weiss et Katie Wagner, le...
    Le 28 juillet, marque le troisième anniversaire de la disparition du producteur aux multiples talents, auteur-compositeur et savant musical, Sam Mehran. Une âme partie trop tôt,  dont Weird World commémore l’héritage avec la sortie de Cold Brew, un album de rock instrumental sur lequel Sam travaillait avant sa mort, à présent disponible en digital et le 30 juillet en physique. Compilés sous la direction du père de Sam, Abbas Mehran et ses amis Nicholas Weiss et Katie Wagner, les 17 titres de l’album sont naturellement animés par l’espièglerie de Sam, ses guitares accrocheuses et leurs sons dorés et chaleureux. Cold Brew a  été enregistré à Los Angeles entre avril et mai 2018, la pochette de l’album a été réalisée par Sam lui-même.
    Le visualizer de l’album est également disponible aujourd’hui et comprend les vidéos de “COLD BREW,” “LOUNGY,” et “70,” créées par Clayton McCracken.

    Auteur-compositeur, guitariste, producteur et multi-instrumentiste, Sam a créé maints projets et a joué dans de nombreux groupes au cours de ses 15 ans de carrière, dont Test Icicles. Il a également eu plusieurs pseudonymes pour ses projets en solo, dont Outer Limits Recordings. Il a sorti de tout, du dance-punk pugnace aux boucles disco envoûtantes, des rythmes hip-hop désordonnés aux chansons pop parfaitement équilibrées.

    Très critique vis-à-vis de son travail, Sam se confiait à ses amis et leur disait à quel point il était libérateur de composer et enregistrer Cold Brew : avoir des chansons courtes, ne pas s’attarder sur la production, ne pas penser à sa voix et s’amuser tout simplement. Avec la sortie de Cold Brew, les fans de Sam Mehran, de longue date comme les nouveaux venus, pourront profiter de son héritage captivant et merveilleux.
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    FRANCE SASAMI ‘Make it Right’

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    SASAMI publie la vidéo de “Make It Right,” le dernier single avant la sortie de son prochain album, le prometteur Squeeze, disponible le 25 Fevrier chez Domino. La vidéo a été réalisée par Heidi Bivens, la styliste de la série Euphoria, stylisée par Angelina Vitto, son assistante styliste sur Euphoria et le maquillage est signé par Alexandra French, maquilleuse d’Euphoria et de Pen15.

    À propos de la chanson et du clip, SASAMI raconte : « ’Make It Right’ est une ode a...

    SASAMI publie la vidéo de “Make It Right,” le dernier single avant la sortie de son prochain album, le prometteur Squeeze, disponible le 25 Fevrier chez Domino. La vidéo a été réalisée par Heidi Bivens, la styliste de la série Euphoria, stylisée par Angelina Vitto, son assistante styliste sur Euphoria et le maquillage est signé par Alexandra French, maquilleuse d’Euphoria et de Pen15.

    À propos de la chanson et du clip, SASAMI raconte : « ’Make It Right’ est une ode aux vibrations les plus agitées de Fleetwood Mac avec un poil de caisse claire de Crass. C’est un bop de désespoir sur le fait qu’on ne communique pas. J’aime les riffs flous. J’ai besoin de plus de riffs de guitare en 2022. La vidéo est une collaboration avec quelques-unes de mes bonnes amies et icônes de style, Heidi Bivens, Angelina Vitto, Alexandra French et toute une équipe de légendes absolues. Heidi a un œil incroyable pour la beauté, les formes et le mystère ».

    SASAMI sera en tournée pour promouvoir Squeeze dès le 4 mars. La tournée comprend également des dates avec Haim aux US et Mitski en Europe, dont deux dates en France.

    SASAMI a également été sélectionnée par Michelle Zauner, alias Japanese Breakfast, pour la série ‘Up Next’ de Variety, où on lui a demandé de choisir l’artiste qui selon elle sera la prochaine révélation. Elle a souligné : « ce que SASAMI crée, c’est ce mélange parfait de musique heavy, dure et agressive, mais qui est aussi mélodique, délicieuse et accrocheuse ».

    Ecoutez les précédents singles : “Call Me Home”, “Say It”, “The Greatest”, “Skin A Rat” & “Sorry Entertainer”
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    FRANCE SASAMI ‘Say it’

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    SASAMI dévoile le visualizer de « Say It », son single aux influences industrielles. « ‘Say It’ est un hymne de danse enragé sur le fait de partir en vrille lorsque quelqu’un ne vous parle pas » raconte Ashworth. « Quand j’écoute le titre, je vois une femme sexy dansant seule, dans un club industriel dans l’espace, entourée de flammes bleues lancées par son lance-flammes mystique ».

    SASAMI a annoncé son album Squeeze l’automne dernier avec la sortie d’un double singl...

    SASAMI dévoile le visualizer de « Say It », son single aux influences industrielles. « ‘Say It’ est un hymne de danse enragé sur le fait de partir en vrille lorsque quelqu’un ne vous parle pas » raconte Ashworth. « Quand j’écoute le titre, je vois une femme sexy dansant seule, dans un club industriel dans l’espace, entourée de flammes bleues lancées par son lance-flammes mystique ».

    SASAMI a annoncé son album Squeeze l’automne dernier avec la sortie d’un double single, « Skin A Rat » désigné par Rolling Stone comme ‘Song You Need to Know‘ : « il comprend tout un tas de coups différents, chacun plus dur et plus inattendu que le précédent. Et, comme tous les bons coups de rock & roll, dès qu’ils sont terminés, vous en redemandez » et « The Greatest », salué par Nylon d’ « opéra rock électrisant ».

    Michelle Zauner de Japanese Breakfast, a récemment sélectionné SASAMI pour la série ‘Up Next’ de Variety, où on lui a demandé de choisir l’artiste qui, selon elle, sera la prochaine révélation. Elle a souligné : « ce que SASAMI crée, c’est ce mélange parfait de musique heavy, dure et agressive, mais qui est aussi mélodique, délicieuse et accrocheuse ».

    Squeeze a été produit par SASAMI et quelques titres co-produits avec Ty Segall. Parmi les autres contributeurs notables figurent Meg Duffy de Hand Habits, Kyle Thomas de King Tuff, Christian Lee Hutson, Barishi, Pascal Stevenson de Moaning et No Home.

    Sur Squeeze, SASAMI explore un large spectre d’humeurs – de sa rage contre la violence du système à sa lutte pour avoir le contrôle dans ses relations personnelles. Il martèle un sentiment de « positivité anti-toxique » et met en avant l’honnêteté féroce et la vision brutale et sans compromis de SASAMI, partiellement inspirée par le yōkai, créature du folklore japonais, appelé Nure-onna, une divinité vampirique qui a la tête d’une femme et le corps d’un serpent.

    Basée à Los Angeles, SASAMI est une descendante du peuple Zainichi du côté de sa mère, une diaspora de Coréens qui a vécu au Japon pendant l’occupation de la Corée par le Japon de 1910 à 1945. Bien que certains Zainichi se soient déplacés volontairement et que d’autres aient été enlevés de force, ces personnes et leurs enfants continuent de subir aujourd’hui une discrimination et une oppression au Japon. En se plongeant dans les histoires et cultures coréenne et japonaise de sa famille, SASAMI est tombée sur les contes de la Nure-onna et a immédiatement été attirée par la nature multiple de cette créature amphibie. Selon la légende, la divinité est féminine et noble, mais suffisamment puissante et féroce pour détruire brutalement ses victimes avec sa langue suceuse de sang.

    La fluidité de la Nure-onna se ressent dans la façon dont Squeeze vogue naturellement à travers différentes influences musicales – de System of a Down à Sheryl Crow et Fleetwood Mac, en passant par Bach et Mahler. Compositrice de formation classique, SASAMI a construit son nouvel album sous la forme d’un opéra ou d’une œuvre orchestrale dont les différents « mouvements » entraînent l’auditeur dans un voyage émotionnel. Comparé au rock indé introspectif du premier album éponyme de SASAMI en 2019, Squeeze est une croissance à plein régime.

    SASAMI sera en tournée en 2022 et assurera également les premières parties de Haim en Amérique du Nord et celles de Mitski en Europe, dont deux dates en France, le 2 mai à Tourcoing et le 3 mai à Paris à l’Olympia.

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    FRANCE SASAMI ‘Squeeze’ – 25 Février 2022

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    SASAMI annonce la sortie de son nouvel album Squeeze, prévu le 25 février chez Domino, et dévoile les clips des deux singles principaux “The Greatest” et “Skin A Rat”. Ces deux titres résument parfaitement l’ampleur et la diversité de l’album. La vidéo de “The Greatest” est réalisée par Jennifer Juniper Stratford et le visualizer de “Skin A Rat” a été créé par Andrew Thomas Huang (Björk, FKA Twigs), qui a également conçu la pochette de l’album. Squeeze.
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    SASAMI annonce la sortie de son nouvel album Squeeze, prévu le 25 février chez Domino, et dévoile les clips des deux singles principaux “The Greatest” et “Skin A Rat”. Ces deux titres résument parfaitement l’ampleur et la diversité de l’album. La vidéo de “The Greatest” est réalisée par Jennifer Juniper Stratford et le visualizer de “Skin A Rat” a été créé par Andrew Thomas Huang (Björk, FKA Twigs), qui a également conçu la pochette de l’album. Squeeze.
    Sasami Ashworth à propos de la ballade “The Greatest” : “Cette chanson parle des sentiments forts et profonds que nous éprouvons envers quelqu’un et ils existent souvent sans la concrétisation ou la réciprocité de cet amour. Comme une puissance née d’un trou noir. Que des fantasmes.”
    Inspiré par un désir violent, “Skin A Rat” est “une bande son pour se libérer de manière cathartique de la colère et la frustration envers les humains et les systèmes oppressifs. Très influencé par le nu-metal. J’ai écrit et réalisé une démo du titre sur mon iPad avec une batterie midi et j’ai engagé un batteur épique pour la jouer lors de l’enregistrement.” Figurent sur le titre, Dirk Verbeuren de Megadeth à la batterie, ainsi que Laetitia Tamko de Vagabon et l’actrice et comédienne Patti Harrison au chant.

    Les deux titres ont été produits par Sasami Ashworth et enregistrés au studio de Ty Segall à Topanga en Californie et au Log Mansion à Mt. Washington.

    Regardez le clip de “The Greatest” ici.

    Regardez le visualizer de “Skin A Rat” ici.

    Sur Squeeze, SASAMI explore un large spectre d’humeurs – de sa rage contre la violence du système à sa lutte pour avoir le contrôle dans ses relations personnelles. L’auteure-compositrice-interprète et productrice explore l’agressivité brute du néo métal, la tendresse de la country-pop et du folk, et le romantisme dramatique de la musique classique.
    Squeeze martèle un sentiment de “positivité anti-toxique”et met en avant l’honnêteté féroce et la vision brutale et sans compromis de SASAMI, partiellement inspirée par le yōkai, créature du folklore japonais, appelé Nure-onna, une divinité vampirique qui a la tête d’une femme et le corps d’un serpent.
    Basée à Los Angeles, SASAMI est une descendante du peuple Zainichi du côté de sa mère, une diaspora de Coréens qui a vécu au Japon pendant l’occupation de la Corée par le Japon de 1910 à 1945. Bien que certains Zainichi se soient déplacés volontairement et que d’autres aient été enlevés de force, ces personnes et leurs enfants continuent de subir aujourd’hui une discrimination et une oppression au Japon. En se plongeant dans les histoires et cultures coréenne et japonaise de sa famille, SASAMI est tombée sur les contes de la Nure-onna et a immédiatement été attirée par la nature multiple de cette créature amphibie. Selon la légende, la divinité est féminine et noble, mais suffisamment puissante et féroce pour détruire brutalement ses victimes avec sa langue suceuse de sang.
    La fluidité de la Nure-onna se ressent dans la façon dont Squeeze vogue naturellement à travers différentes influences musicales – de System of a Down à Sheryl Crow et Fleetwood Mac, en passant par Bach et Mahler. Compositrice de formation classique, SASAMI a construit son nouvel album sous la forme d’un opéra ou d’une œuvre orchestrale dont les différents “mouvements” entraînent l’auditeur dans un voyage émotionnel. Comparé au rock indé introspectif du premier album éponyme de SASAMI en 2019, Squeeze est une croissance à plein régime.
    Les éléments sombres et fantastiques de la légende de la Nure-onna alimentent l’utilisation de heavy rock dans Squeeze. SASAMI espère que les auditeurs s’identifieront à ce nouveau style sombre et intense et l’utiliseront comme une bande son pour gérer “leur colère, leur frustration, leur désespoir et leurs émotions plus violentes et agressives”. Son désir ultime est que les personnes marginalisées, notamment les femmes, les BIPOC et les personnes queer, écoutent Squeeze et trouvent une catharsis à l’oppression et à la violence qu’elles subissent.
    En guise de revendication, SASAMI prend la forme de la Nure-onna sur la pochette du disque, inspirée des films d’horreur japonais et conçue par Andrew Thomas Huang et Rin Kim. Elle a choisi d’associer cette image faisant référence au folklore japonais à Squeeze écrit en calligraphie coréenne par Myung-Ja Ashworth, sa mère, comme un autre acte d’indépendance des Zainichi. Au dos de la pochette, le titre est écrit en caractères japonais.
    Squeeze a été produit par SASAMI et quelques titres co-produits avec Ty Segall. Parmi les autres contributeurs notables figurent Meg Duffy de Hand Habits, Kyle Thomas de King Tuff, Christian Lee Hutson, Barishi, Pascal Stevenson de Moaning et No Home.
    SASAMI sera en première partie de Mitski le 2 mai au Grand Mix à Tourcoing et le 3 mai à Paris à l’Olympia.

     

     

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    FRANCE SASAMI “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)”

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    Posted on 28 January 2025
    SASAMI - Blood On the Silver Screen Out 07 March 2025
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    Réalisé par Jay Swuen

    SASAMI dévoile “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)“ un nouveau single empreint de mélancolie, extrait de son prochain album, Blood On the Silver Screen. Co-produit par Rostam, ce duo envoûtant avec Clairo, alias Claire Cottrill, trouve son inspiration dans les ballades pop japonaises traditionnelles.“Rostam et moi avons tous deux étudié la composition, il souhaitait donc révéler davantage mon côté classique”, confie SASAMI. Ce morceau est accompagné d’un clip réalisé p...

    SASAMI dévoile “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)“ un nouveau single empreint de mélancolie, extrait de son prochain album, Blood On the Silver Screen. Co-produit par Rostam, ce duo envoûtant avec Clairo, alias Claire Cottrill, trouve son inspiration dans les ballades pop japonaises traditionnelles.“Rostam et moi avons tous deux étudié la composition, il souhaitait donc révéler davantage mon côté classique”, confie SASAMI. Ce morceau est accompagné d’un clip réalisé par Jay Swuen.

    « “In Love With A Memory” a en réalité été la première chanson que j’ai écrite pour Blood On the Silver Screen », explique SASAMI. « J’ai grandi en accompagnant ma mère dans des salons privés de karaoké japonais ou coréen, les noraebang. Elle était secrètement une chanteuse incroyable. Ses morceaux de prédilection étaient de vieilles chansons folkloriques japonaises et coréennes, qui, honnêtement, me donnaient souvent l’impression d’être dans un film d’horreur ou une œuvre de David Lynch. Je l’imagine encore dans une ambiance à la Julee Cruise : seule, sous les projecteurs d’un club de jazz, avec la fumée d’une cigarette stagnante dans l’air, chantant l’une de ces vieilles chansons avec un vibrato merveilleusement poignant et une maitrise vocale à couper le souffle. C’est ce sentiment-là que j’ai cherché à capturer en écrivant “In Love With A Memory”. L’intemporalité et la mélancolie du chant transparaît dans la production que Rostam et moi avons soigneusement orchestrée. Claire est une amie de longue date, même à distance, avec qui je rêvais de collaborer. C’était un cadeau extraordinaire qu’elle prête sa voix à cette histoire. J’imagine vraiment ce morceau comme un duo cinématographique avec un fantôme. »

    Prévu pour le 7 mars, Blood On the Silver Screen fusionne les compétences classiques de SASAMI acquises au conservatoire en tant qu’interprète, productrice et compositrice, avec son charisme audacieux et saisissant sur scène. Le résultat : son album pop le plus abouti à ce jour, un véritable tour de force.

    En collaborant avec les co-producteurs Jenn Decilveo et Rostam, SASAMI, seule auteure des morceaux, capture viscéralement dans chaque chanson de Blood On the Silver Screen un aspect différent de l’amour, du sexe, du pouvoir et de l’incarnation. « Pour moi, la musique pop, c’est comme du carburant », explique-t-elle. « C’est revigorant. » S’éloignant de l’air du temps de la pop actuelle, SASAMI s’est tournée vers la pop des années 2000 et 2010, à la manière de Femme Fatale de Britney Spears ou de Born This Way de Lady Gaga, mais aussi Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry et Sia. Elle s’est inspirée du storytelling de la country moderne, mélangeant vulnérabilité et humour, tout en s’imprégnant des influences de Prince, de la city pop japonaise, ainsi que de l’iconographie stéréotypée, en jean, de Bruce Springsteen.

    À un peu plus de 30 ans, SASAMI n’a pas grandi en écoutant beaucoup de musique pop, et a même ressenti des pressions pour l’éviter.

    « J’ai toujours été un peu une outsider et je n’avais pas l’impression que la musique pop me parlait », confie-t-elle. « En tant que femme de couleur, j’ai toujours ressenti cette pression ou ce besoin de créer quelque chose de mystérieux ou d’innovant, et j’ai toujours fui la légèreté. » Cependant, elle considère l’album Blood On the Silver Screen comme une forme de réappropriation personnelle. Élevée à Los Angeles au sein de l’« église religieuse conservatrice » de l’Église de l’Unification, sa perception d’elle-même et de sa sexualité était déformée. « Ma relation à l’amour et au sexe était tellement liée à des définitions répressives et restrictives », explique-t-elle. Cet album fait partie de son cheminement vers l’affirmation de soi, en tant que membre d’une génération libérée des conventions entourant l’amour, le sexe et la famille nucléaire. « Cet album, pour moi, parle de relations profondes et significatives, dans une nouvelle définition de ce qui est bon, juste et puissant », déclare-t-elle. « Nous restons des êtres passionnés. »

    « J’ai voulu me donner à fond avec cet album », poursuit SASAMI. « Je voulais, dans ma tendresse et mon émotion, avoir le courage d’entreprendre quelque chose d’aussi épique que la création d’un album pop sur l’amour. J’espère qu’il donnera aux gens un sentiment de pouvoir et d’incarnation. Il est important de ne pas se limiter. »

     

     

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    FRANCE Sorry “Key To The City”

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    Posted on 07 September 2022
    Sorry - Anywhere But Here Out 07 October 2022
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    Realisé par Asha Lorenz et Flo Webb (FLASHA)

    Sorry, le jeune groupe originaire du nord de Londres, dévoile aujourd’hui son nouveau single ‘Key To The City’ accompagné de son clip. Le single a été diffusé pour la première fois par Steve Lamacq (BBC Radio 6 Music) et figurera sur le très attendu deuxième album du groupe, Anywhere But Here, qui sortira le 7 octobre chez Domino.

    A propos du nouveau single ‘Key To The City’, accompagné d’une vidéo réalisée par FLASHA, Asha déclare : ” ‘Key to the City’ est u...

    Sorry, le jeune groupe originaire du nord de Londres, dévoile aujourd’hui son nouveau single ‘Key To The City’ accompagné de son clip. Le single a été diffusé pour la première fois par Steve Lamacq (BBC Radio 6 Music) et figurera sur le très attendu deuxième album du groupe, Anywhere But Here, qui sortira le 7 octobre chez Domino.

    A propos du nouveau single ‘Key To The City’, accompagné d’une vidéo réalisée par FLASHA, Asha déclare : ” ‘Key to the City’ est une chanson qui découle d’une situation très spécifique dans ma vie mais qui, je l’espère, a une résonance plus universelle. Elle est conçue comme une sorte de tendre “fuck you” à une relation à laquelle vous ne voulez pas nécessairement voir la fin – quand il est difficile de concilier des sentiments de colère, de jalousie, de ressentiment, etc. avec l’amour indéniable que vous avez encore pour cette personne. Ce croisement entre fierté et vulnérabilité m’a conduit à l’image d’un cerf face à des phares. Il s’agit de faire de son mieux pour garder le contrôle quand on sait qu’on est exposé émotionnellement, sexuellement, spirituellement, à tout. Dans la nudité des phares, dans la nudité de l’amour de quelqu’un.”

    Asha poursuit : “La chanson a vu le jour après la session d’enregistrement originale à un moment où Louis a expérimenté de nouveaux accords pour nous donner un petit coup de boost. Elle a un côté Nick Drake. Nous voulions qu’elle ait un son cinématique et solitaire.”

    Anywhere But Here a été produit en grande partie par Louis O’Bryen et Asha Lorenz de Sorry, mais aussi par Ali Chant et Adrian Utley de Portishead, à Bristol. Charlie Andrew a coproduit “Key To The City” et le premier single de l’album “Let The Lights On” avec Louis et Asha.

    Après avoir assuré les premières parties de la tournée américaine de Sleaford Mods, joué un concert à Los Angeles en avril et une série de dates au Royaume-Uni le mois dernier (notamment au Jazz Cafe à Londres), Sorry sera en concert à Paris le 15 octobre au Pop Up du Label. Le groupe sera en tournée au Royaume-Uni et en Amérique du Nord d’octobre à décembre. Il donnera son plus grand concert en tête d’affiche à ce jour le 2 novembre à l’Electric Brixton (Londres). Le groupe a également annoncé des dates européennes en février et mars.

    Sorry en concert en France :

    15.10.22 | Le Pop Up, Paris
    07.02.23 | Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing
    08.02.23 | Le Stéréolux, Nantes
    10.02.23 | Petit Bain, Paris
    25.02.23 | Le Sonic, Lyon
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    FRANCE Superorganism ‘World Wide Pop’ – 15 Juillet 2022

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    Posted on 11 March 2022
    Superorganism - World Wide Pop Out 18 June 2025
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    Réalisé par AEVA

    Lorsque le premier titre de Superorganism fait surface en 2017, l’esthétique décalée et unique du groupe – un méli-mélo de pop indé psychédélique et d’électronique pétillante et funky – a rapidement résonné grâce au soutien d’artistes tels que Frank Ocean, Vampire Weekend, Jehnny Beth, ou encore Gorillaz, tout en se créant des légions de fans à travers le monde.

    Superorganism annonce aujourd’hui une nouvelle très attendue : la sortie de son deuxième alb...

    Lorsque le premier titre de Superorganism fait surface en 2017, l’esthétique décalée et unique du groupe – un méli-mélo de pop indé psychédélique et d’électronique pétillante et funky – a rapidement résonné grâce au soutien d’artistes tels que Frank Ocean, Vampire Weekend, Jehnny Beth, ou encore Gorillaz, tout en se créant des légions de fans à travers le monde.

    Superorganism annonce aujourd’hui une nouvelle très attendue : la sortie de son deuxième album intitulé World Wide Pop dont la sortie est prévue pour le 15 juillet 2022.

    Superorganism a muté, son noyau est désormais constitué d’Orono, Harry, Tucan, B et Soul, mais World Wide Pop inclut un ensemble de collaborateurs internationaux, dont Stephen Malkmus, CHAI, Pi Ja Ma, Dylan Cartlidge et le légendaire musicien et acteur Gen Hoshino.

    Avec ses treize titres qui établissent un équilibre entre l’artifice et le sérieux, l’absurdité de la science-fiction et l’intensité existentielle, World Wide Pop met en valeur la prise en compte nouvellement approfondie des intérêts et des envies de chaque membre du groupe. Le genre de convergence créative à laquelle on peut s’attendre lorsque des amis à la relation virtuelle commencent à passer du temps ensemble dans la réalité (leur premier album avait été achevé avant que le groupe ne se soit retrouvé dans la même pièce au même moment).

    Parallèlement à l’annonce de son nouvel album, Superorganism est heureux d’en dévoiler un premier extrait, “Teenager“. Enregistré avec ses amis et anciens compagnons de tournée, Chai et Pi Ja Ma, “Teenager” célèbre la passion et les émotions brutes des années formatrices de l’adolescence et rejette le cynisme. Superorganism en a confié la production à Stuart Price (Madonna, The Killers), et lui a demandé d’obtenir un son à l’éclat et à l’ampleur de l’IMAX auquel ses enregistrements en chambre ont toujours aspiré. La palette qui en résulte sur “Teenager” et sur l’ensemble de l’album mêle des synthés de l’ère millénaire à la bizarrerie des glitchs, une amélioration de texture qui ne trahit pas pour autant l’espièglerie caractéristique de Superorganism.

    La joyeuse vidéo de “Teenager” a été réalisée par AEVA et met en scène l’acteur et comédien Brian Jordan Alvarez (Will and Grace), également connu pour ses vidéos de danse sur YouTube. En tant que fan de ses vidéos, le groupe a contacté Alvarez pour l’inviter dans le monde immersif, technicolor et sauvage de Superorganism et le résultat est incontournable.

     

    Tracklisting  :

    1. Black Hole Baby
    2. World Wide Pop
    3. On & On
    4. Teenager (feat. CHAI & Pi Ja Ma)
    5. It’s Raining (feat. Stephen Malkmus & Dylan Cartlidge
    6. Flying
    7. Solar System (feat. CHAI & Boa Constrictors
    8. Into The Sun (feat. Gen Hoshino, Stephen Malkmus & Pi Ja Ma)
    9. Put Down Your Phone
    10. crushed.zip
    11. Oh Come On
    12. Don’t Let The Colony Collapse
    13. Everything Falls Apart

    Superorganism sera en concert à Paris au Trabendo le 14 septembre 2022.

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    FRANCE Tirzah ‘Colourgrade’

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    Posted on 24 June 2021
    Concept, Direction, Production et montage par Fleur Melbourn:
    Colourgrade, le très attendu nouvel album de Tirzah est annoncé pour le 1er octobre 2021.
     

    Parallèlement à l’annonce de Colourgrade, Tirzah dévoile son nouveau single “Tectonic”. Écrit aux côtés de Coby Sey, il est le fruit de plusieurs sessions de jam aux studios The Room, situé au sud de Londres.

    Colourgrade fait suite à son album Devotion sorti en 2018, devenu un classique instantané. Colourgrade est un aperçu intime d’une année où Tirzah jouait régulièrement s...
    Colourgrade, le très attendu nouvel album de Tirzah est annoncé pour le 1er octobre 2021.
     

    Parallèlement à l’annonce de Colourgrade, Tirzah dévoile son nouveau single “Tectonic”. Écrit aux côtés de Coby Sey, il est le fruit de plusieurs sessions de jam aux studios The Room, situé au sud de Londres.

    Colourgrade fait suite à son album Devotion sorti en 2018, devenu un classique instantané. Colourgrade est un aperçu intime d’une année où Tirzah jouait régulièrement sur scène pour soutenir son album Devotion, et a été enregistré peu après la naissance de son premier enfant et peu avant la naissance de son deuxième enfant.
    L’album explore la guérison, la gratitude et les nouveaux départs, présentant une chanteuse qui a découvert l’amour partagé entre une mère et son enfant pour la première fois, tout en travaillant en tant qu’artiste. Capturant à la fois les bons et les mauvais moments, l’épuisement et le rétablissement, Colourgrade est une douce déambulation à travers les sentiments les plus intimes, une présentation enivrante d’une mère et artiste à plein temps.
    Comme à l’accoutumée, un album de Tirzah est une affaire de famille. Il ne s’agit pas de parents, ni de frères et soeurs, mais du CURL crew élargi comprenant ses collaborateurs de longue date Mica Levi et Coby Sey (le petit frère du producteur Kwes) qui a réalisé le mix de Colourgrade. C’est cette énergie naturelle et collaborative qui permet à la musique de Tirzah de rester fraîche et progressive.
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    FRANCE Tirzah ‘Hive Mind’

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    Posted on 08 September 2021
    Trizah - Colourgrade Out 01 October 2021
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    Réalisée par Leah Walker and Rebecca Salvadori

    Extrait du tant attendu Colourgrade à paraître le 1er octobre 2021, Tirzah dévoile « Hive Mind », écrit aux côtés de ses collaborateurs réguliers Coby Sey et Mica Levi. Avec un kick percutant et une mélodie ondulante au synthétiseur, le tout soutenu par un jeu de questions-réponses, le titre est un hommage à la communauté et à la famille, ainsi qu’à toutes les frictions et les harmonies qui en découlent.

    Réalisée, filmée et montée par Leah Walker & Rebecca Salvad...

    Extrait du tant attendu Colourgrade à paraître le 1er octobre 2021, Tirzah dévoile « Hive Mind », écrit aux côtés de ses collaborateurs réguliers Coby Sey et Mica Levi. Avec un kick percutant et une mélodie ondulante au synthétiseur, le tout soutenu par un jeu de questions-réponses, le titre est un hommage à la communauté et à la famille, ainsi qu’à toutes les frictions et les harmonies qui en découlent.

    Réalisée, filmée et montée par Leah Walker & Rebecca Salvadori, la vidéo est un film de 10 minutes qui présente l’« Hive Mind » (esprit de communauté) de Tirzah, y compris le CURL crew, Cobey Sey et Mica Levi.

    « Hive Mind » est le quatrième extrait de Colourgrade, succédant ainsi aux lumineux “Send Me”, “Sink In” et “Tectonic”.

    Colourgrade fait suite à son album Devotion sorti en 2018, devenu un classique instantané. C’est un aperçu intime d’une année où Tirzah jouait régulièrement sur scène pour la première fois, lorsqu’elle soutenait son album Devotion, et a été enregistré peu après la naissance de son premier enfant et peu avant la naissance de son deuxième enfant.

    L’album explore la guérison, la gratitude et les nouveaux départs, présentant une chanteuse qui a découvert l’amour partagé entre une mère et son enfant pour la première fois, tout en travaillant en tant qu’artiste. Capturant à la fois les bons et les mauvais moments, l’épuisement et le rétablissement, Colourgrade est une douce déambulation à travers les sentiments les plus intimes, une présentation enivrante d’une mère et artiste à plein temps.

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    FRANCE Tirzah ‘trip9love…???’

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    Posted on 06 September 2023
    Tirzah - trip9love…??? Out 05 September 2023
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    trip9love…??? est le troisième album de Tirzah, produit par Mica Levi, sa collaboratrice musicale de longue date. Il est disponible en streaming et sortira en version physique le 17 novembre 2023.

     

    Ecoutez trip9love…??? ici

     

    L’album a été écrit et enregistré chez Tirzah et Mica ainsi que dans divers coins du sud-est de Londres et du Kent.

    Après plusieurs sessions d’enregistrement sur une période d’environ un an, la musique s’est soudainement transformée e...

    trip9love…??? est le troisième album de Tirzah, produit par Mica Levi, sa collaboratrice musicale de longue date. Il est disponible en streaming et sortira en version physique le 17 novembre 2023.

     

    Ecoutez trip9love…??? ici

     

    L’album a été écrit et enregistré chez Tirzah et Mica ainsi que dans divers coins du sud-est de Londres et du Kent.

    Après plusieurs sessions d’enregistrement sur une période d’environ un an, la musique s’est soudainement transformée en un son que les deux artistes désiraient poursuivre. Les morceaux ont été construits en utilisant des boucles de piano rythmées, de la distorsion ainsi que des lignes de chant romantiques. Les poèmes sont centrés sur les thèmes de l’amour, réel ou imaginaire.

    La vitesse, la connexion et la similarité entre tous les instrumentaux ont conduit l’album à ressembler à une seule chanson, le journal intime d’un moment ou la fascination pour un son que Tirzah et Mica ont jugé important d’utiliser. La nature de la sortie de trip9love… ??? reflète la façon dont l’album a été réalisé.

    Tirzah a annoncé plusieurs concerts au Royaume-Uni à partir de Septembre 2023, ainsi que des dates à Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris – notamment à Paris au Badaboum le 22 septembre, au Reeperbahn Festival et à Unsound avant de partir pour l’Amérique du Nord au début du mois d’octobre.

    Tracklisting

     

    1. F22
    2. Promises
    3. u all the time
    4. their Love
    5. No Limit
    6. today
    7. Stars
    8. he made
    9. 2 D I C U V
    10. 6 Phrazes
    11. nightmare

    Concerts

    Mercredi 13 septembre – Strange Brew, Bristol 
    Jeudi 14 septembre – Colour Factory, Londres 
    Samedi 16 septembre – Yes, Manchester 
    Dimanche 17 septembre – Stereo, Glasgow 
    Mercredi 20 septembre – OT31, Amsterdam 
    Jeudi 21 septembre – Trauma Bar, Berlin 
    Vendredi 22 septembre – Le Badaboum, Paris 
    Samedi 23 septembre – Reeperbahn Festival @ Uebel & Gefährlich, Hamburg 
    Samedi 7 octobre – Unsound festival, Cracovie 
    Jeudi 12 octobre – The Echo, Los Angeles 
    Samedi 14 octobre – The Echo, Los Angeles 
    Dimanche 15 octobre – Cobalt, Vancouver 
    Lundi 16 octobre – Substation, Seattle 
    Mercredi 18 octobre – Metro, Chicago 
    Vendredi 20 octobre – iii Points, Miami 
    Dimanche 22 octobre – Knockdown Centre, Brooklyn, NY
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    FRANCE Villagers ‘So Simpatico’

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    Posted on 05 July 2021
    Réalisée par Rosie Barrett
    A l’approche de la sortie de Fever Dreams, le cinquième album studio de Villagers disponible le 20 août, Conor O’Brien est heureux d’en dévoiler un second extrait. Son nouveau single, « So Simpatico », démarre par un scintillant glockenspiel et des voix douces, avant de se transformer en un refrain riche et fascinant d’O’Brien : « The more I know, the more I care ».

    Conor raconte à propos de « So Simpatico » : « C’est une chanson sur la dévotion, que ce so...
    A l’approche de la sortie de Fever Dreams, le cinquième album studio de Villagers disponible le 20 août, Conor O’Brien est heureux d’en dévoiler un second extrait. Son nouveau single, « So Simpatico », démarre par un scintillant glockenspiel et des voix douces, avant de se transformer en un refrain riche et fascinant d’O’Brien : « The more I know, the more I care ».

    Conor raconte à propos de « So Simpatico » : « C’est une chanson sur la dévotion, que ce soit envers une personne, soi-même, ou l’art d’être en vie, la quête d’authenticité est au coeur du morceau. Nous avons jammé puis enregistré une première version qui avait trop de paroles. Je suis rentré avec cette prise et je l’ai simplifiée jusqu’à ce qu’elle devienne l’expression la plus pure possible. C’est une chanson pop sur l’essence de l’amour. »
    La réalisatrice Rosie Barrett ajoute sur le clip : « So Simpatico est le voyage initiatique d’un clown triste qui fait la paix avec lui-même, ce qui lui permet de retrouver une joie de vivre longtemps disparue. Faire le récit visuel de cette magnifique chanson a été une chance pour moi puisque j’admire la musique de Conor depuis longtemps. J’ai eu le plaisir de travailler avec une équipe et un casting talentueux et je suis très heureuse que cette vidéo soit maintenant disponible dans le monde. »
     

     

     

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    FRANCE Villagers ‘That Golden Time’ Nouvel album le 10 Mai 2024

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    Posted on 13 March 2024
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    Réalisé par Conor J. O'Brien

    Villagers dévoile “You Lucky One“, le deuxième single de son sixième album, That Golden Time, prévu pour le 10 mai. Ce nouveau titre délicat dévoile le talent remarquable du chanteur-compositeur-interprète-instrumentiste-dramaturge primé, le dublinois Conor O’Brien, pour ses mélodies, son don pour les arrangements subtils, et ses paroles qui expriment espoirs, peurs et rêves avec une poésie captivante.

    La légende irlandaise Dónal Lunny (Planxty, The Bothy Band) participe au...

    Villagers dévoile “You Lucky One“, le deuxième single de son sixième album, That Golden Time, prévu pour le 10 mai. Ce nouveau titre délicat dévoile le talent remarquable du chanteur-compositeur-interprète-instrumentiste-dramaturge primé, le dublinois Conor O’Brien, pour ses mélodies, son don pour les arrangements subtils, et ses paroles qui expriment espoirs, peurs et rêves avec une poésie captivante.

    La légende irlandaise Dónal Lunny (Planxty, The Bothy Band) participe au morceau en y jouant du bouzouki. La chanson fait écho à la pochette de l’album, représentant une pièce irlandaise de vingt centimes. Conor O’Brien explique : « Les formes de monnaie physique évoluent avec le temps, mais les dynamiques fondamentales du pouvoir et les principes de troc persistent malgré les changements esthétiques ». Le récit met en scène deux protagonistes, l’un faisant miroiter des richesses à l’autre, mais se révèle finalement être un parasite. « Qui utilise qui ? » interroge O’Brien, ajoutant :  « Je pense que cela explore la notion souvent simplifiée de privilège ».

    O’Brien, dans ses premiers pas en tant que réalisateur de clip, se met en scène de manière directe et menaçante face à la caméra, mettant ainsi en avant le récit complexe et les visages cachés des personnages. Il explique : “Tout comme la chanson, le clip est une exploration chaotique, peuplée de paysages infernaux et de démons intérieurs. L’histoire se déroule dans un monde gouverné par des êtres irrationnels et des créatures égoïstes et émotionnelles. La corruption de l’âme et les motivations malhonnêtes sont omniprésentes, d’où ma volonté de les présenter avec une touche macabre et de sinistre”.

    S’il avait insisté sur l‘importance du groupe sur son album précédent, Fever Dreams, ce n’est pas le confinement qui a contraint O’Brien à centrer davantage That Golden Time sur sa voix soliste. “Pour moi, That Golden Time possède une voix intérieure si profondément ancrée que j’ai presque trouvé impossible d’inviter quelqu’un d’autre à y participer”, explique-t-il. “C’est probablement l’album le plus personnel que je n’ai jamais réalisé. J’ai d’abord tout enregistré dans mon appartement, puis j’ai finalement invité d’autres musiciens“. Outre Dónal Lunny, sont présents sur l’album le chanteur-compositeur et multi-instrumentiste américain, Peter Broderick au violon, David Tapley du groupe dublinois Tandem Felix à la guitare pedal steel, ainsi qu’un groupe de musiciens qu’O’Brien avait initialement découverts lors d’un hommage au compositeur italien, Ennio Morricone, et qui ont ajouté un violoncelle ainsi que des voix de soprano et d’alto.

    La subtile poésie de That Golden Time est portée avec élégance par des mélodies magnifiques et une instrumentation exquise. Inspiré par des philosophes, des poètes, des dramaturges et des chanteurs-compositeurs, qui ont marqué l’esprit d’O’Brien. Les crédits vont à Friedrich Nietzsche (avec une citation de son ouvrage “Par-delà le bien et le mal : Prélude d’une philosophie de l’avenir” dans le livret accompagnant l’album), Dory Previn, Marc Aurèle, Fintan O’Toole, Lorraine Hansberry, Chet Baker, Joan Didion, PJ Harvey et Rachel’s.

    Villagers sera en concert à La Maroquinerie, Paris, le 3.06.04 Liste complète des dates européennes et anglaises ci-dessous.


    Samedi 25 mai – Festival Tomavistas, Madrid  
    Lundi 27 mai – Ancienne Belgique, Belgique  
    Mardi 28 mai – Paradiso, Amsterdam  
    Mercredi 29 mai – LantarenVenster, Rotterdam – complet  
    Jeudi 30 mai – Pop Seasons – Christianskirche, Hambourg  
    Samedi 1er juin – Passionskirche, Berlin  
    Dimanche 2 juin – Luxor, Cologne  
    Lundi 3 juin – La Maroquinerie, Paris  
    Mercredi 5 juin – Brasserie Wylam, Newcastle  
    Jeudi 6 juin – Centre irlandais, Leeds  
    Samedi 8 juin – Royal Festival Hall, Londres  
    Samedi 29 juin – Trinity College, Dublin  
    Dimanche 7 juillet – Festival Down the Rabbit Hole, Pays-Bas  
    Vendredi 26 juillet – Château de Ludlow, Shropshire avec Elbow 
    Vendredi 2 août – Festival Dranouter, Belgique

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    FRANCE Villagers ‘The First Day’

    Release Single Video France
    Posted on 20 April 2021
    Directed by Daniel Brereton

    Conor O’Brien annonce le cinquième album studio de Villagers, Fever Dreams, à parâitre le 20 août chez Domino.

    L’évasion est une quête nécessaire en ce moment, et Fever Dreams la poursuit avec un effet hypnotique. Il fonctionne comme tous les meilleurs disques – il vous transporte, il vous prend là où vous êtes et vous dépose ailleurs.

    ‘The First Day’ premier extrait de l’album est une chanson inspirée d’un voyage au légendaire festival Another Love Story dans ...

    Conor O’Brien annonce le cinquième album studio de Villagers, Fever Dreams, à parâitre le 20 août chez Domino.

    L’évasion est une quête nécessaire en ce moment, et Fever Dreams la poursuit avec un effet hypnotique. Il fonctionne comme tous les meilleurs disques – il vous transporte, il vous prend là où vous êtes et vous dépose ailleurs.

    ‘The First Day’ premier extrait de l’album est une chanson inspirée d’un voyage au légendaire festival Another Love Story dans le comté de Meath. Il s’agissait au départ d’une tentative électronique qui s’est transformée en une évocation, visuelle et richement cinématographique, des joies des relations humaines.

    Le réalisateur Daniel Brereton explique à propos de la vidéo : “Tout le processus a été assez collaboratif avec Conor. Je pense que nous avons tous les deux imaginé une certaine légèreté dans la vidéo, et évidemment le titre évoque beaucoup d’images et d’idées, ‘Le premier jour du reste de votre vie’. À quoi cela ressemble-t-il ? Quelle sensation cela procure-t-il ? Nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir tourner sur pellicule et de bénéficier d’un casting et d’un stylisme exceptionnels. Il n’est pas facile de tourner pendant une pandémie, et j’ai de la chance que nous ayons pu le faire”.
    Conor O’Brien, à propos de la genèse de Fever Dreams : “J’avais envie d’écrire quelque chose qui soit aussi généreux pour l’auditeur que pour moi-même. Parfois, les états les plus délirants peuvent entraîner les rêves les plus extatiques et euphoriques.”
    Ce sont des chansons aux formes surprenantes et vaporeuses et à l’ambivalence magique qu’ont les rêves. L’intention des chansons est à la fois mystérieuse et évidente. Avec Fever Dreams, on sent que Conor O’Brien approfondit sa maîtrise et élargit son champ d’action. L’inspiration pour cet album a été trouvée dans de nombreux endroits et est venue de tous les horizons, de baignades nocturnes sur une île néerlandaise à Flann O’Brien, Audre Lorde, David Lynch, L. S. Lowry en passant par la bibliothèque musicale de Piero Umiliani et Alessandro Alessandroni et le jazz de Duke Ellington et Alice Coltrane.
    Écrite sur une période de deux ans, la plus grande partie des chansons a été enregistrée lors d’une série de sessions en studio avec tout le groupe fin 2019 et début 2020. Pendant les longs jours de pandémie, Conor O’Brien les a affinées dans son minuscule home studio à Dublin, et l’album a ensuite été mixé par David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, FKA Twigs).

     

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    FRANCE Wet Leg “Chaise Longue” (Version Française)

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    Posted on 09 November 2022
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    Wet Leg sort enfin en digital la version française de son tube “Chaise Longue”

    A propos de cette nouvelle interprétation, Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers déclarent : « Après avoir emprunté les mots Chaise Longue à la langue française pour notre usage personnel, nous avons pensé qu’il était juste de rétablir l’équilibre et d’enregistrer une version du titre en français »

    “Chaise Longue (Version Française)” sera également disponible sur la nouvelle édition...

    Wet Leg sort enfin en digital la version française de son tube “Chaise Longue”

    A propos de cette nouvelle interprétation, Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers déclarent : « Après avoir emprunté les mots Chaise Longue à la langue française pour notre usage personnel, nous avons pensé qu’il était juste de rétablir l’équilibre et d’enregistrer une version du titre en français »

    “Chaise Longue (Version Française)” sera également disponible sur la nouvelle édition CD deluxe limitée de l’album incluant 3 titres bonus et dont la date de sortie est le 11 novembre.

    Le tracklisting est le suivant :

    01. Being In Love
    02. Chaise Longue
    03. Angelica
    04. I Don’t Wanna Go Out
    05. Wet Dream
    06. Convincing
    07. Loving You
    08. Ur Mum
    09. Oh No
    10. Piece Of Shit
    11. Supermarket
    12. Too Late Now
    13. It’s Not Fun
    14. It’s A Shame
    15. Chaise Longue (Version Française)

     

    A peine seize mois après la sortie du premier single de Wet Leg, la version originale de  “Chaise Longue”, l’impact du groupe a été considérable. Le duo cumule plus de 172 millions de streams et plus de 250 000 albums vendus, a inspiré une multitude de déguisements de homards, suscité un engouement dans la communauté ASMR et compte parmi ses fans Drew Barrymore, Lorde, Iggy Pop, Elton John, Hayley Williams de Paramore, Harry Styles, Edgar Wright ou encore Dave Grohl.

    Un album classé #1 des ventes au Royaume-Uni et une nomination au Mercury Prize 2022 plus tard, Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers enchainent des tournées affichant complet partout dans le monde, et assureront prochainement les premières parties de Harry Styles.

     

     


     
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    FRANCE Wet Leg ‘Oh No’

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    Posted on 01 February 2022
    Oh No Out 18 June 2025
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    Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers portent chacune un petit collier en or fabriqué par Hester : un qui dit Wet et l’autre qui dit Leg. Avant l’été dernier, ces colliers auraient été énigmatiques pour presque tout le monde. Mais beaucoup de choses ont changé depuis. Wet Leg n’a sorti son premier single, “Chaise Longue”, qu’en juin 2021, mais il a rapidement résonné mondialement. Les quatre titres déjà sortis (“Wet Dream”, “Too Late Now” et “Oh No” qui ont ...

    Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers portent chacune un petit collier en or fabriqué par Hester : un qui dit Wet et l’autre qui dit Leg. Avant l’été dernier, ces colliers auraient été énigmatiques pour presque tout le monde. Mais beaucoup de choses ont changé depuis. Wet Leg n’a sorti son premier single, “Chaise Longue”, qu’en juin 2021, mais il a rapidement résonné mondialement. Les quatre titres déjà sortis (“Wet Dream”, “Too Late Now” et “Oh No” qui ont fait suite à “Chaise Longue”) cumulent plus de 20 millions de streams et 4,5 millions de vues sur YouTube. Dernière consécration en date : être classé n°2 dans la liste Sound Of 2022 de la BBC.

    Le duo est heureux de partager la vidéo de son titre “Oh No”. Comme pour les clips de “Chaise Longue” et “Wet Dream”, la vidéo de “Oh No” a été réalisée par le groupe. Rhian Teasdale parle du tournage : « Ces derniers mois ont été très agités, nous n’avions jamais vraiment pensé à ce qui allait nous arriver au-delà de faire de la musique et donner des concerts. C’est une chose assez étrange que de s’ouvrir soudainement à autant de critiques et d’éloges. Les commentaires laissés par de parfaits inconnus sur nos vidéos sont si drôles et varient énormément. Même s’il est préférable pour nous de ne pas les lire, c’est parfois difficile de s’en empêcher. Le scrolling à 3 heures du matin est tentant. Pour ce clip, nous avons sélectionné nos commentaires préférés laissés sur nos réseaux sociaux, le bon, le mauvais, le laid et nous les avons réorganisés pour en faire quelque chose de nouveau. Cela a été une expérience assez cathartique en fait. »

    Rhian ajoute : « La vidéo a été tournée sur l’île de Wight, au pied d’un télésiège que l’on peut emprunter depuis le sommet de la falaise. Le costume de corde – fabriqué par la costumière Kate Tabor – pesait une tonne et nous étions trois à le porter en bas de la falaise pour le tournage. Nous nous agrippions chacun à un morceau du costume et après 20 minutes d’efforts, nous avons réussi à descendre les marches raides menant à la plage. Nous envisageons d’en faire un cours de sport alternatif. »

     

    Wet Leg est nominé pour 5 NME Awards incluant le Best New Act In The World, Best Song In The World, Best Music Video, Best New Act (UK) et Best Song (UK). Deux showcases au SXSW sont confirmés dont le BBC / The British Music Embassy et Domino.

    Wet Leg a été enregistré et produit en grande partie par Dan Carey de Speedy Wunderground. Rhian parle du processus : « C’était un studio tellement beau et accueillant, sans vitre qui nous séparait. Nous n’avions pas beaucoup d’expérience d’enregistrement en studio, mais nous nous sommes immédiatement sentis à l’aise chez Dan. »  L’album a essentiellement été enregistré à Londres en avril 2021. Le groupe avait donc terminé son album avant même que le monde n’entende le premier single “Chaise Longue” ou qu’il soit joué en concert. « Je suppose que la façon dont ça s’est passé n’était pas conventionnelle », admet Hester. Rhian spécule : « Peu de nouveaux groupes ont l’opportunité de se cocooner en studio sans le bruit et les opinions du monde extérieur. » « Ça ressemblait à une expérience sociale bizarre » plaisante Hester.

    Wet Leg est un album de musique triste pour les fêtards et une musique de fête pour les gens tristes. Dès le départ, l’accent a été mis sur “les bons moments à tout moment”. Alors que l’album est en grande partie une représentation de cette sensibilité, un sens de l’humour sec et souvent sombre s’en dégage. Il est cathartique, joyeux, punk et par-dessus tout fun.

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    FRANCE Wet Leg ‘Wet Leg’ – 08 Avril 2022

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    Posted on 30 November 2021
    Wet Leg Out 18 June 2025
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    Réalisé par Fred Rowson

    Après avoir publié deux des meilleurs singles de l’année, Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers de Wet Leg ont été propulsées de leurs confins de l’île de Wight aux salles de concert à guichets fermés à travers le Royaume-Uni et aux tentes de festivals pleines à craquer, provoquant à chacun de leur passage un engouement éblouissant. Le duo est ravi de dévoiler deux nouvelles chansons et de présenter son premier album. L’album s’appelle Wet Leg et sortira le 8 avril 2022 vi...

    Après avoir publié deux des meilleurs singles de l’année, Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers de Wet Leg ont été propulsées de leurs confins de l’île de Wight aux salles de concert à guichets fermés à travers le Royaume-Uni et aux tentes de festivals pleines à craquer, provoquant à chacun de leur passage un engouement éblouissant. Le duo est ravi de dévoiler deux nouvelles chansons et de présenter son premier album. L’album s’appelle Wet Leg et sortira le 8 avril 2022 via Domino.

    Les nouveaux titres s’intitulent “Too Late Now” et “Oh No”. “Too Late Now”, une épopée en trois parties, montre un côté plus introspectif du duo. Rhian Teasdale s’en prend aux applications de rencontres et à la télévision dans un monde sombre et désordonné, avant de se contenter d’un bain moussant plein de spiritualité (“I just need a bubble bath to set me on a higher path”). Le magnifique “Oh No”, aux sonorités glam, résonne comme la bande son d’un film de science-fiction des années 80 résumé en 2 minutes et 29 secondes.

    Rhian Teasdale explique ce qui a inspiré “Too Late Now” : “Il s’agit d’une métaphore du somnambulisme à l’âge adulte. Je n’ai jamais imaginé que ma vie d’adulte ressemblerait à ce qu’elle est et je pense que cette chanson reflète certaines des pressions et des difficultés de la vie. Parfois, je me retrouve à cogiter et il m’arrive de me sentir submergée. Je pense que cette chanson parle d’accepter que la vie peut être un peu merdique de temps en temps. Mais il ne faut pas trop se laisser aller à cette idée. Prenez juste un peu de temps pour vous. Inspirez profondément. Prenez un bain. Vous vous sentirez peut-être un peu mieux.”

    La vidéo de “Too Late Now” – réalisée par Fred Rowson – suit le groupe, vêtu de robes de chambre et arborant des tranches de concombre sur les yeux, téléporté depuis l’espace à la recherche du bain moussant de l’éveil spirituel.

    Wet Leg a été enregistré et produit en grande partie par Dan Carey de Speedy Wunderground “Chaise Longue” et “Angelica” ont respectivement été produits par Jon McMullen et Josh Mobaraki. L’album a essentiellement été enregistré à Londres en avril 2021. Le groupe avait donc terminé son album avant même que le monde n’entende le premier single “Chaise Longue” ou qu’il soit joué en concert. “Je suppose que la façon dont ça s’est passé n’était pas conventionnelle”, admet Hester.
    Dès le début de Wet Leg, la priorité de Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers a été de s’amuser, et leur sens aigu de l’humour se dégage tout au long de l’album. “Je voulais écrire des chansons fun, je ne voulais pas trop céder aux sentiments tristes, je voulais écrire des choses qui soient amusantes à écouter et à jouer”, révèle Rhian. “Mais quoi qu’il en soit, la tristesse s’infiltre aussi”.
     

    Wet Leg est une musique triste pour les fêtards et une musique de fête pour les gens tristes. Elle est cathartique, joyeuse, punk et par-dessus tout fun. “A l’origine, Wet Leg était juste censé être drôle”, dit Rhian. “En tant que femme, on vous impose tellement de choses, dans le sens où votre seule valeur est de savoir si vous êtes jolie ou cool. Mais nous voulons être loufoques et un peu grossières. Nous voulons écrire des chansons sur lesquelles les gens peuvent danser. Et nous voulons que les gens passent un bon moment, même si cela ne leur semble pas toujours possible.”

    Les singles précédents de Wet Leg “Chaise Longue” & “Wet Dream” cumulent à eux deux plus de 8,5 millions de streams et plus de 3 millions de vues sur YouTube, et sont tous deux entrés en playlist sur France Inter. Le groupe est apparu sur Later… with Jools Holland et fait partie des Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch 2022 et des Amazon Artists To Watch 2022. “Too Late Now” vient, quant à lui, d’être nommé BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record.

    Sa tournée UK d’avril 2022 étant déjà complète, Wet Leg a confirmé une série de dates régionales plus intimistes au Royaume-Uni dans le cadre de son rôle d’Independent Music Week Ambassadors. Le groupe se rendra également aux États-Unis le mois prochain pour ses premiers concerts outre-Atlantique et annonce également une tournée nord-américaine en mars 2022.

    Le groupe se produira en France le 14 mai 2022 au Point Ephémère à Paris

    Tracklisting de l’album
    1.     Being In Love
    2.     Chaise Longue
    3.     Angelica
    4.     I Don’t Wanna Go Out
    5.     Wet Dream
    6.     Convincing
    7.     Loving You
    8.     Ur Mum
    9.     Oh No
    10.  Piece of Shit
    11.  Supermarket
    12.  Too Late Now

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    FRANCE Wet Leg : Nouveau single “catch these fists”, nouvel album ‘moisturizer ‘ le 11.07

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    Posted on 02 April 2025
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    Wet Leg – Le quintet originaire de l’île de Wight, fondé par Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers, annonce la sortie de son très attendu deuxième album, moisturizer, le 11 juillet.

    Rejoints par Ellis Durand (basse), Henry Holmes (batterie) et Joshua Mobaraki (guitare, synthé), moisturizer est à la fois fun, excentrique et fabuleux – une démonstration débridée de l’énergie scénique que Wet Leg a accumulée après plusieurs années de tournées incessantes. Plus percutant, plus ...

    Wet Leg – Le quintet originaire de l’île de Wight, fondé par Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers, annonce la sortie de son très attendu deuxième album, moisturizer, le 11 juillet.

    Rejoints par Ellis Durand (basse), Henry Holmes (batterie) et Joshua Mobaraki (guitare, synthé), moisturizer est à la fois fun, excentrique et fabuleux – une démonstration débridée de l’énergie scénique que Wet Leg a accumulée après plusieurs années de tournées incessantes. Plus percutant, plus mélodique et dévergondé quand il le faut, moisturizer est un album de chansons d’amour frénétiques et de ruptures cinglantes, porté par l’un des groupes les plus décalés et adorés du Royaume-Uni.

    En tournant à travers le monde, le groupe s’est forgé une réputation scénique affûtée et mordante, confirmant pleinement le succès du premier album : #1 des charts au Royaume-Uni et à l’international, trois Grammy Awards, deux Brit Awards et plus d’un demi-milliard de streams. Si le succès représente souvent un carrefour pour un jeune groupe – « se tourner vers la pop » ou suivre son instinct –, Wet Leg a résolument choisi la seconde option, notamment en collaborant de nouveau avec Dan Carey à la production. En mars 2024, le groupe s’est installé à Southwold pour écrire ; vivant ensemble, travaillant toute la journée, regardant des films d’horreur la nuit, ils ont rapidement trouvé une nouvelle symbiose. Résultat : Ce sont les cinq membres de Wet Leg qui sont crédités sur moisturizer. “On s’amusait simplement et on explorait”, raconte Chambers. “On s’est concentré sur une question: est-ce que ça va être fun à jouer en live?” ajoute Teasdale.

    En parallèle à l’annonce de l’album, le groupe dévoile un premier aperçu de moisturizer avec son single frénétique et irrésistiblement combatif, “catch these fists”. Dès les premières secondes, le morceau démarre sur un groove électrisé et indomptable, incarnant à la perfection l’essence du dance-punk : des lignes de basse rebondissant contre un mur de synthés hurlants, une rythmique tonitruante capturant les éclats du phrasé glacial et mordant de Teasdale.

    Le clip, réalisé par le groupe et tourné sur l’île de Wight, adresse un clin d’œil à Ti West, Cameron Crowe ainsi qu’à leur propre vidéo de “Wet Dream”, offrant une introduction délicieusement décalée au monde de moisturizer.

    Comme cela se produit à plusieurs reprises sur moisturizer, l’inspiration principale derrière “catch these fists” vient d’une altercation avec un homme agressif, racontée dans le dernier couplet de la chanson. Pour autant, moisturizer ne se limite pas à une critique des hommes « sh*tc*nt » — même si “mangetout”, avec son refrain cinglant “get lost forever”, pourrait être l’équivalent musical de la célèbre photo de Nicole Kidman après son divorce. Bien au contraire, cet album parle avant tout d’amour, comme le clame le groupe dans “pond song” : “DEEP! IN! LOVE!!!!” moisturizer regorge de chansons d’amour sous toutes leurs formes : angoissées, émerveillées, outrageusement sensuelles, euphoriques, obsessionnelles et énigmatiques.

    En novembre 2021, Teasdale est tombée amoureuse – un bouleversement qui a fini par imprégner l’intégralité de moisturizer. Bien qu’elle se soit longtemps sentie allergique à l’écriture de chansons d’amour, cet album est marqué par une euphorie débordante : « How did I get so lucky? / It’s not like me to fall so head over heels », s’interroge-t-elle sur “liquidize”. « J’ai toujours pensé être hétéro jusqu’à ce que je rencontre mon·ma partenaire actuel·le – ces chansons d’amour parlent d’iel », confie Teasdale. « J’ai trouvé ça tellement plus intéressant et libérateur d’écrire des chansons d’amour où je ne fantasme pas sur un homme – ça apporte une autre dimension. »

    Ce nouvel élan d’affirmation de soi se reflète jusque sur la pochette de mositurizer, une explosion de bizarrerie instantanément culte, où Chambers et Teasdale exhibent de longues griffes inquiétantes. Teasdale, arborant de longues chaussettes kitsch et sans sourcils, affiche un sourire malicieux face à l’objectif. À l’image de moisturizer, cette pochette annonce un album où le groupe pousse les curseurs à fond, livrant un disque résolument plus audacieux, puissant et insolent.

    Tracklisting:

    1. CPR
    2. liquidize
    3. catch these fists
    4. davina mccall
    5. jennifer’s body
    6. mangetout
    7. pond song
    8. pokemon
    9. pillow talk
    10. don’t speak
    11. 11:21
    12. u and me at home

    Prochains concerts :

     

    Mar 8 avril – The River, Los Angeles
    Mer 21 mai – O2 Academy, Birmingham
    Ven 23 mai – O2 Academy Brixton, Londres
    Mar 27 mai – Usher Hall, Édimbourg
    Mer 28 mai – O2 Academy, Leeds
    Jeu 29 mai – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
    Ven 6 juin – Primavera Sound, Barcelone
    Sam 14 juin – NOS Primavera Sound, Porto
    Sam 21 juin – Hurricane Festival, Scheessel
    Dim 22 juin – Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck
    Ven 27 juin – Glastonbury Festival, Shepton Mallet
    Mer 2 juillet – Roskilde Festival, Roskilde
    Ven 4 juillet – Rock Werchter, Werchter
    Sam 5 juillet – Down the Rabbit Hole Festival, Beuningen
    Dim 6 juillet – Festival Beauregard, Hérouville Saint-Clair 
    Ven 11 juillet – TRNSMT, Glasgow
    Mar 15 juillet – I-Days Milan, Milan avec Olivia Rodrigo
    Mer 16 juillet – Acieloaperto Festival, Cesena
    Ven 1er août – All Together Now, Waterford
    Dim 3 août – Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire
    Jeu 7 août – Oya Festival, Oslo
    Ven 8 août – Way Out West, Gothenburg
    Dim 10 août – Boardmasters Festival, Newquay
    Ven 15 août – Green Man Festival, Crickhowell
    Dim 17 août – Cabaret Vert Festival, Charleville-Mézières 

     

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    FRANCE Wet Leg : Nouveau single “CPR”

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    Posted on 28 May 2025
    Wet Leg - moisturizer Out 11 July 2025
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    « Un retour impressionnant, percutant et plein de mordant » – The Guardian
    « L’attente est terminée : Wet Leg est de retour ! » – DIY
    « Leur rock indie-dance décalé assène un coup de poing aux mecs relous du monde entier » – Mojo
    « catch these fists insuffle une énergie punk, ajoutant une tension acérée à la pop de leurs débuts » – Clash

    « Allô ? 999, quelle est votre urgence ? » 

    Après avoir lancé leur tournée britannique la semaine dernière avec deux conce...

    « Un retour impressionnant, percutant et plein de mordant » – The Guardian
    « L’attente est terminée : Wet Leg est de retour ! » – DIY
    « Leur rock indie-dance décalé assène un coup de poing aux mecs relous du monde entier » – Mojo
    « catch these fists insuffle une énergie punk, ajoutant une tension acérée à la pop de leurs débuts » – Clash

    « Allô ? 999, quelle est votre urgence ? » 

    Après avoir lancé leur tournée britannique la semaine dernière avec deux concerts explosifs à la Brixton Academy de Londres, et une performance remarquée au Big Weekend de Radio 1, Wet Leg poursuit son retour en force avec le nouveau single palpitant “CPR”. Titre d’ouverture de leur deuxième album moisturizer (sortie prévue le 11 juillet), “CPR” est l’une des nombreuses chansons d’amour de ce nouvel opus. Pourtant, le refrain de Rhian Teasdale – « Est-ce l’amour, ou le suicide ? » – laisse entendre que ce n’est pas une berceuse pour cœurs fragiles.

    Sur un rythme moite et pesant, Teasdale décrit une nouvelle romance avec un détachement cynique et moqueur, avant que le refrain ne déclenche un véritable chaos sonore. 

    Réalisé par le groupe lui-même, le clip de “CPR” offre un plan-séquence déjanté et frénétique, plongeant dans l’univers des weirdos les plus en vue du Royaume-Uni. 

    Bien que Teasdale ait auparavant eu une sorte d’allergie à l’écriture de chansons d’amour, moisturizer se définit par son exubérance pure, et elle a fini par trouver ce processus libérateur. Avec moisturizer, le groupe monte le son et signe un disque plus audacieux, plus musclé et résolument provocant.

    Avec “CPR”, Wet Leg lance une série de concerts au Royaume-Uni, dont Pryzm à Kingston, et une tournée européenne en octobre. Leur énorme tournée nord-américaine de 22 dates, moisTOURizer, démarre le 1er septembre à Seattle, avec déjà plusieurs shows sold out.

    “CPR” succède au single frénétique et séduisant “catch these fists”, qui a déjà été joué en live dans The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon et The Jonathan Ross Show.

    Wet Leg se compose de Rhian Teasdale, Hester Chambers, Ellis Durand (basse), Henry Holmes (batterie) et Joshua Mobaraki (guitare, synthé).

    Wet Leg en concert :
    06.06 Barcelone – Primavera Sound
    14.06 Porto – NOS Primavera Sound
    21.06 Scheeßel – Hurricane Festival
    22.06 Neuhausen ob Eck – Southside Festival
    27.06 Shepton Mallet – Glastonbury Festival
    02.07 Roskilde – Roskilde Festival
    04.07 Werchter – Rock Werchter
    05.07 Beuningen – Down the Rabbit Hole Festival
    06.07 Hérouville-Saint-Clair – Festival Beauregard
    09.07 Kingston – Pryzm
    11.07 Glasgow – TRNSMT
    15.07 Milan – I-Days Milan (avec Olivia Rodrigo)
    16.07 Cesena – Acieloaperto Festival
    21.07 Brighton – Chalk
    22.07 Coventry – Coventry Empire
    23.07 Sheffield – Foundry
    01.08 Waterford – All Together Now
    03.08 Oxfordshire – Wilderness Festival
    07.08 Oslo – Oya Festival
    08.08 Göteborg – Way Out West
    10.08 Newquay – Boardmasters Festival
    15.08 Crickhowell – Green Man Festival
    17.08 Charleville-Mézières – Cabaret Vert Festival 
    01.09 Seattle – Paramount Theatre
    02.09 Seattle – Paramount Theatre
    03.09 Vancouver – Malkin Bowl
    05.09 Portland – Revolution Hall
    06.09 Portland – Revolution Hall
    09.09 Minneapolis – First Avenue
    10.09 Chicago – The Salted Shed (en plein air)
    12.09 Toronto – History
    13.09 Montréal – Mtelus
    14.09 Boston – Roadrunner
    15.09 Philadelphie – Franklin Music Hall
    17.09 New York – Summer Stage (Central Park)
    18.09 New York – Brooklyn Paramount
    19.09 Washington – 9:30 Club
    21.09 Atlanta – Shakey Knees Festival
    23.09 Nashville – Marathon Music Works (Gather No Moss)
    28.09 Dana Point – Ohana Music Festival
    30.09 Oakland – Fox Theatre
    01.10 Oakland – Fox Theatre
    03.10 Phoenix – Arizona Financial Theatre
    05.10 Austin – Austin City Limits
    07.10 Oklahoma City – The Criterion
    12.10 Austin – Austin City Limits
    14.10 El Paso – The Lowbrow Palace
    17.10 Los Angeles – Greek Theatre
    27.10 Paris – L’Olympia 
    28.10 Lyon – Le Transbordeur 
    31.10 Düsseldorf – New Fall Festival
    02.11 Bruxelles – Ancienne Belgique
    03.11 Amsterdam – Paradiso
    04.11 Utrecht – TivoliVredenburg – Ronda
    06.11 Lausanne – Les Docks
    07.11 Munich – Theaterfabrik
    09.11 Berlin – Columbiahalle
    10.11 Hambourg – Docks
    11.11 Esch-sur-Alzette – Rockhal Club
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    Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Banane Bleue’ out 26th February 2021

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    Banane Bleue Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains Out 26 February 2021
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    'Coucou'

    “Coucou”, the quasi-Californian lead track, with its soft bassline and beaming guitars, sets the tone for Banane Bleue perfectly. With emotional connections and misunderstandings at its heart, it details the end of a failing relationship whilst exploring the nuances of the French language. “I hate this word, “coucou” (which loosely translates as ‘hey there’ in French)” Frànçois Marry notes, “because, for me, it expresses a form of indifferent, slightly fake naivety. What...

    “Coucou”, the quasi-Californian lead track, with its soft bassline and beaming guitars, sets the tone for Banane Bleue perfectly. With emotional connections and misunderstandings at its heart, it details the end of a failing relationship whilst exploring the nuances of the French language. “I hate this word, “coucou” (which loosely translates as ‘hey there’ in French)” Frànçois Marry notes, “because, for me, it expresses a form of indifferent, slightly fake naivety. What’s even more absurd is when it comes from someone with whom you were once madly in love.” 

    Banane Bleue (French for “Blue Banana”) is a nomadic and truly European record, hailing from rented workspaces in some of the continent’s key cities – Berlin, Athens and Paris – and recorded with instruments that were often borrowed from likeminded musicians. Written solely by Frànçois Marry himself, close collaborator and Weird World artist Jaakko Eino Kalevi was enlisted for production duties whilst Renaud Letang (Feist, Gonzales, Connan Mockasin) mixed the album.

    The title of the album is taken from the ‘blue banana’ concept, a geographical theory that groups together a corridor of Europe’s biggest cities, originally conceived in the 1980s. The theory states that the blurring of these cities’ boundaries has resulted in the formation of one massive, interconnected megalopolis. Expanding on the theory, Frànçois poetised it, picturing a luminescent blue banana shape that you can see from space with vibrant, ethereal currents that surround and bind us. It explores common cultural and romantic ground, creating an album full of missed meetings and misunderstandings.

    On the theory, Frànçois notes: “I have often asked myself what my relationship history would be like if I had been born on another continent. Our idea of love, which comes from the 18th and 19th centuries, is ingrained in the walls and aromas of cities, cafes, nights out in bars, text messages, artificial lights, romantic getaways and city breaks; as if European electricity emitted some kind of romantic scent.” This electric grid of romance is personified in the ‘Blue banana’ concept.

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    Futurebirds ‘Teamwork’ out 15th January 2020

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    Teamwork Futurebirds Out 15 January 2020
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    '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...

    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 doing something different from many of those bands: Their three-part harmonies range from heartbreaking to chill-inducing, yet most of their songs possess a laid-back summery feel. The songs on LP5, ‘Teamwork’, find Futurebirds leaning into the psychedelic side of things, yet they’re as twangy as ever. ‘Trippin’ takes delight in human error, ‘All Damn Night’ is an escapist mountain holler tune and ‘Dream, Fam!’ is a suspicious jam. This record could take Futurebirds to the next level—bigger venues, heftier touring schedules—but for those of us who’ve been around with this band since the beginning, Teamwork is just another chapter in this century’s great southern rock story. [PASTE MAGAZINE]

    Rolling Stone Magazine review – January 2020

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    Fuzz ‘III’ out 23rd October 2020

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    Ty Segall started 2020 by unveiling a new noise project, Wasted Shirt, with Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale, and he killed some quarantine time by recording an EP of skewed Harry Nilsson covers. Here the third album from Fuzz, the psych-metal power trio he formed in 2011 with longtime accomplice Charles Moothart. PITCHFORK

     

    One only knows one.

    Two is balanced therefore stagnant.

    III both active and reactive.

    Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich are FUZZ.

    FUZZ is three.

    And...

    Ty Segall started 2020 by unveiling a new noise project, Wasted Shirt, with Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale, and he killed some quarantine time by recording an EP of skewed Harry Nilsson covers. Here the third album from Fuzz, the psych-metal power trio he formed in 2011 with longtime accomplice Charles Moothart. PITCHFORK

     

    One only knows one.

    Two is balanced therefore stagnant.

    III both active and reactive.

    Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich are FUZZ.

    FUZZ is three.

    And III has returned. Songs for all, and music for one.

    III was recorded and mixed at United Recording under the sonic lordship of Steve Albini. Keeping the focus on the live sounds of the band, the use of overdubs and studio tricks were kept to a minimum. Albini’s mastery in capturing sound gave FUZZ the ability to focus entirely on the playing while knowing the natural sounds would land. It takes the essential ingredients of “guitar based music” and “rock and roll power trio” and puts them right out on the chopping block. It was a much more honest approach for FUZZ — three humans getting primitive, staying primitive. The goal was never to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it’s just about seeing how long you can hold on before you’re thrown off.

    Album opener “Returning” serves as a sort of mission statement for the album. It’s an auditory meditation on the power of one and the different perspectives of one,  whether it is the singular person looking inward, or a group of people coming together as a single unit. Not only is it an echo of the return of FUZZ, but also a broader return to form – raw and empowered through vulnerability.

    “Nothing People” and “Spit” served as a launching point into the new sphere that would become III. They were written around the same time, and felt like they opened two different doorways — familiar in some ways and new in others. “Time Collapse,” a rogue cut from the days of FUZZ’s II, landed soundly on the scorched surface of side A to round things out.

    “Mirror” opens up the B side and the collective consciousness. Mirroring the call to arms of “Returning,” the song asks the listener to link arms with the band, march to the same drum of love, and create a space of equality among the freaks. The pummeling rhythm demands the request to crush the mirror that feeds you lies. In the end, it’s a ballad for the unique, twisted, and natural self that should be exalted before any falsehood.

    The stomping back half of III serves as a self aware call out to the lineage in which this record calls home — both personal and general in the historical context of raw power trio records. “Blind to Vines” and “End Returning” accentuate the meditative qualities of FUZZ. While coming from opposite ends of the spectrum, they balance restraint and compulsion. FUZZ will ultimately cave to compulsion. That is without question. But what good is a freak out without an initial glance inward? “End Returning” takes that look inward and scrambles the timeline. It finds peace and challenges it in the next breath. Arguably, it brutalizes this peace to test the foundations on which it rests, inevitably bringing the origin back into focus.

    Three points reflected in three Mirrors; a pyramid of sonic destruction and psychic creation. Nothing People feed the roots while the freaks fly free in the treetops – Blind to Vines, Eyes Closed, Stuck in Spit, triumphing the Returning of beginnings and Ends Returning while beginning to see the Time Collapse. Love is the only way to annihilate hate, and Sketchy freaks live to bleed. All shades of color, truth and lies, III is the pillar of unity and singularity.

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    Geordie Greep announces debut solo album “The New Sound”

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    Posted on 25 September 2024
    The New Sound Geordie Greep Out 04 October 2024
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    Geordie Greep has shared details of his electrifying debut solo album, The New Sound, due October 4th via Rough Trade. Following three astonishing albums with his former band, black midi—including 2023’s Hellfire—and nearly five years of almost non-stop worldwide touring, Geordie has somehow found time to record his first solo project. Over thirty session musicians were involved in the making of the album, recorded across two continents in São Paulo, Brazil, and London.

    Check out the h...

    Geordie Greep has shared details of his electrifying debut solo album, The New Sound, due October 4th via Rough Trade. Following three astonishing albums with his former band, black midi—including 2023’s Hellfire—and nearly five years of almost non-stop worldwide touring, Geordie has somehow found time to record his first solo project. Over thirty session musicians were involved in the making of the album, recorded across two continents in São Paulo, Brazil, and London.

    Check out the hugely popular first single, “Holy, Holy” above.

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

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    Posted on 21 September 2020
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    '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...

    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. WHERE WE GET TO
    6. iiNTERLUDE 2
    7. SILENCE

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    George FitzGerald releases new single “Incomplete Dreaming”

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    Incomplete Dreaming George FitzGerald Out 17 June 2024
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    George FitzGerald has released his new single, “Incomplete Dreaming,” following the propulsive “Gleams” earlier this year and his huge collaborative track “Glad I Found You” with Elderbrook.

    Going back to basics in the studio, George created “Incomplete Dreaming” using just a computer, one synth and a delay pedal. Featuring soaring strings and sweeping beats, the track has already become a live favourite and is a guaranteed Summer staple.  

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    Georgia ‘Seeking Thrills’ out 10th January 2020

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    Seeking Thrills Georgia Out 10 January 2020
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    Director Joseph Connor

    Singles, “Started Out” and “About Work The Dancefloor” hit Radio 1’s A playlist, and propelled Georgia to headline shows across the globe, including dates in Europe, Latin America, the US, Australia, plus a goosebump-inducing one-woman-band set on Glastonbury’s Park Stage.

    Seeking Thrills is a sharply paced and fascinating album, packed with injections of lightness and fun, pared with rich, bubbling melodies that makes listening to it an experience that takes you into the party, t...

    Singles, “Started Out” and “About Work The Dancefloor” hit Radio 1’s A playlist, and propelled Georgia to headline shows across the globe, including dates in Europe, Latin America, the US, Australia, plus a goosebump-inducing one-woman-band set on Glastonbury’s Park Stage.

    Seeking Thrills is a sharply paced and fascinating album, packed with injections of lightness and fun, pared with rich, bubbling melodies that makes listening to it an experience that takes you into the party, through electro-pop into R&B, and back again.

    Heavily inspired by Chicago House and Detroit Techno of the early 80s, Seeking Thrills fuses analogue club sounds with solid pop songwriting and showcases Georgia’s lifelong love affair with the drums.

    The album artwork features a photograph by renowned, influential American documentary and portrait photographer, Nancy Honey who allowed Georgia to use photographs from her archive. Honey’s photography is featured across all of Georgia’s artwork, including previous the singles. The image featured on Seeking Thrills is entitled “St Stephens School Disco, Bath” © Nancy Honey, 1988.

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    Georgia makes a colourful splash with 2nd single ‘Give It Up For Love’ from upcoming album ‘Euphoric’ out 28th July

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    Next month, Georgia will release her dynamite third album Euphoric (due July 28th) and today, she shares the second single from the record, “Give It Up For Love”. Inspired by the film The Beach, and having previously worked with the legendary producer William Orbit, “Give It Up For Love” has a dreaminess to it that mirrors that era’s pop sensibility.

     

    The song is a perfect reflection of Georgia’s own spiritual journey; exploding from the hazy, underwater production of the ve...

    Next month, Georgia will release her dynamite third album Euphoric (due July 28th) and today, she shares the second single from the record, “Give It Up For Love”. Inspired by the film The Beach, and having previously worked with the legendary producer William Orbit, “Give It Up For Love” has a dreaminess to it that mirrors that era’s pop sensibility.

     

    The song is a perfect reflection of Georgia’s own spiritual journey; exploding from the hazy, underwater production of the verse as she questions herself (“Now and then I get lost in dysphoria, I want your love but I’m worried it’s too much for ya”) into a vibrant and technicolour chorus, where we hear Georgia’s voice in total clarity, joyfully encapsulating the sound of her surrender: “Just when I thought I should give up / That’s the moment I found love”.

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    Georgia returns with single ‘It’s Euphoric’ ahead of upcoming album ‘Euphoric’ out 28th July

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    It's Euphoric Georgia Out 18 June 2025
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    On July 28th, Georgia returns with technicolour new album Euphoric; co-produced by Rostam (Haim, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clairo), it marks the first time that Georgia has worked with another producer on her own material. The result is her dynamite third studio LP featuring ten songs that vibrate with energy.

    Euphoric follows Georgia’s club-coercing last record, the universally adored and critically acclaimed Seeking Thrills which well and truly cemented her as one of the UK’s premier ...

    On July 28th, Georgia returns with technicolour new album Euphoric; co-produced by Rostam (Haim, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clairo), it marks the first time that Georgia has worked with another producer on her own material. The result is her dynamite third studio LP featuring ten songs that vibrate with energy.

    Euphoric follows Georgia’s club-coercing last record, the universally adored and critically acclaimed Seeking Thrills which well and truly cemented her as one of the UK’s premier producers and songwriters. Since then, Georgiahas collaborated with the likes of Mura Masa, Gorillaz, Shygirl, Baby Tate, Dan Carey and David Jackson, most recently writing with Years and Years’ Olly Alexander and on Shania Twain’s #1 album Queen Of Me. All of this experience has been poured into her forthcoming album.

    Having written her last two albums within a three-metre radius of her bedroom, it was important for Georgia to find a new physical and emotional space in which to write: “I wanted an adventure! Being a self-produced musician, it’s easy to get stuck on one thing or in one place.” As fate would have it, esteemed producer Rostam DM’d Georgia after hearing her on the Mura Masa track Live Like We’re Dancing, and she swiftly was on a flight out to LA.

    After 10 years of being her own main collaborator, a crucial part of the writing process was learning to relinquish control. And for Georgia, this record is a surrender, “To my issues, to my past, to my flaws and to the healing process” and through it she was able to guide herself to a new healthy form of unconstrained liberation. Euphoric see’s Georgia stepping out from behind the recording desk and establishing herself as a unique left-field pop artist. It’s the sound of life and of living in the now rather than escaping it.

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    Georgia returns with single ‘It’s Euphoric’ and announces her third album ‘Euphoric’ out 28th July

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    Posted on 30 March 2023
    It's Euphoric Georgia Out 29 March 2023
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    Georgia announces her return with her incredible new album Euphoric; co-produced by Rostam (Haim, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clairo), it marks the first time that Georgia has worked with another producer on her own material. The result is her dynamite third studio LP, featuring ten songs that vibrate with energy and is set for release on 28th July.  

     

    Euphoric follows Georgia’s club-coercing last record, the universally adored and critically acclaimed Seeking Thrills which well and truly cemente...

    Georgia announces her return with her incredible new album Euphoric; co-produced by Rostam (Haim, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clairo), it marks the first time that Georgia has worked with another producer on her own material. The result is her dynamite third studio LP, featuring ten songs that vibrate with energy and is set for release on 28th July.  

     

    Euphoric follows Georgia’s club-coercing last record, the universally adored and critically acclaimed Seeking Thrills which well and truly cemented her as one of the UK’s premier producers and songwriters. Since then, Georgia has collaborated with the likes of Mura Masa, Gorillaz, Shygirl, Baby Tate, Dan Carey and David Jackson, most recently writing with Years and Years’ Olly Alexander and on Shania Twain’s #1 album Queen Of Me. All of this experience has been poured into her forthcoming album. 

     

    Georgia has also shared the first single from the record, “It’s Euphoric”, complete with a vibrant and compelling video directed by Fa & Fon. Powered by a gentle ecstasy, the song opens with a grounding bassline which Georgia toys with through her playful vocal rhythms (“I wasn’t saying much/ It was on the tip of my tongue”). “It’s Euphoric” was the first track that Rostam and Georgia wrote together and it went on to dictate the entirety of the album’s colourful soundscape. 

     

    Watch the video for “It’s Euphoric” here. 

    Stream “It’s Euphoric” here. 

     

    Having written her last two albums within a three-metre radius of her bedroom, it was important for Georgia to find a new physical and emotional space in which to write: “I wanted an adventure! Being a self-produced musician, it’s easy to get stuck on one thing or in one place.” As fate would have it, esteemed producer Rostam DM’d Georgia after hearing her on the Mura Masa track “Live Like We’re Dancing”, and she swiftly was on a flight out to LA.  

     

    After 10 years of being her own main collaborator, a crucial part of the writing process was learning to relinquish control. And for Georgia, this record is a surrender, “To my issues, to my past, to my flaws and to the healing process” and through it she was able to guide herself to a new healthy form of unconstrained liberation. Euphoric see Georgia stepping out from behind the recording desk and establishing herself as a unique left-field pop artist. It’s the sound of life and of living in the now rather than escaping it. 

     

    Additionally, Georgia has announced an intimate show at London’s Omeara next month and she will be performing at a string of festivals this summer including Radio 1 Big Weekend, Reading and Leeds festival, Primavera and more. Full dates below.  

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

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    '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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    HARD FEELINGS ‘HARD FEELINGS’ out 5th November 2021

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    Earlier in 2021 HARD FEELINGS, the brand new collaborative project between New York City’s singer/ songwriting powerhouse, Amy Douglas and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip brought you their single “Holding On Too Long”. HARD FEELINGS announce their self-titled debut album. Due for release on 5th November 2021.

    Along with the album announcement, HARD FEELINGS share their new track, “Dangerous” plus a video directed by Katie Paul. The track is low-slung with an empowering, driving ...

    Earlier in 2021 HARD FEELINGS, the brand new collaborative project between New York City’s singer/ songwriting powerhouse, Amy Douglas and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip brought you their single “Holding On Too Long”. HARD FEELINGS announce their self-titled debut album. Due for release on 5th November 2021.

    Along with the album announcement, HARD FEELINGS share their new track, “Dangerous” plus a video directed by Katie Paul. The track is low-slung with an empowering, driving beat, designed for dancing. In Amy’s words,

    ’Dangerous’ is aptly named; slinky, sexy and drenched in hip-hop goodness.  Of all of the tracks on this LP, this is one where Joe and I worked backwards, usually our mode d’emploi is that I write melody and lyrics to his incredible productions.  Here is an old resurrected song of mine, that I brought in to the mix and Joe’s incredible bass heavy, dag nasty production makes the whole song anew!  It also showed Joe and I that there really is absolutely no method by which we can’t seemingly and quickly come up with these bangers. We write by telepathy!”

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    Hayden Thorpe ‘Aerial Songs’ EP out 16th October 2020

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    Written and self-produced by Hayden with additional production work from Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion), long-time collaborator Richard Formby and 4AD producer Fabian Prynn, Aerial Songs was originally composed as part of Hayden’s time as artist in residence at Aerial Festival – an arts, music and performance event due to take place in his native Cumbria.

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    Hayden Thorpe ‘Moondust For My Diamond’ out 15th October 2021

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    Domino are proud to present ‘Moondust For My Diamond’, the exquisite brand new album from Hayden Thorpe, due for release on 15th October 2021. The new album follows Hayden’s debut Diviner from 2019 and the Aerial Songs EP from last year.

    Hayden has also shared lead single, “The Universe Is Always Right”. Watch the video shot in Hayden’s homeland of The Lake District, directed by Tom Haines.

    In contrast to Diviner, a critically acclaimed album steeped in solitude and fr...

    Domino are proud to present ‘Moondust For My Diamond’, the exquisite brand new album from Hayden Thorpe, due for release on 15th October 2021. The new album follows Hayden’s debut Diviner from 2019 and the Aerial Songs EP from last year.

    Hayden has also shared lead single, “The Universe Is Always Right”. Watch the video shot in Hayden’s homeland of The Lake District, directed by Tom Haines.

    In contrast to Diviner, a critically acclaimed album steeped in solitude and fragility, Moondust For My Diamond moves into a more natural visual and sonic palette. He’s interested in, he says, “the meeting point between science and religion, the grand struggle for reality that shapes so much of our time.” Thorpe has made an album that is galvanizing, reassuring, elegant, seductive: it oozes Big Cosmic Energy.

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    Hayden Thorpe announces album ‘Ness’ and shares new song “They”

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    Hayden Thorpe has announced a special new record named Ness, due for release on September 27th via Domino Records.

    Ness is inspired by Suffolk’s Orford Ness, the former Ministry of Defence weapons development site during both World Wars and the Cold War. Acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to re-wild, it remains a place of paradox, mystery, and constant evolution. Thorpe’s Ness is an ode to Orford Ness, the physical place, and the book it inspired, both featuring the words of ...

    Hayden Thorpe has announced a special new record named Ness, due for release on September 27th via Domino Records.

    Ness is inspired by Suffolk’s Orford Ness, the former Ministry of Defence weapons development site during both World Wars and the Cold War. Acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to re-wild, it remains a place of paradox, mystery, and constant evolution. Thorpe’s Ness is an ode to Orford Ness, the physical place, and the book it inspired, both featuring the words of Robert Macfarlane and the artwork of Stanley Donwood.

    The announcement arrives alongside the beautiful first single from Ness, “They.” The video, directed by Hayden Thorpe and Andy King and filmed at Orford Ness, acts as an introduction to Ness: the shingle spit, the book, and the album.

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    Heather Trost ‘Petrichor’ out 6th November 2020

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    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...

    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’ soothe your soul and wake up your ears. Swirling vintage keys, propulsive drum beats, and the sweetest of voices bloom and grow here.” Naomi Yang, Galaxie 500

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    Hen Ogledd ‘Free Humans’ out 25th September 2020

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    Consisting of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington.

    Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary, it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory,...

    Consisting of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington.

    Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary, it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory, sewers, the nature of time, human stench, and the thrills of wild swimming, it’s remarkable that, given the intense collision of influences and wide-ranging ideas at play, Free Humans somehow coheres into a marvelous whole.

    Free Humans doesn’t shy away from the fact humans are killing the earth, but it does it with spiky wit. Hen Ogledd manages to hold both the tragedy of the wrongs happening in the world, and a sense of hope and liberation, in their hands at the same time.

    Listen to it and you might just glimpse something like tree-consciousness. Listen to it and different layers and membranes and atmospheres will reveal themselves. This is not background music. It was made at a Lagrange point—the zone between the moon and the earth where gravity is cancelled out—so what you hear is the push and pull between structure and chaos, refinement and accident.

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    Honeyglaze release first single “Don’t” off upcoming album ‘Real Deal’

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    London-based three piece Honeyglaze, consisting of vocalist and guitarist Anouska Sokolow, bassist Tim Curtis, and drummer Yuri Shibuichi, have announced their second album, Real Deal. Scheduled for release on September 20th via Fat Possum, the announcement coincides with the release of the lead single “Don’t” and its accompanying music video. “Don’t” serves as a searing launch single, which sees the band showcasing their sonic evolution as they begin to take on even more risks.

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    London-based three piece Honeyglaze, consisting of vocalist and guitarist Anouska Sokolow, bassist Tim Curtis, and drummer Yuri Shibuichi, have announced their second album, Real Deal. Scheduled for release on September 20th via Fat Possum, the announcement coincides with the release of the lead single “Don’t” and its accompanying music video. “Don’t” serves as a searing launch single, which sees the band showcasing their sonic evolution as they begin to take on even more risks.

    Honeyglaze have announced a full UK/EU tour, including a show at The Village Underground in London.

     

     

     

     

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    Hot Chip ‘Down’ out 19th April

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    Hot Chip is pleased to announce the release of their eighth album Freakout/Release on August 19 via Domino. Freakout/Release is a dizzying new peak in Hot Chip’s decades-long career that sees the band perpetually innovate and develop rich, resonant songwriting. Bringing the band to its peak, the album is also a new chapter for Hot Chip, as it unfolds an earth-shattering collection of songs, once again demonstrating its ability to tap into the darkness to emerge as a true creative unit. The ...

    Hot Chip is pleased to announce the release of their eighth album Freakout/Release on August 19 via Domino. Freakout/Release is a dizzying new peak in Hot Chip’s decades-long career that sees the band perpetually innovate and develop rich, resonant songwriting. Bringing the band to its peak, the album is also a new chapter for Hot Chip, as it unfolds an earth-shattering collection of songs, once again demonstrating its ability to tap into the darkness to emerge as a true creative unit. The group, made up of Owen Clarke, Al Doyle, Joe Goddard, Felix Martin and Alexis Taylor, unveil the first single from the album, the vibrant opening title “Down”.

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    Hovvdy ‘True Love’ out 1st October 2021

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    Austin, Texas’ Hovvdy have announced their new album ‘True Love’ and shared a video for its title track. The LP is due out October 1 via Grand Jury. Check out the video for ‘True Love’ above.

    ‘True Love’ is the band’s fourth album, following ‘Heavy Lifter’ (2019), ‘Cranberry’ (2018), and ‘Taster’ (2017). They recorded it at co-producer Andrew Sarlo’s studio in Los Angeles in 2020.

    Of the title track, Hovvdy’s Charlie Martin said:

    “For each Hovvdy re...

    Austin, Texas’ Hovvdy have announced their new album ‘True Love’ and shared a video for its title track. The LP is due out October 1 via Grand Jury. Check out the video for ‘True Love’ above.

    ‘True Love’ is the band’s fourth album, following ‘Heavy Lifter’ (2019), ‘Cranberry’ (2018), and ‘Taster’ (2017). They recorded it at co-producer Andrew Sarlo’s studio in Los Angeles in 2020.

    Of the title track, Hovvdy’s Charlie Martin said:

    “For each Hovvdy record there’s always been a song that kinda shocks my system, kinda jolts me into a brand new and inspired place. This was definitely that song for me. I remember writing it and feeling a rush of excitement—crying a lot honestly. it feels so good to express love and appreciation when you really fucking mean it. but it’s hard to feel worthy of love, of something so rare, and all we can do is try to measure up—that’s what that last part is all about.”

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    Ian Chang ‘属 Belonging’ out 24th April 2020

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    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...

    ‘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 the surface glimmers innovation, as if the neurons firing in each melodic idea have become audible. From the tradition of Bjork, Burial, and Flying Lotus, Chang breathes a new kind of human vulnerability into electronica.

    Out on City Slang.

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    Kiah Victoria – “Comfort Me”
    Kazu Makino – “Audacious”
    Hanna Benn – “雀舌 (Bird’s Tongue)”

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    Jackson Hill – Electric bass on “Comfort Me”
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    Iglooghost ‘Lei Line Eon’ out 2nd April 2021

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    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...

    “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 properties unique to Dorset – such as the high concentration of towering granite artefacts, floating pebble circles, and nearby landmarks’ alignments with otherworldly phenomena. The musical instruments that were traditionally played are suspected to have stimulated geoglyphic ley lines – and inadvertently operated as tools that created small rifts between worlds.

    I have been working very hard on a new album of modern laptop-based Lei Music, and have been summoning lots of different clattering, shifting and clicking entities. I am excited to show you them very soon. ⛢꧂” Iglooghost

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    Illuminati Hotties shares new music video for “Can’t Be Still”

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    Coinciding with the 2024 US headline tour announcement, Illuminati Hotties have shared a music video for their latest single “Can’t Be Still”.  Directed by Tony Wolski, whose previous works include Queens of The Stone Age and The Armed. This single released via Hopeless Records follows up 2023’s release Truck.

    Watch the video for ‘Can’t Be Still’ above.

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    Islands ‘Islomania’ out 11th June 2021

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    '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...

    “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 from that run, Should I Remain Here, At Sea? and Taste, were released on the same day in 2016. In the years since, Thorburn dabbled a bit in music — scoring a few films and radio shows, collaborating with El-P, and releasing a 2017 album with the indie supergroup Mr. Heavenly — but otherwise focused on other projects, like creating a TV pilot and graphic novel. When Thorburn decided to reboot Islands, he linked up with drummer Adam Halferty and guitarist Geordie Gordon, as well as producer Chris Coady, and they began sessions at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. The sessions for Islomania also featured Islands bassist Evan Gordon and RATATAT guitarist Mike Stroud.

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    Islands share two new singles ahead of album ‘What Occurs’ out June 21st

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    “Drown A Fish” and “The End” are the latest instalments from Islands’ upcoming album What Occurs, out June 21st on ELF. What Occurs, the tenth album in the project’s 18-year history, marks a significant shift for the band. Foregoing the meticulous production of 2021’s Islomania and 2023’s fine-tuned follow up, And That’s Why Dolphins Lost their Legs, the brand new record strips away detailed ornamentation for something much more immediate, raw and natural.

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    “Drown A Fish” and “The End” are the latest instalments from Islands’ upcoming album What Occurs, out June 21st on ELF. What Occurs, the tenth album in the project’s 18-year history, marks a significant shift for the band. Foregoing the meticulous production of 2021’s Islomania and 2023’s fine-tuned follow up, And That’s Why Dolphins Lost their Legs, the brand new record strips away detailed ornamentation for something much more immediate, raw and natural.

    Produced entirely by the band in the summer of 2023, and mixed by Colin Stewart in the fall of 2023, this is the only Canadian-made Islands record since the 2006 debut, Return to the Sea.

    Watch the official music video for “Drown A Fish” above.

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    Jaakko Eino Kalevi ‘Dissolution Remixes’ EP out 31st July 2020

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    Finland’s master voyager Jaakko Eino Kalevi eases out of lockdown with a look back to a simpler time: late November 2019, to be precise, and the release of his fine mini-album Dissolution.

    In keeping with that record’s wayward spirit, Jaakko has now called on friends and continental colleagues to remix some of its songs, resulting in the Dissolution RemixesEP. The five tracks present take Jaakko’s music in tantalising new directions.

    “It is always interesting to hear how other people ...

    Finland’s master voyager Jaakko Eino Kalevi eases out of lockdown with a look back to a simpler time: late November 2019, to be precise, and the release of his fine mini-album Dissolution.

    In keeping with that record’s wayward spirit, Jaakko has now called on friends and continental colleagues to remix some of its songs, resulting in the Dissolution RemixesEP. The five tracks present take Jaakko’s music in tantalising new directions.

    “It is always interesting to hear how other people interpret my music,” says Jaakko. “I like to be surprised in a good way and these remixes are very much on point and right up my alley.”

    On the first remix to be shared, Latvian dream-pop titans Domenique Dumont conjure a characteristically charming version of “The Search”, that also includes a portion of Jaakko’s song “Uutiset”. Domenique Dumont seldom venture out, so this mix should be cherished.

    Elsewhere on the EP, Timo Kaukolampi, an icon of heavy Finnish electronics, transforms “The Source of the Absolute Knowledge” into a psychedelic widescreen meditation, further cementing the Kaukolampi-Kalevi bond.

    Stockholm producer and Born Free label boss Samo DJ tackles the same track, reworking it to a jacking, sinuous groove garnished with cybernetic swirls. With his take on “I Am Looking Forward”, Francois Marry of Francois & the Atlas Mountains, who has spent much of the past 12 months working closely with Jaakko, fashions a hypnotic number that shimmers like satin.

    And new duo Ultraflex, the Berlin-based pairing of Farao and Special K, wrap things up with a blistering hi-NRG mix of ‘Dissolution’.

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    Jackie Lynn ‘Jacqueline’ is out 10th April 2020

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    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...

    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 is accompanied by a video directed by Krzys Piotrowski and the band’s Haley Fohr.

    The album is the follow-up to 2016’s widely acclaimed, self-titled debut. Speaking on the origins of the song and video, Fohr states: “‘Casino Queen’ showcases a night in the life of Jacqueline. The song and video follow the letting go of an individual’s underdog mentality, realigning it with the winner’s place. What does it take to refocus one’s internal mirror and become a Casino Queen?  All in due time shall we each define ourselves prosperous by way of intuition, self belief, nearby shoulders, a bit of luck, and maybe a wig.”

    Jackie first broke the waves with a self-titled record in 2016. The image was alluring. There were masks, and She first broke the waves with a self-titled record in 2016. The image was alluring. There were masks, and a wild backstory. Something you could project up on a screen. The music was a gritty, quicksilver sound; nocturnal, high. There was press. Rumours of a cult following in Europe. She made appearances around town for about a year, then – nothing. Unless you spun the record, then it all came alive again. We do it all the time.

    So we live with music and memories, and suddenly it’s 2020. And Jackie’s back. Forced off the grid, Jackie’s self-proclaimed hero-of-none’s story was one of revenge and reconciliation – but with the help of the benevolent spirit of strangers, Jackie Lynn has earned herself a second go-around. With a map as her guide, and all the weight of the world as her cargo,  Jacqueline, lady of the road, is born.

    These 9 tracks that tell the story of Jacqueline were written and recorded as a group, first to tape at home, then mixed at Electrical Audio by Cooper Crain.

    Out on Drag City Records.

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

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    '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

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    Jennifer Castle ‘Monarch Season’ out 16th October 2020

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    '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

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

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    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 ...

    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 the change in remote working was tough, ‘All the Time’ has turned out to be the most pure set of pop songs the duo has recorded; reflective and finessed over the time and distance they allowed it. Innovative juxtapositions sound natural, such as rigid 808’s rubbing against delicate chords in ‘Anyone Around’, unusual underwater rushes underpin Baby Love . Jessy’s voice is treated, re-pitched and edited on songs like Ice creamy and gestural sounds seem to respond to her lyrics in songs such as Like Fire.

    A lot of these sounds came from live take experiments using semi modular/modular equipment like Mother 32 and Dfam and Moog Sirin. Jessy says ‘We got all of the machines talking to one another and would run patterns through. A lot of the little burps and quacks and squiggles heard on songs like Anyone Around, Like ‘Fire’, ‘Face’, and ‘Badly’ are from those experiments. That’s when I’m having the most fun, making music and improvising through takes of the song and editing together all the best gurgle sounds afterwards’.

    More than previously the lyrics on All The Time were an important focus for Jessy, articulating difficult feeling into her outwardly joyful music. ’Anger is a familiar and safe feeling for me. The album became a conversation with myself about why that is. Some songs refer to real and legitimate things to be angry about; ‘Lick in Heaven’ takes aim at what the culture expects from women. The cynicism I felt towards the people around me kept coming up and All the Time is an exploration into those feelings and a conversation with myself about other possibilities when it comes to my outlook on life.’

    As the final elements of the album were being put in place, everything changed overnight. Her European tour was cut short and she flew back to New York quickly, plans for the foreseeable future dissolved. Whatsmore her lease was up on her apartment and she couldn’t find another in New York due to quarantine restrictions, so she packed what she could into her van and drove to San Francisco to be near her family, stopping on the way in increasingly empty motels as she journeyed from coast to coast.

    ‘Even though All the Time was written in 2019 the themes feel even more relevant now. Like a lot of people,I’m still struggling with the reality that life is hard to predict and it’s even harder not to make the same mistakes over again, trying to control what i’m able to and leave the rest.’
    The cover photo of Jessy in her van was taken before these events , but it’s taken on more importance since.
    ‘Through many changing situations my minivan gives me comfort. It seems like such an American thing to say.m I realise it’s symbolic of a much larger existential struggle in my own life but regardless I wanted it to be a part of the album cover. Sitting in my van made me feel so comfortable and it’s rare for me to feel that.

    VIDEO: Live from San Francisco – Boiler Room showcase w/ Night Dreamer & Worldwide FM tonight. Streaming From Isolation series is now raising donations directly for Black Lives Matter-affiliated causes. Donations to this stream go to NAACP Legal Defence.

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    Jill Fraser signs with Domino Publishing and announces upcoming album “Earthly Pleasures” out September 27th

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    Recent Domino Publishing signing, Jill Fraser, has announced details of her latest solo project, Earthly Pleasures, out September 27th via Drag City. The upcoming album reflects on generations and lifetimes of memory, speculating on how the spirit of our songs might be interpreted after we’re gone.

    Armed with her 1978 Serge Modular, Prism Modular, and Ableton Push 3 in the circuit path, she recomposes a selection of American revival hymns, creating new works and reimagined versions for futu...

    Recent Domino Publishing signing, Jill Fraser, has announced details of her latest solo project, Earthly Pleasures, out September 27th via Drag City. The upcoming album reflects on generations and lifetimes of memory, speculating on how the spirit of our songs might be interpreted after we’re gone.

    Armed with her 1978 Serge Modular, Prism Modular, and Ableton Push 3 in the circuit path, she recomposes a selection of American revival hymns, creating new works and reimagined versions for future generations. Earthly Pleasures is a fluent meditation on mortality and rebirth, amid numinous infinities of dimensional soundscapes.

    Check out the first track from Earthly Pleasures, “Amen 2”, above.

     

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    Joan As Police Woman ‘The Solution Is Restless’ out 5th November 2021

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    Joan As Police Woman – the project of Joan Wasser – has announced a collaborative new album titled ‘The Solution is Restless’, written and recorded with the late Tony Allen and The Invisible’s Dave Okumu.

    ‘The Solution is Restless’ is the ninth studio album by Wasser under her long-running project. It is also one of the final studio recordings of Allen, who died in April 2020.

    Born out of a night-long improvisation session in a Parisian studio, ‘The Solution is Restless’ w...

    Joan As Police Woman – the project of Joan Wasser – has announced a collaborative new album titled ‘The Solution is Restless’, written and recorded with the late Tony Allen and The Invisible’s Dave Okumu.

    ‘The Solution is Restless’ is the ninth studio album by Wasser under her long-running project. It is also one of the final studio recordings of Allen, who died in April 2020.

    Born out of a night-long improvisation session in a Parisian studio, ‘The Solution is Restless’ will be released on November 5th. Its first single, ‘Take Me To Your Leader’, has been released. Watch its music video above.

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    Joe Wong ‘Nite Creatures’ out 15th May 2020

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    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...

    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 composer) Craig Wedren, and Anna Waronker (That Dog), not to mention a 24-piece orchestra.

    The album’s songs, which are in an orch-pop vein a la The Zombies or The Left Banke, were written over a nearly 10-year period between his father’s stroke in 2010 and death in 2019.

    “It’s basically about losing someone slowly,” says Wong. “It has a lot to do with losing elements of his personality, piece by piece. The album’s about loss, but it’s about coming to terms with it and not being afraid of it. The final loss was a relief and lots of it is kind of like my way of telling him it’s OK to go.”

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    Jon Hopkins ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ – 12 Novembre 2021

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    Jon Hopkins annonce la sortie de son nouvel album, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, prévue le 12 novembre 2021.

    Jon Hopkins dévoile en parallèle le titre de clôture de l’album, “Sit Around The Fire“, une collaboration unique entre Jon Hopkins, le producteur et interprète East Forest et le légendaire gourou feu Ram Dass, dont le livre emblématique Be Here Now fête cette année son 50ème anniversaire.

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    Jon Hopkins annonce la sortie de son nouvel album, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, prévue le 12 novembre 2021.

    Jon Hopkins dévoile en parallèle le titre de clôture de l’album, “Sit Around The Fire“, une collaboration unique entre Jon Hopkins, le producteur et interprète East Forest et le légendaire gourou feu Ram Dass, dont le livre emblématique Be Here Now fête cette année son 50ème anniversaire.

    Jon Hopkins à propos de “Sit Around The Fire”:

    « “Sit Around The Fire” est le fruit d’une des incroyables coïncidences qui ont permis à cette œuvre (Music For Psychedelic Therapy) de voir le jour. J’ai été contacté par East Forest, qui avait passé du temps avec Ram Dass à Hawaï avant sa mort. Il a eu accès à plusieurs entretiens peu connus des années 70 et on lui a demandé de les mettre en musique. Il m’a contacté et m’a envoyé quelques points de départ, dont les magnifiques chants choraux qu’il a enregistrés et qui ouvrent le morceau. J’ai mis mon casque et, avec la voix de Ram Dass dans mes oreilles, je me suis assis au piano et j’ai improvisé. Ce que vous entendez est la première chose que j’ai jouée – une réponse spontanée à ses mots ».

    La vidéo de “Sit Around The Fire” a été réalisée par Tom Readdy et Lucy Dawkins (Yes Please) en utilisant de magnifiques images animées inspirées des pages de Be Here Now.

    Music For Psychedelic Therapy a été produit et enregistré par Jon Hopkins. Les enregistrements extérieurs sur “Tayos Caves, Ecuador” ont été réalisés par Mendel Kaelen, la synthèse multidimensionnelle et l’environnement forestier par 7RAYS.
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    Jon Hopkins ‘Piano Versions’ EP out 16th April 2021

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    Presented as the sister record to 2014’s Asleep Versions, Piano Versions is a collection of ambient piano cover versions. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger & Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements around it.

    “Piano Versions is four minimal, ambient piano covers of song...

    Presented as the sister record to 2014’s Asleep Versions, Piano Versions is a collection of ambient piano cover versions. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger & Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements around it.

    “Piano Versions is four minimal, ambient piano covers of songs I have loved for a long time but that come from very different places. It seems to me that melody is universal and the ones that I really connect to shine out irrespective of genre or context, whether from techno, folk or whatever. I loved the simplicity of having my old upright piano be the centre of a whole record for the first time. But the importance of letting the outside world into the recordings is as present for me as ever, so there are layers of incidental noise, bird song, the sound of someone washing up in the studio kitchen – whatever was going on outside my room is included and even accentuated. I want people to hear not just the recordings but to feel how it felt to be there and make them. It was a deep experience.” Jon Hopkins

    ‘Dawn Chorus’ composed by Thom Yorke

    ‘Heron’ composed by James Yorkston

    ‘Modern Driveway’ composed by Luke Abbott

    ‘Wintergreen’ composed by Roger & Brian Eno

     

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    Jon Hopkins confirms new album RITUAL and shares video for “RITUAL (evocation)”

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    By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming new album RITUAL, out August 30th, is a 41-minute ceremonial epic built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. A single piece unfolding over eight chapters, RITUAL is personified by depth and contrast. Taking ceremony, spiritual liberation and the hero’s journey as inspiration, it taps into an ancient and primal kind of energy.

    Featuring long-term collaborators Vylana, 7RAYS, Ishq,...

    By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming new album RITUAL, out August 30th, is a 41-minute ceremonial epic built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. A single piece unfolding over eight chapters, RITUAL is personified by depth and contrast. Taking ceremony, spiritual liberation and the hero’s journey as inspiration, it taps into an ancient and primal kind of energy.

    Featuring long-term collaborators Vylana, 7RAYS, Ishq, Clark, Emma Smith, Daisy Vatalaro and Cherif Hashizume, RITUAL came together within the second half of 2023, but initial seeds were sown in 2022, when Hopkins was commissioned to compose for the Dreamachine* immersive experience created by Collective Act, in collaboration with a team of artists, scientists and philosophers.

    This first single “RITUAL (evocation)” is defined by deep, hypnotic drums and a long build to epiphanic light. The accompanying music video is delivered by director Dave Bullivant in collaboration with Hopkins and stars aerial rope performer Bryony Louise Fowler who mirrors the track’s emotions in a spellbinding display.

     

     

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    Jon Hopkins unveils second preview “Ritual (palace)” from his upcoming album

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    On August 30th, Jon Hopkins will release his new album RITUAL via Domino Records. A 41-minute ceremonial epic that unfolds over eight chapters, it is by turns devotional, empowering and nurturing. Having previously shared “Ritual (evocation),” which took listeners directly to the heart of the album’s fiery, sub-heavy crescendo, Hopkins today shares a second single, “Ritual (palace)”.

    The latest song can be understood as an intimate window into the glowing melodic core of the alb...

    On August 30th, Jon Hopkins will release his new album RITUAL via Domino Records. A 41-minute ceremonial epic that unfolds over eight chapters, it is by turns devotional, empowering and nurturing. Having previously shared “Ritual (evocation),” which took listeners directly to the heart of the album’s fiery, sub-heavy crescendo, Hopkins today shares a second single, “Ritual (palace)”.

    The latest song can be understood as an intimate window into the glowing melodic core of the album. “Ritual (palace)” features a glittering elevation where reverberating notes and nurturing pads are joined by a deep, rhythmic pulse and layered vocals, alive with melodic interplay and a gently propulsive grace.

    Experience the latest offerings from the Jon Hopkins universe above.

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    Jon Hopkins ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ out 12th November 2021

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    Jon Hopkins announces his new album, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, out November 12th on Domino. He presents the album closer, “Sit Around The Fire,” a unique collaboration between Hopkins, producer and ceremony guide East Forest and legendary guru, the late Ram Dass.

    ‘Music for Psychedelic Therapy’ is Hopkins’ first full-length since sister albums, the GRAMMY-nominated ‘Singularity’ (2018) and ‘Immunity’ (2013). For this collection, Hopkins wanted to make somethin...

    Jon Hopkins announces his new album, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, out November 12th on Domino. He presents the album closer, “Sit Around The Fire,” a unique collaboration between Hopkins, producer and ceremony guide East Forest and legendary guru, the late Ram Dass.

    ‘Music for Psychedelic Therapy’ is Hopkins’ first full-length since sister albums, the GRAMMY-nominated ‘Singularity’ (2018) and ‘Immunity’ (2013). For this collection, Hopkins wanted to make something that faced the opposite direction, something egoless and introspective, made with total, raw honesty. “It felt like time for a reset, to wait for music to appear from a different place,” says Hopkins. That place ended up being Tayos Caves in Ecuador, where Hopkins went on a life-changing creative expedition in 2018.

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    Jon Hopkins’ groundbreaking ceremonial album “RITUAL” – out now

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    Jon Hopkins’ brand new album, RITUAL, is out now via Domino Recordings. The album is both emotionally and sonically heavy, whilst retaining a warm, live feel, where the juxtaposition between softness and intensity forms the core of the whole.  Alongside the release comes a kaleidoscopic music video for the single, “Ritual (Palace)”.

    The idea for the video emerged during a sleepless night when Hopkins was staying in an RV on a road trip along California’s Big Sur coastline. He envisi...

    Jon Hopkins’ brand new album, RITUAL, is out now via Domino Recordings. The album is both emotionally and sonically heavy, whilst retaining a warm, live feel, where the juxtaposition between softness and intensity forms the core of the whole.  Alongside the release comes a kaleidoscopic music video for the single, “Ritual (Palace)”.

    The idea for the video emerged during a sleepless night when Hopkins was staying in an RV on a road trip along California’s Big Sur coastline. He envisioned a journey into an infinite, living structure and soon decided to collaborate with visual artist UON Visuals. Together, they pushed technical boundaries to bring this concept to life, crafting a mesmerising fusion of light, sound, and movement.

    Check out the psychedelic music video for “Ritual (Palace)” above.

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

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    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.

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    JW Francis drops album ‘Dream House’ with colourful video for lead single

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    New York’s ‘lo-fi jangle dream slacker bedroom pop’ artist JW Francis brings us his 4th album Dream House, built around a collection of glorious tracks written for other people. Every year, a few weeks before Valentine’s day, JW invites fans to share names and personal stories of their ‘Valentine’, to put this in a song on their behalf.

    Dream House takes cues from The Strokes, with hints of Lou Reed, Mac Demarco or Her’s, however the project is still quintessential J...

    New York’s ‘lo-fi jangle dream slacker bedroom pop’ artist JW Francis brings us his 4th album Dream House, built around a collection of glorious tracks written for other people. Every year, a few weeks before Valentine’s day, JW invites fans to share names and personal stories of their ‘Valentine’, to put this in a song on their behalf.

    Dream House takes cues from The Strokes, with hints of Lou Reed, Mac Demarco or Her’s, however the project is still quintessential JW Francis. The blissful melodies and dreamy instrumentation perfectly fit the album’s title.

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    JW Francis ‘WANDERKID’ out 1st October 2021

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    JW Francis burst onto the scene with his critically acclaimed debut ‘We Share a Similar Joy’, with features from DIY and Line of Best Fit to being named Album of The Day on BBC 6 Music. His warm, affable melodies and comforting lyrics earned him fans on both sides of the Atlantic, and now he returns with his sophomore album ‘WANDERKID’, a concept album about a wandering anti-hero.

    ‘WANDERKID’ hones in on JW’s dreamy soundscapes and explores themes of escapism, whilst still maint...

    JW Francis burst onto the scene with his critically acclaimed debut ‘We Share a Similar Joy’, with features from DIY and Line of Best Fit to being named Album of The Day on BBC 6 Music. His warm, affable melodies and comforting lyrics earned him fans on both sides of the Atlantic, and now he returns with his sophomore album ‘WANDERKID’, a concept album about a wandering anti-hero.

    ‘WANDERKID’ hones in on JW’s dreamy soundscapes and explores themes of escapism, whilst still maintaining that sense of comfort and intimacy so beautifully demonstrated in his debut. To celebrate the release, JW is going on a 2,000 mile walking journey across the Eastern United States along the Appalachian Trail.

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    Kae Tempest ‘The Line Is A Curve’ Out 8th April 2022

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    ‘The Line Is A Curve’ is the new album from writer and musician Kae Tempest, set for release on 8th April 2022 by Fiction Records. It is the fourth album from the Lewisham based artist and has been produced by long term collaborator Dan Carey. The record also follows the critically-acclaimed play ‘Paradise’, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2021. Today Kae reveals a new single entitled ‘More Pressure’ which features Kevin Abstract of the American hip-hop group...
    ‘The Line Is A Curve’ is the new album from writer and musician Kae Tempest, set for release on 8th April 2022 by Fiction Records. It is the fourth album from the Lewisham based artist and has been produced by long term collaborator Dan Carey. The record also follows the critically-acclaimed play ‘Paradise’, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2021. Today Kae reveals a new single entitled ‘More Pressure’ which features Kevin Abstract of the American hip-hop group BROCKHAMPTON. Their shared friend and collaborator Rick Rubin had played the group‘The Book of Traps and Lessons’ in his studio, and they had reached out to Kae afterwards to thank them for the inspiration.
    After the experience of touring previous album ‘The Book of Traps and Lessons’, Tempest realised that they wanted ‘The Line Is A Curve’ to be a communicative record. The concept manifested itself both in the contributions of other artists (the aforementioned Kevin Abstract, Grian Chatten of Fontaines DC, Lianne La Havas, ássia, Confucius MC) and during the recording process, when Tempest decided to do three vocal takes in one day, to three different generations of people; “a man of 78 who I’d never met, a woman of 29, the poet Bridget Minamore, who is a good friend of mine and then to three young fans of 12, 15 and 16 who had responded to a social media post.”
    Featuring artwork shot by renowned photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, the album is best described by Tempest themselves:
    “The Line Is A Curve is about letting go. Of shame, anxiety, isolation and falling instead into surrender. Embracing the cyclical nature of time, growth, love. This letting go can hopefully be felt across the record. In the musicality, the instrumentation, the lyricism, the delivery, the cover art. In the way it ends where it begins and begins where it ends. I knew I wanted my face on the sleeve. Throughout the duration of my creative life, I have been hungry for the spotlight and desperately uncomfortable in it. For the last couple of records I wanted to disappear completely from the album covers, the videos, the front-facing aspects of this industry. A lot of that was about my shame but I masked it behind a genuine desire for my work to speak for itself, without me up front, commodifying what felt so rare to me and sacred. I was, at times, annoyed that in order to put the work out, I had to put myself out. But this time around, I understand it differently. I want people to feel welcomed into this record, by me, the person who made it, and I have let go of some of my airier concerns. I feel more grounded in what I’m trying to do, who I am as an artist and as a person and what I have to offer. I feel less shame in my body because I am not hiding from the world anymore. I wanted to show my face and I dreamed of it being Wolfgang Tillmans who took the portrait.”
    With four studio albums, a novel, their first work of non-fiction (‘On Connection’), three plays and five collections of poetry to their name, Kae Tempest has firmly established themselves as one of the most unique, thought-provoking and critically-acclaimed voices of their generation. With the release of ‘The Line Is ACurve’,in 2022, that reputation is only set to grow exponentially.
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    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard set to release collaborative EP “Neptunes” this November

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    Avant-garde modular wizard Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard have teamed up for their new collaborative Neptunes EP, out November 22nd on the Domino Recordings imprint, Smugglers Way. Neptunes is the result of two electronic music powerhouses coming together to create new and thrilling sounds out of pure collaboration. With hard-hitting beats, intricate synth programming, and a melodic sensibility that retains a strange and alluring aura, it’s pure body-moving stuff that st...

    Avant-garde modular wizard Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard have teamed up for their new collaborative Neptunes EP, out November 22nd on the Domino Recordings imprint, Smugglers Way. Neptunes is the result of two electronic music powerhouses coming together to create new and thrilling sounds out of pure collaboration. With hard-hitting beats, intricate synth programming, and a melodic sensibility that retains a strange and alluring aura, it’s pure body-moving stuff that stimulates every neuron firing off in your brain. 

    Featuring a low-slung bassline, gorgeously wavering synths, and pleasingly chopped-up vocal samples, first single and title track “Neptunes” originates from Goddard’s desire to make a tune reminiscent of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo’s visionary, singular approach to hip-hop production as the Neptunes.  

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    Kaki King ‘Modern Yesterdays’ out 23rd October 2020

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    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...

    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, folk and blues-flavored motifs, as well as electronic and electro-acoustic influences, Modern Yesterdays mines a poignant, meditative arc that not only fits the mood of these turbulent times, but once again establishes King as a tirelessly inventive composer whose imagination extends well beyond the sonic limits of her chosen instrument.

    There’s a definite “covid aesthetic” that informs the album’s title, as King explains. “We talk about ‘the before,’ or back before the outbreak,” she says. “Time has barely passed. So I think there is a bit of a looking back that we’re all doing in every way about what we miss — what was good, what was bad, all of it. We’re all yearning in some ways for our modern yesterday, and in some ways saying well, there is clearly going to be a modern tomorrow too.”

    The album’s first single “Teek” features Ethel’s Ralph Farris on viola. The second single “Forms of Light and Death” was arranged by Icelandic composer and synthesist Úlfur Hansson, and is the only song to feature King on electric guitar. “Can’t Touch This or That or You or My Face” is the album’s third single — a quietly beat-driven excursion into a multi-hued sonic future.

    Live Concert Footage is taken from a performance of Kaki’s new theater project, DATA NOT FOUND, which was filmed by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi on November 13, 2019 at The Arts Center’s Black Box, and which will begin touring globally in 2021.

    DATA NOT FOUND is a joint co-commission made possible by the The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi; International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, CT; the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech; ARTS@TECH at Georgia Tech; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Ovation Guitars. Developmental support provided by MASS MoCA. Technical support provided by POTION Design.

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    The Kills ‘Little Bastards’ out 11th December 2020

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    The Kills have compiled an extraordinary career spanning b-sides and rarities album titled, appropriately, Little Bastards. The songs date back from the band’s first 7-inch singles in 2002 through to 2009.

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

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    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...

    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 contradictions – persistence, frustration, heartbreak, love – and to locate the grace within the struggle, the beauty in the dark.  AMERICAN SONGWRITER

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

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    SELF PORTRAIT IN SOUND EP L.A. Salami Out 04 February 2020
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    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...

    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, however, there’s the nagging realisation that reality will eventually return with a vengeance. As the song’s insistent hook sighs, “Hey, forget it. We’ll solve it after.” 

    Whereas the initial EP found Papalious Stokely exploring the dark underbelly of a generic global metropolis, ‘Self Portrait In Sound’ is more introspective. It simmers with angst – losing and lacking love, fading friendships, and trying to redirect those personal failings that you’re irresistibly drawn to. It all comes to a head in the desolate and defeated denouement of ‘Come Back For The Rest Of Me’. 

    “This EP is a self-portrait of sorts, in sound. Of someone that once was, and who can still be found somewhere,” says L.A. Salami. “Things are forever changing but this was someone at some point, and could still yet be what I become. So I called it the ‘Self Portrait In Sound’ EP.” 

     While the themes have evolved in ‘Self Portrait In Sound’, so too has the music. It steps beyond the skeletal spoken word of the previous instalment, with one foot in the stripped-back poetry of the Greenwich Village sound and another in the bolder productions of the modern alt-folk scene.  

     L.A. Salami’s two albums to date, ‘Dancing With Bad Grammar’ (2016) and ‘The City of Bootmakers’ (2018), have seen the London-based artist present a singular vision. His evocative, poetic lyrics span everything from grand existential questions to vignettes of everyday life as well as the affairs and anxieties of modern Britain. As NPR enthused, his “poetry channels the fierceness I first heard in Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, but with a prowess found in today’s best hip-hop.” 

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

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    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...

    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 even 90s HipHop records with the peaking 808s and static compressed vocals al la Wu Tang, or blues records like Robert Johnson’s. Somewhere in there is the carnival I’ve been searching for. This entire album could very well be a love letter to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.”

    Lookman began writing poetry at a very early age, which then evolved into writing lyrics and he taught himself the guitar aged 21. Fostered from birth, Lookman was periodically re-united with his birth mother from the age of 5, which he describes as being emotionally confusing, “I find it rears its ugly head consistently in my life, and music became one of the easiest ways to release that pressure valve every so often.”

    L.A. Salami’s two albums to date, ‘Dancing With Bad Grammar’ (2016) and ‘The City of Bootmakers’ (2018), have seen the London-based artist present a singular vision. His evocative, poetic lyrics span everything from grand existential questions to vignettes of everyday life as well as the affairs and anxieties of modern Britain.

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    La Priest ‘Gene’ out 5th June 2020

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    LA Priest is the name Sam Dust, late of Late of the Pier, adopted to release his beguiling space-pop-psyche solo work following the demise of the band he founded when still in his teens.

    Arriving four years after the iconoclast variously known as Sam Dust, LA PRIEST and L.A. Priest thrilled the world with the cosmic pop of his debut album Inji, GENE is named after a brand new modular drum machine Sam dreamt up and built alone. Working in isolation for more than two years, soldering iron in ha...

    LA Priest is the name Sam Dust, late of Late of the Pier, adopted to release his beguiling space-pop-psyche solo work following the demise of the band he founded when still in his teens.

    Arriving four years after the iconoclast variously known as Sam Dust, LA PRIEST and L.A. Priest thrilled the world with the cosmic pop of his debut album Inji, GENE is named after a brand new modular drum machine Sam dreamt up and built alone. Working in isolation for more than two years, soldering iron in hand, Sam designed GENE using 150 electrical circuits he made up himself.

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    LA Priest returns with funked-up love song ‘It’s You’ and announces his album ‘Fase Luna’ out 5th May

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    LA Priest, aka Sam Eastgate, today announces his ocean-inspired, wobbly-pop filled third album, Fase Luna – due for release May 5th via Domino. Following 2020’s GENE, named after a modular drum machine that Sam designed using 150 electrical circuits he’d built himself, Fase Luna strips things back to little more than Sam and his guitar: nine sunshine-streaked tracks of pure bliss.  

    Alongside the announce today, the first taster from the album arrives in the form of the funked-up love...

    LA Priest, aka Sam Eastgate, today announces his ocean-inspired, wobbly-pop filled third album, Fase Luna – due for release May 5th via Domino. Following 2020’s GENE, named after a modular drum machine that Sam designed using 150 electrical circuits he’d built himself, Fase Luna strips things back to little more than Sam and his guitar: nine sunshine-streaked tracks of pure bliss.  

    Alongside the announce today, the first taster from the album arrives in the form of the funked-up love song, “It’s You”. An instant LA Priest classic, it sticks in the mind of the listener long after the final closing notes. 

    “It’s about a guy who falls in love with a sea mermaid or water spirit and has to choose between life on the land or the ocean,” explains Sam. “Some of it sounds like he’s on the edge of madness.”  

    The video for “It’s You” was directed by Eoin Glaister (Glass Animals, Joji) and tells the story of a woman, played by Juliet Cowan (The Power, PhoneShop), who falls helplessly in love with a sewage fatberg. Touching, sweet and at times, slightly grotesque, it’s a simple, beautiful depiction of love really being found in the strangest of places.  

    Watch the video for “It’s You” here.
    Listen to “It’s You” here. 

    Variously known as Sam Dust, LA Priest and L.A. Priest, Eastgate has built a reputation as a subversive, unpredictable musician, consistently innovating over the course of his work with his now defunct breakout band Late Of The Pier, his cherished Soft Hair collaboration with Connan Mockasin as well as his solo work under LA Priest.  

    Following the release of GENE, Sam received requests to build drum machines around the world, with one correspondent from Belize eventually inviting him over to work at their studio. And so, at the beginning of 2021, Sam upped sticks to swap the Welsh borders for central America, only to find upon arrival in Mexico that he would be unable to actually get into Belize due to travel restrictions. In that instant, what would become the third LA Priest album changed completely. Marooned by the beach in Puerto Morelos, Sam found inspiration from the sea. 

    From the gently warped guitars on super-chilled opener “On”, through to the slow and tender closing track “No More”, each song on Fase Luna weaves and undulates into the next, creating an immersive whole. Recording in Mexico and the rainforests of Costa Rica, Sam was struck by each area’s mythical history and ancient connections to the ocean, drawing heavily on both to pack Fase Luna with stories of spirits and imaginations of life on the ocean bed. 

    Without a synthesiser in sight, this is the purest LA Priest record yet. And with drums laid down by local musician Carlos Gabriel Favela Manzano in Mexico as Sam hummed the melodies, the closest the record gets to modern technology of any kind is the translation tool he used to write the Spanish lyrics of far out “fairy story”, “Sail On”. Raw and unfiltered, Fase Luna offers a one-way ticket to another world.  

    “I want to give people a feeling that they’re free when they listen to it, it’s not bringing you back to reality, it’s escapism.” 

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    Lamps ‘People with Faces’ out 13th November 2020

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    These days, good news is hard to come by, but here’s some: Lamps, LA’s notoriously unprolific noise-merchant trio, are ready to release their spectacular fourth album called People With Faces, out on In The Red Records. Produced by Ty Segall at Val’s, Lamps’ first recorded output since 2012’s landmark LP Under The Water, Under The Ground finds them breaking adventurous new terrain. I’d say they’ve matured, but I’d only say it behind their backs. Stalwarts Monty Buckles (guitar...

    These days, good news is hard to come by, but here’s some: Lamps, LA’s notoriously unprolific noise-merchant trio, are ready to release their spectacular fourth album called People With Faces, out on In The Red Records. Produced by Ty Segall at Val’s, Lamps’ first recorded output since 2012’s landmark LP Under The Water, Under The Ground finds them breaking adventurous new terrain. I’d say they’ve matured, but I’d only say it behind their backs. Stalwarts Monty Buckles (guitar, voice, keyboards!!!) and Josh Erkman (drums, voice) double down on Lamps’ trademark cloak of effects-laden guitars and hammering drums, and new(ish) member Denée Segall jumps into the fray with her Poly Styrene-wail and monolithic bass, add-ing depth both sonically and lyrically. Their trademark abrasiveness is still present, but it’s bur-nished it into something richer, more layered. Don’t worry, it still kicks your head in.

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

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    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 ...

    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 us down, the erotic, the visible and invisible places we pass through as they merge and are erased and overwritten. The ability and opportunity to create and connect through music is a gift and I’m so happy to be able to share these new explorations with you.”

    Of the eye-catching video to lead track “Infinite Wisdom” Groves adds: “The video for Infinite Wisdom is a collaboration between myself and visual artist Sophie le Roux. I shot the footage at home during the lockdown and then sent it to Sophie, who edited it and added animation. This method of working was due to necessity at the time, but I like how it reflects the self-produced nature of the record and also how rewarding and special a collaborative process can be.”

    Laura Groves is an artist and producer born in West Yorkshire and based in South London. As a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, she explores themes of inner worlds, healing, connection, and imagined environments and real-life surroundings, mixing traditional songwriting with experimental synthesised sounds, textural electronic layering, and a passion for home recording. Following on from her work as Blue Roses on XL Recordings, Laura has released two EPs under her own name on DEEK Records, created with long-time collaborator Bullion: ‘Thinking About Thinking’ (2013) and ‘Committed Language’ (2015).

    Along with her solo work and three-piece band, Nautic, Laura has built a reputation as a sought after collaborator, in both live and recorded settings, for the likes of Darkstar, Wilma Archer, Sampha, Westerman, The Paul Institute, Bat for Lashes, and Hannah Peel. Delving into the art of soundtracks, Laura scored the silent film ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ at the BFI and Latitude Festival, along with creating her own moving image work to accompany her music.

    Laura has been regularly played on BBC6 Music, championed by Guy Garvey, and continuously featured on NTS with both guest slots and performances. She has been featured in The Fader, DUMMY, Dazed, and The Line of Best Fit. Notable performances include Glastonbury, Bestival, Green Man, NTS at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, along with supporting St Vincent and Wild Beasts.

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

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    Posted on 09 December 2020
    Butter-Fly EP Lava La Rue Out 19 February 2021
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    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...

    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” , through the 2020 love ballad “Goofy Hearts”, to the psychedelic pop of “Lift You Up” ft. Karma Kid.

    Fans will be overjoyed to have a solid body of work from Lava and the first collection of tracks since 2019’s STITCHES mixtape. A truly matured sound, Lava’s Butter-Fly is an iconic moment for the young star, who is truly cemented as a firm one to watch for 2021. Without a doubt, one of the UK’s most exciting artists, Lava’s success far outweighs their young years. The West London musician has seen themself collaborating with, and recognised by, the likes of COLORS Berlin, Converse, The Tate, ELLE, Noisey, The Guardian, Dazed, British Vogue, i-D, Crack, Aries, Henry Holland, Tyler The Creator, Calvin Klein, Aries and more.

    A true creative, and multi-hyphenate talent, musician, singer and artist, Lava La Rue has been making music for the past few years as both herself, and a part of her collective NiNE8. It was only two years ago that she began a true journey of creative releases, with her debut single “Widdit” flooring critics – a song that went on to feature on the coveted COLORS. Since then, her catalogue has gone on to accumulate millions of streams.

    As the founding member of the creative group NiNE8, Lava has curated incredible projects across the worlds of art, music and fashion- perhaps most notably a show at Men’s Fashion Week, and a TATE Modern “LATE” takeover. Lava is setting the pace, with her motivated, all-encompassing creativity – introducing herself to new fans, old fans and critics alike.

    An incredible performer, Lava is set to announce new dates for 2021. Having sold out her solo shows and after supporting 070 Shake, Christine and the Queens, Clairo, not to mention hosting a party takeover with Tyler The Creator, Lava is set for world domination. 

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    Lava La Rue releases their debut album ‘STARFACE’ plus new single “Better (ft. Cuco)”

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    Lava La Rue has released their highly anticipated debut album STARFACE, with focus track “Better” ft. Cuco, out now via Dirty Hit. It’s an expansive indie album, where Lava brings in multiple featured artists from across the globe, blends and bends genres and co-directs an entire universe of visuals.

    With themes of love, humanity, and self-discovery, STARFACE is poised to resonate with a diverse audience, solidifying Lava La Rue’s place as a formidable force in the music industry.

    Che...

    Lava La Rue has released their highly anticipated debut album STARFACE, with focus track “Better” ft. Cuco, out now via Dirty Hit. It’s an expansive indie album, where Lava brings in multiple featured artists from across the globe, blends and bends genres and co-directs an entire universe of visuals.

    With themes of love, humanity, and self-discovery, STARFACE is poised to resonate with a diverse audience, solidifying Lava La Rue’s place as a formidable force in the music industry.

    Check out the live performance of “Better” featuring Cuco above.

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    Lava La Rue releases their second single “Humanity” from debut album ‘Starface’ out July 12th

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    Landing in the wake of the announcement of Lava La Rue’s eagerly awaited debut album, STARFACE this Summer, new single “Humanity” is their most vulnerable offering yet. Following a very literal experience of losing a friendship to addiction, the song is also steeped in positivity; reframing a difficult time with sentiments of hope – a reminder not to give up on humanity, even when you feel humanity has given up on you.

    The single lands alongside a candid live video; Lava La Rue’s fi...

    Landing in the wake of the announcement of Lava La Rue’s eagerly awaited debut album, STARFACE this Summer, new single “Humanity” is their most vulnerable offering yet. Following a very literal experience of losing a friendship to addiction, the song is also steeped in positivity; reframing a difficult time with sentiments of hope – a reminder not to give up on humanity, even when you feel humanity has given up on you.

    The single lands alongside a candid live video; Lava La Rue’s first ever performance of the track at Biig Piig’s Gaza AidBenefit earlier this year, montaged between fan submitted-home videos of what humanity looks like to them. With this “Humanity” and the accompanying visual, Lava aims to spark hope and change.

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

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    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 ...

    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 Sky.

    Lawrence Hart has already collaborated with some of the most exciting names in electronic music – writing and producing with Lil Silva and George FitzGerald (earning Annie Mac‘s Hottest Record on BBC R1 with the latter), whilst featuring his vocals with Alan Fitzpatrick.

    The record captures the moments on the dancefloor where feelings of vulnerability and invincibility intersect, fusing organic and machine-made sounds for an experience that’s both heartfelt and hypnotic.

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    Lawrence Hart announces debut LP ‘Come In Out Of The Rain’ on Domino’s Double Six label

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    Posted on 15 January 2025
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    UK-based DJ, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Lawrence Hart has announced his long-awaited debut album, Come In Out of the Rain, set for release on April 4th. The album is heralded by the upbeat, emotional single “Closer to You,” released on Domino’s Double Six imprint. The record explores cinematic melancholia, soaring synths, and moments of fragility, peppered with forgotten vocal samples.

    In the single “Closer to You,” a pitch-shifted vocal sample weaves its way through euphor...

    UK-based DJ, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Lawrence Hart has announced his long-awaited debut album, Come In Out of the Rain, set for release on April 4th. The album is heralded by the upbeat, emotional single “Closer to You,” released on Domino’s Double Six imprint. The record explores cinematic melancholia, soaring synths, and moments of fragility, peppered with forgotten vocal samples.

    In the single “Closer to You,” a pitch-shifted vocal sample weaves its way through euphoric, heart-tugging synth chords that rise in pitch and prominence. These are joined by breaksy, lively percussion, creating an upbeat dance track tinged with melancholy and capturing the full range of emotions suggested by the title.

    Check it out above.

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    Lawrence Hart drops debut solo single on Domino’s Double Six label

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    Classically trained multi-instrumentalist and composer Lawrence Hart has shared his first single, “Just Belong,” since signing to Domino Records’ imprint label, Double Six. Hart’s signature style, with superbly sharp production skills and hot and heavy beats, makes up a sound that is dancefloor-primed and ready.

    “Just Belong”: cascades of synth notes, pitch-shifted vocals, breakneck speed layering of hi-hats, complex beats, subtle bass, and an occasional gruff. As always with Hart...

    Classically trained multi-instrumentalist and composer Lawrence Hart has shared his first single, “Just Belong,” since signing to Domino Records’ imprint label, Double Six. Hart’s signature style, with superbly sharp production skills and hot and heavy beats, makes up a sound that is dancefloor-primed and ready.

    “Just Belong”: cascades of synth notes, pitch-shifted vocals, breakneck speed layering of hi-hats, complex beats, subtle bass, and an occasional gruff. As always with Hart, production values are squeaky clean and diamond-clear. The ideal feel-good track for summer dancefloors and open-top driving. Available now.

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    Léa Sen announces her debut album LEVELS, out 30th May on Partisan Records

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    London-based French singer, songwriter, and producer LÉA SEN has announced details of her debut album, LEVELS, arriving on May 30th via Partisan. The first opus from one of the London scene’s brightest and most exciting stars promises a blend of experimental pop with slinky R&B, woozy trip-hop, and warm, smudged guitars — all refracted through a deeply immersive journey of memory, self-discovery, and emotional growth. Imagined as a surreal, liminal hotel where each room holds a diff...

    London-based French singer, songwriter, and producer LÉA SEN has announced details of her debut album, LEVELS, arriving on May 30th via Partisan. The first opus from one of the London scene’s brightest and most exciting stars promises a blend of experimental pop with slinky R&B, woozy trip-hop, and warm, smudged guitars — all refracted through a deeply immersive journey of memory, self-discovery, and emotional growth. Imagined as a surreal, liminal hotel where each room holds a different chapter of her life, the record plays with the tension between reality and dreamlike abstraction.

    Alongside the announcement, Léa shares the second single and centerpiece of the album, “lvl 6 – VIDEO GAMES,” which follows last month’s experimental pop gem “lvl 1 – HOME ALONE.” Her most defining artistic statement to date, the song’s sweet, buoyant flow reminisces on childhood gaming with her brothers, interrogating ghosts of memories and the blurred line between escapist fantasy and reality.

    Speaking about the track, Léa shares:

    “‘Video Games’ is a window into how my past continues to shape me—whether I welcome it or not. It’s a dance between memory and habit, between the world I saw as a child and the one I see now. Some things fade, some things linger, and some you simply learn to live with. The song explores both comfort and fear—how the past can weigh on you, but also how joy can always be found within it.”

    Check out “lvl 6 – VIDEO GAMES” above.

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    Leslie Winer ‘When I Hit You — You’ll Feel It’ Out 30th July 2021

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    When I Hit You — You'll Feel It Leslie Winer Out 30 July 2021
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    Leslie Winer returns with a 16 track anthology that celebrates the extraordinary work of the musician, poet, and author. This release spans Winer’s three-decade-long musical career: from her groundbreaking solo work in the early ‘90s to her latest inspired projects. Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Helen Terry, Jah Wobble, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, and others, the collection also spotlights Winer’s diverse collaborations, and unearths previously-unreleased rec...

    Leslie Winer returns with a 16 track anthology that celebrates the extraordinary work of the musician, poet, and author. This release spans Winer’s three-decade-long musical career: from her groundbreaking solo work in the early ‘90s to her latest inspired projects. Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Helen Terry, Jah Wobble, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, and others, the collection also spotlights Winer’s diverse collaborations, and unearths previously-unreleased recordings. Released via Light In The Attic records.

    Watch the video for ‘Skin’ above.

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    LOW ‘HEY WHAT’ out 10th September 2021

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    Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to turn the duality of existence into hymns we can share, Low present ‘HEY WHAT’.

    These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft. Layers of distor...

    Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to turn the duality of existence into hymns we can share, Low present ‘HEY WHAT’.

    These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft. Layers of distorted sound accrete with each new verse – building, breaking, colossal then restrained, a solemn vow only whispered. There will be time to unravel and attribute meaning to the music and art of these times, but the creative moment looks FORWARD, with teeth.

    ‘HEY WHAT’ is Low’s thirteenth full-length release in twenty-seven years, and their third with producer BJ Burton.

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    Luke Abbott ‘Translate’ out 20th November 2020

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    Posted on 24 November 2020
    Translate Luke Abbott Out 20 November 2020
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    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...

    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 puzzle boxes. I’ve been interested in puzzle boxes since I saw Hellraiser when I was about 11 years old, maybe I shouldn’t have seen that film so young. To me the track feels like a a huge opening in the earth, like a cosmic doorway, which is why it’s the opening track on the album.”

    In the time since his last solo record, Luke Abbott has had to re-forge his relationship with making music alone. His solo work has always been deeply entwined with his sense of self and during a tumultuous time in his personal life that needed to be re-evaluated, and so did the music along with it. The result is ‘Translate’, a record that sees Abbott with a renewed sense of purpose. Written, recorded and produced by Abbott – ‘Translate’ is a strikingly direct body of work that retains a great depth and fullness. At times dark and ominous, others bright and welcoming, this is Abbott’s sound fully realised and never so sure of itself.

    Abbott’s solo artist recording career may have recently taken something of a back seat, but his explorative six year sabbatical has clearly been put to good use, with plenty of mix and remix work, a new more dancefloor-directed alias Earlham Mystics and a productive new sideline in film, with two solo soundtracks to his name to date: fellow Norfolk native Guy Myhill’s The Goob (winner of Best Music at the 2014 Stockholm Film Festival and eventually released as 2015’s Music For A Flat Landscape album) and Jessica Hynes’ The Fight (released under the title Music From The Edge of an Island in 2019). But most pivotal of all was the 2016 formation of the experimental jazz trio Szun Waves together with Jack Wyllie of Portico Quartet (saxophone) and Laurence Pike of PVT (drums), with two Abbott produced and mixed fully-improvised albums to show for it so far (and number three in the pipeline), and jazz and electronic critics united in their acclaim. (“The result is that rarest of things: an improvised album that sounds so perfect, you’d think it was all planned,” said The Line Of Best Fit of 2018’s New Hymn to Freedom.)

    A key lesson came via the time-limited recording sessions which birthed the Szun Waves albums, which saw all three musicians holed up together in a studio for an intensive period of improvisation: it was this pressure to commit to the record which Abbott sought to emulate in the making of ‘Translate’. To this end, at various intervals throughout the summer of 2019 (eleven days over four months) Abbott left behind his own compact mix studio in Norwich to make the pilgrimage to close friend and co-conspirator James Holden’s laidback London studio complex Sacred Walls. Together with “engineer and spiritual guide” Holden, who remained on hand throughout to facilitate the free flow of Abbott’s musical experiments and offer gentle encouragement, the first task was to assemble a sort of speaker-henge of up to eight speakers dotted around the room to which the various individual component parts of each track were dispersed. Positioning himself in the centre of the room and sound, Abbott approached the recording as a series of improvised solo live performances through which the essence and optimal arrangement of each track could be gradually uncovered, and sometimes instantly revealed, as he felt out the permutations of his compositions in real time. A bonus microphone set up in the corridor of the building allowed diverting documentary snippets of West London industrial estate life to bleed into the recordings: serendipitously timed car horns (‘Kagen Sound’), screaming children and a distant radio (‘Earthship’).

    “I’ve always been interested in trying to capture spontaneity in music – there’s a moment of excitement when you first make something where it’s totally fresh and new, and that’s the moment I want to record,” explains Abbott. “So when I write music now I tend to spend a long time preparing and thinking about what I’m going to do, and then when I come to make it I work very quickly.” He likens his process to the Japanese Sumi-e ink painting technique: “a kind of zen ink painting style where you meditate and try and embody the spirit of what you’re trying to paint, then you paint very quickly with only one brush stroke allowed for each mark. My music probably isn’t as elegant and refined as ink painting, but there is a similar essence to the intention. It takes a long time to prepare yourself and you try and bring all of your expertise and life experience to the work, then you focus hard make it very quickly.”

    ‘Translate’ is an album born out of a process of personal psychological re-evaluation and the rediscovery of Luke Abbott’s own solo music-making practice, but as a widescreen soundtrack to the new now it also has much to offer. The world is awaking from its collective slumber and we individually stand poised on the cusp of new directions and personal transformation, and it just so happens that Luke Abbott has made a record about exactly that. In big old unprecedented 2020, Abbott now finds himself newly-reinvigorated, with a certainty and clarity that is becoming of his years; a multi-faceted all-rounder (artist, musician, performer, producer, mixer, composer) whose creative control also extends into the visual sphere, creating the mystical geometric symbols which adorn the Translate artwork as well as several yet-to-be-unveiled videos. As his improvisational journey continues, Luke would of course very much now like to head out to showcase the ‘Translate’ album across the
    world, social distancing measures permitting, ideally via special quadrophonic in-the-round performances which seek to emulate the album’s idiosyncratic “speakerhenge” recording method; but for now, the fully formed vision of the ‘Translate’ album (and perhaps the odd live stream) will have to suffice. Long may he translate life into sound.

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    Lump ‘Animal’ Out 30th July 2021

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    LUMP – a collaboration between London singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Domino Publishing) of the band Tunng – return with their second album, ‘Animal’, on  Partisan/Chrysalis.

    Half cute, half dark and creepy, the songs Marling and Lindsay create as LUMP are unlike anything from either of their respective other projects. Marling’s lyrics are spontaneous, immediate, and playful (she drew heavily on her interest in psychoanalysis). Meanwhile Lindsay creates an access...

    LUMP – a collaboration between London singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Domino Publishing) of the band Tunng – return with their second album, ‘Animal’, on  Partisan/Chrysalis.

    Half cute, half dark and creepy, the songs Marling and Lindsay create as LUMP are unlike anything from either of their respective other projects. Marling’s lyrics are spontaneous, immediate, and playful (she drew heavily on her interest in psychoanalysis). Meanwhile Lindsay creates an accessible electronic palette that borders on psychedelic. ‘Animal’ was recorded at Lindsay’s home studio in Margate, Kent and primarily constructed around his Eventide H949 Harmonizer, the same pitch-shifter David Bowie used on ‘Low.’

    As with the first album, Marling would arrive in the studio without having heard any of Lindsay’s music, with the hope that it would bring the lyrics an immediacy and a spontaneity. There were other sources of inspiration for Marling aside from psychoanalysis: half-memories, family stories, strange dreams; things she had read, or been told or imagined. “LUMP is so the repository for so many things that I’ve had in my mind and just don’t fit anywhere in that way,” she explains. “They don’t have to totally make narrative sense, but weirdly they end up making narrative sense in some way.”

    While creating ‘Animal,’ Marling was simultaneously working on her widely acclaimed, Mercury Prize and Grammy Award nominated solo album ‘Song For Our Daughter,’ and so working on LUMP material felt liberating and distinct. “It became a very different thing about escaping a persona that has become a burden to me in some way. It was like putting on a superhero costume.” She even goes as far as to say that sometimes it feels as if she might be “edging Laura Marling off a cliff as much as I can and putting LUMP in the centre.”

    Lindsay adds, “There’s a little bit of a theme of hedonism on the album, of desires running wild. We created LUMP as a sort of persona and an idea and a creature. Through LUMP we find our inner animal, and through that animal we travel into a parallel universe.”

    LUMP’s debut earned praise from The Guardian, Pitchfork, Needle Drop + more, with Under the Radar praising the record for its “seamless sense of direction…a living, breathing piece of art.”

    LUMP has also detailed a short UK tour that will follow the record’s release, including a night at the Scala in London on the 6th September.

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    Lunar Vacation drops new single “Set the Stage” and announces upcoming album

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    Atlanta five-piece indie band Lunar Vacation have announced their sophomore album, Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire, out September 13th via Keeled Scales. The album, produced in its entirety by Drew Vandenberg, sees the band embracing raw emotion and learning from mistakes. The result is an album that they say feels more organic than their previous works.

    The first single from the record, “Set the Stage”, is a whirling, melancholic love song written by band member Gep Repasky. Acco...

    Atlanta five-piece indie band Lunar Vacation have announced their sophomore album, Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire, out September 13th via Keeled Scales. The album, produced in its entirety by Drew Vandenberg, sees the band embracing raw emotion and learning from mistakes. The result is an album that they say feels more organic than their previous works.

    The first single from the record, “Set the Stage”, is a whirling, melancholic love song written by band member Gep Repasky. Accompanying the announcement is a mystifying music video directed by actor/musician Finn Wolfhard. Available above.

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    Lunar Vacation share second single off upcoming album

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    Lunar Vacation have released their second single of upcoming album, Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire, out September 13th via Keeled Scales.

    The new single “Sick” is the first track off the album. While simple on the surface, it is punctuated by rototoms, woodblock, and jaw harp. In this way, the song offers an unsettling introduction to the upcoming release, beckoning a coming apocalypse.

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    Malcolm Goldie ‘The Sound of Malcolm’

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    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

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

    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 thing I can compare it to is absolutely nothing. You’ll just have to listen.

    HISTORY:
    Hello. Meet Malcolm. He makes all sorts of things, including music. He makes lots of music in fact, for stuff like those Adidas trainers you are wearing, or those Nike Football boots worn by International soccer superstars. When these companies need something TOTALLY OFF THE FCKING WALL for their kooky advertising films Malcolm normally gets the call. He is a master of the cut and sonic stick, the accurate and intensely random, he makes the bizarre effortlessly more so. Jonny Trunk has known Malcolm a long time. So he thought it would be a groovy idea to ask Malcolm to make his debut LP for Trunk Records. And this totally unusual set of cues proves that this was not just a good idea, but that Malcolm does actually have a DeLorean and has travelled to the future, made an LP, brought it back and given it to us now. This is the future. Right now. A new sonic language even. And ITS FCKING GENIUS. And thank fck for that.

    Lynden Campbell (Domino Publishing) “imagine the sound of Atari ‘Pong’ whilst pinging an elastic band to Add N to X and you’ve got somewhere near the Sound of Malcolm”.

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    Matthew E White ‘K Bay’ out 10th September 2021

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    Matthew E. White has shared “Electric,” the ebullient second single from his new solo album K Bay due out on September 10. The track’s video, directed by Wes Parker, finds Matthew getting his hair trimmed for the first time in years, a cut as long-awaited as K Bay itself.

    “I wrote this song after listening to ‘Me, My Baby And My Cadillac’ by Sleepy Brown,” Matthew explains. “I wanted to write something so intentionally direct like that. When we recorded I wanted the ...

    Matthew E. White has shared “Electric,” the ebullient second single from his new solo album K Bay due out on September 10. The track’s video, directed by Wes Parker, finds Matthew getting his hair trimmed for the first time in years, a cut as long-awaited as K Bay itself.

    “I wrote this song after listening to ‘Me, My Baby And My Cadillac’ by Sleepy Brown,” Matthew explains. “I wanted to write something so intentionally direct like that. When we recorded I wanted the playing to come across raw, limit the instruments and let everything redline from start to finish. The lyrics are mostly pure 60’s bubblegum pop – think Brill Building Carole King – an homage to the overtly saccharine songwriting style of that era. There’s really an absurdity, and theater to it all.”

    The LP was produced by White and recorded between his beloved Kensington Avenue home studio (and album namesake) K Bay, Richmond’s Montrose Recording and his own local institution, Spacebomb Studio. K Bay finds the singer/songwriter, bandleader, and musical polymath expanding every facet of his creative process and harnessing the full power of his community, culminating in the best record of his career.

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    Mdou Moctar ‘Afrique Victime’ out 21st May 2021

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    '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...

    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 recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women’s rights, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.

    If “Ilana” was a late ’60s early ’70s ZZ Top and Black Sabbath record – “Afrique Victime” is mid-’70s to early ’80s Van Halen meets Black Flag meets Black Uhuru. The ferocity of Moctar’s electric guitar and the band’s hypnotic rhythm section are on awe-inspiring display “Chismiten” and the mournful yet incandescent title track. Elsewhere, Moctar finds inspiration in highlighting lesser-known facets of the group: “While people have gotten to know Mdou Moctar as a rock band, there is a whole different set of music with this band done on acoustic guitars, which we wanted to incorporate into this album in order to go through a sonic journey,” he says. Mdou pays homage to one of his heroes Abdallah Ag Oumbadagou, the legendary Niger musician and political revolutionary, on songs “Ya Habibti” and “Layla”. “Abdallah was a contemporary of Tinariwen and helped to pioneer the sound of Tuareg guitar music blended with drum machines and electronic sounds”.

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    The song ‘Tala Tannam’ featured in the video above is  a love song. “My love no matter where I go, you’re always on my mind I treasure you You know I never want to see you in tears I used stones to write your name in a heart Water can never wash it away because it’s surrounded by trees You know I never want to see you in tears Your laugh pleases me I adore your eyes and body shape My love no matter where I go, you’re always on my mind I treasure you You know I never want to see you in tears” – Lyrics to Tala Tannam

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    Melody’s Echo Chamber – réédition de son premier album + “UNFOLD” – 30 Septembre 2022

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    Domino Records a annoncé la sortie le 30 septembre d’une édition spéciale pour célébrer le dixième anniversaire de Melody’s Echo Chamber, le premier album éponyme de la musicienne française Melody Prochet. Enregistré et coproduit avec Kevin Parker de Tame Impala à Perth, en Australie, et finalisé dans le sud de la France, l’album est devenu une pierre angulaire de la nouvelle vague psyché à sa sortie en 2012.

    La réédition paraîtra simultanément à Unfold, sept titres ...

    Domino Records a annoncé la sortie le 30 septembre d’une édition spéciale pour célébrer le dixième anniversaire de Melody’s Echo Chamber, le premier album éponyme de la musicienne française Melody Prochet. Enregistré et coproduit avec Kevin Parker de Tame Impala à Perth, en Australie, et finalisé dans le sud de la France, l’album est devenu une pierre angulaire de la nouvelle vague psyché à sa sortie en 2012.

    La réédition paraîtra simultanément à Unfold, sept titres rares et inédits : ce qui aurait pu être la suite de Melody’s Echo Chamber sera disponible pour la première fois. La magnifique chanson éponyme, composée autour d’une guitare électrique euphonique et du timbre de fausset caractéristique de Melody, sort aujourd’hui, accompagnée d’une vidéo nostalgique réalisée par le vidéaste australien Matt Sav (Confidence Man, POND).

    Melody explique : “Pour moi, cette chanson capture l’ambivalence émotionnelle, comme un enfant qui trouverai un coquillage spécial caché dans le sable mais toujours habité par une créature de l’océan, je suppose que c’est le son de la libération de l’être aimé.”

    Melody’s Echo Chamber est une aventure hypnotique qui laisse parfois les sens en semi-conscience, pleine de chansons estivales et chatoyantes qui sonnent toujours aussi rêveuses et vivantes qu’il y a dix ans. À l’époque, Pitchfork l’avait qualifié de : “… pop enchanteresse, teintée de psychédélisme, avec juste ce qu’il faut de noirceur thématique”, tandis que le NME décrivait l’album comme “subtilement désorientant” et notait que Prochet avait créé une œuvre “aussi sombre que légère”.

    Prochet et Parker ont commencé à travailler sur ce qui était censé être le deuxième album en 2013, à Perth, une fois de plus. “L’album était terminé à cinquante pourcent, et puis notre relation n’a tout simplement pas tenu le coup”, dit Prochet. “Puis j’ai essayé de travailler dessus seule pendant quelques années, jusqu’à ce que je réalise que je me faisais vraiment du mal en faisant ça.” Dans un moment de frustration, Melody a supprimé une partie de la musique de ces sessions, qui est maintenant disparue à jamais, mais tout n’est pas perdu. Sept titres de cette période, réunis dans Unfold, sont disponibles pour la première fois en vinyle avec cette édition du dixième anniversaire.

    Unfold est un déluge de créations vertueuses coupé à un moment inopportun et conservé comme les ruines de Pompéi. Parmi ses points forts, citons le groove d'”Ocean Road”, l’ouverture lumineuse de “Pêcheuse de Lune” et l’envoûtant “Norfolk Hotel”.

    La décennie a été riche en événements pour Melody Prochet, qui a accompli beaucoup malgré certaines tribulations : elle est devenue mère et a créé trois albums appréciés et salués par la critique : Bon Voyage (2018) et Emotional Eternal (2022), sont deux ajouts essentiels à son œuvre effervescente et pleine de vie. Celui qui aurait pu être son deuxième album est un testament à la souffrance de la création et s’impose telle des vestiges historiques dignes d’être préservés.

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    Melody’s Echo Chamber (2012)
    1.     I Follow You
    2.     Crystallized
    3.     You Won’t Be Missing That Part of Me
    4.     Some Time Alone, Alone
    5.     Bisou Magique
    6.     Endless Shore
    7.     Quand Vas Tu Rentrer ?
    8.     Mount Hopeless
    9.     IsThatWhatYouSaid
    10.  Snowcapped Andes Crash
    11.  Be Proud of Your Kids
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    1.     Pêcheuse de Lune
    2.     Ocean Road
    3.     Norfolk Hotel
    4.     Unfold
    5.     From Pink They Fell Into Blue
    6.     Pieces of Sound
    7.     The Cure
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    Memorials announce debut album “Memorial Waterslides” out October 4th

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    Memorials, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms, have announced their upcoming debut album, Memorial Waterslides, out October 4th via Fire Records. This otherworldly, surrealist pop record is both timeless and timely, showcasing a rare blend of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes.

    Following the release of the June single “Acceptable Experience,” the announcement is accompanied by a brand new single from the album, “Cut It Like A Diamond”. Speaking on the rec...

    Memorials, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms, have announced their upcoming debut album, Memorial Waterslides, out October 4th via Fire Records. This otherworldly, surrealist pop record is both timeless and timely, showcasing a rare blend of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes.

    Following the release of the June single “Acceptable Experience,” the announcement is accompanied by a brand new single from the album, “Cut It Like A Diamond”. Speaking on the recent release, Memorials had this to say: “The song is underscored by a dark sense of despair—‘Can you hear the hum? Is there an end to loneliness?’—and has become a highlight to play live.”

    Enjoy the official music video for “Cut It Like A Diamond” above.

     

     

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

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    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 ...

    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 stepped into the role of composer on Music Life. The album, produced with husband Jesse Peterson, embraces the themes of motherhood and the creative life of the artist. The songs, autobiographical with a splash of mythology, continue her lyrical journey, from the deserts of Rajasthan to the coast of Bahia, from existential questions on mortality, sexual assault and overdose to the wonder and joy of caring for a young child.

    The songs are epic and cinematic. “Take Me to the Mountain” is a symphonic call to Nature’s healing powers. In the sea shanty “My Fisherman,” based on novelist Jorge Amado’s Sea of Death, Mia sings from the perspective of the mermaid and ocean goddess, Yemanja, about her lover, the allegorical fisherman, who faces the dangers of the sea to feed his family. Like the figure of the artist, he is always chasing the muse. “Little Bird” hides its secret source of sadness behind a sweet samba flair. Mia’s cover of “If I Don’t Have You” is a fragile, folky take on Gregory Isaacs’ classic lovers rock ballad, with lilting vocals and melodica floating above earthy percussion. “Daughter of Hope” finishes the album with a prayer for the future, amidst angelic choir and triumphant horns.

    Mia describes writing the title track “Music Life”:

    “The title track begins: “If you give your life to music, it opens up the path.” My musical path started when I was a teenager, taking singing lessons from my Silver Lake neighbor who was an opera singer. Not long afterwards, I began writing songs and finding my own voice. I followed indie rock bands and started playing shows around town. Gradually music came to consume most of my being! The song addresses the ups and downs of a musician’s life. I wrote it the night I came home from a dear friend’s memorial service, another of several musician friends who have passed away at a young age. The song morphs organically through background vocals and psychedelic guitars and ultimately emerges as a celebration of life lived fully.

    We recorded the basic tracks at Barefoot Recording (formerly Crystal Sound) in Hollywood, the studio where Stevie Wonder and others recorded many great albums. I played the 9 foot grand piano there and sang my heart out, surrounded by my musical friends and collaborators: Money Mark on organ, Jesse Peterson on rhythm guitar, Will Logan on drums, Andres Renteria on percussion and Brandon Owens on bass. The song comes to a final crescendo with Jeff Parker’s swirling electric guitar solos and the lyrics “If you give your life to music, no regret, don’t forget, I loved you.”

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

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    Nombrar Las Cosas Michelle Blades Out 05 June 2020
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    '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...

    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 unique sounds from her journeys, experiences and environments she lives in. Her curiosity drove her to journalism, skateboarding, filmmaking and of course to music, all while linking a strong cultural heritage. She grew up to a family of salsa pioneers in Central America; her uncle Rubén is a monument of the genre, her father a producer and composer, her grandmother was a Cuban pianist and singer… but event if music is omnipresent in her genes, it’s at the age of 16 years old that she allowed herself to speak the universal language. She learned to play guitar, bass, drums, keys, learned to play with her voice and to create variations and personify some characters in song.Michelle Blades’ universe creates a unique perception mixed with high mastery of the instruments she plays and arranges for. Rigorous and creative, she manipulates her music, experiments and allows herself total freedom in her creation, making her art evolve with her ideas and her passion, blending intensity, precision and gentleness.

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    Inevitably, travel, her past, her ideals, questions on identity, interpersonal rapports are centerpieces in Blades’ work. She confesses a predisposition to the 70s, a decade she perceives as a parallel to what we lives at this time: sexual liberation, feminism, racial and class struggles, an evolving society playing tug of war with the past generations, revolutionary ideas… many aspects that open possibilities and aesthetic to musicians. It makes one think of Frank Zappa and his completely free posture to creation, of David Byrne and his taste for deconstruction and social absurdity. She discovered this priceless freedom in Phoenix at 18 where she made friends with DIY culture. In 2010, she landed in France for the first time with a debut folk EP she would present all around the country. In 2012, Michelle Blades came back to the country where she met the Midnight Special Records family, a milestone in her career, working with and releasing all her material on the independent label thereafter. Composer, singer and director (« Retiens mon désir » or « Château perdu » for CléaVincent), solo or with a band, her name and signature have started to circulate. Between 2015 and 2016 she released the album Ataraxia and two Eps: Nah See Ya and Polylust. By this time, she was playing bass with Fishbach all around the world and still finding her time to record the intimate EP Premature Love Songs. In 2019, Michelle Blades released a new album, Visitor, with Midnight Special Records. A year after, she reveals Nombrar las cosas, a new EP entirely in Spanish.

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

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    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...

    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 lyrics of a more conceptual nature, Today We’re The Greatest is the open, uninhibited product of fearless collaboration. Showing a real vulnerability, Joy is pulling directly from her own experiences and breaking down barriers she had previously set for herself. About the new record, she said: “I want to make music that loves its listener. Music that makes people feel seen, seen in the tiny little places that hide away in their hearts. I want people to hear our music, and feel a sense of love. And when I say love, it can be challenging, intense and tough. But it’s in the guts.” She added: “It can be easier to live dualistically, splitting the world in two. We want to be able say it’s this or it’s that, but sometimes it’s both — and can we hold both? Can we hold the brokenness? Can we hold the beauty? That has definitely been a defining bit of this album, the fragility in that dance.”

    Single, “Questions”, is a charged three-minute odyssey which sees Joy struggle poetically with concepts of honesty and intimacy over an explosive rhythm section and a stunningly orchestrated brass-filled climax. As Joy explains, “Questions” is about the fallacies of intimate relationships; “I used to drink a lot and most of my previous relationships revolved around this. I don’t think I ever really knew them or they me as a result. Questions is about people being around each other but not being close. People who are in intimate relationships can stop asking questions of each other because they are uncomfortable and confusing.” The single is accompanied by a one-take video directed by the band’s cinematic collaborator, W.A.M Bleakley.

    “Questions” follows the release of the album’s first single, “R U 4 Me?”, which was the lead track of the week in The Guardian Guide who described it as “a nervy, Strokes-esque floorfiller about flailing around in search of emotional connection that still manages to be a sunny delight.” Other tracks on the album include “Run With You”, written when Joy was a few months into pregnancy with her and Tim Fitz, her husband and bandmate’s, first child. They recorded her 20-week sonogram, and wove the gentle, rapid thump of their baby boy’s beating heart into the last 20 seconds of the track — an exuberant declaration of devotion. Joy’s journey to motherhood and her marriage with Fitz has imbued her songs with a vibrancy that’s unabashedly romantic yet free of clichés. “Stacking Chairs,” with its unique allegories and Joy’s sunny vocals, strikes this delicate balance beautifully: it’s a testament to her deep connection with Fitz and the new, “infinitesimal” love that transformed their lives with their son’s arrival.

    Middle Kids’ critically acclaimed 2018 debut, Lost Friends, which was awarded Album of the Year by Triple J Radio and was also nominated for Best Rock Album at the ARIA Awards. The record also earned them support slots with the likes of Bloc Party, War on Drugs and Cold War Kids as well as several US TV show performances including Conan, Jimmy Kimmel and The Late, Late Show with James Corden.

    Singles: Questions and RU 4 Me

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    “Timeless songs that sound like immediate classics… Lost Friends is a treat” – Best Debut Album of 2018 – NME

    “Led by the powerful vocals of Hannah Joy, the trio deal in infectious indie pop-rock.” – The Sunday Times

    “Heartfelt, clever ruminations at the intersection of indie rock and alt-country”- Rolling Stone

    “they effectively thread the winsome early-’90s alt pop of Belly and the Cranberries with the big-tent ambitions of ’00s-era ensembles like Arcade Fore and The National” – Pitchfork

    “How does a band get this good, this quickly?” – Billboard

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

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    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.

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

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    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

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    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 album by Mike Polizze—and his first release for Paradise of Bachelors—finds the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine. Performed entirely by Polizze with longtime friend Kurt Vile (largely live and acoustic) and recorded by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. Long Lost Solace Find finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.

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    Mike Wexler with Synthetic Love Dream out 30th October 2020

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    '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. ...

    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. With November 2016 came the US election – sadly and suddenly the mood fit. But bringing the songs to life proved challenging. Something was missing.

    In April of 2017, after sharing several bills at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s Troost and elsewhere, Mike got together with Synthetic Love Dream – David Lackner, Adrian Knight, Max Zuckerman, and Mike Advensky – to play through some of the new material he’d been working on. It was something of a eureka moment. In this setting, with their accompaniment, the songs turned a new and different face to the light. Here was the missing piece – a well-oiled band able to realize these subtle and complex forms with lightness, playfulness, and consistency.

    This outsider “wrecking crew” of sorts backing up Mike can be found operating under a few aka’s: whether toeing the line between smooth(ish), borderline taboo sophisti-pop and seedy art-damage as Blue Jazz TV, or exploring the territory between long-form pitch study and minimal jazz ballad as Synthetic Love Dream, amidst a plethora of other projects centered around Lackner’s Galtta Tapes label. To get a handle on their sound in the context of this record, it might help to think of LA Express backing Joni Mitchell, with its jazz chops and sophistication, or perhaps Milton Nascimento’s lps recorded in the US, with Hancock, Shorter, et al. Or imagine, if you will, a mellow Lennon, backed by Fagen and Becker, with ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny at the console! Thinking along these lines might get you into the ballpark, but drop the needle and you’ll hear for yourself that this is the meeting of a singular writer and a distinct group of players. And while there’s undoubtedly something classic about this band playing these songs, that’s not to say it’s ‘classic rock’.

    Mike Wexler with Synthetic Love Dream is a record that’s as clear as it is layered and multifaceted. An odd couple collaboration nudging out past preoccupations with experimentation and sonics in favor of an approach that spotlights music first. Its directness is in service of a new kind of urgency – call it a plea for sanity: gentle, resolute, albeit never unaware of its own probable futility. The songs take up and adapt familiar tropes, reimagining and repurposing them. That which speaks to the present is carried forward, the rest goes by the wayside.

    “The tigers leap into the past.’ That’s how Benjamin once defined the revolution. The past has unfulfilled revolutionary potentialities that are only waiting for the right moment to resonate, to ‘pass the torch’, so to speak. Certainly this is a record haunted by the spirit of discarded utopias – peace & love, et al..Staring down the darkness of the present moment it seems these sentiments suddenly don’t feel quite as passé. The challenge is to mobilize them for a culture of deep cynicism. What we have here is a modest attempt to salvage this position for the 21st century – a reminder of common humanity, of the last flickering shadows of a despair-tinged hope.

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    Moon Bounce ‘Skip Intro’ out 21st February 2020

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    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...

    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, helium-soaked vocals and larger-than-life production create an immersive environment where lyrics like “please don’t blame me if I ask you to repeat what you just said, I was just imagining what it would be like to be dead” are repeated with a cheery disposition. You might want to laugh or you might want to cry but it’s this deadpan realism that makes Regensburg’s music so relatable and anything but one-dimensional.

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    The Moonlandingz announce new album ‘No Rocket Required’

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    The Moonlandingz are set to release their hotly anticipated sophomore album, No Rocket Required, via Transgressive on April 25, 2025—almost eight years after their daring debut album, Interplanetary Class Classics. Collaborations on the upcoming record include the likes of Iggy Pop, Nadine Shah, Jessica Winter, Ewan Bremner, as well as co-writes from Working Mens Clubs’ Sydney Minsky-Sargeant and Sean Lennon.

    Check out the music video to “The Sign of A Man” above.

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    Myrkur ‘Folkesange’ out 20th March 2020

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    Myrkur - Lyre / Video Demonstration (Leaves of Yggdrasil)

    It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new ...

    It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive.

    With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Amalie Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect.

    After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It’s an awareness that’s become deeply bound to the album’s organic, regenerative spirit, from the opening track Ella’s heartbeat, frame-drum percussion and crystalline vocals that become the grounding for a rapt, richly textured awakening, to the gentle carousel of the closing Vinter, with its nostalgia-steeped connotations of seasonal, snowfall-bewitched awe.

    Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music’s tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist’s approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre, and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past.

    But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Amalie’s frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level.

    themselves. Written by Amalie, Leaves Of Yggdrasil’s medieval cadences bind tragic love story and mythology, full of both fairytale wonder and deeply human foible. Tor i Helheim, its dreamily persistent rhythm redolent of both innocence and encroachment, is based on a poem from the Icelandic Eddas, relating a journey into the underworld of Hel where the sparse nature of the accompaniment becomes the medium that carries you along in its thrall.

    An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it’s a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent experiences are those closest to home.

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    The Mysterines ‘Reeling’ out 11th March

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    When it comes to pivotal life moments, having the mighty Nick Cave snatch a balloon out of your hands when you’re seven years old before smirkingly stomping on it is going to make you do one of two things. 1) Run off crying and forever commit to a quiet life or 2) Decide to be just like the big tall man who gets a kick out of scaring little kids. When it happened to Lia Metcalfe, she wisely decided to do the latter.

    On the 11th of March, Liverpool born and bred four-piece, The Mysterines, d...

    When it comes to pivotal life moments, having the mighty Nick Cave snatch a balloon out of your hands when you’re seven years old before smirkingly stomping on it is going to make you do one of two things. 1) Run off crying and forever commit to a quiet life or 2) Decide to be just like the big tall man who gets a kick out of scaring little kids. When it happened to Lia Metcalfe, she wisely decided to do the latter.

    On the 11th of March, Liverpool born and bred four-piece, The Mysterines, dropped their debut album ‘Reeling’, with catching opener, ‘Life’s A Bitch (But I Like It So Much)’. Building on the explosive energy of their 2020 3-track EP ‘Love’s Not Enough,’ The Mysterines bring us a signature, gigantic rock sound, that has sealed them as Amazon Music’s Ones To Watch 2022 and landed single, Dangerous, on 6 Music’s A-list. At just 20 years old, lead singer and writer Lia Metcalfe’s ‘confident attitude is felt at every turn… she opens up on themes of self-destruction and love, with a dark and intimate charm”

    “The first great British rock band of the post-pandemic era” – NME 

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    The Mysterines share new music video for “Sink Ya Teeth” off upcoming album ‘Afraid Of Tomorrows’

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    Merseyside alternative rock band The Mysterines have released a video for their latest single “Sink Ya Teeth, the second track to be taken from their highly-anticipated new album Afraid of Tomorrows, due for release on 7th June via Fiction Records.

    The upcoming record Afraid of Tomorrows is a deeper and darker foray into The Mysterines’ psyche than its predecessor, and reflects the maturity and growth of the band. Secluded away in the British countryside during the making of the album, Th...

    Merseyside alternative rock band The Mysterines have released a video for their latest single “Sink Ya Teeth, the second track to be taken from their highly-anticipated new album Afraid of Tomorrows, due for release on 7th June via Fiction Records.

    The upcoming record Afraid of Tomorrows is a deeper and darker foray into The Mysterines’ psyche than its predecessor, and reflects the maturity and growth of the band. Secluded away in the British countryside during the making of the album, The Mysterines have undergone a radical transformation over the past few years.

    The band is set to embark on their biggest headline tour to date this Autumn. The 16-date run will kick off in Dublin on 18th October and include a stop at London’s iconic O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, culminating in Paris on 8th November.

    Check out the video for “Sink Ya Teeth” above.

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    The Mysterines ‘Reeling’ out 4th March 2022

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    Directed and edited by Sam Crowston & Lia Metcalfe

    Hotly tipped Liverpool bunch The Mysterines have announced the details for their upcoming debut album.

    Titled ‘Reeling’, the full-length is set to arrive on 11th March 2022 via Fiction Records.

    “It’s a pretty ambiguous title for most people, but for me ‘Reeling’ sums up every emotion of the album in just one word,” frontwoman Lia Metcalfe explains. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she explains.

    The news also comes alongside a new single, ‘Hung Up’. Spe...

    Hotly tipped Liverpool bunch The Mysterines have announced the details for their upcoming debut album.

    Titled ‘Reeling’, the full-length is set to arrive on 11th March 2022 via Fiction Records.

    “It’s a pretty ambiguous title for most people, but for me ‘Reeling’ sums up every emotion of the album in just one word,” frontwoman Lia Metcalfe explains. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she explains.

    The news also comes alongside a new single, ‘Hung Up’. Speaking about the new track, Lia says: “Hung Up is pretty self explanatory and I intended it to be that way. It’s also a very revengeful song.”

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    New Iglooghost album ‘Tidal Memory Exo’. Out May 10th

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    Genre-defying Irish producer Seamus Malliagh AKA Iglooghost returns to the fold with an enthrallingly dark and blistering new album, Tidal Memory Exo, out May 10th. The latest album hears the Bristol-based, DIY polymath crank things up a notch, taking the fore as a vocalist and pushing the boundaries of his own sonic universe.

    Released via LUCKYME® Records, Tidal Memory Exo weaves mystifying narratives into his idiosyncratic productions. Malliagh creates a multi-sensory musical world that s...

    Genre-defying Irish producer Seamus Malliagh AKA Iglooghost returns to the fold with an enthrallingly dark and blistering new album, Tidal Memory Exo, out May 10th. The latest album hears the Bristol-based, DIY polymath crank things up a notch, taking the fore as a vocalist and pushing the boundaries of his own sonic universe.

    Released via LUCKYME® Records, Tidal Memory Exo weaves mystifying narratives into his idiosyncratic productions. Malliagh creates a multi-sensory musical world that sounds as organic as it does hyper-digital, and as frantic as it does meticulous.

    Iglooghost will performing at Fabric, London, on the 5th June 2024.

     

     

     

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    Night Moves release ‘Ring My Bell’ the second single from their forthcoming album DOUBLE LIFE

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    Minneapolis-based band Night Moves have released “Ring My Bell,” the second single from their forthcoming album Double Life, out July 25th via Domino Records. Following the “colorful” (Stereogum) and “gorgeous” (Guardian) lead single “Hold On To Tonight,” “Ring My Bell” is its musical and emotional counterpart, with lead singer John Pelant extending an invitation to be asked for help whenever times get inevitably tough, all above the spring-loaded rhythm of drummer Mark H...

    Minneapolis-based band Night Moves have released “Ring My Bell,” the second single from their forthcoming album Double Life, out July 25th via Domino Records. Following the “colorful” (Stereogum) and “gorgeous” (Guardian) lead single “Hold On To Tonight,” “Ring My Bell” is its musical and emotional counterpart, with lead singer John Pelant extending an invitation to be asked for help whenever times get inevitably tough, all above the spring-loaded rhythm of drummer Mark Hanson, bassist Micky Alfano and guitarist Charles Murlowski. 

    Double Life is a cozy and cool LP built largely from a string of very rough breaks that frontman John Pelant and Night Moves have navigated in recent years. Alongside the ever-vexing question for artists about when they’re supposed to step into the responsibilities of adulthood and maybe away from the lifelong compulsion to create, especially as Pelant started thinking seriously about marriage for the first time in his life. Pelant is the sort of songwriter who starts with the music—inspired of late by Glen Campbell and Bobby Caldwell, Cleaners from Venus and early ’90s country, and (as ever) Gram Parsons—and then writes lyrics only after he’s sat with the tune a spell. But this time, these songs are direct documents of Pelant’s life as he searches for silver linings or at least valuable meanings during a moment when very little seemed golden. Double Life is about moving through, not moving on. 

    Additionally, Night Moves have announced their huge 2025 North American Tour with stops including a hometown release show at Minneapolis’ First Avenue, two nights at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, two nights at San Diego’s The Casbah, D.C.’s The Atlantis, Philadelphia’s Johnny Brenda’s, Los Angeles’ Teragram and more. 

    The single is released alongside a new video by longtime collaborator Shawn Brackbill – check it out above.

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    Nilüfer Yanya drops third single “Call It Love” from upcoming album

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    Nilüfer Yanya has released the third single from her upcoming album, My Method Actor, which will be out on September 13th via Ninja Tune. The album, which includes the latest single “Call It Love”, has been beautifully co-written in its entirety by Nilüfer and Domino Publishing artist Will Archer.
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    Nothing ‘The Great Dismal’ out 30th October 2020

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    The Great Dismal, NOTHING’s new full-length album explores existentialist themes of isolation, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland.

    Closing in on the band’s ten-year mark, frontman Domenic Palermo finds himself stringing together songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia with a refined and refreshed take on NOTHING’s classic sound.

    “The Great Dismal refers to a swamp, a brilliant natural trap where survival is custom fit to its inhabitants,” Paler...

    The Great Dismal, NOTHING’s new full-length album explores existentialist themes of isolation, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland.

    Closing in on the band’s ten-year mark, frontman Domenic Palermo finds himself stringing together songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia with a refined and refreshed take on NOTHING’s classic sound.

    “The Great Dismal refers to a swamp, a brilliant natural trap where survival is custom fit to its inhabitants,” Palermo states. “The nature of its beautiful, but taxing environment and harsh conditions can’t ever really be shaken or forgotten too easily.”

    The ever progressive NOTHING keep true to their chaotic outlook on life, keeping a keen eye to avoid repetition. With a radical cast of talented contributors such as harpist Mary Lattimore, classical musician Shelley Weiss, and singer/songwriter/producer Alex G., The Great Dismal showcases yet another essential side of the band’s trademark American Post-Shoegaze.

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    One True Pairing ‘Zero Vulnerability’ EP out 24th April 2020

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    One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming released his eponymous debut album in 2019. The record was shaped by class frustration and self-despair, and continued the exploration of masculinity that made his previous band Wild Beasts so unique.

    Zero Vulnerability is a phrase Tom coined on his UK tour at the end of last year as he found himself for the first time in his career solo, front and centre facing the crowd, alone but finding solace and strength from its simple mantra.

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    One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming released his eponymous debut album in 2019. The record was shaped by class frustration and self-despair, and continued the exploration of masculinity that made his previous band Wild Beasts so unique.

    Zero Vulnerability is a phrase Tom coined on his UK tour at the end of last year as he found himself for the first time in his career solo, front and centre facing the crowd, alone but finding solace and strength from its simple mantra.

    One True Pairing live stream via Twitch last night, with proceeds going to the NHS. You can watch the show back here – Fleming performed the new EP and a selection of covers including Richard Dawson.

    Zero Vulnerability comprises four acoustic versions of album tracks from One True Pairing; stripping the songs to their bare bones on the EP also removes the anger and swagger in them. Displays of strength can often hide weakness and bringing Fleming’s voice to the fore reveals the vulnerability to be found in his lyrics.

    As he sings on “Elite Companion”: “It’s a race to the bottom, doesn’t matter what it takes, no one escapes”, Fleming highlights fractures within our society and the effect that has on all of us. Explaining the release further, Fleming adds: “After making something of a racket and clatter of a rock record, I cut that impulse back and wanted to make something that, on the surface at least, was more gentle and comforting.” Choosing to share Zero Vulnerability now, One True Pairing wants to offer some reassurance with the EP’s parting words: “Tonight tonight tonight tonight, I’m alive”.

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    One True Pairing album out 20th September 2019

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    Former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Tom Fleming, shared the first taste of his new direction with single “One True Pairing”, the titular track of the upcoming record. With its refrain – “We’ve been kicked our whole lives and I’m not afraid, But I won’t go back down to that place again” – Tom sets his intention for One True Pairing. The second single from the self-titled album, “I’m Not Afraid” punches out with the refrain – “We’ve ...

    Former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Tom Fleming, shared the first taste of his new direction with single “One True Pairing”, the titular track of the upcoming record. With its refrain – “We’ve been kicked our whole lives and I’m not afraid, But I won’t go back down to that place again” – Tom sets his intention for One True Pairing. The second single from the self-titled album, “I’m Not Afraid” punches out with the refrain – “We’ve been kicked our whole lives and I’m not afraid, But I won’t go back down to that place again”.

    “I wanted to write about the real world, I didn’t want it to be an artistic, poised, tasteful record, it’s neo-heartland rock” says Tom Fleming. “One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all.”

    Tom’s musical touchstones were Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Tom Petty alongside Depeche Mode and Swans. He wrote and played everything himself and then brought in Ben Hillier (Nadine Shah, Graham Coxon) on mixing and production duties.

    One True Pairing is an album shaped by class frustration and self-despair and there is a continuation of the exploration of masculinity that made Wild Beasts so unique. As well as being deeply personal, OTP has a wider political resonance. “This country is going through a terrible moment and if you listen to the art nobody seems to give a shit,” Fleming says emphatically. He believes that class is entirely discounted from the current conversation about inclusivity and privilege. In its 11 songs of discordant guitar and aggressive synth Fleming channels his discontent with Britain in 2019 and a “feeling of directionless rage and cheatedness which hasn’t gone away.”

    PRESS:

    “A fascinating new direction” Q 4*

    “An experimental and deeply idiosyncratic record” Mojo

    “Like an Alan Sillitoe short story set to a late-era Depeche Mode song” Uncut

    “A singular talent” DIY 4*

    “A bold move for a man embarking on a new chapter” The 405

    “The sonic influences may be pure rose-tinted Americana, but make no mistake; This Is England” Dork 4*

    “I wanted to write about the real world, I didn’t want it to be an artistic, poised, tasteful record,” says Tom Fleming of his first solo album, released under the name One True Pairing; “I wanted this to be a rock album, a protest vote against the field of good taste. One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all.” The former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist is back with a self-titled debut that’s shaped by class frustration and self-despair. In its 11 songs of discordant guitar and aggressive synth Fleming channels his discontent with Britain in 2019 and a “feeling of directionless rage and cheatedness which hasn’t gone away.”

    Fleming recalls the end of Wild Beasts at their final gig at Hammersmith Apollo in February 2018 as something of a reality check, coinciding with serious health issues and money trouble. “I felt numb and spent a couple of days in the pub afterwards, to continue that numbness,” he reflects; “I felt good about it in the fullness of time, but it wasn’t a particularly nice period, though I’m proud of what we did and it was as amicable as breakups get”. It was only after a long period of adjustment that he found the spirit to work out what to do next. “I never write anything unless I think people are going to hear it, I’m not one of these people who sits around at home making tracks on Ableton all day – I have to have pressure and feel like somebody cares,” Fleming explains. “I wish I had more of a sense of honest labour, but there’s a quicksilverness to it – I would like to present myself as a working man’s artist, but there’s a sense that it happens when it happens.” As the turmoil in Fleming’s life after the end of the band that he’d been part of for all his adult life receded, things started to change. “Once the fog cleared, I realised that this is fuel, it’s going on the furnace,” he says. The first demos Fleming sent to Laurence Bell of Domino were one microphone, acoustic guitar and shouting, laid down on the same four track cassette recorder he used to first make music as a teenager. “It was really raw,” he says of this desire to connect with his youthful self, “I felt that I wanted it to have a directness and a tastelessness to it”. 

    His musical touchstones were Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Tom Petty and Def Leppard – “big rock songs, but as it went on it started to be Depeche Mode and noisier stuff, along with Swans and Bonnie Prince Billy and the kids making hip hop, using a kick drum, a high hat and that’s it – it’s production, it’s electronic music, but it’s as small as you can make it.”  The record was fleshed out down in the Sussex studio of Ben Hillier, who contributed drums and modular synth to the album. “I didn’t want a roll call of guests, I wanted it to be ‘no I can do this’, for the synths to be cutting, digital, nasty. I really didn’t want to make a singer-songwriter record – there’s nothing less interesting than a bald guy with a hat on and an acoustic guitar. This is my sub-Reddit for all the romance and hope and rage and failure and hard-won victory I’ve seen and continue to see.”

    This seething blend of difficult emotions is explored in One True Pairing’s palette of taut and clipped guitar that flickers between New Wave and even at times 80s MOR titans Dire Straits, looming synths, trickling melodies. Above it all Fleming’s voice, ranging from haunting despair to croon like a Yorkshire Scott Walker, is at its best of his career, giving life to “the angry northern Springsteen record that I’d always wanted to make.” He says that “I want to be obvious in what I’m saying – it’s neo-heartland rock”. These “heartlands” are the moors above Bradford or Cumbernauld, “places where people live their whole lives and do these things and succeed and fail.” Within this there’s a continuation of the exploration of masculinity that made Wild Beasts so unique. “There’s a despair about it, being shown images of masculinity that either you’re expected to be, or people assume you are. Even in today’s environment you get these reflections at you.” Other big themes of the album are heard in ‘Zero Summer’, an exploration of the gravity of expectations on masculinity, and in tracks like ‘King Of The Rats’, repeated patterns of behaviour. As was the case in Wild Beasts, Fleming continues to wrestle with the complexities of male identity, looking critically back over his own life as he does so. “I always get very annoyed with things that come from the position of observer,” he says. “I want it to be from the place it purports to be from”. The characters in his songs are exaggerations of people who he grew up alongside, or himself, and how it feels to try and discover a sense of yourself within masculinity in a small northern town. ‘Weapons’, for instance, “is about male violence and how you’re marinated in it, from shit role models, hopelessness, fighting, even porn; all this contributes to a sense of who you should be”. Then there’s the sense that he’s always had, that even as a musician, he’d never be welcome in the middle-class world of the arts, as reflected in ‘Elite Companion’.

    But as well as being deeply personal, One True Pairing has a wider political resonance. “This country is going through a terrible moment and if you listen to the art nobody seems to give a shit,” Fleming says emphatically. He believes that class is entirely discounted from the current conversation about inclusivity and privilege, “which is why working-class men are so angry”. In this and through his lyricism, “Brexit looms large, why people voted for it, the Left’s response – it’s been a very depressing episode and nobody has written about it adequately. It suddenly gave people a chance to talk about these divisions that they’d never had before.” He still sees prejudice tolerated and encouraged everywhere, fuelled largely by stereotyping and wilful blindness. “Look at me, I’m the lumpen feckless proletariat – that’s what we’re telling people? Fuck. I’m on their side, deep down, that’s what it comes down to, I’m on the side of those getting shit on. That’s what I’m writing about, from that perspective. I know what it feels like to get patronised and shoved into a corner too, and I am far from unique.”

     

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    One True Pairing announces new album “Endless Rain” out October 25th

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    One True Pairing, also known as Tom Fleming, former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, has announced his second solo album, Endless Rain, to be released October 25th via Domino. Recorded in Dublin at Hellfire Studios, Endless Rain is an ambitious and all-encompassing record quite unlike anything in Fleming’s back catalogue. Sonically, the record is ambitious and curious, and was engineered by Fleming’s long-term collaborator, Josh Taylor-Moon. The announcement ar...

    One True Pairing, also known as Tom Fleming, former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, has announced his second solo album, Endless Rain, to be released October 25th via Domino. Recorded in Dublin at Hellfire Studios, Endless Rain is an ambitious and all-encompassing record quite unlike anything in Fleming’s back catalogue. Sonically, the record is ambitious and curious, and was engineered by Fleming’s long-term collaborator, Josh Taylor-Moon. The announcement arrives alongside a new single, “A Landlord’s Death”, featuring a wonderful arpeggio from Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada on the fiddle.

    A music video, directed by Michael Julings, is available above.

     

     

     

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    Optic Sink out 2nd October 2020

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    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...

    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 features a Trumptopian critique delivered over instrumentation that sounds like a new wave chase theme. “Personified is a chaotic reflection on the far-reaching shadows of the dystopia we’re living in. The contrasting textures in the song underline the tension between human and machine, and where that line is blurred,” Hoffmann describes.

    Optic Sink eschew computers for a warmer, decidedly human soundscape. Hoffmann’s power and the tension she generates between human and machine, evokes Maria — the rebellious teacher – turned – Maschinenmensch in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and Ripley, the swaggering, sacrificing heroine of Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise. Dadaism and the Bauhaus movement could both be cited as influences; so might the existentialist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and the jump-cuts of Maya Deren.

    These are eight fully defined, atmospheric collages crafted with plenty of room for Hoffmann to play and test an artillery of sounds. “It’s about the evasive search for comfort: the human need to have freedom from pain, and for ease in a fixed system made to exploit,” Hoffmann says of the album, which she partially wrote during an extended musical residency at the Memphis creative complex Crosstown Arts.

    “I lost two people who were inexpressibly important to me in 2018 and 2019, and it completely derailed me from working on music at all for a while. After I was able to focus on music again, the solitary and meditative endeavor of writing songs for Optic Sink became a form of therapy for me and a way of working through the grief and shock of these losses. So as much as this record is informed by the repercussions of our current political climate, it’s also shaped by a looming sense of loss.”

    Optic Sink defy categories, shape-shifting from cold wave to psychedelia to distorted noise rock. In the process—which frequently occurs in a single song—they claim unchartered territory as they cathartically fragment and reassemble sounds, concepts, and verbal constructs. The conflict they define is life in America in 2020, finding beauty in the journey despite what the final resolution might be.

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    Otta ‘Songbook’ EP out 10th July 2020

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    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....

    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. In her teens, acoustic guitars and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy inspired her to write songs (she’d do this in her bathroom), and at 16 she won a place at the Brit School, which introduced her to jazz and electronic production. These elements inform her sound now, as do additional details from producer Kwes (Solange, Loyle Corner, Nubya Garcia), who discovered Otta on SoundCloud and signed her to his own label, Bokkle.

    Otta’s debut EP, After It All Blew Over, came out in January, its vibe smoky and soulful, as its title suggests. Songbook’s style is much more playful, recalling the club-bound moments of early Björk, as well as new acts such as Jockstrap. On songs like ‘Never See’, Otta’s vocals are layered in delicious waterfalls of sound. Radiophonic Workshop-like electronic burbles travel through others, such as Hope Extension and Suihku. The effect is of warm, jittery waves that carry the listener in their swell. The Guardian

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    Owen Pallett ‘Island’ out 22nd May 2020

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    Island, the latest album from Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett, is out on Domino / Secret City Records (Canada).

    VIDEO SHOWN: conceived and filmed during the pandemic by director Vincent René-Lortie, and choreographed by Brittney Canda. The dancers—ranging in age from 6 to 72—were filmed with no physical contact, entirely through windows and doorways, including a care facility on strict lockdown.

    “Honestly, at first I wasn’t sold on the concept,” says Pallett....

    Island, the latest album from Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett, is out on Domino / Secret City Records (Canada).

    VIDEO SHOWN: conceived and filmed during the pandemic by director Vincent René-Lortie, and choreographed by Brittney Canda. The dancers—ranging in age from 6 to 72—were filmed with no physical contact, entirely through windows and doorways, including a care facility on strict lockdown.

    “Honestly, at first I wasn’t sold on the concept,” says Pallett.  “I worried that the video would end up pornographing the quarantine, and I declined.”  Convinced by the director’s enthusiasm, Owen moved forward. After seeing the near-final cut, “I was floored,” Owen says.  “I couldn’t believe how cathartic it was to see the video, how perfectly it fit the song, and how meaningful and necessary it was for me to see it when I did.”

    Almost entirely acoustic, Island begins with 13 darkened chords, and was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios with the London Contemporary Orchestra. The introduction is sound of waking up—alone, and on the shore of a strange land. What follows is a shimmering and luscious orchestral album that draws across the full breadth of Pallett’s discography, from Heartland’s Technicolor to the glittering, fingerpicked guitar that marked Pallett’s first records with their trio, Les Mouches.
    Island is about being alive, asking why, and all the most hideous stuff of life. The songs don’t divulge the answers.  “I don’t know what’s happening next, guys,” Pallett warns.

    For the first time, Pallett—who has a lifetime of classical training—created an album without brooding over the way it might be performed on stage. This wasn’t easy:  Pallett’s initial reputation was founded on their live virtuosity, playing violin for groups including Arcade Fire and the Hidden Cameras, and a solo fiddle and loop-pedal act, under the name Final Fantasy. Pallett’s second release as Final Fantasy, 2006’s He Poos Clouds, was awarded the inaugural Polaris Music Prize.

    In addition to Pallett’s Grammy award-winning work with Arcade Fire, Pallett’s commissions have included string, brass and orchestral arrangements for Frank Ocean, Caribou, the Last Shadow Puppets, the National, The Mountain Goats, Christine and the Queens, R.E.M., Linkin Park, Sigur Rós, Taylor Swift and the Pet Shop Boys. Since the release of In Conflict (2014), Pallett has earned an Oscar nomination for their film scoring work on Spike Jonze’s Her, and an Emmy for Sølve Sundsbø’s Fourteen Actors Acting. Their score for Matt Wolf’s Spaceship Earth, a documentary about a crew who spent two years quarantined inside a replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2, is out now.

    “I grab the hem and lift the fabric over my sweet head,” Owen Pallett sang once, years ago. “I know what you’re looking for / and I’m never gonna give it to you.”

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    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom release “Reset Mariachi EP”

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    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, the duo of Noah Lennox (Animal Collective) and Pete Kember, release the Reset Mariachi EP, a reworking of two tracks from their critically acclaimed 2022 LP Reset, re-recorded with the Mexico City outfit Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez. The release today marks the two-year anniversary of the original album.

    The EP features two Spanish-language versions of “Peligro (Danger)” and “Viviendo en las Secuelas (Livin’ in the After),” one sung by Panda Bear and S...

    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, the duo of Noah Lennox (Animal Collective) and Pete Kember, release the Reset Mariachi EP, a reworking of two tracks from their critically acclaimed 2022 LP Reset, re-recorded with the Mexico City outfit Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez. The release today marks the two-year anniversary of the original album.

    The EP features two Spanish-language versions of “Peligro (Danger)” and “Viviendo en las Secuelas (Livin’ in the After),” one sung by Panda Bear and Sonic Boom and one sung by the vocalists of Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez, with both featuring instrumentals from the mariachis, including guitarrón, vihuela, guitar, trumpet, and strings.

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    Panda Bear announces new album “Sinister Grift” out February 2025

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    Panda Bear, the solo project of Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox, has announced his new full-length Sinister Grift, due February 28th 2025 via Domino Recordings. Lennox recorded the album at his Estudio Campo in Lisbon, Portugal and co-produced it with his Animal Collective bandmate Josh Dibb. He further shares the album’s first single “Defense,” which features Cindy Lee, the persona of Canadian musician Patrick Flegel, on guitar.

    On Sinister Grift, Lennox’s first solo album in five ...

    Panda Bear, the solo project of Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox, has announced his new full-length Sinister Grift, due February 28th 2025 via Domino Recordings. Lennox recorded the album at his Estudio Campo in Lisbon, Portugal and co-produced it with his Animal Collective bandmate Josh Dibb. He further shares the album’s first single “Defense,” which features Cindy Lee, the persona of Canadian musician Patrick Flegel, on guitar.

    On Sinister Grift, Lennox’s first solo album in five years, Panda Bear has returned with another statement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog. While his solo records have ranged from starkly intimate expressions of grief to colorful, electronic opuses, his music has never before sounded so warm and immediate. 

    Check out “Defense” (ft. Cindy Lee) above.

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    Parquet Courts ‘Sympathy For Life’ out 22nd October 2021

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    Parquet Courts have announced their new album ‘Sympathy for Life’. It arrives October 22 via Rough Trade and it features the lead single “Walking at a Downtown Pace.” The track arrives with a new video directed by street photographer Daniel Arnold.

    ‘Sympathy for Life’ evolved from a series of improvised jam sessions and was produced alongside Rodaidh McDonald and John Parish. The album is inspired by New York Clubs, Primal Scream, and Pink Floyd.

    The band has also announced The...

    Parquet Courts have announced their new album ‘Sympathy for Life’. It arrives October 22 via Rough Trade and it features the lead single “Walking at a Downtown Pace.” The track arrives with a new video directed by street photographer Daniel Arnold.

    ‘Sympathy for Life’ evolved from a series of improvised jam sessions and was produced alongside Rodaidh McDonald and John Parish. The album is inspired by New York Clubs, Primal Scream, and Pink Floyd.

    The band has also announced The Power of Eleven—a series of 11 “global happenings” with unique merch. A recent event in Manhattan included the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corp Marching Band performing the new single “Walking at a Downtown Pace” and flying a Parquet Courts flag.

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    Pedro the Lion shares two new singles from upcoming album ‘Santa Cruz’ out June 7th

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    “Spend Time” and “Don’t Cry Now” are the latest releases from Pedro the Lion’s upcoming album Santa Cruz, out June 7th via Polyvinyl and Big Scary Monsters. The third album from artist David Bazan, covers the ages of around 13 to 21- navigating the switch from boyhood into becoming a young adult. Most crucially during this time period, is where Bazan discovered The Beatles. Santa Cruz is a nostalgia fuelled trip down memory lane, whilst remaining close to the modern indie-electro...

    “Spend Time” and “Don’t Cry Now” are the latest releases from Pedro the Lion’s upcoming album Santa Cruz, out June 7th via Polyvinyl and Big Scary Monsters. The third album from artist David Bazan, covers the ages of around 13 to 21- navigating the switch from boyhood into becoming a young adult. Most crucially during this time period, is where Bazan discovered The Beatles. Santa Cruz is a nostalgia fuelled trip down memory lane, whilst remaining close to the modern indie-electronic feel Bazan does so well.

    Visualisers for both “Spend Time” and “Don’t Cry Now” are available online now, and you can check out the synth-heavy “Don’t Cry Now” above.

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

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    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...

    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 thoughtful songwriting.

    Across the album, various themes weave in and out – from the mortality of the Curtis Stigers-evoking In Line To Die, to the metaphorical herding of society on the title track and Fences Ranchers and Cattle Prods. But Oren’s most certainly got an itch too – mobile phone technology and the algorithms of social media – which he scratches deep into on Whole World. While the song is steeped in country traditions, his life is firmly immersed in the now – and semantically the song could not be of any other time – ‘I’ve got the whole world in my hands / I’ve got not plans as I scroll and scan / Waiting for the page to load, as my connection slows / There are screens even in my dreams… I skip the essay expose, for memes and videos of dogs doing human things / Who could’a seen it, who would’a known we’d have WIFI in hell?’

    This, his third record, is also the first time he’s overseen almost the entire process alone – having spent the record’s advance on equipment. And it’s certainly a justified decision. The finest example of his astute ear for arrangement and production is Free – a spacious, rousing number that could be filed next to Damien Jurado’s The Horizon Just Laughed in terms of scope.

    So if you’re looking for a little headspace during this quite unusual of times, Peter Oren has carved out a beautiful little corner of the world – it’s called The Greener Pasture – and it makes for a lovely escape.

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    Peter Perrett releases first single off upcoming album “The Cleansing” out November 1st

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    There is typically talk of a ‘second coming’, but much less, if at all, of a ‘third coming’. However, that’s what Perrett’s third album, The Cleansing, epitomises – set for release on November 1st via Domino Recording Co. This week, Perrett has shared the lead single and opening track, “I Wanna Go With Dignity”.

    “I Wanna Go With Dignity” is a tight three minutes and 25 seconds laced with Perrett’s deadpan wit and alarming honesty, marking the start of a new era, energy...

    There is typically talk of a ‘second coming’, but much less, if at all, of a ‘third coming’. However, that’s what Perrett’s third album, The Cleansing, epitomises – set for release on November 1st via Domino Recording Co. This week, Perrett has shared the lead single and opening track, “I Wanna Go With Dignity”.

    “I Wanna Go With Dignity” is a tight three minutes and 25 seconds laced with Perrett’s deadpan wit and alarming honesty, marking the start of a new era, energy, and approach. Alongside his trusted team of sons Jamie (guitar/production) and Peter Jr (bass), plus members of his live band, Perrett is assisted by a roster of starry guests including Johnny Marr, Bobby Gillespie, Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell, and Dream Wife guitarist Alice Go.

    Perrett’s uniquely narcotic and alluring melodies, gorgeous South London drawl, and ravishing rock dynamic are now allied to a wider span of musical arrangements and lyrical concerns – touching on themes of art, addiction, ageing, social media, and witch trials, among others.

    Check out “I Wanna Go With Dignity” above.

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

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    ‘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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    Porches ‘All Day Gentle Hold !’ out 4th March 2022

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    Porches, the musical alias of New York artist Aaron Maine, returns to announce his fifth album, All Day Gentle Hold !. A peek at the album arrives in the form of “Okay” and its accompanying video, directed by Maine. After a year of isolation, “Okay” bursts open with a banging determination to reconnect with the world.

    Maine says, “I recorded this album in my room between October 2019 and April 2021. The world was flipped and I wanted to make something injected with as much love, u...

    Porches, the musical alias of New York artist Aaron Maine, returns to announce his fifth album, All Day Gentle Hold !. A peek at the album arrives in the form of “Okay” and its accompanying video, directed by Maine. After a year of isolation, “Okay” bursts open with a banging determination to reconnect with the world.

    Maine says, “I recorded this album in my room between October 2019 and April 2021. The world was flipped and I wanted to make something injected with as much love, urgency, and lust for humanity as I possibly could.”

    Watch the “Okay” video above.

    All Day Gentle Hold ! is a celebratory collection of songs. Harder, faster, shorter and louder than any other Porches record, it’s direct and pointed, charged up and chaotic, described by Maine as “the most energetic, off-the-cuff moments, collaged together into the most captivating songs [he] could make.”

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    Porches ‘Ricky Music’ out 13th March 2020

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    Directed by Nick Harwood & Aaron Maine

    Featuring contributions from Zsela and Dev Hynes, with co-production by Jacob Portrait, ‘Ricky Music’ expands on the Porches discography (The House, 2018; Pool, 2016; Slow Dance In The Cosmos, 2013) by delivering 11 emotionally open, cracked-glass pop songs.

    About his album, Aaron Maine says:
    “My new album, Ricky Music, was written and recorded between Dec 2017 and the spring of 2019.  Mostly in New York at my apartment, but some of it in Chicago, Los Angeles, and various cities while tour...

    Featuring contributions from Zsela and Dev Hynes, with co-production by Jacob Portrait, ‘Ricky Music’ expands on the Porches discography (The House, 2018; Pool, 2016; Slow Dance In The Cosmos, 2013) by delivering 11 emotionally open, cracked-glass pop songs.

    About his album, Aaron Maine says:
    “My new album, Ricky Music, was written and recorded between Dec 2017 and the spring of 2019.  Mostly in New York at my apartment, but some of it in Chicago, Los Angeles, and various cities while touring around Europe. This record is an account of the beauty, confusion, anger, joy and sadness I experienced during that time. I think I was as lost as I was madly in love.  In these songs I hear myself sometimes desperate for clarity, and other times, having enough perspective to laugh at myself in some of my darkest moments.  That’s sort of what this album is about, I hope you enjoy it.”

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    Porches announce sixth album ‘Shirt’ and release single “Joker”

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    Shirt Porches Out 13 September 2024
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    Porches, the recording project of NYC’s Aaron Maine, announces his sixth studio album Shirt, out September 13th via Domino Records. A fusion of chaotic impulses, insatiable desires, and a perpetual yearning, Shirt plays with the tension between one’s person and persona.

    Latest single “Joker” features an intoxicating kick, and “God’s grace” is repeated like a mantra, nodding to a pastoral and stereotypical Americana. Out now.

     

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    Protomartyr ‘Ultimate Success Today’ out 17th July 2020

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    'Processed By The Boys' Director: David Allen

    Ultimate Success Today is Protomartyr‘s fifth album. Following the release of Relatives In Descent, the band’s critically acclaimed headlong dive into the morass of American life in 2017.

    The video for ‘Processed By The Boys’, directed by David Allen & Nathan Faustyn and produced by HLPTV & LooseMeat.Biz, is a play on a bizarre Brazilian TV clip the band became infatuated with. A man sings to a studio audience, while a member of the audience becomes enraged by a puppet, le...

    Ultimate Success Today is Protomartyr‘s fifth album. Following the release of Relatives In Descent, the band’s critically acclaimed headlong dive into the morass of American life in 2017.

    The video for ‘Processed By The Boys’, directed by David Allen & Nathan Faustyn and produced by HLPTV & LooseMeat.Biz, is a play on a bizarre Brazilian TV clip the band became infatuated with. A man sings to a studio audience, while a member of the audience becomes enraged by a puppet, leading the whole situation to devolve into total chaos. “As soon as we heard the concept, we knew how to take the band’s ideas and coalesce them into this sort of timeless public access chaos,” says Faustyn. “Because of the nature of HLPTV & LooseMeat.Biz and who we are – professional and hobbyist technicians – we knew we could pull off a really strange, funny and sardonically dark compendium to this song that is equally such.”

    “There is darkness in the poetry of Ultimate Success Today,” says punk legend, founding member of the Raincoats, and friend of the band Ana da Silva. “The theme of things ending, above all human existence, is present and reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Our world has reached a point that makes us afraid: fires, floods, earthquakes, hunger, war, intolerance…There are cries of despair. Is there hope? Greed is the sickness that puts life in danger.”

    “The re-release of our first album had me thinking about the passage of time and its ultimate conclusion,” says singer Joe Casey of Ultimate Success Today. “Listening to No Passion All Technique again, I could hear myself hoping for an introduction and a long future, but also being cognizant that it could be ‘one and done’ for us. So, when it came time to write Ultimate Success Today, I was reminded of that first urgency and how it was an inverse of my current grapple with how terribly ill I’ve been feeling lately. Was that sick feeling coloring how I felt about the state of the world or was it the other way around?”

    “This panic was freeing in a way. It allowed me to see our fifth album as a possible valediction of some confusingly loud five-act play.  In the same light I see it as an interesting mile marker of our first decade of being a band – a crest of the hill along a long highway. Although just to cover my bases, I made sure to get my last words in while I still had the breath to say them.”

    “There are exquisite, subtle gifts from other instruments that always heighten the guitar, instead of fighting with it,” explains da Silva. “They help to create a harmonious wall of sound all of its own. This was intentional. Greg Ahee wanted to use different textures other than pedals, and the drone quality of some of those instruments colours the guitar and the whole sound with a warm, rich in reverb, yet all-consuming landscape for Joe Casey’s voice.”

    Protomartyr is Joe Casey (vocals), Greg Ahee (guitars), Alex Leonard (drums), and Scott Davidson (bass guitar). ‘Ultimate Success Today‘ was recorded at Dreamland Recording Studios, a late 19th century church, in upstate New York and co-produced by the band and David Tolomei (Dirty Projectors, Beach House) with mixing by Tolomei. Featured guest musicians on the album include Nandi Rose (vocals) a.k.a. Half Waif, jazz legend Jemeel Moondoc (alto sax), Izaak Mills (bass clarinet, sax, flute), and Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello).

    VIDEO: ‘Michigan Hammers’

    Singer  Joe Casey ’s voice is forceful and insist:“ The Michigan Hammers are on their way // A chant from the end of the bar, not all of them on pills // Break apart the surface lot // What’s been torn down can be rebuilt // What has been rebuilt can be destroyed . ”

    The accompanying video was directed by  Yoonha Park, who was responsible for the band’s “ Wheel of Fortune ” and “ Don’t Go To Anacita ” videos, and was built entirely of found stock footage. “This video is a retelling of a well-known Michigan folk tale that describes timeless themes of greed, power, death and rebirth and nothing short of the conflict of good and evil,” says Park.

    Joe Casey further explains:“Couldn’t make a ‘proper’ video due to the miasma. So why not make one using what tools remain? That’s sort of what MICHIGAN HAMMERS is about I think – building with rubble. It’s probably about that and mules, syndicates, too many parking lots, camaraderie, the ideal happy hour, failure, and takin ‘what they’re givin’ ’cause we’re workin’ for a livin ‘until we start takin’ it to the streets. Or something like that. “

    VIDEO: ‘Worm in Heaven’ Directed and Photographed by Trevor Naud

     

    “‘Michigan Hammers’…races along on chattering, virtually nonstop quadruple-time cymbals and guitars erupting in bursts of syncopated chords.” – The New York Times

    “Bleakly poetic, boozily hilarious punk-rock gems” – Rolling Stone

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    Protomartyr return with album Formal Growth In The Desert accompanied by video for lead single Polacrilex Kid

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    Formal Growth In The Desert Protomartyr Out 02 June 2023
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    Since their 2012 debut, No Passion All Technique, Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage. Formal Growth In The Desert was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas and whilst Casey did have a humbling experience staring at awe-inspiring Sonoran rock formations and reckoning with his own smallness in the scheme of things, the group’s sixth album is not ne...

    Since their 2012 debut, No Passion All Technique, Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage. Formal Growth In The Desert was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas and whilst Casey did have a humbling experience staring at awe-inspiring Sonoran rock formations and reckoning with his own smallness in the scheme of things, the group’s sixth album is not necessarily a nod to the sandy expanses of the Southwest. The record proves Detroit, too, is like a desert. “The desert is more of a metaphor or symbol” Casey says, “of emotional deserts, or a place or time that seems to lack life.”  

     

    On Formal Growth In The Desert, the desert brings an existential awareness that is ultimately internal. The “growth” came from a period of colossal transition for Casey, including the death of his mother, who struggled with Alzheimer’s for a decade and a half. Now 45, Casey had lived in the family home in northwest Detroit all his life. Immortalized in Protomartyr’s essential SPIN cover story, the neighborhood informed many of Protomartyr’s acclaimed albums, serving as a base through the band’s growth from scrappy punks to ones capable of touring the globe or bringing in The Breeder’s Kelley Deal as a touring member in 2020. In 2021, though, a rash of repeated break-ins signaled that it was time to finally move out. 

     

    Protomartyr’s music — more spacious and dynamic than ever — helped pull Casey up. “The band still being viable was very important to me,” Casey adds, “and it definitely lifted my spirits.” Having long served as Protomartyr’s unofficial musical director, guitarist Greg Ahee co-produced Formal Growth In The Desert alongside Jake Aron (Snail Mail, L’Rain). Ahee knew what Casey was going through and the challenges he’d been processing, and as Ahee was conceptualizing the music, he thought about how to make it all “like a narrative film.” Ahee explains, “I started to write at home on a piano and on a keyboard and then play along to short films, and watch how you can affect and heighten moods as you play.” The filmic sensibility is manifest in Casey’s storytelling, too, whether he’s critiquing ominous techno-capitalism or processing aging, the future, and the possibility of love.  

     

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

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    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...

    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 way our intentions were sincere and for the good of all living things.

    Album release on Heavenly featuring guest appearances from Chas Jankel, Lias Saoudi, Teri Walker, Andy Jenkins and Man & The Echo.

    Last seen a couple of years back on his debut long-player Stop Lying, Raf has also shared Ample Change (ft. Lias Saoudi), the second track to be taken off the album following Monsterpiece on which he roped in the legendary Chas Jankel to provide his distinctive touch.

    Featuring on the cover a striking Keith Haring meets the Green Man image from acclaimed artist and long-time collaborator Ben Edge, the picture wasinspired by the folk tale of the giant of Dawson, who is both male & female, human and vegetation and lived in the imagination of Dawson’s Hill, a stretch of South London parkland a stones throw away from Dawson’s Heights, the flats featured on the cover of Raf’s debut Stop Lying.

    Edge and Rundell, for reasons they can’t entirely comprehend, concocted a rite which took place the first full moon after this year’s summer solstice (the results of which can be seen in the short film trailer for the album). This involved the giant – also known as Tommy Hill Figure – being created on Dawson’s Hill.

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    Rafiq Bhatia announces new EP in collaboration with pianist Chris Pattishall

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    Each Dream, A Melting Door Rafiq Bhatia Out 21 February 2025
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    Each Dream, A Melting Door (ANTI-) is Bhatia’s first solo release since co-scoring 2023’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture Everything Everywhere All At Once with his bandmates in Son Lux, where they earned Oscar and BAFTA nominations for their head-spinning score and worked with David Byrne, André Benjamin, and Mitski.

    New technological integrations have allowed Bhatia to merge his last decade of development as an electroacoustic composer back into his practice as an improvising guita...

    Each Dream, A Melting Door (ANTI-) is Bhatia’s first solo release since co-scoring 2023’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture Everything Everywhere All At Once with his bandmates in Son Lux, where they earned Oscar and BAFTA nominations for their head-spinning score and worked with David Byrne, André Benjamin, and Mitski.

    New technological integrations have allowed Bhatia to merge his last decade of development as an electroacoustic composer back into his practice as an improvising guitarist, using real-time sampling and manipulation to express and develop multiple worlds of sound at once. As a result, it’s easy to forget that everything audible on this EP besides the piano is…guitar.

    Forwards and in reverse, up and down the octaves, Bhatia multiplies the sound of the instrument, transfiguring it into an orchestra of whistling wind tunnels, booming sub-sonics, storms of noise and melodic waves that combust and fragment. 

    Each Dream, A Melting Door is out on the 21st of February, and it’s first instalment “The Voice of Love”, is available above.

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

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    txt ur x Ragz Originale Out 06 March 2020
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    '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...

    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 for other people to put out your work.

    Released in the Autumn of 2018, Ragz’ debut solo project ‘Nature’ featured 10 tracks and was routed in alternative R&B and rap sounds, featuring Georgia, CARTAE and Ji Nilsson.

    Ragz’s  single ‘4am’ with Eliza teases what will be on offer on his now-released ‘txt ur x’ EP, which is said to resemble a “succinct, disciplined document of independence, featuring a hand-picked list of guests”. This EP will also feature Ragz Originale’s new song, ‘Jennifer’. Read our review of the project here.

    The opening of ‘4am’ is electric, where we immediately hear Eliza’s cool vocals before transitioning into Ragz’s rapping. This continues throughout the entire song, where we hear Ragz and ELIZA’s voices flowing effortlessly back and forth between each other. The production (done by Ragz himself) is layered and intricate, forming a smooth and sexy beat. The music video is sleek and features appearances from some of the Mini Kingz crew. A nice contrast was that Eliza was surrounded by darker lighting in shades of blues, red and purple, whereas Ragz was in much brighter lights with pops of colour such as yellow.

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    Ragz Originale ‘WOAH’ out 29th January 2020

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    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...

    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 and alternative electronic music. ‘mirrors’ is an atmospheric opener with it’s nuanced soundscapes and dreamy vocals from Laura Groves. ‘OG lullaby’ is a deliciously modern R&B song, in hushed tones Ragz sings about the pitfalls that come with growing success over a timeless yet forward-thinking beat. ‘nightcap’ sees Ragz effortlessly go back and forth with up and coming rapper, John Glacier on what may be one of his catchiest tracks to date whilst the slick ‘send 4 u’ is a moody ode to after hour calls and late night lovers whilst ‘brush u’ is a sultry brand of West African influenced R&B oozing with rich harmonies and island vibes. The futuristic bounce of ‘ring out’ featuring one of London’s latest talents, 24hoursav sees Ragz manoeuvring into exciting new areas with its pulsating deep bass and mystifying sounds with the mixtape closing with the twinkling, dream-like sounds of ‘low frequency’.

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    Real Estate ‘The Main Thing’ out 28th February 2020

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    The Main Thing Real Estate Out 28 February 2020
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    Directed by Nick Roney for Stink Films & Callen

    Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. ‘The Main Thing’ dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictio...

    Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. ‘The Main Thing’ dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks.

    ‘The Main Thing’ arrives with a fresh commitment the members of Real Estate – Alex Bleeker (bass), Martin Courtney (vocals, guitar), Matthew Kallman (keyboards), Julian Lynch (guitar, vocals), and Jackson Pollis (drums and drum programming) – have made to each other, 10 years and 5 full-length LPs into a career spent crafting unmistakable and influential palettes of sound.

    Following his work on 2011’s Days, engineer Kevin McMahon returns as producer, and, for the first time ever, Real Estate have brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests. Across the 13 interrogative tracks – as full of depth, strangeness, and contradictions as they are lifting hooks – the band balances existential, environmental, and political anxieties with fatherly sentiments, self-satirizing lyrics, forever-lively guitar lines, and shimmering strings.

    On single – ‘Paper Cup’ and the making of ‘The Main Thing’, Martin Courtney says:
    “Paper Cup is a song about getting older and realizing that this thing that I fell into doing over ten years ago – being a musician, writing songs, being a guy in a band – this may end up being my life’s work. Watching the people around me change and evolve, take on new challenges, and feeling sort of stuck in a rut, in a way. Feeling uncertain of the validity of being an artist in an age of climate change and general political and social unrest around the world. 

    It’s a song about questioning your chosen path in life and searching for meaning in what you do.

    Those questions don’t really get resolved in this song, but ironically, the process of making this record – really diving deep and trying to make it the best thing we’ve ever made – reaffirmed in me, and I think in all of us in this band, why we are doing this.”

    Primary songwriter Martin Courtney explains, “Even before we decided where to record or who to record it with, I knew it needed to sound that good,” but as Alex Bleeker adds, “We discovered through the care and attention that we brought to this record that making music to resonate with other people is our catharsis. The ‘main thing’ is following your path of inspiration and hoping to inspire that in people around you.” 

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    Renaud Letang presents DRIFT – ‘That’s All’ first single from AT THE PARTY – Out Junes 6th on ANIMAL63 –

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    DRIFT - THAT'S ALL DRIFT (by Renaud Letang) Out 21 February 2025
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    The art of Renaud Letang invites you into an intimately interconnected world. From inside his studio, the Grammy-nominated producer––behind some of the most canonised albums of the last few decades––is a therapist, a problem solver, and skilled technician who transforms the spaces he occupies into playgrounds for artists. Now, debuting as DRIFT and unveiling his own project titled AT THE PARTY – out June 6th and produced by Letang and Chilly Gonzales – Letang creates music that is...

    The art of Renaud Letang invites you into an intimately interconnected world. From inside his studio, the Grammy-nominated producer––behind some of the most canonised albums of the last few decades––is a therapist, a problem solver, and skilled technician who transforms the spaces he occupies into playgrounds for artists. Now, debuting as DRIFT and unveiling his own project titled AT THE PARTY – out June 6th and produced by Letang and Chilly Gonzales – Letang creates music that is designed to be felt as much as heard.

    Today, Letang shares a new track from DRIFT ISLAND ‘That’s All’ featuring a truly global cohort of artists: prolific Dutch songwriter and musician Benny Sings, Californian rapper Chuuwee, New Zealand’s psychedelic artist and experimentalist Connan Mockasin & Zurich based singer-songwriter Mel D – all artists who have remained strongholds in Letang’s orbit, each shining on this record while operating in their own specific but complementary lanes. Recorded at the famous Studio Ferber in Paris, the song uses nostalgia as a tool for examination, ruminating on the past through a deeply personal connection between childlike curiosity and music.

    Born in 1970 in Iran to French parents, his childhood was spent in far-flung locales—Tehran, Paris, Indonesia, and Venezuela—and his father, a classical jazz pianist, would play for hours each night. His omnipotence from ’88 onwards is virtually unmatched. At 18, he began as an engineer in Paris at the revered Guillaume Tell studio. For the next three years, he led the reigns as the main assistant, breathing life into hall-of-fame songs before the world would hear them. A baby-faced presence among stars like Prince, Ray Charles, and Charles Aznavour.

    In 1990, Letang picked up a side gig as Jean-Michel Jarre’s engineer, offering a foundational rupture in his career when he oversaw the sound production for Jarre’s timeless La Défense concert. After turning down Phil Ramone’s offer to join him in the US, Letang branched out as a freelancer, working on albums like The Silencers’ So Be It and Manu Chao’s Clandestino and Próxima Estación: Esperanza. The wild style forged in these collaborations anchored these lasting relationships that define his career.

    In the early 2000s, eager to step out of his comfort zone again, the stars aligned when Chilly Gonzales moved to Paris, opening the doors to a partnership. Introducing Letang to his friend Feist, Gonzales suggested they collaborate—a connection that culminated in Let It Die (made without label backing), and later The Reminder (2007), Metals (2011), and Pleasure (2017). The pair forged a close-knit circle, counting Gonzales, Feist, Peaches, Jamie Lidell, and Mocky at its core—where Letang’s trusted vision spanned six of Mocky’s albums.

    By the mid-2010s, Letang continued to grow his solo repertoire. While producing a live show for Charlotte Gainsbourg, where Connan Mockasin’s band was performing, he met and eventually found another creative allegiance with Mockasin, Infinite Bisous, and LA Priest, resulting in crackling albums like With Love, Soft Hair and Jass Busters.

    Whether mastering the oud for Palestinian ensemble Le Trio Joubran, or picking up international acclaim mixing the renowned Mali musicians Amadou & Mariam’s Foila––Letang’s work maps out his vast social and cultural foundations. Conceptualised alongside Chilly Gonzales at Studio Ferber in Paris, every offering as DRIFT is an act of love in that sense, prepared with great care. It’s the culmination of countless years of experience and a childhood immersed in the language of music, guided by one of the few producer-turn-artists with the range to pull it off.

    A meeting of maverick minds, his collaborations with Feist, Connan Mockasin, Jamie Lidell, Saul Williams, Benny Sings, Mocky, Philippe Katerine, and Infinite Bisous reflect years of creative synergy. The narrative unfolds like a coming-of-age tale, exploring the complexities of feeling adrift in a world made for connection. DRIFT ISLAND is music made for the end of a rooftop barbecue, when the sun dips, the beer is nearly done, and everyone who doesn’t want to be there has gone already. Here, you can be honest, goofy, even silent.

     

    DRIFT ISLAND Tracklisting:

    1. AT THE PARTY feat. Connan Mockasin, Benny Sings, Feist, Philippe Katerine, Infinite Bisous
    2. COSMIC DRIFT feat. Chuuwee, Vladimir Cosma
    3. TRÈS GENTIMENT IN WAIMEA feat. Philippe Katerine
    4. ONE BY ONE feat. Mel D
    5. THAT’S ALL feat. Benny Sings, Chuuwee, Connan Mockasin, Mel D
    6. PAPAYA
    7. PAPAYA (Chilly Gonzales Piano Version)
    8. WORKING ON ME feat. Feist, Philippe Katerine, Jamie Lidell, Benny Sings
    9. PUPPY LOVE feat. Benny Sings
    10. CHRISTMAS IN WAIMEA feat. Infinite Bisous

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    Richard Dawson & Circle ‘Henki’ out 26th November 2021

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    Henki Richard Dawson Out 26 November 2021
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    Cinematography: Stanley Schtinter, Susu Laroche

    Richard Dawson is the diminutive Geordie troubadour whose moving songs have been described as state-of-the-nation addresses, even — or perhaps especially — when he’s singing about pre-medieval peasants. Circle are the genre-straddling pioneers of The New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal, known for wearing spandex or dead fish onstage and singing in a made-up language.

    Together they are… Richard Dawson & Circle! We are pleased to announce news of their collaborative album Henki, d...

    Richard Dawson is the diminutive Geordie troubadour whose moving songs have been described as state-of-the-nation addresses, even — or perhaps especially — when he’s singing about pre-medieval peasants. Circle are the genre-straddling pioneers of The New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal, known for wearing spandex or dead fish onstage and singing in a made-up language.

    Together they are… Richard Dawson & Circle! We are pleased to announce news of their collaborative album Henki, due November 26th via Weird World. Their epic joint record might seem a departure to those who are most familiar with Dawson from recent solo albums like 2017’s Peasant and 2020. In fact, Henki fits comfortably into the bigger picture of two acts who have always strived for uninhibited originality.

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    Richard Dawson ‘Republic of Geordieland’ out 7th August 2020

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    Posted on 03 November 2020
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    "Two Halves" from the album '2020'
    “I found it ok at first but a couple of months into lockdown I started to feel quite down about all the unplayed gigs and lost moments, a bit more anxious than usual and pretty disconnected. So I wanted to make something small (but proper) to try and reconnect. I hope this collection might be something hopeful, or at least a useful distraction.
    I had the title ‘Republic of Geordieland’ in my head for years and always envisaged it would be some grand overblown quadruple-vinyl prog-folk o...
    “I found it ok at first but a couple of months into lockdown I started to feel quite down about all the unplayed gigs and lost moments, a bit more anxious than usual and pretty disconnected. So I wanted to make something small (but proper) to try and reconnect. I hope this collection might be something hopeful, or at least a useful distraction.
    I had the title ‘Republic of Geordieland’ in my head for years and always envisaged it would be some grand overblown quadruple-vinyl prog-folk opera or suchlike. Well, it’s not that. It’s turned out to be a dilapidated, disparate collection of instrumentals and vocal pieces that I’ve made during lockdown, as well as a couple of things that’ve been knocking about for ages but which never found a home.
    Frankly, it’s a dog’s dinner. But a dog’s dinner may still offer some nourishment!
    There’s a couple of songs on here I wrote for Matt Stokes’ fine film This Liberty, which I really like to sing. There’s also a long guitar and drum-machine spa called ‘The Minotaur of Cowhill’, which I hope is the aural equivalent of a maze. And, as a proud Newcastle United supporter, I’m pleased to submit a new guitar piece bearing the name of our friendly city’s anti-racist motto, ‘We are black and white’.”credits
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    Róisín Murphy ‘Róisín Machine’ out 2nd October 2020

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    “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...

    “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 “Incapable”, to the quintessential “Narcissus” which crystallised New-Disco and established a high watermark for the genre, to “Murphy’s Law”, a 70s inflected stomper, “Roisin Machine” offers up everything you could ask for on an exquisite plate. Added to the familiar tunes are five new songs, including the Dalek-funk of ‘We Got Together’ and the fantastical “Shellfish Mademoiselle”. An album that works perfectly on the home sound system but also comes alive in a basement sweatbox, it impeccably sits alongside Murphy’s stellar cannon of work released across 25 boundary pushing, trailblazing years, a career encompassing iconic music, directorial, art and fashion moments.

     

    Domino publish 4 songs:  Narcisist, Murphy’s Law, Jealousy and Simulation

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    Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy ‘Son’ out 12th November 2021

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    Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy have announced a new collaborative album. Son is out November 12. They’ve shared the album’s title track, which arrives with an accompanying poem by Julianknxx.

    The album was recorded in London and Freetown between 2019 and 2021. Inspired by Lowe and Timothy’s love of choral music, Son features contributions from Daniel Koroma, Kandeh Bangura, Valentine Coker, Chino Greene, and Tom Herbert. “We were interested in bringing our surroundings into the re...

    Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy have announced a new collaborative album. Son is out November 12. They’ve shared the album’s title track, which arrives with an accompanying poem by Julianknxx.

    The album was recorded in London and Freetown between 2019 and 2021. Inspired by Lowe and Timothy’s love of choral music, Son features contributions from Daniel Koroma, Kandeh Bangura, Valentine Coker, Chino Greene, and Tom Herbert. “We were interested in bringing our surroundings into the recordings; leaving doors open, recording in different spaces and locations, inviting the listener to experience the life that was going on around us whilst capturing the process,” the duo said in a statement.

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    Rosie Lowe ‘Now, You Know’ out 1st September 2021

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    Rosie Lowe has returned with a new mixtape, ‘Now, You Know’, released in full via Blue Flowers. Forced, like many, to cancel her plans as the pandemic hit last Spring, Rosie Lowe retreated to a cabin in the Devon woods, converting a tiny shed into a studio to write in isolation. What emerged from those sessions was a playful, experimental, collection of songs – sparse, warped-vocal meditations ‘Freedom’ and ‘Say The Name’ juxtaposed with the groove-laden ‘I’ve Got You’ and...

    Rosie Lowe has returned with a new mixtape, ‘Now, You Know’, released in full via Blue Flowers. Forced, like many, to cancel her plans as the pandemic hit last Spring, Rosie Lowe retreated to a cabin in the Devon woods, converting a tiny shed into a studio to write in isolation. What emerged from those sessions was a playful, experimental, collection of songs – sparse, warped-vocal meditations ‘Freedom’ and ‘Say The Name’ juxtaposed with the groove-laden ‘I’ve Got You’ and ‘Would You Stay?’ and straightforward lyrical exorcisms on ‘No Idea’ or ‘Good Guy’. Empowered and emboldened following her departure after almost a decade from the Universal-owned Wolf-Tone Records, Lowe fully embraced her freedom to explore every creative impulse.

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    SAADI (self titled) out 13th July 2020

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    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 ...

    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 sound that would lend itself to a sweaty dance floor or a darkened bedroom.

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    Sad13 ‘Haunted Painting’ out 25th September 2020

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    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...
    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, reconciling with a delayed processing of grief, Dupuis felt unable to create new music.

    At the Frye Gallery in Seattle, a ghost spoke to her—or an approximation of one. It was an early 20th century painting of the dancer Saharet by German expressionist Franz von Stuck, one of many haunted-seeming gold-framed oil paintings in the gallery: washed-out faces, under-eye circles, expressions that told stories. Looking at these portraits, she related. And she started to write.

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    Sam Mehran ‘Cold Brew’ out 28th July 2021

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    Over his 15-year career, Sam Mehran started a lot of projects and played in a lot of bands. He released everything from pugnacious dance-punk to mesmeric disco loops; unhinged hip-hop beats to perfectly poised pop songs. Having passed away in July 2018, he left behind a body of work that’s diverse, but never unfocused. As a songwriter, guitarist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Sam possessed an instinctive understanding of popular music, able to break down a genre’s formal nuances ...

    Over his 15-year career, Sam Mehran started a lot of projects and played in a lot of bands. He released everything from pugnacious dance-punk to mesmeric disco loops; unhinged hip-hop beats to perfectly poised pop songs. Having passed away in July 2018, he left behind a body of work that’s diverse, but never unfocused. As a songwriter, guitarist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Sam possessed an instinctive understanding of popular music, able to break down a genre’s formal nuances and stylistic subtleties and remake them in his own image.

    Cold Brew, out on July 28th via Weird World to coincide with the third anniversary of Sam’s passing, is a posthumous collection of instrumental rock music that Sam recorded in Los Angeles between April and May 2018. Compiled under the guidance of Sam’s father, Abbas Mehran, and curated by Sam’s friends Nicholas Weiss and Katie Wagner, it’s the first time that Sam’s solo music will be released under his own name.

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    Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties) joins Domino Publishing

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    Domino Publishing are happy to announce the signing of Sarah Tudzin the writer, producer, mixer and engineer of Los Angeles based rock band ‘Illuminati Hotties‘. We look forward to seeing what she does next following on from the success of her latest album ‘Let Me Do One More’. Watch the music video for ‘Pool Hopping’ above, an energetic single that cements her as an exciting creative powerhouse.

    Illuminati Hotties will be performing at London’s Moth Club and Brighton’s Great...

    Domino Publishing are happy to announce the signing of Sarah Tudzin the writer, producer, mixer and engineer of Los Angeles based rock band ‘Illuminati Hotties‘. We look forward to seeing what she does next following on from the success of her latest album ‘Let Me Do One More’. Watch the music video for ‘Pool Hopping’ above, an energetic single that cements her as an exciting creative powerhouse.

    Illuminati Hotties will be performing at London’s Moth Club and Brighton’s Great Escape Music Festival this summer as part of their UK tour, see the full tour dates here.

     

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    Sasami announces third studio album “Blood on the Silver Screen” and shares music video for lead single

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    SASAMI has announced the details of her highly anticipated third album, Blood On the Silver Screen, set for release on 7th March 2025 via Domino Recordings. On it, the multi-talented artist combines her classical, conservatory-trained expertise as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless, bombastic stage persona to create what is arguably her most fully realised work to date: an all-out SASAMI pop album.

    “This record is all about learning and respecting the craft of pop songwritin...

    SASAMI has announced the details of her highly anticipated third album, Blood On the Silver Screen, set for release on 7th March 2025 via Domino Recordings. On it, the multi-talented artist combines her classical, conservatory-trained expertise as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless, bombastic stage persona to create what is arguably her most fully realised work to date: an all-out SASAMI pop album.

    “This record is all about learning and respecting the craft of pop songwriting, about surrendering to illogical passion, obsession, and guiltless pleasure,” SASAMI explains. “It’s about embracing the chaos of romance and the sweeping devotion of romanticism—romanticism to the point of self-destruction.”

    Nothing exemplifies this more than the wistfully optimistic album opener and lead single, “Slugger,” released alongside an explosive video directed by Crystalline Structures Studio. On the track, SASAMI name-drops Dolly Parton, Chopin, and Steve Lacy. Despite her background in classical music and production, she doubles down on her love and curiosity for pop music and popular culture on the record.

    This autumn, SASAMI will embark on a series of European and North American dates, including performances at London’s The Lower Third and New York City’s Webster Hall.

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    Sasami releases “In Love With A Memory” featuring Clairo, alongside music video

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    SASAMI has shared her wistful new single, “In Love With A Memory (ft. Clairo)”, taken from her forthcoming audacious and epic new album, Blood On the Silver Screen, out March 7th via Domino Recordings. Co-produced with Rostam, the duet with Clairo takes inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads.

    “‘In Love With A Memory’ was actually the first song I wrote that ended up on Blood On the Silver Screen,” SASAMI explains. “I grew up going to Japanese or Korean ‘noraebang’...

    SASAMI has shared her wistful new single, “In Love With A Memory (ft. Clairo)”, taken from her forthcoming audacious and epic new album, Blood On the Silver Screen, out March 7th via Domino Recordings. Co-produced with Rostam, the duet with Clairo takes inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads.

    “‘In Love With A Memory’ was actually the first song I wrote that ended up on Blood On the Silver Screen,” SASAMI explains. “I grew up going to Japanese or Korean ‘noraebang’ private karaoke rooms with my mom, who was secretly the most incredible singer. Most of her go-to numbers were old Japanese and Korean folk songs that low key kind of made me feel like I was in a horror film or David Lynch movie. I can picture my mom in a Julee Cruise-type setting — single, jazz lounge spotlight and cigarette smoke hanging stalely in the air — singing one of those old songs with the most gorgeously haunting vibrato and breathtaking vocal control. That’s the feeling I was tapping into when I started writing ‘In Love With A Memory,’ and there is a very timeless but relevant crooning feeling imbued in the song that I think was perfectly reflected by the production that Rostam and I orchestrated together. Claire has been a longtime, long-distance friend and dream collaborator for me, so it was such a magnificent gift for her to lend her voice to the narrative. I really imagine this track as a cinematic duet with a ghost.”

    The song arrives today alongside a stunning music video directed by Jay Swuen, who also served as the cinematographer for SASAMI’s 2024 single, “Honeycrash.”

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    Sasami returns with brand new single “Honeycrash”

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    SASAMI is back with “Honeycrash”, a stadium-sized ballad that swells with cinematic grandeur brought to life via its video directed by Andrew Thomas Huang. “Honeycrash” is SASAMI’s first new music since she released her tremendous second album Squeeze in 2022 and is an electrifying taste of what’s to come next from the Los Angeles native.

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    SASAMI ‘Squeeze’ out 25th February 2022

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    Director: Jennifer Juniper Stratford

    SASAMI announces her new album, Squeeze, with the release of videos for dual lead singles “The Greatest” and “Skin A Rat,” two tracks that perfectly encapsulate the album’s breadth and wide range.  “The Greatest” video was directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, and the “Skin A Rat” visualizer was created by Andrew Thomas Huang, who also designed the album cover.

    On Squeeze, SASAMI explores her wide spectrum of moods—from raging at systemic violence to wrestlin...

    SASAMI announces her new album, Squeeze, with the release of videos for dual lead singles “The Greatest” and “Skin A Rat,” two tracks that perfectly encapsulate the album’s breadth and wide range.  “The Greatest” video was directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, and the “Skin A Rat” visualizer was created by Andrew Thomas Huang, who also designed the album cover.

    On Squeeze, SASAMI explores her wide spectrum of moods—from raging at systemic violence to wrestling for control in her personal relationships. Throughout, the singer-songwriter and producer surveys the raw aggression of nu-metal, tender plainspokenness of country-pop and folk rock, and dramatic romanticism of classical music.

    Squeeze hammers home a sentiment of “anti-toxic positivity” and showcases SASAMI’s vicious honesty and brutally uncompromising vision, partially inspired by the Japanese yōkai folk spirit called Nure-onna (translation: wet woman), a vampiric deity that has the head of a woman and the body of a snake.

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    Seamus Fogarty ‘A Bag Of Eyes’ out 6th November 2020

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    'Jimmy Stewart' dir. Dah Dit Dit

    A Bag Of Eyes is Seamus Fogarty’s third album — a wholly different sonic prospect to 2017’s much-lauded The Curious Hand. Weary of the guitar, and seeking something darker than its predecessor, he chose to lean more heavily on synths and drum machines, and additionally, to self-produce.

    The album was recorded across London, Kent and East Sussex and features Fogarty’s partner Emma Smith, Meilyr Jones, long-time collaborators Leo Abrahams, Aram Zarikian & John Fogarty, as well as s...

    A Bag Of Eyes is Seamus Fogarty’s third album — a wholly different sonic prospect to 2017’s much-lauded The Curious Hand. Weary of the guitar, and seeking something darker than its predecessor, he chose to lean more heavily on synths and drum machines, and additionally, to self-produce.

    The album was recorded across London, Kent and East Sussex and features Fogarty’s partner Emma Smith, Meilyr Jones, long-time collaborators Leo Abrahams, Aram Zarikian & John Fogarty, as well as someone slightly more unexpected, an audience member recorded live at one of Seamus’ gigs in Dublin.

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    She Drew The Gun announces new album “Howl” to be released 15th November

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    She Drew The Gun has announced their fourth studio album, Howl, to be released November 15th via Submarine Cat Records. The album explores a visceral musical world informed by influences ranging from 80s electronica and hip-hop to political poetry and cosmic Scouse psychedelia. Louisa worked on the record with producer Ash Workman (Christine & The Queens, Metronomy) at his studio in Margate.

    Coming from deep introspection and heartbreak, Howl is revelatory. It is She Drew The Gun’s most...

    She Drew The Gun has announced their fourth studio album, Howl, to be released November 15th via Submarine Cat Records. The album explores a visceral musical world informed by influences ranging from 80s electronica and hip-hop to political poetry and cosmic Scouse psychedelia. Louisa worked on the record with producer Ash Workman (Christine & The Queens, Metronomy) at his studio in Margate.

    Coming from deep introspection and heartbreak, Howl is revelatory. It is She Drew The Gun’s most personal album while still addressing the social and political injustices she sees in the world. Lyrically brave and musically inventive, it comes from an artist who never stands still.

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    She Drew The Gun returns with the brand-new single “Howl”

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    Set for release May 14th via Submarine Cat Records, ‘Howl’ is the band’s first piece of new music since 2021 album Behave Myself. Kicking off with a muscular bassline, ‘Howl’ is a direct, focused, politically-charged return. Working with producer Ash Workman (Metronomy, Christine & The Queens) on the release, the record is She Drew The Gun, re-invigorated. 

     

    “I have my howl to connect, release and invoke spiritual energy, most potently in the ritual of live performance....

    Set for release May 14th via Submarine Cat Records, ‘Howl’ is the band’s first piece of new music since 2021 album Behave Myself. Kicking off with a muscular bassline, ‘Howl’ is a direct, focused, politically-charged return. Working with producer Ash Workman (Metronomy, Christine & The Queens) on the release, the record is She Drew The Gun, re-invigorated. 

     

    “I have my howl to connect, release and invoke spiritual energy, most potently in the ritual of live performance.” – Louisa Roach, She Drew The Gun

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    Shirley Collins ‘Heart’s Ease’ out 24th July 2020

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    Director: Grant Gee

    Heart’s Ease , her second album for Domino follows 2016’s Lodestar ; which on its arrival, seemed like a musical miracle — an enthralling new album from a woman who is widely recognized as England’s greatest female folk singer, but who had not recorded an album for 38 years.

    Shirley delivers a record even stronger than Lodestar , having completely regained her confidence, and singing so well that you can’t believe she was away for so long. As Shirley put it, “ Lodestar wasn’t to...

    Heart’s Ease , her second album for Domino follows 2016’s Lodestar ; which on its arrival, seemed like a musical miracle — an enthralling new album from a woman who is widely recognized as England’s greatest female folk singer, but who had not recorded an album for 38 years.

    Shirley delivers a record even stronger than Lodestar , having completely regained her confidence, and singing so well that you can’t believe she was away for so long. As Shirley put it, “ Lodestar wasn’t too bad, was it? But when I listen to it, it does sometimes sound rather attempt. I had to record it at home because I was just too nervous to sing in front of somebody I didn’t know. This time I was far more relaxed – even though I went into a studio. ”

    Recorded at Metway in Brighton, ‘Heart’s Ease’ is as compelling and original as Shirley’s great albums from the ’60s and’ 70s. There are traditional songs, of course, from England and the US, but there are also more new songs than in the past (four non-traditional tracks). There’s even a burst of experimentation that hints at possible new directions to come.

    The first song to be shared from Heart’s Ease is “Wondrous Love” ; its tune comes from an 18th Century English ballad about the infamous sea captain William Kidd, who was hanged for piracy in 1701. Collins first heard the hymn at a Sacred Harp Convention in Alabama (Collins and Alan Lomax recorded it on their field recording trip in 1959). Shirley has decided to sing it now, she said , “because songs are stored in my memory for a great many years, and suddenly it seems the right time to bring them out again.”

    The video, directed by Grant Gee , was filmed during lockdown. Gee says of the process: “I met Shirley in her house to talk through ideas, I had half a notion to base the video around a Vanessa Bell mural in Berwick Church, Shirley had a postcard of a John Piper stained glass window in Firle Church , just a few miles away. Also very good. Then lockdown happened and I couldn’t travel back to the location or to film Shirley, which was bad. But we improvised and worked out a way to make it happen while respecting all plague-time strictures, which was great. When Shirley sings ‘And through eternity / I’ll sing on’, you don’t doubt it. ”
    In the years between For As Many As Will (1978) and the release of Lodestar (2016), Shirley suffered from a form of dysphonia, lost her singing voice, and was never expected to sing again — certainly not in public. Lodestar was a delightful surprise to all her fans and the folk community, and once Shirley had started to sing again, she was not going to stop. “I’m absolutely consumed by this music,” she said. “I have always loved it so much. I’m still learning songs and just want to keep learning them. I thought ‘somebody has got to sing these songs, so it might as well be me!‘ ”

    Collins followed Lodestar with a remarkable blitz of activity for a lady in her eighties. There was a film, and soundtrack album, The Ballad of Shirley Collins . There was a new autobiography,  All in the Downs , which won the Penderyn Music Book Prize(beating the Beastie Boys). And there were high-profile comeback concerts, including a memorable appearance at London’s Barbican , at which she was backed by an exceptional group of friends and musicians, the Lodestar Band. She may have felt nervous being back on stage, “but I feel so supported by that band. And every song I sing I love anyway – it’s not a hardship to sing the songs! ”

    All of which is reflected in her second comeback album, Heart’s Ease . Collins’ intriguing choice of songs includes two with lyrics by her first husband Austin John Marshall , a graphic artist and poet who produced several of her albums; he also had the inspired idea of ​​getting Shirley to work with blues / jazz / world music guitarist Davy Graham on the extraordinary album Folk Roots, New Routes in 1964. There are more family memories with “Locked In Ice”, written by Dolly’s son, the late Buz Collins . The most startling new piece is the finale, “Crowlink”, named after a pathway on the South Downs overlooking the English Channel “where I love to be,” in which Shirley sings against a moody, atmospheric fusion of Ossian Brown ’s hurdy-gurdy, with electronica and field recordings of waves and sea birds from Matthew Shaw .

    ‘Heart’s Ease’ is a glorious reminder that Shirley Collins is still in a class of her own, both as a folk singer with a distinctive no-nonsense style that is all her own, and as an innovator. And she certainly doesn’t intend this album to be her last. “I have such a huge memory of songs, so many of which I still want to sing. And I wasted all those years not singing, so now I’ve got to catch up a bit! ” READ MORE

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    Smugglers Way announces new signing GUEDRA GUEDRA

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    Smugglers Way has announced its newest signing, Guedra Guedra, the electronic music project of Moroccan producer Abdellah M. Hassak. The sound of Guedra Guedra is a dazzling compound of visionary electronics and musical traditions drawn from across the continent of Africa. Smugglers Way, an imprint of Domino, will release Guedra Guedra’s second album MUTANT (mixed by Marta Salogni, mastered by Heba Kadry) on August 29th.

    On MUTANT, Abdellah blends analogue synths and drum machines with fiel...

    Smugglers Way has announced its newest signing, Guedra Guedra, the electronic music project of Moroccan producer Abdellah M. Hassak. The sound of Guedra Guedra is a dazzling compound of visionary electronics and musical traditions drawn from across the continent of Africa. Smugglers Way, an imprint of Domino, will release Guedra Guedra’s second album MUTANT (mixed by Marta Salogni, mastered by Heba Kadry) on August 29th.

    On MUTANT, Abdellah blends analogue synths and drum machines with field recordings from Morocco, Tanzania, Guinea, and more, gathered while traveling across the vast landmass. MUTANT explores themes of identity, Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism, and decolonization, bridging the musical heritage of the continent with elements of techno, bass music, and dub. “I wanted to have a cultural sound that explored innovation with African and diasporic music alongside the vibes of rhythm and the vibes of bass,” says Abdellah.

    Guedra Guedra has shared MUTANT’s hypnotic first single, “Drift of Drummer,” along with its accompanying music video, shot in Marrakech and directed by Romain Cherbonnier. Taking inspiration from the musical traditions of the town of Kouroussa in Guinea, “Drift of Drummer” foregrounds the djembé drum, a key instrument in West African music that was played in the fields to energize workers, with rhythms mirroring the sounds of labor. “African percussion is more than just music; it represents the heartbeat of life, from breathing and walking to the changing seasons and the pulse of the earth,” says Abdellah.

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    Snuff ‘The Wrath of Thoth’ out 28th August 2020

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    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...

    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 took off when John Peel got the band in for a session after seeing them play with Heresy and Rose Rose at the Sir George Robey in Finsbury park, London.

    First a 7’single was released on Workers playtime, followed with a full length album known for short as “Snuff said“, full title “Snuffsaidbutgorblimeyguvstonemeifhedidn’tthrowawobbler chachachachachachachachachachachayou’regoinghomeinacosmicambience“.

     

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    Sorry ‘925’ out 27th March 2020

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    Together with co-producer James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya), best friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen have woven 925 like a dreamscape in which idyllic and hellish scenes intermingle, forcing the question of what is real and what is make believe. Inspired by everything from Hermann Hesse to Dean Blunt and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, the duo’s experimental and holistic approach marks them out as a thoroughly 21st century band. Includes the singles “Starstruck”, “...

    Together with co-producer James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya), best friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen have woven 925 like a dreamscape in which idyllic and hellish scenes intermingle, forcing the question of what is real and what is make believe. Inspired by everything from Hermann Hesse to Dean Blunt and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, the duo’s experimental and holistic approach marks them out as a thoroughly 21st century band. Includes the singles “Starstruck”, “Right Round The Clock” and “More”.

    Joined by drummer Lincoln Barrett and Campbell Baum on bass, Sorry emerged from a thriving scene of bands in London, and though ‘925′ is their debut album, it is by no means their first statement. It follows a series of mixtapes, released sporadically and used as a way to experiment with the disparate influences and sounds that give ‘925′ its distinctively modern and apocalyptic sound.

    Where previous singles and mixtapes earned the band their status as one of the most vital and relentlessly creative new British bands of the moment, ‘925′ is a record which will undoubtedly cement their status as true originals and cross-genre innovators in 2020 and beyond.

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    Sorry ‘Key To The City’

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    London based Sorry release brand new single “Key To The City” from the forthcoming album ‘Anywhere But Here’ out 7 Oct 2022 on Domino. “Key To The City” comes with a great new video directed by Sorry’s own Asha Lorenz and Flo Webb (FLASHA)

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    Sorry return after two years with brand new single “Waxwing”

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    Acclaimed London-based group Sorry return with their new song “Waxwing”, honing a brilliant and warped evolution of their sound. The track is accompanied by a visually-arresting video directed and produced by Flasha.

    The song is a sharp and typically subversive return from Sorry, with vocalist and lead-songwriter Asha Lorenz inverting a bubblegum hook into something more spectral, cut-through with the jet black humour Sorry have become synonymous with. Themes of desire are alluded to, wit...

    Acclaimed London-based group Sorry return with their new song “Waxwing”, honing a brilliant and warped evolution of their sound. The track is accompanied by a visually-arresting video directed and produced by Flasha.

    The song is a sharp and typically subversive return from Sorry, with vocalist and lead-songwriter Asha Lorenz inverting a bubblegum hook into something more spectral, cut-through with the jet black humour Sorry have become synonymous with. Themes of desire are alluded to, with a bed of sci-fi soundtrack synthesisers circling menacingly around the group, punctuated by bursts of static.

    Sorry are set to support Fontaines D.C. on their full November 2024 UK and Irish tour, including two shows at Alexandra Palace.  

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    Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection ‘Imminent Shadow’ out 24th September 2021

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    London born, Nashville based Spencer Cullum debut solo album, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection may pay homage to the ’60s and ‘70s psych-pop, folk and proto prog heroes of his homeland. But with a supporting cast of fellow Music City stage and studio aces like guitarist Sean Thompson and multi-instrumentalist Luke Reynolds, as well as singing and writing partners like Caitlin Rose, Andrew Combs, Erin Rae, Annie Williams and James “Skyway Man” Wallace —he’s bringing a bit of Brit...
    London born, Nashville based Spencer Cullum debut solo album, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection may pay homage to the ’60s and ‘70s psych-pop, folk and proto prog heroes of his homeland. But with a supporting cast of fellow Music City stage and studio aces like guitarist Sean Thompson and multi-instrumentalist Luke Reynolds, as well as singing and writing partners like Caitlin Rose, Andrew Combs, Erin Rae, Annie Williams and James “Skyway Man” Wallace —he’s bringing a bit of Britain to Tennessee.“I wanted to write a very quintessential English folk record, but with really good Nashville players.” Cullum says of Canterbury Scene conjuring Coin Collection, name-checking Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny. The album manifests his love for psych-prog ground-breakers the Soft Machine, digs deep into cerebral ambient inspirations like Robert Fripp and Brian Eno and even krautrock icons NEU! “I’ve always wanted to mix krautrock music into folk and psychedelia,” he explains.With an arm’s length list of credits stretching from the likes of Kesha, Dolly Parton and Deer Tick, to Miranda Lambert and Dylan Leblanc, pedal steel savant Cullum is one of Nashville’s most in-demand session cats. That’s in addition to making up half of acclaimed, primarily instrumental space-country duo “Steelism.” Clearly he’s had little trouble fitting in since moving from his native London by way of Detroit eight years ago, even if it’s mostly meant blending in. “I guess I’ve always hidden behind [the instrument],” he deadpans. “I’m always the guy who looks like he’s studying for a test in the background.”Produced by Jeremy Ferguson and recorded at the Grammy-winning Nashville indie-rock producer’s Battle Tapes Recording studio, the album boasts a wide-open, bell-clear sound fit for a deftly shimmering set of songs with non-narrative lyrics culled from the mystic corners of the subliminal mind.
    The lyrics come from “my own experience,” Cullum explains, “but [I] also wanted to not be emotionally specific, almost in a dreamlike, subconscious state. Like spidergram.”Though on the new single ‘Imminent Shadow’, Cullum reveals a little more of himself: “I wrote Imminent Shadow when I was having lucid dreams a few years ago and pondering if it had something to do with hereditary depression stemming from my grandfather. I’ve never wanted my songs to be too personal of my own situation but instead for them to have a sub-conscious dream-like aspect to them. This, I guess, is the most personal track on the record.” 
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    Spinning Coin ‘Hyacinth’ out 21st February 2020

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    Directed by Joseph May. Original artwork by Rob Churm.

    Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

    Via the Domino Record Co imprint Geographic, ‘Hyacinth’ is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. It registers a number of changes for the group since their debut LP ‘Permo’ in 2017: personnel changes, geographical changes, a new context, an ever-changing world outside.

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    Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

    Via the Domino Record Co imprint Geographic, ‘Hyacinth’ is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. It registers a number of changes for the group since their debut LP ‘Permo’ in 2017: personnel changes, geographical changes, a new context, an ever-changing world outside.

    The quartet both lost and gained a member, with Cal Donnelly exiting the group, and Rachel Taylor joining. Rachel and Sean Armstrong have relocated, leaving Glasgow for Berlin – Rachel, from Canada, had no choice but to leave the UK, and Sean followed her. “I think if anything the change has brought us closer as a band,” Rachel reflects, “and made it clear to us that we wanted to continue making music together”. 

    Throughout Hyacinth, there is joy in spades, but also melancholy, and a checked fury, threading the group’s political vision through their reflections on the personal and the interpersonal. Jack explains that the new songs “are about the need for love in an often very unloving world. Trying to find a balance of some kind between feelings of apathy, negativity, detachment and action, positivity and oneness.” Whilst Mellin’s songs were more pointedly political on Permo, here he has built more complexity into his writing. Elsewhere, Rachel contributes her first song to a Spinning Coin release, in the form of the beautiful “Black Cat”.

    Hyacinth was recorded during a few days, by Peter Deimel at Black Box Studios in France, while the group were on a summertime tour. It was an idyll, a restorative respite. That carries through to the album, there’s a sense of society and collectivism at the heart of these pop songs, and a commentary on the optimism of the will, no matter how bleak things can get. Ultimately, on Hyacinth, the Spinning Coin ethos stays true to itself, as Sean expands about the experiences and the motivations behind the new music: “It’s trying to connect with other people on a human level, doing something that we love, and trying to embrace the unknown.”

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    Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thomson release single, “The Most Beautiful House in Airdrie” via Geographic Music

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    Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thomson have released their latest single, “The Most Beautiful House in Airdrie,” the third taster from their upcoming album, This Is Memorial Device – out June 28th via Geographic Music.

    Featuring Pastels’ members Tom Crossley on flute and Katrina Mitchell on ethereal, wordless vocals, “The Most Beautiful House in Airdrie” imagines this odd, modernist house and also the ghosts of its occupants echoing down through time.

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    Steve Mason drops new single and video ‘No More’ featuring Javed Bashir

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    Steve Mason feat. Javed Bashir – “No More” from the forthcoming album ‘Brothers & Sisters’ out 3rd March 2023 on Double Six / Domino.

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    Superorganism ‘crushed.zip’ out 27th April

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    Superorganism return with their 3rd new single from upcoming album World Wide Pop, due for release on the 15th July on Domino. This new single comes with colourful and heartfelt video in true wacky and wonderful Superorganism style. To celebrate their new album, the band will be doing a run of in-store shows, kicking off with Rough trade East in London on release day!

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    Superorganism ‘World Wide Pop’ Out 15th July 2022

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    When the first Superorganism music surfaced in 2017, the group’s in-your-face aesthetic — a post-everything mishmash of psychedelic indie pop and fizzy, funky electronica — quickly began to resonate with the likes of Frank Ocean, Vampire Weekend, Jehnny Beth and Gorillaz as well as finding them legions of fans across the world.  Today, they announce their eagerly awaited return with news of their second album; entitled World Wide Pop and due for release on July 15th.  To accompany th...

    When the first Superorganism music surfaced in 2017, the group’s in-your-face aesthetic — a post-everything mishmash of psychedelic indie pop and fizzy, funky electronica — quickly began to resonate with the likes of Frank Ocean, Vampire Weekend, Jehnny Beth and Gorillaz as well as finding them legions of fans across the world.  Today, they announce their eagerly awaited return with news of their second album; entitled World Wide Pop and due for release on July 15th.  To accompany the announcement, Superorganism have released the video for “Teenager”  directed by AEVA and features actor and comedian Brian Jordan Alvarez (Will and Grace).

    Superorganism have mutated and are now based around the core of Orono, Harry, Tucan, B and Soul but World Wide Pop also brings in an international set of collaborators including Stephen Malkmus, CHAI, Pi Ja Ma, Dylan Cartlidge as well as legendary musician and actor Gen Hoshino.  

    Blasting back with thirteen tracks that strike a balance between artifice and earnestness, between sci-fi silliness and existential intensity, World Wide Pop is a showcase for Superorganism’s newly deepened understanding of each other’s interests and impulses, the kind of creative convergence you’d expect when online friends start spending time together IRL (their debut was completed before the whole band had ever been in the same room at the same time). 

    Alongside the album announcement, Superorganism are pleased to reveal the first cut from the record, “Teenager”. Featuring good friends and former tour mates Chai and Pi Ja Ma, “Teenager” celebrates holding onto the raw passion and emotion of those formative years and is a rejection of cynicism. It is produced by Stuart Price (Madonna, The Killers), who Superorganism tapped to help them achieve the IMAX-sized sheen that their bedroom recordings have always aspired to. The resulting palette on “Teenager” and across the record melds millennium-era synth schmaltz with glitchy wild-eyed weirdness, a textural upgrade that never betrays Superorganism’s signature playfulness. 

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    Thao & the Get Down Stay Down ‘Temple’ out 15th May 2020

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    Phenom- Directed by Erin S. Murray and Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux

    Tthe San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen, is set to release their fifth studio album.

    “I have divided myself into so many selves. I am nervous, but hopeful that in belonging to myself, I can still belong to my family, and my Vietnamese community, especially the elders.” She continues, “I believe that shame has made my work more general, when I’ve always wanted to be specific. This record is about me finally being specific. If you listen to my music, ...

    Tthe San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen, is set to release their fifth studio album.

    “I have divided myself into so many selves. I am nervous, but hopeful that in belonging to myself, I can still belong to my family, and my Vietnamese community, especially the elders.” She continues, “I believe that shame has made my work more general, when I’ve always wanted to be specific. This record is about me finally being specific. If you listen to my music, I want you to know who you are dealing with.”

    Thao almost opted not to make another record, feeling that rock music no longer was capable of saying what she needed to express. But it turns out making a record was necessary; it forced her hand to create a space wherein she could finally exist as her entire self. Temple is an album compelled by love and the urgent need to live one full, whole life. Thao and her girlfriend got married recently, and she says, “I have my partner and our home to ground me in this life, in my one life. And everything I do now, everywhere I go, every time I present myself to people, it is finally all of me.”

    Temple is the first Get Down Stay Down record to be self-produced. Thao teamed up with longtime bandmate Adam Thompson to produce the record; he shares writing credits on five songs. Mikaelin “Blue” Bluespruce (Solange, Carly Rae Jepsen, Mariah Carey) mixed the record. “Blue mixes more in the hip-hop and pop world and that’s what we wanted,” says Thao. “More fidelity, more upfront beat and groove-heavy mixes that are filled out and immersive…high highs, low lows, lush tones.”

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    These New Puritans ‘Hidden [MMXX]’ out 4th December 2020 + XONE 1 LIVE

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    Domino are delighted to be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of These New Puritans’ Hidden with Hidden [MMXX] – a re-issue of the original album in its full glory accompanied by new and unreleased material from the Hidden sessions alongside live recordings from the same era, plus a new live film.

    As the These New Puritans canon has grown through the years, Hidden has always stood as the great indicator of the group’s detail, precision and ambition. Originally released in 2010, when ...

    Domino are delighted to be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of These New Puritans’ Hidden with Hidden [MMXX] – a re-issue of the original album in its full glory accompanied by new and unreleased material from the Hidden sessions alongside live recordings from the same era, plus a new live film.

    As the These New Puritans canon has grown through the years, Hidden has always stood as the great indicator of the group’s detail, precision and ambition. Originally released in 2010, when both Jack and George Barnett were just 22 years old, Hidden was the second album the twins released as These New Puritans.

    The album itself was produced by TNP’s Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis, Boymerang) and mixed by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, MF DOOM), it draws on both the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century post-minimalism, the recording features 6ft Japanese Taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano & a children’s choir. The result is equal parts brutal and melancholy, standing the test of time, sounding as pioneering and bold a decade on.

    Hidden is a record that crushes together menace and beauty: after the prelude of woodwind that is “Time Xone”, “We Want War” remains one of the most startling tracks to be released as a single in this millennium – a sound like swarms of invading, metallic wasps, robotic voices intoning, the martial rattle of layers of drums, Jack Barnett’s vocals an incantation. The militant funk of “Three Thousand”, strange skittish jazz in “Hologram”, and “Drum Courts – Where Corals Lie” feels like an ancient, elegiac folk song carried forth on a storm. A record of intense variety, soul and depth, Hidden is remarkable by anyone’s standards, let alone one made by a group of people barely out of their teens.

    Through the extremes of recording, These New Puritans had a critical hit. It was rightly lauded for its singularity and adventure at the time and found the group a legion of loyal fans and was given NME’s prestigious Album of the Year 2010 accolade. Further to the record, it spawned the Hidden Live tour, featuring a large ensemble, conductor Andre De Ridder, and a kids choir.

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    4th December 2020 8pm the band performs XONE 1, a streamed live set with a cast of collaborators including original These New Puritans member Thomas Hein, pianist Maria Chiara Argirio and legendary composer Henry Dagg. Hosted via the band’s website, it will be available to re-watch for 72 hours after. The performance will be broadcast from Dagg’s workshop/studio in Kent. All proceeds from the stream will go to Survival International. These New Puritans have shared a glimpse of rehearsals on Instagram; their track ‘Where The Trees Are On Fire’ performed on one of Henry Dagg’s invented instruments, The Sharpsichord. Watch here.

    Survival International fight for tribal peoples’ survival. They stop loggers, miners, and oil companies from destroying tribal lands, lives and livelihoods across the globe. They lobby governments to recognise indigenous land rights.

    FULL XONE.1 LIVE STREAM DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE

    Critical acclaim for Hidden 

    “The first masterpiece of 2010” – 5*, The Telegraph

    “One of the most powerful artistic forces in Britain today” – Album of The Year 2010, NME

    “An adventurous, challenging and futuristic recording” – 5*, MOJO

    “Hidden is not just the most original record to emerge from Britain this year, but the most unfathomable: an immaculate enigma.” – 5*, The Guardian

    “Astonishing…there are more ideas here than most bands manage in an entire career” – 4*, The Times

    “Electrifying” – 4*, Q

     

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

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    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).

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    Tiberius b announces their debut album NEVERYTHING, out June 6th

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    Tiberius b (Frank Belcourt) has announced details of their debut album, NEVERYTHING, due for release June 6th via Zelig/Sony. The upcoming album was written and produced by Frank, and co-produced alongside esteemed producers Dan Carey and Jamie Neville. The record reflects the push and pull of Belcourt’s life, capturing both minor and major upheavals. Recorded over a year of weekly sessions, NEVERYTHING became a way for Tiberius b to process life’s complexities.

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    Tiberius b (Frank Belcourt) has announced details of their debut album, NEVERYTHING, due for release June 6th via Zelig/Sony. The upcoming album was written and produced by Frank, and co-produced alongside esteemed producers Dan Carey and Jamie Neville. The record reflects the push and pull of Belcourt’s life, capturing both minor and major upheavals. Recorded over a year of weekly sessions, NEVERYTHING became a way for Tiberius b to process life’s complexities.

    Alongside the album announcement, Tiberius b has released a Sharna Osborne-directed video for the new single “STAY WITH ME!” – a tender, bittersweet breakup song.

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

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    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...

    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 Trevor from his bands Tall Tales & The Silver Linings and Parting Lines, as his contribution to projects from the likes of Fruit Bats, Kacey Johansing and DIOS, and he plays a key role as co-writer and drummer for California rockers GospelbeacH. ”I Like It Here” is a classic Southern California rock record that weaves between guitar solo-driven power anthems and softer rock ballads.

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    Tunng ‘Dead Club’ out 6th November 2020

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    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...

    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 around his band members.

    For months the six band members discussed the subject at length. That they are such a sizeable band, diverse in opinion and perspective, proved helpful: “When all those things come together that’s what makes it Tunng,” says Genders. “And because the subject of death is so powerful for people in different ways, we talked about the kinds of issues it might bring up, that we might need to besensitive about.”
    Firstly, Dead Club is an extraordinary record; contemplative, intimate and celebratory. It includes collaborations with Max Porter, who wrote two new pieces for the album. It draws on the research the band conducted — nods to the Wari people of Brazil who eat their dead, discussions of consciousness and memory, Genders’ visit to a death cafe in Sheffield, and the Swedish art of Death Cleaning. It touches on personal loss, fear, and humour and sorrow and love.
    “Trying to turn this whole concept into an album, into music, without it being too sombre and difficult for people to listen to, that’s been the challenge,” says Lindsay. “We wanted it to be colourful and we wanted it to be kind of uplifting. Although some of it’s a lot darker than I was imagining it originally, I think it’s a thought-provoking and emotional journey; it doesn’t make me feel sad.”

    It’s also a podcast series, produced by the band’s Becky Jacobs and Sam Genders, speaking to those who work in the field of death: philosophers, scientists, frontline workers, and beyond. Philosophers Alain De Botton and A.C. Grayling discuss cultural attitudes towards death, alongside palliative care physician and author Kathryn Mannix, mentalist Derren Brown, forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black, musician Speech Debelle, and Poetry editor of the New Yorker, Kevin Young. Samples from these discussions in turn appear on the album: Brown’s voice hovers over Fatally Human, Black considers what happens after we die on The Last Day, while on A Million Colours, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib of Tinariwen speaks of the traditions around death of the Tuareg in northern Mali.
    There were live events planned of course, collisions of music and readings and art that the band had hoped might prompt conversations about the subject among the audience. Perhaps the hope of this project is not to commandeer grief, to explain it or provide a structure for loss, but to bring a new openness to the subject.

    We no longer have the religious script we once had that helped us to deal with death, Genders notes. “And I think a lot of us are struggling to know how to behave around it.” But there are skills we can learn, conversations we can have, cultural baggage we can question, to find an approach that reflects an experience that is “inherently human”, as Genders puts it. “I think in life in general there’s something very powerful in total honesty,” he says. “In being honest about all the different ways that you experience things. Because it’s nearly always the case that you discover everyone’s got the same anxieties, and the same fears, and having the same experiences. And maybe that can be powerful.”

    Listen to the Dead Club podcast

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    Tunng announce new album ‘Love You All Over Again’ out January 24th 2025

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    It’s been over two decades since Tunng’s genre-blurring, self-styled ‘pagan folktronica’ first emerged from an East London studio, and 2025 will see the release of their eighth studio album Love You All Over Again via Full Time Hobby. The upcoming record is a winning amalgam of texture and melody, disconcerting imagery, and shapeshifting production – a conscious reacquainting with the same principles the band first started with.

    Lead single “Didn’t Know Why” is a dauntless fac...

    It’s been over two decades since Tunng’s genre-blurring, self-styled ‘pagan folktronica’ first emerged from an East London studio, and 2025 will see the release of their eighth studio album Love You All Over Again via Full Time Hobby. The upcoming record is a winning amalgam of texture and melody, disconcerting imagery, and shapeshifting production – a conscious reacquainting with the same principles the band first started with.

    Lead single “Didn’t Know Why” is a dauntless face-off between metallic synths and pellucid guitar arpeggiation, with lyrics about a familiar Tunng song character, Jenny. “It’s very Tunng: dark, but then warm and melancholic. Sam heard this and immediately brought back the murderous Jenny, who has appeared on two previous Tunng albums.” Genders offers his take on Jenny: “She once represented a kind of romantic ideal – ‘the one’ – but now she’s a sort of every-person – a kind of archetype of all of us!”

    Check out “Didn’t Know Why” above.

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    Ty Segall announces instrumental drum album ‘Love Rudiments’ out August 30th

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    Alongside a string of US tour dates, Ty Segall has announced his sixteenth studio album, Love Rudiments, out August 30th via Drag City. The album is entirely instrumental, with drums and percussion at the heart of the record.

    An official visualiser for the first single off the album, “The Dance (Edit)”, is available above.

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    Ty Segall announces new album POSSESSION alongside lead single “Fantastic Tomb”

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    Ty Segall returns with his 16th album, Possession, set to be released on May 30th via Drag City. Alongside the announcement comes the lead single, “Fantastic Tomb.”

    Possession finds Ty on the hunt for new horizons, hitting the trail beneath the big skies of our frontier empire to take us on a high-octane narrative journey. The literary lyrics, co-written by his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, paint a vivid portrait of quintessentially American stories. All the while, invigorat...

    Ty Segall returns with his 16th album, Possession, set to be released on May 30th via Drag City. Alongside the announcement comes the lead single, “Fantastic Tomb.”

    Possession finds Ty on the hunt for new horizons, hitting the trail beneath the big skies of our frontier empire to take us on a high-octane narrative journey. The literary lyrics, co-written by his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, paint a vivid portrait of quintessentially American stories. All the while, invigorating new sounds emerge around every bend—glittering rhythmic arrangements feature more of Ty’s own piano woodshedding than ever, joined in battle by sweeping movements of strings and horns. Rife with soaring guitar leads and layers of Ty’s vocal harmonies, Possession features some of his most inspired songs to date.

    The first single, “Fantastic Tomb,” is an epic story-song. Desperate for something he can hold onto, our hero takes a job hitting the house of “a man worth more than a country could make,” only to find the treasure hunt is just another ride to nowhere. The song is a modern American noir-cum-classic rock hoedown, scored with Ty’s burnt-filament lead guitar and ingeniously sealed with Mikal Cronin’s saxophone section.

    Listen above.

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    UPCHUCK signs to Domino Recording Co. and releases new single “Plastic”

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    Domino Records has announced its latest signing, Upchuck, the incendiary Atlanta punk band composed of KT (vocals), Mikey Durham (guitar), Hoff (guitar), Ausar Ward (bass), and Chris Salado (vocals, drums). Alongside the news, the band has also shared their scorching new single, “Plastic,” produced and mixed by fellow Domino Publishing writer Ty Segall. In a two-minute blitz of scuzzy guitars and spitting vocals, “Plastic” contains the key to Upchuck’s ethos of authenti...

    Domino Records has announced its latest signing, Upchuck, the incendiary Atlanta punk band composed of KT (vocals), Mikey Durham (guitar), Hoff (guitar), Ausar Ward (bass), and Chris Salado (vocals, drums). Alongside the news, the band has also shared their scorching new single, “Plastic,” produced and mixed by fellow Domino Publishing writer Ty Segall. In a two-minute blitz of scuzzy guitars and spitting vocals, “Plastic” contains the key to Upchuck’s ethos of authenticity: in a PVC world of hollowness and artificiality, you have to fight to find what’s real. “Algo me hace falta (‘something is missing’),” Chris howls on the Spanish-language bridge. The answer, exhorts KT, is to “know classics – know truths – know reason – know you.”

    Upchuck burst into being in 2018 as a band of Atlanta skaters in their early 20s, fronted by the magnetic performer KT, and quickly became hometown heroes thanks to their uproarious live shows. 2022 saw the release of their debut full-length Sense Yourself on Brooklyn’s Famous Class Records, followed soon after by 2023’s Bite The Hand That Feeds, also produced by Ty Segall. Early singles like “Freaky” and “Facecard” won support from the likes of Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins, who both played tracks on their radio shows, as well as press attention for their “die-hard attitude” (Vogue) and “lightning-hot bursts of energy” (The Fader).

    The burgeoning legend of Upchuck’s live show continued to spread internationally, with support tours alongside fellow Atlantan Faye Webster – who calls Upchuck her favorite band – Amyl & The Sniffers, Soul Glo, OSEES, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and an attention-grabbing slot at Coachella 2024. “Everything explodes,” wrote Rolling Stone after catching them at SXSW. “The club becomes a sonic cannon, set to maximum destruction. Every song hits this hard.”

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    Villagers ‘Fever Dreams’ out 20th August 2021

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    Conor O’Brien is announced Villagers‘ fifth studio album Fever Dreams. Escapism is a very necessary pursuit right now, and Fever Dreams follows it to mesmerising effect. It works like all the best records – it becomes a mode of transport; it picks you up from where you are and sets you down elsewhere.

    “The First Day” was inspired by a trip to the fabled Another Love Story festival in County Meath – beginning as a snatched electronic doodle, it morphed into a widescreen, lushly cin...

    Conor O’Brien is announced Villagers‘ fifth studio album Fever Dreams. Escapism is a very necessary pursuit right now, and Fever Dreams follows it to mesmerising effect. It works like all the best records – it becomes a mode of transport; it picks you up from where you are and sets you down elsewhere.

    “The First Day” was inspired by a trip to the fabled Another Love Story festival in County Meath – beginning as a snatched electronic doodle, it morphed into a widescreen, lushly cinematic evocation of the joy in human connection. Annie Mac premiered ‘The First Day‘ on Radio 1, followed by a spin on Radio 2 from Jo Whiley with our friends at 6 Music finishing the launch day – Shaun Keaveny  with an interview at 14:45: tune in here

    Director Daniel Brereton says of the video “The whole process was pretty collaborative with Conor. I think we both imagined a floatiness to the video, and obviously the title conjures up a lot of imagery and ideas, ‘The first day of the rest of your life’. What does that look like? How does that feel? We were very lucky to shoot on film and have great casting and styling. Shooting during a pandemic is not easy, so I feel fortunate that we got to make it happen.”

    O’Brien says on the gestation of Fever Dreams: “I had an urge to write something that was as generous to the listener as it was to myself. Sometimes the most delirious states can produce the most ecstatic, euphoric and escapist dreams.”

    These are songs with the strange, melted shapes and the magical ambivalence of dreams. The intent of the songs is both mysterious and as clear as a bell. With Fever Dreams, there is a sense of a deepening mastery and an expanding reach by O’Brien. Inspiration for the album was found in many places and came in from all angles, from night swimming on a Dutch island to Flann O’Brien, Audre Lorde, David Lynch, L. S. Lowry via the library music of Piero Umiliani and Alessandro Alessandroni and jazz from Duke Ellington and Alice Coltrane.

    Written over the course of two years, the main bodies of the songs were recorded in a series of full-band studio sessions in late 2019 and early 2020. During the long, slow pandemic days, O’Brien refined them in his tiny home studio in Dublin, and the album was then mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, FKA Twigs).

    Fever Dreams follows The Art Of Pretending To Swim, Darling Arithmetic, {Awayland} and Becoming A Jackal. Conor O’Brien also has a string of accolades under his belt including two Ivor Novello Awards, two Mercury Music Prize nominations and is a previous winner of Ireland’s Choice Music Prize. Additionally, Villagers’ music has featured in the BBC/Hulu series Normal People and their Spotify session of “Nothing Arrived” has hit over 165 million streams.

     

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    Clash “A typically literate, moving return”

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    Warmduscher announce fifth album ‘Too Cold To Hold’ with new single “Fashion Week”

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    Warmduscher have today announced details of the release of their fifth album, Too Cold To Hold, and shared a visualiser for “Fashion Week,” the first track from the album. Out 15th November via Strap Originals, the album features several guests, including Irvine Welsh, Lianne La Havas, Confidence Man’s Janet Planet, Jeshi, and CouCou Chloe.

    Too Cold To Hold is undoubtedly their best and most ambitious album to date. It incorporates the repetitive and polyrhythmic grooves of gqom (an all...

    Warmduscher have today announced details of the release of their fifth album, Too Cold To Hold, and shared a visualiser for “Fashion Week,” the first track from the album. Out 15th November via Strap Originals, the album features several guests, including Irvine Welsh, Lianne La Havas, Confidence Man’s Janet Planet, Jeshi, and CouCou Chloe.

    Too Cold To Hold is undoubtedly their best and most ambitious album to date. It incorporates the repetitive and polyrhythmic grooves of gqom (an alluring South African take on house music), adds a dash of hip-hop flavours and even jazz, and harnesses all this to their punk-funk, disco pogo style. The result is a spellbinding mix.

    Check out “Fashion Week” above.

     

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    Wasted Shirt ‘Fungus II’ out 28th February 2020

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    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...

    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 Citadel are easily some of the best material either entity has ever released so if these two happened to find themselves in the same recording studio, a fan just might entertain elevated expectation levels. In fact, some might actually show signs of enthusiasm, even excitement at the fact that from July 5th -13th 2018, in the air-conditioning free environs of Ty’s home studio, the duo, eventually calling themselves Wasted Shirt, wrecked the joint as thoroughly as you hoped they would.

    Prepare To Be Stoked Dept.: The album is exploding euphoria from start to finish. A morphing day-glo rainbow that will bring a smile to your face like if you were on your way to Washington DC for the Million Puppy March. Upon first spin, all boxes are checked and any previously held doubts are completely obliterated. The more you play it, the better it kabongs you upside your head. Hectic doesn’t even begin to describe it. Brian and Ty, two mere particles in the grand scheme, collide at high speed, the technicians dive for cover, the reaction is recorded. Mutation is achieved. This is Freedom Rock. Turn up the volume. Hasten your emancipation. Sonic joy awaits.

    It’s a great time for music. As major labels continue their agonizingly slow march to total irrelevance, these masters of mediocrity at least provide great contrast. That is to say, the time has never been better for experimentation, spontaneity and restraint free creativity in music, lest we endure a never ending post modern stasis of cynical emulation. What would happen if Ty Segall and Brian Chippendale went to the studio in the dead heat of July? There was only one way to find out. Life is short. More assaults on the mordantly predictable need to happen because when it works, like with Wasted Shirt, it really works.

    Available from Famous Class.

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    Waxahatchee ‘Saint Cloud’ out 27th March 2020

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    “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...

    “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 need to shout out @bradleywcook. brad turned out to be something like a soulmate-level collaborator. he was on board with my vision for the record when these songs were just little melodies, hummed into my phone & he patiently & precisely helped me build them into what they are. i also want to single out the amazing band @bonny__doon, my comrades in saint cloud. i’ve said it many times but their friendship & collaboration truly made me fall in love with music again. there’s so much to say about this record & i’m sure i’ll say it all over time, but mainly i just want to express that making it & singing these songs has been the joy of my life. it really is my favorite thing i’ve ever made. i’m so grateful to everyone who helped me see it through & i hope you all like it ♥️ i also want to share that i have a new video for the first single “fire” that i directed along with the brilliant @andreeeinabyrne ♥️” Katie Crutchfield

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

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    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...

    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 electronic music can conjure up feelings and visuals. This realisation sent them off on the same tangent in their music, as Waiting For The World demonstrates.

    Wayward explains – “This album is our first full length and it feels like we’re making the music we should be. You don’t get a shot at a debut album twice, and we wanted to put out a sonically diverse record that is as energising as it is emotionally-evocative with atmospheric tracks to chill to, and ones with the energy of club impact. We focussed on conjuring specific times, moods and places to bring through reinterpretations of memories and moments not just for us, but for anyone listening”

    In the studio they have a history of delivering high quality productions for artists across a spectrum of genres, including Grammy-winning creative giant Skrillex, Ninja Tune’s Park Hye Jin, and Camden singer/songwriter Chelou.

    This album, however, comes on the other side of a creative block which had Louis feeling lost. A solo clubbing experience in Tokyo was the big breakthrough he needed and he returned feeling hugely inspired, laying down a thumping brew of techno, hip hop and soul in the studio. A global lockdown gave the pair a chance to journey back through music they had made across the past two years in London, Berlin, and Los Angeles, where they spent time at a writing camp with iconic Detroit producer Amp Fiddler while working on Chelou’s album.

    A turnaround in creative steam and Waiting For The World started to take shape.

    ‘Oath’, named after the club in Tokyo, chases down the sounds Louis heard within its walls. Flickers of introspective melancholy and euphoria can be heard through scintillating synths and wistful keys in tracks like ‘Canvey Island’ and ‘Bright’. Emotive qualities also come through on tracks dedicated to loved ones, such as ‘Jill’ and ‘Casper part 1’.

    Thoughtful samples are laced throughout, the most striking within the explosive ‘All A Bit Mad’ where you’ll hear Femi Koleoso (drummer of London Nu Jazz band Ezra Collective), hyping up the crowd at a gig in London. Uplifting from the get go Femi’s MC Style chants overlay the synths and drums Wayward have primed for the reopening of dance floors. The nostalgic first single ‘Back To The Old Days’ encapsulates their years DJing and putting on events in Leeds, curating impressive line-ups with Benji B, DJ EZ and Giles Peterson to name a few.

    Friends since the age of 11 and bonded by a lifelong love for music the pair share a studio and live together in North London where they grew up influenced by the city. In the ten years Louis and Lawrence have been immersed in the scene they’ve DJ’d across the UK, wider Europe, the US and Australia; curated a series of revered club nights in the UK; released a stack of notable releases through Cin Cin Records, Beats Of No Nation and finally found a home in Silver Bear Recordings, a label they’ve been A&Rs for since 2017, steadily crafting its sound, signing regular music from the likes of O’Flynn, and now the home for their debut album

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    Wesley Gonzalez ‘Appalling Human’ out 12th June 2020

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    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...

    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 himself and a switch from guitars to learning and writing on piano, it was the choice of people to work with that helped him into this new creative phase.The new line up around Wesley was completed by the bassist Joe Chilton, singer Rose Dougal, drummer Bobby Voltaire and Callum Duffy on synths. They’d sit back and accommodate his demanding notion of how things should sound.

    As the new way of working unblocked Gonzalez‘ creativity on the first record, so too did new listening lead to stepping up his ambition for the scope and sound of its follow-up. He was going in for work each day at a Soho record shop, wanting to throw himself into traffic, then patching himself up with music.

    Despite all the electronic prostheses that grace his solo project, at the heart of his music there is a depth to the song writing and a singular character to it. There’s an eccentricity somewhat akin to Harry Nilsson, or Andy Partridge of XTC, and a kind of melancholy (lost)innocence. His sensitive feel for characters and situations is simply unparalleled in his peer group. It’s a depth that becomes more and more apparent with each release.

    VIDEO SHOWN ABOVE: ‘Did You Get What You Paid For?’ is a track which ties all of the record’s main themes of recovery, family and vulnerability together. Wesley explains: “I wrote this, unsurprisingly, in a very dark moment. I tried to write a song that I would want to be played at my funeral. I thought “Do you all love me? Am I what you want? Did you get what you paid for?” – was a pretty good final statement. A good mix of tragedy and comedy – I wrote the music with that in mind as well it has to be said, but it had to have personality, I can’t die boring. I wanted to go with some swag… I’ve had the concept for the video in the back of my mind since writing the track, the thought behind the song was “what song would I write to be played at my funeral?” Danny Nellis (Director) and I discussed it at length and then we came to a fork in the road due to the Pandemic. Digital artist Alex Jackson worked on the last video for Tried To Tell Me Something and when we were working on that I went through this idea with him so he could build CGI sets, I sent through photos I particularly liked of Southern Baptist Funeral Homes in the US, then Danny came up with a list of shots and we enlisted fans over the internet who had use of a camera and green screen, and got a really great response. It’s been a joy working on this video, it is the closest thing to what I had in my imagination initially thanks to working closely with really close friends who could see the vision clearly too. All three of us are extraordinarily grateful to everyone who sent in footage and made the video what it is, the help of fans was vital in the production of this and it was fantastic to be in close contact with lovely people who cared about the project. And yes that is my mother kicking the f*** off at the end.”

    VIDEO: ‘Change’ Directed by Danny Nellis

    An arch and confessional lyricist, Gonzalez continues, “This song [Change] had the most transformation from beginning to end. It started life as an experiment after listening to a lot of Ghanaian house music, I wanted to write something upbeat. At the time I wrote it I found myself at pivotal moment of change and saw that in others around me, one of my best friends had gone through an intervention and it had made me question aspects of my life. I thought about how scared I would be if I gave all my crutches up. I wanted to be reassuring to someone when I also felt in need of reassurance, so this was my song for him.”

    VIDEO: ‘Tried to Tell Me Something’ Directed by Alex Jackson

    “I spent the months before writing it listening to strictly Prince, Disco and Eurythmics “There Must Be An Angel”. Lyrically it’s a song that focusses on hindsight and looking at things in a different light, how you can be totally in a partnership with someone and in relatively no time at all find that things have changed dramatically.“

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    Wet Leg announce their sophomore album MOISTURIZER alongside lead single “Catch These Fists”

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    Wet Leg, the Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, have announced that their eagerly anticipated second album, Moisturizer, will be released on July 11th via Domino Recordings.

    Joined by Ellis Durand (bass), Henry Holmes (drums), and Joshua Mobaraki (guitar, synth), Moisturizer is fun, freaky, and fabulous—an unbridled display of the live energy Wet Leg has built up over years of non-stop touring. Punchier, prettier, and more perverse in all the right w...

    Wet Leg, the Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, have announced that their eagerly anticipated second album, Moisturizer, will be released on July 11th via Domino Recordings.

    Joined by Ellis Durand (bass), Henry Holmes (drums), and Joshua Mobaraki (guitar, synth), Moisturizer is fun, freaky, and fabulous—an unbridled display of the live energy Wet Leg has built up over years of non-stop touring. Punchier, prettier, and more perverse in all the right ways, Moisturizer is an album of manic love songs and well-timed kiss-offs, delivered by one of the UK’s most beloved bands of oddballs.

    Through relentless touring worldwide, Wet Leg evolved into a sharp, caustic live act that capitalized on their debut album’s success—earning #1 chart placements at home and abroad, three Grammys, two Brit Awards, and over half a billion streams. If success presents a fork in the road for any new band—to “go pop” or stay true to their creative instincts—Wet Leg emphatically chose the latter, once again working with producer Dan Carey.

    In March 2024, the band retreated to Southwold to write, living together, working all day, and watching horror movies all night. This immersive process led to a new sense of creative symbiosis, with all five members earning writing credits on Moisturizer. “We were just kind of having fun and exploring,” says Chambers. “We focused on whether a song would be fun to play live—it felt natural to write the second record together,” adds Teasdale.

    Alongside the album announcement, the band has also shared the first taste of Moisturizer with its frenetic, alluringly combative lead single, “Catch These Fists.” Bursting to life with an untamed, electrified groove, “Catch These Fists” is dance-punk at its finest—bass notes ricocheting off a wall of howling synths, thunderous beats colliding with Teasdale’s razor-sharp deadpan.

    Watch the video for “Catch These Fists” above.

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    Wet Leg ‘Wet Leg’ out 8th April 2022

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    After releasing two of the best singles of the year, Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers were catapulted from their confines on the Isle of Wight to sold out venues across the UK and packed-out tents at festivals causing giddy excitement wherever they went. Now, the duo are thrilled to unveil two new songs alongside news of their debut album. The album is called Wet Leg and will be released on April 8th 2022 via Domino.

    The new tracks are called “Too Late Now” and ...

    After releasing two of the best singles of the year, Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers were catapulted from their confines on the Isle of Wight to sold out venues across the UK and packed-out tents at festivals causing giddy excitement wherever they went. Now, the duo are thrilled to unveil two new songs alongside news of their debut album. The album is called Wet Leg and will be released on April 8th 2022 via Domino.

    The new tracks are called “Too Late Now” and “Oh No”. “Too Late Now”, a three-part epic-in-waiting, showcases a more introspective side of the duo as Teasdale rattles against dating apps and TV in a messy, bleak world, before wryly settling on a bubble bath “to set me on a higher path”. On the magnificent glam-stomp of “Oh No”, Wet Leg explore the 3am doom scroll. “You know when you’re having dinner with someone, and they check their phone, and just… go?” says Rhian. It’s an 80s sci-fi film distilled into two minutes and 29 seconds.

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    Will Archer co-writes Nilüfer Yanya ‘Painless’ Out 4th March 2022

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    Nilüfer Yanya runs head first into the depths of emotional vulnerability on her anticipated sophomore record PAINLESS. Working with Domino Publishing writer and producer Will Archer, the two recorded the album between a basement studio in Stoke Newington and Riverfish Music in Penzance, the record is a more sonically direct effort, narrowing her previously broad palette to a handful of robust ideas. Released via ATO records, the album has received critical acclaim with Pitchfork naming the ...

    Nilüfer Yanya runs head first into the depths of emotional vulnerability on her anticipated sophomore record PAINLESS. Working with Domino Publishing writer and producer Will Archer, the two recorded the album between a basement studio in Stoke Newington and Riverfish Music in Penzance, the record is a more sonically direct effort, narrowing her previously broad palette to a handful of robust ideas. Released via ATO records, the album has received critical acclaim with Pitchfork naming the record Best New Music and The Guardian awarding the release with 4 out of 5 stars.

    Will Archer co-wrote Chase Me, Trouble, The Dealer, Shameless, Try, Midnight Sun and the lead single Stablise. Watch the Molly Daniel directed music video above.

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    Will Silver shares latest single “Distance Between” from upcoming EP ‘Have You Ever’

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    South London-based DJ and producer Will Silver has announced his brand new EP, Have You Ever, out July 19th on tastemaker label, Silver Bear Recordings.

    Alongside the announcement comes the pulsating single, “Distance Between (feat. Memphis LK),” which further cements Silver’s place as one of the most exciting producers in the UK right now.

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    Wilma Archer ‘Western Circular’ out 3rd April 2020

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    Posted on 20 April 2020
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    Within A Western Circular lies an exciting and varied crew of guest artists including MF DOOM, Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Sudan Archives and Laura Groves, all contributing vocals to Wilma Archer’s rich, dextrous compositions. Supple and multi-layered, honouring his acoustic heritage and influence, A Western Circular builds a sonic universe that commands contemporary references to everything from Frank Zappa to Yasuaki Shimuzu, Robert Wyatt to Arthur Russell.

    Within A Western Circ...

    Within A Western Circular lies an exciting and varied crew of guest artists including MF DOOM, Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Sudan Archives and Laura Groves, all contributing vocals to Wilma Archer’s rich, dextrous compositions. Supple and multi-layered, honouring his acoustic heritage and influence, A Western Circular builds a sonic universe that commands contemporary references to everything from Frank Zappa to Yasuaki Shimuzu, Robert Wyatt to Arthur Russell.

    Within A Western Circular lies an exciting and varied crew of guest artists including MF DOOM, Samuel T. Herring (of Future Islands), Sudan Archives, and Laura Groves, who contribute vocals to his rich, dexterous compositions. These collaborations are the by-product of several years of writing and producing—he’s credited on debut albums by Sudan Archives (co-writing lead single “Confessions”) and Nilüfer Yanya (producing seven songs, and co-writing one, “Paralysed”). He’s also worked with Jessie Ware and Celeste.

    An album that’s been in the works for the past half-decade, A Western Circular is a bold, reflective piece that directly relates to Archer’s personal experiences of life and death, centered on one particular week where they breathed with equal intensity. The record’s themes of greed, love and loyalty all relate back to that specific time. Inspired by author John Fante, A Western Circular is a spiritual voyage through life’s pushing and pulling, and a poignant reflection on the duality of the human condition: finding beauty in the rough, sadness in the bright.

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    Wilma Vritra ‘Grotto’ Out 6th May 2022

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    Wilma Vritra return with new single ‘One Under’ and announce their second album ‘Grotto‘ released via Bad Taste Records on the 6th May 2022. Watch the Taylor Jones directed music video above.

    Grotto is the work of two musicians separated by an ocean but undoubtedly operating on a shared wavelength. One is Will Archer, a Newcastle-born but London-based multi-instrumentalist and composer who today records as Wilma Archer, but who you might also know for his writing and production for ar...

    Wilma Vritra return with new single ‘One Under’ and announce their second album ‘Grotto‘ released via Bad Taste Records on the 6th May 2022. Watch the Taylor Jones directed music video above.

    Grotto is the work of two musicians separated by an ocean but undoubtedly operating on a shared wavelength. One is Will Archer, a Newcastle-born but London-based multi-instrumentalist and composer who today records as Wilma Archer, but who you might also know for his writing and production for artists like Celeste, Nilufer Yanya and Jessie Ware. The other is Hal Donell Williams Jr, aka Vritra – a Los Angeles-based rapper whose tales of graft and grind are often couched in spiritual or cosmic terms. “That’s where my thoughts go at times,” he explains. “Hope, self-belief, self-worth, self-understanding – they are all forms of light, and when they glow bright your mood adjusts accordingly. That mood can attract or repel – same as the stars, same as the planets and their moons.” 

    Grotto twins Hal’s cosmic visions with equally expansive music. Tracks like ‘One Under’ and ‘Every Evening’ bloom with strings, brass and woodwind, but there’s a spaciousness to the orchestration that brings to mind a figure like Jean-Claude Vannier, the French composer whose music for Serge Gainsbourg brought dramatic strokes, the sense of emotional light and shade.  “I wanted to give Hal as much room as he needed vocally, forgoing any kind of vocal hook – instead dedicating a larger portion of the song to instrumental storytelling,” explains Will.

    In parallel to Grotto, Will was completing work on his debut solo album A Western Circular, a long-term project that saw the light of day on Domino imprint Weird World last March. Featuring guest spots from the late MF DOOM, Future Islands’ Samuel T Herring, Sudan Archives and Laura Groves, it also found Will expanding his compositional abilities – a sound it felt natural to carry over into Grotto. The album was brought to life with some of A Western Circular’s players – including twin cellists Clíona Ní Choileáin and Jonah Spindel, violinist Ellie Consta, and Dom Pusey juggling clarinet, bass clarinet and baritone sax. Also present on the record is Ben Reed, a UK bassist who played on Frank Ocean’s Endless and Blonde. Here he supplies a gorgeous fretless bass that lends Grotto its sense of groove and poise.

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    Wilsen ‘Ruiner’ out 21st February 2020

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    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...

    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 album’s opening moments, you might hear a knotted wash of guitars and Wilson softly humming, for a very brief moment returning you to their dreamscape but sharply, a driving rock rhythm comes into focus and so too does a revitalised band.

    “Making this record was somewhat of a coming of age process,” Wilson explains.“We’re getting older and becoming more deliberate, less precious, less measured. Overthinking less and trusting instincts more.”

    Although Wilsen haven’t lost their fragility entirely, on Ruiner they mainly use bolder sounds and play with gritty textures and jarring grooves. See ‘Birds II’ which centres on a piercing guitar line or the crunchy ‘Down’ which is powered by a riotous percussion section. Wilsen are moving with purpose towards something, not away from it.

    For Wilson, she’s moving towards self-acceptance, “I have an inherent shyness,” she says. “I guess I’m acknowledging and finding a way with shyness as I get older.” Throughout the record, Wilson comes to terms with her many sides including her introversion and her inner monster which the album title refers to on ‘Feeling Fancy’, Wilson, with her distinctively hushed vocals overpowering the track’s clamorous instrumentals, offers listeners a powerful, and celebratory, declaration, “Quiet’s not a fault to weed out.”

    When writing the lyrics, Wilson says that she trusted her instincts and “seized whatever emotion was happening at the time and ran with it.” The songs, as a result, are Wilson’s most honest; her openness is especially noticeable on the record’s quieter tracks when Wilson is alone with her guitar; “I woke up in a life not mine,” she murmurs on the spellbinding closer ‘Moon’.

    But even in the loudest moments of Ruiner, Wilson doesn’t retreat into cacophony. She maintains her vulnerability and beautifully captures intimate moments like the brief peace found in a pair of eyes across the room or the exhausted resolution of a relationship.

    “It’s so dramatic, isn’t it?” laughs Wilson about the title Ruiner. “Another option was ‘Worthless’,” she jokes. But despite the air of melodrama, Ruiner aptly characterizes the process Wilson and the band took to make their album: they had to destroy the walls they built to reveal their authentic selves.

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    Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Navarasa : Nine Emotions’ out 24th January 2020

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    Navarasa : Nine Emotions Yorkston/Thorne/Khan Out 24 January 2020
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    'Sukhe Phool' Directed by Jack Barraclough Dance. Casting Kadam Dance. Choreographer/Dancer Kali Chandrasegaram. Dancer Parbati Chaudhury

    James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan represent a continuum of the forward-thinking, musically distinctive power trio. Each individual contributes vocals to material both original and reimagined as Khan, on sarangi, Thorne, on double bass, and Yorkston, principally on guitar, improvise within their mutual space. Perhaps the greatest strength of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan is a shared spirituality, one revealed by the honesty and conviction at the heart of this universal, beautiful music....

    James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan represent a continuum of the forward-thinking, musically distinctive power trio. Each individual contributes vocals to material both original and reimagined as Khan, on sarangi, Thorne, on double bass, and Yorkston, principally on guitar, improvise within their mutual space. Perhaps the greatest strength of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan is a shared spirituality, one revealed by the honesty and conviction at the heart of this universal, beautiful music.

    ‘Navarasa : Nine Emotions’ is the transporting third album by Yorkston/Thorne/Khan. At its heart is the subcontinent’s navarasa; the nine (nava) emotions or sentiments (rasa) of the arts.

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    The Zawose Queens from Tanzanian musical dynasty announce debut album ‘Maisha’

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    Pendo and Leah Zawose, from the city of Bagamoyo in Tanzania, East Africa, have announced details of their debut album Maisha under the name The Zawose Queens. It is a long-awaited first release by female members of one of Tanzania’s most famous musical families.

    Emboldened by workshops in songwriting and music production with visiting UK-based producers Oli Barton-Wood and Tom Excell, The Zawose Queens began writing their first ever songs. The resulting collection of songs range from the s...

    Pendo and Leah Zawose, from the city of Bagamoyo in Tanzania, East Africa, have announced details of their debut album Maisha under the name The Zawose Queens. It is a long-awaited first release by female members of one of Tanzania’s most famous musical families.

    Emboldened by workshops in songwriting and music production with visiting UK-based producers Oli Barton-Wood and Tom Excell, The Zawose Queens began writing their first ever songs. The resulting collection of songs range from the stripped back and traditional-sounding to those treated with subtle electronic elements, with beats and drops and found sounds and switch-ups.

    Maisha is out 7th June via Real World Records.

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