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

100 gecs 'money machine' Shot by gabe howell

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

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

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

Northbound Stowaway - Directed by Niall Mc Cann & Adrian Crowley

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

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

video réalisée par Niall Mc Cann et Adrian Crowley

À propos de la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway :

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

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

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Adrianne Lenker ‘Songs’ out 23rd October 2020

Filmed by Adrianne Lenker and Philip Weinrobe

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

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

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

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

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Alejandro Escovedo ‘La Cruzada’ (the Crossing)

Interview CBS This Morning

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

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

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

Mashed Potatoes

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

Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

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

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

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Alex Izenberg ‘Caravan Château’ out 31st July 2020

Directed & Photographed by Juliana Giraffe and Nicky Giraffe

Weird World / Domino 

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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Alice Jemima ‘Everything Changes’ out 28th February 2020

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...

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All We Are ‘Providence’ out 14th August

Director - Moon

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...

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altopalo ‘farawayfromeveryoneyouknow’ out 24th April 2020

Art by Jackson Bernard

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

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

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

The Tonight Show Jimmy Fallon Directed by Josh Sliffe

Released on Jagjaguwar.

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

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

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

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.”

Anna Calvi ‘Hunted’ out 6th March 2020

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...

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

Filmed and edited by Global Faction

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

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

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Austra ‘HiRUDiN’ out 1st May 2020

Director M. Blash

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...

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Austra ‘Hirudin’ remixed Out 30th April 2021

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...

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Babii ‘iii’ EP out 27th March 2020

DiiRECTOR - BABii

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

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

Video by LeeMondo

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

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

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Black Midi ‘Cavalcade’ out 28th May 2021

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

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

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

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Bob Moses ‘Desire’ out 28th August 2020

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...

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

Directed By: Owen Brown

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...

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

'Is The Season for New Incarnations' Directed by Arturo Baston

Released by castle face

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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Brother May and Micachu Archives 2008-2014

Brother May and Micachu

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

Buscabulla ‘Regresa’ out 8th May 2020

Director Claudia Calderón Pacheco

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 ...

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Cat Power releases album Wanderer

Director: Greg Hunt

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 ...

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

Where they perform miracles

“Born in Philadelphia but now living in the south

Your hand slipped slowly into mine somehow

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

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

I know a place where they perform miracles”

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

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The Coral ‘Coral Island’ Out 30th April 2021

Production and Direction by Edwin Burdis

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

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

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

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

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

Dan Deacon ‘Mystic Familiar’ out 31st January 2020

'The Making of 'Mystic Familiar' - Director Corey Hughes

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.

 

Dan Deacon ‘Well Groomed’ out 13th November 2020

Snip Snip Director: Rebecca Stern

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...

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

Shot & Directed by Molly Keane

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

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

Search For Life (Official Lyric Video)

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...

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DISCOVER King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Bubble’

Directed By Elliot Dear (Blinkink)

“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...

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DISCOVER Late of the Pier ‘Bathroom Gurgle’

Photo credit: Jon Bergman

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

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

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

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Dub Pistols ‘Addict’ out 16th October 2020

Directed by Dean Hennessy

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

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

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

megapunk Video by Dr.Me.

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”,...

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

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

The American ...

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

Televised Mind Director: Hugh Mulhern

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

Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Banane Bleue’ out 26th February 2021

'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...

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Futurebirds ‘Teamwork’ out 15th January 2020

'Waiting on a Call' Director Alex Beaver

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

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Fuzz ‘III’ out 23rd October 2020

Album in full

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...

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

'Chimes' by Otherliine

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

Tracklist:

  1. ONE LINE
  2. CHIMES
  3. iiNTERLUDE 1
  4. HATES ME
  5. WH...
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Georgia ‘Seeking Thrills’ out 10th January 2020

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...

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

'Looking Up At The Sun' dir. Shane Connolly

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

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Hayden Thorpe ‘Aerial Songs’ EP out 16th October 2020

A Film by Fiona Jane Burgess

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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Heather Trost ‘Petrichor’ out 6th November 2020

Love It Grows

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

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

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

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Hen Ogledd ‘Free Humans’ out 25th September 2020

Stream 'Trouble' by Hen Ogledd

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,...

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Ian Chang ‘属 Belonging’ out 24th April 2020

Directed and animated by Qieer Wang

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

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Iglooghost ‘Lei Line Eon’ out 2nd April 2021

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

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

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

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Islands ‘Islomania’ out 11th June 2021

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

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

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

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Jaakko Eino Kalevi ‘Dissolution Remixes’ EP out 31st July 2020

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 ...

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Jackie Lynn ‘Jacqueline’ is out 10th April 2020

Casino Queen Directed by Haley Fohr & Krzys Piotrowski

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

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Castle ‘Monarch Season’ out 16th October 2020

'Justice' Animation by Jesi Jordan

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

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

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

Directed by Winston H Case.

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

Even though the move to New York and ...

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Joe Wong ‘Nite Creatures’ out 15th May 2020

The Long Parade

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

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Jon Hopkins ‘Piano Versions’ EP out 16th April 2021

Director: Robert Hunter

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...

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

Good Time Video by Clayton McCracken

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

Kaki King ‘Modern Yesterdays’ out 23rd October 2020

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

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

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The Kills ‘Little Bastards’ out 11th December 2020

"I Put A Spell On You" (cover - originally performed by Screamin' Jay Hawkins)

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

Wind's Gonna Find a Way

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

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

'We'll Solve it After' Lyric Video

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

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

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

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

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

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La Priest ‘Gene’ out 5th June 2020

Directed and produced by LA Priest

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...

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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...

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

Infinite Wisdom

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surrender Yourself (SSEM Records)

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

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

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Luke Abbott ‘Translate’ out 20th November 2020

Earthship

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

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

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Malcolm Goldie ‘The Sound of Malcolm’

'Ponytail'

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

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

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Mdou Moctar ‘Afrique Victime’ out 21st May 2021

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

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

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

Music Life

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

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

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

'Amor sin destino' Music video by: ZEUGL

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

Shaping a multifaceted artistic universe

Michelle Blades gleans uni...

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

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

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

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

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

Guardian Well

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

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

Directed by Mike Polizze

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

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

The debut solo al...

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Mike Wexler with Synthetic Love Dream out 30th October 2020

'Flying Islands'

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

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Moon Bounce ‘Skip Intro’ out 21st February 2020

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

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

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

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Myrkur ‘Folkesange’ out 20th March 2020

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 ...

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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...

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One True Pairing ‘Zero Vulnerability’ EP out 24th April 2020

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 stre...

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One True Pairing album out 20th September 2019

'I'm Not Afraid' Director: Ewan Morris

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 ...

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Optic Sink out 2nd October 2020

Brendan Spengler, Natalie Hoffmann and Ben Bauermeister

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

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

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Otta ‘Songbook’ EP out 10th July 2020

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

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

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

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Owen Pallett ‘Island’ out 22nd May 2020

Directed by Vincent René-Lortie & Brittney Canda

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....

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

Peter Oren LIVE "Whole World" release show 2020

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

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

Directed by Gabriel Jacquel for Rainbox productions

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

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Porches ‘Ricky Music’ out 13th March 2020

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...

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Protomartyr ‘Ultimate Success Today’ out 17th July 2020

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

Film by Milo at Speedwagon Productions

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

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

'4am' Directed by Charlotte Toon

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

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

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Ragz Originale ‘WOAH’ out 29th January 2020

OG Lullaby from forthcoming EP 'Woah'

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

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

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Real Estate ‘The Main Thing’ out 28th February 2020

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...

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Richard Dawson ‘Republic of Geordieland’ out 7th August 2020

"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...
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Róisín Murphy ‘Róisín Machine’ out 2nd October 2020

Murphy's Law

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

From the intoxicating disco-funk of...

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SAADI (self titled) out 13th July 2020

'Mephisto' Edited by Boshra AlSaadi

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

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

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Sad13 ‘Haunted Painting’ out 25th September 2020

Written, directed & edited by Kimber-Lee Alston
For nearly a decade, Sadie Dupuis has been celebrated for her literary lyrics, accomplished guitar playing, and embodied ethos of empowerment, whether with rock band Speedy Ortiz or the pop-oriented solo project Sad13, which debuted in 2016 with Lizzo co-feature “Basement Queens.” It was followed by the self-produced Slugger, featuring “Get a Yes,” a glitter-bomb of an ode to consent, and other bedroom Top 40 tributes centering feminism and inclusivity. But in the ensuing years, recon...
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Seamus Fogarty ‘A Bag Of Eyes’ out 6th November 2020

'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...

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Shirley Collins ‘Heart’s Ease’ out 24th July 2020

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...

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Snuff ‘The Wrath of Thoth’ out 28th August 2020

Snuff Live

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

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

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

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Sorry ‘925’ out 27th March 2020

'Perfect' Director: Asha Lorenz and Flo Webb

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”, “...

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Spinning Coin ‘Hyacinth’ out 21st February 2020

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.

The quartet both...

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Thao & the Get Down Stay Down ‘Temple’ out 15th May 2020

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, ...

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These New Puritans ‘Hidden [MMXX]’ out 4th December 2020 + XONE 1 LIVE

Video: We Want War [Drums] / Photo credit: Angelo Pennetta

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 ...

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

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

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

Get Ready to Fly

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

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Tunng ‘Dead Club’ out 6th November 2020

'Scared To Death' Directed by Sam Steer

SONG BREAK DOWN BY TUNNG – TRACK BY TRACK

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

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

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Valkyrie ‘Fear’ out 24th July 2020

Album Stream

‘Fear’ finds VALKYRIE sounding more progressive and diverse than ever before. Tracks such as “Feeling So Low”, “The Choice”, and “Evil Eye” showcase VALKYRIE expanding their sound, infusing their take on classic hard rock with a penchant for remarkable melodies and creative hooks.

Recorded at Earth Analog in Illinois, Fear showcases the tone-rich, organic songwriting process VALKYRIE honed in on over the course of their career. A warm analog sound permeates throughout each of ...

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Villagers ‘The First Day’

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 le ...

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Wasted Shirt ‘Fungus II’ out 28th February 2020

'Double the Dream' Animation by Somer Stampley

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

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

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

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Waxahatchee ‘Saint Cloud’ out 27th March 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wesley Gonzalez ‘Appalling Human’ out 12th June 2020

Directed by Danny Nellis

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

Along with therapy, taking better care of...

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Wilma Archer ‘Western Circular’ out 3rd April 2020

Western Circular - album preview

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...

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Wilsen ‘Ruiner’ out 21st February 2020

'Ruiner' Director Stephen Michael Simon

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

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

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Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Navarasa : Nine Emotions’ out 24th January 2020

'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....

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ZOMBI ‘2020’ out 17th July 2020

'Earthscraper' Directed by Tony Balko

Relapse Records – Their first new album in 5 years, 2020 showcases the songwriting prowess that has pushed the duo of Steve Moore (synthesizers, guitars, bass) and A.E. Paterra (drums) to evolve throughout their storied, 20 year career. ZOMBI has strived to build upon and expand their sound with every release. Now more than ever, the band stays true to their ethos.

From the pulse-pounding, dramatic opener “Breakthrough & Conquer”, to the melodic bass whirls found in “XYZT”, 20...

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