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

Mashed Potatoes

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

Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

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

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

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

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

Performed By: Alex Lahey

Video Created by: Tom Nickeas

Illustrations by: Felicity Case-Mejia and Tom Nickeas

Art School Girlfriend ‘In the Middle’

Director - Tom Dream

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

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

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Art School Girlfriend ‘Is It Light Where You Are’ out 10th September 2021

Produced and directed by Tom Dream

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...

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BABii ‘Shadow’

DiiRECTOR - BABii & JOHNNY GODDARD

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

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Black Midi ‘Slow’

'Slow' Dir. Gustaf Holtenäs

“The  ‘Slow’  video was made to fit the oscillating dynamics of the song. Going from calm to chaos over and over again. The video tells the story of a character who creates AI-generated worlds. To emphasise this, I let real AI’s generate a lot of the backgrounds in these worlds. So they are partly AI-generated, but It isn’t long before an AI could create the whole deal and create endless iterations of fantasy worlds. It can already create a random beautiful landscape painting in ...

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Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ‘Thank You’

Cementing themselves as a duo under both their names for the first time in their career, longterm musical partners Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul have shared new track ‘Thank You’.

The vibrant new track is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax and released via their iconic label, DEEWEE, and is described by Charlotte as “a cheeky and cynical revenge for all the unwanted, unsolicited opinions some people generously offer us”.

Clinic ‘Fine Dining’

Directed by Emily Evans

Clinic are pleased to share their brand new single “Fine Dining”. Their first new material since 2019’s ‘Wheeltappers and Shunters’, it sees the Grammy-nominated Liverpool-based duo take their music into a more electronic and euphoric direction.

Clinic say of the new song: “Fine Dining is a slice of dancefloor fun, combining the band’s love of the exotic and having a good time.”

Amidst pulsing synths and a disco drum, Clinic’s new track folds in a sense of 1970’s Americ...

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Clinic ‘Fantasy Island’ out 22nd October 2021

Directed by Emily Evans

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’ ...

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Cory Hanson ‘Angeles’

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

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

Directed by: The Coconut Brothers Animation by: Casey Hanson

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

Directed by Dave Baron

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

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

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

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Dir: Samuel Taylor

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

FRANCE – Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains “Holly Golightly”

 « Holly Golightly » est le second single extrait de Banane Bleue (26/02/21)

Ce single de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains porte le nom du personnage de Truman Capote dans Breakfast At Tiffany’s et aborde les thèmes clés de l’album : l’amour et les relations humaines dans des métropoles. Le visualizer qui l’accompagne présente des illustrations d’Audrey Hepburn dans le rôle d’Holly Golightly

Frànçois détaille ses intentions : « ‘Holly Golightly’ fait réf...
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FRANCE 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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FRANCE Animal Collective ‘Sand That Moves’ (Original Score)

Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler
Crestone est le premier documentaire écrit, produit et réalisé par Marnie Ellen Hertzler en partenariat avec Memory.
Hertzler a fait appel aux pionniers de la musique expérimentale, Animal Collective, pour en composer la musique originale, une grande première pour le groupe qui en dévoile des extraits dans « Sand That Moves ».
Ecoutez Crestone (Original Score) en streaming ICI et regardez Crestone ICI.

FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ‘Thank You’

Réalisé par Antoni Clementi, Cristiano Gerarda, Vincente Linea et Pim Gombeer pour DEEWEE TEEVEE

Le duo Belge-Caribéen, Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date Bolis Pupul marquent leur retour avec leur single kaleidoscopic ‘Thank You’.
Le morceau est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax et sort sur leur label iconique DEEWEE.

« Thank You » est un swing électro-acide tantrique caractérisé par la prestation vocale impassible de Charlotte qui le décrit comme « une vengeance effrontée et cynique pour toutes les opinions indésirables et non sollicitées que c...

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FRANCE Clinic ‘Fantasy Island’ – 22 octobre 2021

Réalisé par Emily Evans

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 : ...

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FRANCE Coucou ‘A Take Away Show’

Coucou 'A Take Away Show' Directed by Celidja Pornon

C’est dans le cadre du Festival de cinéma européen des Arcs 2020, que François Marry a été invité pour un Take Away Show filmé par La Blogothèque au sommet des monts enneigés. Un moment magique et poétique sans les Atlas Mountains cette fois mais au cœur des montagnes de Savoie où François a interpreté “Coucou” extrait de son 5ème album Banane Bleue.

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

produit par Walter Films

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

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FRANCE Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains ‘The Foreigner’

Réalisé par Thibault Royer

A une semaine de son concert au 104 à Paris, Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains dévoile le clip de “The Foreigner” extrait de son album Banane Bleue.

Un morceau né d’un voyage inter-rail quand François avait 18 ans. François raconte :

“On est parti avec une amie, sac à dos, pas un sous en poche. On voulait voir les vestiges antiques méditerranéen. On dormait dans les gares, dans les parcs, sur les échafaudages et sur les sites archéologique. Au retour j’ai perdu mon amie...

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FRANCE HARD FEELINGS signe chez Domino

Réalisé par Katie Paul

‘Holding On Too Long’ est le premier single de HARD FEELINGS, le nouveau projet collaboratif de l’énergique chanteuse et songwriteuse originaire de New York City, Amy Douglas, et de Joe Goddard de Hot Chip.

Après que Joe ait entendu le travail d’Amy, le projet HARD FEELINGS a vu le jour avec un message de Joe sur Twitter : “Amy, peut-on faire quelque chose ?”. Ce “quelque chose” est devenu HARD FEELINGS, une expérience cinématographique immersive aux intersections de la m...

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FRANCE Hayden Thorpe ‘Metafeeling’

Réalisée par Percy Dean

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 ...

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FRANCE Hayden Thorpe ‘Moondust For My Diamond’ le 15 Octobre 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...
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FRANCE Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Resist the Urge’

Réalisé par Kevin Long et Atiba Jefferson

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...

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FRANCE Matthew E. White ‘Let’s Ball’

ralisée par Wes Parker
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...

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FRANCE Porches ‘All Day Gentle Hold !’

Réalisé par Aaron Maine

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...

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FRANCE Real Estate ‘Half a Human’

Directed by FISK

Half a Human est tiré de l’EP du même nom, une collection de six chansons créées entre deux mondes différents. Alors que leur architecture avait été construite lors des sessions d’enregistrement de The Main Thing, album sorti en 2020, les morceaux ont pris vie lorsque le chanteur/guitariste Martin Courtney, le bassiste/chanteur Alex Bleeker, le claviériste Matt Kallman et le guitariste Julian Lynch ont commencé à échanger leurs compositions à distance tout au long de la pandé...

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FRANCE Sam Mehran ‘Cold Brew’

Visualizer de Clayton McCracken
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...
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FRANCE Tirzah ‘Colourgrade’

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...
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FRANCE Tirzah ‘Send Me’

Pochette et vidéo de 'Send Me' réalisées par Leah Walker

L’un des talents les plus énigmatiques du Royaume-Uni dévoile “Send Me”

Démontrant une fois de plus ses talents de songwriteuse, “Send Me” est un aperçu intime d’une année où Tirzah jouait régulièrement sur scène. Le titre explore la guérison, la gratitude et les nouveaux départs, présentant une chanteuse qui a découvert l’amour partagé entre une mère et un enfant pour la première fois tout en travaillant en tant qu’artiste.

“Send Me” est la première parut...

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FRANCE 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 ...

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FRANCE Wet Leg signe chez Domino

Réalisé par Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers

Par une nuit de brouillard sur leur Île de Wight natale, Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers se sont retrouvées au sommet d’une grande roue. Elles ont décidé de monter un groupe. Le groupe s’appelle Wet Leg.

Armées de guitares, d’un penchant pour le disco français, d’une imagination effervescente et d’un amour partagé des Ronettes et de Jane Birkin, en passant par Ty Segall et Bjork, elles ont commencé à créer leurs propres enregistrements.
Wet Leg dévoile aujourd’hui au...
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Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Holly Golightly’

Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – ‘Holly Golightly’ taken from the album ‘Banane Bleue‘. ‘Holly Golightly’ is inspired by the main character in Truman Capote novella ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. This animation re-enacts Audrey Hepburn in the movie adaptation of the same book.

 

“’Holly Golightly’ refers to the character in the Truman Capote novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Taken from the point of view of a writer fascinated by an endearing neighbouring frien...

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George Fitzgerald ‘Ultraviolet’

Creative direction by David Rudnick & Chris Shier

UK electronic lynchpin George FitzGerald returns with his first official taste of solo music in three years, a brand new single titled “Ultraviolet”.

An effervescent cut of sprawling electronica, the track applies FitzGerald’s visionary scope to a vast soundscape. Offsetting those expansive textures with high tempo percussion and hyperactive synth tones, “Ultraviolet” instils a true sense of wonder from the outset – born from a moment of intergalactic inspiration within his own ...

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HARD FEELINGS ‘HARD FEELINGS’ out 5th November 2021

Directed by Katie Paul

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 ...

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Hayden Thorpe ‘Metafeeling’

Directed by Percy Dean

Hayden Thorpe is happy to unveil ‘Metafeeling’, the latest single from his upcoming second solo album Moondust For My Diamond – due October 15th.

The video for “Metafeeling” is directed by Percy Dean and filmed in The Lake District showcasing the spectacular scenery of Thorpe’s home as he plays guitar in his equally spectacular suit. That Hagstrom Viking baritone guitar in the video is central to Moondust For My Diamond, Hayden bought it in Brooklyn on Valentine’s Day 20...

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Hovvdy ‘True Love’ out 1st October 2021

Directed by Adam Alonzo & Zach Taylor

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...

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Iglooghost ‘Big Protector’

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

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

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

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

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

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Joan As Police Woman ‘The Solution Is Restless’ out 5th November 2021

Directed by Katherine Helen Fisher

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...

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Jon Hopkins ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ – 12 Novembre 2021

Réalisé par Tom Readdy et Lucy Dawkins

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...

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JW Francis ‘I Love You’

'I Love You' Video Directed by Sara Laufer produced by Paper Moon Records

Irresistibly catchy and packed with a blissed-out synth melody.

Recorded in Hackney Road Studios, the single is dedicated to JW’s best friend Joe Fusco: “I wrote this song for my best friend Joe Fusco. We had lived together for 2 glorious years and then we decided to split ways for practical life reasons vowing to return to living together when it felt right. This was just me reminding him I loved him no matter what.”

The new single is also accompanied by a highly surreal, yet heart-war...

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JW Francis ‘Maybe’

'Maybe' director David Kong

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

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

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JW Francis ‘WANDERKID’ out 1st October 2021

Shot by Ryan Sherwood

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...

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Laura Groves ‘Foolish Game’

Foolish Game

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

From the album A Private Road (Bella Union)

Lava La Rue ‘Magpie’

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

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

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

LOW ‘HEY WHAT’ out 10th September 2021

Directed by Julie Casper Roth

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...

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Lump ‘Climb Every Wall’

Shot and edited by Tamsin Topolski and Mora Larming

“Finding it hard to believe in. Finding something hard to believe. Lately you’ve been thinking about leaving, Trying to wipe the heart from your sleeve. I can understand that you’re grieving, I can even understand how. Write yourself a map to your healing. (Linger over why to leave now…) Climb every wall.”

 

Matthew E White ‘K Bay’ out 10th September 2021

Directed by Wes Parker

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 ...

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Melissa Mary Ahern ‘Stone by Stone’

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

 

(Verse 1)

Stone by stone

I will rebuild

Until I am whole again

Until I am whole again

The roses you gave hang to dry

A candle burns low

Its shadow dances on the wall

As I drift far away

(Chorus 1)

The roses you gav...

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Michelle Blades ‘Mi país es una idea’

Réalisée par Adèle Gaucher

Michelle Blades dévoile “Mi Pais es una idea” extrait de la compilation anniversaire des 10 ans de Midnight Special Records à paraitre le 29 novembre.

Dans “Mi Pais es une idea”, elle tisse un patchwork de souvenirs de l’Amérique Latine. Michelle Blades explore ici un thème qui lui est cher, celui de la mémoire, des impressions qui se floutent avec le temps, elle imagine une traversée par quelqu’un qui vient d’ailleurs, éloigné de chez lui par la distance et par le temps...

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Middle Kids ‘Questions’

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

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

NiNE8 ‘FVR105’

Video Directed & Edited by @Jay__Green

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

Nu Genea ‘Marechià’

Nu Genea comes back on their own imprint NG records with their brand new single “MARECHIÀ”, featuring the beautiful voice of French singer Celia Kameni.

The outcome is a disco funk song where the Neapolitan language blends in with the French in a perfect balance of synths and guitars, baked in their distinctive signature sound. The song pays tribute to the wonderful Marechiaro, a seaside village in the gulf of Napoli. This is the world of Nu Genea that mixes and incorporates different so...

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Owen Pallett ‘Paragon Of Order’

Artwork by Eric Kostiuk Williams

Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett is sharing “Paragon Of Order,” the first in a series of videos animated by Eric Kostiuk Williams. The song is from Owen’s latest album Island (Domino / Secret City), and the second video will be released on December 14th.  Owen describes the two songs as, “an extroverted coda to an introverted album.”

Owen Pallett – Tiny Desk Home Concert

Almost entirely acoustic, Island begins with 13 darkened chords, and was recorded live at ...

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Parquet Courts ‘Sympathy For Life’ out 22nd October 2021

Directed by Daniel Arnold

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...

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Plastic Mermaids ‘Disco Wings’

Riding on the hype of their excellent critically acclaimed 2019 debut album, ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’, Isle of Wight 5-piece return with the anti-negativity anthem ‘Disco Wings’, a rousing and creative new release that wonderfully spotlights their emphatic sound.

The track sees the outfit continue to live up to their ever-rising hype, everything from its positive message, to its stylistic creativity feels captivating and rousing. The track washes over you, melding soulful vocals a...

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Porches ‘All Day Gentle Hold !’ out 4th March 2022

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...

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RA Session: Jon Hopkins with Leo Abrahams ‘Heron’

Jon Hopkins 'Heron'

RA Sessions return with a performance by two artists who have been playing together since they were 15 – Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, two British musicians who have been playing together since they were teenagers, stopped by our London office to perform “Heron,” a cover of a James Yorkston song that Hopkins first wrote around ten years ago. He has since revisited the track for a new EP, Piano Versions. With Hopkins on piano and Abrahams on electric guitar, “Heron (Extended)” is a l...

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Raf Rundell ‘Monsterpiece’

'Monsterpiece' dir. Luke Ramsay

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

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

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

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Ragz Originale ‘brush u’

Brush U Directed by Ragz Originale & CHAMU

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

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

Ragz Originale – WOAH (Live)

WOAH (Live) Creative Direction: CHAMU

brush u

mirrors featuring Laura Groves

nightcap

2.0 low frequency

Vocals by Ragz Originale & Laura Groves

Backing Vocals: Angelina Mavanza & Tahirah Andrews

Synth Keys: Jeauneil Baptiste

Synth Bass: Ragz Originale

 

 

Sam Mehran ‘Cold Brew’ out 28th July 2021

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 ...

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Sneaker Pimps ‘Fighter’

“‘Fighter’ is a plea for courage and strength against prevailing mental health crises. ‘Squaring the Circle’ is a heartfelt ode to eternal returns of love, in the  face of desperate adversity,” founding member Liam Howe explained in a statement. “Contrasting in nature, hopefully these songs describe the diversity  and essence of the new album.”

“It’s taken many years and many false starts to get Sneaker Pimps back in the game.  Sometimes [you] need to back the fuck off ...

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Sorry ‘Cigarette Packet’ b/w ‘Separate’ out 16th March 2021

'Separate' Directed and Edited by FLASHA Prod.

‘Cigarette Packet’ and ‘Separate’ were co-produced with James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya) and find the band delving back into a more experimental, cut-and-paste electronic palette harking back to their beloved home demo/ns visual mixtapes, all the while still coursing with their signature gnarled sensitivity.

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Tirzah ‘Send Me’

artwork and video for “Send Me” by Leah Walker.

“as i hold, i am held as you heal, i heal”

“Send Me” is a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time. The track explores recovery, gratitude and new beginnings, presenting a singer having discovered the type of love that is shared between a mother and a child for the first time whilst simultaneously working as an artist.

The  single is the first new material from Tirzah under her own name since 2018’s critically acclaimed albu...

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TRAAMS ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves (IRW)’

Video by Stewart Armstrong

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

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

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Villagers ‘So Simpatico’

Directed by Rosie Barrett

As the release of Villagers’ fifth album Fever Dreams edges closer – due August 20th via Domino – Conor O’Brien is delighted to unveil the second song from the upcoming record. The new track, “So Simpatico”, begins with twinkling glockenspiel and intimate vocals, before swelling to a transformative and mesmerizing refrain from O’Brien: “The more I know, the more I care”.

 

Conor says of “So Simpatico”: “It’s a song of devotion; whether to a person, t...

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Villagers perform ‘The First Day’ – The Late Late Show – RTÉ One

Villagers perform ‘The First Day’ on The Late Late Show RTÉ One

Wayward ‘Back to the Old Days’

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

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

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Wet Leg ‘Wet Dream’

Réalisé par Wet Leg
En juin 2021 vous découvriez Wet Leg, le tout nouveau duo en provenance de l’île de Wight, composé de Rhian Teasdale et Hester Chambers, et son premier single “Chaise Longue”. Depuis lors, le titre a enregistré plus de 3 millions de streams, son clip près de 1 million de vues et compte parmi ses fans Hayley Williams de Paramore, Iggy Pop et Florence Welch.

Le duo dévoile désormais “Wet Dream”. Une tranche d’exubérance de 2 minutes et demie, aussi entêtante et dynamique ...
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