R&B experimentalist Velvet Negroni has released his debut album NEON BROWN – it’s out now via 4AD. Stream it here. The album features singles ‘CONFETTI,’ ‘WINE GREEN,’ and more recently released ‘KURT KOBAIN,’ garnering praise from the likes of The FADER, The Guardian and Pigeons & Planes and The Observer toting Velvet Negroni as an artist you need to know. On NEON BROWN, he is a griot relaying the life and...
Jack Peñate returns. His first official release in a decade since his second album Everything is New, ‘Prayer‘ is out now through XL Recordings. In Jack‘s own words – “Prayer was made for and with my family and friends. It’s a piece about the unifying nature of loss and the thread of hope that survives throughout.” World-renowned British artist Eddie Peake created the artwork and directed the music video. It was shot in the...
Dyson Stringer Cloher have announced their debut self titled album will be released 4 October through Milk! Records. Check out their video for new single ‘Believer,’ an anthem in owning your aspiration, and inspired by the AFLW. Catch the iconic trio on tour around the country in November. Cloher says of the video, “I remember the day Tayla Harris’ kick was immortalised. Women in my circle, mostly musicians, posted the now...
Tiny Ruins announce the release of Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album. Featuring Hollie Fullbrook’s arresting vocals and intricate guitar playing, the solo recordings reflect the sparse beauty of her earliest work. The album features some of Fullbrook’s most accomplished songwriting. Olympic Girls Solo will be released on Friday 27th September through Milk! Records. Soak in the first single from the album ‘One Million Flowers.’ Hollie’s songs start their lives as simply crafted lyrics carried only by...
Excited to announce Pinegrove‘s signing to Rough Trade Records. The band share their first new music under the label – ‘Moment.’ Pinegrove’s singer/songwriter/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall says of this new song, “‘Moment’ for me was a way of thinking about gratitude in the context of chaos or tedium. This last stanza says directly what i say more obliquely in the verses, zeroing in after a meandering route”: I’m in this moment & i...
DIIV reveals new song ‘Taker’ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October. A plowing groove and wailing guitar punctuate a lulling apology on the magnetically melancholic track. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart. On Deceiver DIIV crafts the soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis, upheld by robust guitars and vocal tension that almost snaps, but never quite. The new album...
Efterklang have shared a new song and video from their forthcoming fifth studio album Altid Sammen, the trio’s first release in their native Danish. Entitled ‘I dine øjne’, meaning ‘In your eyes’, the song is something of an outlier on Altid Sammen, embodying a different persona to its album siblings. It strikes a starker tone with its strident bass line and urgent synth arpeggio, intersected with the cool instrumentals of...
Common Holly have released their latest single ‘Joshua Snakes’, from their new album When I say to you Black Lightning, out Friday 18 October . Using sounds composed of quirky materials like bouncy balls, fidget spinners, and accidental recordings of roommates— an area where electroacoustic producer Devon Bate (Jean-Michel Blais, Jeremy Dutcher) thrives. ‘Joshua Snakes’ works through the themes of restlessness, jealousy, even mild obsession, and paints a picture of the damsel in...
Kim Gordon is back. Announcing her first ever solo album, No Home Record, to be released on 11 October through Matador Records. It is a seismic, watershed moment in the singular career of one of the most trailblazing music, art and fashion icons of our time. New single and video ‘Sketch Artist‘ out now. Watch below. Speaking on the video, director Loretta Fahrenholz says: ‘Sketch Artist’ is a haunted car ride. Kim drives...
Girl Band have shared ‘Going Norway,’ the second single from their new album The Talkies, out on Rough Trade 27 September. In ‘Going Norway’, we hear the mimicry of Dara’s vocal to Alan’s guitar coming close to a moan, both simultaneously reaching outside of the confines of Adam’s steady, flitting snare sound: ‘And Why/ Is the Death/ So Alive?’ The track pushes and pulls against itself, and the emotion is felt within this combative...
Here it is. Number 10 in a legacy of albums from the iconic band, Sleater-Kinney. The Center Won’t Hold is out now everywhere. Produced by St. Vincent, it’s their first since 2015’s No Cities To Love. Sleater–Kinney continue to evolve and push boundaries. Critics agree; they just graced the cover of The New York Times “Arts & Leisure,” who declared they are “one of rock’s most enduring and respected acts” – read the story here. The FADER said The...
The world of Sui Zhen, expands once more. Enter ‘Matsudo City Life’ taken from her forthcoming album Losing, Linda out Friday 27 Septemberv ia Dot Dash. The track, inspired by Annie Lennox in the Eurhythmics ‘Love Is A Stranger’ era, The Cranberries’ ‘Dreams’ and ‘Linger’ era and Japanese City Pop of the late 80s, was captured in the city of Matsudo, Japan in a repurposed Love Hotel. Zhen further explains, “the walls of the Love Hotel – titled ‘Paradise Air’ –...
Big Thief have announced their new album, Two Hands, due on 11th October through 4AD, and have shared the lead single ‘Not.’ Yes, the band released their third album earlier this year. Yes, this will make two records in one year. It’s U.F.O.F.s “celestial twin – the earth twin.” 30 miles west of El Paso, surrounded by 3,000 acres of pecan orchards and only a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, Big Thief (a.k.a. Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James...
Attenzione! Second Dinner is served. The new single, and accompanying visual, from Donny Benét is out now. It’s a hooky, groove-driven, and unashamed ode to the dopamine inducing late night meal. Put simply, director Alex Smith says the video is “a story about a man and a fridge, and their impossible love.” The past 24 months have been a whirlwind for Donny Benét. After releasing his fourth album The Don in March 2018,...
Lina Tullgren shares a new video ‘Saiddone,’ the third and final single from their forthcoming album Free Cell, out 23 August via Captured Tracks. Directed by Jack Gobillot, the ‘Saiddone‘ video stars Lina and ends in an alien encounter. Gobillot explains: “There’s a hypnotic, and meditative quality to Lina’s ‘Saiddone’ that drew me in immediately. The song speaks indirectly to how we all try to reconcile emotions with rationality, and how that can be a self-alienating process....
A total joy to announce the signing of Melbourne’s Obscura Hail to Dot Dash Recordings! Watch the video for first single ‘Swear Jar‘ below, from their new EP Zero out Friday 25 October. Conceived on NSW’s South Coast, and now buried alive somewhere in Melbourne, Obscura Hail are Sean Conran, Tamara Issa & Steven West. Conran says of the video: “Swear Jar is about the dumb stuff we fight about in the heat of the moment, and having the patience to...
