After years of writing and rewriting Lee Hartney has finally recorded his first solo venture as Ghoatte Hordour. This debut EP titled Blackened Blood On The Suthourn Altar is released digitally today. Watch the video to new single ‘Refuge of the Serpiant’ below! During breaks in The Smith Street Band’s heavy touring schedule, Hartney set up an 8 track in his room and started recording. With roots in black metal and...
NYC’s Parquet Courts will perform two Laneway Festival sideshows this summer. Catch Parquet Courts perform in Melbourne on Thursday 31 January at The Croxton and in Sydney on Wednesday 6 Feburary at The Factory Theatre. Supporting the band in Melbourne and Sydney will be Brisbane outfit The Goon Sax who recently released their new album We’re Not Talking. Melbourne’s Primo! will also join both bands at The Croxton. Full tour...
Thom Yorke was in studio at BBC Radio 6 Music last week and shared live versions of singles ‘Suspirium’, ‘Open Again’ and ‘Unmade’ as well as an interview on the making of the Suspiria soundtrack with Mary Anne Hobbs. Watch the videos below! Suspiria consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic. The album is a mix of instrumental score work,...
King Krule has released a music video for ‘Cadet Limbo’. Directed by Charlotte Patmore, the video is the second of a three-part collaboration with WeTransfer, which sees King Krule exploring the creative process with each video’s director, hosted on their WePresent platform. Watch below! Patmore captures a fogged vision of the hotels, long distance travels and late nights of a touring band, all unmistakably shot in the cinematic landscape of...
BC Kingdom, the future R&B duo, have released ‘Jeepz’ off their forthcoming EP project. The track follows the recent release of ‘Yung Stunna’, which features production from DJ Kingdom (Ezra Rubin). More info on the 2018 EP to be announced soon. Listen below! Earlier this week, BC Kingdom were the surprise guests at SOPHIE’s show in London, having performed with her already in LA and NYC. The three performed unreleased collaborative...
The sublime piano and vocal melodies at the center of ‘Unmade’ signal the fifth and final song released yesterday, in advance of Thom Yorke’s Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film), out today. ‘Unmade’ follows previous advance offerings ‘Open Again’, ‘Volk’, ‘Has Ended’, and the first piece of music to emerge from the soundtrack, ‘Suspirium’. Suspiria consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of the...
boygenius, the band of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus have released their self-titled EP debut two weeks early today. Fans can stream the EP now on all digital services, while the physical version will be available on the official release date of November 9. boygenius will also make their late-night television debut on November 5, playing ‘Me & My Dog’ on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Baker, Bridgers,...
Art-folk virtuoso Ryan Downey will be joining the incredible Marlon Williams on his tour throughout the UK & Europe this November. The combination of two of the antipode’s most breathtaking voices is sure to be something special for European audiences – dates and details below. Ryan’s new song ‘No More Miracles’ was released a few weeks ago alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to...
Taken from their latest album Marauder, Interpol have released a new version of ‘If You Really Love Nothing’ reimagined by Pêtr Aleksänder, the duo of London musicians Tom Hobden and Eliot James, which sees the anthemic song reimagined as a transcendent, string-laden opus. Listen below! Interpol also made a return to Later… with Jools Holland this week with a striking performance in black & white of ‘The Rover’. Watch the performance...
Steve Gunn announces his fourth album The Unseen In Between, where he explores his own emotional landscapes with his most complex, fully realised songs to date. Today’s announcement comes with first single ‘New Moon’ and its accompanying lyric video. Watch below! ‘New Moon’ begins in the mode of a deep track with its upright bass and sparse tremolo guitar. But during the song’s final minutes, strings double the melody, and then...
Hot on the heels of Capital Punishment’s reissue of their 1982 album Roadkill, Kriss Roebling, Ben Stiller, Peter Zusi, and Peter Swann return with an EP of new material recorded almost 35 years after the group disbanded, This Is Capital Punishment, which will be released on November 23rd. Recorded at the Garden in Brooklyn, This Is Capital Punishment came about when Captured Tracks boss Mike Sniper asked Roebling for bonus material for the...
Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, will release his fifth studio album Gallipoli on Friday 1 February 2019 and today he shares the title track. Listen below. The 12-track Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums. Following recording stints in New York and Berlin (where he now calls home), Condon...
Kamasi Washington debuts the Jenn Nkiru-directed video for ‘Hub-Tones’ today, the track is taken from Washington’s massively acclaimed new album Heaven and Earth, released in June. Watch the video below! “Hub-Tones is me trying to connect my ancestors via music,” says Washington. “As an African-American, a lot of us don’t know the country of our origin, that’s why most of us take on the ideology of Pan-Africanism. I was trying...
Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are thrilled to release their debut album Euphoria, out today. A blend of Balearic hedonism, classic punk funk and psychedelic washes, Euphoria feels like a sweaty dancefloor and tastes like the first burst of summer. Glistening singles ‘Your Light’, ‘Comes In Waves’, ‘Awake’ & ‘I See’ each draw on the diverse inspirations that have influenced the making of Euphoria, where the Paradise Garage meets Madchester on the...
Tiny Ruins announce the upcoming release of their new album Olympic Girls, out Friday 1st February 2019. To celebrate, they have released their new single and title track ‘Olympic Girls’ with its official music video. Watch below! Directed by Charlotte Evans, the video follows the first acoustic guitar flourish of ‘Olympic Girls’ ushering the potent words of Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook. The track is buoyant with a rolling energy. Cascading...
Powell Tillmans announce their first EP Spoken By The Other, released on Friday 16 November. It’s a collection of recordings from two of the most interesting artists in Europe. Their first single, ‘Feel the Night’, uses a flickering pair of notes and Tillmans’s treated voice to slowly build an anthem. Listen below! The first part of the partnership is Oscar Powell, the London-based electronic musician. The second is Wolfgang Tillmans, the Turner Prize-winning...
