Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy has announced her debut LP Ariadna, out Friday 8th September, and shares the opening title track which was named after the Greek goddess, Adriane. Listen below! Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) confesses “Synthesizers help me maximally feel the present moment.” Livanskiy was born into a shifting and critical time for Russia. The Soviet Union had exhausted and old values were anathematised because of reconstruction. A sense of displacement...
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Widowspeak announce their new album, Expect The Best, to be released Friday 25 August, along with revealing a video for the first single, ‘Dog’, filmed and edited by musician/artist Otium, and filmed in Tacoma, WA. Watch it below! Widowspeak’s Molly Hamilton says the song is “about the compulsion to move on from things and places, even people, when you’re not necessarily ready to. Sometimes, I get caught up in ‘the grass is always...
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The xx have released I See You (Deluxe) today. The Deluxe version of the album is available digitally and includes three new tracks: ‘Naïve’, ‘Seasons Run’ and ‘Brave For You (Marfa Demo)’. The xx just performed on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival in the UK, you can tune in to some amazing footage of the show on BBC 2 here, and an interview on Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World, where you can check...
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Algiers’ second album, The Underside Of Power, is out now. Recorded largely in Bristol and produced by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn (Sunn O)))), with post-production by Ben Greenberg (The Men, Hubble, Uniform), touchstones on the uncompromising and impassioned album run from Southern rap to Northern soul, gospel to IDM, industrial to grime to italo. More pertinent than ever before, The Underside Of Power follows Algiers’ 2015 eponymous...
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Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is out now and available on all digital formats, double CD, and triple 180g LP versions of the 23 track album. Coinciding in time for the release Radiohead have shared a new video to one of the previously unreleased tracks ‘Man Of War’. Watch it below! OKNOTOK features the...
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Jen Cloher has announced her new self-titled album to be released Friday 11th August. Jen has also shared the first single from the album, ‘Forgot Myself’, and writes about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship. Listen and watch the accompanying video below! Of the song’s inspiration, Jen said “You want to be with your partner celebrating big moments in their life but at the same time you have your own life...
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Banoffee returns with ‘Ripe’, the first single to be released in almost two years. Listen below! Having produced her own brand of experimental electronica since 2013 in Melbourne, Banoffee felt a change was necessary and LA offered up a fresh creative start. ‘Ripe’ bounces around a manipulated vocal sample, a grating bassline scratch and infectious drops. Intentionally grubby, it’s also a mirror of the project’s “dirty, crass personality.” Banoffee is interested...
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Over the course of four albums, Teeth & Tongue – the music project of songwriter and instrumentalist Jess Cornelius – had gradually morphed into a more collaborative ‘band-like’ affair, with long-time collaborators Marc Regueiro-McKelvie, Damian Sullivan and James Harvey. Now, Jess is heading to the USA to focus on a new ‘actually solo’ project, with material that is more stripped back, personal and lyrically direct. To say goodbye (for a while),...
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Gold Class have announced their new album, Drum, to be released on Friday 18 August. The band have also shared a video for their first single off the record ‘Twist In The Dark’. Watch it below! Drum is the follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard, Drum sees Gold Class explore new sonic territory. On the album...
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San Francisco’s psych-blasted, starry-eyed weirdos The Fresh & Onlys return with the announcement of new album, Wolf Lie Down, out Friday 25th August. For a taste, they have shared the opening title track. Listen below! Wolf Lie Down strips back the layered feel of the last few records to reveal singer Tim Cohen and guitarist/producer Wymond Miles full of passion, imbued with an uplifting romanticism, and their trademark wry sense...
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Brooklyn trio B Boys have today released their full-length debut Dada. Featuring singles ‘Energy’, ‘Walking’ and ‘Discipline’ the band create effortless punk, sun beaten guitars and bass riffs twist around each other, sharp turns and jagged edges careen wildly, making for a breathless record.
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“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against—their villain—same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when...
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Methyl Ethel share a new video for ‘Drink Wine’, directed by Paxi (behind the surrealism-flavoured visuals for ‘Ubu’) and filmed in Sydney, Australia. The new single opens their second studio album, Everything Is Forgotten, out now. Watch the video below. The band are currently in the middle of a run of European dates with fellow Perth band POND. After appearances at Boardmasters, Lowlands and Green Man festivals, Methyl Ethel will head to North...
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The Black Seeds have announced their long-awaited sixth studio album, Fabric, which will be their first album in over five years, set to be released Friday 8 September. The album features their new single ‘Better Days’ which the band has shared a lyric video for, created by Mark Russell & Owen Watts the video features stunning scenes from their homeland Aotearoa. Watch the time-lapsed footage below. The sessions for Fabric took...
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Algiers have released new single ‘Cleveland’, taken from their forthcoming second album, The Underside Of Power, released Friday 23rd June. Listen below. While the song invokes Tamir Rice, as a reference and tribute, the lyrics summon Kindra Chapman, Andre Jones, Lennon Lacy, Sandra Bland, Roosevelt Pernell, Keith Warren and Alfred Wright, similarly victims of state sanctioned violence. It also makes a link with theorist Walter Benjamin’s work on divine violence, placing justice against...
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Aldous Harding has revealed a new video for the single ‘Blend’, taken from her latest album Party, watch it below. The visuals for ‘Blend’ were created by Charlotte Evans, the New Zealand filmmaker also responsible for Harding’s previous videos for ‘Horizon’ and ‘Imagining My Man’. Disquieting in its nature, and inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary war film Apocalypse Now, Harding goes into further detail – “The concept is based on that awful...
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