Dry Cleaning release their new album Secret Love, out today, along with its final single/video ‘Joy’ earlier in the week, watch it here! With lyrics initially pieced together from advertisements in Virginia Tech University’s History of Food and Drink archive, ‘Joy’ serves as a compassionate coach to those in desperate need of positivity and kindness. Like Stumpwork swansong ‘Icebergs,’ it’s an optimistic sign-off for Secret Love with the parting words, “Don’t give up on being sweet.” Lyricist Florence Shaw comments, “Recently I...
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Buck Meek announces his new album, The Mirror, out 27 February, and shares its lead single, ‘Gasoline’. There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice. On The Mirror, love, as an idea, is always close – but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could...
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North Carolina based singer-songwriter Anjimile releases a new single ‘Auld Lang Syne II’. The track, produced by Brad Cook, is the first release since his emotionally raw 2023 album The King, picking up where he left off with a tender note-to-self on resilience and hard-fought freedom, characterised by delicate finger-plucked strings, charming horn passages, and intimate vocal delivery. Anjimile shares: “‘Auld Lang Syne II’ was originally intended as something of...
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Dry Cleaning share ‘Cruise Ship Designer’, the second single from their new album Secret Love, out 9 January 2026. The new track follows lead single ‘Hit My Head All Day’ and arrives alongside a music video featuring the band’s Lewis Maynard performing a dance routine choreographed for the track by BULLYACHE. ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ is a classic Dry Cleaning pop song sung from the perspective of a nautical entrepreneur who...
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Lush release the 35th anniversary edition of their compilation album Gala, comprising their earliest releases – Scar (1989), Mad Love (1990), and Sweetness and Light (1990) – in reverse chronological order, plus two additional tracks (a cover version of ABBA’s ‘Hey Hey Helen’ and the extended Robin Guthrie mix of Scar track ‘Scarlet’). Originally released in 1990 as the band’s introduction to the US and Japanese markets, the compilation’s 35th...
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Maria Somerville shared her second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, in April. A few months on from its release, Somerville now announces a brand new Luster (Remixes) EP, out January 21. In total, the EP gives six tracks off Somerville’s already mesmerising, wind-swept record new life in fitting, and sometimes surprising ways via its enlisted cast of friends and collaborators (Seefeel, YHWH Nailgun, Fatshaudi, colle, Asa Nisi Masa...
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In September, Big Thief released their new album Double Infinity. The album quickly garnered widespread praise from fans and critics alike. Now, on the heels of the band’s sold-out Forest Hills Stadium show – their largest New York headline show to date – they share their performance of ‘Grandmother’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The song was performed by an impressive 12-piece band including Lenker, Meek, Krivchenia, Joshua...
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Bartees Strange releases his brand new EP, Shy Bairns Get Nowt, after announcing the project last week. Out now on all streaming platforms, the EP features music recorded while making the recent album Horror, including new single ‘Ain’t Nobody Making Me High’ – a love song punctuated by impassioned ad-libs and ear-catching sing-along chorus. The EP also contains Horror producer Jack Antonoff’s version of ‘Baltimore’. On the EP, Strange says:...
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Ten years ago, Meg Remy began her collaborative relationship with 4AD, starting with the release of her fifth album under the U.S. Girls moniker, 2015’s breakthrough Half Free. Today, celebrating ten years of Half Free and commemorating the evolution she has experienced over ten years with 4AD, Remy returns with a brand-new U.S. Girls two-track project entitled ‘Running Errands (Yesterday)’ b/w ‘Running Errands (Today)’. In the last decade of songcraft,...
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On 9th January 2026, Dry Cleaning will return with Secret Love, the group’s third studio album, produced by Cate Le Bon. They share its first single ‘Hit My Head All Day’, out now. Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning, between frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard. Here, the south London four-piece take their place...
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Tune-Yards release a new EP, Tell the Future With Your Body, off the back of their latest album Better Dreaming in May, which saw the duo deliver some of the grooviest music of their career so far. On this new EP, Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner expand on the loopy, homespun energy of their latest album with four more tracks of irresistible rhythms, basslines and melodies. The tracklisting offers three previously...
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Last week, Big Thief released Double Infinity, their sixth studio album. To follow, they release the mind-altering, giddy, beautiful, and just deeply “Big Thief” video for one of the album’s standout tracks, ‘Words’. It’s the band’s first non-live performance music video since 2017’s ‘Mythological Beauty’ video. Watch here. The video was directed by Adrianne’s brother, Noah Lenker, who comments: “The finite meanings of our words encompass the boundaries of how...
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Big Thief release their highly anticipated new album Double Infinity, alongside tour details of the UK and European leg of their Somersault Slide 360 Tour. Taking place in the Autumn of 2026, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia will play some of the biggest headline shows of their career thus far including a 3-night residency at London’s O2 Brixton Academy, 2 nights at Oslo’s Sentrum Scene and the Olympia,...
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On 26 April 2005, John Darnielle’s third 4AD full-length album as , The Sunset Tree, presented a deeply confessional and emotionally vivid narrative drawn from the depths of the prolific songwriter’s turbulent personal history. Twenty years on, Darnielle revisits the career highlight record with a reissue dubbed The Sunset Tree (20th Anniversary Edition). It’s a mark of Darnielle’s extraordinary fertility that, of the 800-plus songs he has recorded, only a...
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Big Thief release two new singles, ‘Grandmother’ and ‘Los Angeles’, from their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, out 5 September 2025. The singles follow last month’s “euphoric ode to the all-encompassing haze of desire,” (Paste) ‘All Night All Day’and lead single ‘Incomprehensible’. ‘Grandmother’ is the first song all three members of Big Thief wrote together and grapples with generational love and pain. To her grandmother, Adrianne Lenker sings: “It’s alright, everything that happened, happened / So what’s the use of holding?...
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Big Thief release ‘All Night All Day’. the second single from their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, out September 5. Following lead single ‘Incomprehensible’, boasting “crunchy psych-folk guitars, a smorgasbord of percussion, and the delicate power of Adrianne Lenker’s voice”, ‘All Night All Day’ is an expression of love and desire without shame. Lenker sings: “Swallow poison swallow sugar / Sometimes they taste the same / But I know your...
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