Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) announces his new album Glory, coming out March 28th. Glory was produced by Blake Mills and marks the 7th studio album in his immaculate body of work. Hadreas shares the first single ‘It’s a Mirror’, and its companion music video directed by Cody Critchloe. The two artists first collaborated on the music video for Perfume Genius’ groundbreaking ‘Queen’. Watch below! “I wake up overwhelmed even when...
After playing the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Julien Baker & TORRES share the official video for their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, directed by Caity Arthur and shot in collaboration with the queer country dance party Stud Country. Watch below! The clip features original choreography by Stud Country’s co-founder Sean Monaghan and star members of the Stud Country community. “We were so excited to cast...
Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — unveil the new single/video, ‘Switch Over,’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th. ‘Switch Over’ feels almost motorik in its pulse as the track dances back and forth between Cheng and Lowenstein’s swapping vocals. The ‘Switch Over’ video was directed by Guy Kozak, who came to the band...
Out February 28th, Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. Watch the video for the new song ‘S.N.C.’ below. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to mould into what became the revered Psychic (2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflected a search for...
Are they the new outlaws? After surprising fans with an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, today Julien Baker & TORRES have dropped their much-talked-about debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’. Formed by their shared experiences of growing up queer in the south, ‘Sugar in the Tank’ not only reflects Julien Baker & TORRES’ love of country music, but joyfully reclaims the genre’s traditions and...
Horsegirl release new single ‘Julie’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, 2025. ‘Julie’ serves as the album’s centrepiece, with synth drones acting as an ocean for Lowenstein’s vocals to sail above, all while Cheng’s wonderfully avant-garde anti-solos pierce through the woven sea. The video, directed by Amsterdam-based animator Daphna Awadish Golan, started as a month-and-a-half animation process, and represents the song’s themes of moving...
Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice, will be released on February 28th. Until then, Mdou Moctar share ‘Takoba (Injustice Version)’, out now accompanied with a translated lyric video. Watch below. In its original arrangement, the song gradually unspooled into an epic crescendo of interlocking guitar solos. On Tears the quartet delivers a more intimate and hypnotic read on the song, foregrounding traditional percussion and call-and-response vocals. ...
Philadelphia group Bardo Pond release a much overdue reissue of Set and Setting (1999) to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. The record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl. Set and Setting is accompanied by a new double LP compilation, Melt Away, cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex in the band’s career, and released together on vinyl for the first time. Of these, album highlight ‘The Trail’, originally recorded...
DARKSIDE have released new song ‘Graucha Max’. Completed during sessions last year, the track is loose and live – at once evoking vintage Tropicalia, digital dancehall, and krautrock. It is the first studio composition that the band have released as a trio and a preview of things to come. DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011 by Chilean electronic musician Nicolás Jaar and American...
Circuit des Yeux, the moniker of singer and multi-instrumentalist Haley Fohr, releases new song ‘God Dick’. A connective sonic link between Circuit des Yeux’s last album, -io, and a new one to follow in the new year, ‘God Dick’ morphs from symphonic swells and staccato strings to a spiralling 170 BPM drum machine cliffhanger, narrated by Fohr’s sonorous vocal. “God Dick serves as a sort of chrysalis function,” says Fohr,...
Interpol celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics with a newly expanded reissue – out now on limited-edition red vinyl at record stores. And, on all digital platforms which includes the record, the new-to-streaming b-side ‘Direction’ (digital-exclusive), and a complete live recording and video of the band’s legendary 2005 performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes, “never before heard or seen”. Listen / buy Antics (20th Anniversary Edition) here.
This year saw Kim Gordon release her second solo album, The Collective. Today, the digital deluxe edition of The Collective has been released, along with the announcement of a physical deluxe edition set for release on December 13. The deluxe edition features two new songs, the previously released ‘ECRP’ and new track ‘Bangin’ On The Freeway’, which is accompanied by a video directed by Coco Gordon Moore. Watch below! Kim...
The Hard Quartet release their eponymous debut album and announce a run of Australian tour dates in early January 2025. Says the band, “Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney and Jim White formed The Hard Quartet in May 2023. They recorded a 15 song album in NYC and Malibu California without telling anyone except their families and friends – ideal times spent in idyllic locales. The Hard Quartet starts touring...
If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. “We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” explains the band’s US-based bassist and...
Interpol celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics (first released on September 27th, 2004) with a newly expanded reissue – now available on digital services, which includes the record, the new-to-streaming b-side ‘Direction’ (digital-exclusive), and a complete live recording and video of the band’s legendary 2005 performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes, “never before heard or seen”. A limited-edition red vinyl reissue will be available at record stores...
The Hard Quartet release brand new single ‘Our Hometown Boy’, alongside a video by Jared Sherbert. Watch below! Their self-titled debut album, The Hard Quartet, is out on October 4th. The new group features Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White. “In ‘Our Hometown Boy,’ The Hard Quartet mythologises the fierce inhabitants of our shared hovels and shangri-las from the vantage point of a beach famous for the undertow. A conversation about what paradise looks...
