Here it is, the new album from FKA twigs – MAGDALENE. Out now everywhere through Young. MAGDALENE is the follow up to FKA twigs’ critically acclaimed Brit Award and Mercury Prize-nominated debut LP1 (2014, Young). Created in a period where her confidence was knocked following heartbreak and laparoscopic surgery, MAGDALENE is the sound of twigs reconfiguring, emotionally and physically. As she sings on ‘Mary Magdalene’, the album track that opened her highly-praised, sold-out live shows earlier in the year, “A woman’s time...
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2019, The year of Lucy Dacus, and the title of her new EP – out now through Matador Records. It arrives following the release of her acclaimed second record, Historian, and the collaborative boygenius EP with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers. Throughout the year, Lucy Dacus has rolled out a festive mix of original and cover songs tied to various holidays. This is 2019. From the poignant refrain of ‘My Mother...
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The Finks announce the release of Affectations on tape & digital on Friday 29th November and share first track & video ‘No One Else’ today. The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. As Oliver writes about Affectations: “The idea was to record a few covers and some originals using only equipment that could fit in a shoebox. This included a Tascam four-track, two microphones, a few leads and cassettes, and my mum’s Sony Walkman from...
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A new Milk! Records compilation Milk On Milk – with the Melbourne label’s artists covering each other’s songs – will be released on Friday 15th November. Evelyn Ida Morris covers Courtney Barnett‘s ‘Nameless, Faceless‘ ahead of the compilation’s release. They offer: “Courtney’s song Nameless Faceless stood out as an obvious choice for me, mainly based on its content. I have really strong feelings about that fear that women have to carry. That silent, creeping fear that most...
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New Ways is the new album by Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk, his hotly anticipated follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude. It’s out now through Secret City Records. Whereas Twin Solitude was about self-reflection, New Ways is about engaging and changing, touching and being touched. It’s a physical record, with louder and tighter grooves, and the rawest lyrics the musician has ever recorded. A portrait of beauty, desire, longing, risk, remembrance—without an instant of regret. “Anything that I wouldn’t...
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In the past couple of years, Hachiku bandleader Anika Ostendorf found herself dealing with darker themes; a 25-year-old’s quarter-life crisis around growing up, changing views and feeling mounting frustrations. The Melbourne-based band, known for their self-produced dream-pop jams release a new single & video, ‘Shark Attack,’ a study of loss and grieving, following a grim diagnosis of Ostendorf’s family dog Lexus. Ostendorf says of ‘Shark Attack’: “If you’re like my friend Tushara you might think this song...
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Pinegrove have revealed plans for their new album, Marigold, to be released on Rough Trade Records on January 17, 2020. Check out the video for the second track to be released from the album, ‘Phase‘, directed by Colin Read. Marigold marks their debut album for Rough Trade Records and offers what Evan calls a “heart-first” perspective. The album begins with a breath and ends with a shimmering exhalation. In between is an urgent, multivalent meditation – and an expanded take on the blend...
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Algiers will return in 2020 with a new album, There Is No Year (Matador), and have shared a new single ‘Dispossession.’ Those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year traversing unprecedented ground. The album solidifies and expands upon the doom-laden soul of their foundation, toward an even vaster, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of “a different era,” as...
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Thrilled to announce the details for Banoffee‘s debut album! Look At Us Now Dad is out Friday 21st February via Dot Dash (AU/NZ/Asia) and Cascine (ROW). To celebrate the album announce, Banoffee has shared her new single ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ – premiered via triple j Good Nights. ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ arrives with a video directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson (Lizzo) and premiered via The FADER. Banoffee shares – “Working with Lorely (Empress Of) and Quinn was such a pleasure and it turned into a day time slumber...
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Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last instalment, the most mythical, longest running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions is back and out now through Matador Records. They have their most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Vols. 11 & 12 (a/k/a respectively as Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels). A limited-edition first vinyl pressing will include a one of a kind custom mix & match body swap booklet....
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Sure you’ll join us in welcoming back Låpsley with some brand new music. These Elements is Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher’s brand-new EP, set for release on Friday 22 November 2019 via XL Recordings. It’s her first new music since Long Way Home, her acclaimed 2016 debut album, a record that distilled the yearning and heartache of teenage love and cemented Låpsley’s position as one of the most exciting new artists in the UK. The album was hugely influential (not least on Billie Eillish,...
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Dublin four-piece Lankum’s majestic new album The Livelong Day is out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control. Made up of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat, Lankum have gained worldwide acclaim for their first two albums and captivating, often euphoric live performances. Lankum honour the sacredness of traditional Irish tunes, but allow them to metamorphose, to grow and breathe like the heavy, ancient breath of the Uilleann pipes which seethe beneath the tracks of their third studio album...
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The latest in soundtracks released by Boss Battle Records – the original soundtrack for Rebel Cops is out now. Composed by Kevin Penkin (Florence, Made in Abyss, The Rising of the Shield Hero) and Ben Matthews, (This is the Police franchise). Listen here. Rebel Cops is a spin-off game from This Is the Police, which exclusively focuses on the series’ turned-based tactical operations. Lead a ragtag squad of cops in rebellion...
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Proud to announce the news of Memphis LK joining the Dot Dash family! New single ‘Roses‘ was premiered this week on triple j‘s Home & Hosed, and single launch shows have been announced for Sydney and Melbourne. ‘Roses‘ is spirited bass-pop atop a bed of dystopian electro. It’s an empowering antidote to Australia’s prevalent tall poppy syndrome. Memphis offers, “We’d all just grow so much taller and brighter and stronger and...
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Montreal’s Common Holly has released her debut album When I say to you Black Lightning. Out now through Solitaire Recordings. The record is more experimental than Brigitte Naggar’s debut. It is rougher, looser, louder and more atonal. It feels edgy, but still kind. When I say to you Black Lightning ditches fear without losing vulnerability, and trades in sadness for the healing powers of anger, and the strength of observing,...
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Jack Peñate has announced the release of his third album After You. Over a decade in the making, the album is set for release on Friday 29 November via XL Recordings and was produced in collaboration with Paul Epworth, Inflo and Alex Epton. ‘Murder’ is the second track to be taken from the album (following from ‘Prayer’), it’s a song of forgiveness and redemption and another indication of what to expect from the forthcoming album. Watch the video below. Preorder After You here.
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