Perfume Genius shares another track from his collaborative music project The Sun Still Burns Here. ‘Pop Song‘ is a euphoric piece of orchestral chamber pop, elevated by another stunning vocal performance by Mike Hadreas. Listen here. Watch the video for previous single ‘Eye In The Wall.’ Ahead of next Friday’s album release, Lankum share a final single ‘The Young People.’ Another taste of The Livelong Day from the Irish...
Glitched out pop duo HXXS release their debut album Year Of The Witch via Captured Tracks. As with much of the art created in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Year Of The Witch sizzles with the fresh sting of political anguish. Instead of firing off platitudes about a nation divided, however, HXXS choose to look inward at how this divide affects familial relationships. Take it in, here.
Memphis LK grows tall with the release of her fresh single ‘Roses’. Spirited bass-pop that blooms from a bed of dystopian electro, the new single reveals a further metamorphosis for the self-sufficient songwriter and producer since her introduction with ‘Speak Honestly’. Her newly cherished creative independence has been a journey of renewal and rebirth. Memphis looks back on the cathartic process as “clearing things that don’t serve you anymore, so you can step into...
As anticipation mounts for the release of her second album MAGDALENE (released Friday 8th November via Young / Remote Control Records), FKA twigs has revealed more brand new music from the record. ‘home with you’ is another stunning statement from a truly multi-faceted artist, with FKA twigs producing and writing (with Ethan P. Flynn) the track as well as directing and starring in the accompanying video. It follows the release of previous MAGDALENE tracks ‘cellophane’ and ‘holy terrain’, her collaboration with Future that also featured an incredible FKA twigs-directed video. “You can take the...
With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists working today. She unleashes her first ever solo release, No Home Record, today through Matador. Produced by Justin Raisen (Angel Olse, Yves Tumor, Charli XCX etc.), the album is an outstanding display of Gordon’s characteristic resistance to any formula. Artist curiosity still at the core of her output. When Gordon first began...
Two Hands, the second album from Big Thief in 2019, is out now through 4AD. A partner to the universally acclaimed U.F.O.F. (9.2 in Pitchfork), Two Hands is both connected and independent of its predecessor. In a cover story with Stereogum, Adrianne Lenker finds in words “U.F.O.F. is meant to be more focused on the immeasurable, sort of suspended ethereal playing with textures and colours and layering in the production,...
New Zealand juggernaut Fat Freddy’s Drop announce the release of their new studio album Special Edition Part 1, alongside a new single ‘Kamo Kamo’. Special Edition Part 1 is out digitally on Friday 15 November with Vinyl LP & CD Available Early December. Part 1 of a double album, Special Edition Part 1 was recorded at the band’s Wellington studio, BAYS. Of the six tracks, ‘Raleigh Twenty’ ‘Trickle Down’ and ‘Six-Eight Instrumental’ were written undercover in the studio. Long time fans – ‘Special Edition’, ‘Kamo Kamo’, and ‘OneFourteen’ – you’d have...
More than any record before, Devour Your, captures the essence and aggression of Starcrawler’s gloriously unhinged live shows. The album is out now through Rough Trade. It’s no mystery the band have garnered support from some of the greats – Shirley Manson and Elton John count themselves as fans. They’ve also supported the likes of Beck, Foo Fighters, Spoon and more. Produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave & the Bad...
Aldous Harding reunites with the visionary director behind ‘The Barrel‘ – Martin Sagadin – for an equally compelling visual for ‘Zoo Eyes.’ It is the third and final single from her latest album, Designer, out now via 4AD. Enter a hypnogogic state once more… The National also share a new visual – ‘Hey Rosey‘ lifted from the band’s sixth record I Am Easy To Find. The video marks the...
Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday. Lucy Dacus continues on her celebration of national holidays with another cover. ‘In The Air Tonight‘ is released ahead of Hallow’s Eve. In Lucy’s own words, “perhaps the best eerie bop of all time, and certainly the best drum fill. The image in the first verse is so unsettling- watching someone watch someone drown without moving to save them. People have wondered if this is...
Dyson Stringer Cloher – the iconic project of three of Australia’s most accomplished and dynamic songwriters, Jen Cloher, Mia Dyson and Liz Stringer – have released their debut self-titled album via Milk! Records. Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer and Jen Cloher have spent most of their lives thousands of miles from one another – Mia in Los Angeles, Liz in Toronto and Jen in Melbourne. Their debut self-titled album was recorded at Wilco’s studio The Loft in Chicago, with Jeff Tweedy’s guitars, as you do, with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on drums and Tom Schick the Grammy Award-winning engineer. As you do....
‘Forgotten Eyes‘ – out now, and one final taste off the new album from Big Thief, before it’s released next Friday. Two Hands is out 11 October through 4AD. Two Hands is the band’s second album this year, following the May release of U.F.O.F., a universally beloved album which garnered a 9.2 score from Pitchfork, who called it “a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.” Two Hands is a...
DIIV are back. The band’s third full length album, Deceiver, is out now via Captured Tracks. They return to Australia in April. Dates below. Tickets on sale now through Mistletone here. You’d have heard the darkly propulsive ‘Skin’, the melancholic ‘Taker’ and more recently the frenzied ‘Blankenship.’ Now hear them amongst a collection of some of DIIV’s most impressive, and darkest, work yet. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart....
A pleasure to introduce Spencer. The latest signing to 4AD. Peep his single ‘Automatic’ ~ a bed of retro percussion groove, a hypnotic bass line, and Spencer.’s sheer magnetism flowing atop. At 20 years old, he’s already been named an Apple Music Artist To Watch, and of course – he’s defying and redefining ideas that cross R&B, hip hop and indie rock. The song is paired with a video chronicling...
Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last installment, the most mythical, longest-running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions will return this October with the 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) will be released October 25th on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Vols. 11 & 12...
Tiny Ruins have released Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album through Milk! Records, Ba Da Bing Records and Marathon Artists. Featuring Hollie Fullbrook’s arresting vocals and intricate guitar playing, the solo recordings reflect the sparse beauty of her earliest work. The album features some of Fullbrook’s most accomplished songwriting, recorded onto tape in whole live takes at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios. To celebrate the release of Olympic Girls Solo, Hollie will return to Australia to join New York-based...
