The National share another album track ‘Light Years‘ – the closer on I Am Easy To Find. Their eighth studio album will be released 17 May via 4AD. Preorder here. Watch the accompanying video below, directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills, and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. I Am Easy To Find will be released with a companion short film, directed by Mills, named after, and inspired by...
Big Thief share another new song, ‘Cattails.’ It’s Big Thief as nothing but transcendental. “Cattails came about while we were at the studio in Washington in the pine forest. Writing it was just one of those electric multicoloured waves of connectivity just sweeping through my body. I stayed up late finishing the song and the next morning was stomping around playing it over and over again. We thought why not...
Melbourne’s Jess Ribeiro shares a new single ‘Dylan‘ ahead of the release of her new album LOVE HATE, out Friday 12 April, via Barely Dressed. Opening with a hypnotic chorus spelling out “L. O. V. E. H. A. T. E.” the song descends into a purred verse which dissects the nuances and disappointments of former relationships. On its surface, Dylan is a song about trying to be friends after breaking up with someone –...
Interpol have announced a 5-track EP titled A Fine Mess. Out 17 May via Matador. Listen to single ‘The Weekend’ / preorder here. It’s a living, breathing postcard from the band to their fans as they tour the world throughout 2019. If you loved Marauder, this one’s for you – a linear continuation of the visceral and contagious energy created by the album.
Chris Cohen has released his new self-titled album via Captured Tracks. Listen here. “My parents got divorced while I was making this record,” he says. “They were married for 53 years and my father spent most of his life in the closet, hiding both his sexual identity and various drug addictions. For me it was like being relieved of a great burden, like my life could finally begin.” It is...
Thrilled to announce our latest signing to Dot Dash, Gena Rose Bruce. Her debut album, Can’t Make You Love Me will be released Friday 28 June. Watch the video for ‘Angel Face’ here. We are taken by Gena’s vocal. It drives this album; a stirring force amidst the pulsing rhythms, with echoes of Mazzy Star and Lynchian undertones. We can’t wait for you to hear it. Or maybe you already...
Meet Jelani Aryeh, a new signing to b4, and listen to new song ‘Union Station.’ It’s an ode to leaving suburbia and finding home, not only in a new place, but in the people you take with you. At 18yrs old Jelani already finds the sweet spot between hip hop, RnB, and pop – Jack Kolbe helping out on production duties. The pair are members of the rising global collective...
Melbourne’s Sunbeam Sound Machine (Nick Sowersby) has shared his new video ‘Seems Like You’ve Made Up Your Mind‘ – premiering via Document Journal. Following on from ‘Talking Distance,’ the track is a second taste of Sunbeam’s second LP Goodness Gracious, out 3 May via Dot Dash. Here are some of Nick’s favourite things about the making of the video (dir. Clancy Walker, shot by Sean T. Barnes, starring Terry Yeboah). 1....
Art of Fighting have shared a beautifully affecting new track and video – ‘Your Love.’ Premiered by Triple R Breakfasters and The Music, ‘Your Love’ is “about that feeling when what you fear the most in the world is the inability to contain and rationalise your love for someone. How that makes all the other genuinely terrifying things in both the internal and external world seem completely insignificant,” says Ollie...
Melbourne trio Huntly have released their debut album Low Grade Buzz, a beautifully constructed and deeply personal record. Out now via Barely Dressed. Listen here. Drawing lines between all spectrums of RnB and electronica, its an album that engages the heart as much as it does the body. Hear it live in Sydney and Melbourne in May. From Huntly: “Low Grade Buzz is that feeling you get on a Sunday night...
Leeds-based post-punk outfit Drahla announce their new full length – Useless Coordinates, out 3 May via Captured Tracks. Check the accompanying single and video for ‘Stimulus For Living‘ – a composition based upon abstracted ideas and thought. And take a tip from the Fader – “Drahla make the kind of literate punk to kickstart a revolution in your mind.”
SOAK shares a new video for ‘Déjà Vu‘ – the lead single from her new album Grim Town, out 26 April via Rough Trade. Director Brother Willis calls the video “a looping, nonsensical, Lynchian dream,” and explains further that his goal “was to make a disconnected and confusing performance video, one that recasts Bridie as both performer, then observer, and back and forth in dreamlike messiness. I have a bit...
The National are back. The band have announced new album I Am Easy To Find, out Friday 17 May via 4AD. The news comes with opening track ‘You Had Your Soul With You’ which features the vocals of long-time David Bowie collaborator Gail Ann Dorsey. This is the first new music since 2017’s GRAMMY®-Award winning release Sleep Well Beast. A companion short film with the same name will also be released...
Denise Le Menice has shared a new track and video ‘Stars.’ Based in Melbourne-via-Sydney-via-Perth, Denise Le Menice is the project of Ali Flintoff. Listen to the track here. Premiering on triple j Home & Hosed, ‘Stars’ is a psyched-out, dream pop triumph of happiness over total darkness. It radiates from the video; an hilarious and adorable montage of Ali as a young’un. Take a trip down memory lane, Denise Le...
LA based artist, Hand Habits (aka Meg Duffy) has released their new album placeholder via Milk! Records. Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York, and cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The name placeholder stems from Meg’s fascination with the undefinable. Their songs serve as openings, carved-out spaces waiting to be endowed with meaning. As a lyricist, Meg is drawn to the in-between, and...
A pleasure to share the news of Big Thief‘s signing to 4AD! Their third record U.F.O.F. ‘F’ standing for ‘Friend‘, will be released 3 May. The band have spent 4 years on relentless world tour, striking chords with every audience they played to. Having already lived their new songs on tour, they were relaxed and ready to experiment once they settled in the studio. Hear the new direction in gorgeous...
