Evelyn Ida Morris announces their new self-titled album, to be released on Friday 20th April. To celebrate, Evelyn shares new single ‘The Body Appears’ alongside a stunning video shot by Geoffrey O’Connor and performed by Deanne Butterworth. Watch below! The album represents a significant departure from the looping pop of Pikelet, for which Evelyn is best known. It builds on the structural complexity of that project, but focuses wholly on piano,...
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With just over a week until Jarrow’s second album Expensive Hugs is out in the world, the band share their rousing new single ‘Bleach’ and announce a run of headline shows. Watch the video to ‘Bleach’ below! Self-guided therapy through garage rock, that’s ‘Bleach’, the third single from Expensive Hugs. All riffs, melody and noise, the song moves at breakneck speed as Jarrow sings of strange childhood memories before finding catharsis and solace from...
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Smerz have released their much-awaited EP, Have fun. Launched with a video for new track ‘Worth it’, produced and directed by the Norwegian duo. Watch below! Produced, programmed and sung entirely by the Copenhagen-based duo. Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldts’ EP compiles the duo’s recent output with some new unreleased music. The visual for ‘Worth it’ follows a similar narrative output that we’ve come to expect from Smerz. A dark, twisted...
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Copenhagen’s Iceage — Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielsen (drums), and Johan Wieth (guitar) — will release their fourth album, Beyondless, on Friday 4 May. After returning last month with ‘Catch It’, their first new material since 2013’s Plowing Into The Field of Love, Iceage now share the next taste of what’s to come from the new record, ‘Pain Killer’ featuring Sky Ferreira (the...
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Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders have announced their return with the darkly beautiful ‘White Flag’, the first taste from their forthcoming album Blue Poles, to be released Friday 4 May. Watch the video to ‘White Flag below! The spectacular video was shot in Indonesia by visual mastermind Wilk and directed by Jim Pillion. “It’s written from two perspectives”, says Ladder. “I didn’t want to duet so I sang both parts....
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Lucy Dacus releases her new 10-track record, Historian, full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and first tattoos. “This is the album I needed to make,” says Dacus, who views Historian as her definitive statement as a songwriter and musician. “Everything after this is a bonus.” Recorded in Nashville, re-teaming with No Burden producer Collin Pastore, and mixed by John Congleton, the sound they...
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Good Morning! The Breeders today release their long-awaited fifth album, All Nerve, the group’s first record in a decade, now available on CD, standard edition black vinyl LP, limited alternate sleeve/orange vinyl (independent stores only) and digitally. All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. Returning to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Last Splash, the Breeders decided to carry on and...
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Montreal staple, Jackson MacIntosh, releases his debut solo album My Dark Side. Recorded over three years and two break-ups, My Dark Side is as confessional as it is casual: a collection of songs that oozed out of necessity. MacIntosh spent 2016 and 2017 deploying funky, percolating bass lines on the road for indie pop outfit TOPS. He recorded and engineered the last two albums for Homeshake at his now-defunct home Montreal...
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Gift Wrap’s debut album Losing Count is out now! For some time now, Brendon Avalos has been forging a path for himself among the clamor of emerging indie artists as the bassist and vocalist of Brooklyn punk trio B Boys. Now, he releases his first solo effort under the alias Gift Wrap. With each track draped in whimsically looping layers and interspersed with the pervasion of old radio samples, buzzing, and hums...
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Jaala reveals details of their new album Joonya Spirit due for release on Friday 20th April, and shares a brand new single from it, ‘Horn’. Listen below! Since the release of Hard Hold they have transformed into a completely new animal, stylistically and literally. The addition of Carolyn Schofield (synth) of Fia Fiell fame has moved the band towards a more haunting, dreamy experimental pop movement as opposed to the...
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Sydney-based HANDSOME shares brand new track, ‘Save Some Love’, the second single since her emotive debut, ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’. Listen below! HANDSOME details, “‘Save Some Love’ is a reminder to love yourself. We allow ourselves too often to give all of our energy, positivity and love out to other people, we often for get to leave a little for ourselves. This song has many different stories to it,...
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With the release of their new album, There’s a Riot Going On, heading our way on March 16th, Yo La Tengo have shared another taste of what’s to come with new single ‘For You Too’. Listen below! It’s an album stand-out track with a hypnotic guitar line, complemented by a low dose of drone and a deceptively upbeat drum patter, as Ira Kaplan sings quiet words of assurance: “For you / whenever there’s...
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Manchester Orchestra and Julien Baker have released a cover of Pedro The Lion’s ‘Bad Things To Such Good People’. Net proceeds from sales and streaming will be donated to 1 Million 4 Anna. Listen below! When releasing this cover, Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra thought it was a good opportunity to raise money and gain attention for 1 Million 4 Anna, with having a deep connection and history, he explains “I had the privilege of...
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Brisbane duo Primitive Motion have released their new album House in the Wave. Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the album across Sunday afternoons spent in Selig’s home studio in Brisbane. House in the Wave is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio and surrounding garden. The days spent in studio document the process of composition:...
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The Breeders share new single ‘Nervous Mary’, the driving opener off their forthcoming album All Nerve, out March 2. Primarily recorded by Mike Montgomery at Candyland in Dayton, Kentucky with additional recordings by Greg Norman at Electrical Audio in Chicago, listen below! All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. The quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary and have been quietly working on...
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Parquet Courts announce their fifth album, Wide Awake! which will be released on May 18th. ‘Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience’ is the first taste of what’s to come from the record. Watch the clip below! Wide Awake! is a groundbreaking work, an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new...
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