Cults have released their new album Offering, an exciting collection of songs exploding with heart, confidence, shimmering melody and buzzing life. At the same time, it goes places Cults haven’t gone before. Offering marks the band’s first LP since the 2013 album Static. It also marks the beginning of a more collaborative phase for Cults. The duo have always traded ideas, but for the first time they sat down to jam...
Meg Remy, the unapologetic pop revisionist, known as U.S. Girls, has just dropped a new video for her song ‘Mad As Hell’. Directed by Remy and Emily Pelstring, the video pieces together historic patriotic and military imagery. Watch it below! The wall-of-sound arrangement and throbbing disco beat along with Remy’s radiant voice make a candy-coated Trojan horse for her powerful call to action for pacifism and impassioned critique of military...
Spoon have released a new video set to a live recording of ‘I Ain’t The One’ from their latest album Hot Thoughts. Watch below! Renowned British artists and filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard captured the band in an intimate studio setting, the slinky silhouettes and blue-tinged shadows complimenting the song’s sinewy synths and Britt Daniel’s soulful vocals. The minimalist drums and bass surface sporadically throughout, building tension across the...
King Krule gives us yet another taste from his upcoming album The OOZ, out 13 October, with ‘Half Man Half Shark’. The track is accompanied by a visual culled from VHS footage of King Krule’s recent LA/NYC/London surprise concerts overlaid with animated loops by Theo Chin. Watch below! The jittery punk rock ‘Half Man Half Shark’ digs even deeper into the gritty, decaying blues of previous single ‘Dum Surfer’, delivering an...
The Breeders announce their return with new track, ‘Wait in the Car’. The single marks the reunion of band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. Watch the accompanied video below! The artwork and visuals for ‘Wait in the Car’ come from Chris Bigg and Martin Andersen, with the video piecing together 800 still images. “It all started with a brick,” the pair say. “We both liked the...
Ibeyi released a music video for new song ‘I Wanna Be Like You’, off their album Ash, out today. The video, which stars twins, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, was shot in France and directed by Remi Besse and produced by Standard Films. Watch it below! Lisa-Kaindé wrote the track for Naomi – her twin by nature but opposite in reality. Lisa-Kaindé explains further, “Sometimes I want to be like Naomi. I want her eyes,...
TORRES, the creative alter-ego of Brooklyn-based Mackenzie Scott, has released her new album Three Futures today, watch the video to new single ‘Helen In The Woods’ below! In describing the album, Scott says it “is entirely about using the body that each of us has been given as a mechanism of joy.” The 10 original tracks on Three Futures embrace ecstasy, desire and indulgence rather than self-denial, and exude this...
Kamasi Washington’s new EP Harmony of Difference is out today, the new music is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. Watch the short film to the single ‘Truth’ below. The EP explores the philosophical possibilities of the musical technique known as “counterpoint,” which Kamasi defines as “the art of balancing similarity and difference to create harmony between separate melodies.” Beyond the artistic impulse to expand the possibilities within counterpoint, Washington wanted to create...
Aldous Harding has aired a brand new song, ‘Elation’. Taken from the recording sessions for her recent album Party, Harding assumes the role of chanteuse, as the slow-burn of ‘Elation’ builds from a quiet lament to a dramatic zenith. Listen below! Earlier this summer, Harding performed the track exclusively for KEXP. Check out the startling performance here. Aldous Harding’s second album Party was recorded with John Parish in Bristol. She...
Dublin four-piece Lankum announce their new album, Between The Earth And Sky, to be released Friday 27th October. The band have shared single ‘What Will We Do When We Have No Money?’ ahead of its release. Listen below! Lankum combine distinctive four-part vocal harmonies with arrangements of uilleann pipes, concertina, accordion, fiddle and guitar. Their repertoire spans humorous Dublin music-hall ditties and street-songs, classic ballads from the Traveller tradition, traditional...
Following the opening single ‘Over Everything’, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile share new single ‘Continental Breakfast’, from their collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. Watch it below! The video gently pushes the door open just a little bit further. Using intimate home footage shot over four days of Kurt and Courtney in their respective environments, ‘Continental Breakfast’ goes beyond being a mere music video and becomes a mini...
Following the recent video to ‘I Took Your Picture’, Cults have shared new single ‘Right Words’ from their forthcoming album Offering, released on 6 October. Listen below! Of the track they note, “We are excited to share ‘Right Words,’ the fourth track off of Offering. This song was like the nebula of the album. We worked on it forever because it kept breeding new parts that would go on to be...
The Lemon Twigs have released their six-track EP, Brothers of Destruction. The collection of previously unreleased material is available digitally and as a 12” vinyl. Brothers of Destruction was written and recorded by the D’Addario brothers – Brian (20) and Michael (18) – on their 8-track at home in New York during 2015, not long after recording their debut album, Do Hollywood. “Many of you will recognise some of the songs from...
Lina Tullgren has released her debut LP, Won. In celebration, Lina has revealed the intimate video for ‘Face Off’. Bandmate and video director Ty Ueda shares, “The video is based on meditations and sentiments on the topic of home.” Watch it below! Won is the product of what happens when you push past the fear of what it means to think out loud. Won envelopes listeners with the idea of “home”...
John Barera & Will Martin’s second collaborative album Proceed To The Root is out now. Listen to the pair’s third track debuted a week from release, ‘Berlin By Candlelight’, below! It was produced during a blackout in Berlin. Proceed To The Root is a tough collection of Techno & House styles that collide with Soulful electronics, touches of Dub and Jungle. The album is finely crafted, sculptural, storytelling, no-nonsense club music. John Barera and Will Martin’s...
Gel Set is the solo project from multimedia artist Laura Callier and she returns with new album Body Copy, released 20 October. Alongside this announcement comes a first taste of the record, the dreamy, gauzy electro-pop ‘Don’t You Miss Me?’. Listen below! The record was born after a move from Chicago to LA to pursue sound design and post production. Callier came to find loneliness in this overpopulated city, searching for...
