Kamasi Washington has released his original score for Becoming, director Nadia Hallgren and Higher Ground Productions’ documentary profiling First Lady Michelle Obama, which is streaming on Netflix now. The score features new original music Washington—whom Hallgren asked to join the project very early in its development—composed for the film as well as selections from his catalogue. Watch a trailer for the film
Bing & Ruth release second single, ‘Live Forever’, from forthcoming new album, Species out Friday 17 July. ‘Live Forever’ is a kind of sonic meditation. At 13 minutes, it is the longest composition on Species, but a series of three rising notes at the end of each phrase suggests something like a song form at work – albeit one that has been greatly stretched out. Bing & Ruth’s ringleader, David...
jade imagine return with a new single ‘Coastal Pines’, lifted from their forthcoming EP You Remind Me Of Something I Lost out Friday 5th June. The track is accompanied by video of footage shot on the road by the band and edited remotely, in social distance, by Jade and James Harvey. Jade says… “Our drummer James and I edited the Coastal Pines clip in isolation over screen-sharing. It was a...
Perfume Genius has released Set My Heart On Fire Immediately. It was was produced by GRAMMY-winning producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino, Matt Chamberlin and Rob Moose. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator Alan Wyffels. The album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences....
“I don’t know Boiling up inside ya, Like a kettle Like a frying pan spitting hot oil out. Roaming, soaking, empty streets Blue tv light beaming out A dirty beat Our stamping feet Don’t know whear to put it Some times Some times you just need a hug” – Oona Doherty, May 2020 The video for ‘Idontknow‘ stars acclaimed Belfast dancer and choreographer Oona Doherty, who co-directed the film with...
Kamasi Washington shares he has scored Becoming, director Nadia Hallgren and Higher Ground Productions’ documentary profiling First Lady Michelle Obama, which has debuted on Netflix. The score features new original music Washington—whom Hallgren asked to join the project very early in its development—composed for the film as well as selections from his catalogue. Watch a trailer for the film here. In addition, the score will be released next Friday 15 May....
Purity Ring release the otherworldly video for ‘stardew‘ directed by life-size stop motion artist Tobias Stretch with costumes created by Purity Ring’s Megan James. The track, which is off the duo’s recently released LP WOMB, was praised as “pulsating” by Billboard, a “crystalline rush of adrenaline” by The FADER and “a treat” by Consequence of Sound. WOMB was triple j Feature Album upon release, debuted at #1 on the Billboard...
Becca Mancari announces her new album The Greatest Part out June 26 via Captured Tracks, her first for the label. Along with the announcement, Mancari releases her second single, ‘First Time.’ The song is sonically upbeat but emotionally heavy, featuring a beautiful melody juxtaposed with its painful story. On the new single ‘First Time’ Mancari says, “‘First Time’ was a song that I did not at the time have the...
MOURN have released a new single ‘Call You Back’. It’s cloaked in catchy indie rock melodies, and articulates a universal experience in the simplest, most poignant terms. Maybe we need that now more than ever. It’s hard to believe that Mourn wrote the line “it’s so hard to call you back, but so easy for me to start panicking” before the onset of a global pandemic, but they’ll assure you...
Juan Wauters announces his digital EP, Más Canciones de la Onda, out June 3. With the announcement he shares the first single ‘Muy Muy Chico.’ Wauters says, “the only time I left the cities where I was during the trip when I recorded La Onda de Juan Pablo was in Chile. I travelled to the south of Chile to visit a friend’s friend. There in Pucón, in the Andes mountain...
Continuing with Matador’s ever-expanding, and I’m sure to some of you exhausting, Revisionist History series, we are pleased to announce a 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo’s 1995 album Electr-o-pura. Now in a gatefold sleeve and cut from the original 58 minute master, the new reissue is pressed for the first time on two LPs to ensure the highest quality of audio the album has had on vinyl to date. Pre-orders...
Arca premieres ‘Nonbinary,’ the first song from her forthcoming album KiCk i to be released via XL Recordings. The song is accompanied by a video featuring Arca; the piece is a powerful first look into the transformation that Arca’s undergone since her 2017 critically-acclaimed album Arca. With the past serving as prologue and her recent 60-minute single ‘@@@@@‘ as prelude, ‘Nonbinary’ defines a new era of Arca, which she’ll unveil...
Car Seat Headrest release Making A Door Less Open, their hugely anticipated new album, available in distinct track listings and mixes for digital, CD and vinyl. The album features critically acclaimed singles ‘Martin’ (currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist), ‘Hollywood’, ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’ and ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, which have already collectively surpassed 6 million streams on DSP’s. A recent New York Times profile describes MADLO...
Big Thief have released a standalone track, ‘Love In Mine‘. The song originally appeared as a b-side of a 7” mailed to fans ahead of the announcement of 2019’s acclaimed Two Hands. It follows their recently released EP Demos Vol. 1 – Topanga Canyon, CA – Feb 2018, which benefits Big Thief’s road crew, Two Hands, and U.F.O.F.. ‘Love In Mine’ shuffles with delicate finger pickings, soft percussion, and Lenker’s...
Last month Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) shared the single, ‘On The Floor’, off his forthcoming new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15. Today, he drops a remix of the track from Tokyo-based producer, Initial Talk. Initial Talk has done remixes for Rihanna, Lady Gaga and most recently Dua Lipa and is known for infusing early MTV-era 80’s sounds into his work. Here, ‘On...
Montreal-based indie trio Braids will release their new album Shadow Offering on June 19th via. Co-produced with Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie, the album finds the band at their most personal, unabashedly flexing a new sense of confidence through songs that reach a higher level of artistry and collaboration. New single ‘Just Let Me‘ explores the push and pull of a relationship, the narratives created between partners, and...
