Meet songwriter, Becca Mancari, latest singing to Captured Tracks. And watch the video for her first single ‘Hunter.’ Mancari on ‘Hunter’ – “‘Hunter’ was born from a true story reflecting back on a person from my childhood in church who, later in my life, would send me frequent letters in the mail telling me to ‘repent’ and that I was a ‘nasty woman’ for the way I dressed and for...
NYC-via-Seoul electronic producer, DJ, and vocalist Yaeji has released her mixtape WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던. Step in to the dreamy new music video for the title track. Filmed in Korea with Dawnqmentary (and the DADAISM CLUB), the music video for ‘WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던’ stars Yaeji, her grandfather and the DADAISM CLUB as Yaeji reminisces on the memories of her childhood in Korea. ‘WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던’,...
Purity Ring’s hotly anticipated third album, WOMB, is out now. The album features previously released songs: searching salve ‘peacefall,’ which FADER called “a glistening transmission from inside the eye of the storm”; ‘stardew,’ which Billboard praised as “pulsating”; kinetic ‘pink lightning‘ called “sparkling” by Stereogum; and the propulsive ‘i like the devil‘, which BrooklynVegan note as “throbbing [and] atmospheric”. To celebrate the album’s release, the duo of Megan James and...
Today, Grimes released the video for ‘You’ll Miss Me When I’m Not Around,’ a track from her latest album, Miss Anthropocene, which was released via 4AD / Remote Control Records last month to rave reviews. Watch the video here. Grimes grew up on bootleg sampling and DIY creation and consider it a vital part of exploring personal style and creativity. She shares her finished video in front of a green screen, encouraging creators to generate their own videos,...
As with the first album, almost all of FRIDAY FOREVER was recorded in Richard Russell’s Copper House studio in London. It features an instinctively curated set of collaborators of all ages and backgrounds including South London’s FLOHIO and James Massiah, the Manchester rapper Aitch, Trinidad-born Berwyn, Ireland’s Maria Somerville and Kean Kavanagh, Staten Island rap god Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tang Clan, long term EIR collaborator Infinite Coles, west London’s A.K....
Where were you when The National released High Violet? The National have announced they will be releasing a 10-year anniversary expanded edition of their 2010 album High Violet, on Friday 19 June, 2020. Originally released May 11, 2010, the critically acclaimed fifth studio album features the now-classics ‘Terrible Love,’ ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio,’ ‘England,’ and perennial show closer, ‘Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.’ In addition to the 10 original tracks, the triple LP package...
Meet Locate S,1! Her new album Personalia is out now. Produced by Kevin Barnes (of Montreal), Personalia is pushing the outer limits of pop music. While Schneider was writing and recording the album in her home studio in Athens, GA over the past year, she was thinking a lot about her own growth and self-worth as an artist, and where her constantly evolving and always experimental music fits in the digital age. Throughout Personalia, Schneider seeks to...
New signings to Rough Trade Records, caroline, share their debut 12” single ‘Dark blue’ backed with ‘BRJ’. Both tracks are available to listen to across DSPs now and they will also be released as a 12” single on Friday 24 April. On the accompanying video for ‘Dark blue’, caroline say: “We see ‘caroline’ as being ‘systems-based’ music in the way that all the musical parts are mutually interdependent and none...
Car Seat Headrest share a new song, ‘Martin.’ Listen and watch the lyric video, with bandleader Will Toledo in the character of ‘Trait’ below. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming new album Making A Door Less Open, set for release May 1. Described by Toledo as “one of the favorite songs that he’s ever written”, ‘Martin’ is a soaring and majestic ode of life-affirming pop. Created over the...
Somewhere in the middle of making Are You In Love?, Bulat took almost a whole year off. Because she had fallen in love, because her father died, because she had lost her sense of beauty and where it might be hidden. Now, it’s yours. The recording began at Hi-Dez Studios in Joshua Tree but the album was not complete when Bulat returned home to Montreal. It would be nine more...
In this time of physical distancing, let’s show some social solidarity. Measures put in place to combat the spread of COVID-19 mean artists can’t normally, and essentially, receive their income from touring. Bandcamp have stepped in to streamline your support direct to artists: waiving their revenue share on sales. From 6pm AEDT tonight and for 24 hours, buy your music from Bandcamp and direct much needed money straight to artists’ pockets. Read...
Låpsley has released her highly-anticipated second album Through Water. Stream or purchase it here. She has also released a visual for ‘Speaking of the End,’ a ballad that gets to the heart of Through Water’s duality, reflecting on relationships of the past with a firm eye on the future. Meanwhile, Låpsley’s current single ‘Womxn‘ continues to be one of her most connective songs to date. Embraced around the world as...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has shared a new single, ‘On The Floor’, from the forthcoming new album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15. ‘On the Floor’ is a full-bodied, celebratory pop song that plays with the album’s themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own. As with the last single ‘Describe’, Perfume Genius directed the video for ‘On The Floor’, on which he notes, “A crush...
Purity Ring have revealed two more songs from the duo of Megan James and Corin Roddick’s forthcoming third album, WOMB, which will be released on Friday 3 April. Searching salve ‘peacefall’ is accompanied by a video featuring Megan chain-stitching the lyrics of the song and a crescendo of flames. ‘pink lightning’ begins with a haunting, pitch-shifted transmission before ascending to scintillation. The video for the track is a walkthrough of a ‘pink lightning’ video game, which they leaked to fans in advance of...
Yaeji joins the XL Recordings family! The NYC-via-Seoul electronic producer, DJ and vocalist has announced her new mixtape titled WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던 due 2 April. Check out the new animated video for lead single ‘WAKING UP DOWN‘ below. Inspired by classic anime opening sequences and based entirely on Yaeji’s own original character designs and illustrations, the music video for ‘Waking Up Down’ was created by Yaeji with direction and...
After humble lo-fi beginnings in the Australian art-pop underground, Donny Benét has expanded his cult-like following across the globe with a resonant array of danceable repertoire dealing with love and affection. His next album marks a new chapter informed by a wealth of musical and personal development. Enter Mr Experience, the new album from Donny Benét released Friday 22nd May. To celebrate Mr Experience, Donny Benét will play a run...
