Hachiku has announced her debut album and released the title track ‘I’ll Probably Be Asleep.’ ‘I’ll Probably Be Asleep’ is a dream-pop jam on yearning for other experiences & feelings with growling guitars, vigorous drum-machines, topped with gentle, omniscient vocals. Of the track, Anika Ostendorf says, “In essence, it is like an escapist’s testament about the wish to gain sovereignty over your thoughts. Freud’s id vs superego. The thought of...
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Californian group Hello Forever have released a new single and live video for ‘I’m Feeling It’ ahead of their album release on October 2nd. Based in Topanga, California, on a piece of land once used by a free-love nudist commune, the art-pop collective Hello Forever are led by the eccentric, magnetic figure of Samuel Joseph. They live together, in this pastoral setting high above the Pacific Ocean – not far...
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Becky and the Birds, the moniker of Swedish producer Thea Gustafsson, has released her new EP Trasslig via 4AD. Gustafsson uses Becky And The Birds as an outlet for songs about complex women – strong, independent, sensitive and romantic women – and Trasslig (Swedish for “entangled, messy, intricate”) echoes that sentiment. She says, “people are scared of women who could be both powerful and vulnerable at the same time, and...
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