The Scholars is the first new Car Seat Headrest album in five years – an expansive suite of songs that sweeps seamlessly from majestic glam to The Who-worthy bombast. Earlier this month, Will Toledo appeared on the podcast How Long Gone and Paste published a cover story featuring the full group. Writing in Mojo, critic David Fricke blessed The Scholars with a four star review, praising the record as an...
Horsegirl share new single and lyric video ‘World of Pots and Pans’ from their debut album Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Following the propulsive ‘Anti-glory’, ‘World of Pots and Pans’ has a rough, blown-out pop charm. Watch below! Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) do everything collectively, from songwriting to trading vocal duties and swapping instruments to sound and visual art design. Reece and Cheng, college freshmen, and Lowenstein, a high school senior,...
Lucy Dacus has released her new single ‘Forever Half Mast’ the third instalment of Dacus’ 2019 holiday song series. ‘Forever Half Mast’ follows her Valentine’s Day-inspired cover of ‘La Vie En Rose’, and an original ode to Mother’s Day and Taurus Season, ‘My Mother & I’. Still to come in Lucy’s 2019 singles series are tracks tied to Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP of the collection coming in...
Steve Gunn announces his fourth album The Unseen In Between, where he explores his own emotional landscapes with his most complex, fully realised songs to date. Today’s announcement comes with first single ‘New Moon’ and its accompanying lyric video. Watch below! ‘New Moon’ begins in the mode of a deep track with its upright bass and sparse tremolo guitar. But during the song’s final minutes, strings double the melody, and then...
Everything Is Recorded have released ‘Show Love feat. Syd & Sampha’. The new single comes with an accompanied lyric video, watch below! Back in August Richard Russell stopped by Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show in which he discussed his respect for Syd and working with her for Everything Is Recorded. Bridging the gap between London and Los Angeles, ‘Show Love’ begins with Russell’s percussive instrumentation, interlaced with an introductory verse from Sampha,...
The Black Seeds have announced their long-awaited sixth studio album, Fabric, which will be their first album in over five years, set to be released Friday 8 September. The album features their new single ‘Better Days’ which the band has shared a lyric video for, created by Mark Russell & Owen Watts the video features stunning scenes from their homeland Aotearoa. Watch the time-lapsed footage below. The sessions for Fabric took...
