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....
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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...
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Muzz, the new project of Paul Banks (Interpol), Josh Kaufman (producer/multi-instrumentalist and one third of Bonny Light Horseman), and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes’ touring band), have announced their self-titled, debut album, out Friday 6 June on Matador Records. The announcement comes with new single, the widescreen, piano-led ‘Red Western Sky’, and its accompanying video, directed by the band and the first video to...
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Car Seat Headrest has released ‘Hollywood’, the latest single taken from his hotly anticipated album Making A Door Less Open, released May 1st. Accompanied by an animated video by Sabrina Nichols featuring Toledo’s alternate persona ‘Trait’, ‘Hollywood’ is an a simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying haunted ride through Tinseltown that sees Car Seat Headrest embarking on adventurous new roads. Speaking to SiriusXM, Toledo said: “This song is about Hollywood as a...
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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...
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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...
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On May 15, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) will release his 5th studio album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately. Listen to first single, ‘Describe‘, a track that captures a sense living in the moment through a heavy fog of grizzly distortion and tumbling slide guitars. Hadreas notes, “it started as a really somber ballad. It was very minimal and very slow. And then it turned into this beast of a...
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Making A Door Less Open, the new album from Car Seat Headrest and the first set of brand-new songs since 2016’s Teens Of Denial, is set for release May 1. The band have shared ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, a staple of their live sets over the past year, from the forthcoming album, and its accompanying video. Created over the course of four years, Making a Door Less Open is the result...
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Stephen Malkmus has announced his new album, Traditional Techniques, out Friday 6 March, and leads with new single ‘Xian Man‘. Malkmus’ third solo LP without the Jicks (or Pavement), is new phase folk music for new phase folks, with Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream. It’s packed with handmade arrangements, modern folklore, and 10 songs written and performed in his singular voice. It’s adventurous with...
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Algiers have shared new track and video ‘We Can’t Be Found’, taken from the London/NYC four-piece’s third album There Is No Year, out next Friday 17 January. The mesmerising visual for the sinuous, dub-inflected song, which builds to a soaring, cascading chorus, propelled by the powerhouse vocals of frontman Franklin James Fisher, was directed by Ian Cone. “I always feel the most successful music videos are the ones that are reflective and convey the mood of the...
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Algiers release their new single ‘Void’, premiered by Adult Swim as part of their Single Club series. It will appear on the Atlanta group’s third album, There Is No Year, to be released on January 17th 2020 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records and will be available to purchase as a special flexi disc as part of the vinyl package.
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Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last instalment, the most mythical, longest running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions is back and out now through Matador Records. They have their most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Vols. 11 & 12 (a/k/a respectively as Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels). A limited-edition first vinyl pressing will include a one of a kind custom mix & match body swap booklet....
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Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last installment, the most mythical, longest-running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions will return this October with the most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Vols. 11 & 12 (a/k/a respectively as Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels) will be released October 25th on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Vols. 11 & 12...
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Kim Gordon has released ‘Air BnB’, the new single from her forthcoming debut solo album, No Home Record out October 11th on Matador Records. Stream it here. It’s a towering rocker that launches from brittle, noise-bitten verses evoking “blue towels and water bottles” and “47 inch flat TV” into an explosive, defiantly-catchy mantra – ‘AirBnB’ is an exhilarating tour de force. There’s a video too. It’s everything it could have been without the budget it needed. Reviews welcome.
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Kim Gordon is back. Announcing her first ever solo album, No Home Record, to be released on 11 October through Matador Records. It is a seismic, watershed moment in the singular career of one of the most trailblazing music, art and fashion icons of our time. New single and video ‘Sketch Artist‘ out now. Watch below. Speaking on the video, director Loretta Fahrenholz says: ‘Sketch Artist’ is a haunted car ride. Kim drives...
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Memphis, TN-based songwriter Julien Baker is the latest addition to the Matador Records roster. The 21-year-old’s devastating and vulnerable debut album, Sprained Ankle, saw Baker tour the critically acclaimed release across Australia last December. Fans can now hear a previously unreleased song ‘Funeral Pyre’, which is the title-track and A-side forBaker’s new 7” coming out Friday 17 March via Matador / Remote Control. Only Baker can make a song with such a darkly macabre...
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