Genre-bending singer/rapper/producer HAWA announces her debut album HADJA BANGOURA. HADJA BANGOURA is named for HAWA’s great-grandmother who passed away last year. Hadja’s spiritual presence on the album forms a vessel for healing as HAWA crafts a letter to herself through which to work past her toxic relationships. The announcement of the album is accompanied by lead single ‘GEMINI‘ which was produced by Tony Seltzer and Inef Coupe with a sole feature from ascendant experimental artist Eartheater. The song highlights HAWA’s silky smooth-yet-versatile...
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Minneapolis-raised artist Jeremy Nutzman, the brainchild behind Velvet Negroni, has announced details of a second album. Bulli will be released on 13 January 2023 and its lead single ‘Sinker’ is out now. Whirring with a strutting positivity and rich instrumentation, ‘Sinker’ is accompanied by an official video directed by Casey Anderson. Watch below! Created during a particularly tumultuous time in Nutzman’s life that involved drug abuse, bank fraud, and a house fire, it’s unsurprising that Bulli would echo his present state of mind. Bulli feels...
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Dry Cleaning share ‘Gary Ashby’. The new single, from their second album Stumpwork (out 21 October), follows the travails of a beloved family tortoise lost in lockdown (“Have you seen Gary?”). Loaded with melodious hooks, the 2-minute jangle pop song is “a lament about a pet tortoise, escaped as a result of family chaos,” explains the band. “We wrote it in December 2020, one of the first new songs after the New Long Leg session.” To support the...
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The National have been playing a number of new songs live since returning to the road this May, and now the group has released one of them as a new single through 4AD / Remote Control Records, ‘Weird Goodbyes’ feat. Bon Iver. The single continues the tradition of Justin Vernon’s collaborations with the band in the studio and on stage. “It’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by...
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SOHN releases ‘M.I.A.’ from his upcoming album Trust, released digitally on September 2nd, with vinyl to follow on November 4th. It is propulsive and ominous from its first chords and accompanied by a striking video from Brazilian director duo Vira-Lata. Watch below! “’M.I.A.’ is dedicated to the partners of those with depression – the ones who hold it down while their loved ones may be missing-in-action whilst suffering,” SOHN explains. “I speak from experience of having...
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In honor of Shrines’ ten-year anniversary, Purity Ring return with a reissue of their breakthrough debut record. Titled shrines X, the album features three previously unreleased songs from the Shrines sessions, with the lead track “inovein” perfectly capturing their unique magic – bewitching, eerie vocals dancing uneasily across shimmering electronic haze. A surprise for fans and perfect intro to new listeners, their influence through 2010’s alt and commercial pop is undeniable. Stream / purchase...
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U.S. Girls – the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy – has shared a brand new song ‘So Typically Now’ and a self-directed official companion video. A sleek widescreen synth anthem that punctures the real estate bubble, ‘So Typically Now’ features powerhouse backing vocalist Kyle Kidd and is the first taste of new U.S. Girls music since the release of Christmas song ‘Santa Stay Home’ and the Polaris Prize-shortlisted album Heavy Light....
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Dry Cleaning release new single ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’ off their forthcoming album Stumpwork, out 21 October, alongside a visualiser featuring the band’s drummer, Nick Buxton, displaying perfect form while skating backwards. Watch below! On ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’, Florence Shaw narrates an off-kilter conversation with a distant friend. The track is whacked-out and otherworldly. “The lyrics were partly inspired by phone calls with a friend who was living and working in the...
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After traversing North America on tour with Mono this Spring, Bing & Ruth has shared a new EP Species (Solo Piano). The two-track digital release finds the group’s leader David Moore transpose to piano songs from their 2020 album, Species. Moore says, “While I wrote and recorded the songs on Species with an organ I had always felt, in the back of my mind, that they would also be interesting ...
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Four years after his last original music, British producer and songwriter SOHN will return on his new record Trust, out digitally on September 2nd with vinyl to follow on November 4th. Pre-order available here. The album finds him further exploring a sound that first found success in the electronic and noir-pop spaces, and now explores deeper roots in folk structures and an aching, emotive balladry. New single ‘Segre’ is direct, anthemic electro-pop – a perfect summation...
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Bartees Strange releases his long awaited album Farm To Table, with physical formats (LP and CD) following on 7 October. Alongside the album release Bartees shares new single ‘Wretched’. The song is paired with a video directed by Michael Parks Randa that mirrors the rags-to-riches, started-at-the-bottom-now-we-here theme of the album as a whole. Bartees also made his TV debut performing the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch below! Bartees says...
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Just fourteen months after releasing their debut, Dry Cleaning announce details of a second album Stumpwork and offer a first taste of the new work in the form of single ‘Don’t Press Me’. Watch the animated video, created by Peter Millard below! Clocking in at under 2 minutes, the track is about the pleasure of gaming and the enjoyment of intense and short-lived guilt-free experiences. Vocalist Florence Shaw also says, “The...
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Released is the solo piano version of ‘Nearer’, a transcendent and beautiful interpretation that blossoms as its own unique work. This track is from Bing & Ruth’s new EP Species which comes out July 15. Moore says, “While I wrote and recorded the songs on Species with an organ I had always felt, in the back of my mind, that they would also be interesting pieces to approach on the...
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