The National recently announced the 13 December release of Rome, a 21-track digital and two-LP and CD set recorded live on 3 June 2024 at Cavea of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. Now, they have shared another four song EP titled NTL RM EP II, featuring album highlights ‘Smoke Detector’, ‘Fake Empire’, ‘Mr. November’, and ‘Terrible Love’. Rome spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how...
Becky and the Birds has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her forthcoming self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, due for release on 15 November. Today, she shares the record’s newest single ‘Anymore’, a beautifully transportive sound bath of sleek hazy hooks and hypnotic drum tracks, levied by her echoed, bird-like vocals delivering a cathartic message on starting...
Tucker Zimmerman releases his label debut and eleventh career studio record Dance Of Love. Earlier in the week Tucker shared ‘Lorelei’, alongside a lyric video. Opening with a sing-alongworthy guitar lead, Zimmerman’s earthy vocals blend perfectly with Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker as they trade off verses and harmonies. Zimmerman explains, “I’m turning Lorelei on her head in this song. Enough luring sailors on the river to their destruction. Time to...
Kim Deal shares another taste of her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More (out November 22nd), in the form of new single ‘A Good Time Pushed’, paired with visuals by Mark Satterthwaite. Watch below! The song is the album closer and the final song recorded by Kim, engineered by close friend Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. It features Breeders members Jim Macpherson and Kelley Deal....
After coming-of-age with their introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through phantasea pharm (2023), cumgirl8 are now on the cusp of their 8th cumming by way of their long-awaited debut LP of that name, out now. Following the previous release of the record’s first tongue-in-cheek single ‘Karma Police’ and ‘ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)’ –...
Enigmatic Irish musician (and regular NTS Radio host) Maria Somerville returns with her first new single in three years ‘Projections’, accompanied by visuals from Somerville, Michael Speers and Róisín Berkeley, recorded on VHS across Marseille and Somerville’s native Galway. Watch below! The wistful, romantic shoegaze track is drenched in longing via fuzzed-out bass and strummed guitar, carried by Somerville’s hypnotic and tranquil vocal stylings. The other-worldly, swirling single is a...
The National have announced the December 13 release of Rome, a 21-track digital and two-LP set recorded live (without overdubs) on June 3, 2024 at the Italian city’s Cavea at Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. The double album, mixed by longtime collaborator Peter Katis, spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how each song has taken on a new life in its live performance. “You have to...
Adrianne Lenker shares a four-song session recorded for burgeoning musical platform Brodie Sessions. Watch below! Back in the Spring during her sold-out European solo tour, Lenker was invited to perform at a private residence outside the Danish capital. Captured in just one take on 16mm film, Lenker and her bandmate Nick Hakim played astonishingly raw cuts from her latest solo album Bright Future in front of a small Copenhagen audience. ...
Last month, Belgium-based, American-born, singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman announced his record Dance Of Love and shared its lead single ‘Burial At Sea’. Zimmerman now blesses us with two new singles, ‘The Idiot’s Maze’ and ‘The Season’. An up-tempo singalong romp with campfire sensibilities, ‘The Idiot’s Maze’ is composed of lively tambourine hits and jubilant head-bobbing bass, it transports listeners into the heartwarming camaraderie fostered by Zimmerman and backing band Big Thief....
Becky and the Birds has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with the announcement of her forthcoming self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, due for release on 15 November. She also shares new single ‘I made my baby cry’, a gorgeous post-breakup lament that swells with emotional catharsis alongside an accompanying visualiser, made by Gustafsson. Watch below! Meshing delicate...
After coming-of-age with their introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through their first EP, phantasea pharm (2023), cumgirl8 is now on the cusp of their 8th cumming by way of their long-awaited debut LP of that name, out on 4 October. Following the record’s first tongue-in-cheek single ‘Karma Police’, the band return with new single ‘ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)’, along with a...
Future Islands share their brand-new glistening single ‘Glimpse’. Watch the accompanying animated video created by Jayla Smith below! Recorded during the People Who Aren’t There Anymore sessions, ‘Glimpse’ focuses on a family home burning down and coming to terms with the physical and emotional losses and coming to terms with the erasure of a collective history. ‘Glimpse’ was mixed by Chris Coady and Steve Wright and produced by Future Islands...
4AD welcomes Belgium-based American singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman to the family. His label debut and eleventh career studio record entitled Dance Of Love, will be released on 11 October. A collaboration with labelmate Big Thief (who produced and performed on the album), Zimmerman shares the first single, ‘Burial At Sea’ and companion video by Noah Lenker. Watch below! “It was an extreme honour to make a record with one of the...
Kim Deal announces her first full-length album under her own name, Nobody Loves You More, to be released November 22nd. Featuring recent single ‘Coast’, Deal shares second single ‘Crystal Breath’, a delicious dose of distortion, all pulsating beats and fuzzy riffs. Nobody Loves You More is Kim Deal’s debut album although it’s not the first time she has gone solo – she self-released a five-part, ten-song seven-inch vinyl series in...
cumgirl8 emerge with the announcement of their long-awaited debut 4AD LP the 8th cumming, out on October 4th. cumgirl8 also share the record’s first single ‘Karma Police’ alongside a visualiser, watch below! With the track, the band deliver not a Radiohead cover, but a chaotic tour story of missed flights and stolen luggage delivered with a hailstorm of angular glittering keys, propulsive swirling riffs, and darkwave night club whispers. the 8th cumming (recorded...
After releasing her beloved new album Bright Future earlier this year, which won over the hearts of fans and critics alike, Adrianne Lenker shares new single ‘Once a Bunch’. Listen below! Recorded during the Bright Future sessions and originally only appearing on the Japanese CD release of the album, the sweet, country-tinged single – already a live favourite – is seeing its wide release for the first time. Later this year, a 7”...
