Buck Meek kickstarts 2024 with two new singles ‘Cuero Dudes’ and ‘Beauty Opens Doors’, as well as a video for ‘Cuero Dudes’, watch below! Last year, Meek released his stunning third solo album, Haunted Mountain, featuring songs co-written with one of Buck’s longtime musical heros Jolie Holland. ‘Cuero Dudes’ should sound familiar to those who have listened to the record. It’s a rollicking reworking of the track ‘Cyclades,’ one of the album’s singles and live standouts. Meanwhile, ‘Beauty Opens Doors’ was a song...
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Following the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album YIAN earlier this year, Lucinda Chua shares her brand new EP Reclaiming The Rose, out now via 4AD / Remote Control. Reclaiming The Rose expands sonically on YIAN, with Chua explaining “Reclaiming The Rose is a bi-lingual meditation exploring ideas of returning, remembering and retracing ancestral roots. I was inspired by the journey of the rose; a plant indigenous to China that made...
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Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) presents her new single and video, ‘Ruined’. The track is a heart-breaking, remarkable intro to Lenker’s highly anticipated new solo album, which she has announced will be coming in 2024. On ‘Ruined’, Lenker moves to the piano for the first time and the accompanying video was directed by Adrianne’s brother Noah Lenker, collaging gorgeous footage of Lenker in autumnal foliage. Of ‘Ruined,’ Lenker says: “This song has been a quiet beacon for me. It may contain the essence of the gift...
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the GOLDEN DREGS release their new 3-track EP entitled popular music vol. 1. The digital only release consists of cover versions of well-loved songs by pop icons: ‘When the Party’s Over’ by Billie Eilish, ‘Dealer’ by Lana Del Rey, and ‘Billions’ by Caroline Polachek. With their gentle harmonies and atmospheric instrumental arrangements that uniquely meld the bleak and the beautiful, combined with Woods’ rich baritone voice, the GOLDEN DREGS transform this trio of contemporary pop anthems into their...
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Future Islands have today shared ‘The Fight’, the latest song from their forthcoming album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore, out on 26 January 2024. Atop a sensual, synth-based groove, lead singer Sam Herring vies for self-preservation via his trademark impassioned vocals: “I won’t fade away / I will face every day / As if it’s my last one / And I will keep you safe / Just like our past was / Fight for love...
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Helado Negro – the moniker of Roberto Carlos Lange – shares a second track from his forthcoming new album PHASOR (out 9 February 2024). Built around a chopped and sequenced guitar line, ‘I Just Want To Wake Up With You’ is a languid and fuzzy love song, an ode to domestic life, and to comfort and health. The song is accompanied by a joyously psychotropic official video directed by Lange. Stream / Download ‘I Just Want To Wake Up With...
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Would you and a friend like to get exclusive access to see The National soundcheck on their Australian tour in 2024? All you have to do is buy the ticket/album bundle at lvntn.com/TheNational2024 and we will be in touch to let you know how you can go into the draw to win exclusive access to soundcheck at the gig you are attending. All fans who have already purchased the bundle will...
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Big Thief will release a new edition of their 2016 debut album Masterpiece. The album containing much-loved songs ‘Paul’, ‘Real Love’ and title track ‘Masterpiece’, will be remastered and reissued on reVinyl pressing out 8 December. Masterpiece was recorded in July 2015 at an old house that they turned into a studio on Lake Champlain with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia (who would go on to become a...
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U.S. Girls, the experimental pop project of North American multidisciplinary artist Meg Remy, releases its first-ever live album entitled Lives digitally. The album showcases the last five years on stage non-chronologically. The musicians on this 15-song album represent three distinct versions of the U.S. Girls live band; the “Poem Band,” a jam-oriented outsider jazz-funk unit that often stretched Remy’s deep-pocketed groovers and plastic soul ballads out the nether-regions of abstraction, the “Heavy Light Band,” which reigned in...
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Future Islands announce the details of their new album People Who Aren’t There Anymore which will be released 26 January. The seventh album from the band – Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass, guitars), Gerrit Welmers (keyboards, programming), and Michael Lowry(drums) – follows 2020’s As Long As You Are. Along with the announcement, the band share a new single from the album, ‘The Tower’, alongside a video directed by Jonathan van Tulleken. Pre-order / Pre-save People Who Aren’t There Anymore here.Stream / Download ‘The Tower’ here.
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Helado Negro has announced his new album PHASOR scheduled to be released on 9 February 2024. The eighth full-length album in Helado’s catalogue follows his critically acclaimed 2021 album Far In. The announce comes with the release of the album’s first single, ‘LFO’, which is accompanied by a hallucinatory self-directed official video. ‘LFO’ (which stands for Lupe Finds Oliveros), sung in Spanish, brings together inspiration from Lupe Lopez and the minimalist composer and sonic meditation practitioner Pauline Oliveros for a song...
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Brendan Perry releases the reissue of his 1999 album, Eye of the Hunter, expanded for its first ever repress to now include a bonus live album Live at the I.C.A., recorded during 4AD’s infamous 13 Year Itch residency at the storied London venue in 1993.A record that has been out of print on vinyl since its release in 1999, people have been asking for Eye of the Hunter to be...
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Pale Saints release an expanded reissue of their 1992 album In Ribbons, featuring previously unreleased demos and two reworks by The Tintwistle Band. The record, which Pitchfork named one of The Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, is finally getting the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves with a special double LP / CD release. The first disc features the UK version of the album with the second featuring a bonus disc of never before heard demos that include their first...
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A defining album of the 90s, Last Splash by The Breeders turns 30. Recorded by the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, and featuring the infectiously appealing ‘Cannonball’, Last Splash immediately became an alt-rock classic, achieving platinum status in the UK and US, and is ranked in Pitchfork’s Top 100 Records of the 1990s. To celebrate the 30th anniversary, the album has been remastered from the original analog tapes...
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The National release a surprise second album of 2023, Laugh Track, out now! The album is a companion to and features material originally started in the same sessions as First Two Pages of Frankenstein. The National also confirmed Australian shows next spring with support from longtime friends Fleet Foxes. Full tour dates below. Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+...
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Big Thief have shared a captivating new single, ‘Born For Loving You’. Recorded and produced by Dom Monks at Guissona, Spain’s Teatre de cal Eril Studio on a recent tour, ‘Born For Loving You’ finds Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik at their most earnest and unashamedly romantic – “I was born for loving you / Just something I was made to do” It follows the release of live fan favourite and viral anthem, ‘Vampire Empire’,...
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