Adrianne Lenker announces her new solo album, Bright Future, out on 22nd March, and shares the new single ‘Sadness As A Gift’. Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen. Following the previously released single ‘Ruined,’ ‘Sadness As A Gift’ sees Lenker at her most familiar and warm, a track that is both utterly timeless, yet sounding new and surprising on every listen. The aliveness of Adrianne’s voice...
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Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) releases a new single, ‘Best For You and Me’, from his upcoming album PHASOR, which will be released on the 9th February via 4ad / Remote Control Records. In ‘Best For You and Me’ Lange retains the warmth of a childhood summer night on the Florida peninsular soundtracked by frogs and crickets, Bermuda grass between your toes. With its bright, pastel tones and uplifting melodies and rhythms, ‘Best For You and Me’ feels like an...
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Erika de Casier returns to announce her highly-anticipated third album Still, out February 21st via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and shares the first single ‘Lucky.’ The song arrives alongside an accompanying Jesse May Fisher-directed video titled “me walking on the beach” made as homage to viral YouTube videos from the early aughts. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound here. Her songwriting is as masterful...
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At the end of this month, Future Islands will release their highly anticipated new album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore (Jan, 26, 2024). Today, they’ve shared another new song, ‘Say Goodbye,’ an examination of a long distance relationship unravelling. People Who Aren’t There Anymore, the band’s seventh album, heralds a new chapter for Future Islands who, despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other. Stream / download ‘Say Goodbye’ here. Pre-order /...
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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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