The Smile have released a new track ‘Don’t Get Me Started’. Watch the accompanying video, directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, below! ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ follows a very limited edition 2-track 12-inch single released last week through record shops globally. The double A-side comprises ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ and another new song, ‘The Slip’, sleeved in XL’s iconic housebag, re-designed by Stanley Donwood. Debuted during The Smile’s UK tour dates in March this year, ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ was produced...
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Fontaines D.C. reveal ‘Here’s The Thing’, the third single from their upcoming album ROMANCE, out August 23rd. Watch the accompanying cinematic music video directed by lauded filmmaker Luna Carmoon below! Written days before the band entered the studio to record the album, ‘Here’s The Thing’ leads with the mechanical, mutant guitar sounds of Placebo and the electronic expressiveness of Shygirl and Eartheater. “It’s an anxious tune that twists and turns in what...
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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...
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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”...
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To celebrate 10 years after its original release, Spoon reissue their beloved eighth album They Want My Soul on all digital platforms, with a 2xLP gatefold vinyl / 2xCD release to follow on November 8th. Along with the record’s original 10 tracks – including all-time Spoon classics ‘Inside Out’, ‘Do You’, and ‘Rent I Pay’ – They Want My Soul: Deluxe More Soul Edition features 11 demos and alternate versions, almost all of them previously unreleased....
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Worldwide production unit Two Shell has been shooting long and straight across 2024 with chart topping single ‘Talk To Me’, with avant garde icon FKA twigs, and a number one live debut at Coachella. In ‘Round’, a collaborative effort featuring new vocals from iconic British girl group Sugababes, the inventive entity delve back to the future in blazing fashion. ‘Round’ takes Sugababes’ #1 hit ‘Round Round’ and twists it into...
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The Hard Quartet is a band. But what is a band? A band, perhaps, can be thought of as a body, a corpus, in which physically discrete lifeforms comprise a chimera that shrieks with one voice. In this particular band, which is one of millions in the world today, four players selflessly merge, become musical, and emit rock ‘n’ roll that is familiar but new, warm but icy, melodic but...
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BADBADNOTGOOD share ‘Best Left Unsolved’, a bonus track from the Mid Spiral sessions that took place at Valentine Studios in LA during February 2024. This new, previously unreleased track accompanies the trio’s recent surprise release of the Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth. The Mid Spiral suite exploits instrumental jazz at its core seeing BADBADNOTGOOD continue to push the boundaries of how they integrate a limitless range of genres...
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To celebrate 10-years of Nikki Nack, Tune-Yards announce a digital deluxe edition and a zine, set for release on 9th August. Tune-Yards also unveil a brand new remix of the iconic indie anthem ‘Water Fountain’, deconstructed by Water From Your Eyes. This danceable and utterly bonkers version reimagines the song as a dynamic, contemporary floor-filler, offering a thrilling new take that complements the original. The Water From Your Eyes remix,...
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Nick Meredith, on behalf of Salmon Brothers, announces the release of their third single, ‘More To Love’. This track is the precursor to their highly anticipated album of the same name, scheduled for release on 16th August. ‘More To Love’ captures the vibrant energy of Salmon Brothers, reflecting both their musical synergy and their deep friendship. Inspired by a couple who appeared on the Jerry Springer show, the single is...
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GIFT have shared ‘Light Runner,’ a breakbeat-inspired track displaying another step taken in their dynamic fusion of genres and widescreen pop production techniques. The band also shares a video for the new single directed by vocalist/guitarist TJ Freda. Watch below! TJ says “‘Light Runner’ celebrates the triumph of emerging from a dark time while acknowledging the transformative power of overcoming it. It’s a testament to the euphoria of personal achievement. In 2023, during our...
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Tama Gucci will release his debut album Notes To Self, on August 16th. Showing a depth of emotions in the album’s early singles, he continues to let us in with latest track ‘Back Then’, which he dedicates to his younger self. Tama notes “While reminiscing on the past and also manifesting for the future, ‘Back Then’ is my manifesto.” Listen below! Notes to Self is an unabashedly romantic and brooding record, predominantly centring self-growth and happiness and gleaning wisdom from past...
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Sampha and Little Simz have come together on new single ‘Satellite Business 2.0’ – a brand new, fully-realised version of the ‘Satellite Business’ interlude from Sampha’s latest album LAHAI. Little Simz first heard the song live during Sampha’s run of ‘Satellite Business’ residency shows in 2023 at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, she witnessed the song evolving and expanding while Sampha and his band experimented in the round during a series of intimate, rapturously-received events. She later joined Sampha on stage in...
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Overmono return with ‘Gem Lingo (ovr now)’ featuring the Paul Institute-founding artist Ruthven. The single premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record with Jack Saunders. Watch the visualiser below! ‘Gem Lingo (ovr now) (feat. Ruthven)’ needs little introduction. Since the first play during Overmono’s @TheLotRadio set with Fred Again… and Lil Yachty to celebrate the release of the collaborative single ‘stayinit’, ‘Gem Lingo’ captivated fans. The soulful vocal hook, sampled from Ruthven’s acclaimed 2018 single ‘Hypothalamus’, echoes across Overmono’s deft productions...
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Kim Deal shares ‘Coast’, the first single through 4AD under her own name. Premiered by Lauren Laverne on her 6 Music radio show. Written in 2020 after being at her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding when the house band, The Grape Whizzers, jammed Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 ‘Margaritaville’ with “revelatory levels of low self-esteem”. But the song’s roots reach back as far as 2000, when Kim was staying on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. An unlikely retreat for the Ohio native...
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Sleaford Mods have released two previously unheard tracks, ‘Git Some Balls’ and ‘Air Con’(a reworking of the track Air Conditioning) ahead of the 10th anniversary edition of their scene stimulating, acclaimed album Divide and Exit, out July 26th. ‘Git Some Balls’ was written and recorded by Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson during the sessions for the album, but is only being made available now for the first time via streaming...
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