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 ...
Interpol release their seventh album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, including a new single and video ‘Gran Hotel’. Watch the Malia James-directed video below! Paul Banks says: “The lyrics to Gran Hotel tell a story of grief and heartbreak, of a character processing loss. Working with a fantastic camera crew and with the help of two very talented actors, Malia created a powerful video that conveys the events that lead to that loss. It’s a...
black midi’s long anticipated album Hellfire is out now! The album includes their new single ‘Sugar/tzu’ released alongside a music video directed by Noel Paul, watch below! ‘Sugar/Tzu’ centres on a futuristic boxing match wherein one of the contenders is assassinated by a young boy. It features the core band plus horns by Kaidi Akinnibi (sax), Joe Bristow (trombone) and Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), and the voice of boxing announcer Hus...
JayWood releases his new album Slingshot, a self-portrait of JayWood at his surface and his depths, merging fantasy scenarios, personal anecdotes, and infectious pop and dance instrumentals. From the first track to the last track, JayWood takes you on a journey that touches on themes of childhood, religion, and identity. While writing and recording the album, Haywood-Smith put together a complex “script” mapping out all of the plot points, environments, characters that make up this...
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...
Jennifer Vanilla shares their new single ‘Humility’s Disease’ off their forthcoming album Castle In The Sky out August 5. ‘Humility’s Disease’ is a campy adventure where Jennifer Vanilla, aka Becca Kauffman, portrays a pseudomasculine devil-like figure with two angels surrounding them. Watch the video directed by Luca Venter below! Jennifer Vanilla’s forthcoming full length is a deft and mercurial “jennifreaky” journey, traversing 90s dance music, no wave, post-punk, art pop,...
CASISDEAD returns with his new single ‘Traction Control’, out now. It’s the third single to be revealed from the rap icon’s highly anticipated debut album -a record CASISDEAD is currently masterminding in the DEADCORP® headquarters -and the latest chapter in his transition from cult, underground hero to future global star. No one else out there is doing it like CASISDEAD right now as he takes UK rap into unchartered audio...
Special Interest share ‘Follow Me’, the B-side to their debut Rough Trade single, ‘(Herman’s) House’. Lauded New Orleans 4-piece Special Interest breathe new life into a late 70s disco classic from arts & culture icon Amanda Lear. Equally as euphoric as the original, mixed by Collin Dupuis, lush production, sparkling synths & heavy bass are buoyed by gorgeous glam crooning from Alli Logout, who exchanges Lear’s deadpan delivery, instead imbuing her witty...
Oliver Sim unveils new single ‘GMT’, from his debut album Hideous Bastard, set for release on 9th September. Watch the accompanying video by longtime friend and collaborator Laura Jane Coulson below! ‘GMT’ was one of the first songs made for the record,” says Sim. “I’d chased Jamie to Australia to escape British winter. We worked in Sydney and road tripped down to Byron Bay, stopping at secluded beaches and listening to a lot...
Julien Baker has announced B-Sides, an EP of tracks taken from the recording sessions for her critically heralded third full-length Little Oblivions. You can listen to ‘Guthrie’, out now, a gorgeous and hushed finger-picked ballad. The EP will be out digitally on July 21st and features three emotionally potent never-before-heard songs. Stream / purchase ‘Guthrie’ herePre-order / pre-save B-Sides here
It’s been 25 years since the release of The Prodigy’s The Fat of the Land; an album so iconic it turned the sound of underground rave music into a global force; capturing the world’s attention and dominating the charts. In celebration, XL Recordings announces two-anniversary releases including a limited edition 2LP silver 12” vinyl package of the original album with a reimagined version of Alex Jenkin’s artwork, and a brand-new remix of ‘Firestarter’ by...
Much hyped London-based eight piece caroline share a live video for their song ‘IWR’, recorded at Trafo in Jena, Germany this April. Watch below! “After we finished playing at Trafo in Jena in April, they asked if we wanted to quickly record a live version of one of our songs before packing down our gear,” caroline explain of how the new video for ‘IWR’ came to be. “Trafco is an...
Aotearoa / New Zealand sludge-pop connoisseurs Soaked Oats have announced their return to the fine shores of Australia. With an arsenal of newly minted songs and ideas to share, the band are thrilled to present their endearing live show and road test new material this August. Finally returning to Australia after earlier tours were scuppered by the raging pandemic, you can catch Soaked Oats on their Australian jaunt in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in August. Further tour details...
NYC pop performance artist, Jennifer Vanilla (they/them), announces their forthcoming album Castle In The Sky out August 5. Along with the announcement, Jennifer Vanilla, aka Becca Kauffman, shares new single ‘Take Me For A Ride’. Watch the video directed by Dawn Lombardi below! Dawn Lombardi shares “I wanted to have some sort of sketch that opens up the video because I think that’s super old school and classic. It’s boring to open music videos with just nothing. When I’m directing...
Perfume Genius releases his new album, Ugly Season. To coincide with the release of the album, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) teamed with renowned visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite for a 30 minute film featuring Hadreas and the music of Ugly Season. Watch below! Ugly Season bookends a two-year period of intense creativity from Perfume Genius, which includes the full-length Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, that album’s remixed counterpart Immediately, the dance piece, and the subsequent film collaboration with Satterwhite. It is a stand-alone record, but it encompasses...
The Black Seeds have released their seventh studio album Love & Fire. This carefully crafted album is a “big slice of The Black Seeds’ love and musical heat.” Featuring previously released singles, ‘It’s So Real’, ‘Bring The Sun’, ‘Let The Sunshine Through’, ‘Raised With Love’ and the most recent, ‘Game Over’ – Love & Fire also has four new tracks that are set to hit just as hard! “Ideally, each member sent in one or two takes of what they were...
