Irish musician Maria Somerville announces her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, due for release on April 25. To celebrate, she also shares the album’s second single, ‘Garden’, produced by Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne Kraft. The transportive track sinks her emotive siren-esque vocal stylings into a whirring, all-consuming merger of soaring feedback, airy percussion, and nostalgic guitar chords reminiscent of classic 4AD. Its release is accompanied by a music video filmed...
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The Smile have today announced two new remixes of tracks from their critically acclaimed third album Cutouts, from James Holden and Robert Stillman. ‘Don’t Get Me Started (James Holden Remix)’and ‘Instant Psalm (Robert Stillman Remix)’ are out now digitally, each track accompanied by a ‘recycled video mix’ by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, who created videos for every track on Cutouts. Watch below! The remixes will also be released as a limited edition AA side 12-inch on 28th March. Stanley Donwood’s sleeve design...
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DJ Python announces i was put on this earth, his first solo music since 2022, and debut on XL Recordings. The five-track EP will be released on Friday 28 March. The first look at the EP comes in the form of ‘Besos Robados’. Isabella Lovestory lends an insouciant yet insistent vocal to this sublime downtempo lovers’ reggaeton track that’s been a fan-favourite since appearing on Python’s epic BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix. The track comes alongside a...
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Mess Esque, the heavenly duo of Helen Franzmann and Mick Turner, descend from their altostratus with a new single! ‘Let Me Know You’ is out today with a music video from Denny Ryan. With no guitars or drums anywhere in sight, just keyboards twinkling in stark space, Mess Esque assume an improbable new form on ‘Let Me Know You’: the celestially curious star child, caught in the unfamiliar weight of...
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Out March 14th, Halo on the Inside is the new album by Chicago’s Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr). It is Fohr’s boldest work to date – warped and transcendent, darkly romantic and thrillingly alien. Hear the anthemic new single ‘Canopy of Eden’, and watch the Dana Trippe-directed music video below! “Somehow, on a day in the not too distant past, I ended up on a speedboat jutting toward a place called Canopy...
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DARKSIDE release new track ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’, taken from their forthcoming album Nothing, out February 28th. In just under seven minutes, ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’ spans almost as many decades. The wind whispers, Harrington’s guitar scythes minimally over Jaar’s falsetto, now slathered in echo and reverb. Then a middle suite sounds almost like a funkier Byrds circa Sweetheart of the Rodeo. It’s followed by a gentle breakdown where agile guitars...
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After dropping hints for months and following the release of their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, Julien Baker & TORRES are excited to announce their debut album Send a Prayer My Way, coming out April 18th. The album has been in the works since the two played their first show together in 2016 and at the end one singer turned to the other and said, “You know, we should make a country album.” This...
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Fresh from the release of his second album In Waves, and recent nomination in the Artist of the Year category at the 2025 BRIT Awards, Jamie xx releases new single ‘F.U.’. The track sees the London based artist, DJ, producer and composer collaborating with US soul icon Erykah Badu on a storming club-ready cut that was created from unlikely beginnings. The genesis of the collaboration came at a Primavera Festival after-party that both...
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UK innovator Joy Orbison and cult underground rap icon Joe James come together on new single ‘bastard’, the track sees the two kindred spirits combining their own distinct sounds to create something genuinely unique. It’s a suburban sound born outside of the M25, as the Southend rapper paints trademark vivid imagery over Joy Orbison’s deep, introspective beats. The result is part-rapturous, part elegiac. Recorded at XL Recordings’ Ladbroke Grove studio,...
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On February 28, Mdou Moctar will release Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice. Sharing new single ‘Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)’, out now. The song – the title track of Funeral for Justice and something of a thematic lynchpin for the band’s last year of work – has been dramatically reshaped for Tears. The original’s tight arrangement and full-blast guitar riff have been set aside in favour of an arrangement that feels loose, sprawling, and improvisational....
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Last fall, when Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr) released ‘God Dick’, she described the song as a passage leading from the past toward things to come. “It served a chrysalis function,” wrote Fohr. “A love banshee bursting through porcelain skin one hair at a time until, finally, the beast within is fully on display.” Out March 14th, Halo on the Inside is the product of that metamorphosis. It is the butterfly and the beast...
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Lisa O’Neill releases a new single ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ featuring Peter Doherty, alongside a video directed by Johnie Lyons. Lisa also performed the song on The Tommy Tiernan Show, watch below. This is not the first time O’Neill has written about social injustices on the cusp of a change. Songs like Rock the Machine about unemployment in the Dublin dock lands, When Cash Was King about...
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Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) announces his new album Glory, coming out March 28th. Glory was produced by Blake Mills and marks the 7th studio album in his immaculate body of work. Hadreas shares the first single ‘It’s a Mirror’, and its companion music video directed by Cody Critchloe. The two artists first collaborated on the music video for Perfume Genius’ groundbreaking ‘Queen’. Watch below! “I wake up overwhelmed even when...
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After years of garnering acclaim across the underground and mainstream for a singular, boundary-pushing stream of consciousness sound, London based rapper, producer and poet John Glacier’s debut album, Like A Ribbon, will finally be released on February 14th 2025. A dreamlike portrayal of the journey from a simple existence growing up in Hackney, to projecting stories to the world while aiming to maintain a semblance of normalcy in what is...
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After playing the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Julien Baker & TORRES share the official video for their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, directed by Caity Arthur and shot in collaboration with the queer country dance party Stud Country. Watch below! The clip features original choreography by Stud Country’s co-founder Sean Monaghan and star members of the Stud Country community. “We were so excited to cast...
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Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — unveil the new single/video, ‘Switch Over,’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th. ‘Switch Over’ feels almost motorik in its pulse as the track dances back and forth between Cheng and Lowenstein’s swapping vocals. The ‘Switch Over’ video was directed by Guy Kozak, who came to the band...
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