Fernie shares ‘Hopeless Dreams’, a new R&B song and title-track to the Hopeless Dreams EP, releasing on February 14, premiered on BBC Radio 1’s Future Soul and is accompanied by a video directed by Thomas Fontaine, that reveals a new angle of a brutalist world straight from Fernie’s imagination. Fernie expands on the theme of ‘Hopeless Dreams’: “I had just stepped out of a five-year back-and-forth predicament with someone who didn’t see any value...
Basia Bulat shares ‘Disco Polo’, the third single from her new album Basia’s Palace, out February 21st. A folk song named for a genre of Polish dance music beloved by her late father, the track honours the dichotomy of Bulat’s musical inheritance from him and her mother. “This is an homage to what I feel like is the two sides of my musical lineage–my mother was a classically trained piano...
Out February 28th, Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. Watch the video for the new song ‘S.N.C.’ below. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to mould into what became the revered Psychic (2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflected a search for...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, releases new single ‘Swamp Dream #3’. The third song taken from Everything Is Recorded’s highly-anticipated third album Temporary, out 28th February. Everything Is Recorded releases are often characterised by Russell’s unique ability to bring multiple musicians and collaborators together on record. On ‘Swamp Dream #3’ Russell strips things right back to himself and just one collaborator – Mary...
Gus Englehorn shares his latest single ‘Metal Detector’, a spellbinding exploration of Englehorn’s singular vision, melding doom-folk intensity with absurdist storytelling. Accompanied by an evocative music video directed by Estée Preda, watch below! Drawing inspiration from a friend’s tipsy late-night conversation with a talking shrub in Portland (yes, you read that right), Englehorn has crafted a hypnotic tale of chaotic beauty. “This one is pretty dada,” Englehorn explains, “but I...
Are they the new outlaws? After surprising fans with an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, today Julien Baker & TORRES have dropped their much-talked-about debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’. Formed by their shared experiences of growing up queer in the south, ‘Sugar in the Tank’ not only reflects Julien Baker & TORRES’ love of country music, but joyfully reclaims the genre’s traditions and...
Horsegirl release new single ‘Julie’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, 2025. ‘Julie’ serves as the album’s centrepiece, with synth drones acting as an ocean for Lowenstein’s vocals to sail above, all while Cheng’s wonderfully avant-garde anti-solos pierce through the woven sea. The video, directed by Amsterdam-based animator Daphna Awadish Golan, started as a month-and-a-half animation process, and represents the song’s themes of moving...
Geordie Greep has shared the full one and a half hour live performance film of ‘Geordie Greep Live at TV Eye’. The film captures a performance from the first run of shows that Geordie and his US Band had ever played together, with Santiago Moyano on Percussion, Charlie Shefft on Drums, Cameron Campbell on Keys and Dave Strawn on Bass. Watch below! Geordie says his intention has been “to do...
Blawan releases his hotly anticipated BouQ EP. The four-track project is his third on XL Recordings, following on from 2023’s critically acclaimed Dismantled Into Juice EP and Woke Up Right Handed. Blawan returns once again to side-step expectations with BouQ, an EP that melds his vocal with disorientating, menacing electronic experimentation. Having previewed the EP during recent DJ sets (including his curated stage at Draaimolen and Overmono’s Pure Devotion), Blawan...
girlpuppy, the musical project from Atlanta’s Becca Harvey, shares her buzzing, resolute new single ‘Champ’, the first on new label home Captured Tracks. The new track was produced by Alex Farrar, and is accompanied by a video directed by Benni Shumlin and Augie Voss, which stars girlpuppy during a boxing match. girlpuppy shares: “The idea for the ‘Champ’ music video came super easily for me. ‘Champ’ is all about feeling like...
Sleaford Mods and Hot Chip have united for a collaborative joint single featuring new tracks ‘Nom Nom Nom’ and ‘Cat Burglar’. The songs have been released as part of Friendly Records ongoing series of seven-inches in aid of charity War Child, and feature artwork from influential and acclaimed British artist David Shrigley. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios as part of one of Abbey Road’s innovative and groundbreaking Lock In Sessions, which...
Montreal’s own Jesse Mac Cormack unveils GRIP, his latest EP, blending indie electronic exploration with rich, emotional landscapes. This project captures the highs and lows of growth, vulnerability, and the thrill of reinvention. Jesse teased the EP with ‘La Vérité’ in October, a collaborative single featuring Toronto’s Charlie Houston and French artist BRÖ. With its infectious, up-tempo energy, setting the stage for GRIP’s complex themes of memory, nostalgia, and the...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, announces his third studio album. Temporary will be released on 28th February 2025 and features an incredible roll call of collaborators that have been sourced over four years from 2020 to 2024. Everything Is Recorded also releases ‘Losing You’, the second single to be taken from the album. It features the redemptive vocals of longtime collaborators Sampha and Laura Groves alongside musical...
Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — announce their second album Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, and release lead single ‘2468’ alongside a video, directed by writer and filmmaker Eliza Callahan and choreographed by Alexa West. Watch below! Produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, the band’s original and sonic home, Phonetics On...
Goat Girl share their mesmerising new single ‘gossip’, embracing the electronic side of their music, the band took inspiration from Aphex Twin, Koreless, Tirzah and Gilla Band. Accompanied by a video, directed and edited by singer/guitarist Lottie Pendlebury. Watch below! Recently expanded to a four piece with the addition of Ruby Kyriakides (they/him) as a permanent member, Goat Girl explain how the track came about and developed its own identity...
Leif Vollebekk reveals an acoustic version of ‘Peace of Mind’ off his critically acclaimed new record Revelation. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ is a captivating acoustic take. “‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ felt like it wanted its own space, separate from the album version,” says Vollebekk. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ arrives alongside an official visualiser directed by Andy Mann, offering fans a sensory journey that pairs perfectly with the song’s immersive tones....
