“From chaos comes harmony”, says Mathieu David Gagnon, composer behind the Flore Laurentienne project, about ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, the new single released today. The piece opens with a free jazz improvisation duet on drums, joined by two harps. From this tumult emerges light, embodied by a string melody, like a refusal to give in to disenchantment. The last piece on the album Volume III, ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, hints...
On 8th May 2026, Aldous Harding will release her fifth studio album, Train On The Island. Now, the New Zealander shares a first taste in the form of the single ‘One Stop’. Premiered by Huw Stephens on his BBC 6Music radio show, ‘One Stop’ is accompanied by a Harding-fronted video directed by Michelle Henning, watch here. The 10-track Train On The Island was co-produced by long-time collaborator John Parish at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) releases Glory (Extended), an expanded version of his critically acclaimed, GRAMMY nominated album Glory. The LP features four new tracks including ‘Undercurrent (Clean Heart)’ which Flood Magazine said “harkens back to Mike Hadreas’ earliest piano-only chamber-pop recordings, forgoing the art-rock experimentation heard on the album version of the track.” With the release, Hadreas shares the focus track ‘Jamie,’ and says, “I remember playing “Jamie” for someone after I recorded...
Queens of the Stone Age returned to the Austin City Limits (ACL) stage for the first time in a decade with a performance unlike anything in the show’s 50-plus-year history. In a rare television appearance, Josh Homme & Co. presented their innovative opus Alive in the Catacombs—conceived and recorded in the ancient tombs beneath Paris—delivering an epic, multi-act, full-hour master class in music and mood, accompanied by a nine-piece orchestra....
Bye Parula is thrilled to announce their brand-new album Something Out Of Nothing set to release on June 5. While their early recordings captured musicians who had just met and were still getting to know each other through musical communication, Something Out Of Nothing reflects their growing friendship and increasingly intuitive interaction, which inspired them to broaden their aesthetic horizons while moving toward more introspective songwriting. The new album was produced by Robbie Kuster...
War Child Records today release ‘Begging For Change’ by Pulp – taken from the highly anticipated forthcoming HELP(2) album, released on Friday 6th March. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and produced and mixed by James Ford and Animesh Raval, ‘Begging For Change’ captures Pulp at their most intense – stripped-back, urgent and unapologetic. Jarvis Cocker requested the same kids’ choir that featured on recent HELP(2) single ‘Flags’ to add screams to this primal anthem, with an all star choir including Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten, Kae Tempest and Carl Barat adding...
Snail Mail — the project of Lindsey Jordan — recently announced her highly anticipated third album, Ricochet, due out March 27. Today she returns with a new single and music video for ‘My Maker,’ which was co-produced by Jordan, alongside Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma). The single-take hot air balloon music video echoes lyrics about flying a plane to heaven, drinking at the airport bar, and contemplating life and death. Jordan’s voice soars over spaced-out mellotron swirls...
My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometimes frontman Cameron Picton) are happy to announce their debut album My New Band Believe on April 10th 2026. The launch track ‘Numerology’ is an exclusive non-album single and will feature on a bonus 10”, with a special edition of the LP and on limited edition Deluxe CD. My New Band Believe’s debut album began as a fever dream. Delirious in a Chinese...
GRAMMY-nominated musician, producer and composer Danny L Harle today releases Cerulean, his highly-anticipated debut album. Cerulean marks Harle’s first full-length release on XL Recordings and his most definitive artistic statement to date. Following 2021’s immersive Harlecore project, Harle considers Cerulean his true debut. “This is my debut album,” he says. “It really is the big one.” A voyage into vast, alien sonic landscapes, Cerulean fuses speaker-blowing bass and euphoric trance synths with classical harmonies, tactile sound design and Harle’s own...
Kim Gordon has released ‘DIRTY TECH,’ the second single from her upcoming third solo album, PLAY ME, which is due out on March 13th. The track explores the power struggle between humans and robots, a theme visually complemented by the Moni Haworth-directed video, which features Gordon in an abandoned corporate office. Gordon spoke on the track, saying: “I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI...
North Carolina based singer-songwriter Anjimile releases ‘Waits For Me,’ the second single from his upcoming album You’re Free to Go, due March 13th. “When I was a little girl, I wanted to be free… When I was a little boy, I wanted to be real.” he disarmingly reflects on ‘Waits For Me’, a powerful reckoning on childhood identity, as he affirms and soothes his inner child via warm acoustic guitar, glimmering synths and bright...
Flore Laurentienne—the project of composer and orchestrator Mathieu David Gagnon—returns with ‘Fleuve VII’, a new piece from his upcoming album Volume III, arriving April 10. This new work highlights a delicate dialogue between the piano and the string orchestra, carried by minimalist and hypnotic writing. Mathieu David Gagnon explains: “I created this series of pieces, called Fleuve, based on a fairly simple concept: reusing the same chords, but in a different...
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Los Angeles six-piece The Sophs are sharing a new song and video ‘SWEETIEPIE’ from their upcoming debut album GOLDSTAR, out March 13. The group have ridden a wave of notoriety ever since signing to Rough Trade Records on the strength of their demos – which they cold-emailed to labelheads Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee before they ever even played a show. Following singles ‘GOLDSTAR’,...
Tyler Ballgame, Rough Trade Records’ astonishingly gifted, infectious crooner today shares his debut album For The First Time, Again. Accompanying the debut album, comes the new music video for the title track, which follows earlier album singles ‘Matter Of Taste’, ‘I Believe in Love’ and ‘Got a New Car’. Watch here. Speaking on the new single, Ballgame shares, “For The First Time, Again is a song about the perennial nature of love....
Multi-award-winning Irish band Ye Vagabonds share a new track and video, ‘Danny’ taken from their new album, All Tied Together, out now. ‘Danny’ comes with a video directed by Ellius Grace (Lankum, Lisa O’Neill, Junior Brother) and follows the album’s previous singles, ‘The Flood’ and ‘On Sitric Road’ which was accompanied by a live video recorded in Dublin. ‘Danny’ is a poignant character study over a distinctive mix of cello, synthesizer,...
War Child Records today announce HELP(2). You can listen to the first single from the album, ‘Opening Night’ by Arctic Monkeys, now HERE. HELP(2) is a brand new collaborative album inspired by the landmark 1995 release HELP to engage music lovers globally in support of War Child’s vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world. The new album, like the original, speaks to the urgency of the...
