‘Everyone Is Lying To You For Money’ is the second single from The Smith Street Band’s forthcoming sixth album. It is a short, loud, angry song about misinformation. This is The Smithies at their most creative yet, blending their finely honed pub rock sound with samples and robot voices all wrapped around lead singer Wil Wagner’s frustrated and vulnerable lyrics. The chaotic film clip accompanying the new single was animated...
Last month, Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven announced the details of his new album In These Times, out September 23rd via International Anthem / Nonesuch / XL Recordings. The second offering from the new album is out now: ‘Dream Another,’ which McCraven wrote and recorded in his home studio in Chicago. The track features Brandee Younger on harp, Junius Paul on bass, Matt Gold on guitar/sitar, and De’Sean Jones on flute. An accompanying music visualizer, directed by Nik Arthur, features hand-drawn, digital, and photographic animations composed...
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...
Gilla band announce their new album Most Normal, to be released on October 7th. It will be available on limited edition blue vinyl and an exclusive alt cover white vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies. Pre-order here. First single ‘Eight Fivers’ announces itself in that typical Gilla Band way where the lyrics often feel abstracted from the music. Dara Kiely’s voice is two opposing forces at once. In some ways it’s...
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,...
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...
Patrick Holland releases ‘Losing Touch’, another preview of his self-produced debut album You’re The Boss, out July 29th. Featuring Holland’s bandmate, TOPS’ Jane Penny, the new single finds Holland vulnerable and grappling with self-doubt over a catchy and up-beat melody with a slick bassline. Alongside an official video from Erin O’Connor, the director behind previous videos for ‘Sinister Bell’ & ‘Nice Try’. Watch below! “This is the most embarrassing song I’ve written,” explains Holland. “Self satire in the...
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...
Cavallo Nero are back with an electric new single ‘Chi-Co-La’. A dizzying combination of brass and animalia fill the air, staining the walls and pressing up against the ceilings, the chandelier swinging to the rhythm of the lion’s drum. Every bird in the building flocks to the dance floor, feathers rising and falling with the beat. Finally, the frenzy erupts into chanting delirium, ‘Chi-Co-La’. For those who need a refresher – Cavallo Nero are a...
Lucifer on the Sofa is Spoon’s thrilling tenth album. You can now watch the official video for ‘My Babe’. It’s the record’s anthemic centrepiece –a genuine love song shot through with tenderness, optimism, and a touch of self-aware bravado. The ‘My Babe’ video takes inspiration from a short-lived late ’70s variety show hosted by the legendary country music producer and oddball poet, “Cowboy” Jack Clement. The clip is directed by Jamie- James Medina...
Bartees Strange releases his long awaited album Farm To Table, with physical formats (LP and CD) following on 7 October. Alongside the album release Bartees shares new single ‘Wretched’. The song is paired with a video directed by Michael Parks Randa that mirrors the rags-to-riches, started-at-the-bottom-now-we-here theme of the album as a whole. Bartees also made his TV debut performing the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch below! Bartees says...
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...
Just fourteen months after releasing their debut, Dry Cleaning announce details of a second album Stumpwork and offer a first taste of the new work in the form of single ‘Don’t Press Me’. Watch the animated video, created by Peter Millard below! Clocking in at under 2 minutes, the track is about the pleasure of gaming and the enjoyment of intense and short-lived guilt-free experiences. Vocalist Florence Shaw also says, “The...
black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – present a new single ‘Eat Men Eat’ from their upcoming album Hellfire, out July 15th. Watch its accompanying video, directed by Maxim Kelly below! Musically, ‘Eat Men Eat’ is a fusion of Rock and Flamenco, the latter being the working title found on early setlists. The lyrics, written by Picton, tell the story of a couple’s quest to overcome...
London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have announced their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B for release on 9 September. The announcement comes with the record’s lead single ‘Glasgow’ and its vlog-like, fantastical music video – featuring Taylor’s compelling portrayal of a mythical pixie-ish creature – which was shot, directed and edited by Jockstrap themselves. Watch below! On the album release, Jockstrap’s Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye said: “I Love You Jennifer B is a collection of Jockstrap tracks that have been...
It’s not common practice to have an album’s title track released after said album as a standalone single, but Belle and Sebastian aren’t sticklers for ceremony. The band have released a new single and video ‘A Bit Of Previous‘, which shares the title of their critically acclaimed 9th full-length released in May to become their third UK Top Ten charting album. Explained alternately as an allusion to the concept of reincarnation in Buddhism and...
