South London quartet Goat Girl are delighted to share their anticipated second album On All Fours, out today via Rough Trade Records. To celebrate it’s release, Goat Girl will host a live album listening party and Q&A with fans on their YouTube channel on Saturday 30 January from 6AM AEDT – tune in here. On All Fours sees the band veer away from the confrontational lyricism of their breakthrough self-titled...
Tune-Yards announce details of their fifth studio album, sketchy. The 11-track record, which includes last year’s single ‘nowhere, man’, will be released on 26 March 2021. Ahead of its release, Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner release another preview from sketchy., the grounding single ‘hold yourself.’ and its accompanying animated video directed by Basa Studio. Beneath the layered sounds of ‘hold yourself.’ lies Garbus’ most explicit lyrics she’s ever written; a...
Australian artist Indigo Sparke has signed to Sacred Bones and announced a new release date for her debut album, Echo, now due February 19th. To celebrate, she has shared a video for the album’s latest single ‘Everything Everything.’ Of the song, Sparke says “I wrote this song not long after coming back from a magical castle in Italy where a group of us had been making music and soaking in...
Hand Habits, the project of Meg Duffy (they/them), announces dirt EP with the release of a video for its lead single ‘4th of july.’ dirt finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. It illuminates Duffy’s attempts to evolve beyond the confines of their past. Of the song and video, Duffy said “‘4th of...
South London quartet Goat Girl are delighted to share a new track, ‘Badibaba‘, and its video today from their upcoming album On All Fours, which will be released via Rough Trade Records on January 29, 2021. Guitarist/vocalist L.E.D. says “Badibaba is a song about environmental catastrophe and the pessimism and self-destruction that this causes to the human spirit.” Lottie Cream adds, “it touches on how the earth’s existence is controlled...
Fresh off the release of their critically-acclaimed fifth album Plum, Widowspeak welcome the new year with Honeychurch, a brand new digital EP. Earlier this month, the duo released their first single, a version of Dire Straits’ ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ that Stereogum called a “hazy rendition” and BrooklynVegan noted “Widowspeak’s signature dreamy, hushed sound is a perfect match for a song like this.“ Widowspeak’s new collection delivers homespun intimations with polished...
DARKSIDE is the collaborative duo of Dave Harrington and Nicolas Jaar. Dormant since the close of touring for their debut full-length, Psychic, the group quietly reconvened in 2018 to begin writing new music. Following more than a year of work, Harrington and Jaar completed Spiral, the second DARKSIDE album in December of 2019, which has been mixed by Rashad Becker, mastered by Heba Kadry, and will be released in 2021...
This is it. Sleaford Mods have released Spare Ribs. It comes following their latest single ‘Nudge It (ft Amy Taylor from Amyl and the Sniffers)’. It’s all out now through Rough Trade. Of new single, the band’s Jason Williamson says “Imagine you’ve got limited options, unsure how you’re getting by that week, looking out the window of the damp flat you don’t want to live in, and seeing a bunch...
Norwegian duo Smerz have announced the release of Believer, their debut album, coming on 26 February 2021 via XL Recordings. The announcement is accompanied by a music video for the title track. “The lyrics for this song were written over a period of almost two years,” the duo recall. “So it ended up having a natural development parallel to our lives.” ‘Believer’ is another taste from the forthcoming album that...
Julien Baker has shared a new taste of her forthcoming album Little Oblivions by way of a new single ‘Hardline.’ Julien says, “A few years ago I started collecting travel ephemera again with a loose idea of making a piece of art with it. I had been touring pretty consistently since 2015 and had been traveling somuch that items like plane tickets and hotel keycards didn’t have much novelty anymore....
2020 saw the release of Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius’ most celebrated album to date which topped many end of year lists and cemented him as one of his generations most innovative and essential artists. Now, he announces IMMEDIATELY Remixes, released February 19th, a companion album which sees every song on Set My Heart On Fire Immediately remixed in original running sequence by an all-star cast of...
Future Islands release ‘For Sure (Dan Deacon Remix)’, an expansive 9-minute remix from the fellow Baltimorean artist where he incorporates stirring strings, piano and an electronic crescendo to the original track. Dan Deacon says, “Like most people, the last year has made me realise how important my friends are to me, and how much I miss being with them. When the guys released ‘For Sure’, it really brought me back...
Brijean – the Oakland-based duo of Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart – shares the new single/video, “Ocean,” from their forthcoming album, Feelings, out February 26th on Ghostly International. It follows the single ‘Day Dreaming,’ “a full-on swoon, a dazed, lovestruck reverie that captures that magical feeling of giving yourself over to someone — or something — new” (Stereogum). Murphy’s vocals on ‘Ocean’ are reminiscent of Astrud Gilberto’s airy croon, floating...
Last month Pinegrove revealed details of a new feature length film, Amperland, NY, and accompanying 22 song soundtrack album, available today on DSPs via Rough Trade – with the LP to be released physically on February 26th. The film will launch globally tomorrow at 4AM AEDT on YouTube and the band will be online in the chat during the screening. The film, scripted from a short story by Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens...
Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke release two new tracks, ‘Her Revolution’ and ‘His Rope’. It has been over nine years since their first release together, the double A-side of ‘Ego’ and ‘Mirror’. ‘Her Revolution’ and ‘His Rope’ prove a more subdued release for 2020. Released on double A-side vinyl in a limited run to a small group of record stores, both tracks are now available to stream across DSPs, the...
Rozzma releases the Khatar Sayeb EP, the artist’s first release for XL Recordings. He celebrates the release with a brand-new video for ‘Gheirek’, directed by the artist himself for one of the standout tracks from the EP. Rozzma is an Egyptian sound artist inspired by the era where sound preceded music – he finds inspiration in the similarities between the wilderness of prehistoric times and modern- day chaos. Having already...
