Following the April release of their third album WOMB, Purity Ring release a cover of Alice DJ’s 1999 eurodance hit ‘Better Off Alone’ via 4AD. The duo have flipped the euphoric trance classic into a signature, ghostly Purity Ring track – watch the video, directed by Andrew Barchilon below. “We have wanted to cover this song for years and it felt like it was time. It’s been an influence on how we...
Rough Trade Records have physically released the debut album Whatever It Is by Californian group Hello Forever. Frontman Sam Joseph explains a little about lead track ‘Im Feeling It‘, “Songs have a way of writing themselves. ‘I’m feeling it’ came out all at once in a moment when I was unhinged and disconnected — it lifted me up out of that trance and reminded me of what’s underneath. It’s an anthem...
Berlin-based vocalist and songwriter LIA LIA shares her new single ‘Night Call’. The single and accompanying video, directed by Jannick Schneider, are available to buy and stream on all platforms via b4 . Thriving in the space between the sugary-sweet and the melancholic, LIA LIA’s latest single is pop for after midnight. Inspired by Chinese fairy tales and Japanese anime, the ‘Night Call’ video sees a teenage LIA LIA stuck...
23-year-old Muslim poet and songwriter Mustafa shares his new single and video, ‘Air Forces‘. Built around samples of a Sudanese tribal chant – a nod to his own heritage – while still existing within the framework of contemporary Western music, it’s a further exploration of a style Mustafa describes as “inner city folk music”. The accompanying video, directed by Kid. Studio, is a striking exploration of the intersection of these...
Kurt Vile has announced his Speed, Sound, Lonely KV EP will be released Friday 2 October via Matador. Speed, Sound, Lonely KV was recorded and mixed in sporadic sessions that spanned four years at The Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville, TN. It includes five songs — covers of John Prine and “Cowboy” Jack Clement as well as two originals — and was recorded alongside a cast of local heavies like...
Tune-Yards releases their new song ‘nowhere, man’. The bright, brash and upbeat song is paired with a lively video that takes Chaplin-esque footage shot in Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner’s garage during quarantine and brings them to life alongside stop motion animation by Japhy Riddle and Callie Day. The song title references the Beatles song, and is a referendum on how far society has or has not come based on...
Yo La Tengo share a second song from their forthcoming EP, Sleepless Night. ‘Bleeding‘ is the record’s standalone original composition, a windswept ballad where delicate guitar melodies give way to cyclonic fuzz. The five-song record will also feature covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine. Ira Kaplan on Sleepless Night: “We met Yoshitomo Nara in 2003, would see him at...
Hachiku has announced her debut album and released the title track ‘I’ll Probably Be Asleep.’ ‘I’ll Probably Be Asleep’ is a dream-pop jam on yearning for other experiences & feelings with growling guitars, vigorous drum-machines, topped with gentle, omniscient vocals. Of the track, Anika Ostendorf says, “In essence, it is like an escapist’s testament about the wish to gain sovereignty over your thoughts. Freud’s id vs superego. The thought of...
Obscura Hail – the Melbourne-via-Wollongong indie rock trio, helmed by musician Sean Conran, digitally release their new EP Siren via Dot Dash, and physically as a combined Siren EP / Zero EP on 12″ vinyl. The band have also shared a beautiful video for ‘Penumbra‘ – directed by Rick Clifford and shot in Conran’s lounge room during Melbourne’s lockdown. Conran says of the video – “This one was low key...
Future Islands have shared ‘Moonlight’, the third new song from forthcoming album As Long As You Are out 9 October via 4AD. The song is paired with a video directed by Will Mayer (BADBADNOTGOOD) and starring Matthew Gray Gubler (Criminal Minds, 500 Days of Summer) and Callie Hernandez (La La Land, Alien). Samuel T. Herring says of the song, “’Moonlight’ is a song about love in a depressive state. It’s...
Cults, aka multi-instrumentalist/singer Madeline Follin and multi-instrumentalist Brian Oblivion, release their fourth studio album Host via Sinderlyn. With praise for singles: ‘Spit You Out‘ that Consequence of Sound compares to a “My Bloody Valentine sample,” ‘Trials‘ that Entertainment Weekly calls “a witchy dream-pop track that channels the creepiness of an abandoned opera house” and Variety calls “remarkably atmospheric,” “No Risk” that The Line of Best Fit calls “empowering,” and “Monolithic”...
Barcelona trio MOURN, have shared their compelling new single ‘Men.’ ‘Men’ is lyrically patent proof of MOURN’s newfound growth and heightened consciousness. A revealing song, necessary and deliberately uncomfortable. Watch the video for ‘Men’ below. MOURN said on the single – “This song is about walking the streets and having to deal with looks, words and attitudes from different men. To enter a store and be treated differently than male...
Cults have released a new single and video ‘Monolithic‘ off their fourth studio album Host out September 18 via Sinderlyn. ‘Monolithic’, that Stereogum describes as “Cults’ classic earworm melodies with the band’s new cinematic scope” now gets cinematic video treatment. The video is centered around a larger stone monolithic that is allowing Cults (and those who also enter “The Strong Magnetic Field”) to move through space and time. Director Will McDowell...
Experimental audiovisual duo friendships have released an incredible video and single for ‘meat sack‘. The track comes from their highlight anticipated new album FISHTANK will be released September 30 via Dot Dash Recordings. The record will be released physically on USB via Anterograde. Of ‘meat sack’ Nic Brown describes the track “meat sack is hindsight with impaired vision. Revisiting distorted scenes and centring yourself as every archetype: the heroine, the...
Emerging producer and rapper Asha Imuno shares the single ‘CAVIAR’ featuring Gidi, from his forthcoming album Good News, set for release October 15th via b4. The track is available to download and stream now on all available platforms. The second song to be taken from the Good News album following the release of ‘BIG WORDS’, Asha collaborates with fellow Raised by the Internet member Gidi. Of the song, Imuno says,...
Melbourne group Black Cab have released new single and video for ‘Hanna.’ The single comes from a brand new Cab album. Keep your eyes peeled for more release details soon. The single ‘Hanna’ is an ode to the cosplay community. The song is pulsing and uplifting, filled with vibrant synths and features both GL’s Graeme Pogson on drums plus Lowtide’s Lucy Buckeridge on backup vocals. “She’s a dress up girl...
