Perfume Genius has released Set My Heart On Fire Immediately. It was was produced by GRAMMY-winning producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino, Matt Chamberlin and Rob Moose. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator Alan Wyffels. The album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences....
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“I don’t know Boiling up inside ya, Like a kettle Like a frying pan spitting hot oil out. Roaming, soaking, empty streets Blue tv light beaming out A dirty beat Our stamping feet Don’t know whear to put it Some times Some times you just need a hug” – Oona Doherty, May 2020 The video for ‘Idontknow‘ stars acclaimed Belfast dancer and choreographer Oona Doherty, who co-directed the film with...
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‘Second‘ is from the Sleaford Mods‘ upcoming retrospective, All That Glue, out Friday 15 May. The video was directed by Robin Lee and features Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones) and Emma Stansfield (Skins, The Tudors). As described by Rolling Stone “In the Robin Lee-directed clip, two actresses (Kate Dickie and Emma Stansfield) portray Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn in the Mods’ early days when they frequently played pubs. The women are pitch-perfect,...
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Becca Mancari announces her new album The Greatest Part out June 26 via Captured Tracks, her first for the label. Along with the announcement, Mancari releases her second single, ‘First Time.’ The song is sonically upbeat but emotionally heavy, featuring a beautiful melody juxtaposed with its painful story. On the new single ‘First Time’ Mancari says, “‘First Time’ was a song that I did not at the time have the...
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MOURN have released a new single ‘Call You Back’. It’s cloaked in catchy indie rock melodies, and articulates a universal experience in the simplest, most poignant terms. Maybe we need that now more than ever. It’s hard to believe that Mourn wrote the line “it’s so hard to call you back, but so easy for me to start panicking” before the onset of a global pandemic, but they’ll assure you...
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Juan Wauters announces his digital EP, Más Canciones de la Onda, out June 3. With the announcement he shares the first single ‘Muy Muy Chico.’ Wauters says, “the only time I left the cities where I was during the trip when I recorded La Onda de Juan Pablo was in Chile. I travelled to the south of Chile to visit a friend’s friend. There in Pucón, in the Andes mountain...
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Arca premieres ‘Nonbinary,’ the first song from her forthcoming album KiCk i to be released via XL Recordings. The song is accompanied by a video featuring Arca; the piece is a powerful first look into the transformation that Arca’s undergone since her 2017 critically-acclaimed album Arca. With the past serving as prologue and her recent 60-minute single ‘@@@@@‘ as prelude, ‘Nonbinary’ defines a new era of Arca, which she’ll unveil...
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Car Seat Headrest release Making A Door Less Open, their hugely anticipated new album, available in distinct track listings and mixes for digital, CD and vinyl. The album features critically acclaimed singles ‘Martin’ (currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist), ‘Hollywood’, ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’ and ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, which have already collectively surpassed 6 million streams on DSP’s. A recent New York Times profile describes MADLO...
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Ciao. Donny Benét has released the title track off his forthcoming album, Mr Experience. It’s out 22 May. Sharing the genesis of the song Donny said: “The song concept came as a suggestion to me. I get suggestions all the time and they never stick – This one did! I like the intro on this one – it’s kind of like a mid 80’s Japanese game show introduction that goes...
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Last month Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) shared the single, ‘On The Floor’, off his forthcoming new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15. Today, he drops a remix of the track from Tokyo-based producer, Initial Talk. Initial Talk has done remixes for Rihanna, Lady Gaga and most recently Dua Lipa and is known for infusing early MTV-era 80’s sounds into his work. Here, ‘On...
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Montreal-based indie trio Braids will release their new album Shadow Offering on June 19th via. Co-produced with Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie, the album finds the band at their most personal, unabashedly flexing a new sense of confidence through songs that reach a higher level of artistry and collaboration. New single ‘Just Let Me‘ explores the push and pull of a relationship, the narratives created between partners, and...
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Car Seat Headrest today reveal dreamy nigh-on 8-minute epic ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’, ahead of the release of their new album Making A Door Less Open on May 1st. The release is accompanied by a special acoustic performance of the song by front man Will Toledo in character as ‘Trait’. In its mesmeric slow burn, album centerpiece ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’ presents another facet of the...
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Ending months of speculation about exactly who’s behind one of the year’s most talked-about and sought after club tracks, Jamie xx has released ‘Idontknow‘. It is Jamie’s first solo artist release since his highly acclaimed BRIT and GRAMMY® nominated 2015 debut album In Colour. Without knowing the artist behind it, people have been raving to ‘Idontknow’ since late autumn 2019 when Jamie first debuted the track. Since then, the track has...
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Muzz, the new project of Paul Banks (Interpol), Josh Kaufman (producer/multi-instrumentalist and one third of Bonny Light Horseman), and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes’ touring band), have announced their self-titled, debut album, out Friday 6 June on Matador Records. The announcement comes with new single, the widescreen, piano-led ‘Red Western Sky’, and its accompanying video, directed by the band and the first video to...
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Washington-based alternative soul vocalist and songwriter Marti drops new single ‘Lust’. She’s joined a legion of forward thinking, left of field RnB and electronic artists on 4AD imprint, b4. After spending her early twenties traveling the world as a model and ingratiating herself into local music and art scenes, Marti became a fixture in downtown NYC and DC nightlife. Her captivating performances led to collaborations with artists including Duckwrth, Kojey Radical...
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“For the woman who gave me everything I needed to be strong…” 1010 Benja SL New single out called ‘Dobby’ via Young. A love song, a ride or die anthem written for his partner and the first track from a new body of work, ‘Dobby’ perfectly showcases 1010 Benja SL’s modern soulful sound. Having seemingly come out of nowhere to release his delightfully perplexing single ‘Boofiness’ in 2017, 1010 Benja...
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