Aldous Harding reunites with the visionary director behind ‘The Barrel‘ – Martin Sagadin – for an equally compelling visual for ‘Zoo Eyes.’ It is the third and final single from her latest album, Designer, out now via 4AD. Enter a hypnogogic state once more… The National also share a new visual – ‘Hey Rosey‘ lifted from the band’s sixth record I Am Easy To Find. The video marks the...
Dyson Stringer Cloher – the iconic project of three of Australia’s most accomplished and dynamic songwriters, Jen Cloher, Mia Dyson and Liz Stringer – have released their debut self-titled album via Milk! Records. Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer and Jen Cloher have spent most of their lives thousands of miles from one another – Mia in Los Angeles, Liz in Toronto and Jen in Melbourne. Their debut self-titled album was recorded at Wilco’s studio The Loft in Chicago, with Jeff Tweedy’s guitars, as you do, with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on drums and Tom Schick the Grammy Award-winning engineer. As you do....
‘Forgotten Eyes‘ – out now, and one final taste off the new album from Big Thief, before it’s released next Friday. Two Hands is out 11 October through 4AD. Two Hands is the band’s second album this year, following the May release of U.F.O.F., a universally beloved album which garnered a 9.2 score from Pitchfork, who called it “a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.” Two Hands is a...
DIIV are back. The band’s third full length album, Deceiver, is out now via Captured Tracks. They return to Australia in April. Dates below. Tickets on sale now through Mistletone here. You’d have heard the darkly propulsive ‘Skin’, the melancholic ‘Taker’ and more recently the frenzied ‘Blankenship.’ Now hear them amongst a collection of some of DIIV’s most impressive, and darkest, work yet. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart....
A pleasure to introduce Spencer. The latest signing to 4AD. Peep his single ‘Automatic’ ~ a bed of retro percussion groove, a hypnotic bass line, and Spencer.’s sheer magnetism flowing atop. At 20 years old, he’s already been named an Apple Music Artist To Watch, and of course – he’s defying and redefining ideas that cross R&B, hip hop and indie rock. The song is paired with a video chronicling...
DIIV reveal new song ‘Blankenship‘ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October via Captured Tracks. The song’s ominous bass line and crawling beat devolve into frenetic string bends and vitriolic lyrics that welcome inspection of the song’s namesake. The acerbic song is paired with the band’s first music video in six years, shot in California in Trona Pinnacles, Sequoia National Park, and in Los Angeles; and directed by Sean Stout (Deafheavan, Death Grips, Trash Talk). Preorder...
Perfume Genius has released ‘Eye in the Wall’, a new track taken from The Sun Still Burns Here, a dance and music performance collaboration with Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich. The evening-long piece, set to debut in October, is co-directed by Perfume Genius and Wallich and stars Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas alongside dance company The YC. The track is 9 minutes of celestial hypnosis and sounds unlike anything Hadreas has done before. “I think of ‘Eye in the Wall’ as a cosmic peep show,” says Hadreas. “Watching,...
Meet Bebi Monsuta, and their sultry, irresistibly danceable debut single ‘Brazilian Sound (ft. ABRONCA)’. Out now via b4. The pair of NYC sisters – Manami Mao and Akira Ayane – have roots in Trinidad, Japan, and Brazil and have been performing music together since childhood. Their fusion of cultures and influences from Japanese R&B to Caribbean music to the NYC Hip-Hop scene shines brightly on the new song. The duo’s name translates from Japanese to ‘Baby Monsters’....
Jack Ladder has released new track ‘Shades’ – a desolate and beautiful cover of the underrated romantic highlight from Iggy Pop’s 1986 album Blah-Blah-Blah. ‘Shades’ is released alongside the slinky and lovelorn B-Side ‘Head Full of Nails’ – a fitting follow-up to Ladder’s 5th album Blue Poles released last year via Barely Dressed Records. ‘Shades’ may seem tongue-in-cheek, but Ladders performance comes from a place of deep affinity and admiration. As Ladder explains; “I remember first seeing the video for Shades when the Yeah Yeah...
Leif Vollebekk has unveiled the second single from his forthcoming album New Ways (out 1st November via Secret City Records) with a music video for ‘Transatlantic Flight.’ ‘Transatlantic Flight’ takes its time, and wraps itself around you. Leif found inspiration in a host of places – from sticky Rihanna choruses, the dark sizzle of Leonard Cohen, the visual mastery of Richard Linklater (he drops a couple references in the opening verse of the song). The song builds to a soaring euphoria, a wall of rich sounds and...
Kim Gordon has released ‘Air BnB’, the new single from her forthcoming debut solo album, No Home Record out October 11th on Matador Records. Stream it here. It’s a towering rocker that launches from brittle, noise-bitten verses evoking “blue towels and water bottles” and “47 inch flat TV” into an explosive, defiantly-catchy mantra – ‘AirBnB’ is an exhilarating tour de force. There’s a video too. It’s everything it could have been without the budget it needed. Reviews welcome.
Home Made Satan, the second instalment of a building trilogy, by Chastity is out now via Captured Tracks. The album brings a pop sensibility to the band’s catalogue following their acclaimed 2018 debut Death Lust. Recorded over the course of a couple weeks with his full live band in a small studio in London, Ontario, between a European tour with Fucked Up and a seven-week North American tour, Williams crafted...
In honour of The Boss’s birthday, Lucy Dacus has released a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’. This is the fourth instalment of her 2019 holiday song series, following her Valentine’s Day cover of ‘La Vie En Rose,’ and original songs ‘My Mother & I’ and ‘Forever Half Mast,’ celebrating Mother’s Day and Independence Day, respectively. Lucy’s ongoing 2019 singles series will also include tracks tied to Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP coming this Spring. Is there...
“I never thought heartbreak could be so all-encompassing. I never thought that my body could stop working to the point that I couldn’t express myself physically in the ways that I have always loved and found so much solace. I have always practiced my way into being the best I could be, but I couldn’t do that this time, I was left with no option but to tear every process...
Grimes has shared a new single and video ‘Violence‘ featuring i_o. Stream it now. Watch the visual below.
Sleater-Kinney share the new music video for ‘Can I Go On,’ from their critically acclaimed new album,The Center Won’t Hold, produced by St. Vincent, out now via Milk! Records / Remote Control. The concept for the ‘Can I Go On’ video was written by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein; it was directed and filmed by Ashley Connor, a long-time friend of the band, and stars Lauri Guzda and Mami Kimura. Brownstein explains, “Within the broader thematic context of The Center Won’t Hold album, we wanted the video...
