Thrilled to announce we’ll be releasing the third album from Palehound – Black Friday. Out 7 June. Preorder here. Fronted by Ellen Kempner, the Boston trio’s new album is a finespun exploration of all the forms of that love can take: love between friends, love for people no longer in your life, love in the face of self-hate, love that endures through major life changes or through many tiny catastrophes. Watch...
She’s done it again. Aldous Harding shares a new song and video for ‘Fixture Picture’ from her forthcoming third album Designer, out April 26 via 4AD. Co-directed by Aldous Harding and Jack Whiteley, the video’s suspenseful opening scene finds Harding strumming her guitar on the white cliffs of Dover. The pay-off comes later with a dramatic and enigmatic live performance by Harding and her band inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Preorder Designer here.
Jess Ribeiro‘s third album LOVE HATE is out now via Barely Dressed. Listen or download here. The album is confirmation (if ever it was needed) that Ribeiro is one of the country’s most gifted and enigmatic songwriters, a master of genre, nonchalance, double-entendre, intuition and melody. Indeed it’s been confirmed by album features this week on Double J, 2SER and Edge Radio. Opening track ‘Stranger‘ echoes the infatuation of poet...
Soaked Oats, our pals from across the pond, dropped a single and video ‘Driftworld,’ the name lovingly given to the 30ft 1980s tour-RV wherein they lost their wallets and their minds. Broken Stone Records‘ in house guitarist, Evan Lock, branches out solo on beautiful new song ‘Scorpio.’ His new album Kaleidoscopic is out 24 May. Iceage offer up a visual for the Sky Ferreira featured Beyondless track, ‘Pain...
The National share another album track ‘Light Years‘ – the closer on I Am Easy To Find. Their eighth studio album will be released 17 May via 4AD. Preorder here. Watch the accompanying video below, directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills, and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. I Am Easy To Find will be released with a companion short film, directed by Mills, named after, and inspired by...
Big Thief share another new song, ‘Cattails.’ It’s Big Thief as nothing but transcendental. “Cattails came about while we were at the studio in Washington in the pine forest. Writing it was just one of those electric multicoloured waves of connectivity just sweeping through my body. I stayed up late finishing the song and the next morning was stomping around playing it over and over again. We thought why not...
Melbourne’s Jess Ribeiro shares a new single ‘Dylan‘ ahead of the release of her new album LOVE HATE, out Friday 12 April, via Barely Dressed. Opening with a hypnotic chorus spelling out “L. O. V. E. H. A. T. E.” the song descends into a purred verse which dissects the nuances and disappointments of former relationships. On its surface, Dylan is a song about trying to be friends after breaking up with someone –...
Chris Cohen has released his new self-titled album via Captured Tracks. Listen here. “My parents got divorced while I was making this record,” he says. “They were married for 53 years and my father spent most of his life in the closet, hiding both his sexual identity and various drug addictions. For me it was like being relieved of a great burden, like my life could finally begin.” It is...
Thrilled to announce our latest signing to Dot Dash, Gena Rose Bruce. Her debut album, Can’t Make You Love Me will be released Friday 28 June. Watch the video for ‘Angel Face’ here. We are taken by Gena’s vocal. It drives this album; a stirring force amidst the pulsing rhythms, with echoes of Mazzy Star and Lynchian undertones. We can’t wait for you to hear it. Or maybe you already...
black midi have been dubbed by NME as “the best new band in the UK that no one knows anything about” but today you’re about to get to know them. Listen to the caustic new single ‘Crow’s Perch‘ – out now via Rough Trade. The accompanying video, directed and edited by Villi Hijálmarsson reflects the track’s frenetic energy, juxtaposing saturated graphics and peculiar scenes with mundane images. black midi is...
Take notes from a few corners of the globe on this week’s roundup of new music. Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy shares the closer to her upcoming album Your Need (3 May via 2MR) – ‘Ivan Kupala (New Day).’ Electronic leaning left field pop, informed by a sense of darkness unique to Kedr’s musical-cum-geographical upbringing. Portland-based, sci-fi inspired group Reptaliens share a new track + video for ‘Venetian Blinds.’ The track...
Melbourne’s Sunbeam Sound Machine (Nick Sowersby) has shared his new video ‘Seems Like You’ve Made Up Your Mind‘ – premiering via Document Journal. Following on from ‘Talking Distance,’ the track is a second taste of Sunbeam’s second LP Goodness Gracious, out 3 May via Dot Dash. Here are some of Nick’s favourite things about the making of the video (dir. Clancy Walker, shot by Sean T. Barnes, starring Terry Yeboah). 1....
Art of Fighting have shared a beautifully affecting new track and video – ‘Your Love.’ Premiered by Triple R Breakfasters and The Music, ‘Your Love’ is “about that feeling when what you fear the most in the world is the inability to contain and rationalise your love for someone. How that makes all the other genuinely terrifying things in both the internal and external world seem completely insignificant,” says Ollie...
The rumours are true: The “rejected” electronic album that Stephen Malkmus has been telling everyone about will see the light of day…has finally seen the light of day. But new album Groove Denied (Matador) is not a full-blown plunge into EDM or hiptronica. In fact, there aren’t any purely instrumental tracks on the album. Every song is precisely that: a song, featuring Malkmus staples like an artfully askew melody and...
SOAK shares a new video for ‘Déjà Vu‘ – the lead single from her new album Grim Town, out 26 April via Rough Trade. Director Brother Willis calls the video “a looping, nonsensical, Lynchian dream,” and explains further that his goal “was to make a disconnected and confusing performance video, one that recasts Bridie as both performer, then observer, and back and forth in dreamlike messiness. I have a bit...
Denise Le Menice has shared a new track and video ‘Stars.’ Based in Melbourne-via-Sydney-via-Perth, Denise Le Menice is the project of Ali Flintoff. Listen to the track here. Premiering on triple j Home & Hosed, ‘Stars’ is a psyched-out, dream pop triumph of happiness over total darkness. It radiates from the video; an hilarious and adorable montage of Ali as a young’un. Take a trip down memory lane, Denise Le...
