Ahead of the vinyl and CD release of Ex:Re, the debut album from Elena Tonra’s eponymous solo project, the Daughter lyricist, vocalist and guitarist has shared stunning visuals for new single ‘The Dazzler’. Watch below! Directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the video imagines ‘The Dazzler’ as the hotel depicted in Tonra’s lyrics and places the magnificent British actress Maxine Peake languishing alone in one of its rooms. Talking about...
Ahead of their Australian tour this April, Jungle release new video for ‘Casio’, from their second album For Ever, out now. A JFC Worldwide production, the video is directed by the band’s own ‘J’ alongside regular visual collaborator Charlie Di Placido and is another incredible video from a band renowned for their striking, original aesthetic. Watch below! Co-produced by Jungle’s ‘J’ and ‘T’ alongside highly regarded young producer Inflo, For Ever is a...
Tiny Ruins, originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, are releasing their third album Olympic Girls on February 1st. Today, Tiny Ruins share a new song and video for ‘Holograms’, Watch below! “The song is a conversation in a way, where one person posits the idea that technology will increasingly connect us. That we will not just be emotionally or mentally connected, but that our...
Today, Starcrawler debut their video for ‘Hollywood Ending’ directed by Gilbert Trejo. The visual is a love letter to their hometown and marks what will surely be another epic year for them filled with more new music and touring, carrying their envelope pushing vision into the mainstream. Watch below! Director Gilbert Trejo says of the video: “Arrow and I almost started sowing the seeds for this video when we first...
King Krule has released a music video for ‘Logos’, taken from his latest album, The OOZ. It’s a hand-drawn animation and labour of love by Archy’s brother Jack, a South East London-based musician, visual artist and long-time collaborator. Watch below! This is the final piece of a three-part collaboration with WeTransfer, which saw King Krule exploring the creative process with each video’s director, hosted on their WePresent platform. With previous videos...
SOAK announces details of her second album Grim Town, released on Friday 26 April, as well as unveiling new single ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’. Watch the accompanying video below! Grim Town follows SOAK’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and an extraordinary period of invention and self-discovery for the still-just-22-year-old Derry native. The upcoming album is available for pre-order here. ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’ is a love letter...
Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, shares new single ‘Landslide’, from their fifth studio album Gallipoli, out February 1st. The song comes with an accompanying music video, starring Game of Thrones’ Ian Beattie, directed by Eoin Glaister and shot in Kazakhstan. Watch below! Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums,...
‘Waiting For Dave’ the new single from The Bennies, sounds like Cheech and Chong teamed up with the Blues Brothers and started a Ska band. The clip was shot by Nick Manuell and features the epic horn players Wes ‘Money Train’ Kingsford (Sax), Nathan ‘Strathan’ Holt (Trumpet) and Michael ‘Dougy’ Rankin (Trombone), watch below! ‘Waiting For Dave’ is the fuel injected party starter of the summer, and a healthy indication that The...
Homeshake, the project of Peter Sagar, shares the third single ‘Just Like My’ from his forthcoming album Helium, out 15th February. Watch the accompanying video below! The collaboration between Canadian director Oliver McGarvey and German artist Eric Winkler, both based in Berlin, mimics the airy, dream-like quality of Helium. “It’s tomorrow already and you’re home now and it’s daytime but the room just tilted and you’re still floating. The chair where you throw...
Following the release of singles ‘New Moon’ and ‘Stonehurst Cowboy’, Steve Gunn today shares a third song off of The Unseen In Between, out January 18. The gorgeous ‘Vagabond’ (named after Gunn’s favourite Agnes Varda film) and its accompanying video. Watch below! ‘Vagabond’ could almost be the soundtrack to a Denis Johnson short story or Sam Shepard play, with its rich cast of characters whose lives have gone astray. Accompanied...
After their recent signing to esteemed label Captured Tracks, California’s HXXS are happy to release their debut EP MKDRONE out now on cassette, vinyl and digitally. Last month the band shared first single ‘Seppuku’, the historical Japanese term for suicide by disembowelment, which came to fruition when prescription medication became the only reprieve for an inoperable tooth infection that had one member sliding between unbearable pain and prescription-induced euphoria. Watch...
Steve Gunn has shared the second single ‘Stonehurst Cowboy’ from his upcoming album The Unseen In Between, out January 18. The accompanying acoustic video was shot in London and directed by Craig McNeil. Watch below! The song is the emotional centrepiece of the album, a duet between Gunn’s raw acoustic guitar and spare basslines by Bob Dylan’s musical director Tony Garnier who is featured throughout the album. The lyrics distill the lessons Gunn...
Homeshake, the project of Peter Sagar, shares new single ‘Nothing Could Be Better’ from his upcoming record Helium, released February 15th. Watch the accompanying video below! Sagar says the song is about how “sometimes on the way to a social function you gotta ditch and hang out with your sweety instead because love is beautiful.” While the video director Steve Smith “tried really hard [to capture] the dancing” in the animated clip. Sagar puts down roots...
Juan Wauters shares the second single ‘A Volar’, from his upcoming record La Onda de Juan Pablo. The beautiful and buoyant song about “dreaming wildly” was written in Mexico City and features multiple musicians that Juan met in Garibaldi, a popular square in Mexico City where musicians for hire gather. Mexico City was one of the many stops he made along a journey throughout South and Central America over the past...
In a beautiful new, symbiotic, path of machine/human collaboration, Holly Herndon & Jlin have released ‘Godmother’ featuring Spawn. Watch the accompanying visual, directed by Daniel Costa Neves below! “For the past two years, we have been building an ensemble in Berlin. One member is a nascent machine intelligence we have named Spawn. She is being raised by listening to and learning from her parents, and those people close to us...
Ex:Re, the eponymously-titled debut album by the solo project of Elena Tonra, guitarist, vocalist and lyricist of Daughter, is released digitally today. Vinyl and CD pre-orders of Ex:Re are now available with physical release set for February 1 2019. Running parallel to Daughter, Tonra has assumed the pseudonym Ex:Re (pronounced ex ray) for her eponymously-titled debut solo album, a deeply personal record that was made with both a sense of...
