Gold Class have released yet another stirring and urgent single, ‘Get Yours’, from the new album Drum, out on August 18. The accompanied video, directed by Defero Productions, was filmed at the band’s sold out Corner Hotel show last month. Watch it below! ‘Get Yours’ has been described by the band as the centerpiece of Drum. “It was the first of the songs we wrote for the album” said singer Adam...
Total Giovanni have returned with new single ‘Your Light’. The first new music from the band since 2015, watch their new video below! “It was the first time we’d recorded with a live drummer instead of using drum machines and samples,” the band say, “we wanted the song to have a warm organic feel that reflected the sentiment and tone of the song.” “The song got written around the time my...
The Black Seeds have dropped the boogie with their new video ‘Freakin’, from their forthcoming album Fabric, out Friday 8 September. Watch it below! “It’s the party, pick-me-up track on the album,” says The Black Seeds co-frontman, Barnaby Weir of the new track created at Lee Prebble’s The Surgery. “It’s for the end of the week, end of the line, letting loose, shaking it off. It’s a good dose of feel-good funk.” The...
Jim Lawrie has shared shared a new video for ‘Lost on Earth’, taken from his new album Slacker of the Year. Teamed up with filmmaker James Ruse to create the clip, ‘Lost on Earth’ captures the magic of unearthing something new and exciting in someone else. Watch it below! As Jim explains; “The majority of this planet is accounted for by Google maps. This song is about the fact that, even when every...
LA’s Starcrawler share two tracks from their Rough Trade Session. The catchy as hell live favourite ‘Used To Know’ and ‘Ants’ which were previously released on a limited edition 7″. Watch the recordings below! Frontwoman Arrow de Wilde’s restrained menace is balanced with guitarist Henri Cash’s energy. On the day, Arrow remembers: “It was pissing rain. We recorded these sessions, Henri lost his voice, we played a crazy show at this club,...
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Purity Ring’s debut LP Shrines, Megan James and Corin Roddick have released a new song, ‘Asido’. Accompanied by an animated lyric video written and directed by Megan and illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine. Watch it below! Tallulah took videos of Megan walking and falling, then traced the movement to create the character frame by frame. In order to situate their meaning, Megan had her mother...
With her forthcoming self-titled LP, Jen Cloher plays it fearlessly close to the bone, with raw, unflinching dissections of her life, love, and home of Australia. With her first single ‘Forgot Myself’, a deceptively upbeat track about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship with a high profile partner. Cloher turns that unfiltered lens onto her complicated relationship with Australia in ‘Regional Echo’, a title inspired by legendary Australian poet...
This Is The Kit, the musical project which holds Paris-via-Bristol songwriter Kate Stables, share a new video to ‘Hotter Colder’, taken from their new album Moonshine Freeze. Watch below! Video Director James Hankins explains how the video came about; “Kate was very keen on the video involving water and wanted quite a dark feel to it. Seeing as her and Rozi both love wild swimming we thought we’d go for...
Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) shares the video for ‘Ariadna’, the title track from her forthcoming debut LP, out Friday 8th September. Watch the video below. Shot by Masha Demianova in Georgia and based on the Greek myth of Ariadne, Kedr asked Masha, an old friend, to work with her. “Masha works with mythical images and structures, blending them into the now in a way that doesn’t look...
Torres announces her third full-length album Three Futures, out on Friday 29th September. Torres also shares the title track and video, which ties visually into the album’s artwork and previous single ‘Skim’, all shot and directed by Ashley Connor. Watch both videos below. Scott describes the album “is entirely about using the body that each of us has been given as a mechanism of joy.” The 10 original tracks on Three Futures embrace ecstasy, desire and...
Gold Class release their second single, ‘Rose Blind’, from their new album Drum, out on Friday 18 August. ‘Rose Blind’ is accompanied by a dark and ambiguous video directed by Defero Productions, watch it below! ‘Rose Blind’ explores themes of personal and societal politics. Vocalist Adam Curley explains “We wanted to write something with a big, raging chorus. It’s a love song, really, but a love song to a friend. It’s about feeling that...
Perth duo Hamjam announce their new debut album a/s/l?, out 11th August, and share their first single ‘Lean’. The music video to ‘Lean’ is a pastel reflection on domestic decadence, and an unfounded pining after early morning TV aerobics. Watch it below! Hamjam is a collaborative project between Hamish Rahn and James Ireland, two creative individuals who make music they describe as “blissed out sadness”. a/s/l? is an earnest and unassuming collection of...
The xx release a brand new music video for ‘I Dare You’, directed by Alasdair McLellan in collaboration with The xx and Calvin Klein Chief Creative Officer Raf Simons. Watch it below! The video, filmed in Los Angeles, continues The xx’s longstanding visual collaboration with McLellan, who also directed the band’s ‘On Hold’ and ‘Say Something Loving’ videos, in addition to their collaboration on the It Could Be Love photo...
The National share new single ‘Guilty Party’, from their forthcoming album Sleep Well Beast out 8th September. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Reas, below! “The video is a dream about memory and the degradation of memory; it’s about distance in time and space,” says Reas. “Time moves forward, but then backward as memory. The image of the two-faced Roman god Janus, who can look into the past and future, is the...
Princess Nokia has released a brand new single ‘G.O.A.T’. This is the first time her music has been available on streaming services other than SoundCloud and YouTube. The accompanying video was produced by Wally West, directed by Destiny Frasqueri & Milah Libin, with cinematography by Travis Libin. Watch it below! Princess Nokia is the best-known project of New Yorker Destiny Frasqueri. She’s been rapping and releasing tracks on YouTube and SoundCloud since...
New York City based rapper Wiki, known for his role in Ratking, is back with a new song ‘Pretty Bull’. The music video for ‘Pretty Bull’ directed by Ben Solomon, sees Wiki in his element at home in downtown Manhattan, surrounded by friends for a party at the local bodega. Watch it below. Over the weekend Wiki made his Glastonbury debut, joined by Suspect OTB, Jesse James Solomon and Skepta,...
