Widowspeak announce their new album, Expect The Best, to be released Friday 25 August, along with revealing a video for the first single, ‘Dog’, filmed and edited by musician/artist Otium, and filmed in Tacoma, WA. Watch it below! Widowspeak’s Molly Hamilton says the song is “about the compulsion to move on from things and places, even people, when you’re not necessarily ready to. Sometimes, I get caught up in ‘the grass is always...
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Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is out now and available on all digital formats, double CD, and triple 180g LP versions of the 23 track album. Coinciding in time for the release Radiohead have shared a new video to one of the previously unreleased tracks ‘Man Of War’. Watch it below! OKNOTOK features the...
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Jen Cloher has announced her new self-titled album to be released Friday 11th August. Jen has also shared the first single from the album, ‘Forgot Myself’, and writes about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship. Listen and watch the accompanying video below! Of the song’s inspiration, Jen said “You want to be with your partner celebrating big moments in their life but at the same time you have your own life...
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Over the course of four albums, Teeth & Tongue – the music project of songwriter and instrumentalist Jess Cornelius – had gradually morphed into a more collaborative ‘band-like’ affair, with long-time collaborators Marc Regueiro-McKelvie, Damian Sullivan and James Harvey. Now, Jess is heading to the USA to focus on a new ‘actually solo’ project, with material that is more stripped back, personal and lyrically direct. To say goodbye (for a while),...
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Gold Class have announced their new album, Drum, to be released on Friday 18 August. The band have also shared a video for their first single off the record ‘Twist In The Dark’. Watch it below! Drum is the follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard, Drum sees Gold Class explore new sonic territory. On the album...
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Methyl Ethel share a new video for ‘Drink Wine’, directed by Paxi (behind the surrealism-flavoured visuals for ‘Ubu’) and filmed in Sydney, Australia. The new single opens their second studio album, Everything Is Forgotten, out now. Watch the video below. The band are currently in the middle of a run of European dates with fellow Perth band POND. After appearances at Boardmasters, Lowlands and Green Man festivals, Methyl Ethel will head to North...
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The Black Seeds have announced their long-awaited sixth studio album, Fabric, which will be their first album in over five years, set to be released Friday 8 September. The album features their new single ‘Better Days’ which the band has shared a lyric video for, created by Mark Russell & Owen Watts the video features stunning scenes from their homeland Aotearoa. Watch the time-lapsed footage below. The sessions for Fabric took...
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Algiers have released new single ‘Cleveland’, taken from their forthcoming second album, The Underside Of Power, released Friday 23rd June. Listen below. While the song invokes Tamir Rice, as a reference and tribute, the lyrics summon Kindra Chapman, Andre Jones, Lennon Lacy, Sandra Bland, Roosevelt Pernell, Keith Warren and Alfred Wright, similarly victims of state sanctioned violence. It also makes a link with theorist Walter Benjamin’s work on divine violence, placing justice against...
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Aldous Harding has revealed a new video for the single ‘Blend’, taken from her latest album Party, watch it below. The visuals for ‘Blend’ were created by Charlotte Evans, the New Zealand filmmaker also responsible for Harding’s previous videos for ‘Horizon’ and ‘Imagining My Man’. Disquieting in its nature, and inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary war film Apocalypse Now, Harding goes into further detail – “The concept is based on that awful...
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Meet the latest edition to the 4AD family! Torres is the creative alias of Brooklyn-based Mackenzie Scott. She has released her new single ‘Skim’ along with a video. Watch it below! In the striking clip, directed by Ashley Connor, Torres reflects on the relativity of human interactions, which is at odds with the robotic synth pop of the track. ‘Skim’ is the first new music since the release of her acclaimed...
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Pixx – the alter ego of UK artist Hannah Rodgers – has released her debut album, The Age Of Anxiety. The album seeks to address a generation increasingly isolated by an unprecedented new world order, from the pressures of social media to ever-changing political turbulence. The Age Of Anxiety borrows its title from W.H. Auden’s final poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and...
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Pixx shares a new spiralling pop song, ‘Waterslides’, from her debut album, The Age Of Anxiety, released Friday 2nd June. Watch it’s accompanying video below! Filmed in the futuristic cityscape of Bilbao, directors Alice Clingan and Louis Milner explain the premise behind its visual companion. “The lyrics to ‘Waterslides’ are inspired by a dream Hannah had, isolated on a waterpark in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by emotionless suited figures. We tried...
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Benjamin Booker has shared a new track ‘Believe’ off his upcoming album Witness, out Friday 2nd June. To accompany the new track, Booker has also shared a stunning live video of him performing the song at Providence’s historic Columbus Theatre. Watch the video below. Witness is his biggest artistic leap to date – drawing on everything from the writings of James Baldwin to Freddie Gibbs to William Onyeabor’s 70s African psych-rock. Preorder...
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After some mysterious teasers earlier in the week, The National announce their 7th studio album, Sleep Well Beast, set to be released on September 8th. The National debuts the track ‘The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness’, in this Casey Reas directed video you can watch below! Sleep Well Beast was produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger. The album was mixed by Peter Katis and...
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Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has released the second video from his new album No Shape, out now. ‘Die 4 You’ is directed by Floria Sigismondi and features artwork by Rosa Verloop. Watch it below! Hadreas explains: “This is a love song with a lot of breath-control fetish language, to communicate a willingness to really give yourself to someone completely.” Listen / Purchase No Shape: https://perfumegenius.lnk.to/NoShape
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Rough Trade are excited to announce Starcrawler and the release of their debut single ‘Ants’. The single is backed by B-side ‘Used to Know’ and available on limited edition blood splattered white vinyl 7” – 500 only world wide. Watch the clip below! Starcrawler hail from Los Angles and were formed one year ago when lead vocalist Arrow de Wilde first met guitarist Henri Cash at their Echo Park high school. Shortly...
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