31 January 2025
Fresh from the release of his second album In Waves, and recent nomination in the Artist of the Year category at the 2025 BRIT Awards, Jamie xx releases new single ‘F.U.’. The track sees the London based artist, DJ, producer and composer collaborating with US soul icon Erykah Badu on a storming club-ready cut that was created from unlikely beginnings. The genesis of the collaboration came at a Primavera Festival after-party that both…
31 January 2025
Liz Stringer announces her new album The Second High, due for release 28th March. She releases title track ‘The Second High’, the captivating second single from the album alongside a beautiful video directed by Alicia and Archie production. Watch below! During mid 2023, Stringer began perhaps her most ambitious journey yet, a three month stint at Iguana Studios in Brixton UK to work with Grammy nominated, Ivor Novello Award winning…
31 January 2025
UK innovator Joy Orbison and cult underground rap icon Joe James come together on new single ‘bastard’, the track sees the two kindred spirits combining their own distinct sounds to create something genuinely unique. It’s a suburban sound born outside of the M25, as the Southend rapper paints trademark vivid imagery over Joy Orbison’s deep, introspective beats. The result is part-rapturous, part elegiac. Recorded at XL Recordings’ Ladbroke Grove studio,…
31 January 2025
Mechatok ushers in an ambitious new era with ‘Addiction’, his debut single on Young Recordings and first new solo music in over three years. Following collaborations with Yung Lean, Oklou, Bladee, Charli XCX, and Evian Christ, ‘Addiction’ sees Mechatok exploring playful, bouncy, and experimental sounds that are as compulsive and compelling as the title suggests. Released alongside a visual created with Nate Boyce, ‘Addiction’ marks the first piece in a…
31 January 2025
The Things We Do With The Time We Have, Dance et al.’s second album, will be released February 28, and marks a pivotal evolution for the project, arriving six years after Dance et al.’s debut The Higher Infinite. Much like its predecessor, the album reflects a deep contemplation of the music-making process. However, this time, the creative approach shifted inward—quietude and solitude replaced collaboration and experimentation. The result is a…
31 January 2025
On February 28, Mdou Moctar will release Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice. Sharing new single ‘Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)’, out now. The song – the title track of Funeral for Justice and something of a thematic lynchpin for the band’s last year of work – has been dramatically reshaped for Tears. The original’s tight arrangement and full-blast guitar riff have been set aside in favour of an arrangement that feels loose, sprawling, and improvisational….
23 January 2025
Daughter release Middle Farm Session, a digital only EP containing the audio from their 7-track filmed performance Live at Middle Farm Studios, released in April last year. The session sees the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella return to the intimacy of Middle Farm Studios near Dartmoor, England – where much of their 2023 album Stereo Mind Game was recorded – to perform those songs live for…
23 January 2025
Last fall, when Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr) released ‘God Dick’, she described the song as a passage leading from the past toward things to come. “It served a chrysalis function,” wrote Fohr. “A love banshee bursting through porcelain skin one hair at a time until, finally, the beast within is fully on display.” Out March 14th, Halo on the Inside is the product of that metamorphosis. It is the butterfly and the beast…
23 January 2025
Ed Kuepper (The Saints) and Jim White (Dirty Three) announce collaborative album After the Flood. The two titans of Australian music have produced a goldmine of reimagined Ed Kuepper originals taken from his illustrious career. After the Flood will be released March 21. Shortly after the record’s release, Ed Kuepper will tour Australia solo for the first time in five years, playing 15 dates across April and May. The first…
22 January 2025
Lisa O’Neill releases a new single ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ featuring Peter Doherty, alongside a video directed by Johnie Lyons. Lisa also performed the song on The Tommy Tiernan Show, watch below. This is not the first time O’Neill has written about social injustices on the cusp of a change. Songs like Rock the Machine about unemployment in the Dublin dock lands, When Cash Was King about…
17 January 2025
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) announces his new album Glory, coming out March 28th. Glory was produced by Blake Mills and marks the 7th studio album in his immaculate body of work. Hadreas shares the first single ‘It’s a Mirror’, and its companion music video directed by Cody Critchloe. The two artists first collaborated on the music video for Perfume Genius’ groundbreaking ‘Queen’. Watch below! “I wake up overwhelmed even when…
17 January 2025
After years of garnering acclaim across the underground and mainstream for a singular, boundary-pushing stream of consciousness sound, London based rapper, producer and poet John Glacier’s debut album, Like A Ribbon, will finally be released on February 14th 2025. A dreamlike portrayal of the journey from a simple existence growing up in Hackney, to projecting stories to the world while aiming to maintain a semblance of normalcy in what is…
17 January 2025
After playing the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Julien Baker & TORRES share the official video for their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, directed by Caity Arthur and shot in collaboration with the queer country dance party Stud Country. Watch below! The clip features original choreography by Stud Country’s co-founder Sean Monaghan and star members of the Stud Country community. “We were so excited to cast…
17 January 2025
Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — unveil the new single/video, ‘Switch Over,’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th. ‘Switch Over’ feels almost motorik in its pulse as the track dances back and forth between Cheng and Lowenstein’s swapping vocals. The ‘Switch Over’ video was directed by Guy Kozak, who came to the band…
17 January 2025
Mess Esque is an Australian duo who sound like they literally dreamed themselves into being, made up of Helen Franzmann (McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Tren Brothers). The two enjoy moving at an unhurried pace, but what: here’s their third album in less than five years! Jay Marie, Comfort Me releases March 28, 2025 — the lead single ‘Take Me To Your Infinite Garden’ is out today with a…
17 January 2025
Fernie shares ‘Hopeless Dreams’, a new R&B song and title-track to the Hopeless Dreams EP, releasing on February 14, premiered on BBC Radio 1’s Future Soul and is accompanied by a video directed by Thomas Fontaine, that reveals a new angle of a brutalist world straight from Fernie’s imagination. Fernie expands on the theme of ‘Hopeless Dreams’: “I had just stepped out of a five-year back-and-forth predicament with someone who didn’t see any value…
Out now: Ed Kuepper – The Exploding Universe – Live, Today Wonder + The Aints – Autocannibalism
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Announced: Murex – Inventio + ‘Flock of Swans Fly In V’s’
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Out now: Danny L Harle & DOSS – Crystallise Divergence EP
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Announced: Arca – XXXXX
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Watch: John Glacier – ‘Bond Girl’
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Introducing: Odette
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Announced: Queens of the Stone Age – ‘Easy Street’ + AU/NZ Tour
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Listen: Julia Jacklin – ‘I Wish’
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Watch: Overmono – ‘Knight In Shining Prada’
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Out now: Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (Deluxe Edition)
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Listen: Tyler Ballgame – ‘Live It Down’
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Announced: Standing On The Corner – II + ‘Mr. Postman, wait!’
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