4 October 2024
If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. “We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” explains the band’s US-based bassist and…
4 October 2024
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, returns with a brand new single, ‘Porcupine Tattoo’. It’s a stripped-back lament featuring two American musical icons – Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan – who appear on record together for the very first time. The collaboration came together while Russell was hosting sessions for a forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album. Reaching out to Callahan, Russell asked the simple…
4 October 2024
Peggy Frew, the best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary band, Art of Fighting, releases the latest single ‘Off Season Blues’ off her debut solo album Dial-Up, out 8 November. ‘Off Season Blues’ takes us to a vibrant oasis watered by Frew’s intimacy. A stirring, nostalgia-fuelled story of loneliness and lost love, this is four-minutes of Frew as her most personal and most fragile self. “I wrote this song on an Eavestaff mini piano in the dusty…
4 October 2024
Enigmatic Irish musician (and regular NTS Radio host) Maria Somerville returns with her first new single in three years ‘Projections’, accompanied by visuals from Somerville, Michael Speers and Róisín Berkeley, recorded on VHS across Marseille and Somerville’s native Galway. Watch below! The wistful, romantic shoegaze track is drenched in longing via fuzzed-out bass and strummed guitar, carried by Somerville’s hypnotic and tranquil vocal stylings. The other-worldly, swirling single is a…
4 October 2024
Basia Bulat announces her new album Basia’s Palace – co-produced by frequent collaborator Mark Lawson, and mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine – will be released on February 21, 2025. As well as sharing the glistening lead single ‘Baby’, an elegant dance-inflected track augmented by strings courtesy of GRAMMY-nominated arranger Drew Jurecka. The track showcases the stunning, silvery voice of three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and five-time JUNO Award nominee…
1 October 2024
The National have announced the December 13 release of Rome, a 21-track digital and two-LP set recorded live (without overdubs) on June 3, 2024 at the Italian city’s Cavea at Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. The double album, mixed by longtime collaborator Peter Katis, spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how each song has taken on a new life in its live performance. “You have to…
27 September 2024
Interpol celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics (first released on September 27th, 2004) with a newly expanded reissue – now available on digital services, which includes the record, the new-to-streaming b-side ‘Direction’ (digital-exclusive), and a complete live recording and video of the band’s legendary 2005 performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes, “never before heard or seen”. A limited-edition red vinyl reissue will be available at record stores…
27 September 2024
Adrianne Lenker shares a four-song session recorded for burgeoning musical platform Brodie Sessions. Watch below! Back in the Spring during her sold-out European solo tour, Lenker was invited to perform at a private residence outside the Danish capital. Captured in just one take on 16mm film, Lenker and her bandmate Nick Hakim played astonishingly raw cuts from her latest solo album Bright Future in front of a small Copenhagen audience. …
27 September 2024
Two Shell finally extend the invitation to explore them with the announcement of their self-titled debut album, due for release on October 25th, 2024. For those that have been paying attention, the road to the opening of the portal of Two Shell has been long and windy. Stems and full tracks have been smoothly revealed through their own digital hub, shell.tech, for months, with code-savvy devotees scraping digital breadsticks left to their own rapidly building…
26 September 2024
Ruthven reveals ‘Itch’, the latest single from his debut album Rough & Ready, which is out October 25th. Written, performed and produced in collaboration with A.K. Paul, ‘Itch’ is yet another shining example of the South London-based ex-firefighter’s flawless vocals and sleek funk-inspired productions. Ruthven shares “‘Itch’ was one of the first tracks I wrote but the last I knew was going to be part of the album. It all…
26 September 2024
Fernie announces brand-new EP Hopeless Dreams, available on February 14. Fernie also unveils ‘Bones & All’, a hauntingly introspective new single. This track captures the EP’s exploration of navigating heartbreak and emotional struggle with both elegance and intensity, reflecting the signature grace and grit that define Fernie’s music. “The song generalises the horrors of being in an abusive environment.” Fernie explains, “Do we truly know the deep psychological impact we place upon younger generations? If I…
20 September 2024
Jamie xx releases his hotly-anticipated second album, In Waves. Final single ‘Waited All Night’ is a piece of 2-step pop perfection that sees Jamie reuniting with his The xx bandmates Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft, the three appearing on record for the first time since The xx’s 2017 I See You album. It follows an emotional reunion on stage to perform the track live during Jamie’s set at the…
20 September 2024
Last month, Belgium-based, American-born, singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman announced his record Dance Of Love and shared its lead single ‘Burial At Sea’. Zimmerman now blesses us with two new singles, ‘The Idiot’s Maze’ and ‘The Season’. An up-tempo singalong romp with campfire sensibilities, ‘The Idiot’s Maze’ is composed of lively tambourine hits and jubilant head-bobbing bass, it transports listeners into the heartwarming camaraderie fostered by Zimmerman and backing band Big Thief….
20 September 2024
Becky and the Birds has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with the announcement of her forthcoming self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, due for release on 15 November. She also shares new single ‘I made my baby cry’, a gorgeous post-breakup lament that swells with emotional catharsis alongside an accompanying visualiser, made by Gustafsson. Watch below! Meshing delicate…
20 September 2024
Arca and Tokischa share new single ‘Chama.’ Their first collaboration arrives with a music video, shot by Stillz in Barcelona, starring a very pregnant Arca and Tokischa. Watch below! Last November photos of Arca and Tokischa at Electric Lady Studios appeared on the internet receiving a rapturous applause from fans. Since then the two have been seen together riding a chariot through Times Square, hanging out backstage at Ceremonia Festival…
13 September 2024
After coming-of-age with their introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through their first EP, phantasea pharm (2023), cumgirl8 is now on the cusp of their 8th cumming by way of their long-awaited debut LP of that name, out on 4 October. Following the record’s first tongue-in-cheek single ‘Karma Police’, the band return with new single ‘ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)’, along with a…
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