Watch: The Hard Quartet – ‘Our Hometown Boy’

The Hard Quartet release brand new single ‘Our Hometown Boy’, alongside a video by Jared Sherbert. Watch below! Their self-titled debut album, The Hard Quartet, is out on October 4th. The new group features Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White. “In ‘Our Hometown Boy,’ The Hard Quartet mythologises the fierce inhabitants of our shared hovels and shangri-las from the vantage point of a beach famous for the undertow. A conversation about what paradise looks…

Out now: Charlotte Day Wilson – Live at Maida Vale

Charlotte Day Wilson (Live at Maida Vale), a special three-track EP featuring live reworkings ‘Cyan Blue’, ‘Sleeper’, and ‘I Don’t Love You’ is out now. Originally recorded for Benji B’s BBC Radio 1 show in London’s iconic Maida Vale, these stripped-back solo performances using a Steinway piano breathe new life into the tracks taken from her sophomore album Cyan Blue, released in May, highlighting Wilson’s captivating soulful vocals. Working with…

Announced: Ece Era – Bedside Tunes + ‘Inner Feeling’

On her vibrant and mournful electronic debut, Ece Era challenges cultural ideologies, identity structures, and her difficult past with tracks crafted during introspective moments before sleep or upon waking. With her debut album, Bedside Tunes, releasing on October 25, electronic musician and filmmaker Ece Era presents a body of work that seeks to reveal this inner self. Beyond the conditioning of her childhood and the culture of her home nation, Turkey, lies Ece Era’s “real persona.” Through her…

Watch: Future Islands – ‘Glimpse’

Future Islands share their brand-new glistening single ‘Glimpse’. Watch the accompanying animated video created by Jayla Smith below! Recorded during the People Who Aren’t There Anymore sessions, ‘Glimpse’ focuses on a family home burning down and coming to terms with the physical and emotional losses and coming to terms with the erasure of a collective history. ‘Glimpse’ was mixed by Chris Coady and Steve Wright and produced by Future Islands…

Listen: Leif Vollebekk – ‘Peace of Mind (Evening)’

Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Peace of Mind (Evening)’, a memorable and melodious single co-produced and mixed by David Baron. His new album Revelation is out September 27th. “This is the ‘evening version’ of ‘Peace of Mind’,” says Leif. “This version isn’t even on the record. It just wanted to be its own thing… I suppose I wanted it to remind me of the bliss I feel when a great song come on the radio on…

Announced: Gus Englehorn – The Hornbook + ‘Thyme’

Two years after the release of his record Dungeon Master, former pro snowboarder reborn nomadic psych-pop prophet Gus Englehorn announces brand new album The Hornbook, due for release January 31st. Today he shares a first glimpse of the new record with the nervy post-punk propulsion of a track that is ‘Thyme’. “This song is about someone who travels back in time to Scarborough fair,” Gus says. “A song about yearning…

Introducing: Peggy Frew

Peggy Frew, the best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary band, Art of Fighting, announces her debut solo album Dial-Up, due for release on 8th November. ‘Country House’ is the first taste of the world conjured up by Frew, watch the accompanying video of the enchanting first single below! Luminous and ominous, the songs on Dial-Up are full of both vulnerability and bravado. Silver days, thunderstorms, broken-down cars and lonely…

Announced: The Smile – Cutouts + ‘Foreign Spies / Zero Sum’

The Smile announce their new album Cutouts, set for release on October 4th. Two new tracks off the record are released ‘Foreign Spies’ and ‘Zero Sum,’ watch the accompanying videos, directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore below! Previously released album tracks ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ and ‘The Slip’ debuted earlier this month. The trio – Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner – debuted several songs from Cutouts during The Smile’s…

Listen: Jamie xx – ‘Dafodil’ ft. Kelsey Lu, Panda Bear & John Glacier

Jamie xx reveals new single ‘Dafodil’, from his hotly-anticipated second album In Waves, released 20th September. A collaborative masterclass featuring Kelsey Lu, Panda Bear and John Glacier, ‘Dafodil’ is a swirling summer symphony that conjures the intense feelings of euphoria experienced on a dance floor. Watch the mesmerising visualiser below! The single arrives as Jamie’s In Waves Australia tour adds two more dates to the run of sold out shows….

Introducing: Tucker Zimmerman

4AD welcomes Belgium-based American singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman to the family. His label debut and eleventh career studio record entitled Dance Of Love, will be released on 11 October. A collaboration with labelmate Big Thief (who produced and performed on the album), Zimmerman shares the first single, ‘Burial At Sea’ and companion video by Noah Lenker. Watch below! “It was an extreme honour to make a record with one of the…

Announced: Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More + ‘Crystal Breath’

Kim Deal announces her first full-length album under her own name, Nobody Loves You More, to be released November 22nd. Featuring recent single ‘Coast’, Deal shares second single ‘Crystal Breath’, a delicious dose of distortion, all pulsating beats and fuzzy riffs. Nobody Loves You More is Kim Deal’s debut album although it’s not the first time she has gone solo – she self-released a five-part, ten-song seven-inch vinyl series in…

Watch: Kim Gordon / modern home – ‘razzamatazz’

Kim Gordon has continued her ongoing collaboration with Justin Raisen and teamed up with model home for ‘razzamatazz’, an electro-freak track of throbbing sub-basses and rotary sonics hovering below Gordon’s iconic whisper. Watch the music video made by p cain of model home below! model home is an experimental duo made up of Washington, DC-based artists Nappy Nappa and p cain. Known for their freewheeling and improvisational approach to sound…

Watch: Klô Pelgag ‘Sans Visage’

Singer-songwriter Klô Pelgag unveils her ode to lasting love with new single ‘Sans visage’, which appears on her album Abracadabra, out 11th October, and is accompanied by a lyric video directed by Laurence BAZ Morais. Watch below! “Abracadabra is a quest for the absolute, a desire to still believe in something. For all the knots we must untie in order to appear as we really are, without fear or embarrassment,”…

Out now: Fontaines D.C. – ROMANCE

Fontaines D.C. release ROMANCE, their most ambitious, expansive record yet, its 11 tracks constellating ideas that have been percolating among Grian Chatten (vocals), Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan (bass), and Tom Coll (drums) since they released Skinty Fia in 2022. The shoegaze touch points first pressed on Skinty Fia unfold on ROMANCE like a purpling bruise. But any “retro aesthetic”, as Chatten describes it, is left behind….

Announced: Jamie xx – Australian Tour

Jamie xx will return to Australia for his first headline tour since 2015. He will arrive on Australian shores in support of his hotly anticipated record In Waves, out on 20th September. Jamie xx will perform at Melbourne’s PICA, Hotel Brunswick in Brunswick Heads, Meredith Music Festival (VIC), and Sydney’s Carriageworks from 5 to 9 December. Full tour details below! Pre-order / pre-save In Waves here. Jamie xx – In…

Listen: Yaeji – ‘booboo’

Yaeji is back with a hot new club single ‘booboo’. After a brief period of retreat from the club, while she recorded and released her 2023 debut With A Hammer, Yaeji is back firmly behind the decks with this floor-filler. Last month ‘booboo’ debuted during Yaeji’s Boiler Room DJ set (watch here) at Brooklyn Mirage, followed by a live performance of the single during her performance at Pitchfork Music Festival….

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