Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, release new single ‘Heartbreak’, the second offering from their upcoming album Better Dreaming, out 16 May, showcasing some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music to date. ‘Heartbreak’ is the album’s opening track, building huge chords of Garbus’ vocal harmony around a fat slow-jam beat full of clicks, pops, samples, and dubbed snares. Garbus, soulful as ever, sings of heartbreak as fuel, as a challenge. In the...
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Jenny Hval releases ‘The artist is absent’, the second single from her new album Iris Silver Mist, out May 2nd. The new single comes in two versions — an extended mix ’89 seconds rewrite’ and the original album version. Following the “highly specific and alluringly strange” lead single, ‘To be a rose’, ‘The artist is absent’ encapsulates this feeling. Hval sings: “A stage without a show / A hazy silhouette around an empty space...
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Irish musician Maria Somerville will share her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, on April 25. Today, she shares the upcoming record’s third single ‘Stonefly,’ a slinky ambient waltz fleshed out with dreamy washes of vibrating feedback, grounding drum beats, transportive harp passages, and soothing vocal delivery. The track’s release is also accompanied by an atmospheric music video directed by Daniel Swan. The visual perfectly suits the...
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Xmal Deutschland had an extraordinary impact on British audiences in the early Eighties, having cast a spell through staccato rhythms, unmediated channels, and mysterious (to most at the time) language, further carried by the unique vision and strength of the women involved. Commemorating their ‘4AD years’ (1983-1984) forty years on, the mysteriously enchanting group returns now with a brand new release entitled Gift: The 4AD Years, a limited-edition 3xLP /...
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Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, share details of their sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out 16 May via 4AD / Remote Control Records on standard vinyl, limited edition vinyl and CD. The album showcases some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music in their career. To kick off this new era, Tune-Yards unveiled the infectious single, ‘Limelight’. The song was born from dancing together as a family to George Clinton, and Garbus and Brenner’s 3-year-old can be heard singing on the track....
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Irish musician Maria Somerville announces her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, due for release on April 25. To celebrate, she also shares the album’s second single, ‘Garden’, produced by Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne Kraft. The transportive track sinks her emotive siren-esque vocal stylings into a whirring, all-consuming merger of soaring feedback, airy percussion, and nostalgic guitar chords reminiscent of classic 4AD. Its release is accompanied by a music video filmed...
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Bartees Strange releases his new album Horror, a rich tapestry of a record about facing your fears and growing to become someone to be feared, out now. Strange was raised on fear. His family told him scary stories to teach life lessons, and at an early age, he started watching scary movies to practice being strong. The world can be a terrifying place, and for a young, queer, Black person...
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Big Thief release a 5-track charity EP. Entitled Passional Relations, all proceeds will go toward providing relief for those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles. Big Thief say, “Our hearts are broken for everyone affected by the fires in California. We’ve put together some of our favorite unreleased songs into an EP called Passional Relations, only available on our webstore, and all proceeds will go toward providing relief for...
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Bartees Strange shares ‘Wants Needs’, an uproarious confessional highlight from his upcoming album Horror, out on 14 February. ‘Wants Needs’ finds Strange’s stylistic range and aptitude for genre-melting pop music at its sharpest. What begins as a pitch perfect indie rock earworm gradually crescendos into a full force anthem, anchored by disarming self-assuredness. “I realised a couple years ago that if music is really going to work out long-term, I want/need more fans. Of course...
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The National release Rome, the definitive live document of the band in performance. Recorded at the architecturally stunning venue Cavea of the Auditorium Parco Della Musica Ennio Morricone. The 21-track double LP showcases scintillating versions of the band’s most beloved songs, plus sharpened readings of recent tracks, and marked by rarities; reflecting how the band changes setlists significantly from night to night to cast fresh light on hidden gems from...
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Kim Deal today shares her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More, out now. In keeping with Deal’s meticulous approach to her art, the album was refined over several years; its oldest songs were written and originally recorded in 2011 shortly after Deal came off the Pixies’ Lost Cities Tour and relocated to Los Angeles. Deal enlisted a variety of collaborators from Breeders past and present (Mando Lopez, twin sister Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, Britt...
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Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — announce their second album Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, and release lead single ‘2468’ alongside a video, directed by writer and filmmaker Eliza Callahan and choreographed by Alexa West. Watch below! Produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, the band’s original and sonic home, Phonetics On...
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Thea Gustafsson – who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds – turns a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, out today. Her new single ‘To trust you’ contributes an air of vulnerability to the LP’s emotively hard-hitting and sonically diverse soundscape through hypnotic looped vocals, stomping 808s, and transportive electric...
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This Halloween, Bartees Strange shares a new single ‘Too Much’, from his upcoming album Horror (out on 14 February), a sonic and lyrical love letter from Strange to himself, growing from a deflated ego into a feral giant. As the opening salvo for Horror, ‘Too Much’ sets the tone for the Baltimore-based genre-shifter’s third outing with nods to early hits by the Isleys and the Brothers Johnson. Watch the accompanying...
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To celebrate Frank Black’s landmark solo album, Teenager Of The Year turning 30, 4AD release a one-time vinyl pressing on 17th January. This special vinyl tour edition of Teenager Of The Year, has been remastered for the first time from its original analogue studio tapes. Sounding as essential as the day it was released, the LP is is cut at 45 rpm for optimum playback with liner notes by both...
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The National recently announced the 13 December release of Rome, a 21-track digital and two-LP and CD set recorded live on 3 June 2024 at Cavea of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. Now, they have shared another four song EP titled NTL RM EP II, featuring album highlights ‘Smoke Detector’, ‘Fake Empire’, ‘Mr. November’, and ‘Terrible Love’. Rome spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how...
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