Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983 – 1987 is the first volume of Captured Tracks‘ new venture into compilations – Excavations. Spread across two LPs, Strum & Thrum includes an 80+ page booklet with an extensive oral history of the ’80s indie scene, an introduction by Captured Tracks label head Mike Sniper, and tons of archival images and ephemera. Along with the announcement, the label releases the first...
Widowspeak have released their fifth studio, Plum, via Captured Tracks. A lyric from the album’s title track says, “The stone that’s buried: what the fruit is for.” This line serves as an apt analogy for the record itself: the self-aware sweetness that the band employs to deliver the seed of a harder, sharper idea. Singer Molly Hamilton coats wry observations in a voice as honeyed as the sun-ripened fruit, and...
Barcelona trio, MOURN, have announced their forthcoming album, Self Worth, out Friday 30 October via Captured Tracks. Along with the announcement, MOURN released their second single and music video for ‘This Feeling Is Disgusting‘. The video opens on the trio during a therapy session about the current state of the world and articulates the honest, angsty emotion that “it sucks.” Two chords and a small melody tame the listener before...
Cults (pictured), aka multi-instrumentalist/singer Madeline Follin and multi-instrumentalist Brian Oblivion, share their third single ‘No Risk‘ off their fourth studio album Host out September 18 via Sinderlyn. The peppy melody of ‘No Risk’ is accompanied by a self assured sentiment that without taking risk, there is no reward. Cults on ‘No Risk’: Antithetical to the title, the song is all about the benefits of taking risks, and how difficult that...
Becca Mancari releases her new album The Greatest Part via Captured Tracks, her first project with the label. The deeply personal album navigates the tender crevices of Nashville-based Mancari’s origins, greeting past traumas head on with vivid, unflinching melodies and Becca’s crystalline voice. The album has already earned high praise from Rolling Stone, NPR and GRAMMY.com, who call Mancari one of Nashville’s “most audacious pop stars” alongside Hayley Williams and...
b4 signing Andrea Valle drops ‘Wild.’ A glistening club party as the track’s sensual NickyDavey-production pulsates in the background. Check out the 3D-rendered Valle as ultra-cool club girl in a tropical paradise. Becca Mancari releases her third single ‘Lonely Boy‘ off her forthcoming album, The Greatest Part, out June 26 via Captured Tracks, her first for the label. Inspired by Becca’s dog, ‘Lonely Boy’ reflects on the ways that fear can...
Becca Mancari announces her new album The Greatest Part out June 26 via Captured Tracks, her first for the label. Along with the announcement, Mancari releases her second single, ‘First Time.’ The song is sonically upbeat but emotionally heavy, featuring a beautiful melody juxtaposed with its painful story. On the new single ‘First Time’ Mancari says, “‘First Time’ was a song that I did not at the time have the...
MOURN have released a new single ‘Call You Back’. It’s cloaked in catchy indie rock melodies, and articulates a universal experience in the simplest, most poignant terms. Maybe we need that now more than ever. It’s hard to believe that Mourn wrote the line “it’s so hard to call you back, but so easy for me to start panicking” before the onset of a global pandemic, but they’ll assure you...
Juan Wauters announces his digital EP, Más Canciones de la Onda, out June 3. With the announcement he shares the first single ‘Muy Muy Chico.’ Wauters says, “the only time I left the cities where I was during the trip when I recorded La Onda de Juan Pablo was in Chile. I travelled to the south of Chile to visit a friend’s friend. There in Pucón, in the Andes mountain...
Meet emerging U.K.-based singer, producer and harpist TATYANA. She shares her stunning debut single and video ‘Wild Card’. Born to Russian and English parents, TATYANA is a new signing to Sinderlyn – sister label to Captured Tracks. Speaking about ‘Wild Card’, TATYANA added “I wrote this song about an imaginary Russian lover I never had. There’s a place in the Russian countryside I used to go to as a kid...
Meet songwriter, Becca Mancari, latest singing to Captured Tracks. And watch the video for her first single ‘Hunter.’ Mancari on ‘Hunter’ – “‘Hunter’ was born from a true story reflecting back on a person from my childhood in church who, later in my life, would send me frequent letters in the mail telling me to ‘repent’ and that I was a ‘nasty woman’ for the way I dressed and for...
Meet Locate S,1! Her new album Personalia is out now. Produced by Kevin Barnes (of Montreal), Personalia is pushing the outer limits of pop music. While Schneider was writing and recording the album in her home studio in Athens, GA over the past year, she was thinking a lot about her own growth and self-worth as an artist, and where her constantly evolving and always experimental music fits in the digital age. Throughout Personalia, Schneider seeks to...
After finishing a 2019 tour with Frankie Cosmos and signing to Captured Tracks, Christina Schneider, the brainchild behind Locate S,1, shares the first single/title track “Personalia” from her forthcoming sophomore album Personalia, out 3 April. Schneider seeks to address how the attention economy is plaguing us with feelings of FOMO and anxiety, and is causing many of us to abandon more progressive values. Working under various aliases since 2014—including CE Schneider Topical, Jepeto...
Wild Nothing – the project of Richmond, VA-based Jack Tatum – has released his new EP, Laughing Gas. Laughing Gas is the third EP from Wild Nothing, and follows his recently released album, Live From Brooklyn Steel. “I think of the EP’s title as being representative of a kind of manufactured bliss and loss of control,” says Tatum. “So much of people’s lives are caught up in the quest for...
Glitched out pop duo HXXS release their debut album Year Of The Witch via Captured Tracks. As with much of the art created in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Year Of The Witch sizzles with the fresh sting of political anguish. Instead of firing off platitudes about a nation divided, however, HXXS choose to look inward at how this divide affects familial relationships. Take it in, here.
DIIV are back. The band’s third full length album, Deceiver, is out now via Captured Tracks. They return to Australia in April. Dates below. Tickets on sale now through Mistletone here. You’d have heard the darkly propulsive ‘Skin’, the melancholic ‘Taker’ and more recently the frenzied ‘Blankenship.’ Now hear them amongst a collection of some of DIIV’s most impressive, and darkest, work yet. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart....
