DIIV reveal new song ‘Blankenship‘ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October via Captured Tracks. The song’s ominous bass line and crawling beat devolve into frenetic string bends and vitriolic lyrics that welcome inspection of the song’s namesake. The acerbic song is paired with the band’s first music video in six years, shot in California in Trona Pinnacles, Sequoia National Park, and in Los Angeles; and directed by Sean Stout (Deafheavan, Death Grips, Trash Talk). Preorder...
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Home Made Satan, the second instalment of a building trilogy, by Chastity is out now via Captured Tracks. The album brings a pop sensibility to the band’s catalogue following their acclaimed 2018 debut Death Lust. Recorded over the course of a couple weeks with his full live band in a small studio in London, Ontario, between a European tour with Fucked Up and a seven-week North American tour, Williams crafted...
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DIIV reveals new song ‘Taker’ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October. A plowing groove and wailing guitar punctuate a lulling apology on the magnetically melancholic track. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart. On Deceiver DIIV crafts the soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis, upheld by robust guitars and vocal tension that almost snaps, but never quite. The new album...
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DIIV are back. Their new album Deceiver it out 4 October through Captured Tracks. Preorder and stream the first single ‘Skin Game‘ here. The band—Zachary Cole Smith [lead vocals, guitar], Andrew Bailey [guitar], Colin Caulfield [bass], and Ben Newman [drums]— return for the first time since 2014’s critically acclaimed Is The Is Are. The track gallops forth on a clean guitar riff before unfolding into a hypnotic hook offset by...
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Lina Tullgren has released a new single off their forthcoming album, ‘Bad At Parties‘ a second taste of Free Cell, out 23 August. It’s an elegant and introspective ballad featuring gorgeously arrange strings – communicating a moment of quiet social paralysis. The new video premiered via Tiny Mix Tapes earlier and was directed by Lina’s close friend and musical collaborator Ty Ueda, who explains: “[it’s] an adaptation of an old studio practice of mine that...
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Ontario’s Chastity announce their sophomore album and share the first single off the record. Home Made Satan is due Friday 13 September via Captured Tracks. Check out the video for new track ‘Sun Poisoning.’ Stream it here. The single is about the contradictory melancholy that often comes with the vulnerability of a new relationship, capturing the juxtaposition of feeling both joy and sadness simultaneously. The raucous visual features an adolescent...
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Juan Wauters returns with Introducing Juan Pablo… out now via Captured Tracks. Travel has always left a mark on Juan’s music. While his previous album, with its folkloric airs and Latin roots, made that clear, this is an album which at its core is an internal journey. Wauters explores his two worlds, his two languages, and his day-to-day life in his NYC neighbourhood, and his life as an artist. “At...
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Chris Cohen has released his new self-titled album via Captured Tracks. Listen here. “My parents got divorced while I was making this record,” he says. “They were married for 53 years and my father spent most of his life in the closet, hiding both his sexual identity and various drug addictions. For me it was like being relieved of a great burden, like my life could finally begin.” It is...
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Take notes from a few corners of the globe on this week’s roundup of new music. Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy shares the closer to her upcoming album Your Need (3 May via 2MR) – ‘Ivan Kupala (New Day).’ Electronic leaning left field pop, informed by a sense of darkness unique to Kedr’s musical-cum-geographical upbringing. Portland-based, sci-fi inspired group Reptaliens share a new track + video for ‘Venetian Blinds.’ The track...
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Leeds-based post-punk outfit Drahla announce their new full length – Useless Coordinates, out 3 May via Captured Tracks. Check the accompanying single and video for ‘Stimulus For Living‘ – a composition based upon abstracted ideas and thought. And take a tip from the Fader – “Drahla make the kind of literate punk to kickstart a revolution in your mind.”
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Chris Cohen announces his new self-titled album to be released March 29th. His third solo album is about accepting loss, written and recorded in his Lincoln Heights studio and at Tropico Beauties in Glendale, California over the course of the last two years. Cohen also shares new single and video ‘Green Eyes’, watch below! Cohen says, “[It’s about] the men in my family and how they passed their worldview along to each other from great emotional...
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Wild Nothing, project of Virginia- based Jack Tatum, shares a new single, ‘Blue Wings’. Following the release of his fourth album Indigo, last year, ‘Blue Wings’ is a polished reassurance of Tatum’s knack for creating a colourful, textured track that doesn’t shy away from expanding upon his classic dream-pop sound. Listen below! Synonymously sweet and melancholy, ‘Blue Wings’ serves as a grounding reminder through anxiety and uncertainty. Tatum explains “There were...
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Chris Cohen shares new music for the first time since 2016’s As If Apart. The new single, ‘Edit Out’, features Jay Israelson on piano and Kasey Knudsen on saxophone. It marks the first time Cohen has actively collaborated in the studio with others on his own music rather than recording everything by himself. ‘Edit Out’ previews more new music to come in 2019. Listen below!
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After their recent signing to esteemed label Captured Tracks, California’s HXXS are happy to release their debut EP MKDRONE out now on cassette, vinyl and digitally. Last month the band shared first single ‘Seppuku’, the historical Japanese term for suicide by disembowelment, which came to fruition when prescription medication became the only reprieve for an inoperable tooth infection that had one member sliding between unbearable pain and prescription-induced euphoria. Watch...
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Juan Wauters shares the second single ‘A Volar’, from his upcoming record La Onda de Juan Pablo. The beautiful and buoyant song about “dreaming wildly” was written in Mexico City and features multiple musicians that Juan met in Garibaldi, a popular square in Mexico City where musicians for hire gather. Mexico City was one of the many stops he made along a journey throughout South and Central America over the past...
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Today Molly Burch shares the video for ‘Candy’ taken from her recently released new album First Flower. Captured beautifully on 8mm film and playfully nodding to pushy photographers and crazed shoots, ‘Candy’ was shot by director, songwriter and actress Nöel Wells and is a perfect meeting of minds between the two artists. Watch below! Of the collaboration, Burch says; “I’ve been a huge fan of Noël’s for quite some time...
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