Over the last few years, Latin American artist Juan Wauters has covered a lot of ground, both artistically and geographically. Until this point in his career, most of his songs had been sung in English, but revisiting his Latin roots inspired him to record songs in his native tongue. Juan announces the wonderful La Onda de Juan Pablo, the world of Juan Pablo Wauters, set for release on Friday 25th January. He’s...
California’s HXXS are happy to announce their signing to Captured Tracks. The band will be releasing their debut EP MKDRONE on Friday 7 December on cassette, vinyl and digitally. When prescription medication became the only reprieve for an inoperable tooth infection that had one member sliding between unbearable pain and prescription-induced euphoria, the first single ‘Seppuku’, the historical Japanese term for suicide by disembowelment, came to fruition. HXXS are the duo of...
Hot on the heels of Capital Punishment’s reissue of their 1982 album Roadkill, Kriss Roebling, Ben Stiller, Peter Zusi, and Peter Swann return with an EP of new material recorded almost 35 years after the group disbanded, This Is Capital Punishment, which will be released on November 23rd. Recorded at the Garden in Brooklyn, This Is Capital Punishment came about when Captured Tracks boss Mike Sniper asked Roebling for bonus material for the...
Molly Burch today releases her follow up, First Flower, to her debut album Please Be Mine (2017). First Flower is a bright, beautiful album peppered with moments of triumph, out now. While hurricane Harvey kept Molly locked in at home, she wrote much of the album, bouncing ideas off her bandmate and boyfriend Dailey Toliver who would contribute guitar parts and orchestration suggestions. When it came time to record, Burch chose to work with Erik Wofford...
Texas-based Molly Burch shares her latest single ‘Candy’, from her forthcoming album, First Flower, released on October 5. Listen below! Of the single Molly says, “I wrote ‘Candy’ after a long conversation with my dad on the phone, where I had been just walking around getting out a lot of my self doubt and creative anxieties. It may sound like I’m talking to a past love, but it’s really meant for that...
Molly Burch reveals the incredibly charming animated video for her latest single ‘To The Boys’, from her forthcoming LP, First Flower, set for release on October 5. The clip was directed by Emily Ann Hoffman who notes, “I loved how playful and strong the song’s message was and wanted the video to have the same feeling. I liked the idea of a paper doll seeming delicate and feminine, yet standing...
Capital Punishment today release the reissue of 1982 sole LP Roadkill, now remastered and expanded. While news of this reissue leaked in 2015, today is in fact the first time Roadkill is released since the 80s. Capital Punishment formed in 1979 in NYC when the 4 band members were teenagers. The band consisted of a future Supreme Court Justice for Arizona, a Professor of Slavic Studies, a Musician/Documentarian whose family built...
Brooklyn’s EZTV share a video for their new single ‘Daytime’. It was shot while the band were on a tour with The Clientele in 2017 and represents a nice slice of life from the band. Watch below! About the track the band say, “‘Daytime’ is about wandering around aimlessly in a weird and professional part of town. Feeling underemployed and vaguely miserable as hundreds of people shuffle by in a hurry....
Wild Nothing, the project of Los Angeles-based Jack Tatum, releases his fourth album Indigo. Recorded at LA’s Sunset Sound and produced by Tatum and Jorge Elbrecht. Indigo is its own cyborg world, utilising the artful mechanisms of human touch with the precision of technology to create the classic, pristine sound Tatum has been seeking his entire career. After a decade of making music as Wild Nothing, Indigo finds Tatum at his most efficient, calculated,...
Molly Burch shares new track ‘To The Boys’ from her forthcoming album First Flower out October 5th. Burch is both gentle and commanding on ‘To The Boys’, her enchantingly deep and smoky vocals are wrapped around shimmering guitar riffs. Listen below! She says of the timeless offering; “I’ve been called soft-spoken a lot in my life and I feel like I’ve carried that around with me. It seems like a lot of...
Later this month Wild Nothing, the project of Los Angeles-based Jack Tatum, will release his new album, Indigo. ‘Shallow Water’ is the latest single from Indigo shared today following lead single ‘Letting Go’ and the ’80s-heavy ‘Partners in Motion’ featuring saxophonist Taylor Plenn. Listen below! “‘Shallow Water’ is a song for and about my wife,” says Tatum. “It can be hard to write songs about being in love that don’t come across as...
Following the release of her 2017 debut album Won, Lina Tullgren returns to share brand new track ‘Always Fine’ – a collaboration with producer and friend, NTHNL. Watch the accompanying animated video created by Shane Beam below! The collaboration with NTHNL, their process and its impending products occurred by chance and without much discussion. They had met at a show, and through the mysterious graces of the internet started work on‘Always...
Molly Burch returns with wistful new single ‘Wild’, from her forthcoming album, First Flower, set for release on October 5. ‘Wild’ is a song about the desire for self-acceptance.“I wanted to write a song that made me feel at peace with my imperfections and celebrate others without putting them on pedestals” Burch explains. Watch the accompanying video below! Unlike her debut album Please Be Mine (2017), which focused on the contentious depression of heartbreak,...
Leeds trio Drahla today release their 7” clear vinyl, Twelve Divisions Of The Day. One of Drahla’s most visceral and instant tracks to date, blends the band’s wiry art-rock with krautrock inspired experimentalism, underpinned by singer/guitarist Luciel Brown’s captivating spoken drawl. The release is accompanied by ‘Twelve Divisions Of The Day’ (Black Ribbon Alternate Mix) – an industrial remix of the original track by Leeds producer Tim Metcalfe. The vinyl edition...
After presenting the chiming guitar and sweeping synths of lead single, ‘Letting Go’, Wild Nothing now shares the ’80s-heavy ‘Partners In Motion’ featuring saxophonist Taylor Plenn, from his fourth album, Indigo, released on August 31st. Listen below! Recorded at LA’s Sunset Sound and produced by Jack Tatum and Jorge Elbrecht, Indigo is its own cyborg world, utilising the artful mechanisms of human touch with the precision of technology to create the...
Chastity (aka Brandon Williams) today releases his debut album, Death Lust. This week, Chastity also shared a video to the single ‘Heaven Hell Anywhere Else’, watch below! Reflecting the working class background of Whitby, Ontario, Chastity’s songs are charged with the ethos of archetypal youth on the fringe. Chastity stands to confront the struggles of those existing in the unseen, often silenced periphery. It is an artifact of youth culture constantly...
