Algiers will return in 2020 with a new album, There Is No Year (Matador), and have shared a new single ‘Dispossession.’ Those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year traversing unprecedented ground. The album solidifies and expands upon the doom-laden soul of their foundation, toward an even vaster, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of “a different era,” as...
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With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists working today. She unleashes her first ever solo release, No Home Record, today through Matador. Produced by Justin Raisen (Angel Olse, Yves Tumor, Charli XCX etc.), the album is an outstanding display of Gordon’s characteristic resistance to any formula. Artist curiosity still at the core of her output. When Gordon first began...
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Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday. Lucy Dacus continues on her celebration of national holidays with another cover. ‘In The Air Tonight‘ is released ahead of Hallow’s Eve. In Lucy’s own words, “perhaps the best eerie bop of all time, and certainly the best drum fill. The image in the first verse is so unsettling- watching someone watch someone drown without moving to save them. People have wondered if this is...
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Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last installment, the most mythical, longest-running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions will return this October with the most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Vols. 11 & 12 (a/k/a respectively as Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels) will be released October 25th on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Vols. 11 & 12...
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Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors, Spoon, shine a light on a total rarity – ‘Shake It Off’. It’s available digitally for the first time ever, originally a b-side from the era of the band’s acclaimed album A Series Of Sneaks, the track was recently made the b-side of the 7” version of latest single ‘No Bullets Spent’. ‘Shake It Off’ follows the critically-acclaimed release of Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon.
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Days of the Bagnold Summer began life as a 202 award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart. It’s since been turned into a feature film, the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), and comes accompanied by an original soundtrack album by Belle and Sebastian. The album will be released 13 September via Matador Records. Watch the video for first single ‘Sister Buddha‘ – anthemic and transcendent, led...
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Ahead of both Taurus Season and Mother’s Day in May, Lucy Dacus has shared a devastating new song – ‘My Mother & I.’ Listen here. This is the first composition for her ongoing 2019 holiday song series, which will also include singles tied to US Independence Day, Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas and New Year’s. In Lucy’s words: “Being adopted has encouraged me to consider what mothers pass on through blood...
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Interpol have announced a 5-track EP titled A Fine Mess. Out 17 May via Matador. Listen to single ‘The Weekend’ / preorder here. It’s a living, breathing postcard from the band to their fans as they tour the world throughout 2019. If you loved Marauder, this one’s for you – a linear continuation of the visceral and contagious energy created by the album.
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The rumours are true: The “rejected” electronic album that Stephen Malkmus has been telling everyone about will see the light of day…has finally seen the light of day. But new album Groove Denied (Matador) is not a full-blown plunge into EDM or hiptronica. In fact, there aren’t any purely instrumental tracks on the album. Every song is precisely that: a song, featuring Malkmus staples like an artfully askew melody and...
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Recorded in here-and-there studio spurts over the last two years, Lucy Dacus will release a series of songs titled 2019, made up of originals and cover songs tied to specific holidays, each of which will drop around their respective date: Valentine’s Day, Taurus season and US Mother’s Day, American Independence Day, Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s. In honor of Valentine’s Day, Dacus has released a cover of Edith...
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Following their successful Australian tour, Interpol have released new single ‘Fine Mess’, a further testament to a band at their peak, and the first chapter in what promises to be yet another eventful year for Interpol. Listen below! ‘Fine Mess’ continues the invigorated creative spirit of 2018’s triumphant album Marauder, presenting Interpol at their more urgent and essential – with Paul Banks’ feverish vocals and haunted lyrics interlocking with Daniel Kessler’s serpentine riffs and Sam Fogarino’s thundering rhythm section, distilled around the...
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The rumours are true: The “rejected” electronic album that Stephen Malkmus has been telling everyone about will see the light of day on Friday 15th March. But new album Groove Denied is not a full-blown plunge into EDM or hiptronica. In fact, there aren’t any purely instrumental tracks on the album. Every song is precisely that: a song, featuring Malkmus staples like an artfully askew melody and an oblique lyric....
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Lucy Dacus and her band are thrilled to announce their debut Australian tour. Catch the songwriter and member of indie-supergroup boygenius, tour Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and By The Meadow festival this March. Tour details below! Two years after her 2016 debut, No Burden, she returned with Historian, a remarkably assured 10-track statement of intent, a record full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that...
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Steve Gunn today releases his breakthrough fourth album, The Unseen In Between, out now. On The Unseen In Between, Gunn explores his own emotional landscapes with his most complex, fully realised songs to date. Produced by frequent collaborator James Elkington and engineered by Daniel Schlett, the immaculately recorded Unseen forces a reassessment of Gunn’s standing in the pantheon of the era’s great songwriters. Getting to The Unseen In Between itself was...
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Following the release of singles ‘New Moon’ and ‘Stonehurst Cowboy’, Steve Gunn today shares a third song off of The Unseen In Between, out January 18. The gorgeous ‘Vagabond’ (named after Gunn’s favourite Agnes Varda film) and its accompanying video. Watch below! ‘Vagabond’ could almost be the soundtrack to a Denis Johnson short story or Sam Shepard play, with its rich cast of characters whose lives have gone astray. Accompanied...
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Steve Gunn has shared the second single ‘Stonehurst Cowboy’ from his upcoming album The Unseen In Between, out January 18. The accompanying acoustic video was shot in London and directed by Craig McNeil. Watch below! The song is the emotional centrepiece of the album, a duet between Gunn’s raw acoustic guitar and spare basslines by Bob Dylan’s musical director Tony Garnier who is featured throughout the album. The lyrics distill the lessons Gunn...
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