Belle and Sebastian announce three new EPs under the umbrella title How To Solve Our Human Problems. To celebrate, they reveal the first single ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’, which can be found on EP2. Listen below! ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’ encapsulates the essence of the groups gentle attention to melody, and takes as its subject Stuart Murdoch’s young son: “Having your first kid is a huge event, so I wrapped a...
Spoon have released a new video set to a live recording of ‘I Ain’t The One’ from their latest album Hot Thoughts. Watch below! Renowned British artists and filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard captured the band in an intimate studio setting, the slinky silhouettes and blue-tinged shadows complimenting the song’s sinewy synths and Britt Daniel’s soulful vocals. The minimalist drums and bass surface sporadically throughout, building tension across the...
Following the opening single ‘Over Everything’, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile share new single ‘Continental Breakfast’, from their collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. Watch it below! The video gently pushes the door open just a little bit further. Using intimate home footage shot over four days of Kurt and Courtney in their respective environments, ‘Continental Breakfast’ goes beyond being a mere music video and becomes a mini...
Julien Baker debuts her new video for ‘Appointments’, the first single from her forthcoming new album Turn Out The Lights, out Friday 27th October. Watch the clip, directed by Sophia Peer, below! “Making the ‘Appointments’ video was an incredibly special experience because I got the pleasure of collaborating with artists I admire and to see them apply their creativity and talent to something I made,” says Baker. “It was amazing to...
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have joined forces to release a collaboration as unique and unusual as their talents, in the form of a brand new album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. To mark such exciting news, they have shared jam opener and first single ‘Over Everything’. ‘Over Everything’ was the first song written for this project, accompanied by a video from Australian director Danny Cohen which features...
“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against their villain same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control...
Julien Baker will release her second album Turn Out The Lights on Friday 27th October. An early preview can now be heard in first single ‘Appointments’, a viscerally moving track that culminates in a swell of Baker’s voice, guitar, and piano. Listen below! Turn Out The Lights was recorded at Ardent Studios in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, TN. Throughout the album, she reflects on experiences of her own and those closest...
Queens Of The Stone Age share the video to their first single from upcoming album Villains,’The Way You Used To Do’, created by Joshua Homme, directed by Jonas Akerlund and produced by Serial Pictures. Watch below! Homme says “Dancing and headbanging are truly individualistic expressions of losing oneself fully in appreciation of music—who better to combine these things into a singular vision than someone who’s directed Madonna and Lady Gaga videos–and also happens to...
‘War Is Coming (If You Want It)’ is the new release from Car Seat Headrest. “This is a song about not murdering people” says Will Toledo of the band. Listen below! The demo version, ‘War Is Coming (If You Want It) [March Mix]’, cannot be heard anywhere anymore, having been made available for purchase via Bandcamp for just 24-hours on August 4th, to support their fundraiser for the Transgender Law...
Queens Of The Stone Age unveil ‘The Evil Has Landed’, the second track to be released from their new album Villains out Friday 25 August. Listen below! Produced by Mark Ronson, and written by Josh Homme, Dean Fertita, Mikey Shuman and Troy Van Leeuwan, ‘The Evil Has Landed’ sees Queens on classic form in a monstrous six and a half minute epic. Villains was produced by Mark Ronson and co-produced by Mark Rankin...
Algiers’ second album, The Underside Of Power, is out now. Recorded largely in Bristol and produced by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn (Sunn O)))), with post-production by Ben Greenberg (The Men, Hubble, Uniform), touchstones on the uncompromising and impassioned album run from Southern rap to Northern soul, gospel to IDM, industrial to grime to italo. More pertinent than ever before, The Underside Of Power follows Algiers’ 2015 eponymous...
“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against—their villain—same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when...
Algiers have released new single ‘Cleveland’, taken from their forthcoming second album, The Underside Of Power, released Friday 23rd June. Listen below. While the song invokes Tamir Rice, as a reference and tribute, the lyrics summon Kindra Chapman, Andre Jones, Lennon Lacy, Sandra Bland, Roosevelt Pernell, Keith Warren and Alfred Wright, similarly victims of state sanctioned violence. It also makes a link with theorist Walter Benjamin’s work on divine violence, placing justice against...
Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has released the second video from his new album No Shape, out now. ‘Die 4 You’ is directed by Floria Sigismondi and features artwork by Rosa Verloop. Watch it below! Hadreas explains: “This is a love song with a lot of breath-control fetish language, to communicate a willingness to really give yourself to someone completely.” Listen / Purchase No Shape: https://perfumegenius.lnk.to/NoShape
Perfume Genius has released his fourth album, No Shape. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. Perfume Genius’s 2014 breakout album Too Bright marked a musical and performative leap that sounds unlike anything before or since. With his new songs, Mike Hadreas goes even further, merging church music, makeout music, R&B, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul into his take on stadium anthems, completing the journey from critically acclaimed underground hero...
Algiers will release their second album The Underside Of Power on Friday 23rd June. Check out the Henry Busby-directed video for the first single and title track ‘The Underside of Power’ below! Recorded largely in Bristol and produced by Adrian Utley and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn, with post-production by Ben Greenberg, The Underside Of Power follows Algiers’ 2015 debut and touches on oppression, police brutality, dystopia, and hegemonic power structures. Led by vocalist...
