Men Seni Süyemin (Kazakh for “I love you”), the solo electronic project of St. Petersburg-based musician & producer Minona Volandova, releases her EP HOPE, a genre-defiant, multilingual collection of irresistible tracks. After several tumultuous experiences playing in bands during her days at music school, Voldanova set off on her own, relocating from her native Kazakhstan to St. Petersburg. Soon enough she’d made a name for herself in her new home,...
Cavallo Nero are back with an electric new single ‘Chi-Co-La’. A dizzying combination of brass and animalia fill the air, staining the walls and pressing up against the ceilings, the chandelier swinging to the rhythm of the lion’s drum. Every bird in the building flocks to the dance floor, feathers rising and falling with the beat. Finally, the frenzy erupts into chanting delirium, ‘Chi-Co-La’. For those who need a refresher – Cavallo Nero are a...
Chicago-based percussionist, composer and producer Makaya McCraven has announced the details of his new album In These Times, set for release on September 23rd. The first offering from the new album is ‘Seventh String,’ which encapsulates the various musical dimensions present on McCraven’s new album, a career-defining body of work that is a remarkable new peak for the already-soaring McCraven. Listen below! In These Times is a collection of polytemporal compositions inspired as much by broader cultural struggles as McCraven’s...
Lucifer on the Sofa is Spoon’s thrilling tenth album. You can now watch the official video for ‘My Babe’. It’s the record’s anthemic centrepiece –a genuine love song shot through with tenderness, optimism, and a touch of self-aware bravado. The ‘My Babe’ video takes inspiration from a short-lived late ’70s variety show hosted by the legendary country music producer and oddball poet, “Cowboy” Jack Clement. The clip is directed by Jamie- James Medina...
Bartees Strange releases his long awaited album Farm To Table, with physical formats (LP and CD) following on 7 October. Alongside the album release Bartees shares new single ‘Wretched’. The song is paired with a video directed by Michael Parks Randa that mirrors the rags-to-riches, started-at-the-bottom-now-we-here theme of the album as a whole. Bartees also made his TV debut performing the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch below! Bartees says...
Perfume Genius releases his new album, Ugly Season. To coincide with the release of the album, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) teamed with renowned visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite for a 30 minute film featuring Hadreas and the music of Ugly Season. Watch below! Ugly Season bookends a two-year period of intense creativity from Perfume Genius, which includes the full-length Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, that album’s remixed counterpart Immediately, the dance piece, and the subsequent film collaboration with Satterwhite. It is a stand-alone record, but it encompasses...
The Black Seeds have released their seventh studio album Love & Fire. This carefully crafted album is a “big slice of The Black Seeds’ love and musical heat.” Featuring previously released singles, ‘It’s So Real’, ‘Bring The Sun’, ‘Let The Sunshine Through’, ‘Raised With Love’ and the most recent, ‘Game Over’ – Love & Fire also has four new tracks that are set to hit just as hard! “Ideally, each member sent in one or two takes of what they were...
Following their appearance at The Great Escape (UK) and sold-out debut London shows, Telenova are thrilled to announce their brand new single ‘Haunted’, lifted off the Stained Glass Love EP to be released Friday 19 August. Listen below! ‘Haunted’ is a hypnotic tale of addiction, with echoes of Northern Soul amidst dark dub, all draped in dramatic synth strings. To celebrate the EP announcement and new single the band has shared a run of EP...
Just fourteen months after releasing their debut, Dry Cleaning announce details of a second album Stumpwork and offer a first taste of the new work in the form of single ‘Don’t Press Me’. Watch the animated video, created by Peter Millard below! Clocking in at under 2 minutes, the track is about the pleasure of gaming and the enjoyment of intense and short-lived guilt-free experiences. Vocalist Florence Shaw also says, “The...
black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – present a new single ‘Eat Men Eat’ from their upcoming album Hellfire, out July 15th. Watch its accompanying video, directed by Maxim Kelly below! Musically, ‘Eat Men Eat’ is a fusion of Rock and Flamenco, the latter being the working title found on early setlists. The lyrics, written by Picton, tell the story of a couple’s quest to overcome...
London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have announced their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B for release on 9 September. The announcement comes with the record’s lead single ‘Glasgow’ and its vlog-like, fantastical music video – featuring Taylor’s compelling portrayal of a mythical pixie-ish creature – which was shot, directed and edited by Jockstrap themselves. Watch below! On the album release, Jockstrap’s Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye said: “I Love You Jennifer B is a collection of Jockstrap tracks that have been...
Last month Two Shell released ‘Pods’, a serious digital-rocker and another example of the big city rollers they make. Following their Boileroom set and ahead of their sold out Glastonbury debut, Two Shell return with ‘Dust’; a cruise-ship jet-engine and the second single on a new five track EP Icons! Danger! Out 30 June, Icons was designed in the nightclub but made for the airPods. From shell.tech to the real world these tracks started life in the mainframe and...
In July of last year, Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless released his highly-anticipated debut album Agor. An album over five years in the making, Agor was released to huge acclaim. Koreless returns to announce two Agor remix packages which will be made available digitally and as a limited run of 12” white labels this June. The first, out now via Young, sees techno powerhouse VTSS put a hard-hitting spin...
Released is the solo piano version of ‘Nearer’, a transcendent and beautiful interpretation that blossoms as its own unique work. This track is from Bing & Ruth’s new EP Species which comes out July 15. Moore says, “While I wrote and recorded the songs on Species with an organ I had always felt, in the back of my mind, that they would also be interesting pieces to approach on the...
Rolling off the back of their debut single ‘Summer Lungs’, Mount Monda are pleased to announced they have signed to Part Time Records for the release of their debut EP. The rush of inspiration naturally caught others in its spell. A Dream in Slow Motion, the title track of Mount Monda’s debut EP, features lyrics co-written by US alt-country artist Kim Richey. Drummer Lachlan O’Kane (Angie McMahon) came in to record loops and samples, and replay and restructure rhythms tapped...
It’s not common practice to have an album’s title track released after said album as a standalone single, but Belle and Sebastian aren’t sticklers for ceremony. The band have released a new single and video ‘A Bit Of Previous‘, which shares the title of their critically acclaimed 9th full-length released in May to become their third UK Top Ten charting album. Explained alternately as an allusion to the concept of reincarnation in Buddhism and...
