British producer and songwriter SOHN returns after a four-year absence with an emotive new single ‘Figureskating, Neusiedlersee’. Inspired by the Tom Waits song ‘Alice’ and named for a lake in Austria, ‘Figureskating…’ is a wistful look back at past relationships and the pressure to sustain the intensity of early romance. “The metaphor of skating a love’s name, etching it into the ice, really struck me – the danger of falling...
black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – announce their third album, Hellfire, out July 15th on Rough Trade. In conjunction with the announcement, they share the album’s lead single/video, ‘Welcome To Hell.’ Written in isolation in London after the release of last year’s Cavalcade, Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of its predecessor, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim. As Greep describes it: “if Cavalcade was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is...
Last fall, Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) was invited to record a 4-song live session at Jamdek studio in Chicago. These recordings capture the music from her 2021 album -io at the outset of its transition from studio to stage, including band arrangements of the compositions “Vanishing,” “Dogma,” “Sculpting the Exodus,” and “Stranger.” Fohr was joined on these performances by the musicians Whitney Johnson (Matchess), Andrew Scott Young, and Ashley...
Lucinda Chua has released a reimagining of Roy Harper’s classic song ‘Another Day’, her first music since the release of her EP Antidotes II. Covered by the likes of Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel, ‘Another Day’ was ushered into alternative folklore by 4AD alum This Mortal Coil in 1984, whose evocative rendition retains a special place at the heart of the label. Inspired by This Mortal Coil’s version, Chua’s interpretation is beautifully orchestrated through cinematic strings and hushed vocal. ‘Another Day’ is...
Saâda Bonaire has released their collection of recently uncovered ’90s material which saw the band dip their toes in dub, house, & trip-hop territories – straying away from their earlier post-punk & new wave sound, creating a time capsule that up until now – no one knew existed. Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire. The German studio project’s 1980s recordings had...
Ece Era (pronounced “Edge-eh”) is the artist name and electronic project of Turkish musician and filmmaker Ece Eryavuz. From Istanbul to NYC to Belgium, Ece has consistently been on a mission to explore her creative and philosophical interests. After landing in Belgium to focus her studies on film, she discovered the freedom of making electronic music through her peers who grew up in the local music scene. She recently signed...
Belle and Sebastian have released their 9th studio album, A Bit Of Previous. Marking the occasion comes a new video and single ‘Talk To Me, Talk To Me’. The video was written and directed by 15-year-old south London siblings Freya and Rosalie Salkeld. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic. Says frontman Stuart Murdoch in the...
Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland has announced his debut album. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, as well as his production and remix work for artists such as TOPS, Cut Copy, Jacques Greene, Homeshake, and more. Now with his forthcoming record entitled You’re The Boss, Patrick Holland is re-introducing himself and making his first foray into guitar-driven indie pop. Written and recorded in tandem, You’re The Boss finds Holland self-producing, playing...
Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds have today released their new heavy reggae single ‘Game Over’, accompanied by a captivating video set on the inside of a pinball machine! ‘Game Over’ is the fourth single to be released from their upcoming seventh studio album Love & Fire, out June 17. Packed with muted guitar riffs, driving bass and drums, and an infectious horn section, ‘Game Over’ is a classic reggae track that showcases the band’s iconic...
Following the recent announcement of her upcoming EP and companion short film BLAME – out Friday 3 June via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records – Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME unveils her new single ‘Royally’ and accompanying video serving as the second instalment in a trilogy of videos that together make up the BLAME visual experience. It follows HANDSOME’s latest single ‘Blame’ and Part 1 of the BLAME video trilogy, which is out now. Watch below! HANDSOME invites you to enter the world of BLAME – where desert grit meets hyper real adventure. Thanks...
Telenova are thrilled to share their self-assured new single ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ with accompanied visuals, conceived and directed by Angeline Armstrong, featuring choreography from Zoe Marsh. Watch below! ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ is a sophisticated slice of modern nostalgia that evokes ‘90s melancholic guitar pop without losing its contemporary lean. Intensely personal in nature, the song is about letting go of someone you loved, someone bent on their own destruction. Teased earlier this month, mysterious...
Patrick Watson releases his seventh full-length studio album. The CD and a limited-edition coloured vinyl will be released later this year and available for pre-order here. Along with the release, Watson has also shared a stop-motion music video for the title track. Watch below! In Patrick’s words, Better in the Shade “is about negotiating a world where you don’t know what’s real anymore.” “I was very inspired by Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, The Waves by Virginia...
London based electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA has released her highly-anticipated debut album, Treat Me Right via Sinderlyn. The ten-track album features recent acclaimed singles ‘Between The Lines’ – picked as Radio 1’s ‘Next Big Wave’ and which called The Forty Five to ask “is electro-harp pop our new fave genre? Quite possibly” and the irresistible ‘Kiss Me Right Now’. Over ten tracks on Treat Me Right, TATYANA manages to achieve pop excellence, combined with the twinkling, unrivalled sounds of a harp and production by dream collaborator, Joseph Mount (Metronomy). Speaking...
Helado Negro has released the new single ‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’ alongside a video directed by Neuderts. Watch below! The song is the first release since his album Far In came out late last year. “‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’ is a song about loneliness and alienation,” Roberto Carlos Lange shares. “It’s about being lost within yourself and not knowing who you are. Making this song was catharsis; it was a way to get this all out and feel the texture...
Bartees Strange announces his new album Farm to Table released digitally on 17 June, with LP and CD following on 7 October, plus a brand-new song, ‘Cosigns’ and a stunning accompanying video directed by Pooneh Ghana. Watch below! An unapologetic and braggadocious indie-trap banger, ‘Cosigns’ celebrates Bartees’ peers, collaborators and friends, through a genre-defying outpouring somewhere between swaggering hip hop and euphoric alt rock. ‘Cosigns’ is also a moment for Bartees to acknowledge himself, giving himself credence and unashamedly basking in that glow. Where...
The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention on 13 May, 2022 with CD and vinyl formats to follow on June 17. Brand new single ‘Free In The Knowledge’ is out now, with an accompanying video directed by Leo Leigh. Watch below! The track was first performed by Thom Yorke as part of the Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in December 2021, the first time Thom had performed since the pandemic began. Introducing the song, he dedicated it...
