Following singles ‘Element’ and ‘Death in Midsummer’ Deerhunter share a new song, ‘Plains’, from their eighth studio album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? released next Friday. Inspired by James Dean who spent the last summer of his life filming Giant in Marfa, Texas in 1955. Listen below! “I was listening to the trains. I was up all night. And something glistened in the strange blood-diffused light. My friend was missing. And I was...
Homeshake, the project of Peter Sagar, shares the third single ‘Just Like My’ from his forthcoming album Helium, out 15th February. Watch the accompanying video below! The collaboration between Canadian director Oliver McGarvey and German artist Eric Winkler, both based in Berlin, mimics the airy, dream-like quality of Helium. “It’s tomorrow already and you’re home now and it’s daytime but the room just tilted and you’re still floating. The chair where you throw...
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...
Princess Nokia just re-released a remastered and expanded version of her 2014 debut full length Metallic Butterfly, featuring three bonus tracks from the era. Before the rapper/actor/model/intersectional feminist became the icon she is today, Destiny Frasqueri was a young trip-hop and Bjork-obsessed NYC raver kid. The album showcases all sides of what we’ve now come to know as the definitive multi-faceted artist Princess Nokia: music lover, philosopher, activist and anime...
Steve Bicep – ‘Opal’ (Four Tet Remix) Cash Savage & the Last Drinks – Good Citizens Cath and Phil Tyler – The Ox and the Ax Gena Rose Bruce – ‘The Way You Make Love‘ Grand Salvo – Sea Glass Jon Hopkins – Singularity Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo Laura Jean – Devotion Lonnie Holley – Mith Low – Double Negative Mildlife – ‘The Magnificent Moon (Tornado Wallace Remix)‘ Moderate Rebels – ‘Beyond Hidden Words‘ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Distant...
Chris Cohen shares new music for the first time since 2016’s As If Apart. The new single, ‘Edit Out’, features Jay Israelson on piano and Kasey Knudsen on saxophone. It marks the first time Cohen has actively collaborated in the studio with others on his own music rather than recording everything by himself. ‘Edit Out’ previews more new music to come in 2019. Listen below!
Eighteen year-old Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu released her EP How Many Times Have You Driven By back in June this year. It was a unique and compelling collection of pop-unfused indie-chill. Now, she shares a follow-up, a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s classic ‘Gypsy’. Listen below! Vu’s take on the Fleetwood Mac classic replaces the soft-rock radio sheen of the original with percussion heavy electronic grooves and synth tremolos – transporting Nicks...
After their recent signing to esteemed label Captured Tracks, California’s HXXS are happy to release their debut EP MKDRONE out now on cassette, vinyl and digitally. Last month the band shared first single ‘Seppuku’, the historical Japanese term for suicide by disembowelment, which came to fruition when prescription medication became the only reprieve for an inoperable tooth infection that had one member sliding between unbearable pain and prescription-induced euphoria. Watch...
Today, Deerhunter release ‘Element’, the second single to be taken from their forthcoming studio album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? out Friday 18th January. Listen below! Described by Atlanta-based frontman Bradford Cox as “an elegy for ecology (a landscape done in toxic watercolors)”, ‘Element’ follows in the footsteps of album opener ‘Death in Midsummer’. Deerhunter’s eighth LP Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? forgets the questions and makes up unrelated answers....
Today, New York City’s Wiki has shared a new track ‘Elixir’. It sees Wiki taking a new direction, encompassing sounds from across the globe with a track that features two of London’s most exciting voices, Obongjayar and JJ (Jesse James Solomon), giving fans a glimpse of what to expect from new music in 2019. Listen below! Wiki says “I’ve known Jesse for the longest. He’s one of my oldest friends out...
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...
Homeshake, the project of Peter Sagar, shares new single ‘Nothing Could Be Better’ from his upcoming record Helium, released February 15th. Watch the accompanying video below! Sagar says the song is about how “sometimes on the way to a social function you gotta ditch and hang out with your sweety instead because love is beautiful.” While the video director Steve Smith “tried really hard [to capture] the dancing” in the animated clip. Sagar puts down roots...
Juan Wauters shares the second single ‘A Volar’, from his upcoming record La Onda de Juan Pablo. The beautiful and buoyant song about “dreaming wildly” was written in Mexico City and features multiple musicians that Juan met in Garibaldi, a popular square in Mexico City where musicians for hire gather. Mexico City was one of the many stops he made along a journey throughout South and Central America over the past...
In a beautiful new, symbiotic, path of machine/human collaboration, Holly Herndon & Jlin have released ‘Godmother’ featuring Spawn. Watch the accompanying visual, directed by Daniel Costa Neves below! “For the past two years, we have been building an ensemble in Berlin. One member is a nascent machine intelligence we have named Spawn. She is being raised by listening to and learning from her parents, and those people close to us...
Ex:Re, the eponymously-titled debut album by the solo project of Elena Tonra, guitarist, vocalist and lyricist of Daughter, is released digitally today. Vinyl and CD pre-orders of Ex:Re are now available with physical release set for February 1 2019. Running parallel to Daughter, Tonra has assumed the pseudonym Ex:Re (pronounced ex ray) for her eponymously-titled debut solo album, a deeply personal record that was made with both a sense of...
‘We Appreciate Power’ is the new track from Grimes; a hard, audacious rock banger which was produced, performed and written by Grimes and featuring HANA. Watch the accompanying video below! The song meshes the dark, heavy sounds of rock and industrial music with huge pop sensibility and hooks, further underlining the sonic innovation which Grimes time and time again masters. ‘We Appreciate Power’ is anthemic. Inspired by the North Korean...
