Naomi Punk have shared 2 new singles ‘Tiger Pipe’ and ‘Chains’ with the news of their Double LP, Yellow, to be released on Friday 4th August. Listen below! In these two new singles, the trio shows a fascinating sort of artistic progression from their Television Man era. ‘Tiger Pipe’ is a kind of new age – pop – Royal Trux impression that is truly weird and sounds like no other single heard lately. ‘Chains’ brings us back...
Aldous Harding has released her second album, Party. Aldous (real name Hannah) Harding worked with award-winning producer John Parish. Her songs draw from the core facets of life: death, birth, grief and love. There are few happy endings, but the power is in how Harding enters into battle. She’s known for her sinister torch songs, gentle laments and eerie odes delivered with a charismatic combination of hubris, shrewd wit and quiet horror. Harding’s work is one step removed from the...
The Mountain Goats have released their sixteenth album Goths. Bassist Peter Hughes writes on the record: The theme this time around is goth, a subject closer to my heart perhaps than that of any Mountain Goats album previous. And while John writes the songs, as he always has, it feels more than ever like he’s speaking for all of us in the band, erstwhile goths (raises hand) or otherwise, for these are...
South Pacific reggae-soul legends The Black Seeds return with their first single ‘Better Days’. The lead track is a Black Seeds classic and an exciting taster of what’s to come from their long awaited 6th studio album. Listen below! “It’s a mantra and anyone who is struggling, to stay positive and not give up” says guitarist/vocalist Barbnaby Weir. “To strive for what’s important to you.” The legendary eight-piece will be touring the new record around the world this year. The Black...
After some mysterious teasers earlier in the week, The National announce their 7th studio album, Sleep Well Beast, set to be released on September 8th. The National debuts the track ‘The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness’, in this Casey Reas directed video you can watch below! Sleep Well Beast was produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger. The album was mixed by Peter Katis and...
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
Rough Trade are excited to announce Starcrawler and the release of their debut single ‘Ants’. The single is backed by B-side ‘Used to Know’ and available on limited edition blood splattered white vinyl 7” – 500 only world wide. Watch the clip below! Starcrawler hail from Los Angles and were formed one year ago when lead vocalist Arrow de Wilde first met guitarist Henri Cash at their Echo Park high school. Shortly...
Pixx has shared a remix of ‘I Bow Down’, by teen duo Let’s Eat Grandma. Their re-styling of 21-year-old Hannah Rodgers’ latest single moves the song into their unique weird pop world and is the pair’s first ever remix. Listen below! ‘I Bow Down’ is the opening track from Pixx’s debut album The Age Of Anxiety, out Friday 2nd June. Originally from Chipstead, Surrey, and a graduate of the BRIT School, Rodgers experienced...
True Panther Sounds is excited to share the music of Funk Proibidão, which translates to “strongly prohibited”, with torchbearer MC Bin Laden’s É Grau EP, coming out 12th May (digital) / 23rd June (limited 500-copy vinyl pressing). MC Bin Laden, aka 23 year old Jefferson Christian dos Santos Lima, is the reigning ruler of São Paulo’s Baile Funk scene. Born in the Vila Progresso neighbourhood of easternmost São Paulo, Jefferson began...
John Moreland has released his new album Big Bad Luv. A record about love, faith and the human condition. Moving from Kentucky to Tulsa when he was ten, John fronted hardcore and punk bands throughout high school years before feeling the pull in folk and country music. He has released largely self-produced albums every other year since 2011. Big Bad Luv was recorded down in Little Rock, mostly with a crew...
Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album, This Old Dog, is out today! It was a little space—in time, location and method—that inspired DeMarco while making This Old Dog. Arriving in California with a grip of demos he’d written in New York, he realised after a few months of setting up his new shop that the gap was giving him perspective. DeMarco says, “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving...
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...
B Boys hit us with their new single ‘Walking’, a song the band explains is “about trying to be tender and acknowledging that masculinity is a prison written after a whirlwind of emotions of being on tour.” ‘Walking’ follows the band’s first single ‘Energy‘ from their upcoming full-length debut Dada, out Friday 16 June. Listen / purchase ‘Walking: https://remotecontrol.lnk.to/walking
Through the band’s new label home Barely Dressed Records, Gold Class return with new single ‘Twist In The Dark’, and announce a huge national tour. Check out the new single, tour dates and ticket info below! Rarely has punk music been so danceable. Lead singer Adam Curley states that with the song, produced by Gareth Liddiard, he wanted to “push everything further”. Gold Class have been working on new music, due later this...
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...
What better way to get a final peek of Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album This Old Dog before hearing the whole darn thing, released next Friday, than through one of the album’s most soulful numbers. Listen to ‘One More Love Song’ below! As Mac told Sirius XMU, “Sometimes [love songs] come from a specific place, but in a lot of instances they could just be plucked out of the air. Have...
