The Things We Do With The Time We Have, Dance et al.’s second album, will be released February 28, and marks a pivotal evolution for the project, arriving six years after Dance et al.’s debut The Higher Infinite. Much like its predecessor, the album reflects a deep contemplation of the music-making process. However, this time, the creative approach shifted inward—quietude and solitude replaced collaboration and experimentation. The result is a...
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On February 28, Mdou Moctar will release Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice. Sharing new single ‘Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)’, out now. The song – the title track of Funeral for Justice and something of a thematic lynchpin for the band’s last year of work – has been dramatically reshaped for Tears. The original’s tight arrangement and full-blast guitar riff have been set aside in favour of an arrangement that feels loose, sprawling, and improvisational....
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Daughter release Middle Farm Session, a digital only EP containing the audio from their 7-track filmed performance Live at Middle Farm Studios, released in April last year. The session sees the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella return to the intimacy of Middle Farm Studios near Dartmoor, England – where much of their 2023 album Stereo Mind Game was recorded – to perform those songs live for...
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Last fall, when Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr) released ‘God Dick’, she described the song as a passage leading from the past toward things to come. “It served a chrysalis function,” wrote Fohr. “A love banshee bursting through porcelain skin one hair at a time until, finally, the beast within is fully on display.” Out March 14th, Halo on the Inside is the product of that metamorphosis. It is the butterfly and the beast...
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Ed Kuepper (The Saints) and Jim White (Dirty Three) announce collaborative album After the Flood. The two titans of Australian music have produced a goldmine of reimagined Ed Kuepper originals taken from his illustrious career. After the Flood will be released March 21. Shortly after the record’s release, Ed Kuepper will tour Australia solo for the first time in five years, playing 15 dates across April and May. The first...
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Lisa O’Neill releases a new single ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ featuring Peter Doherty, alongside a video directed by Johnie Lyons. Lisa also performed the song on The Tommy Tiernan Show, watch below. This is not the first time O’Neill has written about social injustices on the cusp of a change. Songs like Rock the Machine about unemployment in the Dublin dock lands, When Cash Was King about...
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Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) announces his new album Glory, coming out March 28th. Glory was produced by Blake Mills and marks the 7th studio album in his immaculate body of work. Hadreas shares the first single ‘It’s a Mirror’, and its companion music video directed by Cody Critchloe. The two artists first collaborated on the music video for Perfume Genius’ groundbreaking ‘Queen’. Watch below! “I wake up overwhelmed even when...
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After years of garnering acclaim across the underground and mainstream for a singular, boundary-pushing stream of consciousness sound, London based rapper, producer and poet John Glacier’s debut album, Like A Ribbon, will finally be released on February 14th 2025. A dreamlike portrayal of the journey from a simple existence growing up in Hackney, to projecting stories to the world while aiming to maintain a semblance of normalcy in what is...
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Mess Esque is an Australian duo who sound like they literally dreamed themselves into being, made up of Helen Franzmann (McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Tren Brothers). The two enjoy moving at an unhurried pace, but what: here’s their third album in less than five years! Jay Marie, Comfort Me releases March 28, 2025 — the lead single ‘Take Me To Your Infinite Garden’ is out today with a...
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Are they the new outlaws? After surprising fans with an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, today Julien Baker & TORRES have dropped their much-talked-about debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’. Formed by their shared experiences of growing up queer in the south, ‘Sugar in the Tank’ not only reflects Julien Baker & TORRES’ love of country music, but joyfully reclaims the genre’s traditions and...
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The National release Rome, the definitive live document of the band in performance. Recorded at the architecturally stunning venue Cavea of the Auditorium Parco Della Musica Ennio Morricone. The 21-track double LP showcases scintillating versions of the band’s most beloved songs, plus sharpened readings of recent tracks, and marked by rarities; reflecting how the band changes setlists significantly from night to night to cast fresh light on hidden gems from...
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Horsegirl release new single ‘Julie’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, 2025. ‘Julie’ serves as the album’s centrepiece, with synth drones acting as an ocean for Lowenstein’s vocals to sail above, all while Cheng’s wonderfully avant-garde anti-solos pierce through the woven sea. The video, directed by Amsterdam-based animator Daphna Awadish Golan, started as a month-and-a-half animation process, and represents the song’s themes of moving...
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Blawan releases his hotly anticipated BouQ EP. The four-track project is his third on XL Recordings, following on from 2023’s critically acclaimed Dismantled Into Juice EP and Woke Up Right Handed. Blawan returns once again to side-step expectations with BouQ, an EP that melds his vocal with disorientating, menacing electronic experimentation. Having previewed the EP during recent DJ sets (including his curated stage at Draaimolen and Overmono’s Pure Devotion), Blawan...
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Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice, will be released on February 28th. Until then, Mdou Moctar share ‘Takoba (Injustice Version)’, out now accompanied with a translated lyric video. Watch below. In its original arrangement, the song gradually unspooled into an epic crescendo of interlocking guitar solos. On Tears the quartet delivers a more intimate and hypnotic read on the song, foregrounding traditional percussion and call-and-response vocals. ...
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girlpuppy, the musical project from Atlanta’s Becca Harvey, shares her buzzing, resolute new single ‘Champ’, the first on new label home Captured Tracks. The new track was produced by Alex Farrar, and is accompanied by a video directed by Benni Shumlin and Augie Voss, which stars girlpuppy during a boxing match. girlpuppy shares: “The idea for the ‘Champ’ music video came super easily for me. ‘Champ’ is all about feeling like...
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Sleaford Mods and Hot Chip have united for a collaborative joint single featuring new tracks ‘Nom Nom Nom’ and ‘Cat Burglar’. The songs have been released as part of Friendly Records ongoing series of seven-inches in aid of charity War Child, and feature artwork from influential and acclaimed British artist David Shrigley. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios as part of one of Abbey Road’s innovative and groundbreaking Lock In Sessions, which...
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