Toronto rapper Shad and Michigan based producer 14KT have surprised everyone by dropping a brand-new EP showcasing their recent collaboration. Reel Speakers, a four-track EP stemming from freestyles Shad did on socials, is a compact, high-energy listening with beat, grit, soul, and hope. It is out now on all streaming platforms. The pair, having met at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s iconic Playlist Retreat years prior, connected over freestyles Shad was doing...
Bartees Strange announces his third full-length album, Horror, due on 14 February 2025, alongside releasing new single ‘Sober’, produced by Strange, Jack Antonoff, Yves Rothman and Lawrence Rothman, and paired with a music video directed by Ricardo Betancourt that draws inspiration from Sly & The Family Stone’s 1974 Soul Train performance. Watch below! Strange says, “This song is about falling short in a relationship, over and over and drinking because...
If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. “We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” explains the band’s US-based bassist and...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, returns with a brand new single, ‘Porcupine Tattoo’. It’s a stripped-back lament featuring two American musical icons – Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan – who appear on record together for the very first time. The collaboration came together while Russell was hosting sessions for a forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album. Reaching out to Callahan, Russell asked the simple...
Peggy Frew, the best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary band, Art of Fighting, releases the latest single ‘Off Season Blues’ off her debut solo album Dial-Up, out 8 November. ‘Off Season Blues’ takes us to a vibrant oasis watered by Frew’s intimacy. A stirring, nostalgia-fuelled story of loneliness and lost love, this is four-minutes of Frew as her most personal and most fragile self. “I wrote this song on an Eavestaff mini piano in the dusty...
Enigmatic Irish musician (and regular NTS Radio host) Maria Somerville returns with her first new single in three years ‘Projections’, accompanied by visuals from Somerville, Michael Speers and Róisín Berkeley, recorded on VHS across Marseille and Somerville’s native Galway. Watch below! The wistful, romantic shoegaze track is drenched in longing via fuzzed-out bass and strummed guitar, carried by Somerville’s hypnotic and tranquil vocal stylings. The other-worldly, swirling single is a...
Basia Bulat announces her new album Basia’s Palace – co-produced by frequent collaborator Mark Lawson, and mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine – will be released on February 21, 2025. As well as sharing the glistening lead single ‘Baby’, an elegant dance-inflected track augmented by strings courtesy of GRAMMY-nominated arranger Drew Jurecka. The track showcases the stunning, silvery voice of three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and five-time JUNO Award nominee...
Interpol celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics (first released on September 27th, 2004) with a newly expanded reissue – now available on digital services, which includes the record, the new-to-streaming b-side ‘Direction’ (digital-exclusive), and a complete live recording and video of the band’s legendary 2005 performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes, “never before heard or seen”. A limited-edition red vinyl reissue will be available at record stores...
Two Shell finally extend the invitation to explore them with the announcement of their self-titled debut album, due for release on October 25th, 2024. For those that have been paying attention, the road to the opening of the portal of Two Shell has been long and windy. Stems and full tracks have been smoothly revealed through their own digital hub, shell.tech, for months, with code-savvy devotees scraping digital breadsticks left to their own rapidly building...
Ruthven reveals ‘Itch’, the latest single from his debut album Rough & Ready, which is out October 25th. Written, performed and produced in collaboration with A.K. Paul, ‘Itch’ is yet another shining example of the South London-based ex-firefighter’s flawless vocals and sleek funk-inspired productions. Ruthven shares “‘Itch’ was one of the first tracks I wrote but the last I knew was going to be part of the album. It all...
Fernie announces brand-new EP Hopeless Dreams, available on February 14. Fernie also unveils ‘Bones & All’, a hauntingly introspective new single. This track captures the EP’s exploration of navigating heartbreak and emotional struggle with both elegance and intensity, reflecting the signature grace and grit that define Fernie’s music. “The song generalises the horrors of being in an abusive environment.” Fernie explains, “Do we truly know the deep psychological impact we place upon younger generations? If I...
Jamie xx releases his hotly-anticipated second album, In Waves. Final single ‘Waited All Night’ is a piece of 2-step pop perfection that sees Jamie reuniting with his The xx bandmates Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft, the three appearing on record for the first time since The xx’s 2017 I See You album. It follows an emotional reunion on stage to perform the track live during Jamie’s set at the...
Becky and the Birds has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with the announcement of her forthcoming self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, due for release on 15 November. She also shares new single ‘I made my baby cry’, a gorgeous post-breakup lament that swells with emotional catharsis alongside an accompanying visualiser, made by Gustafsson. Watch below! Meshing delicate...
Charlotte Day Wilson (Live at Maida Vale), a special three-track EP featuring live reworkings ‘Cyan Blue’, ‘Sleeper’, and ‘I Don’t Love You’ is out now. Originally recorded for Benji B’s BBC Radio 1 show in London’s iconic Maida Vale, these stripped-back solo performances using a Steinway piano breathe new life into the tracks taken from her sophomore album Cyan Blue, released in May, highlighting Wilson’s captivating soulful vocals. Working with...
On her vibrant and mournful electronic debut, Ece Era challenges cultural ideologies, identity structures, and her difficult past with tracks crafted during introspective moments before sleep or upon waking. With her debut album, Bedside Tunes, releasing on October 25, electronic musician and filmmaker Ece Era presents a body of work that seeks to reveal this inner self. Beyond the conditioning of her childhood and the culture of her home nation, Turkey, lies Ece Era’s “real persona.” Through her...
Future Islands share their brand-new glistening single ‘Glimpse’. Watch the accompanying animated video created by Jayla Smith below! Recorded during the People Who Aren’t There Anymore sessions, ‘Glimpse’ focuses on a family home burning down and coming to terms with the physical and emotional losses and coming to terms with the erasure of a collective history. ‘Glimpse’ was mixed by Chris Coady and Steve Wright and produced by Future Islands...
