Green Mohair Suits return with ‘Hell or High Water’, the first single from their fifth album Stan Wella, out September 27th. Green Mohair Suits (Brian Campeau, Richard Cuthbert, Jason Mannell, and Ben Romalis) hold a reputation for inspired showmanship and performances as brash as they are emotive. After an attempt to record Stan Wella during Covid didn’t pan out, the group did what always works best for them: “The four...
The Smile have released a new track ‘Don’t Get Me Started’. Watch the accompanying video, directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, below! ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ follows a very limited edition 2-track 12-inch single released last week through record shops globally. The double A-side comprises ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ and another new song, ‘The Slip’, sleeved in XL’s iconic housebag, re-designed by Stanley Donwood. Debuted during The Smile’s UK tour dates in March this year, ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ was produced...
Fontaines D.C. reveal ‘Here’s The Thing’, the third single from their upcoming album ROMANCE, out August 23rd. Watch the accompanying cinematic music video directed by lauded filmmaker Luna Carmoon below! Written days before the band entered the studio to record the album, ‘Here’s The Thing’ leads with the mechanical, mutant guitar sounds of Placebo and the electronic expressiveness of Shygirl and Eartheater. “It’s an anxious tune that twists and turns in what...
After releasing her beloved new album Bright Future earlier this year, which won over the hearts of fans and critics alike, Adrianne Lenker shares new single ‘Once a Bunch’. Listen below! Recorded during the Bright Future sessions and originally only appearing on the Japanese CD release of the album, the sweet, country-tinged single – already a live favourite – is seeing its wide release for the first time. Later this year, a 7”...
Worldwide production unit Two Shell has been shooting long and straight across 2024 with chart topping single ‘Talk To Me’, with avant garde icon FKA twigs, and a number one live debut at Coachella. In ‘Round’, a collaborative effort featuring new vocals from iconic British girl group Sugababes, the inventive entity delve back to the future in blazing fashion. ‘Round’ takes Sugababes’ #1 hit ‘Round Round’ and twists it into...
Jamie xx releases ‘All You Children’. Taken from his second album In Waves (out 20th September), the brand new single sees Jamie xx collaborating with The Avalanches on a swirling club anthem propelled by a hypnotic chorus of chants and Moroder-esque basslines. A huge live favourite with fans who’ve heard Jamie roadtesting the song at sold out headline shows around the world, it’s the second collaboration from two artists who’ve enjoyed a longstanding mutual appreciation,...
BADBADNOTGOOD share ‘Best Left Unsolved’, a bonus track from the Mid Spiral sessions that took place at Valentine Studios in LA during February 2024. This new, previously unreleased track accompanies the trio’s recent surprise release of the Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth. The Mid Spiral suite exploits instrumental jazz at its core seeing BADBADNOTGOOD continue to push the boundaries of how they integrate a limitless range of genres...
GIFT have shared ‘Light Runner,’ a breakbeat-inspired track displaying another step taken in their dynamic fusion of genres and widescreen pop production techniques. The band also shares a video for the new single directed by vocalist/guitarist TJ Freda. Watch below! TJ says “‘Light Runner’ celebrates the triumph of emerging from a dark time while acknowledging the transformative power of overcoming it. It’s a testament to the euphoria of personal achievement. In 2023, during our...
Tama Gucci will release his debut album Notes To Self, on August 16th. Showing a depth of emotions in the album’s early singles, he continues to let us in with latest track ‘Back Then’, which he dedicates to his younger self. Tama notes “While reminiscing on the past and also manifesting for the future, ‘Back Then’ is my manifesto.” Listen below! Notes to Self is an unabashedly romantic and brooding record, predominantly centring self-growth and happiness and gleaning wisdom from past...
Sampha and Little Simz have come together on new single ‘Satellite Business 2.0’ – a brand new, fully-realised version of the ‘Satellite Business’ interlude from Sampha’s latest album LAHAI. Little Simz first heard the song live during Sampha’s run of ‘Satellite Business’ residency shows in 2023 at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, she witnessed the song evolving and expanding while Sampha and his band experimented in the round during a series of intimate, rapturously-received events. She later joined Sampha on stage in...
Overmono return with ‘Gem Lingo (ovr now)’ featuring the Paul Institute-founding artist Ruthven. The single premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record with Jack Saunders. Watch the visualiser below! ‘Gem Lingo (ovr now) (feat. Ruthven)’ needs little introduction. Since the first play during Overmono’s @TheLotRadio set with Fred Again… and Lil Yachty to celebrate the release of the collaborative single ‘stayinit’, ‘Gem Lingo’ captivated fans. The soulful vocal hook, sampled from Ruthven’s acclaimed 2018 single ‘Hypothalamus’, echoes across Overmono’s deft productions...
Kim Deal shares ‘Coast’, the first single through 4AD under her own name. Premiered by Lauren Laverne on her 6 Music radio show. Written in 2020 after being at her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding when the house band, The Grape Whizzers, jammed Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 ‘Margaritaville’ with “revelatory levels of low self-esteem”. But the song’s roots reach back as far as 2000, when Kim was staying on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. An unlikely retreat for the Ohio native...
Sleaford Mods have released two previously unheard tracks, ‘Git Some Balls’ and ‘Air Con’(a reworking of the track Air Conditioning) ahead of the 10th anniversary edition of their scene stimulating, acclaimed album Divide and Exit, out July 26th. ‘Git Some Balls’ was written and recorded by Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson during the sessions for the album, but is only being made available now for the first time via streaming...
Bartees Strange returns with new single ‘Lie 95’, paired with a striking video directed by Vincent Martell and Jordan Phelps of VAM STUDIO starring Strange as both himself and his otherworldly companion. Watch below! Kacy Hill and Charlene Gibbs contribute additional vocals on the track, which is co-produced by Strange and notcharles with additional production from longtime creative collaborator Graham Richman. Bartees Strange shares “This song is about searching for love all across the Northeast corridor (I-95) – my universe. I’m...
Water From Your Eyes release MP3 Player 1, a four-song EP featuring covers of music by Adele, Al Green, Chumbawamba, and Third Eye Blind. The songs carry on a WFYE tradition established on 2021’s covers LP Somebody Else’s Songs – with Nate Amos and Rachel Brown casually knocking out skewed (and sometimes very earnest) takes on music they love. “These are covers that we made at the same time as we were finishing Everyone’s Crushed,” say the...
Tama Gucci shares the introspective, honest and vulnerable new single, ‘Didn’t Have To.’ The latest taste from his anticipated debut album, Notes To Self (out August 16th), is warm and personal with his soft vocals floating perfectly over ethereal synths. “I love this song so much,” notes Tama Gucci. “It’s taken from the deepest pages of my notebook and put into a song – about a past lover who I still think is cool but...
