After coming-of-age with their introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through their first EP, phantasea pharm (2023), cumgirl8 is now on the cusp of their 8th cumming by way of their long-awaited debut LP of that name, out on 4 October. Following the record’s first tongue-in-cheek single ‘Karma Police’, the band return with new single ‘ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)’, along with a...
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The Hard Quartet release brand new single ‘Our Hometown Boy’, alongside a video by Jared Sherbert. Watch below! Their self-titled debut album, The Hard Quartet, is out on October 4th. The new group features Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White. “In ‘Our Hometown Boy,’ The Hard Quartet mythologises the fierce inhabitants of our shared hovels and shangri-las from the vantage point of a beach famous for the undertow. A conversation about what paradise looks...
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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...
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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...
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Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Peace of Mind (Evening)’, a memorable and melodious single co-produced and mixed by David Baron. His new album Revelation is out September 27th. “This is the ‘evening version’ of ‘Peace of Mind’,” says Leif. “This version isn’t even on the record. It just wanted to be its own thing… I suppose I wanted it to remind me of the bliss I feel when a great song come on the radio on...
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Two years after the release of his record Dungeon Master, former pro snowboarder reborn nomadic psych-pop prophet Gus Englehorn announces brand new album The Hornbook, due for release January 31st. Today he shares a first glimpse of the new record with the nervy post-punk propulsion of a track that is ‘Thyme’. “This song is about someone who travels back in time to Scarborough fair,” Gus says. “A song about yearning...
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Peggy Frew, the best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary band, Art of Fighting, announces her debut solo album Dial-Up, due for release on 8th November. ‘Country House’ is the first taste of the world conjured up by Frew, watch the accompanying video of the enchanting first single below! Luminous and ominous, the songs on Dial-Up are full of both vulnerability and bravado. Silver days, thunderstorms, broken-down cars and lonely...
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The Smile announce their new album Cutouts, set for release on October 4th. Two new tracks off the record are released ‘Foreign Spies’ and ‘Zero Sum,’ watch the accompanying videos, directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore below! Previously released album tracks ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ and ‘The Slip’ debuted earlier this month. The trio – Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner – debuted several songs from Cutouts during The Smile’s...
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4AD welcomes Belgium-based American singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman to the family. His label debut and eleventh career studio record entitled Dance Of Love, will be released on 11 October. A collaboration with labelmate Big Thief (who produced and performed on the album), Zimmerman shares the first single, ‘Burial At Sea’ and companion video by Noah Lenker. Watch below! “It was an extreme honour to make a record with one of the...
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Kim Deal announces her first full-length album under her own name, Nobody Loves You More, to be released November 22nd. Featuring recent single ‘Coast’, Deal shares second single ‘Crystal Breath’, a delicious dose of distortion, all pulsating beats and fuzzy riffs. Nobody Loves You More is Kim Deal’s debut album although it’s not the first time she has gone solo – she self-released a five-part, ten-song seven-inch vinyl series in...
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Kim Gordon has continued her ongoing collaboration with Justin Raisen and teamed up with model home for ‘razzamatazz’, an electro-freak track of throbbing sub-basses and rotary sonics hovering below Gordon’s iconic whisper. Watch the music video made by p cain of model home below! model home is an experimental duo made up of Washington, DC-based artists Nappy Nappa and p cain. Known for their freewheeling and improvisational approach to sound...
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Singer-songwriter Klô Pelgag unveils her ode to lasting love with new single ‘Sans visage’, which appears on her album Abracadabra, out 11th October, and is accompanied by a lyric video directed by Laurence BAZ Morais. Watch below! “Abracadabra is a quest for the absolute, a desire to still believe in something. For all the knots we must untie in order to appear as we really are, without fear or embarrassment,”...
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Fontaines D.C. release ROMANCE, their most ambitious, expansive record yet, its 11 tracks constellating ideas that have been percolating among Grian Chatten (vocals), Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan (bass), and Tom Coll (drums) since they released Skinty Fia in 2022. The shoegaze touch points first pressed on Skinty Fia unfold on ROMANCE like a purpling bruise. But any “retro aesthetic”, as Chatten describes it, is left behind....
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Ruthven announces his long-awaited debut album Rough & Ready, released on 25th October, and reveals the album’s first single ‘I Can’t Go There’ alongside a self-directed video, made in collaboration with his wife Francesca Nelson, and shot by Josh Renaut. Watch below! Ruthven – aka Sean Nelson – first broke in 2017 as a founding member of Paul Institute, the label founded by A.K and Jai Paul, while also working...
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The Hard Quartet announce their eponymous debut album, out October 4th, and release new single and video, ‘Rio’s Song’ out now. Watch below! “The ‘Rio’s Song’ video is The Hard Quartet’s homage to street rock in the hot afternoon and clowning around with lifer friends in downtown New York City. Director Jared Sherbert shot it guerrilla style on St Mark’s Place and in The International Bar on July 15 2024....
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Geordie Greep (of black midi) announces his debut solo album The New Sound and shares its first single ‘Holy, Holy’ plus video directed by filmmakers Ethan and Tom. Watch below! Following three astonishing albums with black midi, most recently 2023’s Hellfire, and almost non-stop worldwide tours for near-on five years, Geordie Greep has somehow found time to record his first solo album The New Sound, an album that has allowed...
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