Jenny Hval releases ‘The artist is absent’, the second single from her new album Iris Silver Mist, out May 2nd. The new single comes in two versions — an extended mix ’89 seconds rewrite’ and the original album version. Following the “highly specific and alluringly strange” lead single, ‘To be a rose’, ‘The artist is absent’ encapsulates this feeling. Hval sings: “A stage without a show / A hazy silhouette around an empty space...
Car Seat Headrest share new single ‘CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)’, off The Scholars, a bold new rock opera and the band’s first studio album in five years, released May 2nd. The record’s soaring, uplifting opener is accompanied by a video, featuring illustrations of the characters who appear across The Scholars designed by cartoonist Cate Wurtz. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the album’s songs are populated...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) releases his new album Glory. The album contains themes that he’s wrestled with artistically throughout his career – themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, and of inescapable history and damage. The full album bio by Daniel Felsenthal can be found here. He revealed the final single earlier in the week, ‘Clean Heart’, a hopeful, swelling track that reflects on the concept...
DJ Python releases his debut XL Recordings EP – i was put on this earth – today, marking his first solo music in over three years. Released earlier this week, his latest single ‘Dai Buki’, featuring elusive London MC Jawnino and unclassifiable songwriter Organ Tapes, is the first time all three artists have created music together despite Jawnino and Organ Tapes having previously released music on DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited...
Julien Baker & TORRES have released a new single ‘Dirt’, offering another glimpse into their forthcoming collaborative album, Send a Prayer My Way, out April 18. Julien Baker & TORRES have already released three critically acclaimed singles from Send a Prayer My Way. Songs ‘Sylvia’ and ‘Tuesday’ showcased their shared love of country music while highlighting their distinct songwriting styles and interpretations of the genre. Previous to that they debuted ‘Sugar in the Tank’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Earlier this month...
Irish musician Maria Somerville will share her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, on April 25. Today, she shares the upcoming record’s third single ‘Stonefly,’ a slinky ambient waltz fleshed out with dreamy washes of vibrating feedback, grounding drum beats, transportive harp passages, and soothing vocal delivery. The track’s release is also accompanied by an atmospheric music video directed by Daniel Swan. The visual perfectly suits the...
Jesse Mac Cormack steps into an exciting new chapter with the release of ‘All I Want To Be’. This marks the first in a series of singles set to roll out throughout 2025, each one pushing deeper into his dance-driven, electronic sound. With his ever-evolving sonic identity, Jesse continues to solidify himself as a visionary force in the electronic music landscape. Adding to his momentum, Jesse Mac Cormack is nominated...
Planet Rami releases his newest single ‘Pink to Blue’, the heart-rending story of love’s slow death. The single arrives with a stunning music video directed by Hirondelle, watch below! ‘Pink to Blue’ is a captivating soul-driven indie lament written with ARIA nominated record producer, composer, mixer and songwriter Tony Buchen and lauded American musician Luther Russell. “A turbulent love was existent in my life when we were writing this song....
caroline return with their first new music in three years, ’Total euphoria’, accompanied by a video directed by Parker Corey, a musician and director from Phoenix, Arizona mostly known for his work as a member of Injury Reserve (now By Storm). The group’s new output sees them evolving with the influence of new technologies & avant-garde producers. ‘Total euphoria’ features Jasper Llewellyn and Magdalena McLean singing in unison above the...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Railroad Jerk’s highly lauded album One Track Mind, first released on March 21, 1995 via Matador. Watch the newly digitised official music videos for ‘Rollerkoaster’ and ‘Bang the Drum’ below. Railroad Jerk’s own Marcellus Hall and Dave Varenka join host (and personal friend) Matt Sweeney in conversation for the latest episode of the Matador Revisionist History Podcast. They look back on some fond...
Circuit des Yeux releases her new album Halo On The Inside. Warped and transcendent, darkly romantic and thrillingly alien, the album is Fohr’s boldest work to date. Watch the video to new single ‘Truth’ directed and edited by Cuan Roche, which was released ahead of its release earlier in the week, below! Bringing Halo to fruition involved numerous changes in Fohr’s typical methods of operation. She worked at night. “I...
In 2012, Gruff Rhys embarked on a solo ‘investigative concert tour’ through the heart of America following the route taken by his distant relative John Evans. Every night he presented songs augmented by a power point presentation that detailed his relative’s unbelievable history, along with any new piece of information that had come his way during the day. He was ultimately looking for Evans’s lost unmarked grave. Along with many...
The Hard Quartet – Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White – return with a brand new digital two-song single. The elegant Kelly-led shredder ‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ was recorded last July in NYC, while the sprawling flip, ‘Coreopsis Trail,’ is an unreleased track from the S/T album sessions. The video for ‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ was directed by Kevin Spanky Long. Watch below! “‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ is a credo that states that...
Yaeji returns with a new single and music video for ‘Pondeggi.’ The title is an homage to Beondegi, a traditional intergenerational Korean street food made of silkworms, and schoolyard hand-clap game that serves as the foundation for the track’s beat. ‘Pondeggi’ is a striking evaluation of the toil within humanity, nature, and technology. Utilizing storytelling, humanity’s oldest technology and most radical form of expression, Yaeji uses innovation with the aim to invoke deeper examination. Directed by...
Car Seat Headrest announce The Scholars, a bold new rock opera that isn’t just a new chapter for the premiere standard bearers of young internet rockers but also a spiritual rebirth, and the band’s first studio album in five years. Watch ‘Gethsemane,’ an 11-minute, multi-part epic (directed by Andrew Wonder) that conveys the spiritual journey and yearning at the heart of the new album. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the...
Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, share details of their sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out 16 May via 4AD / Remote Control Records on standard vinyl, limited edition vinyl and CD. The album showcases some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music in their career. To kick off this new era, Tune-Yards unveiled the infectious single, ‘Limelight’. The song was born from dancing together as a family to George Clinton, and Garbus and Brenner’s 3-year-old can be heard singing on the track....
