DARKSIDE release new track ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’, taken from their forthcoming album Nothing, out February 28th. In just under seven minutes, ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’ spans almost as many decades. The wind whispers, Harrington’s guitar scythes minimally over Jaar’s falsetto, now slathered in echo and reverb. Then a middle suite sounds almost like a funkier Byrds circa Sweetheart of the Rodeo. It’s followed by a gentle breakdown where agile guitars...
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After dropping hints for months and following the release of their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, Julien Baker & TORRES are excited to announce their debut album Send a Prayer My Way, coming out April 18th. The album has been in the works since the two played their first show together in 2016 and at the end one singer turned to the other and said, “You know, we should make a country album.” This...
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Fresh from the release of his second album In Waves, and recent nomination in the Artist of the Year category at the 2025 BRIT Awards, Jamie xx releases new single ‘F.U.’. The track sees the London based artist, DJ, producer and composer collaborating with US soul icon Erykah Badu on a storming club-ready cut that was created from unlikely beginnings. The genesis of the collaboration came at a Primavera Festival after-party that both...
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Liz Stringer announces her new album The Second High, due for release 28th March. She releases title track ‘The Second High’, the captivating second single from the album alongside a beautiful video directed by Alicia and Archie production. Watch below! During mid 2023, Stringer began perhaps her most ambitious journey yet, a three month stint at Iguana Studios in Brixton UK to work with Grammy nominated, Ivor Novello Award winning...
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UK innovator Joy Orbison and cult underground rap icon Joe James come together on new single ‘bastard’, the track sees the two kindred spirits combining their own distinct sounds to create something genuinely unique. It’s a suburban sound born outside of the M25, as the Southend rapper paints trademark vivid imagery over Joy Orbison’s deep, introspective beats. The result is part-rapturous, part elegiac. Recorded at XL Recordings’ Ladbroke Grove studio,...
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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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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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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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After playing the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Julien Baker & TORRES share the official video for their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, directed by Caity Arthur and shot in collaboration with the queer country dance party Stud Country. Watch below! The clip features original choreography by Stud Country’s co-founder Sean Monaghan and star members of the Stud Country community. “We were so excited to cast...
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Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — unveil the new single/video, ‘Switch Over,’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th. ‘Switch Over’ feels almost motorik in its pulse as the track dances back and forth between Cheng and Lowenstein’s swapping vocals. The ‘Switch Over’ video was directed by Guy Kozak, who came to the band...
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Fernie shares ‘Hopeless Dreams’, a new R&B song and title-track to the Hopeless Dreams EP, releasing on February 14, premiered on BBC Radio 1’s Future Soul and is accompanied by a video directed by Thomas Fontaine, that reveals a new angle of a brutalist world straight from Fernie’s imagination. Fernie expands on the theme of ‘Hopeless Dreams’: “I had just stepped out of a five-year back-and-forth predicament with someone who didn’t see any value...
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Basia Bulat shares ‘Disco Polo’, the third single from her new album Basia’s Palace, out February 21st. A folk song named for a genre of Polish dance music beloved by her late father, the track honours the dichotomy of Bulat’s musical inheritance from him and her mother. “This is an homage to what I feel like is the two sides of my musical lineage–my mother was a classically trained piano...
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Out February 28th, Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. Watch the video for the new song ‘S.N.C.’ below. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to mould into what became the revered Psychic (2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflected a search for...
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Gus Englehorn shares his latest single ‘Metal Detector’, a spellbinding exploration of Englehorn’s singular vision, melding doom-folk intensity with absurdist storytelling. Accompanied by an evocative music video directed by Estée Preda, watch below! Drawing inspiration from a friend’s tipsy late-night conversation with a talking shrub in Portland (yes, you read that right), Englehorn has crafted a hypnotic tale of chaotic beauty. “This one is pretty dada,” Englehorn explains, “but I...
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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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