Graham Coxon has shared the first single, “Billy Says”, off his upcoming album “Castle Park” which is an old album (c. 2011) that was never released but will be out June 19th via Transgressive Records.
TRACKLIST: 1. Billy Says 2. Alright 3. When You Find Out 4. Isn’t It Funny 5. There’s a Little House 6. Easy 7. Dripping Soul 8. Forget Today 9. Mélodie Pour Christine 10. All The Rage
“Castle Park”, produced by Ben Hillier (Blur’s Think Tank), was originally intended as a follow-up to Coxon’s 2012 album A+E but was postponed due to Blur’s reunion that year.
Future Islands have shared two new songs, “The Ink Well” & “One Day”, off their upcoming album “From A Hole In The Floor To A Fountain Of Youth” out May 22nd.
TRACKLIST:
1. The Ink Well 2. Pinnochio 3. The Happiness of Being Twice 4. In The Fall 5. Awake and Dreaming 6. Virgo Distracts 7. Find Love 8. Cotton Flower 9. The Fountain 10. Tomorrow 11. One Day 12. The Chase 13. Calliope 14. Six Weeks 15. Haunted By You 16. Sail 17. As Long As You Are 18. Days 19. Rager (demo) 20. Glimpse
The video for the song “The Ink Well” was directed by Theo Anthony.
William Cashion shared this about the album’s title: “I’ve always loved the imagery of that lyric. The hole in the floor is the everyday, but the fountain is the magic that happens when the life you dreamed about actually becomes the one you’re living. It’s the dream and the reality existing in the same room. This album is for everyone who has carried these songs with them, from the first house parties to the rooms we’re playing today.”
of Montreal have shared the first single, “When”, off their upcoming album “aethermead” out June 5th via Polyvinyl.
TRACKLIST:
1. Already Dreaming 2. Wanting on Air 3. Listen to Music and Cry 4. My Zhe Zhe 5. Take the Form 6. When 02:32 7. Hack it Up 8. Lacan in the Family 9. Having a Moment 10. From the Font of You 11. To Nothing’s Reward 12. Now We Cringe at the Thought 13. Dismissal Mosaics
Kevin Barnes shared this about the song: “‘When’ is more a song about yearning, sadness, confusion, frustration…than it is a song about having sex. Clearly all of the things listed in the verses are the things I actually desire. I’m hiding behind a shield of sexual bravado and pretending as if my only needs are physical. It’s very transparent that I’m longing for much more than just libidinal fulfillment, but those other things are being withheld. It’s much easier to say ‘When can I fuck you again?’ than it is to say ‘When will you be loving, affectionate, and emotionally generous and make me feel whole again?’
Jon Spencer has shared the first single, “Knock ‘Em Out”, off his upcoming album “Songs Of Personal Loss and Protest” out June 12th via Stove Records.
TRACKLIST: 1. Fanfare (Another Point of View) 2. Vermin Attack! 3. Hangover 4. Knock ‘Em Out 5. Give It Up 4 the Devil 6. Mr. Lion 7. Orange Slice Blues 8. Slip Away 9. Step On the Gas 10. I’m Taking Off 11. Wet & Wild 12. No More
Jon Spencer shared this about the album: “I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning. These past few years there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss—the passing of time takes its toll. Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy-turvy where it feels like we are losing basic freedoms… I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock’n’roll. Rock’n’roll is America’s true gift to the world—the sound of revolution! It came out of the sky, a screaming, chrome-plated flying saucer, like an outer space monster, landed here on Earth so the freaks could have their say. It is the hip-shaking sound of rebellion. The blues is my bible, rock’n’roll is our battle cry!”
1000 Rabbits have shared their second single, “Rubik’s Cube”, available now via Young.
The video for the song was directed by Cuan Roche.
1000 Rabbits shared this about the song: “Thank you for dancing to ‘Virgin Soil.’ We hope you dance to this too. “Rubik’s Cube” has a similar danciness, but energetically it feels like an inversion, with darker verses and bright releases in the chorus.”
American Football have shared the second single, “No Feeling”, off their upcoming album “LP4” out May 1st via Polyvinyl.
The video was directed by Cady Buche & Travis Barron of Unlimited Time Only. They shared this about it: “Our goal with music videos is to tell a story that captures what we think and feel while listening to the song. When we listened to “No Feeling” for the first time, we thought a lot about mysterious places like outer space and the bottom of the ocean, they’re beautiful and they also kind of freak you out. The music also brought to mind the idea of going down with the ship or a sense of crushing inevitability. Then we thought, what if you flipped that? What if you opened on a sunken ship and that was the beginning? What if this sunken ship were a thriving habitat for ghosts who live there? What if something came along that jeopardized their beautiful afterlife?”
Mike Kinsella shared this about the song: “Brendan Yates came into the studio to sing along to a ‘gang vocal’ call-and-response part I’d written for the chorus of ‘No Feeling,’” Kinsella says. “I had imagined his voice would be one of many voices scream-singing it, and was excited for it to be a sort of Easter Egg on the album. But after tracking the original parts, he asked if he could try a higher harmony that he was hearing. As soon as he started singing it, all of our jaws dropped, and we all were looking at each other like ‘Oh shit! THAT’S the dude from Turnstile!’ His voice is so singular, and once he sang the part in *his* range, it was clear that the part now belonged to him and him alone…”
Maya Hawke has shared the second single, “Bring Home My Man”, off her upcoming album “Maitreya Corso” out May 1st via Mom + Pop.
TRACKLIST:
1. Love of My Life 2. Devil You Know 3. Lioness 4. Heavy Rain 5. Last Living Lost Cause 6. Last Thoughts on Morning Star 7. Bring Home My Man 8. Great Minds 9. Green Dragon 10. Slacker in the Rye 11. Terms of Estrangement 12. Maitreya and the Way Back 13. Dream House
Maya Hawke shared this via a press release about the album and character: “”Maitreya Corso” is a magical misfit, whose sheer inability to adapt to the surrounding world allows her to create a world of her own, and to explore the positive and negative power of the ego.”
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