Boards Of Canada have shared 2 songs, “Introit” and “Prophecy At 1420 MHZ”, off their upcoming album “Inferno” out May 29th via Warp.
The video for the song was directed by Robert Beatty.
MOTHERMARY have released a new song, “Set Me On Fire”, available to stream now.
MOTHERMARY shared this via a press release: “Really want to thank everyone who has relentlessly supported us through the A24 Mother Mary drama. We try to find the humor in life as much as possible. That’s how we survived the tragi-comedy that was our leaving Mormonism. -Imagine waking up to the reality that Joseph smith “translated” your holy scripture by looking into a top hat at a rock. -To say deconstructing Mormonism was a humiliating process is an understatement. It was scary to understand that a church with billions of dollars tricked you and stole your identity. Creating music as MotherMary helped us find ourselves again. It was healing to reclaim the only example ofa holy woman in scripture and explore what being holy really means. That’s why it felt so surreal when the Mother Mary movie released music and Vinyl using our identity. The very art we used to help us leave a high demand religion. A name we have worked over 10 years to build recognition around. This song for us means we aren’t going to stop fighting. You can set us on fire and we will find our way through the flames. It’s more important than ever in our lifetime to stand in solidarity with your fellow artists, workers, and community. One small way you can help us right now is listening and sharing our music and the indie music of other small artists.”
They also added this about the song: ” Joan of arc was one teenage girl who scared an empire. They burned her at the stake for the clothing she wore. The charge was cross dressing. The crime was refusing to kneel. They want to pretend it’s all about the clothes. But it’s the message that terrifies them.”
Maya Hawke has shared the third single, “Lioness”, off her just released album “Maitreya Corso” out via Mom + Pop.
Maya Hawke shared this about the song: “With lyrics that toe the line between playful defiance and self-assuredness on one hand, and insecurity and in need of guidance on the other, the track speaks to the complexity of finding one’s identity complete with a chanting, celebratory chorus: ‘I work in mysterious ways.’”
Death Cab For Cutie have shared the second single, “Punching The Flowers”, off their upcoming album “I Built You A Tower” out June 5th via ANTI-.
TRACKLIST:
1. Full of Stars
2. Punching The Flowers
3. Pep Talk
4. I Built You A Tower (a)
5. Envy The Birds
6. Stone Over Water
7. How Heavenly a State
8. Trap Door
9. Riptides
10. The Flavor of Metal
11. I Built You A Tower (b)
The video for the song was directed by Jason Lester.
Ben Gibbard shared this about the song: ““Punching the Flowers” is a song about stagnation and the feeling of being imprisoned by The Known. And about the damage done when someone ventures deeper into the unknown.”
Crocodiles have shared a new single, “In Love With A Ghost”, off their just released album “Greetings From Hell” out via Invisible Hits and Wild Honey Records.
The video for the song was directed by Sam Macon.
Charles Rowell shared this about the song: “’In Love With A Ghost’ was written in a strange and rare way. It was the first day in my new apartment. Just me and my guitar in an empty space, in a building that is said to be haunted. The entire song came to me in an afternoon. I was pulling inspiration from difficult feelings towards aging and past relationships. I think we’re all in love with a ghost in one way or another.”
FACS have shared a new song, “Parallel Lives”, which will be released as a 7″ b/w with “Red Chairs” from Chimers.
This was shared via a press release: “The split 7″ single from Chicagos FACS and Wollongong’s Chimers to commemorate the two bands’ May 2026 Australian tour. Copies for sale at all shows, very limited number available for North American mail order in late May.”
Editors have shared the first single, “Call It In”, off what might be their upcoming new album.
The video for the song was directed by Justin Lockey.
Tom Smith shared this about the song: “We spent a lot of summer ‘25 holed up in rural Gloucestershire, working on songs with all of us in a room, in a more traditional band set up. ‘Call It In’ is one of the newest songs we worked on, it’s a song about asking for help, really, in the presence of an existential dread, finding solace and comfort in someone close, escaping the deafening noise of modern life.”
Lenny Kaye has shared the first single, “Goin’ Local”, off his upcoming debut album by the same name out July 17th via Yep Roc.
TRACKLIST:
1. Goin’ Local
2. This Love
3. If I Were You
4. Let’s Make a Memory
5. A Friend Like You
6. Be That As It May (May Day)
7. Solstice
8. World Book Night
9. Pennsylvania Girls
10. Poppy
11. The Things You Leave Behind
12. Yes I Will
Lenny Kaye, who is 79, shared this about the release: “I feel like I’m a new artist. I think this album will surprise those who think they know me from what I’ve done previously.”
Alex Zhang Hungtai has shared the first 2 tracks, “Sidewinder” & “Mother”, off his upcoming double album “Orion/Mother” out June 19th via American Dreams.
TRACKLIST:
1. Sidewinder
2. Nataraja
3. Shadow Integration
4. Orion
5. Tannhauser Gate
6. Kali
7. Mother
8. Earth Orbit
9. American Burial
10. Tuğçe
Alex Zhang Hungtai shared this about the songs: “Both tracks share a common theme. An exploration of the primordial state within the unconscious that leads to a confrontation with what is unspoken and hidden. The symbolism is neither negative nor positive, but a guide that snakes its way across the terrain of the mind.”
Via a press release Alex Zhang Hungtai shared this: “The new double album “Orion/Mother”, a brave, gigantic burst of life, creativity, and abstract balladry, alchemizes the past and the present, sampling home recordings he made with some of New York’s finest improvisers while spontaneously composing on top of them with trumpet and other instruments. It’s the sound of an artist addressing unresolved fragments from his past, integrating them into the present, and building a new path.
“The major contributor to the completion of this double album,” Zhang says, “is the removal of doubt.” For two weeks, during a period of intense personal transition, Zhang wrote and recorded at a rehearsal space, working regimented, full days in the dead of a long brutal New York winter. Inspired by Butch Morris’ method of directing improvisation called conduction, Zhang revisited rehearsal recordings he’d made years before with various New York improvising musicians. He created an ad-hoc group – including percussionist Che Chen, Korean Gong resonator experimentalist Leo Chang, clarinetist Madison Greenstone, flautist Laura Cox, cellist Lester St. Louis, noise artist Kwami Winfield, and tap dancer Melissa Almaguer – using Ableton to cut and match all the different sessions together. Zhang improvised with trumpet over live samples of the chopped sessions, bringing these past recordings to the present moment. You can hear overlapping snippets of his saxophone, drums and voice experimentations from the rehearsal recordings via sampling, whilst the trumpet had then become the “grounding force” and conceptual narrator of Orion/Mother, allowing Zhang to decontextualize, process, and reconcile with the past through abstract lyricism in the present.”
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