Beth Orton has shared the second single, “Waiting”, off her upcoming album “The Ground Above” out June 26th via Partisan.
TRACKLIST:
1. The Ground Above
2. Before I Knew
3. Cigarette Curls
4. Waiting
5. Celestial Light
6. I’ll Miss You
7. Love You Right
8. Otherside
This was shared via a press release about the record:“Throughout the album, Orton documents survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political unease, and the ongoing choice to stay in love, in art, and in the world.”
Delaney Davidson has shared the first single, “Baby Heavyweight”, off his upcoming 11th album by the same name out June 26th.
The video for the song was co-directed by Martin Sagadin and Delaney Davidson.
Delaney shared this about the song: “This song came from seeing small things triumph over big things with nothing but attitude. The terrier going all out on the bigger dog. Watching something make it on sheer grit.Someone fighting for everything versus someone who has everything…and still falling behind. started seeing it everywhere.”
This was shared about the album via a press release: “”Baby Heavyweight”, the title track from Delaney Davidson’s 11th solo album was born in a kitchen in Switzerland. Somewhat more groovy than his previous releases, this is the second album he has made with Merk (Mark Perkins). Building on the smooth depth of the previous album “Out Of My Head”, and taking it into a new realm of story telling and emotive music.
Delaney pitches himself headlong into the realm of shaman and trickster, taking tapa cloth he masks his identity for the ritual of dance and surrender. Juxtaposing with innocence masquerading as bravado he weaves an insect chrysalis performance around the repetitive trance vocal. An invitation to let go and be in the moment. Leave the fear behind and move.
The theme of Lucifer seeking his own redemption through recontextualising his past, is the strongly themed undercurrent that weaves Baby Heavyweights 13 songs together. Collapsing roles as quickly as they are introduced the albums fluidity and movement is at times cathartic and others polemic. Universal concepts such as coming to terms with the roles we have been cast, learning to see our own trials as heroic, accepting love and surrendering the anger that masks the pain, are abundant.”
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.”
Beck has shared a new single, “Ride Lonesome”, it’s not known if it will be a standalone single or if it will be part of an upcoming album.
The song was produced by Beck and mixed by Nigel Goodrich, which might explain why the song feels like something off “Mutations” or “Sea Change”.
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.”
Weird Nightmare has shared the fourth single, “Where I Belong”, off his upcoming debut album “Hoopla” out May 1st via Sub Pop.
The video for the song was shot, edited and directed by boy wonder.
His tour will start Friday April 24th in San Diego, CA at Soda Bar.
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