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Alex Zhang Hungtai has shared the first single, “Rub’ Al Kahli”, off his upcoming album “DRAS” out April 10th via Shelter Press.

TRACKLIST:

1. Erg
2. Dras
3. El Khela
4. Xilitla
5. Estado
6. Rub’ Al Khali
7. Pulque
8. White Dwarf
9. Mazil

A press release said this of the album: “Recorded in 2019 inside Montreal’s Saint Joseph Oratory (right before a piano demolition, no less), these nine pieces sat dormant on his hard drive through pandemic years until something finally clicked. What emerges now feels like watching someone trace the contours of their own interior landscape, each melodic line a careful negotiation with the unconscious. This is only a saxophone record in the barest sense.

There’s a finality here even though something in these passages feels weightless. This is music permeated with inner dialogue, a wordless spell dancing above the psychic abyss. Tonal sequences disintegrate into narcotized sonics, a sharp elegant edge that cuts without drawing blood. This lonely work of exploration becomes something communal. ‘Dras’ is a map for traversing the space between where we are and where we might go.”

Belgrado have shared a new single, “Bezsenność”, off their upcoming EP “El Encuentro” out February 6th via La Vida Es Un Mus.

TRACKLIST:
01 Bezsenność
02 Moje Myśli
03 Labirynt Marzeń
04 Spotkanie

A press statement said this about the release: “”Bezsenność” (“Insomnia”) leads the listener into an oneiric, slightly surreal world suspended between dream and wakefulness — a fragile moment when the mind refuses to switch off, and thoughts and memories drift freely, like fragments of a dream. It’s a journey through a liminal space, a state of oscillation where time becomes fluid and the boundaries between the real and the imagined begin to blur.
At its heart, the song is a delicate and intimate portrait of inner disconnection — a feeling of being physically present, yet emotionally adrift. Bezsenność is also a reflection on the quiet longing to return to a version of oneself that somehow got lost along the way.”

Calvin Love has shared the last single, “1 Mile From Heaven”, off his upcoming eight album “Throw My Shadow To The Sun” out February 13th via Taxi Gauche.

The song was written on a rainy LA day Jan 2024 Recorded at The Ladder Factory in El Monte, CA.

Calvin Love Will be on tour in Europe when the album is released supporting GhostWoman.

Jumbo has shared the second single, “Salta Del Avion”, off their upcoming album to be released this year.

Jumbo shared this about the song: “‘Salta Del Avion’ is a song that was born out of fear, out of change and the willingness to continue moving forward and now it begins forging its own way with all of you. We hope that it stays with you, that it embraces you and that it pushes you to make that jump that we all have inside.”

The video for the song was created with Daniel Barreto.

The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis have shared the second single, “Deface The Currency”, off their upcoming album of the same name out February 20th via Impulse Records.

The video for the song was co-directed by Brendan Canty and Robin Bell.

The band will be on tour to support the album, below are the first dates announced with more to be added.

New German Cinema have shared the first single, “My Mistake”, off their upcoming debut album “Pain Will Polish Me” out March 27th via Felte.

TRACKLIST:
01. Sub Rosa
02. Swirling Pain
03. Being Dead
04. I Become Heavy
05. Hera’s Theme I
06. Eyes
07. Water Drops
08. Hera’s Theme II
09. My Mistake – Video
10. All That Heaven Allows
11. Pain Will Polish Me
12. Perfect Secret

The video for the song was directed by Luke Bather, he shared this about it: “Our initial starting point was, predictably, the New German Cinema movement. However, when we discussed the themes of the song in more depth, the video evolved into its own beast. Sex, death, repressed desire, and good old-fashioned Catholic Guilt all loom large in the video through a series of performance vignettes inspired by everything from the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder through to the paintings of Francis Bacon and everything in between. Adding to this, we have the spectre of Carson haunting the video as a ghostly analogue broadcast interspersed with archival footage of Berlin in the 1970s; an inescapable reminder of the past and a nod to the original New German Cinema movement.”

Jessica Weiss shared this about it: “The video sets the emotional tone for the record, suspended between eroticism and nightmare. It draws on cropped mirror framing – a favourite device of Douglas Sirk used to explore themes of emotional and physical entrapment and characters’ inner psychological conflicts – moments of dissociation, and the television as a symbol of alienation, inspired by my perennial inspiration, RW Fassbinder.”

RIP Magic have shared a new single, “5Words”, to be released on March 6th via DFA Records.

The song is produced by James Murphy (the “singer” from LCD Soundsystem). Furthermore the band will go on tour with Fcuckers as support.

Ora Cogan has shared the first single, “Honey”, off her upcoming album “Hard Hearted Woman” out March 13th via Sacred Bones.

TRACKLIST:

1. Honey
2. The Smoke
3. Division
4. Bury Me
5. Limits
6. Love You Better
7. River Rise
8. Believe in the Devil
9. Outgrowing
10. Too Late

The video for the song was directed by Paloma Ruiz-Hernandez, she shared this about it: “The idea was to enter into an existence of absurdity where everyone is simultaneously isolated in their own loneliness and drowning in collective longing and lust.”

Thundercat has shared the first single, “I Did This To Myself”, off his upcoming fifth album “Distracted” out April 3rd via Brainfeeder.

TRACKLIST
1. Candlelight
2. No More Lies (feat. Tame Impala)
3. She Knows Too Much (feat. Mac Miller)
4. I Did This To Myself (feat. Lil Yachty)
5. Funny Friends (feat. A$AP Rocky)
6. What Is Left To Say
7. I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time
8. Anakin Learns His Fat
9. Walking On The Moon
10. This Thing We Call Love (feat. Channel Tres)
11. ThunderWave (feat. WILLOW)
12. Pozole
13. A.D.D. Through The Roof
14. Great Americans
15. You Left Without Saying Goodbye

The single features Lil’ Yachty and production from Flying Lotus.

The album was made in collaboration with Greg Kurstin, with additional production from Flying Lotus, Kenneth Blume (fka Kenny Beats), and The Lemon Twigs. It also features contributions from A$AP Rocky, Willow, Channel Tres, Lil Yachty, the late Mac Miller and unfortunately for whatever reason Tame Impala is also on the album.