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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.”

Ed O’Brien has shared the second single, “Incantations”, off his upcoming solo album “Blue Morpho” out May 22nd.

Ed O’Brien shared this about the album: “Hello you, I hope you’re holding up -thriving, even, when you can. These feel like very strange and turbulent times to be living through. And yet, here we all are, still making things, and still trying to reach out to one another.
have a new solo album coming out on May 22nd. It is called Blue Morpho. It was cO-written and produced with Paul Epworth and Riley Macintyre, and mixed by Ben Baptie. I’m grateful for the extraordinary players who helped make it come alive Philip Selway, Dave Okumu, ESKA, Shabaka Hutchings, Nick Ramm, Dan See, Crispin Spry Robinson, Yves Fernandez, Luke Mullen, and others. Musicians whose presence changes everything.

There’s a short film too, shot in Wales, where much of the album was written, recorded and dreamt up. These songs came out of a dark place, but as Wendell Berry writes, ‘the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.’ There was deep beauty and a profound sense of grace in that place.”

Spencer Krug has shared a new single, “Berserker Mode”, off his upcoming album “Same Fangs” out May 15th.

Spencer Krug shared this about the song: “‘Berserker Mode’ started as a solo piano song for my Patreon page. The kinetic nature of the repeating riff is quite physically fun to play on piano, and I think the lyrics about watching a friend (or yourself?) fall into the same self-made pitfalls over and over again in life are alright, but I wasn’t sure about adding the song to this album just because of how short and simple it is. It wasn’t until Em [Elbow Kiss] added their vocal harmonies that I knew the song was a keeper. They really brought the song to life for me. The eleventh-hour addition of percussion didn’t hurt either. I can’t wait to do this one on tour.”

Smerz have shared a new single, “Spring Summer”, off their upcoming EP “Easy” which will be out May 15th via Escho.

TRACKLIST:
01 Somewhere
02 Spring Summer
03 Spring Summer 3 Beat
04 Its Here
05 Somewhere 2
06 The Room You Described

Smerz shared this about the EP via a press release: “At the tail end of finishing “Big City Life” last year, we made the song ‘Easy’ and from there went off on a tangent. Many of “Big City Life’s” songs are rooted in specific stories, this Easy EP presented itself in a more open-ended process almost like a daily journal. It began as a snapshot of a moment, one that was about to become our spring last year, and was finished moving into spring of 2026.”

Man/Woman/Chainsaw have shared the second single, “Nosedive”, off what will be their debut album “Cannonball” out August 7th via Fiction Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. Only Girl
2. Canyons
3. Goddamn, Lizard Man!
4. Lighter
5. Nosedive
6. Get Up and Dance
7. Snakebite
8. Flick of the Wrist
9. The Thing
10. Still Angry
11. Something Else to Give

Emmie Mae Avery shared this about the song: “It’s a song about longing for both comfort and freedom simultaneously in a relationship through the metaphor of being an injured bird needing shelter. We turned it into a danceable upbeat track, which made the tone shift throughout the song as though you find a way to pick yourself up and fly away.”

Failure have shared a new single, “The Rising Skyline, off their upcoming album”Location Lost” out April 24th.

Ken Andrews shared this about the song: “Failure doesn’t do a lot of collaborations, but my friendship with Hayley, and her long standing support of the band, turned this song into a very satisfying duet. It’s probably the most delicate song we’ve ever done and her vocal approach really brought that out.”

The band will go on a fall tour starting at the end of September.

Eternal Dream Machine have shared their debut single, “Halle Doo-Wah”, off their upcoming EP.

The video for the song was directed and edited by Ricky Soltero.

Soltero shared this about the song: “”Halle Doo-Wah” is the hypnotic title track that spirals between gospel, hallucination and feedback ritual. It hums like a broken prayer stuck in an eternal loop. It burns straight into “Baptism of Fire,” a scorched sermon of distortion and rhythm before dissolving into “Slip Away.” a ghostly Comedown when time folds in on itself and disappears.
Three movements One Dream No Return.”

The band shares this about the release: “This is the first single of a 7” record that is coming this summer. We have kept it hush hush but it will be through Styrofoam Records!

The 3 song EP  includes band members Aldair Cerezo (former Vaya Futuro), Albert Sanchez (Wild Wild Wets/Kid Gruesome) and Ever de la Rosa (former Polux). The EP was recorded by Andrew Montoya of the Sess!”

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.”