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Zola Jesus has announced the release of her new album, “ARKHON”, out May 20th via Sacred Bones.

TRACKLIST:
1. Lost
2. The Fall
3. Undertow
4. Into The Wild
5. Dead and Gone
6. Sewn
7. Desire
8. Fault
9. Efemra
10. Do That Anymore

The first single/video, “Lost”, which is the album’s opening track was done by Mu Tunç and it was shot in Cappadocia. Zola Jesus shared this about it: “I wanted to shoot the video in a place that carried a lot of energy, with someone that I felt understood the spiritual backbone of the song. It was a surprisingly natural process to make this video with Mu Tunc in Turkey. I put my faith in him and in Cappadocia, a labyrinthine city built within 60 million-year-old caves. Throughout human history these caves have served as a citadel for so many different groups of people who went there to get lost. It is a testament to the resilience of humanity, and the durability of our earth.”

About the album’s title she shared this: “Arkons are a Gnostic idea of power wielded through a flawed god. They taint and tarnish humanity, keeping them corrupted instead of letting them find their harmonious selves. I do feel like we are living in an arkhonic time; these negative influences are weighing extremely heavy on all of us.”

No tour dates have been announced yet for the USofA (nor Tijuana).

Bauhaus have released a new single, “Drink The New Wine”. This is their first song together in 14 years.

The band, Peter Murphy, David J, Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, shared this about the song in a statement: “Drink The New Wine” was recorded last year during lockdown with the four members sharing audio files. The track employs the Surrealists’ ‘Exquisite Corpse’ device whereby each artist adds to the piece without seeing what the others have done. Bauhaus have used this technique in the past to great effect. The title refers to the very first Cadavre exquis’ drawing rendered by André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy which included words which when strung together made up the sentence, ‘Le cadavre exquis boiara le vin nouveau’ (‘The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.”) For the recording, the four musicians each had one minute and eight tracks at their disposal plus a shared sixty seconds plus four tracks for a composite at the end. All done without hearing what the others had laid down. The only common link being a prerecorded beat courtesy of Kevin. The final playback came as synchronistic revelation.”

Bauhaus have some shows lined up, no additional dates have been announced yet: May 14-15: Cruel World Festival, Pasadena, CA
May 17: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR
May 20: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
May 21: The Masonic, San Francisco, CA
May 22: The Masonic, San Francisco, CA
May 25: Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO
May 27: The Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ
June 4: Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Aug. 24: EDP Vilar de Mouros, Vilar de Mouros, Portugal
Sept. 8: Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
Sept. 9: Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY

The Smile have released a third single, “Skrting In The Surface”, off their debut album that will be released via XL Records.

The video for the song was directed by the BAFTA winner Mark Jenkin. The video was shot in Cornwall’s disused Rosevale Tin Mine. The film was hand developed in water from the mine because of art.

The song sounds like Radiohead because of course it does also the song did originate as a Radiohead song way back when (In Rainbows era) and now it has been revived with a beautiful orchestral arrangement from Jonny Greenwood. Also, the song was produced by Nigel Godrich and mixed by Mikko Gordon.

The Smile will tour from May to July around Europe. No dates have been announced yet for the USofA (nor Tijuana)

Moderat have shared the video for their new single, “Easy Prey”, off their new album “MORE D4TA” out May 13th via Monkeytown.

The video was directed by Cyprien Clément-Delmas. This is what the band shared about the song: “The only track on the album whose lyrics were written before the recording process began, it contemplates the relationship between love and independence, lamenting how vulnerable we become when the balance between the two tips too far towards the former. It’s a fraught tale, albeit a beautiful one, and a song where inner turmoil truly takes flight.”

Moderat will be doing what looks like a short, major city, tour and they will be playing San Diego (and LA) in September.

Tool have released their first video in 15 years. It is for “Opiate²” is a re-imagined and extended version of TOOL’s 1992 single “Opiate,” with both the song and video marking the 30th anniversary of the EP of the same name’s release.

A three-minute preview of the Blu-Ray short film is viewable here.

Housed in a 46-page art book with behind-the-scenes and making-of photos, the “Opiate2” Blu-ray also includes interviews and insights from special guests. Visual artist Dominic Hailstone (“Alien: Covenant”, “The Eel”) worked with Adam Jones on the 10-plus minute film. Hailstone and Jones also collaborated on the filmed pieces featured on the current Fear Inoculum tour.

Deserta has released their new album, Every Moment, Everything You Need” via Felte.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Lost In The Weight”
02 “I’m So Tired”
03 “Where Did You Go”
04 “Far From Over”
05 “It’s All A Memory”
06 “A World Without”
07 “Goodbye Vista”
08 “Visions”

Off the album he released 4 singles. “Lost On The Weight” and “I’m So Tired” and “Hide” and “Where Did You Go”.

Matthew Doty (Deserta) has announced a spring tour in support of the album.

He will be playing the Soda Bar April 28th.

Thom Yorke has released a new song, “5.17”, via XL Recordings.

An additional song, “That’s How Horses Are”, is scheduled to be released on April 3rd, which coincides with the series finale for Peaky Blinders. The song “5:17” was released today which is the same day that the final season of Peaky Blinders premieres.

Papercuts have shared a new single, “Lodger”, off their upcoming album “Past Life Regression” out April 1st via Slumberland.

The video for the song was done by Papercuts himself.

Jason Quever shared this about the song: “The song had a slight 60s pop inspiration, and I wanted to see if I could pull off a freakout in the middle that felt like an epiphany. Lyrically it’s inspired by a memory of feeling like a fling is just sort of passing through your life, and wondering if that’s all you are to them.“

He will be touring the EU/UK in support for Still Corners. No dates have yet been announced for the USofA (nor Tijuana).

Absent In Body have shared their third single, “Rise From Ruins”, off their album “Plague God” which will be released March 25th via Relapse Records.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Rise From Ruins
2. In Spirit In Spite
3. Sarin
4. The Acres/The Ache
5. The Half Rising Man

Mathieu Vandekerckhove shared this about the track: “The blueprints of most AIB songs were made when I was on tour with Amenra. Because of the long journeys, I had a lot of free time on the bus. Different landscapes every day. The emptiness of the mountains, the desolate empty cities at night…At one day, when recording the album, I had too much negative news and havoc on my socials shoved into my face. And the riff to this song was an instinctive reaction to that. I fought it off. This song is definitely a reflection of that moment, that day.”

ABSENT IN BODY formed in 2017, initially the brainchild of AMENRA guitarist Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove, and NEUROSIS vocalist/guitarist Scott Kelly. Immediately recognising their kinship, and with AMENRA frontman Colin H. Van Eeckhout brought in on vocals and bass, what emerged is a reflection of the intervening years of turbulence, extending it’s scope as it navigates across five stretches of unstable terrain. From the opening “Rise From Ruins” with ex-Sepultura drummer, Iggor Cavalera’s tribal beat emerging from foreboding, near-subsonic oscillations to explode in a tide of corrosive riffs and feral howls, through “Sarin’s” steadfast, procession-through-purgatory groove, to “The Half Rising Man’s” matrix of organic/mechanic evolution, it’s an album in constant dialogue between the animalistic, the human and the industrial, and a hunger to distill a truth, something unpolluted from the fray.