Squid have shared a new single, “Fugue (Bin Song)”, the song was recorded during the “O Monolith” sessions but did not make the cut for the LP.
Ollie Judge shared this about the idea of selling mixtapes at their upcoming USofA show, which have support form Water From Your Eyes: “It’s an antidote to the immediateness of music consumption nowadays. It features music by friends and people I admire, probably best to be played at nighttime whilst sat on your favorite chair.”
Beth Gibbons has announced the release of the first single, “Floating On A Moment”, off her upcoming debut solo album “Lives Outgrown” out May 17th via Domino Records.
TRACKLIST:
1. Tell Me Who You Are Today
2. Floating On A Moment
3. Burden Of Life
4. Lost Changes
5. Rewind
6. Reaching Out
7. Oceans
8. For Sale
9. Beyond The Sun
10. Whispering Love
The video for the song was directed by Tony Oursler. He shared this about the video: “When I first heard ‘Floating On A Moment’ it literally transported me from place to place, filling me with kaleidoscopic emotions and visions. If possible, I wanted to capture that psychic liquid in this video. Beth’s work is so powerful it can lead us through life’s forests and fires, revealing glimpses of possible futures. With a voice and music like that I knew we had to make images which are open, somehow speculative.”
Beth Gibbons shared this: “I realized what life was like with no hope. And that was a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do. People started dying. When you’re young, you never know the endings, you don’t know how it’s going to pan out. You think: we’re going to get beyond this. It’s going to get better. Some endings are hard to digest. Now I’ve come out of the other end, I just think, you’ve got to be brave.”
Beth Gibbons announced a series of live performances, all of them in Europe and the UK. No live dates for the USofA (nor Tijuana) have been announced yet.
Water From Your Eyes have shared a new single, “Out There”, off their recently released album “Everyone’s Crushed” out via Matador Records.
The video was directed by Sophia Feur and Tyler Macri and they shared this about it: “When we heard “Out There” for the first time, we connected with its intensity, and the feelings of pent-up energy and confinement it inspired. When we got to talking with Rachel and Nate about their vision for the album we sensed an overlap between their music and our visual inclinations as filmmakers; decaying consumer destinations, shopping centers, fluorescent hallways, that sort of thing. Keeping all of that in mind, we decided to use an old family-owned pet store in Queens for our primary location. The animals and well-worn look of things brought the emotion of the song to life for us, and we were able to approach the video in much the same way we do our 16mm documentary work”.
TRZTN has written the score for the new movie “The Seeding” which was directed by Barnaby Clay, Karen O’s husband. And now they’ve shared a song off the score, “Alina’s Lullaby”.
Karen O shared this about the song: “I was happy to add my touch; a tender lullaby, with a subliminal “off” quality. The first rendition of “Mother’s Song” was in gibberish; Barny liked the idea of the words being in an old dialect from Eastern Europe. Through a friend of a friend, Tristan tracked down an English priest who was a missionary in Romania who knew Romani Chib. Tristan recorded the priest, who had the loveliest countenance, translating a poem that Barney had written for the film, and from the lot I formulated the lyrics. The “cuckoo” part of the song was an idea I had from a Brazilian song about a bird that Barney’s mother used to sing to him when he was little. I loved the idea of this lullaby feeling authentically passed down from generations and in its own way was deeply personal to Barney’s own origin story. I’m also pleased to be following a lineage of horror film lullabies, deliciously skewed by their context. Rosemary’s Baby lullaby being the holy grail of course.”
TRZTN’s score for The Seeding also features Einstürzende Neubauten’s F.M. Einheit and cellist Okkyung Lee.
The movie synopsis reads: A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off-grid who is captive to a pack of sadistic boys.
https://youtu.be/cILLMZoXiCY
The Victoriana have shared a new single, “Violets Of Your Neck”, out now as a 7″ via Dream Recordings.
TRACKLIST:
a) Violets Of Your Neck
b) These Sickly Flowers
https://thevictoriana.bandcamp.com/track/violets-of-your-neck
The press release says this of the song: “Recorded and produced during the start of the Covid lockdowns at Moon Palace Studios by Chris King (Cold Showers, Kaitak), these two tracks elaborate some of The Victoriana’s manifold romanti-goth proclivities. The first, “Violets of Your Neck,” is an obsessive ballad to a love in whose proximity, the Fountain of Youth is produced, leaving you as immortal as the violets in her perfume. “(These) Sickly Flowers,” is a desperately ambivalent self-improvement plea, pictured as a wicked garden watered by our darker aspects, overgrown and paradoxically attractive and repellent”.
Prefuse 73 has shared the first single, “A Lord Without Jewels”, off his upcoming album “New Strategies For Modern Crime Vol. 1” out March 22nd via Lex Records.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Forever Chase (Scene One)”
02 “A Lord Without Jewels”
03 “Clean Up Scene Apprentice”
04 “The End Of Air”
05 “She Needs No Introduction”
06 “Onboard, Overboard”
07 “Fare La Corna”
08 “Full Recollection”
09 “Lullabies And Awakenings”
10 “Empath Lords”
11 “Desperate Demise”
12 “Wrong Suspect”
Lex Records shared this about the release: “‘New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol. 1’ sees Herren delving further into his ground breaking take on experimental hip-hop through orchestrated arrangements via the optic of the media’s sensationalism of crime, blended with influences from lost soundtracks, musique concrète, jazz and beat-tape music to create something wholly unique”.
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis have teamed up and released a song, “Emergence”, off their upcoming self titled album out March 15th via Impulse! Records.
TRACKLIST:
1. L’Orso
2. Emergence
3. That Thang
4. Three Sisters
5. Boatly
6. The Time Is The Place
7. Railroad Tracks Home
8. Aesthenia
9. Fourth Wall
The video for the song was edited and directed by Brendan Cantu and shot by Dan Sharnoff.
James Brandon Lewis shared this about it: “The way I revere them, Joe Lally and Brendan Canty, is the same way that I revere playing with Jamaaladeen Tacuma or playing with William Parker. It’s a certain road experience that you can’t get in school. It’s like a well-oiled machine playing with them. Also, since day one of knowing Anthony Pirog, me and him just fit.”
They did promise to go on a full tour and promote the album and so far they have shared these dates.
Elbow have shared the first single, “Lover’s Leap”, off their upcoming album “Audio Vertigo” out March 22nd.
TRACKLIST
01 “Things I’ve Been Telling Myself For Years”
02 “Lovers’ Leap”
03 “(Where Is It?)”
04 “Balu”
05 “Very Heaven”
06 “Her To The Earth”
07 “The Picture”
08 “Poker Face”
09 “Knife Fight”
10 “Embers Of Day”
11 “Good Blood Mexico City”
12 “From The River”
Guy Garvey shared this about the song: “the song is designed not to reflect but distract from the bad things happening in the world. We found seedy, gnarly grooves playing in back rooms and those pulled some dark memories and plenty of humor from me.”
Elbow have a few live dates announced and they’re all in the UK in the month of May with The Weave opening up for them. No additional dates have been announced yet.
Jlin has shared the first single, “The Precision Of Infinity”, off her new album “Akoma” out March 22nd via Planet Mu.
TRACKLIST:
01 Borealis (ft. Björk)
02 Speed Of Darkness
03 Summon
04 Iris
05 Open Canvas
06 Challenge (To Be Continued II)
07 Eye Am
08 Auset
09 Sodalite (ft. Kronos Quartet)
10 Grannie’s Cherry Pie
11 The Precision Of Infinity (ft. Philip Glass)
https://jlin.bandcamp.com/album/akoma?t=11
Jlin shared this about the album: “To all the incredible collaborators on this record, your brilliance shines through every sound. Philip Glass, your mastery left an indelible mark; Bjork, your genius uniqueness inspired unparalleled creativity; Kronos Quartet, for your constant drive and virtuosity; [artist, sculptor, and designer] Florence To, for your ethics in family, honesty, vision and understanding.”
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