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Whores have shared the first single, “Quitters Fight Songs”, off their upcoming album “War” out April 16th via The Ghost Is Clear Records.

TRACKLIST:

01  “Malinches”
02  “Quitter’s Fight Song”
03  “Hieronymus Bosch Was Right”
04  “Hostage Therapy”
05  “Back When I Was A Savage”
06  “Sicko”
07  “The Death Of A Stuntman”
08  “Every Day Is Leg Day”
09  “Imposter Syndrome”
10  “Savage Reprise”

The video for the song was shot, edited and directed by Whitey McConnaughy.

Whores released this statement about the record: “It’s difficult to put into words how excited we are to get this record released. Once again, Ryan Boesch knocked it out of the park. He’s basically a member of our band at this point. And a massive thank you to Whitey McConnaughy for making this video happen top to bottom bottom purely out of his love for our band. It means a whole lot. Let’s get to work.”

Owen has shared the first single, “Beaucoup”, off his upcoming album “The Falls Of Sioux” out April 26th via Polyvinyl.

TRACKLIST:
01 “A Reckoning”
02 “Beaucoup”
03 “Hit And Run”
04 “Cursed ID”
05 “Virtue Misspent”
06 “Mount Cleverest”
07 “Qui Je Plaisante?”
08 “Penny”
09 “With You Without You”

The video for the song was filmed, edited and directed by Weird Life Films.

Mike Kinsella shares this about the song: “I’m not sure if ‘Beaucoup’ is a lusty Love Song or a lovely Lust Song. Everyone at Weird Life did a great job capturing the seedy side of it, as well as the shimmery / flirty side, visually hitting (and bending) the same note between the notes for the music video.”

Owen has a tour lined up that will run from late April until the end of August.

Burial has announced a new release, “Dreamfear” and “Boy Sent From Above”, out February 9th via XL Recordings.

TRACKLIST:

a) Dreamfear
b) Boy Sent From Above

XL Recordings shared this: “The Burial 12” will be released on February 9 on vinyl and digitally. The two tracks on it are called “Dreamfear” and “Boy Sent From Above.” Earlier this week, a limited-edition run of the 12″ started appearing in record stores.

Sunny Day Real Estate have released a new song, “Novum Vetus”, it’s included in the 30th anniversary release of “Diary (Love At London Bridge Studio)”.

The song “Novum Vetus” originated during the sessions for 1998 LP “How It Feels To Be Something On”. For the “Diary” re-record, Jeremy Enigk, Dan Hoerner, and William Goldsmith recorded it at London Bridge Studios.

Sunny Day Real Estate will go on a tour in support of the release starting in March, however, they only have a few dates announced so far with a possibility of adding a few more.

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”.