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Alabaster dePlume has shared a new song, “Gifts Of Olive”. The song references the Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza earlier this month at age 44, alongside his brother, sister, and four of her children.

Alabaster DePlume shared this about the track:
“At this specific time, may I reach you with appreciation, for I admire you for living, and I come to tell you I believe in you. I have faith in you. You are humanity and this time is in your hands. You survive moment by moment, while crimes are committed against you. And there is no state that can defeat you, no nation state, authority, project nor organisation on this earth can ultimately deny you, humanity. I am reaching to you with my love, and this little Christmas song, where at this time I feel grief. In case it voices a grief for you too, I love you.”

https://alabasterdeplume.bandcamp.com/track/gifts-of-olive

Birthmark have shared the second single, “Red Meadow”, off their upcoming 5th album “Birth Of Omni” out January 19th via Polyvinyl.

TRACKLIST:

01 “Snowflake In My Palm (Not For Long)”
02 “Butterfly”
03 “Birthday (Product Of Our Lust)”
04 “Rodney”
05 “Baby Wocha Come On Home”
06 “Boyfriend”
07 “Green Skies”
08 “Red Meadow”
09 “I’m Awake”
10 “Pretty Flowers”

The video was directed by Nate Kinsella (Birthmark). Nate Kinsella other projects include LIES, Joan Of Arc, American Football, Make Believe.

Kinsella had this to say about the song: “When my wife and I were overwhelmed with tending to our new child our romantic relationship dwindled to the point where it felt like the pilot light had gone out. This wasn’t a huge surprise given the circumstances, but the gap between us began to manifest in ways I hadn’t foreseen. This song is about lamenting that loss and feeling conflicted by what our new lives as parents had brought us and the need to rebalance the emotional ecosystem of our lives.”

Topographies have shared a new single, “Night Sea”, off their upcoming “Interior Spring” out February 2nd via Dark Entries.

TRACKLIST:

1. Night Sea
2. Arch
3. Cleanse
4. Chain Of Days
5. Never Understand
6. Interior Spring
7. Tied
8. 1959
9. Red-Black Sun
10. Face Of Another

On “Interior Spring” Topographies explore themes of guilt, inherited trauma, and recovery. The meaning of its title is triplicate: a submerged river carrying hope, an anxiously wound clock, and a season where wildflowers bloom on the graves of the past.

Through these ten songs, the group (Justin Oronos, Jeremie Ruest, and Gray Tolhurst) hopes to present the idea that freedom is not an escape but an embrace of the quotidian beauty of human life.

Future Islanda have shared the fourth single, “The Fight”, off their upcoming album “People Who Aren’t There Anymore” out January 26th via 4AD

TRACKLIST:

1. King of Sweden
2. The Tower
3. Deep In The Night
4. Say Goodbye
5. Give Me The Ghost Back
6. Corner Of My Eye
7. The Thief
8. Iris
9. The Fight
10. Peach
11. The Sickness
12. The Garden Wheel

The video for the song was directed by Jayla Smith.

El Perro Del Mar has shared the second single, “Kiss Of Death”, off the upcoming album “Big Anonymous”.

TRACKLIST:

01. Underworld
02. Suburban Dreams
03. Cold Dark Pond
04. In Silence
05. The Truth the Dead Know
06. Between You and Me Nothing
07. Please Stay (Anonymous Version)
08. One More Time
09. Wipe Me Off This Earth
10. Kiss of Death

The video was directed by Joseph Kadow. The video for “Kiss of Death” comes with a segment from the larger “Big Anonymous” art / horror film written by El Perro del Mar, longtime collaborator, stylist Nicole Walker and director/editor/photographer Joseph Kadow.

Sarah Assbring (El Perro Del Mar) shared this about the song: “I think of the album as a journey into the Underworld and back. “Kiss of Death” is about returning to the world of the living, scarred but with the insight of how close death is. Loss is a scar. We should carry it with us; not as a threat but as a promise of making the most of the time we’re here.”

Planet B have shared a new single, “Sick On The Dance Floor”, off their upcoming second album “Fiction Prediction” out February 9th via Three One G.

TRACKLIST:
01. Dick On the Dance Floor
02. Clogged Sync (feat. Eric Livingston and Ethan Campa)
03. The Baader Review (feat. Crow Jane)
04. The Bouquet (feat. D-Styles)
05. Terrible Purpose (feat. Ric Scales)
06. Horror Movie Called Civilization (feat. Tommy Meehan)
07. Filthy Suitcase
08. Goals Gone Wild (feat. Tommy Meehan)
09. Rack More Brains (feat. Kent Osborne)
10. Unreal Estate (feat. David Scott Stone)
11. Let Me Explain This Again (feat. Josie Cotton and Gabe Serbian)

The video for the song was shot by Becky DiGiglio and edited by Displaced/Replaced.

Justin Pearson shared this about the song: “There are plenty of proverbial dicks on the metaphorical dance floor of the planet. Anything from your average racists pricks to big pharma, like Pfizer or Roche. Take your pick when you are dancing through life, and if you get a chance, slash their tires in the parking lot on your way out. At this point, they deserve it.”

Delaney Davidson has shared the first single, “Don’t Walk Away From Love”, off his upcoming 10th album “Out Of My Head” out March 22nd via Rough Diamond.

The video was directed by Delaney Davidson and Martin Sagadin.

Delaney shared this about the album: “These songs felt like they fit together. Mostly solo with some co writes too. I had a real odd bunch of collaborators, things written with Hayley Westenra, a song with Sam Scott, one with Marlon and a song with Miranda Eastern.

Bringing Merk into the co production role brought a flavour that felt like it fitted with my darker sentimental style. His musicality and focus really extended the songs into some beautiful territory. He also made me slow down a lot which was counter intuitive but also a really nice way to work”

Grandaddy has shared the second single, “Cabin In My Mind”, off their upcoming album “Blu Wav” which will be out February 16 via Dangerbird Records.

TRACKLIST:

1. Blu Wav
2. Cabin in My Mind
3. Long as I’m Not the One
4. You’re Going to Be Fine and I’m Going to Hell
5. Watercooler
6. Let’s Put this Pinto on the Moon
7. On a Train or Bus
8. Jukebox App
9. Yeehaw Ai in the Year 2025
10. Ducky, Boris and Dart
11. East Yosemite
12. Nothin’ to Lose
13. Blu Wav Buh Bye

The video for the song was directed by Aaron Beckum.

Jason Lytle shared this about the song: “A while back I was traveling with a friend, doing some shows and just riffing, and he came up with this phrase. It made so much sense to me and had so many things just within the title itself: shutting off and just, like, going inward. It’s fun to imagine literally a cabin inside your mind. ‘I’m out of here, see ya, guys’ and you walk in the front door, shut the door and disappear for a while.’ It was perfect like an old country song where the title says everything. I remembered the phrase, and it was easy for me to pick it up and just make it work.”

The Jesus And Mary Chain have shared the first single, “jamcod”, off their new album “Glasgow Eyes” out March 8th via Fuzz Club.

TRACKLIST:

1. Venal Joy
2. American Born
3. Mediterranean X Film
4. jamcod
5. Discotheque
6. Pure Poor
7. The Eagles and The Beatles
8. Silver Strings
9. Chemical Animal
10. Second of June
11. Girl 71
12. Hey Lou Reid

The video was edited and directed by Ben Unwind.

Jim Reid shares this: “Hopefully people will expect a Jesus and Mary Chain record, and that’s certainly what Glasgow Eyes is. Our creative approach is remarkably the same as it was in 1984, just hit the studio and see what happens. We went in with a bunch of songs and let it take its course. There are no rules, you just do whatever it takes. And there’s a telepathy there, we are those weird not-quite twins that finish each other’s sentences.”

The Jesus And Mary Chain will go on tour to support the album starting March of 2024 and will continue to April. No dates, other than the Cruel World Fest on May 11th, have been announced for the USofA (nor Tijuana) yet.