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Rebelski has shared the second single, “Navigation”, off his upcoming album “Simplicity” out August 25th.

TRACKLIST:

01. Navigation
02. Hatchling
03. Transport
04. Chocolate
05. Desk
06. Arp
07. May
08. Tuesday
09. Wednesday
10. Patience
11. Existence
12. Longitude
13. Preparation
14. Friday
15. Break

Rebelski shares this about the album: “After several years of touring with DOVES, PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT and ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, I’ve found the time to go back to my roots and compose an ambient piano album.

Minimalism has always been close to my heart, and what better way to reflect this, by composing an album based purely and simply around the piano.

The medium of cassette is tactile, organic and a format that I grew up with and deeply love. This is the first time my music has been released on cassette.

I hope you find peace and enjoyment in this emotive body of work, that I have carefully put together.”

Explosions In The Sky have shared the first single, “Ten Billion People”, off what will be their upcoming and seventh album “END” to be released September 15th via Temporary Residency.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Ten Billion People”
02 “Moving On”
03 “Loved Ones”
04 “Peace Or Quiet”
05 “All Mountains”
06 “The Fight”
07 “It’s Never Going To Stop”

The band shared this about the album: “Our starting point was the concept of an ending—death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we’ve all expanded on and made its own world. Maybe it’s our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation—the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next.”

The band have announced some dates that will run thru parts of the USofA and UK and Europe.

Fever Ray has shared a new single” “North”, off her recently released album “Radical Romantics”.

The video was directed by Martin Falck. The song was co-produced by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor.

Karin Dreijer shared this about the song: “‘North’ is about the desire to find out what is true, the curiosity and courage to sit with the most difficult emotions. It’s about the task of weighing words against actions, of letting go and the stillness that comes afterward.”

Fever Ray also announced that she will go on a tour to support the album in select dates and cities.

Animal Collective has shared the first single, “Isn’t It Now?”, Off their new upcoming album “Soul Capturer” out September 29th via Domino.

TRACKLIST:

1. Soul Capturer
2. Genie’s Open
3. Broke Zodiac
4. Magicians From Baltimore
5. Defeat
6. Gem & I
7. Stride Rite
8. All The Clubs Are Broken
9. King’s Walk

The band shared this thru a statement: “Lots of space has been traversed in order for us to offer you word of our new record release. As usual words can’t describe how we feel about getting it out to you but ‘more than ecstatic’ is a good place to start.”

Nation Of Language has shared the fourth single, “Too Much, Enough”, off their upcoming album “Strange Disciple” out September 15th via PIAS.

The video was directed by Robert Kolodny.

Nation Of Language shared this about the inspiration for the song and video: “Too Much, Enough” is a song born out of an exhaustion with the 24 hour news cycle and the outrage bait it uses to get everyone permanently wound up. It seems the only way to find an edge in the media business is to appeal to our most base instincts of disgust (see: the high ratings of Fox News, etc.), and we end up suffering both individually and collectively for it.

When it came to creating a visual to go alongside the song, we didn’t want the music video to be its own form of outrage bait so we went with a more absurdist approach, gathering some friends of ours, and of our incredible director Robert Kolodny, to make something fun and outlandish to that effect. We also laced the video with as many NOL-related Easter eggs and iconography as possible to give anyone watching an opportunity to play along at home and be a part of that absurdity. It felt good to try to name a problem for ourselves without leaning on fear and rage.

It’s a powerful thing to deny someone the ability to manipulate your most destructive emotions, and that’s something we want to celebrate here.

The overarching theme of Strange Disciple is infatuation and how one’s reality can be warped by it. We went a more romantic route with that on the previous video, but News is one of those less interpersonal activities it feels like everyone takes part in, so we wanted to show our disciple is just as susceptible to it as any other figure.”

CHAI has released the third single, “NEO KAWAII, K”, off their upcoming self-titled album out September 22nd via Sub Pop.

TRACKLIST:

01 Matcha
02 From 1992
03 Para Para
04 Game
05 We the Female!
06 Neo Kawaii, K?
07 I Can’t Organizeeee
08 Driving22
09 Like, I Need
10 Karaoke

The video for “NEO KAWAII, K” was directed by Chiharu Shimura (GLASSLOFT).

MANA shared this about the song: “‘Neo Kawaii’ is about reclaiming self-esteem. Everyone is NEO KAWAII! This is CHAI’s answer, this is a fact in this world! We can finally say what it really means to us. Everyone’s a bit weird. Everyone’s different. Everyone’s awkward, almost to a point that it’s hard to relate. But that’s what’s interesting! That’s what makes it beautiful. To everyone who’s pushed around by these notions, we want to tell you this! We, and all of our lives, are NEO KAWAII! NEO KAWAII is not just plain KAWAII (cute)- it’s cool, it’s strong, it’s kind, it’s warm! Don’t get it mixed up. Hey! NEO KAWAII people! NEO KAWAII needs no preparation. We just want to say that you’re NEO KAWAII too, K?”

Glen Hansard has shared the first single, “The Feast Of St. John”, off his upcoming album “All That Was East Is West Of Me Now” out October 20th via ANTI-.

TRACKLIST:

1. The Feast Of St. John
2. Down On Our Knees
3. There’s No Mountain
4. Sure As The Rain
5. Between Us There Is Music
6. Ghost
7. Bearing Witness
8. Short Life
9. Outro

The video for the song was shot, edited and directed by Myles O’Reilly.

Hansard shared this about the album: “A song only becomes what it is through witness; the song finds a different way. So we set up 5 gigs at the local pub. I told no one. We set up in the corner and played to the locals, some of whom were only half listening. A collection of farmers and workers, dart players, pool sharks. I played two hours of new songs each week, some songs finished, some half-baked. Through this process I realized what I had and what I had to work on further – which songs landed and which ones were only good in my imagination. It solidified my choices right away. It was as if the album appeared in that bar. And not before.”

Crosses ††† have shared the first single, “Invisible Hand”, off their upcoming album “Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete” out October 13th.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Pleasure”
02 “Invisible Hand”
03 “Found”
04 “Light As A Feather”
05 “Pulseplagg”
05 “Runner”
06 “Big Youth” (Feat. El-P)
07 “End Youth (Reprise)”
08 “Last Rites”
09 “Ghost Ride”
10 “Grace”
11 “Eraser”
12 “Natural Selection”
13 “Girls Float † Boys Cry” (Feat. Robert Smith)
14 “Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.”

The video for the song “Invisible Hand” was co-directed by ††† band member Shaun Lopez and Lorenzo Carrera.

Chino Moreno shares this about “When we started working on Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete., there was so much more light coming in my life, for numerous reasons. There’s a lot more optimism. Even the darker themes are more romanticized and not coming from a place of despair.”

The band has announced some shows to support the album.

Wilco has shared the first single, “Evicted”, off their upcoming album “Cousin” out September 29th via dBpm.

TRACKLIST:

1. Infinite Surprise
2. Ten Dead
3. Levee
4. Evicted
5. Sunlight Ends
6. A Bowl And A Pudding
7. Cousin
8. Pittsburgh
9. Soldier Child
10. Meant To Be

Jeff Tweedy said this about the song: “I guess I was trying to write from the point of view of someone struggling to make an argument for themself in the face of overwhelming evidence that they deserve to be locked out of someone’s heart. Self-inflicted wounds still hurt and in my experience they’re almost impossible to fully recover from.”

Talking about the album Tweedy shared this: “I’m cousin to the world. I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage.”

Cate Le Bon, who produced the album, shared this about the album and the band: “The amazing thing about Wilco is they can be anything. They’re so mercurial, and there’s this thread of authenticity that flows through everything they do, whatever the genre, whatever the feel of the record. There aren’t many bands who are able to, this deep into a successful career, successfully change things up.”

Wilco will go on a month long USofA tour beginning late September and running thru late October.