Last Lizard (Alex Zhang Hungtai / Dirty Beaches) has released a new album, “Swimming Bird”.
TRACKLIST:
1. Side A (22:21) 2. Side B (17:49)
https://alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com/album/swimming-bird
The album was inspired by The last song of the Kaua’i O’o’ bird. The album was written and performed by Alex Zhang Hungtai and it was recorded live at the LA River in Los Angeles, CA and Meserole, Brooklyn. The album was mixed and mastered by Michael Beharie.
LIES have shared a new single, “Camera Chimera”, which is out now via Polyvinyl.
The video was directed by the POND creative. Rachel Cabbit of POND Creative shared: “Our inspiration for the video started with the meaning behind the creature of the single title, a chimera, or a mythical hybrid creature. Through the lens of the viewer, we wanted Nate and Mike to become more and more distorted as the video went on, a hybrid form of themselves. We leaned into our abstract analog technique of printing and scanning thousands of frames to further the distortion to create a mysterious lo-fi visual that lives alongside LIES’ new releases.”
Mike Kinsella shared this in a press release: “‘Camera Chimera’ is about the scary, and often crippling, side effects of interacting / existing on social media. It’s about not only feeling manipulated by others, but also being confronted with the reality and consequences of your own lies and manipulation, and how that can mentally and emotionally cause one to spiral.”
Milan Records today announces the release of BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE NETFLIX FILM), an album of music by BRYCE DESSNER and ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU. Available Friday, December 9.
TRACKLIST:
1. Back to the Womb
2. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Esquivel
3. Mateo’s Freedom
4. Absurd Metals
5. El Día De Mi Suerte – Orquesta Pavel Urkiza & Luis Bofill
6. Liminal
7. Father Ghost
8. Let’s Dance – David Bowie
9. Dreaming a Dream
10. Migration Dreams
11. Aguanile – Orquesta Pavel Urkiza & Luis Bofill
12. Lost Silbido
13. Mi Niña (Acapella Version) – José José
14. Silbido Tlayacapan
15. Silverio Last Train
16. La Pava Congona – Andrés Landero
17. In the Cage (Excerpt) – Genesis
18. Aquarium
19. Salsa y Bembé – Joe Cuba Sextet
20. Bardo Finale
21. Juanga
22. Qué Lio – Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe
23. Mirror Lamento
24. Los Aretes de la Luna – La Sonora Mantacera
25. Silbido Arpa Jarocha / Silbido a Cappella
Bryce Dessner shared this: “Early in the process of Bardo and before shooting began, Alejandro and I began talking about what the music for the film could sound like. What might the melody of the film be? What sounds would we hear in the world of Bardo? We started exchanging ideas, including field recordings and melodies Alejandro would whistle to himself, first on scouting locations and later on set as he began to shoot the film. These fragments of melodic ideas along with the sketches I had begun making would start to take seed and grow into the vast musical landscape that envelopes the film. Eventually we met in Los Angeles to work directly as we finished the details of each composition. The music moves between very simple brass pieces, to very layered complex orchestral and electronic pieces and everywhere in between. We recorded the score in Mexico at the beautiful Sony Music Studios in Mexico City and Topetitud Studio in Coyocan. The process of recording the music for Bardo and working with amazing Mexican musicians, including Brass bands from Oaxaca and musicians from the National Symphony, in the studio was an incredible joy for me and something I will remember for the rest of my life.”
Lust For Youth have released their first single, “Accidental Win”, off their upcoming new album via Sacred Bones.
This is their first music since 2019’s self-titled album that saw the band go from a three piece to a duo.
Billy Nomates has shared the 4th single, “spite”, off the upcoming album “Cacti” out January 13th via Invada Records.
TRACKLIST:
1. balance is gone
2. black curtains in the bag
3. blue bones (deathwish)
4. CACTI
5. saboteur forcefield
6. roundabout sadness
7. spite
8. fawner
9. same gun
10. vertigo
11. apathy is wild
12. blackout signal
The video was directed by NWSPK.
Billy Nomates shared this about the album: “Writing CACTI took just over a year. I wrote very intensely and then none at all. This seems to be the way I work best. I picked up old drum machines, mapped out things in my kitchen with the same small micro keyboard I always use and then raided the cupboards and rooms at Invada Studios, to play and experiment with old synths, an upright piano, this weird organ thing. I hope everyone finds their own narrative in CACTI. I think it’s about surviving it all.”
John Waters has released a 7″ via Sub Pop, “It’s In The Books” b/w “Proud New Father”.
The single features Waters covering a stand-up routine recorded and made famous by midwestern US comedian /actor / musician Johnny Standley in 1952.
Waters jokes that he chose to press the new single on gold vinyl so that he can at last be able to claim, “I’ve made a ‘Gold Record’.”
Taleen Kali has released a new single, “Fine Line”, off their new album “Flower Of Life” out March 3rd via Dum Dum Records.
Taleen Kali shared this about the song: “”Fine Line” kicks off side B of the record. I wanted to explore the ways we feel marked by love and pain. How much of an impact the smallest of impressions can make. And how they can feel when they fade. I wrote this song in the summer of 2018 right when the last album Soul Songs was coming out. The process of putting out my first solo record was so strange and cathartic that a handful of new songs just came spilling out during that time, and this was the first one. I really wanted there to be a demarcation for side B of Flower of Life so “Fine Line” is written in a minor key, setting the tone for the 2nd half of the album.”
Gaz Coombes has shared a new single, “Long Live The Strange”, off his upcoming album “Turn The Car Around” out January 13tg via Hot Fruit.
TRACKLIST:
Overnight Trains
Don’t Say It’s Over
Feel Loop (Lizard Dream)
Long Live the Strange
Not the Only Things
Turn the Car Around
This Love
Sonny the Strong
Dance On
The video was directed by Niall Trask and he shares this about it: “When I was brought onto the project, Gaz had already been living amongst the community of mannequins for several months. His knowledge of them allowed me to have no issues directing them nor overcome the language barrier. The whole process was fascinating and certainly a culture shock; coming from South London, I found the silence and stillness almost deafening. It’s certainly one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had as a filmmaker”.
Gaz shared what the inspiration behind the song was: “The Cavetown show, which I attended with my daughter, had a big impact on me. It was what live performance is all about, connecting with an audience that consists of anybody and everybody who wants to be part of it. It’s fully inclusive and I found that quite powerful.”
††† have released a new single, “Sensation”, off their upcoming EP “PERMANENT.RADIANT” out December 9th.
TRACKLIST:
01. Sensation
02. Vivien
03. Cadavre Exquis
04. Day One
05. Holier
06. Procession
The video was directed by Shaun Lopez and Lorenzo Diego Carrera.
Chino Moreno shared this: “There are certain sounds that we’re drawn to, and that has quite a lot to do with the music we grew up listening to. Shaun and I have pretty similar tastes. It’s about using all of those influences, but not making something that sounds like it has been made for today or is trying to sound like the past. We’re just taking those influences and running them through us. The moods that we try to create tend to come from quite a stark place. It’s not the most colourful music in the world, but once we tap into it it’s hard to go anywhere else. We just dive deeper into the darkness. We just run with it. It feels organic.”
i think i better follow you around 