Alfredo & Edeath, are a couple of music lovers who met later in life but grew up loving almost the same bands and hating others but always listening to music, old and new, and apart from collecting vinyl and books and going to see every good band coming to town, (or a few miles away), got together and created "I think i better follow you around", a website/music blog, where they share all the music they like and help promote upcoming concerts, local bands from San Diego and Tijuana and amazing artists from around the world.
I think I better follow you around is an independent project.
Thee Sacred Souls have shared their last single, “Lady Love”, before the release of their self-titled album out August 26th via Daptone Records.
Track list:
1. Can I Call You Rose? 2. Lady Love 3. Easier Said Than Done 4. Overflowing 5. Trade of Hearts 6. Weak For Your Love 7. Future Lover 8. Sorrow For Tomorrow 9. For Now 10. Once You Know 11. Happy And Well 12. Love Comes Easy
The album was produced by Bosco Mann, Daptone co-founder Gabriel Roth. Thee Sacred Souls is a warm and textured record, mixing the easygoing grace of sweet ’60s soul with the grit and groove of early ’70s R&B, hints of Chicano, Philly, Chicago, Memphis, and even Panama soul turn up. There’s something distinctly modern about the band that defies easy categorization, a rawness and a sincerity that transcends time and place.
Bill Callahan has announced the release of his upcoming album, “YTI⅃AƎЯ”, out in October via Drag City.
TRACKLIST: 01 “First Bird” 02 “Everyway” 03 “Bowevil” 04 “Partition” 05 “Lily” 06 “Naked Souls” 07 “Coyotes” 08 “Drainface” 09 “Natural Information” 10″ The Horse” 11 “Planets” 12 “Last One At The Party”
Bill said this about the album: I wanted to make a record that addressed or reflected the current climate. It felt like it was necessary to rouse people — rouse their love, their kindness, their anger, rouse anything in them. Get their senses working again. I guess there was already plenty of anger! But we needed a better anger. To get out of this hypnagogic state. Hypnagogic rage. Disassociated rage that destroys the community and leaves only the individual eating themselves alive instead of feeding others. We were born to feed others. We have milk, breasts. We have language, tongues. We have music, ears. All to feed. At the time it felt like we were coming out of something, getting clear of it. So I was picturing songs that would make sense to take before an audience at this crucial juncture, venturing out, where things could go either way. A reintroduction to the basics of life. Of human interaction. Face to face. A new clear vision. A new way. Which is probably just an old way we’d abandoned somewhere back there as we retreated into our screened, blindered existence. Sometimes you forget the most basic things. The biggest things! And it just takes a little nudge to get your head back on track. I wanted sounds and words that made you feel and that lifted you up. But first there was a need to bond, to clear the air. Or to just acknowledge the air. So there is some of that on the record. I went for horns because horns are heralds, triumphs, second line funerals and just breath forced through a metal maze or amusement park slide. And I wanted voices, I wanted multiple voices, not just mine. There is too much of just mine right now. So there are 6 or 7 people singing on this record. Listening to this record takes one hour. Ah hour sounds like a year to me these days. Taking an hour of someone’s life. I fault the internet. I fault ourselves for falling for the internet. An hour is actually lovely, nothing, a lifetime. You have to live that lifetime though in order to appreciate the hour. I’m not suggesting people must listen to this record all the way through in one sitting. It IS sequenced for that particular purpose, though, in case anyone wants to.”
His band this time around includes Matt Kinsey on guitar, Emmett Kelly on bass/backing vocals, Sarah Ann Phillips on piano/backing vocals, and Jim White on drums.
(the) Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shared their second single, “Burning”, off their upcoming album “Cool It Down” out September 30th via Secretly Canadian.
Tracklist: 1. Spitting off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius) 2. Lovebomb 3. Wolf 4. Fleez 5. Burning 6. Blacktop 7. Different Today 8. Mars
The video for “Burning” was directed by Cody Critcheloe. This song sounds like the culmination of what the YYY’s have been building since they started with their EP, which is a danceable frenetic track filled with guitar noise and a shimmering drum beat that will build you up and spit you out.
Karen O said this of the song: “Back when I was 19 living in the east village, one night a roommate dragged me out of the apartment for an impromptu drink across the street, I left a votive candle burning on a plastic yaffa block which in my absence set flame to my room. Within an hour and a half of having one drink down the block firefighters had come and gone extinguishing the fire, I came home to find that a natural disaster had occurred (to my room) and most of my stuff, lost in the flames. All electronic goods were melted and demolished like my laptop, cameras etc. but oddly enough the items that held the most sentimental value remained intact like sketchbooks, a favorite sweater with hearts across the chest, and photographs. I had photos of my parents in their youth where the fire burnt around the two of them as if there was some intangible force field protecting them, many photos like that, mysteriously leaving the beloved subjects untouched. If the world is on fire I hope the most beloved stay protected and that we do all we can to protect what we cherish most in this life. ‘Burning’ is a song about that feeling, smoke signals for the soul. Begging to cool it down, just doing it the best we know how. Nick and I nodded to Frankie Valli’s ‘Beggin’, with the line ‘oooh lay your red hand on me baby.’ We’ve cut a rug to many a soulful sixties bangers in our day, it was in our DNA by the time we wrote ‘Burning’.”
Dead Cross have announced the release of their second album, “II”, out October 28th via Ipecac Records.
TRACKLIST: 01 “Love Without Love” 02 “Animal Espionage 03 “Heart Reformer” 04 “Strong And Wrong” 05 “Ants And Dragons” 06 “Nightclub Canary” 07 “Christian Missile Crisis” 08 “Reign Of Error” 09 “Imposter Syndrome”
The first single of the album is “Reign Of Error” with a video directed by Displaced / Replaced.
Michael Crain said of the song: “’Reign of Error’ was recorded almost as quickly as it was written and I believe there’s a very good explanation for it. I haven’t told anybody this before, least of all the rest of the band or Ross, but I honestly felt a strong presence in the studio that day. Those riffs flew out of me and when Dave sat down at his kit it was almost as if we’d played that song a thousand times before. It literally just happened so fast. Bam! One take. I’m not trying to paint a dark or fantasy-like story either. Having just escaped death and still healing from my cancer treatments I was incredibly sensitive to energy and the other side. There was someone else there. Not evil but benevolent and inspiring. I honestly believe it was Dave’s old bandmate and friend Jeff. I think he just wanted to jam with his friend again and perhaps did so through me. There I said it. Whether people believe it or not I really don’t care. I’m just grateful that I had that experience.”
📷: Becky DiGiglio
No tour dates have been announced yet due to the agoraphobia case that Mike Patton went/is going thru. He did say that he hopes that they could tour in support of the album and that he has a couple of Mr. Bungle dates scheduled and that if those go well for him mentally that he is more than open to go on tour with Dead Cross.
Mor Mor stated this about the song: “…the track is about the toxicity that occurs in a relationship when both people haven’t yet faced their demons…” This is Mor Mor’s first single since 2019 (Some Place Else) and it’s just as amazing as his previous work (Heaven’s Only Wishful).
We look forward to him announcing his new album (or EP) and hopefully a tour too.
Haunted Horses released their new album “The Worst Has Finally Happened” out July 29th via Three One G.
TRACKLIST: House of the World to Come The Garden Pig Window Sung The Worst Swarms Thorns Golden Stairs Cold Machine Severed Circle
The first single was for the song “Pig” with a video by Andy Wallis / Displaced Replaced.
Colin Dawson shared this about the song and video: “Director and Producer Andy Wallis brings the grotesque to life with 10kg of clay. We watch the body form, contort and writhe in an attempt to survive. Its rapid movement does nothing to help break free of the room, only allowing the malleable onlooker to mutate. The Worst wears many faces. The song was written completely digitally and manifested its existence through an onslaught of synthesizers, keys and recycled samples, this track was the first in a new writing format for the band. Drums and bass were later added to complete the utter nastiness that is “Pig.”
The follow up to that video was for the song “Cold Medicine” with a video directed by daisyheroin and Myke Prolly.
The last video they released in anticipation for their album was for “The Garden”, the video was co-directed by Rachael & Brandon Pierce.
Colin Dawy shared this about the song: “‘The Garden’ is a song about the worst societal delusions. We were quick to choose this as a single since it properly sets the tone of the new album. It’s intended to introduce the album’s various architectural noise structures and heavy rhythmic layers.”
JB Dunckel has released his 3rd solo album, “Carbon”, out now via Prototyp Recording.
TRACKLIST 1. Spark 2. Corporate Sunset 3. Space 4. Shogun 5. Zombie Park 6. Dare 7. Sex UFO 8. Cristal Mind 9. Naturalis Principia Musica
JB Dunckel, who is one half of the band Air, said this about the song “Corporate Sunset”: “It’s about how big corporations are changing the world and what they propose could be paradise. That song is optimistic but big tech companies are more likely to bring us hell. They’re more powerful now than any country, they’re the new kings.”
About the album he shared this: “Carbon, when you burn it, it doesn’t go away. It’s full of strength, diamonds are crystallized carbon. Carbon is the thing that makes you solid. It’s the most important thing in our bodies and in our lives, but we’re hardly aware of it. It’s all about creating waves that bring me happiness, or, that reveal how I feel. It has to drag me into a dream or a sort of internal pleasure…. Music brings energy and I want them to feel this energy.”
As of right now there are no current tour dates announced for the USofA (or Tijuana).
Erica Dawn Lyle (Bikini Kill) & Vice Cooler (The Raincoats) have announced the release of of their benefit album, “Land Trust: Benefit for NEFOC”, OUT June 3rd.
Track List:
1. Decoder Ring (Featuring Katie Alice Greer) 2. Lost In Thought (Featuring The Linda Lindas w/ Kathi Wilcox) 3. Mirrorball (Featuring Kathleen Hanna) 4. Debt Collector (Featuring Kim Gordon) 5. Soul Fire Farm (Featuring Alice Bag, Emily Retsas) 6. The Immortals (Featuring Brontez Purnell) 7. Can’t Fight Me (Featuring Ah-Mer-Ah-Su) 8. Agave (Featuring The Raincoats) 9. Break A Window (Featuring Rachel Aggs, Emily Retsas) 10. Flashes Of Knowing (Featuring Christina Billotte) 11. Cracks In The Ceiling (Featuring Ali Carter, Emily Retsas) 12. Star Fuck (Featuring Louisahhh) 13. Bodies (Featuring Kelley Deal, Emily Retsas, Sarah Register) 14. PS Forever (Featuring Satomi Matsuzaki) 15. Never Was (Featuring Ivy Jeanne, Mike Watt) 16. Hearing Myself Again (Featuring Palberta, Emily Retsas, Anne Wood)
The first single off the benefit album is “Mirrorball (feat. Kathleen Hanna)”.
The album will be released exclusively via Bandcamp. Hanna shared this about it: “This is the very, very rare benefit album where no one just sent in some crappy B-side. All the songs are fucking great and the performers really put their hearts into it. It’s a testament to Erica and Vice doing a phenomenal job bringing people together.” Lyle shared this: “It’s become so difficult to organize or make change when everybody’s so far flung throughout cities and living so precariously in fear of eviction. But on a farm you have the collective work to produce healthy food, you have meeting and gathering space for visitors from the city to heal and decompress from their work in social movements and the pace of urban life, you have potential employment. And all this without fear of eviction. The ownership of land makes all of these things possible. The land that NEFOC acquires for farmers becomes collectively owned. Farms run by African Americans make up less than 2 percent of all of the nation’s farms. NEFOC is working to change that.” Cooler shared this: “In a lot of ways this record reflects the family we have each built with each other through a lifetime of art and music making. We all help each other out and collaborate, even outside of music.”
Black Star have released their new album, “No Fear Of Time”, via Luminary and produced by Madlib.
TRACKLIST: 01 “o.G.” 02 “So be it” 03 “Sweetheart. Sweethard. Sweetodd.” 04 “My favorite band” 05 “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” 06 “Yonders” 07 “Supreme alchemy” 08 “Freequency” (Feat. Black Thought) 09 “No fear of time” (Feat. Yummy Bingham)
Talib Kweli shared this about the album: “About 3-4 years ago I was visiting yasiin in Europe and we started to talk about songs to do on an album, so I flew an engineer out just to see what that would be. Once I realized this conversation is starting to organically become a creative conversation, I started making sure to have the engineer around at all times. There was one day we were just in a hotel listening to Madlib beats, and he’s like “Play that Madlib tape again.” I’m playing the beats and he starts doing rhymes to the beats. And that’s how we did the first song.”
The one song you can hear that’s not exclusive to the Luminary site is the track opener “O.g.”.
It only took a couple of decades for them to release their follow up album. Here’s to hoping the next one takes them, Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, less than a quarter of a century to complete.
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