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Author & Punisher has shared the second single, “Thrush”, off his upcoming album “Nocturnal Birding” out October 3rd via Relapse Records.

The video for the song was directed by Lucile Lejoly & Arnaud Fournier.

Tristan Shone shared this about the song and video: “This song is really the epitome of this album. When I heard the Wood Thrush song, it immediately made me think of Neurosis or Jesu…the melodic heart wrenching tracks like The Last You’ll Know. The Wood Thrush made this one easy for me: I just followed the chord progression of the bird exactly.

I reached out to Lucile because I found her tattoo artwork and really loved the medieval style mixed with some Elden Ring vibes. Over the next 8 months we forged an artistic relationship that resulted in the beautiful album artwork and video. Alongside creative partner Arnaud Fournier, the two have made an epic work that elevates the song. I think I will cry when I play this live first (like when I first played The Barge or Glorybox) because it is really songs like this that drive me to keep making music.”

Saint Etienne have shared a new single, “Take Me To The Pilot”, off their upcoming (final) album “International” out September 5th via Heavenly.

The video for the song was directed by Alasdair McLellan. He shared this about the video: “We were shooting this lad called Jet, a breakdancer, for Arena Homme+ when Bob got in touch about a video for Saint Etienne. I filmed Jet breakin’ outside a bungalow in Tickhill, the village near Doncaster where I grew up. When Bob mentioned the album was called International, I decided to expand the idea and shoot a second part in Rome. It happened to coincide with the Vatican choosing the next Pope, so I thought why not have Jet dancing through the streets, with piazzas and Ponte Sant’Angelo’s angel sculptures in the background? As we moved through the city, the video unfolded into a kind of breakin’ pilgrimage to St Peter’s in the Vatican.”

Bob Stanley had this to say about the new single in a press release: “‘Take Me to the Pilot’ is a dark mystery, a flight to somewhere new, somewhere to make your heart beat faster. It’s about escape, disappearance, reinvention. Who’s the pilot? You don’t get to find out, that’s the mystery, and the fun. Paul Hartnoll from Orbital and Tim Powell from Xenomania worked on it with us, and it might just have the best bassline we’ve ever released.”

Pete Wiggs added this about the song: “Back in 1990, after Bob had written a piece on Orbital, the Hartnoll brothers kindly let us see their stage setup, we hadn’t done anything live yet and were slightly mystified. I think we remained so. Years later, now much wiser, I was reintroduced to Paul at a party in Hove, where I now live. We kept bumping into each other on the seafront, got chatting, and although I wasn’t sure he’d say yes, I asked if he’d be up for writing a song with us. He did, and we love it!”

The Antlers have shared the first single, “Carnage”, off their upcoming album “Blight” out October 10th via Transgressive Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. Consider the Source
2. Pour
3. Carnage
4. Blight
5. Something in the Air
6. Deactivate
7. Calamity
8. A Great Flood
9. They Lost All of Us

Peter Silberman shared this about the song: “‘Carnage’ is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge, violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience. Innocent creatures are swept up in the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely notice.”

Paz Lenchantin has shared the first single, “Hang Tough”, off her upcoming debut album “Triste” out October 17th via her own label Hideous Human.

TRACKLIST:

01 Novela
02 Lows & Highs
03 Woman of Nazareth
04 Hang Tough
05 Wish I Was There
06 Si No!
07 In The Garden With the Devil
08 Adam
09 Lucia
10 Sin Dios
11 Save It for Hell
12 Triste

The video for the song was directed by Paz Lenchantin.

Paz shared this about the album: “I had to make this record on my own, not to prove anything, but just to have faith that music can nurture me back. And it did.”

Jeff Tweedy has shared the fifth single, “Feel Free”, off his upcoming triple album “Twilight Override” out September 26th via dBpm.

The video for the song was directed by Lance Bangs.

Jeff Tweedy shared this about the song: “The freedom I’m talking about in this song comes in both small doses and large doses. It arrives at me, at the most free I feel in my life. Which is making a record with my friends and singing a song that I feel like is a part of the past, present and future.”

bar italia have shared the second single, “Fundraiser”, off their upcoming album “Some Like It Hot” out October 17th via Matador Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. Fundraiser
2. Marble Arch
3. bad reputation
4. Cowbella
5. I Make My Own Dust
6. Plastered
7. rooster
8. the lady vanishes
0. Lioness
10. omni shambles
11. Eyepatch
12. Some Like It Hot

The video for the song was co-directed by bar italia and Simon Mercer and it stars Matt King (Peep Show).

Ashes and Diamonds have shared the first single, “On A Rocka”, off their debut album “Ashes and Diamonds Are Forever” out October 31st via Cleopatra Records.

TRACKLIST:

1. Hollywood
2. Teenage Robots
3. On A Rocka
4. ON
5. Boy Or Girl
6. The A Listers
7. Plastic Fantastic
8. Ice Queen
9. Setting Yourself Up For Love
10. Alien Love
11. Champagne Charlie
12. 2020

Ashes and Diamonds are singer/guitarist Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), drummer Bruce Smith (PiL, The Pop Group) and bassist Paul Denman (Sade).

Daniel Sh shared this about the single: “We wanted to start with something hard and fast for major impact regarding the first single.”

Bruce Smith shared this: “It’s a killer piece of music. Super fresh, it doesn’t sound like anyone else. What else can you say?”

The video for the song was directed by Jake Scott.

Daniel Ash shared this about the album: “We actually started this project about seven years ago but because of Covid it’s taken all this time to be truly satisfied with the final product. It’s been so long I actually don’t recall how this band initially got together apart from the fact that Paul’s wife Kim suggested Bruce for drum duties. I do remember Paul wanting to work together many many years ago but that’s another story.”

Ronboy has shared a new single, “Disaster”, it features (up and comer solo artist) Matt Berninger. The song is available now.

The video for the song was co-directed by Ronboy and Matt Berninger.

Ronboy shared this about the song: “Being hard on myself is usually a conversation I have within the privacy of my own mind. But now Matt is responding to my thoughts… publicly. It’s emotional in itself having him on this song.”

Matt Berninger shared this about it: “Ronboy has a way of blending tenderness and ferocity like no other artist I know. So happy she let me into this incredible song.”

Nick Cave & Bryce Dessner have shared a new song, “Train Dreams”, for the new film of the same name directed by Clint Bentley.

“Train Dreams” features Joel Edgerton as a railroad labourer, alongside Felicity Jones and William H. Macy, and it adapts Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella.

Director Clint Bentley shared this about the song: “When we started thinking about making a song for the film, Nick felt like the perfect artist to do it. It turns out that Train Dreams is one of his all-time favorite books, but he initially feared there wouldn’t be time to do something because he was getting ready to go on tour. Then he watched the film and was inspired to write something and the whole thing came together really quickly. I knew he would craft something beautiful and resonant, but the film has such a delicate tone at the end, one that was really hard to get right, and I didn’t want a song that would push the audience in another direction emotionally. But Nick and I were very much on the same page from the outset. He read some early lyrics to me that he was working on and I was just really a bit overwhelmed with the whole situation, I’ve been a fan of his for such a long time and there I was, not only having a really lovely conversation with him about life and art, but he was also reading lyrics to me that he was writing for a film I made. It was a really special moment. He’s a very rare artist and one I admire immensely. There’s no one thing that defines a Nick Cave song sonically, lyrically, or otherwise. He’s got songs about everything, all the varieties of our experience here. There’s a deep poeticism alongside rock and roll. And that just felt like the perfect fit for a film like this that’s telling the story of this person who lived a beautiful resonant life, even if it did include heartache and pain.”

Bryce Dessner composed the score for the film. This is the second collaboration with Clint Bentley.