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Preoccupations have shared two new songs, “MUR” and “PONR”, outtakes from their recently released album “Ill At Ease”.

Matt Flegel shared this about “MUR”: “With ‘MUR’, I was trying to translate the feeling of overwhelming, aggressive, helplessness and unwillingness to talk about things that scare you, into the form of sound. It builds up and hits the point of almost rapture, and then explodes into a rant and rage, and unburdening of all the things you were exasperated about.”

For “PONR” Flegel shared this: “Is set in a far future, where the feeling of nostalgia died a long time ago. It’s about finding a trove of relics that you think of as new and incredible, but they’ve existed in far superior forms in the past. You don’t know any better, but it makes you feel good, so you don’t question it. Time moves on a you eventually grow tired of it all and burn it, and try to find or create better versions of the things. It’s basically about the inevitability of disappointment, and the inherent human need to tear things down, make a blank slate, and create something new.”

Charlotte Gainsbourg has shared a new single, “Blurry Moon”, available now via Because Music / Saint Laurent.

The video was directed by Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello.

Lyrics were written & performed by Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Music was composed & produced by SebastiAn.

Nala Sinephro has shared the single, “Grand Prix”, off the score for the film “The Smashing Machine” directed by Bennie Safdie that was released via Warp Records.

Nala Sinephro shared this about it: ” It was an amazing and incredible journey creating the score with Benny, grateful for all the wonderful people who’ve been part of this special project.”

Just Mustard have shared the third single, “ENDLESS DEATHLESS”, off their upcoming album “WE WERE JUST HERE” out October 24th via Partisan Records.

The video for the song was directed by David Noonan.

Katie Ball shared this about the song: “I wrote the lyrics for this song by imagining myself on a dance floor. We wanted to write more songs that suited places like that. I suppose I would describe it as an existential love song but you can hear it and feel it anyway you like.”

DU-DA has shared the first single, “Transmisión Maldita”, off what will be their debut EP “DOCUMENTOVISIÓN”.

DU-DA is a band theat emerges from the imagined city of Tijuana. Their music traverses thru noise pop, hyperpunk and the satire of B-movie in order to invoque their own universal narrative: the Creepypantopía.

The initiation ritual is “Transmisión Maldita”. The rift that opens this new dimension to the beat of a hellish parade projected via the Camarena chromoscope. A new vision seeped into this reality media hell: the evening announcement that never was.

This is the first Sonic Curation from Paradox Effects, the pedal maker by excellence out of the aforementioned imagined city.

Sleaford Mods have shared a new single, “Megaton”, available via Rough Trade and with all proceeds of the song going to War Child.

The video for the song was directed by Nick Waplington.

Jason Williamson shared this about the song: “We should be aligned with one another but instead we are crippled by social media and the resulting separatism: Genocide… swipe… gym bods… swipe… food pics… swipe… starvation. Killing upon killing, so much terrible, horrifying information followed by a cat meme followed by faces filtered beyond recognition. Such is the weight of trauma, guilt and powerlessness in privileged societies that we squirm like an overloaded petri dish full of algae fed by the algorithm. Everything is wrong and everything as a reaction is argued to be right, and in this we give birth to behaviours that smother solidarity and cause mass waves of haemorrhaging alienation while the world quietly collapses offscreen.”

Juana Molina has shared the first single, “Siestas Ahí”, off her upcoming album “DOGA” out November 5th via Sonamos.

TRACKLIST:

01 Uno Es Arbol
02 La Paradoja
03 Desinhumano
04 Caravanas
05 Siestas Ahí
06 Indignan a un Zorzal
07 Va Rara
08 Miro Todo
09 Intringulado
10 Rina Soi

Juana Molina shared this about the song: “”Floto por ahí tenue y mareada Es como volar, leve y rosada.” así estoy con la salida de esta canción. no puedo creer que después de tanto tiempo, esto está sucediendo! no se imaginan la alegria de haber terminado el disco y que ya esté por salir. esta canción me gusta particularmente porque me parece que es algo distinto a lo que siempre he hecho.
tiene la levedad de una pompa de jabón y la atemporalidad del enamoramiento. me da felicidad escucharla. me gusta cuando me gusta mucho una canción, como si fuera de otro. qué lindo Cuando pasa es0. es algo que vino de mi, pero que tiene su propia personalidad y ya no tiene nada que ver conmigo. la tipa ya salió a hacer su vida, toma sus decisiones sin pedir permiso. ¡ni se despidió! vamos a ver cómo le va. ya me explayaré cuando corresponda, pero este disco, Doga, que saldrá el 5 de noviembre (remember, remember the fifth of november), pasó por muchos estadiosy estudios, empezando con odín en 2019, luego con diego y mati en 2022 y después lo terminamos produciendo con emilio en 2024/25. marito estuvo en todas las etapas. he aquí “siestas ahí”, la canción que embandera el album.
ojalá les guste mucho mucho mucho     Con amor,
yo
pd: el video lo dibujé sobre otro que habia mandado ale ros, que hizo la tapa.”

Tortoise have shared the first single, “Layered Presence”, off their upcoming album “Touch” to be released October 24th via International Anthem / Nonesuch.

TRACKLIST:
1. Vexations
2. Layered Presence
3. Works and Days
4. Elka
5. Promenade à deux
6. Axial Seamount
7. A Title Comes
8. Rated OG
9. Oganesson
10. Night Gang

Tortoise has a few live dates lined up, most likely more will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.

Air played the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Amphitheater on 9/24/25 in support of their “Air plays Moon Safari” tour.

SETLIST:

Moon Safari
1. La Femme d’argent
2. Sexy Boy
3. All Need
4. Kelly Watch the Stars 5. Talisman
6. Remember
7. You Make It Easy 8. Ce matin-là
9. New Star in the Sky (Chanson pour
10. Le Voyage de Pénélope

Set 2
11. Radian
12. Venus
13. Cherry Blossom Girl
14. Run
15. Highschool Lover
16. Dirty Trip
17. Don’t Be Light

Encore:
18. Alone in Kyoto
19. Electronic Performers

There are some things that need to be said about the show. Some of the feedback being shared was that this show was magical, that it was breathtaking, that it was the best thing they had seen in years, that it hit all the right notes…

What isn’t mentioned in that discourse is that YES “Air” are incredible and impeccable performers live, however the venue for whatever godforsaken reason never raises the volume for their shows to a level where you start almost transporting yourself to another dimensional plane because what you’re feeling in those moments only the music can explain. Yes the stage design is amazing and a great idea, but not in that venue where you still have the building with lights on that distract you from what you’re supposed to be invested in that’s still on stage. Yes nostalgia will play tricks on your mind and it will make you think that something is better than what you’re witnessing live because you want to believe it. Because you want to feel like you did that one day. Because you want to convince yourself of something.

If you had never seen “Air” live this was a great show to be introduced to. Other than that we can wait and see what they will do for the “Talkie Walkie” tour or maybe they’ll call it the “Surfing On Rocket” tour even though a better apt title could be “Universal Traveler” or “Biological”. The one we would see live, if they ever did it, would be the “10,000 Hz Legend”. Until that day, au revoir.