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Shannon Wright has shared the first single off her upcoming 11th album, Reservoir Of Love “, out February 3rd via Vicious Circle Records.

TRACKLIST:

1. Reservoir of Love
2. The Hits
3. Weight of the Sun
4. Countless Days
5.  Ballad of a Heist
6.  Mountains
7.  Shadows
8.  Something Borrowed

The video for the song was directed by Nigel Rowe.

Vicious Circle Records shared this press release: “Shannon Wright delivers her eleventh album in 25 years, Reservoir of Love. Embodying the essence of her unique style, it delivers songs where intensity is sometimes embodied in electric rock blazes, sometimes in heart-rending ballads, adorned with choirs and strings, the warm sound of a Wurlitzer, a guitar or a piano. Haunted by illness and bereavement, produced in solitude, this album is bursting with energy, light and love.”

Michelle Gurevich has released her new album, “It Was The Moment”, available now via her Bandcamp.

TRACKLIST:

1. Carried Away
2. Shower
3. Kosovo
4. It Was the Moment
5. Every Night Feels Like the Last
6. Tragedy for Sale
7. There’s No One Answer for Life
8. Pictures on the Wall
9. Goodbye My Dictator

The album was written, performed and produced by Michelle Gurevich.

No tour dates have been announced yet, but hopefully she will be able to visit the USofA (or Tijuana).

Fucked Up have shared a new album, “Someday”, available now via Fucked Up Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. City Boy (Fear) (ft. Graham Sayle)
2. Grains of Paradise
3. Feed Me Your Feathers (ft. Pat Flynn)
4. I Took My Mom To Sleep (ft. Tuka Mohammed)
5. Man Without Qualities (ft. Max Williams)
6. The Court of Miracles
7. Fellow Traveller
8. In The Company of Sisters (ft. Julianna Riolino)
9. Smoke Signals (ft Graham Sayle)
10. Someday

Fucked Up shared this about the album: “This record is about how far our actions and our ideas can travel, and how we can plant consequences in the lives of other people without even realizing it and how we can use our lives to make this a better world.”

FACS have shared the first single, “Wish Defense”, off their upcoming album by the same name as the song out February 7th via Trouble In Mind.

TRACKLIST:
1. Talking Haunted
2. Ordinary Voices
3. Wish Defense
4. A Room
5. Desire Path
6. Sometimes Only
7. You Future

Two things worth noting on this album are:

1. This is the first FACS album where Jonathan Van Herik has played since their debut when he was part of the original lineup.
2. This was the last album Steve Albini was working on before he passed away.

The video for the song was directed by Joshua Ford.

Freddie Gibbs has shared a new single, “On The Set”, off his just released album “You Only Die 1nce” out via ESGN Records and AWAL.

TRACKLIST:
1. Status
2. Cosmo Freestyle
3. Wolverine
4. Brick Fees
5. Rabbit Island
6. It’s Your Anniversary
7. Nobody (Interlude)
8. 30 Girlfriends (Yeah Yeah)
9. Steel Doors
10. Walk It Off
11. Ruthless
12. Origami
13. On The Set

The video was co-directed by Freddie Gibbs, Ben “Lambo” Lambert and Harley Astorga.

Doves have shared the first single, “Renegade”, off what will be their upcoming album “Constellations For The Lonely” out February 14th.

TRACKLIST:

1. Renegade
2. Cold Dreaming
3. In the Butterfly House
4. Strange Weather
5. A Drop in the Ocean
6. Last Year’s Man
7. Stupid Schemes
8. Saint Teresa
9. Orlando
10. Southern Bell

Jimi Goodwin shared this about the album: “It’s been a godsend, working remotely. It really suited the dynamic. From back when we were Sub Sub, we went into the studio every day, morning to evening, religiously, even if it was shit. When it goes right, there’s no better feeling, but we don’t have to traipse down to the same building day after day to get that anymore. Listening to this album again just recently, it sounds fabulous.”

Andy Williams shared this about the song: “Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, ‘Renegade’ feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel, thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing… Blade Runner set in our home city.”

The video for the song was directed by Hingston Studio.

Ethel Cain has shared the first single, “Punish”, off her upcoming album “Perverts” coming out January 8th.

Ethel Cain shared this about the song: “I wonder how deep shame can run, and how unforgivable an act could be that I may still justify it in some bent way to make carrying it more bearable. Would I tell myself it’s not my fault and I couldn’t help myself? Would anyone truly believe that? Would I?”

The video was directed by Hayden Anhedonia & Silken Weinberg.

Ethel Cain also shared this about the album:

The Cure have officially released their new album, “Songs Of A Lost World”, available now via Fiction.

TRACKLIST:

1. ALONE
2. AND NOTHING IS FOREVER
3. A FRAGILE THING
4. WARSONG
5. DRONE:NODRONE
6. I CAN NEVER SAY GOODBYE
7. ALL I EVER AM
8. ENDSONG

To overstate the obvious, yes this is the best Cure album that’s been released in the last 15 years. Yes, in this stage of their career they’re still releasing albums that are worth our time and the wait. In a world where bands/artists that have been around over 35 years the Cure continue to prove that you can still release an album that holds up to your legacy and that clearly you don’t forget how to write a good song.

Viva the Cure.

Chat Pile have shared the fourth single, “Frownland”, off their album “Cool World” which is available now via The Flenser.

The video for the song was directed by Matthew Zagorski. He shared this about the song and video: “When I first heard this song, I heard despair, so I wanted the video to start off troubling. The main character laying there in the rubble of his old life, digging through the ruins of what used to be. I was dealing with extreme feelings of loneliness and not feeling worthy at the time of piecing together this video and it really bled into the narrative.”

Chat Pile will be touring extensively for the rest of 2024 and well into 2025.