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Rhumba Club has released a new album, “Love Apokalypto”, out now.

TRACKLIST:

01. Video Game
02. Love Apokalypto
03. Tu es un Danseur
04. Perfect Queen
05. Midnight King
06. Beach Lizard
07. Moonlight
08. Electrify Me
09. Warriors
10. You Are A Sensation

Tom Falle shared this about the album: “I wrote Love Apokalypto as a kind of Bonnie & Clyde story: despite the world burning around us, and the haters chasing us in their chariots, being in a relationship has provided me with a unique sense of invincibility. So here I am, celebrating my own romance amidst the apocalypse or, as the song puts it… Love Apokalypto.”

In the build up to the albums release Rhumba Club shared 4 videos, all of which directed by Charlie Pryor: “Video Game”, “Love Apokalypto”, “Beach Lizard” and “Perfect Queen”.

Tom Falle also shared this: “I’ve always been comfortable writing about sexuality, but generally shied away from writing directly about love and sex: inspired by the anti-commercial ethos of early Talking Heads records. I’ve always desperately tried to avoid the generic. On this record however, Mikko Gordon encouraged me to let loose and be comfortable writing about more traditional pop topics: love, lust, heartbreak. It was a challenge at first. I had to shake off my snobby predictions for a bit, and came to accept a simplifying process was probably necessary for me to make better pop. The Rhumba sound has evolved too. I call it a kind of queer New Wave.”

Failure have shared a live video for “Heliotropic” off their live concert Blu-Ray film “We Are Hallucinations”.

“We Are Hallucinations” was filmed over the band’s 2022 U.S. tour and initially released as a limited-time streaming event. Greg Edwards shared this: “It’s crazy that we have never made a concert film before, but I think this will really stand as a definitive document of the dynamic between the three of us on stage and the connection we have with our fans.”

Daniel Melero has released a new album, “Qualia 2 / Micrografía”.

TRACKLIST:

01. Micrografía
02. Quimera
03. Estanque
04. Pececillo Plateado
05. Timo
06. Célula
07. Poema Minúsculo
08. Apofenia

“Qualia 2 / Micrografía” is part of a trilogy that started with “Qualia 1 / Última Thule” which was released back in December of 2022. The albums are inspired on behalf of the word Qualia which Melero describes as: “…those experiences that are incommunicable, those that when you try to narrate to someone else you feel that you cannot express with words…”

Talking about the new album he said: “…it seems beautiful to me to institute the idea of creating something without knowing if it sounds good or not since you’ve never heard something like that before, being out of taste. Taste is a bad adviser while creating. Taste should be left for your digestive system or when you’re decorating your house…”

ANOHNI has shared a new single, “Why Am I Alive Now?”, Off their new album “My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross” out July 7th via Secretly Canadian / Rough Trade.

The video for the song was directed by Hunter Schafer and he shared this about it: “I started listening to ANOHNI in high school, so it’s a huge honor to help her build a visual world for WAIAN. This music video was an honest attempt to answer the question that WAIAN begs, Why Am I Alive Now? I wanted to focus on the idea of finding sisterhood in a world that does nothing to help – I hope the direction, choreography, and tone conveys a small piece of that journey.”

ANOHNI will perform live and do a Q&A with Schafer during an early album playback on YouTube on Thursday (July 6th) at 3pm ET, with special guest Nomi Ruiz.

MALVINA has shared her new single, “BRAT”, out now via Pop Noire.

The video was directed by Antoine Carlier.

MALVINA has been touring with Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile in their current tour having supported Depeche Mode on some dates, also opening for Interpol, while playing some festival shows. MALVINA has previously released a couple of albums and a couple of EP’s, she is now signed to Pop Noire which is the label Jehnny Beth, Johnny Hostile and Antoine Carlier founded.

Blonde Redhead have shared the second single, “Melody Experiment”, off their upcoming 10th album “Sit Down For Dinner” out September 29th via Section1.

TRACKLIST:

1. Snowman
2. Kiss Her Kiss Her
3. Not for Me
4. Melody Experiment
5. Rest of Her Life
6. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1
7. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2
8. I Thought You Should Know
9. Before
10. If
11. Via Savona

Kazu Makino shared this about the song: “This song is a conversational piece between two people. One is questioning the intentions, integrity, and consequences of one’s emotions and actions. She is hypersensitive. The other keeps things simple, allowing himself to go with the flow. Musically, I was able to find something that is quite true and natural to myself, and now I want to continue on this path.”

Simone Pace shared this about the album title: “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much, and that’s OK, but we really do. It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.”

The band will go on a tour that will cover some of the USofA and parts of Europe as well.

Suki Waterhouse and Belle and Sebastian have shared a new single, “Every Day’s A Lesson In Humility”.

Suki Waterhouse wrote the song with the band, with Belle and Sebastian producing the track.

A physical version of the single will only be available via the Sub Pop Single Series.

Family Matter have shared the first single, “Matter”, off their upcoming EP titled “Matter” out August 15th.

The video for the song was directed by Hal Winston-Fletcher.

For those not familiar with the band, the lead singer Blake is the son of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl.

He has some live dates lined up around the UK, but no dates have been announced for the USofA (nor Tijuana) yet.

Spoon have released a new EP, “Memory Dust EP”, via Matador.

TRACKLIST:

01 Sugar Babies
02 She’s Fine, She’s Mine
03 Silver Girl

The band has shared all 3 songs, starting with “Sugar Babies”.

The band will be busy in the upcoming weeks going on tour with The Black Keys, Weezer, White Reaper, the War on Drugs, Indigo Reaper.