i think i better follow you around

Puma Blue has shared the first single, “Desire”, off his upcoming album “Croak Dream” out February 6th via PIAS.

Puma Blue shared this about the song: “I didn’t have microphones with me or anything. I ended up embracing the raw sound of my guitar recorded with my phone, no amplification. I meant to re-dub it later, but I actually fell in love with how visceral it sounded unplugged, and so I left it as it was. This approach snowballed into an appetite for these gritty and ugly sounds clashing with something more lucid and dream-like.

Sometimes I feel like my music has been chronically shy and so with this song, it just felt time to be bold, let it all hang out, throw the paint around. A lot of recent songs have started this way, lonely and reaching for the guitar the way I did when I was a kid, a sort of old friend. Just using whatever limited tools within my reach. I taught myself guitar on an electric as a teenager and for years we didn’t have a guitar amp, so it felt kind of full circle for me.

As for the lyrics, I’m a lover asking his partner to bed, craving what she wants. It’s just a love song really. But with jungle breaks.”

Puma Blue will begin his tour a week after the release of his album. All dates listed below.

Jim Jarmusch and Anika have collaborated in the creation of the score for Jarmusch latest film “Father Mother Brother Sister” with the score being released on November 14th via Sacred Bones Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. Spooky
2. Disorder
3. Skaters (Short Version)
4. The Lake 1
5. The Lake 2
6. The World In Reverse
7. Afterwards
8. Order
9. Twins
10. Skaters
11. Return
12. Emptiness
13. These Days
14. Jetlag
15. Paris Bleu
16. These Days (Berlin Version)

The single that has been shared off the score is for the song “Jetlag”. Additionally Jarmusch and Anika covered the song “Spooky” by Classics IV and “These Days” by Nico.

Darkside have shared a new single, “One Last Nothing”, a post album standalone track available via Matador Records.

A press release from the label said this:  “The track an unreleased composition created amid sessions for the trio’s third LP, ‘Nothing’ – finds the group at its most bass-forward, riding a tough groove into an elegantly spaced-out blend of krautrock, dub, and Fillmore-era psychedelia.”

Austra has shared the second single, “Siren Song”, off her upcoming album “Chin Up Buttercup” out November 14th via Domino.

The video for the song was directed by Vanessa Magic.

Katie Stelmanis shared this about the song: “ABBA inspired the early songwriting with [co-writer] Patrick [Holland]. The Siren introduced herself to me while I was improvising the demo recordings and I quickly realized that Orpheus would be our common nemesis. Following a recent X-Files binge, I was heavily inspired by Mulder’s desperate search for his sister. Ray Of Light came in at the end as my co-producer Kieran Adams and I were establishing the sonic realm which would become the backdrop for our Siren to lament the loss of her lover to Orpheus and his pesky Lyre.”

The Charlatans have shared the second single, “Deeper And Deeper”, off their upcoming album “We Are Love” out October 31st.

Tim Burgess shared this about the song: “It kicks in with a sense of immediacy. It’s Altered States meets Pincher Martin. The Hammond organ leads the way and hands you over to the irresistible and relentless bassline, a sense of giving in to what surrounds you. Sometimes it’s where you should be going. But you only get the answer once you can’t turn back.”

Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington have shared 2 songs, “Glow In The Dark” and “Contemplating The Moon”, off the soundtrack to the movie “Rebuilding” directed by Max Walker-Silverman to be released in November via Fat Possum.

Max Walker-Silverman shared this about the score: “I could hear the cinema in it right away. His music is rooted firmly in all the folkloric traditions I love but not at all nostalgic. And that was much like the film we were making; a story in which the past is all around but firmly of the here and now. And since so much of his music has no lyrics, Jake already understood the challenge of telling a story through instrumentation alone.” 

James Elkington shared this about it: “I think Max had a suspicion that we’d be able to improvise a couple of new pieces in the room, while watching the picture, which turned out to be true. Some of our favorite cues were written that way, in the room while watching the picture. Not only are both “The Straight Story” and “Paris, Texas” great soundtracks, but the films themselves hold hands with Rebuilding as modern inversions of the western.”

“Rebuilding” synopsis says: “After losing the old family ranch to a wildfire, a cowboy, Dusty, winds up in a small FEMA camp in the vast American West. The last of a long line of ranchers, he’s stranded between the legacy of his land and the changes to it. But he begins to reconnect with his young daughter, Callie Rose, and his ex wife, Ruby, and ultimately the neighborhood around him that he never chose-a world of people who all lost their houses like he did. Together they find an unlikely community-and maybe even hope, beauty, and a future in this wild place.”

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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.”