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Water From Your Eyes have shared the first single, “Life Signs”, off their upcoming album “It’s A Beautiful Place” out August 22nd via Matador Records.

TRACKLIST:

1. One Small Step
2. Life Signs
3. Nights in Armor
4. Born 2
5. You Don’t Believe in God?
6. Spaceship
7. Playing Classics
8. It’s a Beautiful Place
9. Blood on the Dollar
10. For Mankind

The video for the song was directed by Rachel Brown and she shared this about it: “Television has always been my biggest passion and this video was mostly conceived from my desire to experiment with the tropes of genre. But I also think the medium lends itself to the idea of fitting an infinite amount of universes into a little box you can keep in your living room. I wanted the video to encapsulate as many worlds as the song does and to express an entire lifetime within a short few minutes.”

Brown shared this about the album, regarding the inspiration behind it: “I’ve been carrying around The Dispossessed (a 1974 anarchist utopian novel by Ursula K. Le Guin) and There Is No Unhappy Revolution (a 2017 non-fiction by Marcello Tarì) in my backpack for well over a year now. They have been to four different continents and across almost every state line. While writing lyrics for the album, I skimmed both books quite thoroughly.”

OSMIUM have shared a new single, “OSMIUM IV”, off their new self titled album out June 20th via Invada Records.

TRACKLIST:
01. Osmium 0
02. Osmium 1
03. Osmium 2
04. Osmium 3
05. Osmium 4
06. Osmium 5
07. Osmium 6
08. Osmium 7

OSMIUM are James Ginzburg, Sam Slater, Rully Shabara, Hildur Guðnadóttir.

James Ginzburg shared this about the song: “This piece is an unexpectedly euphoric kraut rock inflected improvised interaction between Sam’s feedback drum and Hildur’s Haldorophone, while James plays percussion on the side of his Zither and Rully chants to a deity that exists only for the duration of this track. All of our instruments have minds of their own, and often it’s just enough to set them in motion with the lightest touch to produce complex textures and suggestions of harmony.”

Benito Cerati has shared a new single, “Artificial”, off his upcoming third album due out sometime in July.

The video for the song was directed by Belen Asad on location in New York and in Buenos Aires.

With help from: Lisa Cerati (also as a production assistant), Kore H., Franco Moraviski, Dante Bruni, Santiago Oyarbide, Juliana lsas, Agustina Roldán,
Clara Rodríguez

The song was recorded and mixed by Estanislao Lopez, who also played bass.

Marissa Nadler has shared the first single, “New Radiations”, off her upcoming 10th album of the same name out August 15th via Sacred Bones.

TRACKLIST:

1. It Hits Harder
2. Bad Dreams Summertime
3. You Called Her Camellia
4. Smoke Screen Selene
5. New Radiations
6. If It’s an Illusion
7. Hatchet Man
8. Light Years
9. Weightless Above the Water
10. To Be the Moon King
11. Sad Satellite

The video for the song was directed by Nadler herself with additional footage by Jenni Hensler.

Marissa Nadler shared this about the video: “My aim was to distort space and time into a kind of dreamspace through layered imagery and effects. The video slips between dimensions, surreal landscapes, dissolving faces, collapsing structures, distant explosions, underwater worlds.”

Africa Express have announced the release of their new album, “BAHÍDORA”, out July 11th via World Circuit Records.

The announcement of the album came with two singles being shared. The first one being “Soledad” and it features Damon Albarn, Luisa Almaguer, Nick Zinner, Seye Adelekan, Joan as Police Woman and the Mexican Institute of Sound.

Luisa Almaguer shared this about it: “‘Soledad’ and Africa Express are both symbolic and material examples of reparation for the historical debt that whiteness and the mainstream owe to racialized and independent artists around the world, It makes me very happy to be part of this, it still feels like a dream to me. It’s a beautiful glitch in the Matrix.”

The second single is “Otim Hop” and it features Otim Alpha, Bootie Brown, K.O.G. and Tom Excell.

Bootie Brown shared this about the song: “Listening to the stories Otim was telling made me realize that you have to adapt to struggle. And when you think you have it hard, there is someone that can top your struggle very easy. The song was created when we were just sitting around from a long day and it was time to pack to get ready for the ride to the airport. Magic man Otim had an idea and we just all came together for one last effort.”

Lana Del Rabies has shared the second single, “Incubus + Succubus”, off her new EP “Le Temps Viendra”.

TRACKLIST:
1. Anne Boleyn
2. Queen of the Black Muses
3. Incubus + Succubus
4. Tender Creatures 
5. Le Temps Viendra

The video for the song was shot, edited and directed by Lana Del Rabies.

A press release s this about the EP: “‘Le Temps Viendra’ (The Time Will Come), a bold EP named after a piece of writing by the infamous English Queen Anne Boleyn, a cryptic emblem of ambition and fate created during her rise to power in the English court, before her exile and execution by her husband King Henry VIII. The namesake lead track, “Anne Boleyn”, merges ghostly elegance with brutal force.”

Nation Of Language have shared a new single, “Inept Apollo”, out now via Sub Pop.

Nation Of Language shared this about the video: “Accompanying the song is a killer music video by our friend and brother John MacKay: it is an homage to creative pursuits, and in some ways came to represent the feeling of living in a city as an artist. The video feels like walking through an old warehouse in Brooklyn, full of practice spaces and studios, each room occupied by artists striving to express and understand themselves and their place in the world. No matter how bizarre the act may seem or how much self-doubt or pain runs through the mind of the creator, the beautiful thing is the striving and continuing on, rather than the final product or any notion of ‘success.’ The power of creation belongs to all of us; requires the approval of none.”

The band shared this about the song: “Work is a respite from pain. Whether it’s a paying job or just the thing you pour yourself into, having a direction to move in, finding a flow state, it can move focus away from the heaviness of the heart. So after life’s losses, in moments of despair, we resolve time and time again to dive headfirst into the work as best we can. But the artistic process also tends to be when imposter syndrome rears its ugly head, when I find my inner monologue spiraling: ‘this is the best coping mechanism I have at my disposal and I’m not even qualified to be doing it.’

Stereolab have shared the third single, “Transmuted Matter”, off their new album “Instant Holograms On Metal Films” out via Warp Records.

Laetitia Sadier previously shared this about the album: “As the world falls apart, whether we are aware of it or not, we are already planting the seeds of what will come next. I think it is important to keep in sight what powerful creators we are, and how there is power available to us at this stage to choose what outcome we would like to see for this yet undefined future. The words seek to expose that this is what we do: we create. Our imagination is here to serve that purpose, and is the power we have to choose whatever it is we want to see come about. Some privileged people do not like the idea of sharing this power with the people at large.”

These New Puritans have shared the fourth single, “Wild Fields”, off their new album “Crooked Wing” out via Domino.

Jack Barnett shared this about the song: “‘Wild Fields’ is a bit of an outlier on the album, in that it’s quite a traditional song. It ends with the words ‘come down from crystal heavens above,’ which is a quotation from William Byrd’s lament for Thomas Tallis. When I googled it to check the reference, it just showed me endless advice about crystal meth withdrawal. Those are the only ads I see now. So this song has a lot to answer for.”

The video for the song was directed by Harley Weir.