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Peter Murphy has shared a new single, “The Artroom Wonder”, off his upcoming album “Silver Shade” out May 9th via Metropolis.

Peter Murphy shared this about the song: “The Artwoom Wonder is an echo from my fourth year at senior school. Daniel Ash and I are listening to the mysterious sixth-year cool intelligentsia that have gathered in the artroom. We have dared to enter their conclave, and the music coming from it was intriguing. We discover that the song being played is The Bewlay Brothers, highly intelligent, mystical and sensual, with the singer’s voice as seductive as anyone I’d ever heard…It has a surreal approach, telling the story in my typical oblique style, including the description of a lowdown that leads into an evocation of the perfected human being, the Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him). The final verse celebrates my own self-advancing and position on this.”

The song features Justin Chancellor on bass.

Smerz have shared the second single, “You got time and I got money”, off their upcoming album “Big city life” out May 23rd via Escho.

TRACKLIST:

01 Big City Life
02 But I Do
03 Roll the Dice
04 What
05 Feisty
06 A Thousand Lies
07 Close
08 You Got Time and I Got Money
09 Big Dreams
10 Street Style
11 Imagine This
12 Dreams
13 Easy

Catharina Stoltenberg shared this about the song: “I wrote the lyrics when I got my first real grown-up job and was in love at the same time.”

The video for the song was directed by Smerz with Benjamin Barron and Bror August Vestbø.

Smerz shared this about the album: “Some of the songs are pieces of advice to ourselves. Some are doorways into dreams. Some songs are secret wishes. Some are written for someone who is not here. And some are predictions.”

Snapped Ankles have shared the second single, “Pay The Rent”, off their upcoming album “Hard Times Furious Dancing” out March 28th via The Lead Label.

TRACKLIST:

1. Pay The Rent
2. Personal Responsibilities
3. Raoul
4. Dancing In Transit
5. Where’s The Caganer?
6. Smart World
7. Hagen Im Garten
8. 摆烂 Bai Lan
9. Closely Observed

Ankle Austin shared this about the song: “The new song is dancing at the misery of the situation.”

Paris Texas have shared a new single, “infinyte”, off their new EP “They Left Me With The Sword” which is available now.

Tracklist:

1. The Sword
2. Dogma 25
3. Red Eyes & Blue Hearts
4. Tantrum
5. Boyz II Men (Interlude)
6. Holy Spinal Fluid
7. Infinyte
8. paris El Camino

The video for the song, which will be released soon, was directed by Dan Streit, who also produced and co-wrote the album alongside Paris Texas.

Fontaines D.C. have shared a new 7″ single, “It’s Amazing To Be Young”, which comes with “Before You I Just Forget” as a B-Side available via XL Records.

The video for the song was directed by Luna Carmoon who shared this about it: I love this new track, it’s one of my favorites Fontaines have done and I love that I got to complete the trilogy of videos for it. It was all natural and kind of a surprise that the three videos came together. I’ve got to work with such a beautiful team and was really given the space and breath to create the worlds that automatically came to me when hearing the music. I feel like we’re living in this weird time where romantic love is being pushed to the side, and sex and love is unvirtuous and no longer what people want to see. I don’t believe that at all. I love that these two people have fallen in love with themselves, and I wanted to see them fall in love with each other. I planted the seed after I did the carjitsu video (“In The Modern World”) and then I had a couple of days to write the video for “It’s Amazing To Be Young.” There are a lot of odes to Santa Sangre it. It also reminds me of my first short film Shagbands.”

Conor Deegan III shared this about the song: “It’s Amazing To Be Young” is a song that was written in the presence of a newborn child, Carlos’ child. It sounded more like a lullaby or a music box then, but with the same lyric “it’s amazing to be young.” The feeling of hope a child can give is profound and moving, especially for young men like us. That sense of wanting to create a world for them to grow up in happily. It’s a feeling that fights against the cynicism that can often overtake us in the modern world. So we wanted to declare which side we were on, it really is amazing to be young. We are still free, and want to make that feeling spread. We want to protect it for the others around us, and maybe in doing that, can also help protect it for ourselves.

The Horrors have shared a new single, “Ariel” off their upcoming album “Night Life” out March 21st via Fiction.

The Horrors shared this about the song:  “‘Ariel’ “was very much a studio creation. We put a distortion-heavy demo down at home and started moulding it into something more subtle at Holy Mountain Studios with Yves Rothman producing. Then Amelia Kidd [keys/backing vocals] then added her world of chopped-up rhythms and vocal splices and it felt like we’d reached a new place. The Horrors of the future.”

Clairo has shared a new single, “Terrapin”, off her self released album “Charm” which is out now.

The video was directed by Ayo Edebiri and it stars Weird Al Yankovic as Clairo.

Perfume Genius has shared the second single, “No Front Teeth”, off his upcoming album “Glory” out March 28th via Matador Records.

The song features Aldous Harding. The video for the song was directed by Cody Critcheloe.

Perfume Genius shared this in a press release: “I’m more engaged with the band and the audience. I’m still on some wild tear, but there’s more access and it’s more collaborative, in a way that makes it better, but also scary because it feels more vulnerable.”

Jason Isbell has shared the second single, “Foxes In The Snow”, off his upcoming album of the same name out March 7th via Southeastern Records.

Thru a press release this was shared about the album: “…this is Jason Isbell’s “first entirely solo acoustic album.” He recorded the new album, at New York’s Electric Lady Studios, over five days in October. For the new album, Isbell sang played just one mahogany Martin 0-17 acoustic guitar from 1940…”