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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…”

Habak have shared the first single, “Mil Orquídeas En Medio Del Desierto”, off their upcoming album out April 4th via Exabrupto Records / Alerta Antifascista Records / Tormentas Records / Persistent Vision Records /

TRACKLIST:
01. Mil orquídeas en medio del desierto
02. Desarraigo
03. Manual de un naufragio
04. Alienación y delirio
05. Interludio – En la tempestad
06. Notas sobre el olvido
07. Hacia el abismo
08. Dejemos hablar al viento

This is the 3rd album released from the band following their debut “Insania” in 2015 and “Ningún Muro Consiguió Jamás Contener La Primavera” in 2020.

The album was produced by the band’s drummer Patrick Alexander.

Peter Murphy has shared the first single, “Swoon”, off his upcoming album “Silver Shade” out May 9th via Metropolis Records.

“Swoon” features vocals from film composer Trent Reznor film and also from the band “How To Destroy Angels”.

THE WAEVE have shared a new single, “Love Is All Pain”, off their upcoming EP “Eternal EP” out March 14th via Transgressive.

Tracklist:

1. Eternal
2. It’s The Hope That Kills You
3. Love Is All Pain

The video for the song was directed by Simeon Leeder.

Andy Bell has shared a new single, “apple green ufo”, off his upcoming album “pinball wanderer” out February 28th via Sonic Cathedral.

Andy Bell shared this about the song: “I had this riff on an acoustic and it was kind of like one of those Led Zeppelin folk bangers, but I brought it into the Serge Gainsbourg world and gave it a glass of absinthe. The lyrics imagine if I met an alien and had to show them around Earth, what would I want to show them? It also references The Simpsons’ Mr Burns (‘I bring you love’) and ET (‘If you’re lonely, phone home’).”