Inhaler have shared the third single, “A Question Of You”, off their upcoming album “Open Wide” out February 7th.
Elijah Hewson shared this about the song: “This is love song territory for me, about how in order to be honest with someone else you’ve got to be honest with yourself, like, ‘I’ve gotta sort my own shit out so I can be around other people.’ It’s also a soulmates thing. The choir really changed everything on this one.”
neil young and the chrome hearts have released the first single, “big change”, off what will be their upcoming album.
John Hanlon, the mixing engineer described the song like this: “…it’s in your face loud irreverent rock ‘n roll paint splatter on the canvas in the vein of a Jackson Pollack painting…”
The Chrome Hearts are: Neil Young guitar / vocal, Micah Nelson guitar / vocal, Corey McCormick bass / vocal, Anthony Logerfo drums and Spooner Oldham Farfisa organ.
Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet has shared the first single, “The 23”, off their upcoming self titled album out March 14th via Blue Note.
TRACKLIST:
01 The Returning Angel
02 The 23
03 Surplus
04 Slipping Into Something
05 Allende
06 House Of Steam
07 Inner Walls
08 Satomi
09 The bag
10 Down Close
11 Question Marks
12 Time Of No Sirens
Nels Cline shared this about the band and the music: “the Consentrik Quartet is much more of a jazz group, if I dare use that word. I wanted to have the music reflect the players, and have the players come forth so that everybody is able to hear them and enjoy their lucidity and their mastery. The music is like a love letter to the Brooklyn improvised-music scene. “My dream starting in the mid-’70s was to live in New York City and play music there. I didn’t do it until 2009, when I met Yuka Honda, and I thought, ‘Whoa, I guess I’m finally doing this.’ But I was very happy to be a part of this community. And I’m still happy about it.”
The Consentrik Quartet features Cline on guitar, Ingrid Laubrock on saxophone, Chris Lightcap on bass, and Tom Rainey on drums.
Carriers has shared the second single, “Blurry Eyes”, off his upcoming album “Every Time I Feel Afraid” out May 2nd via Brassland.
TRACKLIST:
01 In My Head
02 Motion
03 Sometimes
04 Blurry Eyes
05 Every Time I Feel Afraid
06 Share Some Wine
07 Mixed Emotion
08 Every Time The Sun Comes Up
09 Be The One
Curt Kiser shared this about the song: “I wrote “Blurry Eyes” right before the first live stream show I did on Instagram during the pandemic. What a wild thing that kept us all together while the world was shut down. It was a hard but also an incredibly special time to refocus on what really matters in life. Right now is a weird time to be putting out music and promoting myself, but I’m grateful to share art during such a heavy time. I hope the songs find people when they need it most, and that they can provide some kind of solace, whether an escape from the situation, some magic in the atmosphere, or maybe a lyric to help them process what’s going on.”
The video animation was done by Mark Neeley.
“Blurry Eyes” features performances from Bryan Devendorf (The National), Dave Hartley (The War on Drugs) and Ben Lanz (Beirut, The National). The song was mixed by Peter Katis (Interpol, The National).
bdrmm have shared the second single, “Infinity Peaking”, off their upcoming album “Microtonic” out February 28th via Rock Action.
Ryan Smith (vocals / guitar) shared this about the new single in a press release: “‘Infinity Peaking’ perfectly encapsulates the band we were and the band we are now, that careful balance of shoegaze and electronica. It was written when I was in Malaga, and is the first track I wrote that wasn’t in some dingy bedroom. I feel like it captures the location that is reminiscent on The Durutti Column’s Hotel of the Lake, 1990. It’s a track that is full of true joy (despite the lyrics) and it was a pleasure to work on in the studio. It’s one that we felt we could really get into the experimentation on, especially in the long spanning mid-section. We’re always happiest when we’re sat on the floor of the studio surrounding the latest pedal we bought, each dying to have a pass on it.”
Smith shared this about the album: “I felt very constrained writing a certain type of music to fit the genre [we were known for] but something lifted and I felt more free to create what I want. And what I seem to be doing at the moment is a lot of electronic music taking influence from different spans of electronica, from dance music to ambient and more experimental sources.”
Ray Jimenez has shared a new single, “Adelaide”, available to stream everywhere now.
Ray Jimenez shared this about the song: “”Adelaide” goes a little bit further than just a classic love story, it takes you deeper into a darker world where the pain is worse since the loss of the loved one was due to addiction. It also tries to help understand how easy and fragile it is to try and pretend to be ok in front of others.
In a more personal point of view the inspiration comes from an event that happened many moons ago when I was a child, my family suffered a loss of a loved one due to a very famous drink which they continued to drink until they passed away slowly because of it.
I would love to say that the story behind this song is just filled with sorrow and not tragic, but that’s not the case and yet that’s why I was inspired to write it. Even then and there the song is free to be interpreted by whoever went or is going through a moment of hurt, break up or loss.”
The team behind the song is Ray Jimenez on vocals and guitar, Omar Morales on bass, Jose Dominguez on guitar and Ezequiel Capaceta on drums and also shot the cover for the single.
Bartees Strange has shared the fourth single, “Wants Needs”, off his upcoming album “Horror” out February 14th via 4AD.
TRACKLIST:
1. Too Much
2. Hit It Quit It
3. Sober
4. Baltimore
5. Lie 95
6. Wants, Needs
7. Lovers
8. Doomsday Buttercup
9. 17
10. Loop Defenders
11. Norf Gun
12. Backseat Banton
Bartees Strange shared this about the song: “I realized a couple years ago that if music is really going to work out long-term, I want/need more fans. Of course it’s a timing and numbers game but race is a powerful component too. I don’t see a lot of people like me in the indie space making long term livings on their records. I worry people may have a hard time connecting to me because I don’t look/sound like them. That I’m fun to root for, but not actually supported. This song is about how much that worries me—fully understanding that a lot of these neurosis are of my own making.”
Bartees Strange has some shows scheduled for the month of February.
Swervedriver have shared the first single, “Volume Control”, off their upcoming EP “The World’s Fair” out March 7th via Outer Battery.
TRACKLIST:
01. Pack Yr Vision
02. Volume Control
03. The World’s Fair
04. Time Attacks
Adam Franklin shared this about the release: “We haven’t really done an EP since our days with Creation. I have no idea why it was the done thing back then, but it was a cool way to present your music with no sort of commitment to direction. You could just go off on one on any song if you wanted, and that’s what we wanted to do again here. I’ve always consumed music via singles anyway and was always partial to a good B-side or three.”
My Morning Jacket has shared the first single, “Time Waited”, off their upcoming 10th album “is” out March 21st via ATO.
TRACKLIST:
1. Out in the Open
2. Half a Lifetime
3. Everyday Magic
4. I Can Hear Your Love
5. Time Waited
6. Beginning From the Ending
7. Lemme Know
8. Squid Ink
9. Die For It
10. River Road
Jim James shared this about the song: ““Time Waited” began with a sample of a piano part from pedal-steel player Buddy Emmons’ album, Emmons Guitar Inc. I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk, and all these melodies started coming to me. For a long time, I didn’t have lyrics, but then I had a dream where I was in a café and a song was playing, and the lyrics to that song became the lyrics to ‘Time Waited’ the melodies just fit perfectly. And the lyrics are about how flexible time is, how we can bend and warp time, especially if we are following our hearts, the universe and time itself can flow to work with us.”
The video for the song was directed by Daniel Clinch.
Regarding the album title James shared this: “I like how the word ‘is’ indicates a sense of presence in the now there’s no logic or rationale behind this record; it just is. All these songs came into existence out of an attempt to connect with something beyond the human experiment, which for me is one of the most beautiful things about music that connection with something larger than us, yet something we are all equally a part of.”
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