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Bonnie “Prince” Billy has shared the third single, “Downstream”, off his upcoming album “The Purple Bird” out January 31st via No Quarter and Domino Records.

Will Oldham shared this about the song and collaboration with John Anderson: “One of my favorite recorded John Anderson performances is a duet he sang with Merle Haggard called “The Winds of Change” on Merle’s 1996 record.  It’s a minor-key ballad about climate change and over-development, the compromise of our environment’s integrity at the hands of humans.  “Downstream”, though in a major key, hits on the same ideas.  I don’t know how to explain how it felt to witness this master of song bring, beautifully and humbly, his experience and expertise to bear on this little recording we were making.  Anderson’s singing on the final verse has weight in it, and concern, and love.”

The video was directed by Michael Cullen.

Young Widows have shared the first single, “Call Bullshit”, off their upcoming fifth album “Power Sucker” out March 21st via Temporary Residence Ltd.

TRACKLIST:
1. The Darkest Side
2. Every Bone
3. Call Bullshit
4. Exit Slowly
5. Power Sucker
6. Turned Out Alright
7. Balloon
8. The Holy Net
9. Total Fucking Clarity
10. Take Get Lost
11. Falling Bullet
12. A Life in Tow
13. Hotel of Crows

This is their first album in 11 years and they announced a tour where they will be supporting Thou.

Darkside have shared the second single, “S.N.C”, off their upcoming third album “Nothing” out February 28th via Matador Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. Slau
2. S.N.C
3. Are You Tired
4. Graucha Max
5. American References
6. Heavy is Good For This
7. Hell Suite (Part I)
8. Hell Suite (Part II)
9. Sin El Sol No Hay Nada

Via a press release this was shared about the album: “This concept “Nothing” initially came out of the constant search for mindfulness, but also through Harrington’s moments in the morning with his newborn daughter, where he found a deep beauty in just sitting with her on the floor doing nothing.

For Jaar, this concept of nothing became applicable to other aspects of life. “Nothing” is the reflexive answer when asked about what’s wrong, when there’s too much to even begin to express. In this framework, “nothing” means its mirror opposite. Or “nothing” can be a damning illustration of the lack of change in the world. The maddening inaction on climate change, the political hypocrisy, and the recurring cycles of violence against the people of Palestine, the Sudan, and elsewhere.”

Throwing Muses have shared the first single, “Summer Of Love”, off their upcoming album “Moonlight Concessions” out March 14th via Fire Records.

TRACKLIST:

01 Summer of Love
02 South Coast
03 Theremini
04 Libretto
05 Albatross
06 Sally’s Beauty
07 Drugstore Drastic
08 You’re Clouds
09 Moonlight Concessions

The band shared this about the song in a press release: “…the song began as a bet with a guy for a dollar that revolved around the idea that the seasons don’t change us…”

The video was directed by Samuele Gottardello.

Doves have shared the second single, “Cold Dreaming”, off their upcoming sixth album “Constellations For The Lonely” out February 14th.

The video was directed by Hingston Studio.

Andy Williams shared this about it in a press release: “‘Cold Dreaming’ is a song about forgiveness. Trying to forgive and move on. As a minimum, these days, resilience is the thing that you need more than ever, certainly as a musician. Perhaps the lyrics do touch a bit on what we’ve been through.”

The band has a UK tour lined up starting at the end of February, no additional dates have been announced yet for the USofA (nor Tijuana).

Mogwai have shared the third single, “Fanzine Made Of Flesh”, off their upcoming album “The Bad Fire” out January 24th via Temporary Residence Ltd and Rock Action.

The video for the song was directed by Agnes Haus. This is what they shared about it: “When I was sent the track, I embraced being unable to understand any of the words, and I didn’t want to know where the title came from. As I was listening, I wanted to make a video that matched that, a pseudo-film trailer with a jumbled plot that you can never grasp. You kind of have to piece it all together on your own. I really wanted it to seem like there could be a full-length film version with vague horror tones, emotional entanglement, and nods to weird art films from the ‘90s, and an autobiographical storyline about growing up non-binary, but not realising it. Perhaps one day I’ll extend it into a full film.”

Stuart Braithwaite shared this about the song: “‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’ was written in Brooklyn when I was staying at Alex Kapranos’s house in autumn 2023. In my head it sounds like a cross between ABBA, Swervedriver, and Kraftwerk though that might be ludicrous. It originally has a straight vocal but we ended up vocoding it on the last day of recording. It’s pretty different and I’m really happy with how it turned out.”

Panda Bear has shared the second single, “Ferry Lady”,  off his upcoming album “Sinister Gift” out February 28th via Domino Records.

The video for the song was directed by Danny Perez.

Panda Bear kicks off his 2025 North American tour, including dates with Toro y Moi, next month in Minneapolis. He will also tour Europe and the UK.

Owl Be Damned have released a video for the song, “Barcodes”, off their just released debut album “10:01”.

TRACKLIST:

1. Chloraseptic
2. Barcodes
3. Frogs From The Sky
4. Theatre Of The Blind
5. Hands Are Hard.                                    6. Shut It
7. Push Your Luck
8. Fast, Good & Cheap
9. You’re Gonna Burn
10 . Spooned By A Ghost

The video for the song was directed by Grant Reinero.

The band (and their sound) has been described as “… immaculate misconception brought on with bad direction…” and feeling like “…waking up spooned by a ghost…”.

Max Richter has shared a video for the song, “On The Nature Of Daylight”, off his album “The Blue Notebooks”

TRACKLIST:

1. “The Blue Notebooks”
2. “On the Nature of Daylight”
3. “Horizon Variations”
4. “Shadow Journal”
5. “Iconography”
6. “Vladimir’s Blues”
7. “Arboretum”
8. “Old Song”
9. “Organum”
10. “The Trees”
11. “Written on the Sky”

The video stars Elisabeth Moss. She shared this about Richter: “It just changed the way that I heard music. It changed what I thought a score could be. Since then, I’ve actually managed to weasel my way into becoming friends with him and he’s done some of the music on The Veil, my new show. And in a full circle moment I got to produce and star in the music video for ‘On the Nature of Daylight,’ and I also got to use it in The Handmaid’s Tale, in an episode that I directed. But that piece, and then Max Richter as an extension of that as a composer, so much of his music is a constant inspiration for me. It is the thing that I can listen to and it immediately puts me in whatever place I need to be as an actor. It’s so often what I use as a temp score as a director, and for me, it defines so much of the work and the characters that I play.”

Max Richter’s The Blue Notebooks draws from Kafka’s “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”, where Kafka’s reflections on alienation and doubt resonate with the themes of the record. The Blue Notebooks was conceived as a protest record, a response to what was happening in politics around the build-up to the Iraq war where I was really struck with doubt about what was happening. And I thought about Kafka, who’s the patron saint of doubt, and I thought about making a piece which expressed everything, so we recorded this.