Kendrick Lamar has shared the first video, for “squabble up”, off his just released album “GNX”.
The video for the song was directed by Calmatic.
Kendrick didn’t share thoughts on the video or song mostly because he doesn’t need to.
It’s all there in the music.
It’s all there in the lyrics.
It’s all there in the video.
Beirut has shared the first single, “Caspian Tiger”, off a new soundtrack titled “A Study Of Losses” created for the Swedish contemporary circus Kompani Giraff.
The video for the song was directed by Jan Pivoňka.
Zach Condon shared this about it: “When I was first approached about writing a soundtrack for a circus, a certain amount of “Elephant Gun” era trauma initially came rushing up. I had been pigeonholed for years as a whimsical circus waif, full of sepia-toned images of penny farthings and perhaps lion tamers with handlebar mustaches. It couldn’t have been further from how I pictured the music I was making. I had been quietly avoiding the subject for years.
Ironic then, that I found Kompani Giraff’s project so enticing, and writing something for acrobats to perform so enjoyable. ‘Caspian Tiger’ was one of the first songs I wrote for the new album, with images in mind of the poor animals caged or fighting in Roman colosseums. They had been taken from the Asian steppes around the Caspian Sea and from as far east as Tashkent, an area I’ve been fascinated by for years. The sonic influence came in large part from choir music that I was obsessing over at the time.
Perhaps I subconsciously aimed to embrace and even improve on the imagery I had been originally written off for.”
Saint Etienne have shared the first single, “Half Life”, off their upcoming album “The Night” out December 13th via Heavenly.
TRACKLIST:
1. Settle In
2. Half Light
3. Through The Glass
4. Nightingale
5. Northern Counties East
6. Ellar Carr
7. When You Were Young
8. No Rush
9. Gold
10. Celestial
11. Preflyte
12. Wonderlight
13. Hear My Heart
14. Alone Together
Pete Wiggs shared this about the single: “‘Half Light’ is about the edge of night, the last rays of the sun flickering through the branches of trees, communing with nature and seeing things that might not be there.”
Pete Wiggs shared this about the album: “It was great to all be in the same studio together again up at Gus’s in Bradford, we realized that it had been several years since we’d actually done that, sprawling out on the carpet, mugs of coffee in hand, sheets of lyrics and half ideas for titles lying around us. We wanted to continue the mellow and spacey mood of the last album, perhaps even double down on it, but it’s a very different album, not based on samples; songs, moods and spoken pieces drift in and out whilst rain pours down outside. It’s the kind of record I like to listen to in the dark or with my eyes closed.”
Sarah Cracknell said this: “It was so good to be back in the studio together after recording the last album remotely. One of my favorite songs on the record is ‘Preflyte,’ it made me cry when I sang it for the first time.”
Bob Stanley added: “We wanted ‘The Night’ to be a calming album, warm and serene, but at the same time we wanted to create something gorgeous and dense. We were trying to find the state that’s between being awake and asleep, that dream space, with half forgotten thoughts drifting in, bits of TV dialogue, place names, streets, or football grounds you’ve never even been to. You feel very receptive to sound and half-covered memories when you’re in that state. Rain noise runs right through it. It was designed to gently wash away the stuff in your head that keeps you awake at 2am. You could think of it as one continuous, single track. It’s definitely a headphone album.”
Elbow have shared a new song, “Adriana Again”, off what seems to be a new EP coming out soon(ish).
The video for the song was done by Elbow and it features the band ‘Novocane’ playing as Elbow.
Guy Garvey said this about the song: “With ‘AUDIO VERTIGO’, it’s like we built a new vehicle for ourselves, and we wanted to give it another spin, hence the new EP. Take the ride that is “Adriana Again”
The single for “Daybreak” by Robin Carolan has been released, this is off the soundtrack for the upcoming film “Nosferatu” by Robert Eggers. The soundtrack will be released by Sacred Bones Records.
Robin Carolan shared this about the score: “From the get-go, it was important to me that I not just write something you’d solely think of as a ‘horror score’. I wanted to really lean into the melancholy, tragic aspect of the tale, and even make room for something akin to romance, albeit a very warped kind of romanticism.
Nosferatu being set in the 1800s meant I was able to rely a lot more on contemporary instrumentation, but it was still important to make sure the score wasn’t overly contemporary sounding.”
“Nosferatu” is one of the most anticipated films of the year. Regardless of how the film fares at the box office the film might live on in part because of the artists involved.
Vaya Futuro has released a new single, “Otredad”, off their upcoming album “Fuego, Guíame” out February 12th, 2025.
Luis Aguilar shared this about the song: “I composed this song about the Palestinian genocide that we are witnessing via our cell phones, utilizing “the Otredad” as means for attacking and displacing entire communities without total indignation from the society.
It speaks of total rejection of violence in the name of a God and any other form of ideology as means for supremacy. This connects to the message in “Sin Nombre” and with the main message in the album: question everything, critique, raise your voice and let our anger be the driving force for change.
I wrote this song because I felt that staying silent is just another way of appeasing the status quo. The indifference is a plague in our generation. Even though our platform may not be as massive I still wanted to say something. This whole album is about trying to revindicate anger as a useful tool of disruption, and this song, even though it may not be a protest song per se, in between the anger and the indignation and the sadness, it does encompass the main aspects of this theme.”
Shannon Wright has shared the first single off her upcoming 11th album, Reservoir Of Love “, out February 3rd via Vicious Circle Records.
TRACKLIST:
1. Reservoir of Love
2. The Hits
3. Weight of the Sun
4. Countless Days
5. Ballad of a Heist
6. Mountains
7. Shadows
8. Something Borrowed
The video for the song was directed by Nigel Rowe.
Vicious Circle Records shared this press release: “Shannon Wright delivers her eleventh album in 25 years, Reservoir of Love. Embodying the essence of her unique style, it delivers songs where intensity is sometimes embodied in electric rock blazes, sometimes in heart-rending ballads, adorned with choirs and strings, the warm sound of a Wurlitzer, a guitar or a piano. Haunted by illness and bereavement, produced in solitude, this album is bursting with energy, light and love.”
Michelle Gurevich has released her new album, “It Was The Moment”, available now via her Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST:
1. Carried Away
2. Shower
3. Kosovo
4. It Was the Moment
5. Every Night Feels Like the Last
6. Tragedy for Sale
7. There’s No One Answer for Life
8. Pictures on the Wall
9. Goodbye My Dictator
The album was written, performed and produced by Michelle Gurevich.
No tour dates have been announced yet, but hopefully she will be able to visit the USofA (or Tijuana).
Fucked Up have shared a new album, “Someday”, available now via Fucked Up Records.
TRACKLIST:
1. City Boy (Fear) (ft. Graham Sayle)
2. Grains of Paradise
3. Feed Me Your Feathers (ft. Pat Flynn)
4. I Took My Mom To Sleep (ft. Tuka Mohammed)
5. Man Without Qualities (ft. Max Williams)
6. The Court of Miracles
7. Fellow Traveller
8. In The Company of Sisters (ft. Julianna Riolino)
9. Smoke Signals (ft Graham Sayle)
10. Someday
Fucked Up shared this about the album: “This record is about how far our actions and our ideas can travel, and how we can plant consequences in the lives of other people without even realizing it and how we can use our lives to make this a better world.”
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