The Jesus Lizard announced the release of their upcoming album “Rack” which will be out September 13th via Ipecac.
TRACKLIST: 1. Hide & Seek 2. Armistice Day 3. Grind 4. .What If? 5. Lord Godiva 6. Alexis Feels Sick 7. Falling Down 8. Dunning Kruger 9. Moto(R) 10. Is That Your Hand? 11. Swan the Dog
The first single they released off the album was the opening track “Hide & Seek” with a video created by Displaced Replaced.
The second single is for the song “Alexis Feels Sick” with a video created by David Yow.
Tindersticks have announced a new album, “Soft Tissue”, out September 13th via Slang.
TRACKLIST: 1. New World 2. Don’t Walk, Run 3. Nancy 4. Falling, The Light 5. Always a Stranger 6. The Secret of Breathing 7. Turned My Back 8. Soon To Be April
They’ve shared two singles so far off the album. The first one was the opening track “New World” and this is what Stuart Staples shared about the video: “Sid was making these tiny ceramic characters, and I asked her to make some of the band. Later I wrote this song about somehow trying make sense of this strange world I felt developing around me and these little guys came back into my mind. Let’s take them on a stop motion journey across a strange land, from the barren rocks to the bountiful fruit that is not familiar and maybe poisonous. Sid put the landscapes together and moved the figures, millimetres at a time. Neil took the photographs; we edited as went along.”
The second single is for the song “Nancy” and this is what Staples shared about it: “Some say that there are only a few different types of songs. “Nancy” definitely falls in to the classic “guy fucks up / begs for forgiveness” bracket — but hopefully with a few surprises along the way. Like much of Soft Tissue, the musical spark of excitement came from the creation of the rhythm track Earl Harvin gated, echoed, and fused with a CR78. Dan McKinna’s bass and David Boulter’s organ arpeggios combining into a heavy sauce. Nice brass too.”
1. Strawberry Line 2. The Seal 3. Windmill Hill 4. Denim 5. Hungry Are We 6. Ah Yeh 7. Bloody Miles 8. Secrets 9. Cellophane
The band released this statement: “This is the fourth Beak> studio album, imaginatively titled “>>>>”. At its core we always wanted it to be head music, listened to as an album, not as individual songs. This is why we are releasing this album with no singles or promo tracks. The recording and writing initially began in a house called Pen Y Bryn in Talsarnau, Wales in the fallout from the weirdness of the COVID days. Remote and with only ourselves and the view of Portmeirion in the distance, we got to work.
With the opening track, “Strawberry Line” (our tribute to our dear furry friend Alfie Barrow, who appears on the albums cover) as the metronomic guide for the album, we then resumed recording, as before, at Invada studios in Bristol, whilst still touring around Europe and North/South America.
After playing hundreds of gigs and festivals over the years we felt that touring had started to influence our writing to the point we weren’t sure who we were anymore. So we decided to go back to the origins of where we were at on our first album – with zero expectations and just playing together in a room.
Hopefully we have achieved this.
We begin touring the album in November playing the album in full, which we’ve never done before. Yes, we will probably still play “Wulfstan II” at the end.
Kendrick Lamar has released a video for one of Drake’s funeral songs, “Not Like Us”.
The video for the song was co-directed by Dave Free and Kendrick himself.
At this point (almost) everyone has heard the song that potentially and hopefully ended Drake’s career. And if there is a lesson to be learned here is that you don’t come at Kendrick at all because he will mock you, embarrass you, diss you, insult you, slap you around, take what you’ve created and turn it inside out and use it against you. Surely he isn’t untouchable, it’s just that I don’t see anyone who would dare go after him again in the near future.
Also, the video he co-directed will most likely be the video of the year, there hasn’t been a video with such impact since Donald Glover released “This Is America” by Childish Gambino.
137 have shared the first single, “First Idea Part One”, off their upcoming debut album “Strangeness Oscillation” out July 31st via Noetic.
TRACKLIST: 1. First Idea Part One 2. Bass Clarinet One 3. Bad Ass 4. Ade’s Tune 5. Two Base Flute 6. Drum and Sax 7. Trichotomy Book 8. First Idea Part Two
137 are Adrian Utley (Portishead), Larry Stabbins (Weekend), Sebastian Rochford (Sons Of Kemet) and Jim Barr (Portishead).
The band shared this about the album: “After ten years at sea, the first thing Larry Stabbins did when he hit dry land was to call Adrian Utley and Jim Barr, within days they were in the studio with Sebastian Rochford. The resulting debut album ‘Strangeness Oscillation’ is a collection of completely improvised recordings that captures the ferocity and fragility of these four players unique combined voice.”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared the second single, “Frogs”, off their upcoming album “Wild God” out August 30th via PIAS.
Nick Cave shared this about the song: “The sheer exuberance of a song like ‘Frogs’, it just puts a big fucking smile on my face.”
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have announced some tour dates for the UK and Europe that will start in September and it will run until late November which means that they might be touring the USofA sometime in 2025.
Jake Xerxes Fussell has shared the third single, “Gone To Hilo”, off his upcoming album “When I’m Called” out July 12th via Fat Possum.
Fussell shared this about the song: “It’s important to remember that a lot of the songs we call sea chanties might have only functioned as such for a short period of time before escaping (or becoming culturally irrelevant to) their original contexts. Even in its original work song context, the song abstracts time and place. From whose point of view is this song sung? Who is Johnny? And why is he sometimes ‘Tommy?’ And where is Hilo anyway? Is it Ilo, Peru, or did they mispronounce Hawai’i? And where is Rye-o? Are they singing about Rio de Janeiro or Ryo, Georgia? That’s folk music, baby.”
Jake will be on tour this summer, just started on June 21st and it will run until the end of July and then off to Ireland, the UK and Europe.
Enola Gay have shared a new song, “Cold”, out now via their Bandcamp.
The band shared this via a statement: “Cold was one of the first tracks we ever wrote, written from a place of admiration for our close friend and her family. We vividly remember meeting her and the infectious energy she brought to our friend group so to discover that she had a sister, who was terminally ill, really took us back. As she and her family battled one of the most tragic experiences imaginable, their love remained fortified and their heads grounded. Witnessing this set our adolescent self-destructive behaviour into perspective. We wrote something we hope echoes an acceptance that you can be bruised without being broken. A sentiment that could have easily been lost in a track of this nature however, Mount Palomar helped us resurface this through his production and suggestions when reshaping the song to what it is now. Forcing us of decisions when recording with him to deliver something tender, which he could then propel to sound as confident as our heavier side.
For some time, we were all dealing with personal issues behind the scenes but that is exactly why Cold was the most appropriate track for us to record next. It reminded us that our issues weren’t as big as they seemed and because we stuck together, we surpassed them. Cold is not just a song of incomparable loss; it is about not being alone through it.”
Nilüfer Yanya has shared the second single, “Method Actor”, off her upcoming album “My Method Actor” out September 13th via Ninja Tune.
TRACKLIST:
1. Keep On Dancing 2. Like I Say (I runaway) 3. Method Actor 4. Binding 5. Mutations 6. Ready for Sun (touch) 7. Call It Love 8. Faith’s Late 9. Made Out of Memory 10. Just a Western 11. Wingspan
Nilüfer Yanya shared this about the song and album: “I was researching method acting, and from what I read, it’s based on finding this one memory in your life, a life-altering, life-changing memory. The reason why some people find method acting traumatic and maybe not safe mentally, is because you’re always going back to that moment. It can be good or bad but you’re always feeding off the energy, something that’s defined you—and that’s what helps you become the character. It’s a bit like being a musician. When you’re performing, you’re still trying to invoke the energy and emotion of when you first wrote it, in that moment. It definitely feels like you’re having to recreate or step into that headspace.”
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