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.”
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.
Doechii has released a video for the song, “Denial Is A River”, off her album “Alligator Bites Never Heal”.
The video for the song was directed by Carlos Acosta and James Mackel.
Two additional skits, ‘Doechii Slaps Brad Pitt’ and ‘LA ROSA DE DOECHII’, were shared on YouTube, while a third ‘Can I Hit THat’ with ScHoolboy Q aired on Comedy Central.
Michelle Gurevich shared another single, “Shower”, off her just released album “It Was The Moment”.
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).
Benefits have shared a new single, “Missiles”, off their upcoming album “Constant Noise” out March 21st via Invada Records.
Kingsley Hall shared this about the song: “We wanted to release a song that emphasised our commitment to still create wildly angry music, but in an unconventional way. There’s no shouting or obvious sloganeering here, yet it’s still seething with fury. Lyrically it’s an attempt to look at our own comfortable mundane western lives and question why the terror and horror of others can fade so far into the background that it barely registers when it’s mentioned on the news or pops up on your phone. The soundscapes that Robbie Major and James Welsh (producer) created for the track match the tension in the lyric, slowly building the intensity to an uncomfortable finale. In the past we’d have tried to get the same effect by simply adding big blast beat drums or a slab of concrete noise. With this song, and indeed the whole album, we felt it was important to not rely on old tricks, to try something new, to push ourselves.”
The video for the song was directed by John Kirkbride.
Tyler, The Creator has shared a remix of the Kendrick Lamar song “Hey Now”.
Tyler shared this about the anniversary of his debut solo album: “BASTARD released 15 years ago. thank you to everyone who listened to anything over the years. was in such a different zone musically and as a person, but was determined to be who i am today. full of gratitude cause it all came true. earl and i got to do ASSMILK; i did ODD TODDLERS at coachella main stage how wild?!? this album was made at ages 16-18. what a time. thank you.”
The video for that “THAT GUY” was directed by Tyler Okonma.
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