Delaney Davidson has shared the first single, “Don’t Walk Away From Love”, off his upcoming 10th album “Out Of My Head” out March 22nd via Rough Diamond.
The video was directed by Delaney Davidson and Martin Sagadin.
Delaney shared this about the album: “These songs felt like they fit together. Mostly solo with some co writes too. I had a real odd bunch of collaborators, things written with Hayley Westenra, a song with Sam Scott, one with Marlon and a song with Miranda Eastern.
Bringing Merk into the co production role brought a flavour that felt like it fitted with my darker sentimental style. His musicality and focus really extended the songs into some beautiful territory. He also made me slow down a lot which was counter intuitive but also a really nice way to work”
Grandaddy has shared the second single, “Cabin In My Mind”, off their upcoming album “Blu Wav” which will be out February 16 via Dangerbird Records.
TRACKLIST:
1. Blu Wav 2. Cabin in My Mind 3. Long as I’m Not the One 4. You’re Going to Be Fine and I’m Going to Hell 5. Watercooler 6. Let’s Put this Pinto on the Moon 7. On a Train or Bus 8. Jukebox App 9. Yeehaw Ai in the Year 2025 10. Ducky, Boris and Dart 11. East Yosemite 12. Nothin’ to Lose 13. Blu Wav Buh Bye
The video for the song was directed by Aaron Beckum.
Jason Lytle shared this about the song: “A while back I was traveling with a friend, doing some shows and just riffing, and he came up with this phrase. It made so much sense to me and had so many things just within the title itself: shutting off and just, like, going inward. It’s fun to imagine literally a cabin inside your mind. ‘I’m out of here, see ya, guys’ and you walk in the front door, shut the door and disappear for a while.’ It was perfect like an old country song where the title says everything. I remembered the phrase, and it was easy for me to pick it up and just make it work.”
The Jesus And Mary Chain have shared the first single, “jamcod”, off their new album “Glasgow Eyes” out March 8th via Fuzz Club.
TRACKLIST:
1. Venal Joy 2. American Born 3. Mediterranean X Film 4. jamcod 5. Discotheque 6. Pure Poor 7. The Eagles and The Beatles 8. Silver Strings 9. Chemical Animal 10. Second of June 11. Girl 71 12. Hey Lou Reid
The video was edited and directed by Ben Unwind.
Jim Reid shares this: “Hopefully people will expect a Jesus and Mary Chain record, and that’s certainly what Glasgow Eyes is. Our creative approach is remarkably the same as it was in 1984, just hit the studio and see what happens. We went in with a bunch of songs and let it take its course. There are no rules, you just do whatever it takes. And there’s a telepathy there, we are those weird not-quite twins that finish each other’s sentences.”
The Jesus And Mary Chain will go on tour to support the album starting March of 2024 and will continue to April. No dates, other than the Cruel World Fest on May 11th, have been announced for the USofA (nor Tijuana) yet.
Nate Mercereau has shared a new song, “Facing The Sideways Rain”, which features Carlos Niño and Kamasi Washington.
Nate Mercereau shared this about the song: “Kamasi, Carlos and I have only had one short recording session as a trio, but it yielded a lot of great music. Sometimes it’s like that. We recorded a few improvisations together at Jesse Peterson’s studio, one of which I took home and muted my parts, and combined it with another sonic world I had in mind for Kamasi’s tenor and Carlos’s percussion.
It’s an acoustic guitar and vocal piece I’ve had for years, seemingly waiting for Carlos’s and Kamasi’s additions….and it came together amazingly with what they did. I did some further arranging and decorating to finish it and this is what you hear here. A special connection / collage of time.
Thank you to Carlos Niño for asking us to do the session, Banch Abegaze for facilitating, Jesse Peterson for engineering and recording us in his studio, and Kamasi Washington for bringing your full presence of possibility. We talked about Egypt a lot before we hit record, and also the soothing effect Eric Dolphy’s music has with babies (Kamasi and I were both new dads at the time).”
Austra has shared the score that she did for the Canadian documentary “Swan Song”.
SWAN SONG, a feature documentary that immerses viewers inside The National Ballet of Canada as it mounts a legacy-defining new production of Swan Lake, directed by ballet icon Karen Kain on the eve of her retirement. SWAN SONG is directed by Chelsea McMullan (Ever Deadly, My Prairie Home), who wrote the film with producer Sean O’Neill (Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas, LIDO TV). Distributed in Canada by Blue Ice Docs, with international sales handled by Dogwoof.
Austra shares this about the score: “Scoring SWAN SONG has been a dream project. My first ever experience performing was as a kid singing in the orchestra pit for the National Ballet of Canada’s Nutcracker sometime in the 90s and my love for Tchaikovsky has sustained ever since. For this project, I was influenced by artists like Vangelis and Oneohtrix Point Never to compose a deep, textured, almost entirely electronic score that traverses the spectacular music of Swan Lake.”
Drawing upon her classical upbringing, the synth-based score was composed using only a Juno-106, a Mellotron and her voice.
Joe Talbot shared this about the song: “The song came from nowhere and everything. It was a breath and a call to be held, The only words or singing that came from our sessions with Nigel Godrich and I needed it, truly. All is love.”
The band will be touring extensively throughout 2024 with shows lined up almost all year.
The album was co-produced by Nigel Godrich and mixed by Mikko Gordon.
Still Corners have shared the first single, “Secret World”, off their upcoming album “Dream Talk” which will be out April 6th via their own label Wrecking Light Records.
TRACKLIST: 1. Today is the Day 2. The Dream 3. Faded Love 4. What is Real 5. Lose More Slowly 6. Secret World 7. Let’s Make Up 8. Crystal Blue 9. The Ship 10. Turquoise Moon
The video for the song was directed by Greg Hughes and he shared this about the song: “Sometimes the thought of someone, wanting to know them, get into their world is dangerous. The real person doesn’t matter anymore, just the fantasy of them, which is totally wrong but feels right.”
Tessa Murray shares this about the album: “The genesis for a lot of these songs came from dreams. Every night I would write down the dreams I could remember. While recording I would pull out my book of dreams and sing over various looped phrases Greg had been working on. The repetitive nature of the looping and singing almost felt like going into a trance. A lot of the songs came from that process, it was fun and what I thought were sort of ramblings ended up surprising us with their various meanings and imagery.”
Hughes added: “We tried various things like different mics, amps and effects before committing to anything. Everything was mixed analog through our new SSL console, there’s a gleam to the sound.”
Sleaford Mods have shared the cover of the Pet Shop Boys song “West End Girls”, which will be released as a single with the B-Side being a Pet Shop Boys remix of the Sleaford Mods cover. All profits generated by the single are being donated by Sleaford Mods to the charity Shelter, details of their work can be found at https://www.shelter.org.uk/
TRACKLIST:
Side 1
West End Girls (clean) West End Girls (dirty)
Side 2
West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys Remix) West End Girls (HiFi Sean Remix) West End Girls (Extnddntwrk Remix)
The video for the song was directed by Ewen Spencer.
Jason Williamson shared this about the song: “I’ve been listening to the Pet Shop Boys’ albums Please and Actually a lot, the music still fits this landscape so well. When Andrew suggested we cover ‘West End Girls,’ it was important to honour the track’s brilliance. So, when Neil and Chris gave the track their blessing our tiny minds were blown, and when we received their remix… it was almost too much. It was brilliant!”
Andrew Fearn shared this: “‘West End Girls’ is a song that’s very close to my heart, my coming-of-age track in so many ways.”
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe shared this: “Sleaford Mods have brought East End boys back to the West End streets for a great cause and we love their new version.”
Planet B have announced the release of their second album, “Friction Prediction”, to be released February 9th via Three One G.
TRACKLIST: 01. Dick On the Dance Floor 02. Clogged Sync (feat. Eric Livingston and Ethan Campa) 03. The Baader Review (feat. Crow Jane) 04. The Bouquet (feat. D-Styles) 05. Terrible Purpose (feat. Ric Scales) 06. Horror Movie Called Civilization (feat. Tommy Meehan) 07. Filthy Suitcase 08. Goals Gone Wild (feat. Tommy Meehan) 09. Rack More Brains (feat. Kent Osborne) 10. Unreal Estate (feat. David Scott Stone) 11. Let Me Explain This Again (feat. Josie Cotton and Gabe Serbian)
Planet B’s second LP has been a long time in the making. Obviously, over this span of time, there has been an almost unimaginable amount of surreality and insanity to pull from when creating the band’s unique hip-hop-punk-meets-sci-fi-horror-movie sonic aesthetic. As always, the sound is as confrontational as it is catchy, the lyrics scathing and the beats bizarre. Earworms abound. As with the band’s first release, there are a host of guest collaborations on the various tracks, from Josie Cotton to David Scott Stone (ex-LCD Soundsystem, Melvins), D-Styles (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), and more. Perhaps most personally meaningful are the instrumental contributions from Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and Eric Livingston (Mamaleek), both family to the band, who have each passed on from this dimension and back to whatever radical planet they came from since the creation of the album.
Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and 70s-80s horror movie scores. It is catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once. The band’s first self-titled LP showcased the band collaborating with artists such asKool Keith, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Martin Atkins (ex-PiL, Killing Joke, Ministry, Pigface), K. Joseph Karam (The Locust), and Sonny Kay (The VSS, Angel Hair). The band has also released splits with electronic punk duo ADULT. and turntablist collective Invisibl Skratch Piklz. The band also formed an offshoot with The Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson, Lucien Greaves; this project is called Satanic Planet. Fiction Prediction sees a similar array of collaborators.
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