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Nation Of Language has shared the fourth single, “Too Much, Enough”, off their upcoming album “Strange Disciple” out September 15th via PIAS.

The video was directed by Robert Kolodny.

Nation Of Language shared this about the inspiration for the song and video: “Too Much, Enough” is a song born out of an exhaustion with the 24 hour news cycle and the outrage bait it uses to get everyone permanently wound up. It seems the only way to find an edge in the media business is to appeal to our most base instincts of disgust (see: the high ratings of Fox News, etc.), and we end up suffering both individually and collectively for it.

When it came to creating a visual to go alongside the song, we didn’t want the music video to be its own form of outrage bait so we went with a more absurdist approach, gathering some friends of ours, and of our incredible director Robert Kolodny, to make something fun and outlandish to that effect. We also laced the video with as many NOL-related Easter eggs and iconography as possible to give anyone watching an opportunity to play along at home and be a part of that absurdity. It felt good to try to name a problem for ourselves without leaning on fear and rage.

It’s a powerful thing to deny someone the ability to manipulate your most destructive emotions, and that’s something we want to celebrate here.

The overarching theme of Strange Disciple is infatuation and how one’s reality can be warped by it. We went a more romantic route with that on the previous video, but News is one of those less interpersonal activities it feels like everyone takes part in, so we wanted to show our disciple is just as susceptible to it as any other figure.”

CHAI has released the third single, “NEO KAWAII, K”, off their upcoming self-titled album out September 22nd via Sub Pop.

TRACKLIST:

01 Matcha
02 From 1992
03 Para Para
04 Game
05 We the Female!
06 Neo Kawaii, K?
07 I Can’t Organizeeee
08 Driving22
09 Like, I Need
10 Karaoke

The video for “NEO KAWAII, K” was directed by Chiharu Shimura (GLASSLOFT).

MANA shared this about the song: “‘Neo Kawaii’ is about reclaiming self-esteem. Everyone is NEO KAWAII! This is CHAI’s answer, this is a fact in this world! We can finally say what it really means to us. Everyone’s a bit weird. Everyone’s different. Everyone’s awkward, almost to a point that it’s hard to relate. But that’s what’s interesting! That’s what makes it beautiful. To everyone who’s pushed around by these notions, we want to tell you this! We, and all of our lives, are NEO KAWAII! NEO KAWAII is not just plain KAWAII (cute)- it’s cool, it’s strong, it’s kind, it’s warm! Don’t get it mixed up. Hey! NEO KAWAII people! NEO KAWAII needs no preparation. We just want to say that you’re NEO KAWAII too, K?”

Glen Hansard has shared the first single, “The Feast Of St. John”, off his upcoming album “All That Was East Is West Of Me Now” out October 20th via ANTI-.

TRACKLIST:

1. The Feast Of St. John
2. Down On Our Knees
3. There’s No Mountain
4. Sure As The Rain
5. Between Us There Is Music
6. Ghost
7. Bearing Witness
8. Short Life
9. Outro

The video for the song was shot, edited and directed by Myles O’Reilly.

Hansard shared this about the album: “A song only becomes what it is through witness; the song finds a different way. So we set up 5 gigs at the local pub. I told no one. We set up in the corner and played to the locals, some of whom were only half listening. A collection of farmers and workers, dart players, pool sharks. I played two hours of new songs each week, some songs finished, some half-baked. Through this process I realized what I had and what I had to work on further – which songs landed and which ones were only good in my imagination. It solidified my choices right away. It was as if the album appeared in that bar. And not before.”

Crosses ††† have shared the first single, “Invisible Hand”, off their upcoming album “Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete” out October 13th.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Pleasure”
02 “Invisible Hand”
03 “Found”
04 “Light As A Feather”
05 “Pulseplagg”
05 “Runner”
06 “Big Youth” (Feat. El-P)
07 “End Youth (Reprise)”
08 “Last Rites”
09 “Ghost Ride”
10 “Grace”
11 “Eraser”
12 “Natural Selection”
13 “Girls Float † Boys Cry” (Feat. Robert Smith)
14 “Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.”

The video for the song “Invisible Hand” was co-directed by ††† band member Shaun Lopez and Lorenzo Carrera.

Chino Moreno shares this about “When we started working on Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete., there was so much more light coming in my life, for numerous reasons. There’s a lot more optimism. Even the darker themes are more romanticized and not coming from a place of despair.”

The band has announced some shows to support the album.

Wilco has shared the first single, “Evicted”, off their upcoming album “Cousin” out September 29th via dBpm.

TRACKLIST:

1. Infinite Surprise
2. Ten Dead
3. Levee
4. Evicted
5. Sunlight Ends
6. A Bowl And A Pudding
7. Cousin
8. Pittsburgh
9. Soldier Child
10. Meant To Be

Jeff Tweedy said this about the song: “I guess I was trying to write from the point of view of someone struggling to make an argument for themself in the face of overwhelming evidence that they deserve to be locked out of someone’s heart. Self-inflicted wounds still hurt and in my experience they’re almost impossible to fully recover from.”

Talking about the album Tweedy shared this: “I’m cousin to the world. I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage.”

Cate Le Bon, who produced the album, shared this about the album and the band: “The amazing thing about Wilco is they can be anything. They’re so mercurial, and there’s this thread of authenticity that flows through everything they do, whatever the genre, whatever the feel of the record. There aren’t many bands who are able to, this deep into a successful career, successfully change things up.”

Wilco will go on a month long USofA tour beginning late September and running thru late October.

Aphex Twin has released a new EP, “Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 f760”, out now via Warp Records.

TRACKLIST:

1. Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
2. zin2 test5
3. in a room7 F760
4. Blackbox Life Recorder 22 [Parallax Mix]

Talking about the video for the title track, Alfie Dwyer shared this: “I made some micro(cosmic?) beasties for Aphex Twin’s new music video. Weirdcore came up with the idea to put it into the video too using a slightly different method that employs it in 3D space. I then made and rendered the assets and Weirdcore animated them into the end of the video.”

Alabaster dePlume has shared the second single, “Greek Honey Slick”, off his upcoming album “Come With Fierce Grace” out September 8th via International Anthem.

TRACKLIST:

01. Sibomandi (feat. Falle Nioke)
02. What Can It Take
03. To That Voice And Say
04. Greek Honey Slick (feat. Tom Skinner)
05. Give Me Away
06. Fall On Flowers
07. Did You Know (feat. Momoko Gill)
08. Levels Of Human
09. Not Even Sobbing
10. The Best Thing In The World
11. Naked Like Water (feat. Donna Thompson)
12. Broken Again

dePlume shared this about the song: “Before I recorded GOLD, I dropped an enormous metal tin of beautiful Greek honey on my studio floor. Heart-broken, I gathered it into my hands to be disposed of, which took ages. But I chose to embrace this too – not knowing why. And it turned out that it was a blessing for the making of that specific album (though I won’t say why, just now). The key thing for me is: embracing what is, without demanding to know why. Abundance and how it is, and how it can appear, and made welcome.”

Tom Skinner shared this about the collaboration: “I don’t remember much about the details of the session at all, other than that it was a welcome oasis of spontaneous music-making in what had become an otherwise arid and disheartening year. A glorious and joyous exploration of sound in time.”

Alabaster dePlume will go on tour this Fall, the details of dates and venues are in then the image below.

Noah Yorke has shared the first single, “Cerebral Key”, off his upcoming E.P. out via Sly-Tone Records.

Noah Yorke shared this about the release: “it was my first time in a studio for my own work

It was a great experience, and I am proud of the results. It has been a reflective and formative process to write and record this project for you, and I hope you enjoy it.”

Many many things are on the way from me and from sly-tone records, and I will post more soon about what’s to come! Thanks for being here.”

Fearing have shared the first single, “I Was So Alive”, off their upcoming album “Destroyer” out September 29th via Profound Lore Records.

TRACKLIST:

01. I Was So Alive
02. Scars
03. Destroyer
04. Let It Grow
05. The Sun Sets On Me
06. Finding Where You Are
07. The Flame
08. Gravity
09. You See Me

The band will be on tour supporting Portrayal Of Guilt on select dates.