Josef Van Wissem has shared a new single, “With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise”, off his upcoming album “The Night Dwells On The Day” out January 19th via Incunabulum Records.
Van Wissem shared this about the song: “I wrote “With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise” as a theme for a silent score I was working on at the time. The film was “Der Müde Tod / Destiny” is a 1921 German expressionist romance directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover”.
Josef Van Wissem will continue to be on tour until April. No additional dates have been announced yet.
Mama Zu have shared the second single, “Safe Place To Stay” off their upcoming album “Quilt Floor” out February 23rd via Thirty Tigers.
Linwood Regensburg shares this about the song: “Part of me feels like releasing this as an album teaser/single is a huge mistake. It’s pretty slow-moving, a bit cold and empty, initially. Might even borderline cross into adult contemporary territory at times? I doubt anyone would play this on the radio…though maybe Delilah would dig it? I could be wrong. Is this pitch selling you yet?”
Linwood Regensburg said this about the album: “After she died, I didn’t want to touch it. I didn’t want to play the songs or listen to the songs, let alone finish them. It just seemed like such a daunting task with a lot of layers, there was a lot of work left to do, but then there was also this exhausting underlying emotional component that pops in and hangs around the moment I’d open a session. By 2020 I felt ready to finish what we had started, both for her sake and for my own sanity level. I was the only person left with this project. It was a way of spending time with her, and kind of the only capacity in which I could. But then, I was also left with a lot of creative choices without her. Even though I had played most of the instruments, it had still been a totally collaborative thing; if there was a part I played that she didn’t like, she was clear about that. If someone’s gone, you can still talk to them, but you can only assume what their feedback might be. So I was stuck with a lot of musical choices that I’d be working under the context of, I hope you like what I did here.”
The Smile have shared the third single, “Friend Of A Friend”, off their upcoming album “Wall Of Eyes” out January 26th via XL.
The video shared today was animated by Sabrina Nichols with artwork by Stanley Donwood.
This song feels familiar. It’s like a déjà vu. It’s warm and welcoming like a 70’s Neil Young song. It’s something that could’ve been played during the OK Computer tour era, the jazz way that Tom Skinner is playing accompanied by Jonny’s orchestral arrangements (and Robert Stiltman sax) and sprinkled with Thom’s vocals it makes for a saccharine dreamscape.
The Smile have also announced “Wall of Eyes, on Film”, a series of one-off events hosted at independent movie theaters in different cities around the globe. The screenings will feature a new music video for “Friend of a Friend,” directed by the up and coming american director Paul Thomas Anderson.
Braulio Lam has announced the release of his new album, “Claroscuro”, out February 2nd via Dragon’s Eye Recordings.
TRACKLIST:
01. Claroscuro I 02. Claroscuro II 03. Claroscuro III 04. Claroscuro IV 05. Claroscuro V 06. Claroscuro VI 07. Claroscuro VII 08. Claroscuro VIII
Braulio Lam shared this about the album: “We are surrounded by beauty and sometimes those magic moments escape unnoticed. I thought those moments could be transformed into music. I thought to myself, I would love to capture that atmosphere and shape that feeling into sounds. I gave myself the task and tried to seized these moments that I treasure; the magic hours in light that a sunrise and sunsets have.
For me, one of my favorite times of the year, is the October’s golden hour. The transition between summer and autumn creates a gold/amber tones in the environment that I enjoy.“
Nonexistent Night has announced the release of their debut album “In The Middle Of A Boiling Sea” out January 26th via Three One G.
TRACKLIST: 1. Unofficial Soundtrack to the Unconscious 2. One Year 3. Tessellations 4. Prelude in Terror 5. Metaphysics Becomes Physics Becomes Dead Language
Today they’ve shared the song “Metaphysics Becomes Physics Becomes Dead Language”. John Rieder shared this about the song: “Sal wrote this one and also played the guitar parts on the record since Alia Jyawook had not joined the band yet. It’s the only song in drop D tuning, and I think we were all living in the echo of Converge’s Bloodmoon at the time we started arranging and playing this track together. The bass and drums you hear were supposed to be a quick, rough play-through at the end of a very long day, but we played it well enough that it was ultimately a keeper–an unintended first take.”
This is post rock for a drowning world. The band consists of Carrie Feller (Hexa), Sal Gallegos and John Rieder (Secret Fun Club) who first began working together in mid 2019.
The band recently added Alia Jyawook (Scary Pierre, ex-Hot Nerds) as permanent cellist and guitarist and are already working on new songs for a follow-up record. Influenced by bands like Three Mile Pilot, Rachel’s, Slint, Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman, Kate Bush, June of 44, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Om, Low, Converge, and Tristeza.
Alabaster dePlume has shared a new song, “Gifts Of Olive”. The song references the Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza earlier this month at age 44, alongside his brother, sister, and four of her children.
Alabaster DePlume shared this about the track: “At this specific time, may I reach you with appreciation, for I admire you for living, and I come to tell you I believe in you. I have faith in you. You are humanity and this time is in your hands. You survive moment by moment, while crimes are committed against you. And there is no state that can defeat you, no nation state, authority, project nor organisation on this earth can ultimately deny you, humanity. I am reaching to you with my love, and this little Christmas song, where at this time I feel grief. In case it voices a grief for you too, I love you.”
Birthmark have shared the second single, “Red Meadow”, off their upcoming 5th album “Birth Of Omni” out January 19th via Polyvinyl.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Snowflake In My Palm (Not For Long)” 02 “Butterfly” 03 “Birthday (Product Of Our Lust)” 04 “Rodney” 05 “Baby Wocha Come On Home” 06 “Boyfriend” 07 “Green Skies” 08 “Red Meadow” 09 “I’m Awake” 10 “Pretty Flowers”
The video was directed by Nate Kinsella (Birthmark). Nate Kinsella other projects include LIES, Joan Of Arc, American Football, Make Believe.
Kinsella had this to say about the song: “When my wife and I were overwhelmed with tending to our new child our romantic relationship dwindled to the point where it felt like the pilot light had gone out. This wasn’t a huge surprise given the circumstances, but the gap between us began to manifest in ways I hadn’t foreseen. This song is about lamenting that loss and feeling conflicted by what our new lives as parents had brought us and the need to rebalance the emotional ecosystem of our lives.”
Topographies have shared a new single, “Night Sea”, off their upcoming “Interior Spring” out February 2nd via Dark Entries.
TRACKLIST:
1. Night Sea 2. Arch 3. Cleanse 4. Chain Of Days 5. Never Understand 6. Interior Spring 7. Tied 8. 1959 9. Red-Black Sun 10. Face Of Another
On “Interior Spring” Topographies explore themes of guilt, inherited trauma, and recovery. The meaning of its title is triplicate: a submerged river carrying hope, an anxiously wound clock, and a season where wildflowers bloom on the graves of the past.
Through these ten songs, the group (Justin Oronos, Jeremie Ruest, and Gray Tolhurst) hopes to present the idea that freedom is not an escape but an embrace of the quotidian beauty of human life.
Future Islanda have shared the fourth single, “The Fight”, off their upcoming album “People Who Aren’t There Anymore” out January 26th via 4AD
TRACKLIST:
1. King of Sweden 2. The Tower 3. Deep In The Night 4. Say Goodbye 5. Give Me The Ghost Back 6. Corner Of My Eye 7. The Thief 8. Iris 9. The Fight 10. Peach 11. The Sickness 12. The Garden Wheel
The video for the song was directed by Jayla Smith.
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