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The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis have teamed up and released a song, “Emergence”, off their upcoming self titled album out March 15th via Impulse! Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. L’Orso
2. Emergence
3. That Thang
4. Three Sisters
5. Boatly
6. The Time Is The Place
7. Railroad Tracks Home
8. Aesthenia
9. Fourth Wall

The video for the song was edited and directed by Brendan Cantu and shot by Dan Sharnoff.

James Brandon Lewis shared this about it: “The way I revere them, Joe Lally and Brendan Canty, is the same way that I revere playing with Jamaaladeen Tacuma or playing with William Parker. It’s a certain road experience that you can’t get in school. It’s like a well-oiled machine playing with them. Also, since day one of knowing Anthony Pirog, me and him just fit.”

They did promise to go on a full tour and promote the album and so far they have shared these dates.

Elbow have shared the first single, “Lover’s Leap”, off their upcoming album “Audio Vertigo” out March 22nd.

TRACKLIST
01 “Things I’ve Been Telling Myself For Years”
02 “Lovers’ Leap”
03 “(Where Is It?)”
04 “Balu”
05 “Very Heaven”
06 “Her To The Earth”
07 “The Picture”
08 “Poker Face”
09 “Knife Fight”
10 “Embers Of Day”
11 “Good Blood Mexico City”
12 “From The River”

Guy Garvey shared this about the song: “the song is designed not to reflect but distract from the bad things happening in the world. We found seedy, gnarly grooves playing in back rooms and those pulled some dark memories and plenty of humor from me.”

Elbow have a few live dates announced and they’re all in the UK in the month of May with The Weave opening up for them. No additional dates have been announced yet.

Jlin has shared the first single, “The Precision Of Infinity”, off her new album “Akoma” out March 22nd via Planet Mu.

TRACKLIST:
01 Borealis (ft. Björk)
02 Speed Of Darkness
03 Summon
04 Iris
05 Open Canvas
06 Challenge (To Be Continued II)
07 Eye Am
08 Auset
09 Sodalite (ft. Kronos Quartet)
10 Grannie’s Cherry Pie
11 The Precision Of Infinity (ft. Philip Glass)

https://jlin.bandcamp.com/album/akoma?t=11

Jlin shared this about the album: “To all the incredible collaborators on this record, your brilliance shines through every sound. Philip Glass, your mastery left an indelible mark; Bjork, your genius uniqueness inspired unparalleled creativity; Kronos Quartet, for your constant drive and virtuosity; [artist, sculptor, and designer] Florence To, for your ethics in family, honesty, vision and understanding.”

Jesus and The Mary Chain have shared a new single, “Chemical Animal”, off their upcoming album “Glasgow Eyes” to be released March 8th via Fuzz Club.

Jim Reid shared this about the single: “Our work on our autobiography definitely bled into our work on the album. “jamcod,” the first single from the album, was about that night in 1998 in the House of Blues when the band broke up. “Chemical Animal” is different but related. I was thinking back to those dark days of chemical dependency. When you fall so deep into that hole that everything you do is by instinct. The drugs are the driving force. The thing that gets you from a to b is whether you can score. It was a horrible way to live and I’m thankful I don’t live that way any more. One effect is that it made me aware of how our brains, who we are, how we feel, and what we do, depend on our neural chemistry, a chemistry beyond our control. It’s a biological curse we can’t escape.”

So far for USofA tour dates they’ve only announced the Cruel World Fest date (5/11) no additional dates have been shared yet.

Thomas Bangalter has announced the release of the film score for the film “Daaaaaalí!” By Quentin Dupieux (Mr. Oizo) out February 7th via Ed Banger Records.

TRACKLIST:
01 Daaaaaalí!
02 Age Reel

The synopsis for the film reads like this: A French journalist meets the iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí on several occasions for a documentary project that never came to be.

Ed Banger Records released a statement which reads: “Let’s start 2024 with something very special! Thrilled to welcome Thomas Bangalter on Ed Banger records for the release of the original soundtrack of DAAAAAALÍ”.

Topographies have shared the second single, “Chain Of Days”, off their upcoming album “Interior Spring” out February 2nd via Dark Entries.

Gray Tolhurst shared this about the song: “‘Chain Of Days’ is a term I used to describe the blur of daily living, the numbing repetition of daily acts that form a life. Not in a negative sense, but as more of a recognition that all acts form a chain of movement that imbues. The term came to me during the early days of the pandemic when all days felt self-similar and each task one took on felt both pointless and suddenly strange and somewhat magical.”

Topographies have announced a European/UK tour that will start in May, we’re certain additional dates for the USofA (maybe Tijuana) will be added.

Richard Reed Parry has released the score for the a24 produced film “The Iron Claw”.

The Iron Claw is the true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

You can stream the score below.

Astrel K has shared the first single, “Darkness At Noon”, off his upcoming second album “Foreign Department” out March 8th via Tough Love Records.

TRACKLIST:
1.Heavy Is The Head
2.Darkness At Noon
3.By Depol
4.Brighter Spells
5.Firma
6.Birds In Vacant Lots
7.The Foreign Department
8.C Ya!
9.A Rudderless Ship
10.Daffodil
11.R U A Literal Child?

The video for the song was directed by Michael Cullen.

Rhys Edwards (Astrel K), who is also the front man of the band Ulrika Spacek, made the album in his current home of Stockholm, Sweden.

Astrel K will go on a short tour in support of the release of “Foreign Department” with a string of in-store performances in the UK. No additional dates for the USofA (nor Tijuana) have been announced yet.

Gossip have shared the second single, “Real Power”, off their upcoming album “Real Power” out March 22nd via Ultra.

TRACKLIST:
01. Act of God
02. Real Power
03. Don’t Be Afraid
04. Crazy Again
05. Edge of the Sun
06. Give It Up for Love
07. Turn the Card
08. Tell Me Something
09. Light It Up
10. Tough
11. Peace and Quiet

Beth Ditto shared this about the song: “That song is about how awesome our city is and how it really showed up. The system was being rearranged and we were forcing people to reckon with it at a time when it could literally make you ill to gather, during a pandemic. That’s real power, people coming together, making those decisions to be in the streets.”

Beth Ditto shared this about the return of the Gossip: “When we began, so much about Gossip was about running away- that was always in the music. We survived. We came from nothing, and we got the fuck out of there. And to be here 20 years later and still making music together is just incredible.”

A full tour has not been announced yet., only some selected dates have been shared so far.