Rebelski has shared the first single, “Arp”, off his upcoming album.
Rebelski shared this about the release: “After a few years of touring with Peter Hook & The Light, Doves and Echo & The Bunnymen I’ve finally made time to write a reflective body of work based around my instrument: the piano. This has been a deeply personal and emotive experience and one that I’ve always strived to achieve.”
Bonnie “Prince” Billy has shared the second single, “Crazy Blue Bells”, off his new upcoming album “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You” out August 11th via Drag City.
TRACKLIST:
01 Like It or Not
02 Behold! Be Held!
03 Bananas
04 Blood of the Wine
05 Sing Them Down Together
06 Kentucky Is Water
07 Willow, Pine and Oak
08 Trees of Hell
09 Rise and Rule (She Was Born in Honolulu)
10 Queens of Sorrow
11 Crazy Blue Bells
12 Good Morning, Popocatépetl
The video for the song was directed by Ray Tintori.
Will Oldham shared this about it: “I believe that it is apparent that this piece of work is a celebration of gratitude and collective action. It’s a multi-generational, cross-discipline effort with implicit resonances into shared pasts and presents. I met director Ray Tintori when he was a small child and I was a slightly larger child. Participating in this visualization of ‘Crazy Blue Bells’ with Tintori, producer Julia Simpson, and a massive consortium of creatives is a joy of my life.”
Alabaster DePlume has shared the first single, “Did You Know”, 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
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
Via a press release this was shared about the lead single: “On the album’s lead single “Did You Know,” singer and drummer Momoko Gill (aka MettaShiba) takes the key poem from GOLD and translates it into her own lyrics. Gill had already delivered the message of the poem and sang it across tons of shows with Alabaster – but with her performance on “Did You Know” she lays out her own meaning for the words. In the background of “Did You Know,” you hear Alabaster playing the key melody that accompanied the original poem on GOLD; but here the feeling is re-established by the improvisers who were recreating the arrangement in the moment, purely for the sake of enjoying each other at the time.”
Alabaster DePlume’s songs are built on sonorous circular melodies and luminous tones that transmit calmness and generosity in warm waves, unless they’re raging against complacency and the everyday inhumanity of end times capitalism. A process that is people-first not product-first ensures that the music is unique; often gem-like. Most importantly, he brings a valuable transparency to his work. “This is what I’m really doing,” he says. “I want to talk about why I’m doing this, and how I’m doing this.”
He will go on a tour starting August and will run thru September.
James Blake has released the first single, “Big Hammer”, off his upcoming new album “Playing Robots Into Heaven” out September 8th via Republic.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Asking To Break”
02 “Loading”
03 “Tell Me”
04 “Fall Back”
05 “He’s Been Wonderful”
06 “Big Hammer”
07 “I Want You To Know”
08 “Night Sky”
09 “Fire The Editor”
10 “If You Can Hear Me”
11 “Playing Robots Into Heaven”
The video for the song was directed by Oscar Hudson.
Blake has announced a tour that will run September to October, no additional dates have been announced yet.
Will Butler announced a new self titled album, “Will Butler + Sister Squares”, out September 22nd via Merge. With the album announcement they also shared the first single, “Long Grass”.
TRACKLIST:
1. Open
2. Stop Talking
3. Willows
4. Long Grass
5. Me & My Friends
6. Saturday Night
7. Car Crash
8. Sunlight
9. Arrow of Time
10. I Am Standing in a Room
11. Good Friday, 1613
12. Old Year
13. Hee Loop
14. The Window
The video was directed by Will Butler and Sister Squares and Adrienne Anderson. Of the song Butler shared this: “I had read this novella called Jamila by a Soviet/Kyrgyz author named Chingiz Aitmatov from the ’50s. It’s about an artist looking back on his childhood in a small town in Kyrgyzstan in WWII. It’s about love, and becoming an artist, and melancholy, and vast landscapes with a single train track running through them. And it reminded me of young adulthood, of wandering moodily down the train tracks. Maybe the song is also about leaving behind the things that formed us, but trying to remember the world as it used to be?”
Sister Squares are Miles Francis, Julie Shore, Jenny Shore, and Sarah Dobbs, and they all came together through familial word of mouth. “I met Jenny, my wife!, in college, the year before I joined Arcade Fire. When I needed a band to tour Policy,” says Butler, referring to his 2015-released solo debut album, “I asked [Jenny’s sister] Julie to join because I trusted her musically. And I asked Sara, Jenny and Julie’s childhood friend, because I knew she was super talented.”
“Antibalas, who I was drumming for, opened some Arcade Fire shows,” says Francis, who offered to play drums anytime Will needed. Together, they became Will Butler + Sister Squares. Butler was initially set on making a solo record, ideally alone in the basement, but he found himself relying on the band for feedback on lyrics and song structures. Miles Francis produced the record.
The band will go on tour to support the album starting late September/early October.
Crush Of Souls has shared a new single, “The Gift”, off their upcoming album “(A)Void Love” out September 29th via Avant! Records.
TRACKLIST:
01. Unloved
02. The Gift
03. World Of Fear
04. Lie(Be)
05. Youth In Smoke
06. Reaper John
07. Who Will Silence The Pigs
08. Zone
09. Statues Fall For Love
10. Servant
The video for the song was filmed at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery by Charles Rowell, Timothée Gainer and Marc Dwyer.
AVANT! Records shared this about the album: “Written over a period of intense insomnia that coincided with a run of shows playing guitar for Australian legend Harry Howard, Rowell’s insistence on keeping the instrumentation simple and clean came from an arduous two years of literal blood, sweat and tears. Every bit of drama, eastern excursion and sleep psychosis can be found within the walls of this new full length album. There’s always been a thread of synth-punk, death rock and DIY noise running through all of Charles’ projects (Crocodiles, ISSUE, Flowers Of Evil, Some Girls, The Plot To Blow The Eiffel Tower) however Crush Of Souls pushes harder and further into the darkness with the new album.”
Rhumba Club has released a new album, “Love Apokalypto”, out now.
TRACKLIST:
01. Video Game
02. Love Apokalypto
03. Tu es un Danseur
04. Perfect Queen
05. Midnight King
06. Beach Lizard
07. Moonlight
08. Electrify Me
09. Warriors
10. You Are A Sensation
Tom Falle shared this about the album: “I wrote Love Apokalypto as a kind of Bonnie & Clyde story: despite the world burning around us, and the haters chasing us in their chariots, being in a relationship has provided me with a unique sense of invincibility. So here I am, celebrating my own romance amidst the apocalypse or, as the song puts it… Love Apokalypto.”
In the build up to the albums release Rhumba Club shared 4 videos, all of which directed by Charlie Pryor: “Video Game”, “Love Apokalypto”, “Beach Lizard” and “Perfect Queen”.
Tom Falle also shared this: “I’ve always been comfortable writing about sexuality, but generally shied away from writing directly about love and sex: inspired by the anti-commercial ethos of early Talking Heads records. I’ve always desperately tried to avoid the generic. On this record however, Mikko Gordon encouraged me to let loose and be comfortable writing about more traditional pop topics: love, lust, heartbreak. It was a challenge at first. I had to shake off my snobby predictions for a bit, and came to accept a simplifying process was probably necessary for me to make better pop. The Rhumba sound has evolved too. I call it a kind of queer New Wave.”
Failure have shared a live video for “Heliotropic” off their live concert Blu-Ray film “We Are Hallucinations”.
“We Are Hallucinations” was filmed over the band’s 2022 U.S. tour and initially released as a limited-time streaming event. Greg Edwards shared this: “It’s crazy that we have never made a concert film before, but I think this will really stand as a definitive document of the dynamic between the three of us on stage and the connection we have with our fans.”
Daniel Melero has released a new album, “Qualia 2 / Micrografía”.
TRACKLIST:
01. Micrografía
02. Quimera
03. Estanque
04. Pececillo Plateado
05. Timo
06. Célula
07. Poema Minúsculo
08. Apofenia
“Qualia 2 / Micrografía” is part of a trilogy that started with “Qualia 1 / Última Thule” which was released back in December of 2022. The albums are inspired on behalf of the word Qualia which Melero describes as: “…those experiences that are incommunicable, those that when you try to narrate to someone else you feel that you cannot express with words…”
Talking about the new album he said: “…it seems beautiful to me to institute the idea of creating something without knowing if it sounds good or not since you’ve never heard something like that before, being out of taste. Taste is a bad adviser while creating. Taste should be left for your digestive system or when you’re decorating your house…”
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