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Smerz have shared a new album, “Big City Life EDITS”, which is a sort of re-imagining of their latest. It is available now via escho.

“Big City Life EDITS” features Clairo, ML Buch, Astrid Sonne, Erika de Casier, Fine, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, MIKE, Zack Sekoff, Elias Rønnenfelt, Fousheé and more.

TRACKLIST:

1. Big dreams Yrdloop EDIT
2. Easy – Astrid Sonne EDIT
3. Imagine this – NEW YORK EDIT
4. What – haloplus+ EDIT
5. Roll the dice – Molina EDIT
6. Feisty – Erika de Casier EDIT
7. A thousand lies – Fine EDIT
8. Big city life – They Are Gutting a Body of Water EDIT
9. You got time and got money – MIKE + Zack Sekoff EDIT feat. Elias Rønnenfelt & Fousheé 10. But do ML Buch EDIT
11. Close – Clarissa Connelly EDIT
12. Dreams – Cezinando EDIT
13. Street style Toxe EDIT
14. You got time and got money – Smerz & WIZJ EDIT feat. Clairo

Below is a link to Bandcamp because fuck Spotify.

https://smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/album/big-city-life-edits

Anna Calvi has shared a cover of the Bonnie “Prince” Billy song “I See A Darkness” and it features Perfume Genius.

The video for the song was directed by Alexander Brown.

Anna Calvi shared this about the song: “So many songs are about romantic love. But I wanted to highlight the romance of the chosen family, the depth of connection that isn’t tethered to heteronormative ideals. It’s such a powerful song about the yearning for intimacy. I love inhabiting other people’s songs. When I sing someone else’s words, I feel like I’m getting closer to myself somehow, because the songs I choose express something I can’t articulate.”

The Dare played a whole 50 minute set at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday October 25th to what felt like a sold out crowd.

Seeing The Dare live is as if James Murphy was skinny with no band/friends onstage playing with him and instead it’s just a tracking tune that plays some sort of b-side versions of Soulwax songs (Nite Versions) remixed by 2manydjs and he does karaoke to them with a tower of Marshall stacks and strobe lights to help with the stage presence.

Sleaford Mods have shared the first single, “The Good Life” feat. Gwendolyn Christie and Big Special, off their upcoming album “The Demise Of Planet X” out January 16th via Rough Trade.

TRACKLIST:

1. The Good Life (feat. Gwendoline Christie + Big Special)
2. Double Diamond
3. Elitest G.O.A.T. (feat. Aldous Harding)
4. Megaton
5. No Touch (feat. Sue Tompkins)
6. Bad Santa
7. The Demise Of Planet X
8. Don Draper
9. Gina Was
10. Shoving the Images
11. Flood the Zone (feat. Liam Bailey)
12. Kill List (feat. Snowy)
13. The Unwrap

The video for the song was directed by Ben Wheatley.

Jason Williamson shared this about the song: “’The Good Life’ talks about slagging bands off and the joy and misery that causes me. I’m asking myself why am I slagging bands off? Why is it a continuing thing with me? My inner voices are brought to life by Gwendoline and Big Special, debating that internal tension between me enjoying a good life or submitting to the mayhem.”

Williamson shared this about the album:  “The Demise of Planet X represents a life lived under immense uncertainty, shaped by mass trauma. When we wrote the last album, it was about stagnation, a country that felt like a lifeless corpse. Three years later, that corpse has been split open by war, genocide, and the lingering psychological fallout of Covid whilst social media has mutated into a grotesque, twisted form of digital engineering. It feels like we’re living among the ruins. A multi-layered abomination etched into our collective psyche. I don’t want to pat myself on the back while the rest of the world falls to shit, but we’re really happy with “The Demise of Planet X”. The music and ideas are fresh and it’s in your face, but it pays to put your glasses on to look at the ingredients.”

Ashes And Diamonds have shared the fourth single, “On”, off their upcoming debut album “Ashes And Diamonds Are Forever” out October 31st via Cleopatra Records.

Daniel Ash shared this about the song: “This song is about having an extreme passion for life/love. It’s the antithesis of complacency…Go for it forever.”

Armand Hammer & The Alchemist have shared the first single, “Super Nintendo”, off what will be their new album “Mercy” to be released November 17th via Backwoodz Studioz / Rhymesayers Entertainment.

The video was co-directed by ELUCID and billy woods.

A press release said this of the album: “The new record is made out of blood and empire, children’s laughter, unpaid parking tickets and unkept secrets”.

Puma Blue has shared the first single, “Desire”, off his upcoming album “Croak Dream” out February 6th via PIAS.

Puma Blue shared this about the song: “I didn’t have microphones with me or anything. I ended up embracing the raw sound of my guitar recorded with my phone, no amplification. I meant to re-dub it later, but I actually fell in love with how visceral it sounded unplugged, and so I left it as it was. This approach snowballed into an appetite for these gritty and ugly sounds clashing with something more lucid and dream-like.

Sometimes I feel like my music has been chronically shy and so with this song, it just felt time to be bold, let it all hang out, throw the paint around. A lot of recent songs have started this way, lonely and reaching for the guitar the way I did when I was a kid, a sort of old friend. Just using whatever limited tools within my reach. I taught myself guitar on an electric as a teenager and for years we didn’t have a guitar amp, so it felt kind of full circle for me.

As for the lyrics, I’m a lover asking his partner to bed, craving what she wants. It’s just a love song really. But with jungle breaks.”

Puma Blue will begin his tour a week after the release of his album. All dates listed below.

Jim Jarmusch and Anika have collaborated in the creation of the score for Jarmusch latest film “Father Mother Brother Sister” with the score being released on November 14th via Sacred Bones Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. Spooky
2. Disorder
3. Skaters (Short Version)
4. The Lake 1
5. The Lake 2
6. The World In Reverse
7. Afterwards
8. Order
9. Twins
10. Skaters
11. Return
12. Emptiness
13. These Days
14. Jetlag
15. Paris Bleu
16. These Days (Berlin Version)

The single that has been shared off the score is for the song “Jetlag”. Additionally Jarmusch and Anika covered the song “Spooky” by Classics IV and “These Days” by Nico.

Darkside have shared a new single, “One Last Nothing”, a post album standalone track available via Matador Records.

A press release from the label said this:  “The track an unreleased composition created amid sessions for the trio’s third LP, ‘Nothing’ – finds the group at its most bass-forward, riding a tough groove into an elegantly spaced-out blend of krautrock, dub, and Fillmore-era psychedelia.”