This was shared via a press release: “”Manresa,” named after a beach on the Santa Cruz California coastline, evokes a sense of nostalgia and Richard’s musical connection to the natural world. Through the modal piano harmonies, Richard’s kinetic improvisational textures peak at the end of the track.”
Annie Hart has shared a new single, “Stop Staring At You”, off her upcoming album “The Weight Of The Wave” out August 4th via Uninhabitable Mansions.
TRACKLIST:
1: Boy You Got Me Good 2: Crowded Cloud 3: I Never Do 4: A Lot of Thought 5: Waking Up 6: What Makes Me Me 7: Stop Staring at You 8: Falling 9: Nothing Makes Me Happy Anymore 10: While Without
The video for the song was directed by Benjamin Kasulke, and it features Annie doing an Yvonne Rainer inspired dance.
Annie, formerly of Au Revoir Simone, shared this about the song and video: “This song was inspired by a very charismatic friend of mine who was addicted to looking at how many likes they had on Instagram. I had fallen under their otherwise charming spell and was along for the ride of their friendship and fun adventures. One night, I saw them surrounded by fawning half-fans and saw them basking in the glow of this empty affection, and all lit up by being worshiped, and I just saw the sad emptiness of that kind of existence and knew there was nothing I could do for this person, that they had became the prisoner of their own misery. This song is about not judging your self worth on other people’s half-attention and finding your true value in yourself and your real relationships.
The video for this song is a meta take on this concept. It zooms out and makes fun of me – I hired a director to make a video that is all about me, singing a song about other people obsessed with themselves. I wanted to make a statement about how we are all participants in this sort of self-indulgent behavior. But I also just wanted to dance and make weird art on the beach.”
Annie Hart will be on tour supporting Fred Armisen on some dates and Jimmy Whispers on others while headlining some shows on her own.
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.
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.”
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