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The C.I.A. have shared the first single, “Bubble”, off their upcoming album “Surgery Channel” out January 20th via In The Red.

TRACKLIST:

1 – Introduction
2 – Better
3 – Inhale Exhale
4 – Impersonator
5 – Surgery Channel Pt. I
6 – Surgery Channel Pt. II
7 – Bubble
8 – You Can Be Here
9 – The Wait
10 – Construct
11 – Under
12 – Over

The video for the song was directed by Joshua Erkman.

The C.I.A. is made up of Denée & Ty Segall and Emmett Kelly. They will be doing some spring dates in support of the album: Mar 23: Portland, OR – Star Theater
Mar 24: Seattle, WA – Barboza
Mar 26: Ridgewood, NY – TV Eye
Mar 28: Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle

Young Fathers have shared, “Rice”, off their upcoming album “Heavy Heavy” out February 3rd via Ninja Tune.

TRACKLIST:

01 Rice
02 I Saw
03 Drum
04 Tell Somebody
05 Geronimo
06 Shoot Me Down
07 Ululation
08 Sink or Swim
09 Holy Moly
10 Be Your Lady

The video visualizer was created by David Uzochukwu, “Rice” is the opening track for the album.

Young Fathers shared this about their upcoming album: “‘Heavy Heavy’ could be a mood, or it could describe the smoothed granite of bass that supports the sound…or it could be a nod to the natural progression of boys to grown men and the inevitable toll of living, a joyous burden, relationships, family, the natural momentum of a group that has been around long enough to witness massive changes.”

They will be touring in support of their new album, no dates have yet been announced for the USofA (nor Tijuana).

Automatic have share stage second single, “Turn Away”, off their most recent album “Excess” out now via Stones Throw.

TRACKLIST:
1. New Beginning
2. On the Edge
3. Skyscraper
4. Realms
5. Venus Hour
6. Automaton
7. Teen Beat
8. NRG
9. Lucy
10. Turn Away

The video for the album’s closer was directed by Amber Navarro. This is what the band shared about it: “We got to work together with Ambar Navarro, our friend and director of the first music video off our album Excess, ‘New Beginning’. We have a lot of fun on set with Ambar because she gets our sense of humor and she visually adds some lightness to the heavier themes of our album, like climate change and income inequality. We become the capitalist death cult in this satirical animation of what could happen if we as a society continue on this path of excess.”

Automatic describes their album like this: “That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream, all for the sake of consumerism.”

Shana Cleveland (La Luz) has shared the first single, “Faces In The Firelight”, off her upcoming solo album Manzanita out March 10th via Hardly Art.

TRACKLIST:

1. A Ghost
2. Bloom
3. Faces in the Firelight
4. Mystic Mine
5. Light on the Water
6. Quick Winter Sun
7. Bonanza Freeze
8. Gold Tower
9. Babe
10. Ten Hour Drive Through West Coast Disaster
11. Evil Eye
12. Mayonnaise
13. Sheriff of the Salton Sea
14. Walking Through Morning Dew

The video for “Faces In The Firelight” was directed by Two Seraphim. Shana shared this about the video: “We created a fantasy realm in my backyard to visualise the sweet strangeness of the time and place when I wrote these songs: pregnant and often alone in the wilderness”.

Shana shared this about the song: “The song is about watching Will tend to a huge burn pile that was still going long after dark and realising that out there in the dark field he looked like the ultrasound image we had on our fridge. I was thinking that the greatest act of love might be to wait for someone. To say, ‘I’ll be here whenever you’re done, whenever you’re ready.’”

Yo La Tengo have shared the second single, “Aselestine”, off their upcoming album “This Stupid World” out February 10th via Matador Records.

The visualizer video for the song was done by Sabrina Nichols.

Yo Las Tengo will go on a USofA tour starting next month, with some of the shows already sold out.

shame have shared their new single, “Six Pack”, off their upcoming album “Food For Worms” out February 24th via Dead Oceans.

TRACKLIST:
1. Fingers Of Steel
2. Six-Pack
3. Yankees
4. Alibis
5. Adderall
6. Orchid
7. The Fall of Paul
8. Burning By Design
9. Different Person
10. All The People

The video for “Six Pack” was directed by Gilbert Bannerman and animated by Cyrus Hayley. Bannerman said this about the video: “The idea was to make a parody of a middle aged bloke thinking he’s a king for going to the gym once. I read a lot about Napoleon and thought it would be a laugh to make it about him. The style comes from trying to make my youth spent playing PS1 not entirely wasted.”

Charlie Steen said this about the song: “”Six-Pack” is essentially the opposite of a Room 101; instead it’s a room where all your wildest desires can come true and will be showered upon you. Be it commodities, self-obsession, foods and B-lister celebrities, it’ll all be there if you want it to. You’ve done time behind bars and now you’re making time in-front of them. It’s time to make up for anything you’ve lost or wasted, it’s time to get it all.”

Willis Earl Beal announced he has released an EP, “3”, via his Bandcamp.

TRACKLIST:

1. TO THE CORE
2. NOTHIN HOLDIN’ ME
3. FOR YOU (MY LIGHT)

https://nobodyakawillisearlbeal.bandcamp.com/album/3

The only thing NOBODY shared was: “”3” is the perfect number…meaning harmony, wisdom and understanding.
It is the first number to which the meaning “all” was given.
It is the Triad; containing beginning, middle and an end…
Body, Soul, Spirit”.

If you have not listened to any of his songs yet then now is the time for you to dig into it.

Everything But The Girl have announced the release of their new album, “Fuse”, out April 21st via Buzzin Fly. With this announcement they also shared their first single, “Nothing Left To Lose”.

TRACKLIST:

1. Nothing Left to Lose
2. Run a Red Light
3. Caution to the Wind
4. When You Mess Up
5 .Time and Time Again
6. No One Knows We’re Dancing
7. Lost
8. Forever
9. Interior Space
10. Karaoke

The video for the opening track was directed by Charlie Di Placido.

Tracey Thorn shares this via a press release: “After so much time apart professionally, there was both a friction and a natural spark in the studio when we began. However much we underplayed it at the start, it was like a fuse had been lit. And it ended in a kind of coalescence, an emotional fusion. It felt very real and alive. Ironically the finished sound of the new album was the last thing on our mind when we started in March 2021. Of course, we were aware of the pressures of such a long-awaited comeback, so we tried to begin instead in a spirit of open-minded playfulness, uncertain of the direction, receptive to invention.”

Ben Watt shared this: “It was exciting. A natural dynamism developed. We spoke in short-hand, and little looks, and co-wrote instinctively. It became more than the sum of our two selves. It just became Everything But The Girl on its own.”

Belle & Sebastian have announced the release of their new album, “Late Developers”, out January 13th via Matador. With it the single “I Don’t Know What You See In Me”.

TRACKLIST:

01 Juliet Naked
02 Give a Little Time
03 When We Were Very Young
04 Will I Tell You a Secret
05 So in the Moment
06 The Evening Star
07 When You’re Not With Me
08 I Don’t Know What You See in Me
09 Do You Follow
10 When the Cynics Stare Back From the Wall
11 Late Developers

Stuart Murdoch shared this about the lead single: “We’d (Pete Ferguson) actually been talking for a couple of years before we got this together. He’d just signed to a major label, he was a fan of Belle & Sebastian, and he asked if there was anything we would want to collaborate on, or could I contribute some lyrics. He would reciprocate, and when this song came in I said, ‘Let’s do this one with the band, we’ll sing it for you and you can be in complete control, produce and mix it’. We thought it was strong enough to go on our record. Ferguson is so much younger than me, so there’s a whole swathe of music that’s passed me by, things I would never think of, which is what you want from a collaborator”.