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”.
Spoon shared their cover of David Bowie’s “I Can’t Give Everything Away”, from Bowie’s last album “Blackstar”, it is now available to stream anywhere, everywhere.
Britt Daniel shared this about the cover: “’I Can’t Give Everything Away’ is a tune Alex Fischel and I have been playing since we learned it for an acoustic and piano show in Mexico City in 2016. It’s just a fantastic song, and as the last song on Bowie’s final album it doesn’t disappoint. We recorded this version live in December 2021.”
Loraine James released her most recent album, “Building Something Beautiful For Me”, via Phantom Limb.
TRACKLIST: 1. Maybe If I (Stay On It) 2. The Perception Of Me (Crazy N*****) 3. Choose To Be Gay (Femenine) 4. Building Something Beautiful For Me 5. Enfield, Always 6. My Take 7. Black Excellence (Stay On It) 8. What Now (Prelude To The Holy Presence Of Joan D’Arc)
Through a press release Phantom Limb shared this: “We are long-term fans of both Eastman and Loraine James. Using their rare, fortuitous connection with Julius’ surviving brother Gerry, the label began this new project in summer 2021, hoping to continue the current tide of efforts to reinstate Eastman’s rightful place in 20th-century composition. Loraine was offered a zip drive of Eastman originals (courtesy of Gerry Eastman), Renee Levine-Packer & Mary Jane Leach’s illuminating biography Gay Guerilla (University of Rochester Press, 2015), and transcribed MIDI stems (courtesy of Phantom Limb A&R James Vella), and the resulting album Building Something Beautiful For Me carries the Eastman torch with finesse and sensitivity. Loraine employs samples, melodic motifs, themes and imagery, and inspiration from Eastman’s canon, slicing, editing, pulling apart and playing samples like instruments to craft a stunning album that venerates Eastman’s genius while adhering to her own. Speaking in similar tongues as young, gay, Black, independent creatives in a challenging environment, the two musicians are bound closely together, despite a six-year gap between their lives ever intersecting. James includes the original Eastman title in many of her tracks, appending the source material in parentheses to mark the lineage of the work – a clear, traceable thread from the heavenly to the sublime”.
“Building Something Beautiful For Me” is a tribute to Eastman, in the samples and the essence and the pride, but it also projects James identity within it.
Gruff Rhys has announced the release of the soundtrack to the film “The Almond & The Seahorse” out February 24th via Rough Trade, and with it the lead single, “Amen”.
TRACKLIST: 1. Skyward 2. The Brain and the Body 3. People Are Pissed 4. Layer Upon Layer 5. Gruff Rhys & Victor La Masne – Orea 6. Joe’s Theme 7. Sunshine and Laughter Ever After 8. Gruff Rhys & Osian Gwynedd – Variation with Strings 9. Amen (Album Version) 10. Low Cello 11. Liberate Me From The Love Song 12. Love Love Love 13. I Want My Old Life Back 14. Forest Waltz 15. Dance All Your Shadows to Death 16. Library to Kiss 17. Staccato with Cello 18. Small Talk 19. Toni’s Theme 20. Ffenestr 21. Penbedw 22. Arogldarth 23. Amen
The video for “Amen” was directed by Ryan Owen Eddleston.
Gruff Rhys shared this about the score / soundtrack: “The soundtrack for The Almond & the Seahorse was recorded largely in pandemic conditions, so it was a matter of recording in bursts of possible activity in various friends’ studios, homes and even scout halls as chance permitted. It’s a varied quilt work as a result. As sonic flagpoles I wanted to signify the film’s location in Liverpool and the Wirral by liberally, but hopefully not too obviously, using the Mellotron synthesizer (as famously used in ‘Strawberry Fields’ by the Beatles and therefore in my mind it represents that great city sonically) and the Cello as a nod to its use by Gwen’s character in the film. I was encouraged by Mike Jones the editor to take things to a more acoustic, emotional and ragged place. That, I hope, roughly explains the trajectory of the recording and how the varied music contained in this record came about. I hope you enjoy this colorful scrapbook of a soundtrack and get a chance to watch the film.”
The film stars Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg and is directed by Celyn Jones and Tom Stern. The synopsis of the film is this: “An archaeologist and an architect fight to re-imagine a future after a traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.” The trailer is below.
Kurt Uenela and Dave Gahan have released their EP, “Manuscript”, via hfn, with it they have shared “Cracks Are Showing”.
TRACKLIST: 1. Cracks Are Showing 2. Longing 3. Get Out 4. G.O.D. 5. I Think Not
The EP is a collaboration with Dave Gahan, and this is what Uenela shared about the EP: “I always wondered what he was writing in the notebook, but I never pried. During one of our check-ins I eventually asked what he was scribbling down when he was off in some corner, or standing on his own, next to a studio window.” Gahan shared this: “I’m not sure why, or when, exactly, I wrote these short pieces. I knew they were never to be songs. I do know that they were written when I was alone. Sometimes in a hotel room. Where? I can’t recall. Sometimes standing by the ocean, or walking the beach in winter. Sometimes on the empty streets of New York City, during the lockdown. Always whilst feeling the beauty, power, and loneliness of a world beyond me.”
The Lemon Twigs have shared a new single, “Corner Of My Eye”, available now via their new label Captured Tracks.
The video for the song was directed by Hilla Eden and Brian D’Addario.
Brian and Michael D’Addario (the Lemon Twigs) shared this about the song: “We recorded this track winter of 2021 in our old rehearsal studio in Midtown, NYC. Apart from the vibraphone, the instrumental track was recorded live with Andres Valbuena on drums and Daryl Johns on upright bass. We laid down the vocals late that night once the traffic outside had died down. We’ve had the song for a while now, so we’re excited to share it with fans who may have heard it live over the years!”
They will be on tour beginning March, no news yet on additional dates.
Algiers released a new single, “Irreversible Damage”, off their upcoming album “Shook” out February 24th via Matador.
1. Everybody Shatter (ft. Big Rube) 2. Irreversible Damage 3. 73% 4. Cleanse Your Guilt Here 5. As It Resounds (ft. Big Rube) 6. Bite Back (ft. billy woods & Backxwash) 7. Out of Style Tragedy (ft. Mark Cisneros) 8. Comment #2 9. A Good Man 10. I Can’t Stand It! (ft. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews) 11. All You See Is 12. Green Iris 13. Born (ft. LaToya Kent) 14. Cold World (ft. Nadah El Shazly) 15. Something Wrong 16. An Echophonic Soul (ft. DeForrest Brown Jr. & Patrick Shiroishi) 17. Momentary (ft. Lee Bains III)
Franklin James Fisher said this of the song: “The end of that song is the sound of joy. That’s what hope sounds like in 2022 when everything’s falling apart.”
The band will embark on a USofA tour soon after the release of their album.
i think i better follow you around 