i think i better follow you around

Billy Nomates has shared the 4th single, “spite”, off the upcoming album “Cacti” out January 13th via Invada Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. balance is gone
2. black curtains in the bag
3. blue bones (deathwish)
4. CACTI
5. saboteur forcefield
6. roundabout sadness
7. spite
8. fawner
9. same gun
10. vertigo
11. apathy is wild
12. blackout signal

The video was directed by NWSPK.

Billy Nomates shared this about the album: “Writing CACTI took just over a year. I wrote very intensely and then none at all. This seems to be the way I work best. I picked up old drum machines, mapped out things in my kitchen with the same small micro keyboard I always use and then raided the cupboards and rooms at Invada Studios, to play and experiment with old synths, an upright piano, this weird organ thing. I hope everyone finds their own narrative in CACTI. I think it’s about surviving it all.”

John Waters has released a 7″ via Sub Pop, “It’s In The Books” b/w “Proud New Father”.

The single features Waters covering a stand-up routine recorded and made famous by midwestern US comedian /actor / musician Johnny Standley in 1952.

Waters jokes that he chose to press the new single on gold vinyl so that he can at last be able to claim, “I’ve made a ‘Gold Record’.”

Taleen Kali has released a new single, “Fine Line”, off their new album “Flower Of Life” out March 3rd via Dum Dum Records.

Taleen Kali shared this about the song: “”Fine Line” kicks off side B of the record. I wanted to explore the ways we feel marked by love and pain. How much of an impact the smallest of impressions can make. And how they can feel when they fade. I wrote this song in the summer of 2018 right when the last album Soul Songs was coming out. The process of putting out my first solo record was so strange and cathartic that a handful of new songs just came spilling out during that time, and this was the first one. I really wanted there to be a demarcation for side B of Flower of Life so “Fine Line” is written in a minor key, setting the tone for the 2nd half of the album.”

Gaz Coombes has shared a new single, “Long Live The Strange”, off his upcoming album “Turn The Car Around” out January 13tg via Hot Fruit.

TRACKLIST:
Overnight Trains
Don’t Say It’s Over
Feel Loop (Lizard Dream)
Long Live the Strange
Not the Only Things
Turn the Car Around
This Love
Sonny the Strong
Dance On

The video was directed by Niall Trask and he shares this about it: “When I was brought onto the project, Gaz had already been living amongst the community of mannequins for several months. His knowledge of them allowed me to have no issues directing them nor overcome the language barrier. The whole process was fascinating and certainly a culture shock; coming from South London, I found the silence and stillness almost deafening. It’s certainly one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had as a filmmaker”.

Gaz shared what the inspiration behind the song was: “The Cavetown show, which I attended with my daughter, had a big impact on me. It was what live performance is all about, connecting with an audience that consists of anybody and everybody who wants to be part of it. It’s fully inclusive and I found that quite powerful.”

††† have released a new single, “Sensation”, off their upcoming EP “PERMANENT.RADIANT” out December 9th.

TRACKLIST:

01. Sensation
02. Vivien
03. Cadavre Exquis
04. Day One
05. Holier
06. Procession

The video was directed by Shaun Lopez and Lorenzo Diego Carrera.

Chino Moreno shared this: “There are certain sounds that we’re drawn to, and that has quite a lot to do with the music we grew up listening to. Shaun and I have pretty similar tastes. It’s about using all of those influences, but not making something that sounds like it has been made for today or is trying to sound like the past. We’re just taking those influences and running them through us. The moods that we try to create tend to come from quite a stark place. It’s not the most colourful music in the world, but once we tap into it it’s hard to go anywhere else. We just dive deeper into the darkness. We just run with it. It feels organic.”

Steve Mason (the Beta Band) has shared the first single, “No More”, off his new album “Brothers & Sisters” out March 3rd via Double Six.

TRACKLIST:

1. Mars Man
2. I’m On My Way
3. No More
4. All Over Again
5. The People Say
6. Let It Go
7. Pieces Of Me
8. Travelling Hard
9. Brixton Fish Fry
10. Upon My Soul
11. Brothers & Sisters

The video for “No More” was directed by James Hankins. Mason shared this about the song: “This track is about Imperialism and in a subtle way, relative to some of my other work, references Australia, Partition and Africa through a combination of lyrics and music. I like to imagine the spirits of these cultures and people haunting the families who profited and were involved in their destruction down through the generations.”

Thru a press release Steve Mason shared this: “To me, this record is a massive ‘Fuck you’ to Brexit. And a giant ‘Fuck you’ to anyone that is terrified of immigration because there is nothing that immigration has brought to this country that isn’t to be applauded. Can you imagine what this place would be like without that [immigration]? I mean what would it be like? Cornish pasties and morris dancing?”

Kurt Uenela has shared the first single, “G.O.D.”, off his upcoming EP “Manuscript” out December 16th via hfn.

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.”

Dave 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.”

Weird Nightmare has shared a new single, “So Far Gone”, out now via Sub Pop.

Weird Nightmare is the electrifying new project from METZ guitarist and singer Alex Edkins. This stand-alone track follows the double A-Side split, “I Think You Know” w/ “Bird With an Iron Head” with friends Ancient Shapes.

shame have shared the news that they will be releasing their new album, “Food for Worms”, on 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

With the album announcement the band also shared the first single off the album, “Fingers Of Steel”, the video was directed by James Humby. About the song and video Charlie Steen shared this: “Self-obsession, social media flagellation and death can all be seen in this Oscar-nominated performance. No one’s ever done a video like this before and when you watch it, you’ll see why. Think Casablanca, but in color, and better.”

In a press release shame said this: “…The band called upon renowned producer Flood (Nick Cave, U2, Foals) to execute their vision. Recording each track live meant a kind of surrender: here, the rough edges give the album its texture; the mistakes are more interesting than perfection. In a way, it harks back to the title itself and the way that with this record, the band are embracing frailty and by doing so, are tapping into a new source of bravery…”

Steen added that he believes this is “the Lamborghini of shame records.”