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Dave Gahan & Soulsavers have released a new video for the song “The Dark End Of The Street” off their latest album ‘Imposter’.

Track List:
01 “The Dark End Of The Street” (James Carr)
02 “Strange Religion” (Mark Lanegan)
03 “Lilac Wine” (Jeff Buckley)
04 “I Held My Baby Last Night” (Elmore James)
05 “A Man Needs A Maid” (Neil Young)
06 “Metal Heart” (Cat Power)
07 “Shut Me Down” (Rowland S. Howard)
08 “Where My Love Lies Asleep” (Gene Clark)
09 “Smile” (Nat King Cole)
10 “The Desperate Kingdom Of Love” (PJ Harvey)
11 “Not Dark Yet” (Bob Dylan)
12 “Always On My Mind” (Pet Shop Boys)

The video for the “The Dark End Of The Street” was directed by Richard Selvi.

“Imposter” is the 3rd album between Dave Gahan and Rich Machin.

Gahan said: “When I listen to other people’s voices and songs—more importantly the way they sing them and interpret the words—I feel at home. I identify with it. It comforts me more than anything else. There’s not one performer on the record who I haven’t been moved by. I know we made something special, and I hope other people feel that and it takes them on a little kind of trip—especially people who love music and have for years.”

Deaf Club have released their debut album “Productive Disruption” via Three One G.

Tracklisting:
01. For a Good Time Call Someone Else
02. Chew the Fat
03. Don’t Forget to Live
04. Catching Flies
05. Shoplift from Jail
06. Wide Lawn, Narrow Mind
07. Full as a Tick
08. Someday All Men Will Die
09. A Day at the Racist
10. New Voodoo
11. Stop Appealing to God
12. Public Acid
13. Power of Negative Thinking
14. Planet Bombing

14 songs in under 24 minutes. The album is as fun as a matchbook and lasts about the same. The songs come at you fast and quick, and like the band said in a statement, Productive Disruption is: a death threat to some, a love letter to others.

Over the last few months the band released s few videos in anticipation to the full length album. “For A Good Time, Call Someone Else”

“Someday All Men Will Die”

“Don’t Forget To Live”

“Shoplift From Jail”

“Planet Bombing”

And for the release of the album the band did a live performance.

El Ten Eleven, Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty, have shared a preview of their forthcoming album out March 4th via Joyful Noise Recordings, with the release of “New Year’s Eve” and “Metta Metta”.

TRACKLIST:
1. New Year’s Eve
2. Meta Metta
3. The Time Knife
4. Isn’t Everything Enough
5. Sixteen Circles
6. A Reflection Of A Reflection

Kristian Dunn shared that: “ ‘New Year’s Eve’ is a song about cautious optimism. It was written while the pandemic seemed to have a chance of ending and there was lots of political change in the air. But even the most well laid plans for New Year’s Eve celebrations often end up being disappointing, thus the metaphor.”

The second video they’ve shared is for the song “Metta Metta” which was filmed at The Cube in Los Angeles, CA.

The track arrives as the duo embark on their first U.S. tour since the Spring of 2019 and the release of their 2020 three-album opus Tautology I, II and III. With the launch of the tour, El Ten Eleven have also announced several additional weeks of 2022 touring, including April performances in the U.S. and multiple European outings. The full list of dates, which sees the pair on the road for the first three months of the New Year, are below. Supporting artists include Sego, Ohmme, Mylets, Cedric Noel, and A Beacon School. They will be playing the Casbah on Thursday January 13th, 2022.

The Smile have released their first (proper) single off what will be their debut album, which according to the band is already on the “track-listing stage with only 6227020800 possible song orders”, so that looks like it will be released much sooner rather than later.

The band has released a lyric video for the single. The album will be released via XL recordings.

For those that still don’t know who (or what) The Smile is/are, they are a 3 piece band (maybe 4 if you include the producer) which consists of drummer Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet) and he has assistance in guitar from Jonny Greenwood, who’s done some film scores for movies from Lynne Ramsay and Jane Campion and American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson), and help on vocals from Thom Yorke, who’s also done (a) film score for Luca Guadagnino (Suspiria).

In a release from Jonny he shared: “The Smile will play 3 different concerts in 15 hours, streamed live across 3 time zones from London, so people outside the UK can see us play at sensible times.

This means us playing at non-sensible times, which are, in Greenwich Mean Time:

Saturday January 29th at 8pm
Sunday January 30th at 1am
Sunday January 30th at 11am

Each show will be a little different – I mean, they’re bound to be – and we’re building a special venue inside another venue – at a place called Magazine in London.

This means that, as well as the livestream, there will also be a real concert in a real venue. Still, that explains the idea – 3 small shows, 3 time zones, and 3 very sleepy musicians (the songs will all be slower on Sunday morning). Paul Dugdale – who filmed our Glastonbury set – will be directing/looking for our good sides (none). Andi Watson has designed a stage for the shows.

We are very keen/scared/proud for you to hear these songs, and are currently practicing in a small room in Oxford, where work is more fun than fun, like the man said.”

Failure announced the arrival of their sixth album, Wild Type Droid (Failure Music), and have shared a second preview from the album, releasing “Submarines”.

Track List

1. Water With Hands
2. Headstand
3. A Lifetime of Joy
4. Submarines
5. Bring Back the Sound
6. Mercury Mouth
7. Undecided
8. Long Division
9. Bad Translation
10. Half Moon

Greg Edwards explains the genesis and meaning of the song: “The main riff appeared spontaneously during an endless jam, but ‘Submarines’ sounds like a song we’ve been waiting to write for years. These were the first lyrics written for the record, after the initial wave of Covid confusion and uncertainty. It’s a song about coming back to the surface, putting away your armor, ignoring willful idiocy, and getting back to life after a trauma. We’ve collectively lost our innocence with this plague and we need to fight the reflex to close-up and sink like a stone when risk and threat and fear seem to be everywhere.”

“You simply cannot recreate the musical moments that happen when three musicians are playing together and reacting to each other in real time,” Ken Andrews comments on the band’s approach to writing Wild Type Droid, which saw Failure move into a rehearsal space for a month, recording hours of improvs. “We’ve been together long enough to know that some of our best ideas come directly from these experimental sessions. For this album, we simply cultivated that methodology for a much longer time than we have in the past. It brought out the trio aspect of the band. There was a feeling we could really push the individual parts further away from each other and let the more interesting and challenging combinations take center stage.”

The Los Angeles-based band previously released the song “Headstand”.

Wild Type Droid was produced by Failure with Andrews mixing the 10-song collection. Beeple, the American visual artist, lends his “INNERSPACE” to the album cover.

No 2022 tour dates have been announced for the USofA nor Tijuana.

The National have released a new single titled “Somebody Desperate”. The song is part of the soundtrack for the movie “Cyrano”.

The movie “Cyrano” is an adaptation of the 2018 play by Erica Schmidt which in itself is based of “Cyrano de Bergerac” the 1897 novel by Edmond Rostand. The film is directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) and stars the always incredible Peter Dinklage (who is Erica Schmidt husband).

Below you can watch the lyric video for the ending credits song.

The score for the movie was done by Aaron and Bryce Dessner and the lyrics for the songs were penned by Carin Besser and Matt Berninger. Even though the National have not released an album since 2019 “I Am Easy to Find” they’ve kept busy either releasing solo albums, producing albums, releasing albums with other artists or doing film scores, they’ve continued to be almost more prolific now and it doesn’t look like they’ll stop anytime soon since the band is gearing to tour I’m 2022.

Escape-Ism have released the last rock n’ roll record ever in “Rated Z” via Radical Elite Records.

TRACKLIST.

• RATED Z
• (I Was Born With A) Woman’s Intuition
• Suffer No Fool
• Here Comes That Beat Again
• Teenage Surrealism Pt. I & II
• Whatever People Say That I Am (That’s What I’m Not)
• Rocker’s Delight
• I Ain’t Got No Hammer

The video for the first single, “RATED Z”, was directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford.

Escape-Ism also released a video for the song “Whatever People Say That I Am (That’s What I’m Not)” which was also directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, which is an excerpt from “RATED Z” – the show no one is allowed to see.

The 30 minute short film known as RATED Z “the show no one is allowed to see” is 👇.

The new record by Escape-Ism is rock n’ roll, the ritual based subculture founded on subterranean-ism, elitism, reinvention of self, mysticism, political paradox, poetic obfuscation, and sin-sational spectacle has no place in the new digital world of corporate conformity & control. Therefore, this record — “RATED Z” BY ESCAPE-ISM — which features notes, tones, & sounds, that are no longer allowed will be the last rock n’ roll record, as per the new rating system (SEE BELOW). It’s the last gasp of poetic perversity. RATED Z — what no one is allowed to feel, hear, think, or see.

RATED G ….. GENERAL AUDIENCES

RATED PG ….PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED

RATED R …. RESTRICTED

RATED X …. ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY

RATED Z … NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO SEE

LISTEN IN

TO THE DIN

OF THE FORBIDDEN

THE SOUND OF SIN

SMELL TOUCH TASTE

THEY TRIED TO ERASE

OBSCURE & INFAMOUS

BENEATH CONTEMPT

ILLEGIBLE, UNINTELLIGABLE

AND INCONGRUOUS

DON’T LISTEN DON’T LOOK COVER YOUR EARS

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO HEAR OR SEE

RATED Z

No 2022 tour dates for the USofA or Tijuana have been announced yet.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have composed another score, this time for the film “La Panthére Des Neiges”. The album will be released via Invada Records (rest of the world) / Lakeshore Records (America).

Tracklist:
L’attaque de Loups
Les Cerfs
Antilope
La Bête
Les Yaks
Des Affûts Elliptiques
Les Nomades
La Grotte
Les Princes
La Neige Tombe
Les Ours
Un Être Vous Obsède
L’apparition: We Are Not Alone

Below is the promo video for the song “We Are Not Alone” which was the first offering they gave us.

And now they’ve shared “Les Cerfs”, which is just as haunting.

La Panthère Des Neiges is a film by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier.
In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, photographer Vincent Munier brings writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to find the snow leopard.
He introduces him to the subtle art of waiting from a blind spot, tracking animals and finding the patience to catch sight of the beasts.
Through their journey in the Tibetan peaks, inhabited by invisible presences, the two men engage in a conversation on our place among the living beings and celebrate the beauty of the world.

In the USofA it will be released under the title “The Velvet Queen” and it will be distributed by the boutique label Oscilloscope Laboratories.

Warren Ellis said in a statement: “There is something about the heart of this film that draws you in. I realized after a day, that I wanted to do whatever it took to compose an entire original score. The film deserved to have its own musical voice. I booked five days and asked Nick if he could come in for a day to write a theme song and play some piano. He saw the film and stayed for four days. In the end we made what I think is one of the most beautiful films we have ever worked on. One of my favorite experiences ever working on a project. The stars are the animals in all their wild glory, as we have never seen them before, and man in reverence and wonder.”

The artist is Touching and the song is “All I Need” off the album “littleworlds” which was released October 29th via Head in the Sand.

TRACKLIST
01 Still Slow
02 Tony Called The Muscle
03 The Same Way
04 Nothing Can Change Your Mind
05 All I Need
06 Spark
07 Diamond In The Light
08 Two Solitudes
09 Caught In The Middle
10 Unbelievable

The video for the single “All I Need” was directed by Michael Falk (Touching).

Hot on its heels comes littleworlds, a new album aiming to disinfect the darkness with sunlight. The sophomore release from Touching is built on feelings of hope, simple joys found amidst conflict, and the anticipation and fear of becoming a parent. Its 10songs were written during the same period as “Isolation Blues” (his debut album) as Falk stepped away from touring and various other collaborative projects.

At the heart of littleworlds is Falk’s rich baritone. His striking voice soars with the passion of Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison, coasts with the coolness of Marker Starling’s Chris A. Cummings, and plumbs the emotional depths of Richard Dawson. Musically, the album injects the downtempo electronic ambience of Massive Attack (“I’m inspired by their late career stuff that no one thinks about,” laughs Falk).

Sometimes listening to the radio does bring in pleasant surprises that make you do a double take to the radio station just to make sure you are listening to something good and that you like that you haven’t heard before (or don’t remember hearing before). This is how we discovered Touching and it was with this song and all it took was one listen for it to grab us. There are no tour dates scheduled yet for the West Coast nor Tijuana.