NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
KORA drops a brand new soulful anthem | Check out ‘Fallin for You’
KORA’s brand new track ‘Fallin for You’ boasts a classic Minneapolis sound, blending elements of rock, R&B, funk, and synth into an infectious four-minute groove. Lyrically, ‘Fallin for You’ explores the impact another person can have on our lives, helping us break down the barriers that hold us back. Recognising that even in moments of vulnerability, there remains a secret part of ourselves that we may never fully surrender.
EARTH TONGUE announce new album & share new song/video | Check out 'Bodies Dissolve Tonight!
Earth Tongue, the brainchild of guitarist Gussie Larkin and drummer Ezra Simons, today announce their second full-length album Great Haunting. The duo, known for their heavy flavour of fuzz-soaked psychedelic rock, are also pleased to share the first single and video for ‘Bodies Dissolve Tonight!’. Simultaneously, they proudly unveil their signing to In The Red Records, an iconic Los Angeles based rock ‘n’ roll label that formed in 1991. The album will be released worldwide on June 14th 2024.
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN sign to Jagjaguwar | Listen to the new single
Bonny Light Horseman–the trio of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman–have signed to Jagjaguwar and today released their debut single for the label, the cathartic and resonant ‘When I Was Younger.’ Produced by Kaufman and recorded at Levis (pronounced: “leh-viss”) Corner House–a century-old Irish watering hole in Ballydehob, County Cork–‘When I Was Younger’ is out now alongside a video filmed on location and shot by Jason Lee, Donal Scannell, and Colm Rooney. Mitchell and Johnson’s honeyed voices meet and transform into a two-headed beast formed from pent-up emotion as the lyrics reckon with motherhood, maturation, and all of the things polite society doesn’t say out loud.
MDOU MOCTAR announce new album | Check out title track 'Funeral For Justice'
‘Funeral For Justice’ is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout ‘Afrique Victime,’ it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down.
ADRIANNE LENKER releases new single + album out soon | Listen to 'Fool'
Adrianne Lenker shares a new single ‘Fool’ from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out on 22 March. With bent, plucked, and trembling strings, ‘Fool’ chases its tail for answers with softened beach glass geometry. “If I were him, would you be my family too?” she asks an indecisive lover who wishes to live two lives at once. Adrianne finds no advice. A course is needed, any direction will do. “Just say what it is that you want.” It is the doldrums sailors fear. “What more can I possibly say? / So if you wanna go I say baby okay, okay.”
KHRUANGBIN share new single| Check out 'May Ninth' here
Khruangbin share the song ‘May Ninth’ from their forthcoming new album A LA SALA. The wistful, mid-tempo track exudes the band’s signature warmth thanks to its American roots-inspired guitar lines and airy vocals — if you listen closely, you can actually hear birds singing in the background. It’s another example of how Khruangbin utilizes environmental sounds both natural and man-made as textures, and how A LA SALA achieves such interconnected set-and-setting-ness.
GGLUM shares new single| Listen to 'Eating Rust'
gglum, the moniker of rising London-born songwriter Ella Smoker, has shared another preview from her Secretly Canadian debut, The Garden Dream, out March 29th. ‘Eating Rust’ channels her blustery, intimate sound into an understated break-up anthem. It “was the first song I made while writing the album that felt like it summed up the album’s sound for me,” explains Smoker, “It’s all about a period of my life where I was desperate for one person’s love and approval which I would never get (yet i’d keep on trying anyway). It’s about what inspired the dream that inspired the album.”
ANASTASIA COOPE signs to Jagjaguwar | Listen to her new single
Anastasia Coope announces her debut album, Darning Woman, for release on May 31, 2024 via her new label home, Jagjaguwar. In addition, Anastasia shares her first single, ‘He Is On His Way Home, We Don’t Live Together.’ Coope’s forthcoming debut, Darning Woman, is a rich tapestry of surrealist psychedelia that evokes a precipice beyond the material world. Like a dispatch from another past, or a memory pressing up against the veil, it’s unmoored in space and time: ghostly, spectral, far-out folk. Here, Coope creates whirling layers of expressive, stratified vocals, suggesting lost lullabies contorted into alluringly strange, staccato shapes.
CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON shares new song from upcoming album | Listen to 'I Don't Love You'
Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson announces her highly-anticipated sophomore album Cyan Blue out May 3rd via Stone Woman Music / XL Recordings. Along with the announcement of her new album comes the release of first single, ‘I Don’t Love You’, a stark and devastatingly beautiful confessional, highlighting Wilson’s immaculate production skills and chill inducing vocals laid atop smooth groove piano chords and soft drums.
LIL LOTUS shares stripped-down single ft. Mod Sun | Check out acoustic version of 'Blame Me For Everything'
LA-based artist Lil Lotus announces ‘Nosebleeder (Deluxe)’ dropping on March 22nd via Epitaph Records. An extension of his 2023 sophomore effort that has reached almost 4 Million streams since its release in December, the deluxe album presents five additional stripped-down tracks that magnify his charismatic tone and emotional depth with newfound clarity. As a preview of what’s to come, Lotus shares a fresh rendition of his charismatic pop-punk anthem ‘Blame Me For Everything (Acoustic)’ featuring vocals from Mod Sun. Accompanied by the inviting resonance of an acoustic guitar imbued by a swell of strings, he explores confessional lyrics with a biting lilt and delectable backing harmonies.
NOURISHED BY TIME share new song ahead of new EP | Tune in to 'Hand On Me'
Signing to XL Recordings, Nourished By Time returns to announce his new EP Catching Chickens will be released on 22 March digitally and on 12” vinyl. Written between 2022 – 2023 in his home studio in Baltimore, Catching Chickens takes inspiration from the iconic scene in Rocky II where his trainer makes him chase and catch chickens as a test of agility. To celebrate the EP news, Nourished By Time releases ‘Hand On Me’ single and music video. Shot by Josh Renaut, ‘Hand on Me,’ explores paranoia that corrodes love and trust in a traumatic relationship. As he puts it, “the video is about being reminded that you’re an angel by other angels, featuring a surrealist commentary on celebrity culture”
MOOR MOTHER shares chilling song from upcoming album | Check out 'All the Money'
Coming out on March 8, ‘The Great Bailout’ is Ayewa’s ninth studio album and third with ANTI- Records, with production contributions on various tracks from Mary Lattimore, Lonnie Holley, Vijay Ayer, Angel Bat Dawid, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, Aaron Dilloway and more. Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in mind.
Today she shares the album’s second track ‘All the Money’, which shifts the album’s tone into a more sinister register of voice and instrument. Examining the money made from the enslavement of Africans in Great Britan, the song was co-produced by Vijay Ayer and features Alya Al Sultani; both artists sent Ayewa samples and she threaded them throughout the track. Lyrically, the feeling of water remains a throughline as ‘the storm keeps raging’, but now as a drowning, conjuring the many captured black lives swallowed in the waters of the transatlantic crossing and the continuing drowning out of this British history.
New Albums & EPs Out Now
DARTZ - Dangerous Day To Be A Cold One - Out now! | Get yours today
FRIDAY 1 MARCH, 2024: A date that will loom large over lagerdom for aeons to come, as New Zealand’s premier pub rockers DARTZ have unleashed their sophomore album Dangerous Day To Be A Cold One upon the masses. Beers will quiver in fear across the nation, and meanwhile Aotearoa’s album hall of fame gains its first entry of the 2020s in the form of an unassuming new rock classic that wears its small town roots with pride, loves its mates, and isn’t afraid to throw hands on its way to enjoying a jug of Lion Red at the local.
FAYE WEBSTER Underdressed At The Symphony - Out today! | Check out the title track
Faye Webster has released her highly anticipated fifth album, Underdressed at the Symphony. It is available everywhere today. The album follows previously released singles “Feeling Good Today”, “Lego Ring (ft. Lil Yachty),” “But Not Kiss” and “Lifetime.” All of Underdressed At The Symphony’s pre-release singles received widespread praise from places like The New York Times, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone.
The songs on the new album explore the rarely mapped territory of emotional intimacy, where desire and passion are in conflict with comfort, understanding and even platonic love.
MANNEQUIN PUSSY release new album - I Got Heaven | Get yours today
Mannequin Pussy release I Got Heaven, their anticipated fourth full-length album, today on Epitaph Records. Filled with cathartic tunes about despairing times, I Got Heaven is a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive. Over 10 ambitious tracks that abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. “There’s just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like a radical act ,” says Dabice. “The ethos of this band has always been to bring people together.”
ERIKA DE CASIER new album 'Still' out now | THE LABEL
Erika de Casier releases her highly-anticipated third album Still.
The 33-year-old Danish singer, songwriter and producer built a cult following with her 2019 debut album Essentials, and built on that “cult” designation with 2021’s Sensational, her first for 4AD. Since then, she’s performed at some of the biggest festivals in the world, written for pop stars (New Jeans) and sung on hyped dance tracks (Mura Masa, Shygirl). But when she ushers you into the expanses of her third album she’s inviting you to leave any crass The Nordics’ Next Big Thing or Rising Alt-Pop Star epithets at the door. She may have won a lot of new fans in the past three years, and a lot of high-profile collaborators (Dua Lipa, Blood Orange, Eartheater, etc.) but as this album’s title confirms, she’s the same old Erika de Casier. Still.
Reissue of the Week
The Cult | Dreamtime
The Cult, who celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2024, see their adventurous and highly-regarded debut album, Dreamtime, released on special 40th anniversary vinyl.
Originally released in 1984, following the band’s evolution from the Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and then simply The Cult, Dreamtime finds the outfit featuring Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, pivoting from their goth and punk roots into something eclectic, aspirational, and adventurous. Rife with lyrical references to the indigenous cultures of the Americas and Australia, and set against a more bombastic and muscular musical backdrop, Dreamtime hints at what would envelop the band over the next four decades, a dedication to their wholly unique songwriting, both musically and thematically, and the frenzy that was soon to come with the release of Love only a year later.