NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
JAPANESE BREAKFAST have announced a new album | Check out lead single 'Orlando in Love'
After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), due March 21st on Dead Oceans, marks the band’s first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills. The record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.
DARKSIDE return with announcement of a new album | Check out new song S.N.C
Out February 28th on Matador Records, Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. Haunted rhythms, distorted vocals, and uncanny beauty.
SERPENTWITHFEET announce Grip Sequel with new songs & mixes| Listen to 'WRITHING IN THE WIND'
Groundbreaking alternative R&B artist and polymath serpentwithfeet announces the release of GRIP SEQUEL, out February 28th via Secretly Canadian; a sequel to his critically acclaimed 2024 album GRIP. GRIP SEQUEL features six new compositions alongside alternative versions of three tracks from GRIP: a new version of ‘Lucky Me’ with strings, and remixes of ‘Spades’, featuring Ogi and Destin Conrad, and a ‘Damn Gloves’ remix by Baile Funk featuring Ty Dolla $ign, TH41 & Azzy. Out now is new single ‘WRITHING IN THE WIND’ – an intimate, lush standout from GRIP SEQUEL, alongside a new video, blending serpentwithfeet’s signature sound with pulsing R&B elements. The single is, in serpent’s words, “the sound of a lover begging. He knows he messed up but desperately wants a second chance.”
EVERYTHING IS RECORDED share dream-pop song ft. Clari Freeman-Taylor | Take a listen!
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, today release new single ‘Swamp Dream #3′. It’s the third song to be taken from Everything Is Recorded’s highly-anticipated third album Temporary, due for release on 28th February via XL Recordings. In contrast, on ‘Swamp Dream #3’ Russell strips things right back to himself and just one collaborator – Mary In The Junkyard’s Clari Freeman-Taylor – with the pair playing every instrument between them during sessions at his Copper House studios in west London. The resulting single is a sublime piece of dream-pop that continues Russell and Freeman-Taylor’s rich creative streak (Russell produced Mary In The Junkyard’s acclaimed debut this old house EP while Freeman-Taylor contributed to Everything Is Recorded’s Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox releases).
JAMES BRANDON LEWIS shares latest single from Apple Cores| Listen to 'Prince Eugene'
His sixteenth album, James Brandon Lewis Trio’s – Apple Cores m further cements Lewis as one of the provocative and prolific musical voices of his generation. Apple Cores is due for release via ANTI- on February 7. From Apple Cores, the trio shares ‘Prince Eugene,’ a hazy ballad that combines a dub-reggae bassline and drums with a Zimbabwean mbira as Lewis’ saxophone sings and guides us through the tune’s heavy yet minimal groove.
Remix of the Week
HALF WAIF shares 'Ephemeral Being' deconstructed remix | Check out the mix from Claire Rousay
Half Waif is sharing a remix of the song ‘Ephemeral Being’ created by experimental musician and composer Claire Rousay. Often working with found sounds and field recordings, rousay released her own critically acclaimed album in 2024 titled ‘sentiment’. “I’m a big fan of Claire’s music, particularly her capacity to transform everyday textures and sound bites–pieces of sonic ephemera–into gorgeous, scintillating song forms,” Rose explains. “While working on the remix, Claire emailed me to ask if I’d record a little bit of audio, talking about the background of the song, which she then quickly and brilliantly wove into the ending of the piece. It was a fun back-and-forth, and I think the remix sheds new light on the song, as if it were shattered into stained glass shards and then mosaic’d back together again.”
HORSEGIRL bring Horsegirl Sounds Radio Hour to NTS | Listen to their latest show
Chicago indie rock trio of best friends – Horsegirl are very busy. As well as recently announcing their second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, via Matador and releasing singles, ‘2468’ and ‘Julie’, just yesterday a series of six radio shows for global radio platform NTS went live.
On The Horizon
Happy New Year!
We're thrilled to unveil an electrifying lineup for 2025, brimming with inspiring new music, stunning visuals, captivating videos, and an array of gigs and events to spark your imagination. This year promises to deliver a feast of creative highlights that we can't wait to share with you. Stay tuned for more updates as the excitement unfolds.
Visual Goodness
HORSEGIRL share behind the song video for 'Julie' | Check out this very cool insight into Horsegirl
Matador have launched the wonderful behind the song for Horsegirl’s ‘Julie’. Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — released the new single/video, ‘Julie,’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, 2025 via Matador Records. Following the “spunky and freewheeling” (Stereogum) lead single ‘2468,’ ‘Julie’ serves as the album’s centerpiece, with synth drones acting as an ocean for Lowenstein’s vocals to sail above, all while Cheng’s wonderfully avant-garde anti-solo’s pierce through the woven sea.