Kendrick Lamar dropping two tracks in a week is pretty exciting, remember “The Heart Part 4” last week? It looks like his fourth album could be just around the corner too if the rumoured April 7 release date is to be believed. Check out “Humble” below which features some pretty vivid religious scenes and other […]
Montreal based singer-songwriter Matt Holubowski releases a new song and video for “Exhale/Inhale” from his 2016 album “Solitudes“. If you missed it previously now would be the time to head over to Bandcamp and check it out where lead track and previous single/video “The King” instantly draws you into his painterly and melodic world of […]
Forest Swords aka producer Matthew Barnes releases more new music and a co-directed video for “Arms Out“, from upcoming album “Compassion” out 5 May on Ninja Tune. It’s been a long wait singly the critically lauded release of debut album “Engravings” back in 2013. There are a series of European dates scheduled around the album […]
Former Dirty Projector now solo, Amber Coffman shares a new song “No Coffee” from her forthcoming album “City of No Reply“. Coffman has recently commented on the split with former DP partner David Longstreth calling it “…a loss…but ultimately walking away was the only healthy choice for me”. If the light zest of this song […]
alt_J have made more audio available from their upcoming “3WW” album and it’s a brassy, bleepy stomping pop tune called “In Cold Blood“. The band describe it as “conceived in our Leeds days, completed in London” and it features brass instruments recorded at Abby Road and a £1.05 ebay purchased Casiotone keyboard. Listen to the […]
Watch the official video for the first new music from Slowdive in 22 years below. “Sugar For The Pill” calmly and glacially pours forth from the bands eponymously titled album “Slowdive” due out May 5 on Dead Oceans.
Maxïmo Park return to the fray this week ahead of their newest album “Risk To Exist“, due out April 21. The album’s been recorded in Chicago with Wilco’s Loft Studios with Tom Schick producing. The James & James directed video below features dancer/choreographer Robby Graham really giving the songs hypnotic rhythms a workout. There’s also […]
Watch a very heavily pregnant Natalie Portman swimming around in this poetic, elegiac video accompaniment to James Blake‘s new single “My Willing Heart” directed by Anna Rose Holmer. The slow burning black and white visuals were apparently shot just days before Portman gave birth to her daughter Amalia in late February.
Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and now solo project Flock of Dimes has donated a b-side track from her “If You See Me, Say Yes” album sessions to the Our First 100 Days anti-Trump administration 100 song series and fundraising platform for change via Bandcamp – with profits going to ‘organisations on the front lines of […]
The first release from Laura Marling‘s latest album “Semper Femina” comes with more than a hint of Nick Drake’s “Riverman” or “Northern Sky” and that’s not a bad thing at all as she lyrically lilts and swoons through her poetic ode to love and longing. It’s a delicious return after time away reflecting on her […]
