Image from Youtube DJ Shadow has announced a new album, Action Adventure, due out October 27 via Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber. On his seventh studio LP he’s taking a different tack to previous outings as this has no featured guests and is mostly instrumental. The lead single is “Ozone Scraper,” which is accompanied by a video […]
Image from Youtube James Blake has released the second single “Loading” from his upcoming sixth studio album, “Playing Robots Into Heaven’, due for elease on 8th September via Polydor / Republic Records. “Loading” is a throwback of glitching, glass-cool production with Blake’s rich vocals manipulated and processed to form a choir over an evocative set […]
Liverpool’s The Coral return with another new song “That’s Where She Belongs” and video (below). Taken from the band’s forthcoming album “Sea Of Mirrors” which is released on 8th September 2023, the music is described as a “surreal Italian spaghetti western soundtrack” and this definitely meets that criteria with its broody but jangling guitar riffs […]
Image by Dana Trippe Everyone’s favourite art pop witch Du Blonde is back at it, and by it I mean has released new music. “Message Deleted” is a dark(ish) and breathy pop rock item, a wolf in sheep’s clothing piece, with an accompanying self-directed video, it’s taken from the upcoming mixtape “Baby Forever” and it’s […]
Image by Myles Hendrik The Kills have released their first new music in seven years! Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince return with two brand new singles, simultaneously released. “New York” is a dark and heavy track in the typical The Kills’ signature style all steamy guitar riffs and Mosshart’s throaty crooning, whereas “LA Hex” is […]
Image by Dana Trippe Tkay Maidza has announced the follow-up to her 2016 self-titled debut. It’s called Sweet Justice and it drops via 4AD on November 3rd, lead single “Ring-A-Ling” is out now, see Youtube link below. Sweet Justice is nominally a breakup album, but the title comes equally from Maidza’s newfound relationships with producers […]
Only yesterday Disclosure announce the impending release of the fourth studio album and guess what? It’s landed now! The entire “Alchemy” album has been launched as a stream on Youtube (linked below) and claims to have no features or samples. Brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence are releasing the record independently, through their own Apollo Records […]
Another week, another high-profile name that features on the new Barbie movie soundtrack releases their track. Billie Eilish’s new song, “What Was I Made For?”, recorded with brother/producer Finneas, it’s a typically breathy effort that takes the movie’s main conceit – reality vs Barbie world – literally questioning her role and purpose in the ‘real’ […]
Will Oldham, Bonnie Prince Billy, has released the first fruits of his upcoming album “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You” which is available in all the usual formats via Drag City on August 11, 2023. “Crazy Blue Bells” and its accompanying video from director Ray Tintori, features an extended cast of family and friends, which is […]
Image by Uncredited The opening of this new Rodrigo track “Vampire” with its plaintive piano and mix of disappointment and anger reminds me of something (musically) I just can’t pinpoint it. That’s not unusual – the entirety of her debut album sounded like a collection of ‘homages’ to other songs from the 90s/00s and whatever, […]
