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Methyl Ethel Announce Third Album Triage Out February 15th
Today, Methyl Ethel have announced their new album, Triage, will be released on February 15th 2019.
They also share a single ‘Real Tight’ and its accompanying video, directed by Matt Sav.
Triage marks the Perth, Australia band’s third studio album. It was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb, mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry. Recorded in Webb’s home studio in West Perth it is available for pre-order today.
With his thirtieth birthday and the ceremonial cap on three records and three EP’s, Webb felt a sense of closure in the making of Triage. Methyl Ethel has always been a surrealist outfit – a dark and obscured expression of life set to the backdrop of dream pop hooks. But Triage is a more reflective album – one that explores the notion of coming of age, only to reference it for the snapshots and passing memories that it has become.
Methyl Ethel is the musical project of Jake Webb with a five-piece live band that includes Thom Stewart, Chris Wright, Lyndon Blue and Jacob Diamond.
Methyl Ethel has enjoyed phenomenal success in its native Australia in recent years. ‘Ubu’ became an ARIA Accredited Gold single after landing at #4 in triple j’s 2017 Hottest 100, and also topped the Australian Independent Singles Chart (AIR) along with fellow Everything Is Forgotten single ‘Drink Wine’. Methyl Ethel also won in the Best Album and Best Pop Act categories in 2017 WAM Awards and they have played sold-out tours throughout the country and the UK since 2016.
To coincide with Triage, Methyl Ethel will play a handful of Australian, UK and North American headline shows in 2019, including a stop in Toronto on March 27th
ICEAGE RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘BALM OF GILEAD’
Iceage released their most celebrated album to date this year in Beyondless, a towering achievement from a knowing yet untamed band creating the most thoughtful, dramatic and vital music of their career.
Now, to mark the start of their North American tour, the band have released new single ‘Balm of Gilead’, a striking reminder of their ability to create thrillingly alluring art rock in a dark age.
Balm of Gilead’ will be available in physical form exclusively at the shows on this tour as part of a split 7” with tour mates Black Lips.
TUNE-YARDS RELEASES …creep…Remixes EP
The final remix from Tune-Yards’ …creep…Remixes comes today in the form of “Look at Your Hands (ET.PATXKEISHH VIBEMIX)” by ET.PATXKEISHH.
The full remix EP is released today featuring previously released remixes of songs off their 2018 LP I can feel you creep into my private life by Sylvan Esso, U.S. Girls and Suzi Analogue.
Tune-Yards’ fourth album I can feel you creep into my private life was released earlier this year to widespread praise and features the singles ‘Heart Attack’, ‘Look At Your Hands’ and ‘ABC 123’. A fully collaborative effort between Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner who co-wrote and co-produced the record, Garbus’ lyrics explore her place in the world, ruminating on race, politics, intersectional feminism and the environment. More recently, Tune-Yards released ‘Mango’, a collaboration with Lakeith Stanfield’s musical project Moors. The duo connected with Stanfield through their work on the film Sorry to Bother You which they scored and stars Stanfield. The band performed singles ABC 123 on Jimmy Kimmel and Heart Attack on Conan in January.
DEERHUNTER Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? New Album Out January 18th 2019
How do you describe an album out of time, concerned with the disappearance of culture, of humanity, of nature, of logic and emotion? Why make this album in an era when attention spans have been reduced to next to nothing, and the tactile grains of making music have been further reduced to algorithms and projected playlist placement. Why wake up in the morning? Why hasn’t everything already disappeared?
Deerhunter’s eighth LP forgets the questions and makes up unrelated answers. It gets up, walks around, it records itself in several strategic geographic points across North America. It comes home, restructures itself and goes back to bed to avoid the bad news.
From the opening harpsichord and piano figures of Death in Midsummer, it is impossible to tell where the record came from. Is ‘No One’s Sleeping’ an outtake of an aborted Kinks recording session in 1977 Berlin with Eno producing? No. That is nostalgia. If there is one thing Deerhunter are making clear it is that they have exhausted themselves with that toxic concept.
What they spend their time doing instead is reinventing their approach to microphones, the drum kit, the harpsichord, the electromechanical and synthetic sounds of keyboards. Whatever guitars are left are pure chrome, plugged straight into the mixing desk with no amplifier or vintage warmth.
The result is as thrilling, haunting, and unpredictable as anything in their roughly 15-year career.
Deerhunter have made a science fiction album about the present. Is it needed right now? Is it relevant? Perhaps only to a small audience. DADA was a reaction to the horrors of war. Punk was a reaction to the slow and vacant 70’s. Hip Hop was a liberated musical culture that challenged the notions presented wholesale about the African-American experience. What is popular music today a reaction to?
BOYGENIUS’ SELF-TITLED EP DROPS DIGITALLY ON MATADOR TODAY
Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers are set to tour North America with Lucy Dacus in November, and to celebrate, they are releasing their self-titled EP as boygenius, two weeks early.
Fans can stream the EP now on all digital services, while the physical version will be available on the official release date of November 9th.
boygenius will also make their late-night television debut on November 5th, playing ‘Me & My Dog;, which Pitchfork deemed a Best New Track, on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus formed boygenius after booking a tour together, but the trio had subconsciously been in the works for longer than that. Through a series of tours and performances together, and chance encounters that led to friendships – including Bridgers’ and Dacus’ first in-person meeting backstage at a Philadelphia festival, greenroom hangouts that felt instantly comfortable and compatible, a couple of long email chains and even a secret handshake between Baker and Dacus – the lyrically and musically arresting singer-songwriters and kindred spirits got to know each other on their own terms.
With gut-wrenchingly personal yet easily relatable verses and spare, lilting melodic arrangements, all three are leading a new rock vanguard that values unflinching self-awareness and unassailable songcraft. Baker’s sophomore LP Turn Out the Lights and Bridgers’ debut Stranger in the Alps (Dead Oceans) swept best-of-2017 lists, while Dacus’ meditation on loss, Historian, has already become one of 2018’s most lauded releases.
