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GRUFF RHYS NEW VIDEO FOR “Selfies In The Sunset” (with Lily Cole)
On the heels of his North American tour, Gruff Rhys introduces a new video for Selfies in the Sunset (the closing track from his hugely acclaimed fifth album Babelsberg).
Directed and animated by Ewan Jones Morris, the video for Selfies in the Sunset was and features Gruff and guest singer Lily Cole creating Animojis ahead of the apocalypse. Of the track, Gruff writes:
A couple of years ago I noticed some smiling, healthy looking young people taking selfies in front of a particularly spectacular sunset, I turned around to walk away only to see another sunset in front of me.
I realised the first sunset was just the glow looming above a chemical plant. Still, the selfies would have looked like they were taken in California. (We weren’t in California).
It got me thinking about Armageddon. Maybe people will be taking selfies till the very end. They’ll be pretty spectacular and will feature the golden colours of the Sunset. With the acceleration of climate change maybe it is the end. A slow painful process not an event.
My friend Graham from South Shields was working with Lily Cole on some music a while back – there was some talk of me helping out in some way as a musician. “Nothing came of it – but I invited her to help me finish this song in any case, as she has a greater insight into the world of imagery. It turns out that her Mother is from Rhydaman and has been taking selfies since the 1960’s.
This isn’t a judgmental song about Selfies – Selfies aren’t the problem. They bring joy into this precarious life. It’s just a really sad song.
With sincerest apologies to Mel Gibson,
Gruff
TUNE-YARDS LAUNCHES ….creep… Remixes PROJECT FEATURING SYLVAN ESSO, SUZI ANALOGUE AND U.S. GIRLS
Starting today, Tune-Yards will roll out the first of four remixes from their …creep… Remixes project from their latest album I can feel you creep into my private life. The remix EP will feature Sylvan Esso, Suzi Analogue, ET.PATXKEISHH and U.S. Girls.
Previously, Suzi collaborated with Queens D Light for Merrill Garbus’ Red Bull Radio show C.L.A.W. (Collaborative Legions of Artful Womxn).
Tune-Yards is currently on the road with David Byrne and will headline 4AD’s first-ever US tour joined by label-mate U.S. Girls later this year.
Earlier this summer, Tune-Yards released ‘Mango’, a collaboration with Lakeith Stanfield’s musical project Moors. The song was called “quite simply, sublime,” by Highsnobiety and “as fun and weird as you’d imagine,” by GQ. The duo connected with Stanfield through their work on the film Sorry to Bother You, which they scored and stars Stanfield.
Tune-Yards fourth album I can feel you creep into my private life was released earlier this year to widespread praise. A fully collaborative effort between Garbus and 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. The band performed singles ‘Heart Attack’ on Jimmy Kimmel and ‘ABC 123’ on Conan in January.
Queens Of The Stone Age concludes Villains Tour
Having left a trail of ecstatically exhausted fans in its wake from Niagara Falls to Australia, Queens Of The Stone Age’s world tour in support of its international chart-topping seventh album Villains (Matador) has careened to a triumphant finish with its 129th show in Perth.
The year-plus Villains run saw QOTSA play for more than 1.7 million true believers, including:
- An all day affair at London’s Finsbury Park for a crowd of nearly 50,000
- The Reading and Leeds festivals on the same day
- The first Queens Of The Stone Age headline show at Madison Square Garden
- A return to the Forum in Los Angeles, plus headlines at The O2 in London, Red Rocks, the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, the Stadthalle in Vienna, the Sportpaleis in Antwerp and more.
As the tour ground to a close, fans in Tasmania were treated to an intimate one-off acoustic set at MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in Hobart – a benefit that generated $10,000 matched by QOTSA’s Joshua Homme’s own Sweet Stuff Foundation for a total of $20,000 to support the Royal Hobart Hospital Paediatrics Ward. The band visited the hospital the following day, presenting the donation to the hospital and gifts to its patients.
Kurt Vile confirms new album 'Bottle It In'. New single 'Bassackwards' out now
Weeks of speculation come to an end today as details of the new Kurt Vile album can finally be confirmed: One of the most critically and commercially acclaimed artists of the last decade will release Bottle It In on October 12th on Matador Records.
Today’s announcement is accompanied by the release of a new song titled ‘Bassackwards’, which follows previously released Bottle It In single, Loading Zones, an ode to the parking challenges in Vile’s native Philadelphia, described alternately as “Vile at his comforting, shaggy best” (The Guardian), and an “ambiguous rumination on small town life” (MOJO).
The epic, loping ‘Bassackwards’ is the album’s beating heart and Vile’s most compelling evocation of how he sees the world: “I was on the ground circa Planet Earth, but out of sorts,” he sings over a gently psychedelic bed of back-masked guitars. “But I snapped back, baby, just in time to jot it down.”
In addition, Vile has confirmed a further run of worldwide tour dates for 2019 with The Violators (Rob Laakso, Kyle Spence, and Jesse Trbovich). This run of shows will include stops in Montreal and Toronto (February 16th). Vile is already confirmed to play Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on December 16th.
King Krule presents a video for ‘Biscuit Town’
Today King Krule releases a music video for ‘Biscuit Town’, the opening track from his Mercury Prize nominated album The OOZ.
The video comes as the first of a three-part collaboration with WeTransfer, which sees King Krule explore the creative process with each video’s director, hosted on their WePresent platform.
Directed by friends and long-term collaborators cc. Wade (aka Michael and Paraic Morrissey), the video sees King Krule (aka Archy Marshall) inhabiting his own noir ‘Biscuit Town’- waking up and retracing his footsteps through the city, piecing together the remnants of a hazy, half-remembered night before. A reflection of his futuristic, jazz-inflected, film-inspired sound, the video serves to compliment the warm, dreamlike quality of ‘Biscuit Town’.
King Krule’s second LP ‘The OOZ’ was released in October last year to wide spread critical acclaim, and follows on from 2013’s also critically lauded album Six Feet Beneath the Moon. In the interim, Archy Marshall also released A New Place 2 Drown, a collaborative multimedia projects with his brother, Jack.
Still only 23 years-old, Archy Marshall has created his own immersive universe to inhabit.
