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Big Thief Present New Single ‘Simulation Swarm’
Next month, Big Thief release Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the group’s new 20-track double album. Ahead of its release, they’ve set the bar high with a string of singles, and today’s Simulation Swarm is another powerhouse track. This previously unreleased track has been a staple and fan favourite of the band’s live shows.
Jenny Hval Announces New Album, Classic Objects, Out 11 March Watch Video for New Single ‘Year of Love’
Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album Classic Objects, out on 11 March, and today unveils the video for new single Year of Love, the album’s opener.
Following early single, Jupiter, ‘Year of Love’ presents Hval’s gorgeous vocals and rhythmical, overflowing lyrics atop a percussive landscape akin to Paul Simon’s The Rhythm Of The Saints. It’s a song based on a true story of a proposal happening in front of Hval while she was performing a few years ago. “For me, this experience was very troubling,” says Hval. “It confronted me with the fact that I am also married. What does that detail from my private life say about me as an artist? ‘Year of Love’ asks, who am I as an artist? Do my private actions betray my work and voice?”
The accompanying video was directed by Hval, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Annie Bielski. The three elaborate on the video: “A sense of loss and joy intertwines in a world of disconnected rooms. The artist inhabits these rooms. She is frozen in time, space, and mid-vowel. She is aware of her immediate surroundings. She is aware that there is more beyond what she can see. A version of her exists in a compressed, compromised, and objectified state. She is sitting in a room, in a house, in a neighbourhood, in the art industry.”
Lucinda Chua: Hub Sessions
Lucinda Chua is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in South London. Primarily using her voice, a cello, and an array of effects units, Chua writes ambient pop songs that are intimate, atmospheric, and totally enchanting.
Lucinda began learning music by ear from the age of three using the Suzuki method, a teaching philosophy whereby young children learn music in the same way they would a native language. As such, Chua has always seen music as a natural form of self-expression. “I learned to play piano before I was aware of music on the radio,” she says. “Music was a language for me before it was a cultural reference, part of my identity, or part of my taste. It’s essentially a form of nonverbal expression.”
In 2019, Chua released her debut EP, ‘Antidotes 1’, which earned praise from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Dazed, and gal-dem. That same year, she performed a number of one-person shows across the UK and Europe, while also touring as the cellist for FKA Twigs’s live band. Now, Chua is back with her second EP, Antidotes 2, released via 4AD.
Beneath your feet at the Roundhouse lies The Hub, and here in this stunning, hidden space we have been recording intimate performances with some of the UK’s most incredible emerging artists. Visit the Roundhouse YouTube channel for more Hub Sessions
Aldous Harding announces new album and releases first single 'Lawn'
Aldous Harding has announced details of a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Designer.
Warm Chris will be released on 25 March, and its first single Lawn is available now accompanied by visuals created by Aldous Harding and Martin Sagadin.
For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios and includes contributions from H. Hawkline, Seb Rochford, Gavin Fitzjohn, John and Hopey Parish and Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods).
To coincide with the release of Warm Chris, Aldous Harding will head back on the road including two shows scheduled in Canada. She will be performing on June 5th at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall and June 6th at Montreal’s Rialto Theatre.
