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Pinegrove share new video for Endless. Marigold (Expanded Edition) out now.
Pinegrove have just shared the video to “Endless,” from their already critically lauded new album, Marigold.
Pinegrove have also released an expanded version of Marigold which is out digitally now. Marigold includes an alternate version of “No Drugs” from the Skylight album sessions, and an acoustic version of “Phase.”
“In this video we wanted to explore tenacity & endurance of spirit.” Says singer Evan Stephens Hall. “In this moment of turbulence in our country, as many of us are banding together to fight racism, to stay healthy in a pandemic, & to live with dignity through economic oppression, we believe in the power of resilience and perseverance. Keep going. It’s working.”
Director Brian Paccione also had this to say about the video:
“I learned so much from nature while making this for us — I learned to listen to it, respond to it, and collaborate with it. I was not in charge — and I hope this special relationship is reflected in the work. I hope you all see a part of your own emotional life in our little seed’s journey.”
This Is The Kit announce new album
This is The Kit are pleased to announce their new album ‘Off Off On’ which will be released by Rough Trade Records on October 23rd
This is the fifth album by the band and is the follow up to 2017 critically acclaimed album ‘Moonshine Freeze’.
Kate Stables decided to work on the new record with producer Josh Kaufman, New York-based musician, Hold Steady collaborator and member of Bonny Light Horseman and Muzz. Stables first met him when working with Anaïs Mitchell on a cover of the Osibisa song Woyaya, their paths later crossing at the PEOPLE residencies in Berlin and Brooklyn.
“We were on the same page about a lot of musical ideas, as well as doing things I wouldn’t do musically. It was a lovely mixture of ‘you’re exactly in my brain and exactly at the opposite end of my brain.’”
After the band – completed by Rozi Plain (bass/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), Jesse D Vernon (guitar, keyboards), Jamie Whitby-Coles (drum/vox), – reunited for the cold-water rehearsals in Wales, they headed to Wiltshire’s Real World Studios, just finishing in time for everyone to get home for lockdown.
Off Off On is preceded by single ‘This Is What You Did’. As Kate explains “It’s a bit of a panic attack song. The negative voices of other people that are your own voice. Or are they? Hard to say when you’re in this kind of a place. How to get out of this place? Needing to get outside more. Cosmically topical what with these recent days of inside all the time. Knowing the things, you should do because they’re good for you and make you feel better but for some reason you still stay inside and fester in your own self-doubt and regret and self-loathing. Fun times! We all get into negative mind loops sometimes. Especially when you’re not getting the fresh air and outside time you need to stay healthy.”
Since 2008’s debut album Krulle Bol, This Is the Kit have unpicked emotional knots and woven remarkable stories, but even by their high standards, Off Off On is a beautifully clear distillation of Stables’ song-writing gifts.
By the end of 2018, This Is the Kit had finished touring their last album, the talismanic Moonshine Freeze, but Stables’ natural impulse to start the next record was diverted when she was invited to join The National on tour – a continuation of the role she took on their album I Am Easy to Find.
“I think it did me loads of good,” laughs Stables. “It was so brilliant when I was writing to be away from my songs and the responsibility of overseeing a band or a project – just to forget about that for a while and be a minion in someone else’s band was brilliant, I loved it. I think it really helped my writing and my getting through whatever I needed to get through.”
SPOON ANNOUNCE SLAY ON CUE CATALOG REISSUES ON MATADOR RECORDS
Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records.
The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band’s first eight records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010).
“Some of these albums haven’t been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out,” says frontman Britt Daniel.
Today’s announcement is accompanied by a restored and remastered video for Kill The Moonlight classic ‘Small Stakes’, developed from the original 8mm film. “It’s a little glimpse into life in the studio in 2002 during the recording of Kill The Moonlight, filmed by our friend Peter Simonite”, says Daniel.
Kicking off the reissue series are raucous debut album Telephono and the watershed Soft Effects EP, available individually on vinyl and CD for the first time since their original 1996-1997 small run on Matador. The opening salvo of major releases trace the fledgling rock heroes’ mercurial evolution, from the raw sonics and jagged dynamics of Telephono, to the sharp and sophisticated songwriting found on Soft Effects, pointing towards the bright and adventurous future ahead with subsequent Spoon records. A silkscreen cover edition of Soft Effects will also be available, limited to 500 copies on red and blue vinyl each.
The reissue series will be complimented in North America by a limited Record Store Day on August 29th, fan curated compilation LP, titled All The Weird Kids Up Front (Más Rolas Chidas).
A schedule of the Slay On Cue series release dates can be found below.
July 24
Telephono / Soft Effects EP
August 14
A Series Of Sneaks / Girls Can Tell / Kill The Moonlight
September 11
Transference
In 2019 Spoon released Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon to rave reviews, cementing their place as one of the most important and cherished rock groups of the past 25 years. The compilation featured new single No Bullets Spent, which the band performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live,
Elsewhere, Spoon played a monumental 30-date North American tour with Beck and Cage The Elephant, and Fender released the Britt Daniel Signature Telecaster Thinline as part of their artist signature electric guitar series – highlighting the enduring “influence of Daniel’s precision-punk style that has helped fuel Spoon to superstardom.
ARCA SHARES “MEQUETREFE” MUSIC VIDEO
Today Arca has premiered a music video for “Mequetrefe,” conceived, produced and directed by Carlos Sáez, Arca and Kynan Puru Watt over the period of the global quarantine.
The video arrives in unity with the release of Arca’s new album KiCk i, which is available digitally worldwide via XL Recordings tomorrow, with vinyl to follow next month, July 17th.
In the recent lead-up to KiCk i’s delivery into the world, Arca shared two singles Mequetrefe and KLK featuring Rosalía.
The music video for “Mequetrefe” was conceptualized and created while in lockdown. Arca approached the creative process for the video not through the lens of circumstance but as an exercise in agency – acting as stylist, make-up artist, and performer to dream up the playful variations of her self-states. In collaboration with her partner artist Carlos Sáez, the two produced and filmed the homemade video in Barcelona and then brought in animator Kynan Puru Watt based in Shanghai who fed about 10000 frames of Arca into a neural network for an extended period of time to allow for layers of CGI to interact with each other.
Bing & Ruth: New Single 'The Pressure Of This Water' Out Now
Released today, ‘The Pressure Of This Water’ is the third single to be taken from Bing & Ruth’s forthcoming album, Species.
Clocking in at a meditative 10-minutes, Bing & Ruth’s ringleader, David Moore says of ‘The Pressure Of This Water’, “it’s the first song I wrote on my Farfisa, and it’s stuck by me through all the time since. The accompanying visuals here are from Michael Speed who, faced with the impossibility of actually travelling to the desert, chose to collage publicly available stock footage into a video that reflects the arid nature of the track itself.”
Bing & Ruth is the ever-evolving project helmed by New York composer David Moore. The group’s fourth studio album, the 7-track, 49-minute Species, will be released on 17 July.
While on a surface level, Species is an exploration of the sonic possibilities of the Farfisa organ, aided only by a clarinet and double bass (played respectively by founding members Jeremy Viner and Jeff Ratner), it was inspired by two recent loves of Moore’s: the desert and long-distance running. Briefly relocating from his New York base to Point Dume, between the Pacific Ocean and the desert, Moore was able to indulge in both passions, which in turn provided stimulus for new work. Species is a study of suspended time and trance; not just a steady movement from A to B, but as something that flows, meanders and eddies, like water. Moore says, “I’d found myself in places unfamiliar enough that I could easily lose all sense of direction, size and, more than anything, all sense of time. The music I was making became a kind of reflection of these intentional detachments – and a place to mirror that feeling of trance that had pushed them out in the first place.”
