Fresh from supporting Blur at London’s Wembley Stadium, Sleaford Mods return with a EP of six new tracks. Emerging from the same environment that created the duo’s Top 3 album UK GRIM, the songs of More UK GRIM share the incisive lyrical vision and forward-thinking electronics that won acclaim for the LP. Tracks including Under…
bar italia, the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, present their second full length of 2023, The Twits, six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim. Recorded over eight weeks in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, Spain with Marta Salogni (Bjork, Romy, black midi), the 13 track…
American rock band The National present their surprise freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck 10th studio album, Laugh Track. If its companion piece, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Listen…
Today, Big Thief have shared the captivating new single, “Born For Loving You”. Recorded and produced by Dom Monks at Guissona, Spain’s Teatre de cal Eril Studio on a recent tour, “Born For Loving You” finds Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik at their most earnest and unashamedly romantic — “I was…
Marking the two year anniversary of the release of her critically acclaimed album Valentine, Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) presents the Valentine Demos EP. Consisting of five early stripped-down recordings, this 45 RPM Black Vinyl 12” includes “Adore You” (a working title for “Valentine”),“Headlock”, “c. et al.”, “Automate”, along with the previously unreleased “Easy Thing”. Listen…
Unlike what we might expect, traditional music is not one-size-fits-all. Each song has its own story, history and characters which the singers must serve, rather than themselves. On his new album, Look Over The Wall, See The Sky, John Francis Flynn delicately unpicks these traditional songs and rearranges them with an emotional force that sometimes…
The long-awaited debut album from CASisDEAD via XL Recordings. Famous Last Words is a fully realized expansion of the dystopian futurism that has captivated audiences since CAS first announced himself in 2013. Over the past decade, he’s dipped in and out of the shadows, blessing fans with cult hits while maintaining his anonymity and shunning…
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Today, Ethan P. Flynn releases the joyous “Clutching Your Pearls”, the latest single to be taken from his highly anticipated debut album, Abandon All Hope, out October 6th via Young. Written, and produced by Ethan P. Flynn, “Clutching Your Pearls” is a captivating fable about letting go, told using a uniquely-tuned mandola. The single features…
The prolific electronic duo, Overmono – Tom and Ed Russell – return today to release the explosive new single “Blow Out” via XL Recordings. The single follows their long-awaited debut album Good Lies which was released in May of this year to huge acclaim – “UK rave history is distilled to perfection” – 5/5 The…
Today Sampha announces the full details of his highly-anticipated, sophomore album, LAHAI, out October 20th on Young. Taken from his paternal grandfather’s name, which is also Sampha’s middle name, LAHAI revels in the awe and magic of our existence, synthesizing the exquisite chaos that one experiences confronting the cycle of life and the beyondness. Spanning…
Today, Tkay Maidza has shared the piercing new song, “WUACV”, Aka “Woke Up And Chose Violence”. At her wit’s end with the people around her, the Zimbabwean-born, Australian-raised, Los Angeles-based artist spits in her signature razor-sharp cadence, “Woke up and chose violence.” She says, “I wanted to write a song where I could express my…
