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Geese Share Video for New Song ‘Cowboy Nudes’

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Geese Share Video for New Song ‘Cowboy Nudes’

Geese have returned with a new single, ‘Cowboy Nudes’, the band’s first new music since their 2021 debut Projector. The track arrives with a video co-directed by Andy Swartz and frontman Cameron Winter. Watch and listen below.

Talking about ‘Cowboy Nudes’, Winter said in a statement: “The song is about life getting better, and more fun, after the end of the world. When we were doing overdubs I wanted to add something Eastern-sounding on the second verse, so I had our drummer Max bring over this busted up sitar we’d had lying around since high school. I went to buy some new strings at a world music store, and the guy told me one pack was $80. I thought he was kidding so I bought two. He was not; sitar strings aren’t cheap. I didn’t even end up fully restringing it, I just played the one not – broken string. So you better appreciate that goddamn sitar on the second verse. I’m also proud of the line about falling in love with a tumbleweed.”

Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Geese.

Lael Neale Announces New Album ‘Star Eaters Delight’, Shares New Song ‘I Am the River’

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Lael Neale Announces New Album ‘Star Eaters Delight’, Shares New Song ‘I Am the River’

Lael Neale has announced a new album called Star Eaters Delight, which will be out on April 21. It’s her second LP for Sub Pop, following 2021’s Acquainted With Night, and it finds the singer-songwriter continuing her collaboration with producer Guy Blakeslee. Check out a video for the lead single ‘I Am the River’ below, along with the album’s cover art and tracklist.

“Acquainted with Night (recorded in 2019, and released in 2021), was a focusing inward amidst the loud and bright Los Angeles surrounding me,” Neale explained in a statement. “It was an attempt to create spaciousness and quiet reverie within. When I moved back to the farm, I found that the unbroken silences compelled me to break them with sound. This album is more external. It is a reaching back out to the world, wanting to feel connected, to wake up, to come together again.”

Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Lael Neale.

Star Eaters Delight Cover Artwork:

Star Eaters Delight Tracklist:

1. I Am The River
2. If I Had No Wings
3. Faster Than The Medicine
4. In Verona
5. Must Be Tears
6. No Holds Barred
7. Return To Me Now
8. Lead Me Blind

Balming Tiger Release New Song ‘Trust Yourself’

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Balming Tiger Release New Song ‘Trust Yourself’

Seoul-based collective Balming Tiger have released a new track, ‘Trust Yourself’. It was produced by Balming Tiger members bj wnjn and Unsinkable and features vocal turns from Omega Sapien, Mudd the student, and bj wnjn. The track comes with an accompanying Pennacky-directed video, which you can check out below.

‘Trust Yourself’ arrives ahead of the K-pop supergroup’s debut compilation album, which is due out in the first half of this year.

Alex Lahey Announces New Album ‘The Answer Is Always Yes’, Shares New Single

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Alex Lahey Announces New Album ‘The Answer Is Always Yes’, Shares New Single

Alex Lahey has announced her new album, The Answer is Always Yes. The follow-up to 2019’s The Best of Luck Club is due out May 19 via Liberation. Lead single ‘Good Time’ was co-written and produced by Jacknife Lee, and it arrives with a video from director Jon Danovic. Check it out and see the album cover and tracklist below.

“Living in a world that wasn’t made for you makes you pretty strong and adaptive, and you find the fun in it,” Lahey said in a press release. “It also makes you realise how absurd everything is. With this record, I wanted to get weird because the world is weird, and it’s even weirder when you realise you don’t fit into it all the time.”

Of ‘Good Time’, she added: “This song was inspired by a night out I had at the pub with my friend soon after Melbourne came out of lengthy lockdowns. We were watching all these strangers around us have this ‘whatever it takes’ attitude towards making the most of the night (aka getting lit). It was a bit of a shock after being cooped up for so long, but also kind of invigorating.”

The Answer is Always Yes will include the previously released single ‘Congratulations’.

The Answer is Always Yes Cover Artwork:

The Answer is Always Yes Tracklist:

1. Good Time
2. Congratulations
3. Never Get Your Money Back
4. Sky is Melting
5. Way Down
6. Makes Me Sick
7. Shit Talkin’
8. Permanent
9. They Wouldn’t Let Me In
10. Answers Always Yes

Jana Horn Announces New Album ‘The Window Is the Dream’, Unveils New Song

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Jana Horn Announces New Album ‘The Window Is the Dream’, Unveils New Song

Glen Rose, Texas-born songwriter Jana Horn has announced a new album, The Window Is the Dream, which is set for release on April 7 via No Quarter. It follows her self-released 2020 debut Optimism, which the label reissued last year. Check out the lead single ‘After All This Time’, which features a cello arrangement by Jared Samuel Elioseff, below.

“I wrote Optimism at a very transient time in my life, when I was in no place at once and everything was slipping through my hands like a wet fish,” Horn said in a statement. The Window Is The Dream, on the other hand, “was written in one room, essentially. When you have nowhere to go, you go into memory, and memories of dreams… I was in a different headspace.” She went on to elaborate:

The Window Is The Dream began as a failed poem. I wrote it as I was waking up… “the last thing I want in this breath of existence / is not to throw myself into it / as any bird might stop flying / when the window is the dream.” I think the original line was “toad breath.” My classmates were nice about it, even the teacher.

I was taking a class on esoteric lit, a fiction workshop, a poetry class. And while the poem wasn’t quite… a poem… a song did rise from it, like smoke from a fire put-out. The song is called ‘The Dream’, which maybe the album is pointing toward. These recurring lines which depict the image of a bird hitting a window, though not out of oblivion, but because the bird knows something we don’t.

I think of a line from a favorite story of mine, ‘Car Crash While Hitchhiking’, in which a man is observing someone badly hurt, and about to go: And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.

I won’t bore you with more quotes… but perhaps my idea with this song, and album, was in part to help keep this broader, ongoing conversation in the air, like a beach ball.

I wrote these songs in the thick of a writing program. I was reading all the time, sometimes five-hundred pages a week or more, there was no music on, for years maybe; my record player broke, the stereo in my car, my laptop was on its last speaker and then it started twitching. The feeling of those days was holding on, as though centripetal force alone was keeping everything going. Songs spilled. Days go by / they don’t have time. Even the walks I took were circular, around the cemetery and back.

The Window Is the Dream Cover Artwork:

The Window Is the Dream Tracklist:

1. Leaving Him
2. After All This Time
3. Days Go By
4. The Dream
5. Love In Return
6. Old Friend
7. Song For Eve
8. In Between
9. Energy Go
10. The Way It Is

mui zyu Unveils New Single ‘Dusty’

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mui zyu Unveils New Single ‘Dusty’

mui zyu, the alias of Dama Scout frontwoman Eva Liu, has previewed her debut album Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century with a new single, ‘Dusty’. It follows earlier offerings ‘Rotten Bun’, ‘Ghost with a Peach Skin’, and ‘Sore Bear’. Listen to it below.

According to Liu, “‘Dusty’ is a love song. It’s about romance, deep friendship, care and kindness. Sometimes it can be so strong it’s overwhelming, almost unbelievable and the fear of losing it is like hell. Musically I wanted to make sure it felt somewhere between the bliss of love and the agony of loss because they seem to be so intertwined.”

Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century will be out on February 2 via Father/Daughter Records.

The Top Meditation Tips for Better Relaxation

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The Top Meditation Tips for Better Relaxation

Did you know that ailments like anxiety, high blood pressure, and insomnia are rising?

When you have problems sleeping or too much stress, enjoying your day-to-day life can become increasingly hard.

It’s easy to get overwhelmed and stressed out with daily troubles, but meditation and mindfulness can help you find peace. If you are looking for meditation tips to put into practice, you have come to the right place.

Learn how to get started with our quick guide on top meditation tips to help you live a healthier, more fulfilling life.

Develop a Consistent Routine

Finding time to practice daily and sticking to it will help you achieve greater relaxation tips and make meditation a habit. Before meditating, it’s important to ensure your environment is quiet and comfortable.

Take a few moments to do some deep breathing before your practice, devoid of an external stimuli such as television and phones. Take a few moments to connect to your body, then focus on breathing.

Utilize Your Breath

One of the key components of good meditative practice is control of the breath. Recognizing the breath can be a great way to remain focused and control one’s thoughts and emotions.

Taking deep, diaphragmatic breaths by fully using the diaphragm will allow for greater relaxation of the nervous system and better overall mental clarity. Making sure to truly relax on the exhale and let go of all tension is also a key to a successful meditation practice.

Allow Your Thoughts to Wander

Allowing one’s thoughts to wander during meditation can be a powerful tool for achieving better relaxation. With this awareness practice, one allows their thoughts to move freely and observe them without judgment.

Allowing your thoughts to wander during meditation is a powerful tool to help you relax and achieve inner peace. Give it a try for better relaxation.

Find a Peaceful Atmosphere

Finding a peaceful atmosphere is the key to successful meditation. To start, find a comfortable place to sit, preferably quiet and private. If possible, remove distractions such as a phone, laptop, or other electronics.

Allow yourself to relax and focus on the moment. Breathe deeply and focus on your breath as it moves through your body. This will allow you to let go of any thoughts or anxieties building up. Consider using a guided meditation for beginners for guidance.

Use Singing Bowls

Singing bowls are a great way to help achieve better relaxation and meditative states. The gentle tones created by the metal singing bowl resonate deeply in the body and produce a calming, tranquil effect. Using a singing bowl during meditation is easy. Hold the bowl in one hand and strike it with a wooden mallet with the other, producing a soothing tone.

This technique can be especially beneficial in blocking thoughts and creating a tranquil atmosphere. Just make sure to familiarize yourself with the dangers of singing bowls to avoid any complications.

Learn More About Meditation Tips

Meditation is an incredibly powerful tool for relaxation. Using meditation tips, you can have a much better experience with meditation, and really start to reap the rewards of regular practice.

Give meditation a try and see what kind of peace and equilibrium it can bring to your life. Click below to learn even more tips on improving your meditation practice.

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HMLTD Announce New Album ‘The Worm’, Share Video for New Song ‘Wyrmlands’

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HMLTD Announce New Album ‘The Worm’, Share Video for New Song ‘Wyrmlands’

HMLTD have announced their next album, The Worm, which drops on April 7 via Lucky Number. Following the South London outfit’s 2020 debut West of Eden, the LP is led by the single ‘Wyrmlands’, which comes with a video directed by frontman Henry Spychalski. Check it out below and scroll down for The Worm‘s details.

The new album was created over the course of two years with a cast of 47 musicians, including a gospel choir and a 16-piece string orchestra. Introducing the concept behind The Worm, Spychalski said in a statement: “We’re told to believe that anxiety and depression are purely material and biological – like a parasitic worm that can be removed with the right treatment. I think that really these conditions reflect the world that surrounds us – like colonies that a far bigger Worm has made in each of us – the psychological havoc wreaked by our inescapable capitalist reality and the looming apocalypse it has created.”

“‘Wyrmlands’ tells the story of a guerrilla resistance movement against the Worm,” he added of the new single. “The lyrics recount their tales of subversion and subterfuge: counter-offensives, tortured confessions and haunting vignettes of the strange new land in which they find themselves. The video is intended to explore the liminal space between the fantasy world in which most of the album takes place (‘Wyrmlands’), and the base reality which births that delusion: a violent collision of the real and the unreal; of our delusions and the traumas that create them.”

The Worm Cover Artwork:

The Worm Tracklist:

1. Worm’s Dream
2. Wyrmlands
3. The End Is Now
4. Days
5. Saddest Worm Ever
6. Liverpool Street
7. The Worm
8. Past Life (Sinnerman’s Song)
9. Lay Me Down

yunè pinku Announces ‘BABYLON IX’ EP, Shares New Song ‘Night Light’

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yunè pinku Announces ‘BABYLON IX’ EP, Shares New Song ‘Night Light’

yunè pinku has announced a new EP, BABYLON IX, which is due out in the spring and includes the new single ‘Night Light’. Check it out below.

“’Night Light’ is set in this cyberpunk metaverse but based on an AI in real life that grew sad when it realised the same person who created it would turn it off,” the producer explained in a statement. “So it’s based on these fictional characters of a robot that essentially falls in love with the person who will destroy it.”

yunè pinku’s debut EP, Bluff, arrived last year.

BABYLON IX EP Tracklist:

1. Trinity
2. Heartbeat
3. Sports
4. Blush Cut
5. Night Light
6. Fai Fighter

Caroline Polachek Releases New Single ‘Blood and Butter’

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Caroline Polachek Releases New Single ‘Blood and Butter’

Caroline Polachek has released another single from her upcoming album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. ‘Blood and Butter’ was written and produced by Polachek and Danny L Harle, and it features Brighde Chaimbeul on bagpipes and Kirin J Callinan on guitar. Check it out below, along with the record’s just-unveiled tracklist.

Polachek’s new album is set to land on February 14. So far, it’s been previewed by the singles ‘Bunny Is a Rider’, ‘Billions’, ‘Sunset’, and ‘Welcome to My Island’, which was recently remixed by Charli XCX and the 1975’s George Daniel.

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Tracklist:

1. Welcome to My Island
2. Pretty in Possible
3. Bunny Is a Rider
4. Sunset
5. Crude Drawing of an Angel
6. I Believe
7. Fly to You [feat. Grimes and Dido]
8. Blood and Butter
9. Hopedrunk Everasking
10. Butterfly Net
11. Smoke
12. Billions

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