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Julia Jacklin Announces New Album ‘PRE PLEASURE’, Releases Video for New Song

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Julia Jacklin Announces New Album ‘PRE PLEASURE’, Releases Video for New Song

Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin has announced a new album called PRE PLEASURE, which is slated for release on August 26 via Transgressive Records. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Lydia Wears a Cross’, alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist as well as Jacklin’s upcoming tour dates.

“The song is about a lot of things but mainly being a 7yr old Jesus Christ superstar fanatic attending catholic school trying to figure out which way is up,” Jacklin said of ‘Lydia Wears a Cross’ in a press release. “The music video was filmed by my constant collaborator and friend Nick Mckk at Splitpoint lighthouse. I played a show close by recently and asked on stage if anyone could let me film inside. Someone in the crowd knew a guy and that was it. The rest was filmed in the streets of Northcote, Melbourne.”

“A lot of the time I feel like I need to do all the work before I can enjoy my life,” Jacklin added of the album. “Whether that’s work on songs or sex, friendships, or my relationship with my family – I think if I work on them long and hard enough, eventually I’ll get to sit around and really enjoy them. But that’s not how anything works is it. It’s all an ongoing process.”

Jacklin recorded the follow-up to 2019’s Crushing in Montreal with co-producer Marcus Paquin, collaborating with her touring band of bassist Ben Whiteley and guitarist Will Kidman, who both play in the Weather Station. The album also features drummer Laurie Torres, saxophonist Adam Kinner, and string arrangements from Owen Pallett (Arcade Fire).

“Making a record to me has always just been about the experience, a new experience in a new place with a new person at the desk, taking the plunge and just seeing what happens,” Jacklin explained. “For the first time I stepped away from the guitar, and wrote a lot of the album on the Roland keyboard in my apartment in Montreal with its inbuilt band tracks. I blu-tacked reams of butcher paper to the walls, covered in lyrics and ideas, praying to the music gods that my brain would arrange everything in time.”

PRE PLEASURE Cover Artwork:

PRE PLEASURE Tracklist:

1. Lydia Wears A Cross
2. Love, Try Not To Let Go
3. Ignore Tenderness
4. I Was Neon
5. Too In Love To Die
6. Less Of A Stranger
7. Moviegoer
8. Magic
9. Be Careful With Yourself
10. End Of A Friendship

Julia Jacklin 2022 UK/EU Tour Dates:

Thu 3 Nov – Ireland, Dublin – Vicar Street
Sat 5 Nov – UK, Glasgow – SWG3 TV Studio
Sun 6 Nov – UK, Manchester – O2 Ritz
Mon 7 Nov- UK, Birmingham – The Mill
Wed 9 Nov – UK, Bristol – SWX
Thu 10 Nov – UK, Brighton – Chalk
Fri 11 Nov – UK, London – Roundhouse
Sun 13 Nov – France, Paris – Café De La Danse
Mon 14 Nov 2022 – Belgium, Antwerp – Trix
Tue 15 Nov – Germany, Cologne – Gebäude 9
Thu 17 Nov – Netherlands, Amsterdam – Paradiso
Fri 18 Nov – Germany, Hamburg – Knust
Sun 20 Nov – Norway, Oslo – Parkteatret
Mon 21 Nov – Sweden, Stockholm – Slaktkyrkan
Tue 22 Nov – Denmark, Copenhagen – DR Studie 2
Thu 24 Nov – Germany, Berlin – Columbia Theater
Fri 25 Nov – Germany, Munich – Strom
Sat 26 Nov – Switzerland, Zurich – Plaza
Sun 27 Nov – Italy, Milan – Magnolia
Tue 29 Nov – Spain, Barcelona – Apolo
Wed 30 Nov – Spain, Madrid – Mon Live
Thu 1 Dec – Portugal, Lisbon – LAV

Gentle Sinners (Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and The Twilight Sad’s James Graham) Announce Debut Album, Share New Song

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Gentle Sinners (Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and The Twilight Sad’s James Graham) Announce Debut Album, Share New Song

Gentle Sinners, the new project of Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and The Twilight Sad’s James Graham, have announced their debut album. These Actions Cannot Be Undone is set for release on May 13 via Rock Action. It’s being previewed by the new single ‘Landfill’, which follows the recently released ‘Face To Fire (After Nyman)’. Check out its Kieran Howe-directed video and find the LP’s cover art and tracklist below.

“Gentle sin’ is a wee phrase I’ve always liked,” Moffat explained in a press release. “In the play it’s part of a flirtatious kiss, where the rules of etiquette are broken with a cheeky wink, sort of like a Shakespearean Sid James moment. But with a different kind of sinning in mind, I thought it really suited the songs we were making too, i.e. mistakes and disasters without pity or malice.”

Speaking about the new track, Graham said:

My mental health was at the worst it’s ever been. It was starting to physically manifest and for, the first time in my life, I needed medication to help me. I had resisted it for years as I thought I would be failing my family, but that was so wrong of me. There should be no stigma in seeking medical help for your mental health. I wanted to address those stigmas. I wanted to address the anxieties about asking for help. I grew up in a society where talking openly about mental health was something that just didn’t happen. People who were brave enough to speak about their problems were instantly judged. That needs to change. The brain is an organ just like any other part of your body and will react to stress like any other organ or muscle. Realising it wasn’t my fault and that there is no shame was a massive thing for me. This song is the manifestation of those feelings.

Howe added of the video:

This incredible track reminded me of a recurring dream I have where I’m running, yet unable to move. Often these dreams are plagued with memories of better times, memories that are all too painful to re-experience. These are the things that keep me up at night, and to be able to express them visually was a wholly cathartic experience. The music is so full of sobering honesty, as a director I felt I couldn’t shy away from my inner most feelings. Hopefully we captured something that conveys how it feels to be in pain, and to be struggling with your mental health. In the same way that James and Aidan have inspired me to express these feelings, I hope this video might do the same for others. It’s been a thrill to work with them on this music video.

These Actions Cannot Be Undone Cover Artwork:

These Actions Cannot Be Undone Tracklist:

1. Waiting For Nothing
2. Killing This Time
3. Let Them Rot (ft. AKG)
4. The Cries
5. Date & Sign
6. Rent Free
7. Shores of Anhedonia
8. Face To Fire (After Nyman)
9. Don’t Say Goodnight
10. Landfill

Pale Waves Announce New Album ‘Unwanted’, Share New Song ‘Lies’

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Pale Waves Announce New Album ‘Unwanted’, Share New Song ‘Lies’

Pale Waves have announced their third album, Unwanted, which will arrive on August 12 via Dirty Hit. Today, the band has shared a new single called ‘Lies’, which was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Zakk Cervini. Check it out below.

“‘Lies’ is about someone who built up my trust and destroyed it like a wrecking ball,” frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie said in a statement. “It caused some real trust issues, but fortunately for me that person is no longer in my life. Once you do me wrong you’re gone!”

Unwanted follows Pale Waves’ 2021 album Who Am I?. “It was really the only thing this album could be called,” Baron-Gracie added. “It’s bold and unapologetic, and that’s what the Pale Waves community is about. We don’t need to fit a perfect mould, we don’t need to apologise for being ourselves, and we won’t change for anyone. That acceptance is what connects us.”

Unwanted Cover Artwork:

Unwanted Tracklist:

1. Lies
2. Unwanted
3. The Hard Way
4. Jealousy
5. Alone
6. Clean
7. Without You
8. Only Problem
9. You’re So Vain
10. Reasons To Live
11. Numb
12. Act My Age
13. So Sick (Of Missing You)

Stella Donnelly Announces New Album ‘Flood’, Shares Video for New Single ‘Lungs’

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Stella Donnelly Announces New Album ‘Flood’, Shares Video for New Single ‘Lungs’

Stella Donnelly has announced her new album, Flood, with a video for the new single ‘Lungs’. The follow-up to her 2019 debut Beware of the Dogs is set to arrive on August 26 via Secretly Canadian. In a statement, Donnelly described ‘Lungs’ as an “attempt to tell a story of classism and city limits suburbia through the honesty of a child.” Check it out below.

Donnelly co-produced Flood alongside Anna Laverty and Methyl Ethyl’s Jake Webb, with whom she recently collaborated on the track ‘Proof’. According to a press release, working with Webb allowed Donnelly to discover a “forward-leaning sound,” while Laverty’s “ability to ‘capture the piano’ and discern the ‘perfect take’ allowed the songwriter to take risks.” The album was recorded at RADA, Tunafish and Fremantle Recording Studios in Western Australia, with additional recordings at The Waffle Pad in Castlemaine, Victoria.

“Like the last record, Flood is another compilation of diary entries and fictional stories that allow me to expand on moments between humans,” Donnelly said.

Flood Cover Artwork:

Flood Tracklist:

1. Lungs
2. How Was Your Day
3. Restricted Account
4. Underwater
5. Medals
6. Move Me
7. Flood
8. This Week
9. Oh My My My
10. Morning Silence
11. Cold

What Are The Best Eco Friendly Gadgets For Your Home?

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What Are The Best Eco Friendly Gadgets For Your Home?

Over the past few years, there has been a large public push to become more conscious about our impact on the environment. Green ideas and tools have been pushed as well as tips on how to live in a sustainable manner.

It’s up to all of us as individuals to do our part in minimising energy efficiency to be more environmentally friendly and reducing your footprint starts at home. So, what are some fancy gadgets that you can use at home to make your home more efficient and environmentally friendly?

LED Smart Bulbs

Traditional light bulbs aren’t very energy efficient, we’ve known this for a while and worked to produce more energy efficient bulbs over the years. But even bulbs that would be considered efficient 10 years ago are now seen as wasteful, as they end up generating more heat from your electricity than they do light!

Luckily, we have reached almost peak efficiency with LED bulbs, as LEDs use a lot less energy to generate light compared to all other types of bulbs, making them the most efficient type of bulb on the market. You can take this a step further with LED smart bulbs, which can be remotely controlled, put onto timers and turn themselves off automatically to ensure they’re only using electricity when thy’re needed!

Solar Powered Blinds

As smart home gadgets become more common, we’re seeing that our electricity usage at home is growing as we have all of these smart devices that constantly need energy to be ready for you to use them in your home. While we’re happy with the functionality smart gadgets bring, the increased yuse of electricity can be concerning.

So, you should look for gadgets that can be powered ‘off the grid’, one of these gadgets would be solar powered electric blinds, these blinds work like any other electric blinds, but rather than being powered by mains electricity, they come with a solar charger that keeps the blinds charged up using only the power from the Sun, meaning you’re saving money and powering your blinds with 100% clean, green energy.

Smart Power Strips

Even when you turn your home’s electronic devices off, they can still use electricity to keep them in their standby mode. Even when you think all your devices are turned off, they’ll still consume some electricity in the background which isn’t ideal for either your utility bills or the environment. The only way you can be 100% sure an electric device isn’t using electricity is to unplug it from the outlet, which can be more hassle than it’s worth.

You can counter these ‘energy vampires’ at home, by investing in a smart plug or a smart power strip, these are outlet plugs that can be remotely controlled, meaning that with just a single click of a button, you can fully turn off any electronic device in your home to stop them passively using your electricity.

SodaStream

Every single minute, around 1,000,000 plastic bottles of water are purchased across the globe, this works out to over 500 billion plastic bottles of water being sold every year worldwide. Data shows that less than half of the plastic bottles sold each year are collected for recycling and just 7% of the bottles that do get collected end up being recycled. So, cutting down on plastic bottles of water can help you lower your impact on the environment as you move away from single use plastics.

A great way to cut down on single use plastics is to have a long term sustainable solution, like a soda stream bottle, which is a reusable bottle for any drinks, but it can be used with a soda stream to carbonate water at home, so with this device you can make your own carbonated water and sodas at home, without needing to purchase a new plastic bottle

4 Secrets Of A Well-Maintain Man

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4 Secrets Of A Well-Maintain Man

Men have it relatively easy when it comes to looking good. There is not as much pressure to always look perfect the same way society demands women prim and pamper themselves before heading out the door. However, the lack of pressure shouldn’t mean you are complacent, and it is a slippery slope towards looking like a slob. You know you won’t be able to dress like a scruffy teenager forever, so consider these four secrets of a well-maintained man. 

Look After Your Clothes 

Your wardrobe is a great way to make sure you look your best no matter where you go, even if you’re only heading to the store or picking your kids up from school. You should look after your clothes by keeping them clean and ironing them so you don’t walk out the house wearing wrinkled clothes. Learn how to use your washing machine and iron to keep your shirts and pants looking good. This will also help extend their lifespan, even if you usually invest in cheaper materials. The more care you take of your clothes, the longer they will last. 

Add Accessories 

If you feel your style is too boring, but you can’t afford more extravagant clothes (or simply feel these clothes don’t suit you), accessories will enhance your style and ensure you look as good as possible wherever you go. Watches, signet rings, and chains can all add something to your everyday style. If you want to retreat yourself, a high-quality timepiece is an excellent way to develop a core accessory, and you can find out the best solutions for servicing your Rolex watch to make sure it keeps ticking so it’s not just stylish, but also functional. 

Keep Your Hair and Facial Hair Clean

You will never achieve a well-maintained look if you don’t keep your hair and facial hair clean and tidy. Regular trips to the barbers will keep your hair under control, even if you plan to grow your hair. You should also keep this under control with hair cream or a hair tie when you are in public. If you like to grow and keep a beard, learn the proper grooming techniques to keep it under control and sculpt it to complement your face to avoid the scraggly appearance that too many first-time beard growers suffer from. 

Take Care Of Your Skin 

A consistent and effective skincare routine will help you look younger for longer. Washing your face every day and moisturizing it with rejuvenating products can reduce the risk of wrinkles and helps keep your skin tight. Plenty of water and enough sleep each night are also effective measures to take whether you work in an office or construction. 

Looking Good 

Looking good isn’t free, but it is much easier than expected. As long as you take good care of yourself and your clothes, you can make even the simplest outfits look good. Whether going to work, meeting friends for dinner and drinks, or making an entrance at a big event, these tips can do wonders for ensuring you are a well-maintained man.

Album Review: Warpaint, ‘Radiate Like This’

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Album Review: Warpaint, ‘Radiate Like This’

Like a warm summer breeze, Warpaint can shift your mindset with the lightest touch. When it comes to the kind of ethereal, layered dream-pop that has become the group’s trademark, achieving that effect is more of a basic requirement than a unique feature – it’s the reason people will gravitate towards music built on hazy atmospherics and lush, cavernous production even if it conceals whatever’s bubbling underneath the surface. Throughout their 17 years as a band, Warpaint have shown more personality than most acts operating in the same space, though that has less to do with the emotional depth of their music than the dynamic interplay between its four members and their ability to subtly expand the band’s sound. They take their time to let the music grow, weaving spacey, intricate arrangements and trusting the listener to find their way into them.

With Radiate Like This, their first full-length since 2016’s Heads Up, they’ve used the gap between albums to deliver a more considered and honest representation of themselves. As the album’s lead single and opening track, ‘Champion’ is a startling introduction to this new era, a track whose self-confidence feels both natural and earned. Its sense of empowerment isn’t the result of radical reinvention so much as striking a delicate balance – between softness and strength, the personal and collective, nature and self: “We’re all the same sun/ We’re all our own sun, too.” Rarely has the simplicity of Warpaint’s lyrics landed with such impact: When they sing about breathing in and out, it doesn’t feel like the kind of generic line that’s meant to sink into the background, but an exercise in making the song’s affirmations feel tangible.

Even if the rest of the album doesn’t come close to reaching the same heights as ‘Champion’, its spirit of openness still shines through. Warpaint may have relied on lyrical ambiguity and abstraction for most of their career, and Radiate Like This neither breaks that tradition nor makes an effort to resemble a coherent narrative – yet the sequencing makes sense both sonically and thematically, particularly in the first half. The positivity of ‘Champion’ gives way to the raucous and upbeat ‘Hips’, which exhibits a wonderfully eccentric side of the band that was mostly absent from the pop-leaning Heads Up and could get buried in the lusciousness of 2014’s self-titled LP. On songs like ‘Stevie’, Warpaint favour a vibrant and playful sensuality over vaguely familiar moodiness. Compare a line like “You make me wanna dance” to “Love is to die/ Love is to not die/ Love is to dance,” one of the most memorable hooks off Warpaint, and you’ll get a sense of the album’s new direction.

The group doesn’t exactly veer away from its signature sound, but it’s easier to hear how they adjust it to reflect the subject matter. Like ‘Stevie’, ‘Like Sweetness’ centers on romantic desire, but its languid pace conveys a different shade of longing. As they learn to loosen the knots that might have prevented emotion from seeping through their finely crafted songs, Radiate Like This becomes both a lighter experience and a more vulnerable one. After ‘Champion’, ‘Hard to Tell You’ confronts the fear of hurting someone by revealing what you truly want, but it’s not until ‘Melting’ that those barriers in communication begin to dissolve. The song moves slowly; if you don’t feel its heat right away, chances are you will when Stella Mozgawa’s muscular groove kicks in. Whereas ‘Champion’ works as a sublime meditation, ‘Melting’ is the visceral release.

If Radiate Like This prioritized enveloping environments in the way that previous albums did, perhaps the breezy, winking closer ‘Send Nudes’ would be a confounding conclusion. But by maintaining a style and peeling back its layers, Warpaint somehow make a song as jokey as that feel at home in the same album as ‘Champion’. So while a pun like ‘Disco // very’ might have come off as slightly awkward on Warpaint, ending with the line “have a cuppa noodles w me baybay” (as per the official lyric sheet) matches the lighthearted humour that permeates the new album, which is peppered with subtle flourishes like the bit of laughter that slips through the seductive ‘Proof’ or the mini Korg that colours the stripped-back ‘Send Nudes’. Warpaint still speak in their own ghostly, inscrutable language, but no longer hide behind it, and it’s easier to feel part of the conversation. It can be silly and disarming, but mostly, it feels like a breath of fresh air.

black midi Announce New Album ‘Hellfire’, Share Video for New Single ‘Welcome to Hell’

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black midi Announce New Album ‘Hellfire’, Share Video for New Single ‘Welcome to Hell’

black midi have announced their next LP: Hellfire is out July 15 via Rough Trade Records. The follow-up to last year’s Cavalcade is led by the single ‘Welcome to Hell’, which is accompanied by a music video from director Gustaf Holtenäs (who also helmed the video for black midi’s ‘Slow’). Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork (by David Rudnick) and tracklist.

black midi worked on the album with producer Marta Salogni, who previously recorded Cavalcade‘s opening track ‘John L’. “Whereas the stories of Cavalcade were told in third person, Hellfire is presented in first-person and tells the tales of morally suspect characters,” according to a press release. The band’s Geordie Greep commented: “If Cavalcade was a drama, Hellfire is like an epic action film.”

“Almost everyone depicted is a kind of scumbag,” Greep continued. “Almost everything I write is from a true thing, something I experienced and exaggerated and wrote down. I don’t believe in Hell, but all that old world folly is great for songs, I’ve always loved movies and anything else with a depiction of Hell. Dante’s Inferno. When Homer goes to Hell in The Simpsons. There’s a robot Hell in Futurama. Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer who portrays a Satan interfering in people’s lives. There’s loads!”

Hellfire Cover Artwork:

Hellfire Tracklist:

1. Hellfire
2. Sugar/Tzu
3. Eat Men Eat
4. Welcome To Hell
5. Still
6. The Race Is About To Begin
7. Dangerous Liaisons
8. The Defence
9. 27 Questions

Lande Hekt Releases New Song ‘Romantic’

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Lande Hekt Releases New Song ‘Romantic’

Lande Hekt has released a new track called ‘Romantic’ (via Emotional Response). “It’s a song about struggling to fit in, feeling down and finding comfort in romance,” Hekt explained in a statement. “Connecting with someone because you both feel like you don’t belong.” Listen to the single below, along with its B-side, a cover of the Wedding Present’s ‘Octopussy’.

‘Romantic’ marks Hekt’s first new music since the release of her debut solo album, 2021’s Going to Hell. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Lande Hekt.

Angel Olsen and Kimberly Stuckwisch Announce ‘Big Time’ Film, Share Trailer Featuring New Songs

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Angel Olsen and Kimberly Stuckwisch Announce ‘Big Time’ Film, Share Trailer Featuring New Songs

Angel Olsen and Kimberly Stuckwisch have announced a new film accompanying the release of the singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Big Time. Presented by and in partnership with Amazon Music, the 28-minute film, also titled Big Time, will premiere June 2 at 2:30am BST via Amazon Music’s Twitch Channel and the Amazon Music App, with additional screenings taking place in London and Los Angeles. A new trailer for the film features the unreleased songs ‘Chasing the Sun’ and ‘Through the Fires’. Check it out below.

Stuckwisch previously worked on the video for Olsen and Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Like I Used To’ and went on to direct Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour Prom concert film. Enlisting Ellis Bahl as a writing and editing collaborator, Stuckwisch and Olsen shot the movie over seven days in late January.

Speaking about the inspiration behind the film, Olsen said in a press release:

At the time of my mothers passing I kept having these super visual dreams about time travel. Later on I decided I’d name the record Big Time, not only because of the song but also as a kind of wink to time expansion and change. When I approached Kimberly Stuckwisch about making these videos, I thought it would be cool to include the storyline of one of the dreams I’d had, and really use it as a way to tell the story of the songs. She added dialogue and events, some that are based in reality and others that haven’t happened, to create a story arc around my dream, to give it a thicker plot, using the music videos within and creating a larger film. I’ve always had a vivid imagination and it was really special to make these subconscious moments real, but it was also a really emotional and raw process and felt almost at times like a spiritual clearing, that by putting myself in the story and moving pieces of it around, I also personally had to re-examine my losses and find a new way to process the events that actually took place in my life. Though most of it is scripted, it is probably the most intimate work I have ever made and shared with the public.. and it serves as an homage to my mother. I only wish my mom was here to listen to the record, because something tells me that she would have really liked this one.

Stuckwisch added:

Big Time is the story of light versus shadow told through a non-linear surrealist dreamspace that poses one central dilemma. ‘What lengths must one go through to let go of the past in order to step out of the darkness and accept one’s true self?’

It’s a story that targets deep rooted complexities such as how our unconscious deals with repressed sexual identity, the hardships of letting go of our past selves in order to step into self actualization, and the guilt we hold when dealing with loss. For one reason or another, we all have parts of ourselves that we struggle to forgive as well as a part of ourselves we are afraid of exploring or that we think society won’t like—so we push those parts down into our unconscious psyches, into the shadows. This is the story of drowning in those fears before releasing your light.

Big Time arrives on June 3 via Jagjaguwar. The film incorporates the music videos for the singles ‘All The Good Times’ and ‘Big Time’, which Olsen has already shared.

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