The Afghan Whigs have released the new song ‘A Line of Shots’, which is taken from their upcoming album How Do You Burn?. It’s the third single from the LP, following ‘The Getaway’ and ‘I’ll Make You See God’. Check it out below.
How Do You Burn?, The Afghan Whigs’ ninth album and first in five years, is due for release on September 9 via Royal Cream/BMG.
Courtney Barnett appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night (July 19), where she delivered a performance of her song ‘Before You Gotta Go’. Watch it below.
‘Before You Gotta Go’ is lifted from Barnett’s most recent album, Things Take Time, Take Time, which was released last year. The late-night performance arrives ahead of her Here and There touring festival, which kicks off next month in Kansas City, Missouri and will feature appearances by Japanese Breakfast, Wet Leg, and Sleater-Kinney, among others.
Lucy Dacus has shared a cover of Cher’s ‘Believe’ as part of the Spotify Singles series. She’s also contributed a new version of her Home Video track ‘Partner in Crime’. Take a listen below.
‘Believe’ is a “huge, expansive, beautiful, heart-pumping, excitement-inducing song,” Dacus said in a statement, one that’s “iconic for its use of auto-tune.” She elaborated:
I feel like some of my favorite lyrics that I’ve written are in ‘Partner in Crime’ and maybe they aren’t as noticeable because the effect takes you out of it a little bit,” Dacus says. “So, I just wanted to strip it bare and showcase the song for what it is without any tricky production move. ‘Partner in Crime’ was partially inspired by ‘Believe’, so I thought it’d be nice to pair them together. I love Cher’s voice and how low it gets. The timbre of her voice is so unique, you can recognize it anywhere. Even with the autotune, you can tell that it’s Cher and nobody else. But, on our cover, taking away the autotune, I feel like you can tell that the structure of the song is very special and I did feel myself accidentally wanting to become Cher when I was doing vocal takes. It could never happen, but I love a low voiced pop legend.
Dacus is currently touring the US in support of Home Video, which we named one of the best albums of 2021.
Genesis Owusu has returned with his latest single, ‘GTFO’, which arrives with an accompanying video. Andrew Klippel, Dann Hume, and Jono Ma produced the track, which was co-written with Klippel, Ma, and Michael DiFrancesco (Touch Sensitive). Check out the clip, directed by Rhett Wade-Ferrell (aka Uncle Friendly), below.
“There are many people like Roach. Strugglers, doing whatever they can to get through hell and high water,” Owusu said of the track in a statement. “Bankruptcy, depression, sickness; God himself can try to stand in the way, but a struggler has to keep struggling. And a Roach has to keep Roaching. Even when it’s told to GTFO.”
Owusu dropped Smiling With No Teeth, his debut album, in March of last year.
Bleach Labe have announced their signing to Nettwerk, marking the news with the single ‘Take It Slow’. Check it out via the accompanying visual below.
“‘Take It Slow’ is about finding your way and not wanting to rush through life without taking time to appreciate the view,” lead singer Jenna Kyle explained in a statement. “‘Trying to fit the space of a shape that you don’t know’, refers to not getting stuck as someone that you don’t recognise by losing sight of yourself. It is very much about being and living in the moment, being present and trying to let go of anxieties of everyday life whilst trying to view things more positively.”
Bleach Lab’s ‘Take It Slow’ follows two EPs from last year, A Calm Sense of Surrounding and Nothing Feels Real.
South African/Australian singer-songwriter Ruby Gill has announced her debut album. I’m gonna die with this frown on my face arrives on September 2, and it includes a new single called ‘I Forgot To Be Profound Today’. Check it out below.
In a statement, Gill described the new song as a “small act of defiance against a job that makes me tired and a world that I never feel truly interesting enough for.” She continued: “I have always (and I think a lot of us always) harboured a lot of internal pressure to be externally ‘interesting’ and to perform to a level that pleases capitalist ideals of what a functional, successful, worthy adult might look and behave like. But we cannot sing on key all day. There is too much joy and anger to exist within. I want to be a real human being again.”
I’m gonna die with this frown on my face Cover Artwork:
I’m gonna die with this frown on my face Tracklist:
1. I Forgot To Be Profound Today
2. Calling Out
3. Anchor
4. Stockings For Skating
5. I’m Gonna Die With This Frown On My Face
6. Public Panic Attacks
7. In Time With The Engine Turning Over
8. Cinnamon
9. Dirty Work
10. Borderlines
11. Champion Ruby
12. All The Birds Under The Westgate
MorMor – the moniker of musician Seth Nyquist – has returned with ‘Far Apart’, his first new song in two years. The track is “about the toxicity that occurs in a relationship when both people haven’t yet faced their demons,” according to Nyquist. It arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Camille Summers-Valli. Watch and listen below.
MorMor has released two EPs, 2018’s Some Place Else and 2019’s Heaven’s Only Wishful. He followed it up with the singles ‘Won’t Let You’ and ‘Don’t Cry’ in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
Fazerdaze – the project of singer-songwriter Amelia Murray – has signed to section1, accompanying the announcement with a new single called ‘Come Apart’. It marks her first release in five years, following her 2017 debut record Morningside. Check out the new song below.
“‘Come Apart’ is an angsty surrender to growing apart from people in my life,” Murray explained in a press release. “I wrote this at a time when I wasn’t accepting that some of my closest relationships were just not working. I was contorting myself to fit others, doing everything I could to keep the relationships going instead of allowing them to be what they were; ending, done. I believe this song was a way for my subconscious to shout at me to surrender and to allow things in my life to come to an end.”
After completing her tour in support of Morningside at the end of 2018, Murray struggled to write due to a deep sense of burnout. “I lost a lot of confidence during that time and my sense-of-self really eroded,” she added. “Eventually, I had to surrender to the truth of the toxic situations I was finding myself in, both professionally and personally. No longer being stoic and strong was the best thing I ever did for myself. Giving up on the people and things that weren’t working in my life was this big emotional release. I could finally put down this weight I was carrying. Ever since then, things have been flowing in my life again. I can hear my intuition, write songs and be creative again; I signed a record deal, I moved into my own place. It’s like the floodgates opened for good stuff coming back into my life.”
Ohmme’s Macie Stewart has released a new track, ‘Maya, Please’, to coincide with the UK release of her debut album, Mouth Full of Glass. Listen to it below.
Mouth Full of Glass was released last year via Orindal. The new edition includes another previously unheard song, ‘Defeat’, which is exclusive to digital and CD formats. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Macie Stewart.
Soccer Mommy has shared a cover of R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion’ for Deezer’s InVersions 90s project. Check it out below.
“There are so many bands and artists from the ’90s that inspire me personally,” Sophie Allison said in a statement. “I think there was a lot of good songwriting but also the production had so much range and so much creativity. I wanted to do a version on my own that was a little more solemn and dark. I wanted to keep the chords and arrangement pretty much the same to the original but just add my own voice.”
The InVersions 90s project also includes contributions from Arya Starr, Lolo Zouai, Priya Ragu, and others. Soccer Mommy released her latest album, Sometimes, Forever, last month.
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