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Albums Out Today: Strand of Oaks, illuminati hotties, Tirzah, Hovvdy, and More

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Albums Out Today: Strand of Oaks, illuminati hotties, Tirzah, Hovvdy, and More

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 1, 2021:

Strand of Oaks, In Heaven

Strand of Oaks, the musical project of Tim Showalter, has returned with a new album titled In Heaven. Preceded by the singles ‘Galacticana’, ‘Jimi & Stan’, and ‘Somewhere in Chicago’, the follow-up to 2019’s Eraserland was recorded with longtime collaborator Kevin Ratterman in October 2020 and features contributions from Carl Broemel and Bo Koster of My Morning Jacket and Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha. Throughout the LP, Showalter reflects on love and loss, as well as his newfound sobriety. “In Heaven was created with so much love and my greatest hope is that it connects with people and provides a momentary space for reflection, joy, catharsis and whatever else someone might be looking for in their life,” Showalter said in a statement. “Music is magic and I feel like the luckiest person in the world that I’m allowed to share it.”

illuminati hotties, Let Me Do One More

Producer and writer Sarah Tudzin has released her latest illuminati hotties album, Let Me Do One More, via Snack Shack Tracks in partnership with Hopeless Records. The LP, which follows the project’s 2018 debut Kiss Yr Frenemies as well as last year’s FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You’ve Been Waiting For, includes the previously shared tracks ‘Threatening Each Other re: Capitalism’, ‘MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA’, ‘Pool Hopping’, and the Buck Meek collaboration ‘u v v p’. “The songs tell a story of my gremlin-ass running around LA, sneaking into pools at night, messing up and starting over, begging for attention for one second longer, and asking the audience to let me do one more,” Tudzin said in press materials, adding, “I love these songs and they’re a part of me and I’m proud of them.”

Tirzah, Colourgrade

Tirzah has released the follow-up to 2018’s Devotion. Out today via Domino, Colourgrade was recorded shortly after the birth of her first child and before her second child was born. Featuring contributions from Mica Levi and Coby Sey, the album includes the previously released singles ‘Hive Mind’, ‘Tectonic’, ‘Sink In’, and ‘Send Me’. According to a press release, it explores “recovery, gratitude and new beginnings, presenting a singer having discovered the type of love that is shared between a mother and a child for the first time, whilst simultaneously working as an artist.”

Hovvdy, True Love

Hovvdy have issued their latest LP, True Love, via Grand Jury. It marks the Austin, Texas duo’s fourth album, following 2019’s Heavy Lifter, 2018’s Cranberry, and 2017’s Taster. Featuring the singles ‘Junior Day League’, ‘Around Again’, ‘Blindsided’, and the title track, the album was co-produced by Andrew Sarlo and recorded at his studio in Los Angeles throughout 2020. “This collection of songs feels to us like a return to form, writing and recording songs for ourselves and loved ones,” the duo said of the record. “Spending less energy consumed with how people may respond freed us up to put our efforts into creating an honest, heartfelt album.”

Ducks Ltd., Modern Fiction

Modern Fiction is the debut full-length album from Ducks Ltd., the jangle-pop duo of Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis. Out now via Carpark, the record follows the Toronto group’s 2019 EP Get Bleak and was previewed by the tracks ‘Under the Rolling Moon’ and ‘How Lonely Are You?’, which feature backing harmonies from labelmates The Beths, as well as lead single ’18 Cigarettes’. The writing process was largely collaborative, with McGreevy drafting the nucleus of a song on guitar before fleshing it out with Lewis, adding percussion, bass, and organs. The duo also enlisted producer James Cecil (The Goon Sax, Architecture in Helsinki) to complete the album’s finishing touches.

Boy Scouts, Wayfinder

Boy Scouts, the moniker of singer-songwriter Taylor Vick, has followed up her 2019 album Free Company with Wayfinder, out now via ANTI-. Recorded in Anacortes, Washington at The Unknown, Wayfinder finds Vick reuniting with longtime collaborator Stephen Steinbrink and includes collaborations with Taylor’s brother Travis and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte. The record takes its name from Sallie Tisdale’s book Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying. “For my whole life, music has been a crucial part of my identity and how I relate to the world,” Vick explained in a statement. “The act of making music has been my wayfinder during the past year.”

Wiki, Half God

New York rapper Wiki has dropped his latest album, Half God. The record, out today via Wikset Enterprise, was produced entirely by Navy Blue and features guests appearances from Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, duendita, Remy Banks, and Jesse James Solomon. It includes the previously shared singles ‘Roof’, ‘Remarkably’, ‘Promised’, and ‘Can’t Do This Alone’. Earlier this year, Wiki released his collaborative effort with the Belgium-based drummer and producer NAH, Telephonebooth.

Other albums out today:

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, Love For Sale; audiobooks, Astro Tought; Couplet, LP1; Cindy, 2:1; Brandi Carlile, In These Silent Days; Explosions in the Sky, Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television); Meek Mill, Expensive Pain; The Body & BIG BRAVE, Leaving None But Small Birds; Full of Hell, Garden of Burning Apparitions; Yes, The Quest; Ministry, Moral Hygiene; Pond, 9.

Phoebe Bridgers Shares Cover of Bo Burnham’s ‘That Funny Feeling’

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Phoebe Bridgers Shares Cover of Bo Burnham’s ‘That Funny Feeling’

Phoebe Bridgers has officially released her cover of Bo Burnham’s ‘That Funny Feeling’, a song she’s been performing on her current North American tour. The studio rendition of the track, which originally appeared on Burnham’s Netflix special Inside, is out on Bandcamp as part of the latest Bandcamp Friday, with all proceeds going to a range of abortion funds in Texas. “This one’s for Greg Abbott,” Bridgers said in a statement. Take a listen below.

Bridgers recorded her cover of ‘That Funny Feeling’ in Los Angeles with Tony Berg, Ethan Gruska, Christian Lee Hutson, Harrison Whitford, Rob Moose, Sebastian Steinberg, Marshall Vore, Nate Walcott, and Maria Taylor. Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska also co-produced it with Bridgers.

Back in August, Burnham and Phoebe Bridgers performed the song together at the Largo in Los Angeles, where no video recording was allowed. “I’m gonna play a song I wish I wrote,” Bridgers said to an audience of 280 people, as Variety noted. “I know I love something when it fills me with rage.”

Earlier this week, Pitchfork reported that Bridgers is being sued for defamation by recording studio owner Chris Nelson, who alleges she “intentionally used her high-profile public platform on Instagram to publish false and defamatory statements.” Bridgers has not yet responded to the suit.

Burna Boy Enlists Polo G on New Song ‘Want It All’

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Burna Boy Enlists Polo G on New Song ‘Want It All’

Burna Boy has returned with a new song, ‘Want It All’, which features Chicago rapper Polo G. The track arrives with an accompanying music video starring both artists. Check it out below.

“I’ve been watching him for some time, and I just knew this had to get done, but it had to get done in the perfect way where the whole world gets to feel the reality of both of us,” Burna Boy said of the new collaboration in a statement.

Burna Boy released his Grammy-winning album Twice as Tall last year. Polo G’s latest project Hall of Fame dropped earlier this year.

Delays Frontman Greg Gilbert Dead at 44

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Delays Frontman Greg Gilbert Dead at 44

Greg Gilbert, frontman of the Southampton band Delays, has died at the age of 44. Gilbert had been diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016. His brother and bandmate Aaron Gilbert announced the news on social media, writing, “This afternoon at 2:22; we walked my brother back home to somewhere out there in the ether. Greg died surrounded in the endless love that us & all of you have given him on this journey, and we will never be able to fully express how much it meant to him (and all of us) to have you by our side lifting us up like a winged army.”

Formed in the early 2000s, the group went through a few name changes (they were initially called Corky, then Idoru) before finally settling on Delays. They issued their debut full-length album, Faded Seaside Glamour, in 2004 on Rough Trade Records, and went on to release three more LPs: You See Colours in 2005, Everything’s the Rush in 2008, and Star Tiger Star Ariel in 2010.

After his diagnosis, Gilbert, who had studied at Winchester Art School before playing in the Delays, began focusing on creative practices such as drawing, painting, and writing poetry. His work was exhibited alongside Leonardo da Vinci at Southampton City Art Gallery, while his poetry was selected for publication by Carol Ann Duffy as part of her Laureate’s Choice series.

Gilbert is survived by his wife, Stacey, and their children Dali and Bay.

“I’m so lucky to have had a brother to carve out such impossibly beautiful moments with, and to show me the true meaning of grace, courage and strength,” his brother Aaron wrote in his statement. “He is, & always will be in our melodies, & in all the breaths in between, he’s is in every brush stroke and every piece of art that his mind gave light to.”

Films on MUBI in October, 2021

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Films on MUBI in October, 2021

MUBI, the streaming service behind some of the most exciting new cinema, has unveiled their list of films for October. As part of MUBI Spotlight, Lili Horvát’s mesmerising and critically-acclaimed Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time will be streaming on the service. Moreover, MUBI will also show the superb Cryptozoo (2021), a dazzling fantasy from filmmaker Dash Shaw (High School Sinking into the Sea). 

This is the current list of films on MUBI in October 2021.

1 October | Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time | Lili Horvát | MUBI Spotlight
2 October | TBC | Cut to Black: Celebrating Black Cinema
3 October | Boy Meets Girl | Leos Carax | Love and Other Drugs: The Cinema of Leos Carax
4 October | Fay Grim | Hal Hartley | Trouble and Desire: Three Films by Hal Hartley Triple
5 October | The Arbor | Clio Barnard
6 October | Hey You! | Péter Szoboszlay | Fables, Folklore, Futurism: Visionary Hungarian Animations
7 October | Shelley | Ali Abbasi
8 October | TBC
9 October | Miss Violence | Alexandros Avranas
10 October | Prevenge | Alice Lowe | Female Horror
11 October | Moving On | Yoon Dan-bi | New South Korean Cinema
12 October | The Nun | Guillaume Nicloux
13 October | Corporate Accountability | Jonathan Perel | Undiscovered | A MUBI Release
14 October | I Like Life a Lot | Katalin Macskássy | Fables, Folklore, Futurism: Visionary Hungarian Animations
15 October | TBC
16 October | The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq | Guillaume Nicloux
17 October | The Love Witch | Anna Biller | Female Horror
18 October | The Return of the Prodigal Son | Youssef Chahine | Youssef Chahine: Son of the Nile
19 October | Lucky Chan-Sil | Kim Cho-hee | New South Korean Cinema
20 October | Play it Safe | Mitch Kalisa | Brief Encounters | A MUBI Release
21 October | Panic | Sándor Reisenbüchler | Fables, Folklore, Futurism: Visionary Hungarian Animations
22 October | Cryptozoo | Dash Shaw | The New Auteurs | A MUBI Release
23 October | The Bacchus Lady | E J-yong | New South Korean Cinema
24 October | The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | Female Horror
25 October | Alexandria Why? | Youssef Chahine | Youssef Chahine: Son of the Nile
26 October | Endless Night | Eloy Enciso | The New Auteurs | A MUBI Release
27 October | Hidden | Jafar Panahi | Opéra de Paris
28 October | Ponette | Jacques Doillon
29 October | Les Bonnes Femmes | Claude Chabrol
30 October | TBC
31 October | Censor | Prano Bailey-Bond | MUBI Spotlight

Empath Release Video for New Song ‘Born 100 Times’

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Empath Release Video for New Song ‘Born 100 Times’

Philadelphia rock outfit Empath are back with a new song called ‘Born 100 Times’. Marking their first new music since their 2019 debut Active Listening: Night on Earth, the single arrives alongside a music video filmed at at the New York State fair. Check it out below.

“‘Born 100 Times’ is structurally very simple, consisting of a couple of hooks and a verse sung overtop of two repeated chords,” vocalist/guitarist Catherine Elicson explained in a statement. “I imagined a restructured pop song, having it start instantly with the hook and then eventually reaching a verse. While the lyrics are a somewhat spiritual reflection on devotion and power in one’s life, an isolating and very internal experience, the video offers a different viewpoint.” She continued:

The video began as an idea Randall had of us showing up with cameras at the New York State fair. There’s something beautiful and nostalgic about a fair we wanted to try and capture. Two friends, Halle Ballard and Johnny Costa, filmed us having real, uninhibited fun running around, eating fried food, absolutely dominating the carnival games, drinking countless wine slushies, getting spun around on rides, and just enjoying being together. It was a much needed night of leisure at the end of a long summer spent preparing for the next phase of Empath. The video is a document of this special moment in time for us. United together, we left behind the isolating, internal struggles of our lives and connected to the real world outside of ourselves.

Elton John and Stevie Wonder Team Up on New Song ‘Finish Line’

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Elton John and Stevie Wonder Team Up on New Song ‘Finish Line’

Elton John and Stevie Wonder have teamed up for a new song called ‘Finish Line’. It’s set to appear on John’s upcoming album The Lockdown Sessions, which also features collaborations with Lil Nas X, Miley Cyrus, Charlie Puth, Dua Lipa, Eddie Vedder, and more. Listen to ‘Finish Line’ below.

“’I couldn’t be more proud of ‘Finish Line’ – I’d go as far as to say it’s one of the best records I’ve ever made,” John remarked in a statement. “Stevie’s voice is as good as I can ever remember hearing him – he sounds like a 17-year-old again, he’s singing with a sheer joy and exuberance in his vocals. Andrew Watt has done an unbelievable job on the production. It was a magical process. I’ve always loved collaborating with Stevie, and I’m delighted that after fifty years of friendship we finally get to do a full blown duet. He has always been so kind and sweet to me, and his talent is beyond ridiculous. When you listen to what he does vocally and instrumentally on ‘Finish Line’ you think, this is a true genius here.’

Stevie Wonder added: “It is both a joy and honor to sing, play piano and harmonica for Elton! He has truly been one of the great spirits of music, life, friendship and love, who I’ve met on this life journey! True artistry and music like love equals a forever commitment lasting many lifetimes. And Elton, anyone who hears your voice singing ‘Finish Line’, will hear and feel your wisdom, your pain, your soul, your love, but also your resilience…..  I love it!! Congratulations to you and our forever and never, never-ending music, friendship, life-song! Long live Sir Elton John!!! (big smiley face!)”

Album Review: The Ophelias, ‘Crocus’

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Album Review: The Ophelias, ‘Crocus’

Ohio quartet The Ophelias, composed of vocalist-guitarist Spencer Peppet, drummer Mic Adams, bassist-videographer Jo Shaffer, and violinist Andrea Gutmann Fuentes, made their breakthrough in 2018 with sophomore album Almost. Since then, the friends have welcomed individual growth and important changes – in fact, they now live in different cities – but unity and enthusiastic collaboration have remained a priority. Though in some ways less diverse than its predecessor, the indie rock band’s third album Crocus is an impressively cohesive and emotionally resonant project, a collection of lyrically candid and sonically intricate songs that deftly explores the many faces of heartbreak. 

The title track makes for a piercing, complicated introduction to the album, with tender guitar strums welcoming the half-sung, half-spoken recollections of relationship snippets blurring the line between arbitrary and meaningful. The singer wishes their ex a bright future, yet not one free from an enduring nostalgic ache: “I hope that you can’t bear the thought of how my body looked the first time/ And I hope that maybe in your chest you’ll always get a little worked up about it.” The direct yet poetic lyricism that engulfs the entire album also serves as one of its strongest attributes. ‘Neil Young on High’, with floating harmonies delivered by Julien Baker, offers a warmer, more remorseful glance at a once-blooming relationship: “I regret never celebrating smaller victories that we saved/ I would do that part over,” Peppet mourns with a sharp vulnerability. Sting as they might, there’s an underlying thread of liberation carrying the raw confessions of Crocus; an openness that allows itself to unfold when there’s nothing left to lose.

Although the album’s lyrics constantly linger on the darker side, ‘Sacrificial Lamb’ quickly confirms that the band’s project is far from musically homogeneous. Picking up the album’s pace with clean drums and confident guitars, the track makes space for a warranted anger: “I am leaving your party, I’m not having fun anymore,” declares Peppet in a state of disappointment and self-loathing, before diving into the bouncy chorus, “At my best, I’m a sacrificial lamb.” Fuentes’ artfully layered violins, which stand out throughout the LP, add a sense of texture and brightness to the piece. ‘Vapor’, on the other hand, offers initially sparse production mixed with soothing, hypnotising vocals, steadily introducing strings, drums and keyboard that culminate in a hopeful, grandiose atmosphere. Something different altogether arises in ‘Spitting Image’, a country-like tune in which sunny violin and buoyant rhythms merge with an eerie, unnerving lyrical tone: “I was happy with the you in my head/ You cut cold and left me out for dead.” Much like in Almost’s ‘General Electric’, the track’s optimistic energy cloaks dark realities.

Gentle yet ominous “ha ha ha”s embedded in ‘Spitting Image’ are later echoed in ‘Biblical Names’, notably one of multiple songs on the record incorporating religious references. Peppet’s vocals hover atop the heavy, lethargic piano chords, repeatedly delivering the heart-breaking line “I know you loved me more than you said you did” in a dizzying, Mitski-esque fashion. In the second half of the album, the electric guitar, cymbals, and fast, punchy phrases on ‘Becoming a Nun’ following the slower tracks are refreshing and memorable, the quivering strings adding a horror-like dimension to the storytelling.

Crocus is an album that learns to embrace not just the heaviness of a break-up but the process of reflection that it often requires, whatever this may entail: destruction, regret, exhaustion, fondness. While slow and muted at parts, the project is worth a patient listen, not least for its dynamic instrumental arrangements. In their sentimental and at times brutal honesty, the songs stand as proof that no ending is ever one-dimensional, and that its aftermath can be both messy and beautiful.

Watch Coldplay and BTS’ New Video for ‘My Universe’

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Watch Coldplay and BTS’ New Video for ‘My Universe’

Coldplay and BTS have shared a new music video for their recent collaborative single ‘My Universe’. The Dave Meyers-directed clip sees the two groups joining forces in an attempt to bring back music in a distant galaxy where it is forbidden. Check it out below.

‘My Universe’, which was co-written by BTS and Coldplay with production from Max Martin, is taken from Coldplay’s upcoming studio album Music of the Spheres. The album lands on October 15 via Atlantic and also includes previous singles ‘Higher Power’ and ‘Coloratura’.

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus Says He’s Now Cancer-Free

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Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus Says He’s Now Cancer-Free

Back in June, Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing treatment. Today, the 49-year-old musician has announced that he is cancer free.

“Just saw my oncologist and I’m cancer free!!” Hoppus wrote on Instagram. “Thank you God and universe and friends and family and everyone who sent support and kindness and love. Still have to get scanned every six months and it’ll take me until the end of the year to get back to normal but today is an amazing day and I feel so blessed. Can I get a W in the chat?”

 

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