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Albums Out Today: Lana Del Rey, Parquet Courts, Hand Habits, Grouper, and More

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Albums Out Today: Lana Del Rey, Parquet Courts, Hand Habits, Grouper, and More

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 22, 2021:

Lana Del Rey, Blue Banisters

Lana Del Rey is back with a new album called Blue Banisters. The singer-songwriter’s eighth studio LP and second of 2021 includes the previously released singles ‘Text Book’, ‘Wildflower Wildfire’, ‘Arcadia’, and the title track, which got an alternate video earlier this week. A day after the release of her previous record Chemtrails Over the Country Club in March, Del Rey announced an as-yet-unreleased album called Rock Candy Sweet, and a few weeks later, another one titled Blue Banisters, which is out now through Interscope. “I guess you could say this album is about what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now,” Del Rey wrote in a statement on her now-deleted Instagram.

Parquet Courts, Sympathy for Life

Parquet Courts have returned with their new album Sympathy for Life, out now via Rough Trade. The LP, which includes the advance singles ‘Homo Sapiens’, ‘Black Widow Spider’, and ‘Walking at a Downtown Pace’, was built from a series of improvised jams and was produced with Rodaidh McDonald and John Parish. “Wide Awake! was a record you could put on at a party,” the band’s Austin Brown said in a statement. “Sympathy For Life is influenced by the party itself. Historically, some amazing rock records have been made from mingling in dance music culture — from Talking Heads to Screamadelica. Our goal was to bring that into our own music. Each of us, in our personal lives, has been going to more dance parties. Or rather, we were pre-pandemic, which is when this record was made.”

Hand Habits, Fun House

Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy, has followed up their 2019 record placeholder with Fun House, out today via Saddle Creek. The album was produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), while Mike Hadreas of Perfume Genius contributes vocals on ‘No Difference’ and ‘Just To Hear You’. “I like that the idea of a ‘fun house’ can have so many different connotations,” Duffy explained in press materials. “It’s disorienting, it’s filled with all these different rooms with different energies and emotions. There’s a risk that there will be manipulation happening to your environment, but you sign up for it. I really liked the idea that we could take risks, that these songs could sound very different but still make sense together. A lot of the demos for this record were really just folk songs — pretty slow and sparse — but the fun was thinking about what they could become.”

Grouper, Shade

Grouper has a new album out called Shade (via Kranky), her first since 2018’s Grid of Points. The Pacific Northwest artist recorded the LP’s 9 songs over a period of 15 years; some were recorded on Mount Tamalpais during a self-made residency, others longer ago in Portland, while the rest were tracked more recently in Astoria. Liz Harris describes the record as being about “respite, and the coast, poetically and literally,” according to press materials.

Circuit des Yeux, -io

Haley Fohr has released her latest album as Circuit des Yeux, -io, via Matador. It marks the vocalist and composer’s sixth LP and first in four years, following the 2017 record Reaching for Indigo. Ahead of its release, Fohr unveiled the singles ‘Dogma’, ‘Sculpting the Exodus’, and ‘Vanishing’. “Destruction has been a huge part of my art,” Fohr told Beats Per Minute. “But I also have my trials and tribulations in my personal life. As I’ve gotten older, especially with -io, implosion and explosion have been equally destructive. Art and music give me a way to traverse it in a less destructive way. And I really hope -io can do that for other people.”

My Morning Jacket, My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket‘s self-titled album has arrived via ATO. The band’s first LP of newly recorded material in six years, following 2015’s The Waterfall, it includes the previously shared tracks ‘Complex’, ‘Regularly Scheduled Programming’, and ‘Love Love Love’. “We’ve been gone for a while, and we never knew if we were going to make another record or not or if the band would tour again,” Jim James, who produced the album himself, told UPROXX. “We felt so excited to be back that it felt like such a cool, simple statement to just let the band’s name be the name of the record. Also, I just feel like these times are so complex and there’s so much going on that I also liked the idea of there not being another piece of information with the record. The record is the name of the band and all the things we want to say are inside of it.”

Self Esteem, Prioritise Pleasure

Self Esteem – aka Rebecca Taylor – has put out her sophomore album, Prioritise Pleasure, via Fiction Records. The follow-up to 2019’s Compliments Please features the promotional singles ‘You Forever’, ‘Moody’, ‘Prioritise Pleasure’, and ‘How Can I Help You’. In a press release, Taylor described Prioritise Pleasure as “13 songs of cleansing myself of the guilt and fear of being a woman who is ‘too much’ and replacing that very notion with a celebration of myself, of you, of being a human and the way that isn’t always easy or perfect, and that’s ok. Sorry to my parents for the lyric ‘shave my pussy, that’s just for me’ but i think it’s maybe my finest hour!”

Deerhoof, Actually, You Can

Deerhoof have dropped their latest LP, Actually, You Can, via Joyful Noise. Their eighteenth studio album following 2020’s Future Teenage Cave Artists includes the previously released tracks ‘Be Unbarred, O Ye Gates of Hell’, ‘Scarcity Is Manufactured’, ‘Plant Thief’, and ‘Department of Corrections’. “Think of all the beauty, positivity and love that gets deemed ugly, negative and hateful by the self-proclaimed guardians of ‘common sense,” Deerhoof said of the album’s themes in press materials. “We’d hardly be destroying society by dismantling their colonial economics and prisons and gender roles and aesthetics. We’d be creating it!” The record’s bio was penned by Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz and Sad13, who describes it as “a genre-abundant record that uses technicolor vibrancy and arpeggiated muscularity to offer a vital shock from capitalism’s purgatorial hold.”

Wet, Letter Blue

New York City-based trio Wet have issued their latest album, Letter Blue, which is out now via AWAL. Marking the third full-length from the group and the rejoining of founding guitarist Marty Sulkow, it includes the advance singles ‘Bound’, ‘Far Cry’, ‘Clementine’, ‘Larabar’, and ‘On Your Side’. The LP’s 10 tracks were written by vocalist Kelly Zutrau and produced by member Joe Valle, with co-writing and co-production credits from Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bear, Buddy Ross, and Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange on ‘Bound’.

Helado Negro, Far In

Roberto Carlos Lange has released a new Helado Negro album titled Far In, via 4AD. The musician wrote the follow-up to 2019’s This Is How You Smile in Marfa, Texas during the summer of 2020, and it features contributions by Kacy Hill, Buscabulla, and Benamin, while ‘Gemini and Leo’ boasts a bass line courtesy of Wye Oak’s Jen Wasner and backing vocals from Zenizen’s Opal Hoyt. Of making the double album during these unrecedented times, Lange remarked in press materials, “Escape is never out there, you have to go inward.”

Tonstartssbandht, Petunia

Tonstartssbandht – the brother duo of Edwin and Andy White – have dropped a new LP called Petunia, out now on Mexican Summer. Tonstartssbandht’s 18th studio album, following 2017’s Sorcerer, Petunia was recorded at the brothers’ home studio in Orlando between April and August of 2020 and mixed by Joseph Santarpia and Roberto Pagano at The Idiot Room in San Francisco. “It’s the first time we’ve ever brought someone else into the mixing stage,” Andy White noted in a press release. The record was preceded by the singles ‘What Has Happened’ and ‘Pass Away’.

Other albums out today:

JPEGMAFIA, LP!; Elton John, The Lockdown Sessions; Duran Duran, Future Past; Ouri, Frame of a Fauna; La Luz, La Luz; Strange Ranger, No Light in Heaven; Jarvis Cocker, Chansons D’Ennui; Every Time I Die, Radical; Angel Du$t, YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs; Guided by Voices, It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!; Spirit Was, Heaven’s Just a Cloud; Ross From Friends, Tread; Wale, Folarin 2; Majid Jordan, Wildest Dreams; Lonely Guest, Lonely Guest.

Majid Jordan and Drake Team Up for New Song ‘Stars Align’

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Majid Jordan and Drake Team Up for New Song ‘Stars Align’

Majid Jordan – the Toronto-based duo of Majid Al-Maskati and Jordan Ullman – have enlisted Drake for the new song ‘Stars Align’, which appears on their new album Wildest Dreams. Listen to it below.

Majid Jordan previously collaborated with Drake on the 2013 track ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’. Wildest Dreams, their first LP since 2017’s The Space Between, also features contributions from Swae Lee and Diddy. Drake last released Certified Lover Boy in September.

The Weeknd Joins Swedish House Mafia on New Song ‘Moth to a Flame’

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The Weeknd Joins Swedish House Mafia on New Song ‘Moth to a Flame’

Swedish House Mafia – the EDM trio of Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso – have shared a new song with The Weeknd called ‘Moth to a Flame’. In addition to the track, the group have also announced a 2022 tour, their first in 10 years. Check out the new song and find their tour schedule below.

After a series of compilation albums, the group’s formal debut, Paradise Again, is slated for release next year.

Swedish House Mafia 2022 Tour:

Jul 29 – Miami, FL – FTX Arena
Jul 31 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center
Aug 3 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
Aug 5 – Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
Aug 7 – Montreal, Quebec – îleSoniq Festival
Aug 9 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Aug 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Aug 11 – Washington, D.C. – Capital One Arena
Aug 13 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Aug 17 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
Aug 19 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
Aug 21 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
Aug 25 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
Aug 26 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
Aug 27 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
Aug 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
Sep 2 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena
Sep 4 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena
Sep 13 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena
Sep 14 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Sep 16 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
Sep 29 – Manchester, England – AO Arena
Sep 30 – Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro Arena
Oct 2 – London, England – The O2
Oct 6 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena
Oct 8 – Birmingham, England – Utilita Arena Birmingham
Oct 10 – Paris, France – Accor Arena
Oct 14 – Madrid, Spain – IFEMA Madrid Live
Oct 15 – Lisbon, Portugal – Altice Arena
Oct 18 – Milan, Italy – Mediolanum Forum
Oct 19 – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion
Oct 21 – Krakow, Poland – Tauron Arena
Oct 22 – Prague, Czech Republic – O2 Arena
Oct 25 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena
Oct 27 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle
Oct 29 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis
Oct 31 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
Nov 3 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle
Nov 5 – Frankfurt, Germany – Festhalle
Nov 6 – Berlin, Germany – Mercedes-Benz Arena
Nov 8 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclaycard Arena
Nov 9 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
Nov 11 – Oslo, Norway – Telenor Arena
Nov 13 – Tampere, Finland – Uros Arena

Toro y Moi Signs to Dead Oceans, Announces New Album

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Toro y Moi Signs to Dead Oceans, Announces New Album

Toro y Moi, the project of Bay Area-based artist Chaz Bear, has signed to Dead Oceans. Along with the news, he’s also announced that a new Toro y Moi album is slated for release in 2022 via the new label.

“I’m excited to begin this next chapter with Secretly / Dead Oceans!” Bear said in a statement. “Throughout the years they’ve continually maintained a conscious eye on the state of independent music and are pushing the boundaries of popular music. Thanks again to all my fans and supporters in making it this far with my music, your love and time is appreciated!”

Dead Oceans co-founder Phil Waldor commented: “Toro y Moi’s music has been omnipresent in our lives for over a decade now. Chaz has so many fans at Dead Oceans, and we’ve daydreamed a lot about what it would be like to get to work together. Chaz has such creative ambitions for Toro y Moi, and we can’t believe we get to wake up every day not just as fans, but as partners in his next chapter.”

Toro y Moi’s last studio album, Outer Peace, was released in 2019 via Carpark.

Obongjayar Drops Video for New Song ‘Message in a Hammer’

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Obongjayar Drops Video for New Song ‘Message in a Hammer’

Nigerian-born, London-based singer Obongjayar has shared a new single, ‘Message in a Hammer’, the lead offering from his upcoming debut album. In a statement, Obongjayar said the song is “about fight, and fighting against the powers that take and steal and rob from us, and calling them by their name—thieves and murderers.” It comes with an accompanying video directed by Rollo Jackson and influenced by late ’90s gangster films. Check it out below.

Obongjayar released his Which Way Is Forward? EP in early 2020 and teamed up with Afrobeats producer Sarz on the Sweetness EP earlier this year. More recently, he made a guest appearance on Little Simz’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert and Pa Salieu’s ‘Style & Fashion’

HEALTH and Poppy Join Forces on New Song ‘Dead Flowers’

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HEALTH and Poppy Join Forces on New Song ‘Dead Flowers’

HEALTH have teamed up with Poppy for the new song ‘Dead Flowers’. The track follows the band’s collaborations with Nine Inch Nails, Tyler Bates, and Deftones’ Chino Moreno. Give it a listen below.

‘Dead Flowers’ is set to appear on DISCO4 :: PART II, the follow-up to HEALTH’s 2020 collaboration album DISCO4 :: PART I, which featured songs with 100 gecs, JPEGMAFIA, Soccer Mommy, Full of Hell, Ghostemane, and more.

New Pagans Release Video for New Single ‘Find Fault With Me’

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New Pagans Release Video for New Single ‘Find Fault With Me’

Belfast band New Pagans have released ‘Find Fault With Me’, their first new music since the release of their debut album The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All earlier this year. Mixed by Sam Petts Davies (Radiohead, Frank Ocean, Red Hot Chilli Peppers), the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by bassist Claire Miskimmin. Watch and listen below.

Lead vocalist Lyndsey McDougall said of the new single in a stateman: “It feels like lots of people have had a really hard time over the last few years, dealing with various forms of personal stress and collective aggravation. This song is about checking in with each other and recognising when someone around you needs support. Although the song emerges with a heavy heart, it concludes with a chorus of elevated voices [singing] ‘I’ve got you’ and New Pagans has always been about more than just the music, it’s about building a community who look out for each other and take action when they need to.”

Commenting on the video, Miskimmin added:

When it comes to making the videos we usually have an improvised, see what happens on the day kind of attitude. However, knowing we were working with Dave / Macker Films put a bit more pressure on me to come up with something solid and not have Dave wandering about the Irish countryside with me while I draped fabric off rocks and trees! Dave is an absolute treat to work with, he just gets it. The video came to me fully formed, as luck would have it, over coffee one morning and I immediately had it story-boarded and sent to the rest of the band with a request to sharpen their acting skills.”

It’s a fairy tale set in our own New Pagans folk horror universe, pitting two cults against each other. The adults represent greed, decadence and violence. They will fight each other to the death for the trove of riches, but are usurped by the children watching from the sidelines. They are not so innocent as they’ve slipped a little poison in our drinks. Kind of like Hansel & Gretel pushing the witch into her own oven. Harsh, but we deserved it.

Pearly Gate Music (Zachary Tillman) Announces New Album, Shares New Song ‘The Moon’

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Pearly Gate Music (Zachary Tillman) Announces New Album, Shares New Song ‘The Moon’

Zachary Tillman has announced his first new album under the moniker Pearly Gate Music in more than a decade. The follow-up to his 2010 self-titled debut is titled Mainly Gestalt Pornography and it’s out December 3 via Bella Union. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the lead single ‘The Moon’. Check out a video for it below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.

Tillman (the brother of Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty) started demoing the follow-up to Pearly Gate Music after its release and sent those demos to the late producer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Swift, who invited him to his studio to record the new album. According to a press release, however, on the eve of his first scheduled session with Swift, Tillman suffered “a total mental breakdown” and eventually gave up on being a frontman. Tillman explained: “I had no self-esteem, no ability to see myself succeeding in even a moderate pressure situation.”

Tillman decided he was ready to finish the album while his wife Sondra was pregnant with their firstborn child, Ocean, and went to Portland to record with his close friend and longtime collaborator Daniel Hindman, who also co-produced and engineered Mainly Gestalt Pornography.

“Across the span of 10 years, these (mostly) love songs were written after certain lovers, certain dread, certain visions, certain ecstasies,” Tillman said. “I WAS A WAND’RER got written for a shamanic girlfriend. FINALLY, THE SECRET for a stray kitten. LIKE FLOWERS was written for my wife and OCEAN’S SONG for my daughter. Then they all got transformed. Shapeshifted. Now they’re all about the same thing: Mainly Gestalt Pornography. I hope that they really do transcend their origins to speak of Love in its highest, most encompassing form. God is Love.”

Mainly Gestalt Pornography Cover Artwork:

Mainly Gestalt Pornography Tracklist:

1. Chiron’s Bow
2. Finally, The Secret
3. Life Is A Dream
4. The Moon
5. Ocean’s Song
6. I Was A Wand’rer
7. Can We Go Off To The Distance
8. Old No.22
9. Stefani
10. Like Flowers

Alex Lahey Shares Video for New Song ‘Spike the Punch’

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Alex Lahey Shares Video for New Song ‘Spike the Punch’

Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Alex Lahey has shared the new single ‘Spike the Punch’, which coincides with the announcement of her signing to Liberation Records. The track is also accompanied by a video from director Matt Sav. Check it out below.

“‘Spike the Punch’ is a song about the fun that comes with self-sabotage and reckless abandon,” Lahey explained in a statement. “It’s big, it’s loud, it’s fun, it’s its own beast. There are some super sinister tones in there rubbing up against really bright anime style guitar harmonies (guitarmonies, anyone?..) and shouted choruses. Spike feels like a raucous bookend to navigating these cruelly unpredictable times. Touch wood.”

Of the track’s video, Lahey added: “Perhaps my favourite video I’ve ever been a part of. Matt and I spoke about how we wanted to capture a sense of freedom, fluidity and fun in this video along with hurtling forward momentum. Matt Pope, the brilliant performer who stars in the video, completely harnesses the direction and puts on a hell of a show. It gives me chills every time I press play.”

‘Spike the Punch’ follows ‘On My Way’, the theme song Lahey wrote and recorded for Sony Picture Animation’s The Mitchells vs The Machines.

Deserta Announces New Album, Shares New Song ‘I’m So Tired’

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Deserta Announces New Album, Shares New Song ‘I’m So Tired’

Deserta, the project of former Saxon Shore/Midnight Faces member Matthew Doty, has announced his second album, Every Moment, Everything You Need. It’s out on February 25, 2022 via Felte. The new single ‘I’m So Tired’ is out now, following previous outing ‘Lost in the Weight’. Check it out and find the LP’s cover art and tracklist below.

“This song started out as a completely different song, a little more Echo & The Bunnymen sans the soaring vocals sounding,” Doty said of ‘I’m So Tired’ in a statement. “I didn’t feel like it was fitting in with the rest of the songs and I remember it taking quite a few tries to figure out what needed to change, to the point I would have scrapped it had the drums not already been tracked and sounding good. I also remember when it came together — my wife had just gone to work and usually by that time our son would be up and about. This day he happened to sleep in and I took advantage of it. I had to work fast so I simultaneously played a Moog bass line with my left hand and a Mellotron bell/flute combo with the right. When that second of the three chords played I knew that was the sound. I modified the melody from the first version which then became the chorus vocal melody and a lead guitar line, slapped an arpeggiated synth on there, mumbled some bullshit and there it is. A song.”

Deserta’s new album was mixed by David Fridmann and engineered by Chris Coady, with drums provided by James McAliser. It follows his 2020 debut, Black Aura My Sun.

Every Moment, Everything You Need Cover Artwork:

Every Moment, Everything You Need Tracklist:

1. Lost In The Weight
2. I’m So Tired
3. Where Did You Go
4. Far From Over
5. It’s All A Memory
6. A World Without
7. Goodbye Vista
8. Visions

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