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The Mountain Goats Announce New Album, Share New Song ‘As Many Candles As Possible’

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The Mountain Goats Announce New Album, Share New Song ‘As Many Candles As Possible’

The Mountain Goats have revealed details for their second album of 2020: Getting Into Knives comes out October 23rd via Merge, according to the band’s Bandcamp page. Below, check out the new track from the LP, titled ‘As Many Candles As Possible’, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.

The 13-track LP was produced, mixed, and engineered by Matt Ross-Spang and recorded at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, Tennessee between March 1–6, with assistance from Wesley Graham. The cover art was designed by Daniel Murphy.

“If I told you all how much fun we had making this one you wouldn’t even believe me but we hope it comes through,” reads a statement from the band. “Dedicated to the secret priests of the Bell Swamp, those oracles of Brunswick County, wizards of Winnabow, night lords of the thousand acres: whose domain yet grows, may its borders encompass the sky and all beyond.”

Getting into Knives will mark John Darnielle and company’s 19th studio album, following on from this year’s Songs for Pierre Chuvin, which was released in April.

Getting Into Knives Cover Artwork:

Getting Into Knives Tracklist:

  1. Corsican Mastiff Stride
  2. Get Famous
  3. Picture of My Dress
  4. As Many Candles As Possible
  5. Tidal Wave
  6. Pez Dorado
  7. The Last Place I Saw You Alive
  8. Bell Swamp Connection
  9. The Great Gold Sheep
  10. Rat Queen
  11. Wolf Count
  12. Harbor Me
  13. Getting Into Knives

Helena Deland Announces Debut Album ‘Someone New’, Unveils Title Track

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Helena Deland Announces Debut Album ‘Someone New’, Unveils Title Track

Helena Deland has announced her debut full-length album, Someone New, out October 16 via Luminelle. The Montreal singer-songwriter has also unveiled the title track, alongside an accompanying music video directed by Xavier Bélanger-Dorval. Check it out below, and scroll for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.

“‘Someone New”’ is about the validation and relief from one’s internal world that a romantic encounter can offer, but also about becoming aware that there seems to be an expiry date on that type of opportunity for women,” Deland said in statement. “It ambivalently celebrates and condemns the idea of being in one’s ‘prime,’ as it is so rare that youth and self-understanding are simultaneous.”

Earlier in 2020, Deland released the track ‘Lylz’ from her upcoming album. In 2018, she put out four volumes in her Altogether Unaccompanied series.

Someone New Cover Artwork:

Someone New Tracklist:

1. Someone New
2. Truth Nugget
3. Dog
4. Fruit Pit
5. Pale
6. Comfort, Edge
7. The Walk Home
8. Seven Hours
9. Smoking at the Gas Station
10. Lylz
11. Mid-Practice
12. Clown Neutral
13. Fill the Rooms

Sylvan Esso Share New Song ‘Rooftop Dancing’

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Sylvan Esso Share New Song ‘Rooftop Dancing’

Sylvan Esso have shared a new single from their upcoming album titled ‘Rooftop Dancing’. The bright, heartwarming new track arrives with an accompanying video directed and produced by Cheryl Dunn. Check it out below.

“Sunlight beaming out over the bridge/ We’re all running, outrunning death,” Amelia Meath sings atop tender electronics. “Summertime breaking but we’re chasing it/ Forever rooftop dancing.”

Last month, the indie pop duo announced their new album Free Love, out September 25 via Loma Vista, along with the release of the single ‘Ferris Wheel’. They first teased new music with the 90-second track ‘What If‘.

Vic Mensa Drops New Song ‘No More Teardrops’

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Vic Mensa Drops New Song ‘No More Teardrops’

Vic Mensa has dropped a new song titled ‘No More Teardrops’. Marking the Chicago rapper’s first new music of 2020, it features appearances from Malik Yusef and Wyatt Waddell. Listen to it below.

The track, which was first teased earlier this month during a three-song virtual set for Lollapalooza, addresses police brutality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd while also criticizing white anti-maskers. “Police cars on fire in the streets/ Tear gas and the dogs on a leash/ The scene seem like something in the ’60s,” he raps, later adding: “White folks protesting cause they can’t leave/ Try twenty-five to life, that’s a real quarantine/ They just take the mask off when they can’t breathe/ But we got officers knees in our esophagus.”

Writing on Instagram, Mensa promised new music is coming soon: “But I can say that Vic is back creating the best music he’s ever made in his entire life. Be prepared. Love y’all, support bro every step. ❤️ 2020 is ours.”

‘No More Teardrops’ will appear on an upcoming Roc Nation compilation titled Reprise. A few days ago, Jorja Smith also shared a new song from the project, which “hopes to bring awareness to social justice issues”, with a portion of the proceeds going to “funding organizations that support victims of police brutality, hate crimes, and other violations of civil rights.”

Listen to Hayley Williams Cover Radiohead’s ‘Fake Plastic Trees’

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Listen to Hayley Williams Cover Radiohead’s ‘Fake Plastic Trees’

Hayley Williams has unveiled a cover of Radiohead‘s ‘Fake Plastic Trees’, from their 1955 studio album The Bends. Give it a listen below.

The singer-songwriter shared the cover on Instagram, writing: “the top requested song throughout my brief career in self-serenadism has been a @radiohead song. seemed sacrilegious at first until i realized that the band themselves have never once regarded what they do as precious or never-to-be-toyed with. they are never beholden to any one version of their expression and public affections don’t seem to sway them.”

She continued: “so many times people thought they were at their best only for them to bloom more beautifully into something unexpected and unequivocally better. for a time i pretended to be over Radiohead (iiii knowwww) but good good things always find you and welcome you back. so, in admiration of one of the best bands of all time – and in humility to everyone who did *not* ask for this – here’s a self-serenade of “Fake Plastic Trees”. enjoy it if you can.”

Williams said that this would be “the last of the self-serenades”, at least for a while – previously, the Paramore singer shared covers of Phoebe Bridgers, Tegan And Sara, SZA, and Björk. Earlier this year, she released her solo debut LP, Petals for Armour.

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for a while, anyway. the top requested song throughout my brief career in self-serenadism has been a @radiohead song. seemed sacrilegious at first until i realized that the band themselves have never once regarded what they do as precious or never-to-be-toyed with. they are never beholden to any one version of their expression and public affections don’t seem to sway them. so many times people thought they were at their best only for them to bloom more beautifully into something unexpected and unequivocally better. for a time i pretended to be over Radiohead (iiii knowwww) but good good things always find you and welcome you back. so, in admiration of one of the best bands of all time – and in humility to everyone who did *not* ask for this – here’s a self-serenade of “Fake Plastic Trees”. enjoy it if you can.

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This Week’s Best New Songs: Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion, Kelly Lee Owens, beabadoobee, SG Lewis, Sola

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This Week’s Best New Songs: Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion, Kelly Lee Owens, beabadoobee, SG Lewis, Sola

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this segment.

This week, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion came through with what might just be the sexiest banger of the summer; Kelly Lee Owens shared a meditative, evocative new track with none other than John Cale; Filipino-British indie artist beabadoobee served up the grungy ‘Sorry’, the second from her upcoming album to make it to our Best New Songs playlist; SG Lewis released a sleek, effortlessly danceable new collaboration with Robyn and Chanel Tres; and the South-London based alternative R&B artist Sola delivered a sensual, dynamic new track with ‘Mami Wata’.

Best New Songs: August 10th, 2020

Kelly Lee Owens ft. John Cale, ‘Corner of My Sky’

beabadoobee, ‘Sorry’

SG Lewis ft. Robyn & Channel Tres, ‘Impact’

Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion, ‘WAP’

Sola, ‘Mami Wata’

BENEE Shares New Song ‘Snail’

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BENEE Shares New Song ‘Snail’

New Zealand pop singer BENEE is back with a new single titled ‘Snail’. Check it out below, alongside a colourful lyric video.

“When we were in lockdown, I was fascinated by snails,” Benee explains in a statement. “There wasn’t really a lot to be doing, so I would spend a lot of time outside looking at snails and would think about how they’re doing their own little thing and they’re all free. I just played around with the idea of being kind of like a snail and how I come out in the rain. Being stuck inside because of COVID, it’s kind of my lockdown song.”

‘Snail’ follows the artist’s recent collaboration with producer Kenny Beats and Bakar on ‘Night Garden’. BENEE released two EPs last year, FIRE ON MARZZ and STELLA & STEVE, the latter of which contained the hit single ‘Supalonely’.

13 Fantastic Stills from Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

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13 Fantastic Stills from Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962) is one of the most excellent films of the late Andrei Tarkovsky. The film itself gained Tarkovsky, the Golden Lion award at the 1962 Venice Film Festival. The prize was shared with Italian filmmaker Valerio Zurlini who came in with Family Portrait (1962).

This dramatic and poetic film follows a twelve-year-old Soviet Orphan Ivan Bondarev (Nikolay Burlyaev) who works for the Soviet army, helping them scout the enemy, the Germans. While in doing so, the boy uncovers a friendship with three compassionate Soviet officers.

Here are thirteen brilliant stills from Ivan’s Childhood.

Watch Moses Sumney’s Performance on NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’

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Watch Moses Sumney’s Performance on NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’

Moses Sumey is the latest musician to perform on NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series. Streaming from North Carolina, the alternative R&B artist played three tracks from his latest album, 2020’s græ – ‘Bless Me’, ‘Me in 20 Years’, and ‘Polly’ – as well as a track from 2018’s Black in Deep Red, 2014 EP titled ‘Rank & File’. Check out his full set below.

This is the second time Sumney has performed on the NPR program, the last time being in 2017, when he was promoting his debut album Aromanticism. This year’s græ, which was released in two parts, landed on our Best Albums of 2020 (So Far) list. Last month, he released a new track titled ‘Monumental’ in collaboration with designer Thom Browne’s SS21 collection, which reimagined the Olympic Hymn.

Bill Callahan Shares New Song ‘Breakfast’

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Bill Callahan Shares New Song ‘Breakfast’

It’s Monday, which means we get to hear another track from the new Bill Callahan record. Titled ‘Breakfast’, this is the seventh song from the 10-track LP, following on from last week’s ‘Let’s Move to the Country’, a reworking of the 1999 Smog classic of the same name. Listen to the new track below.

At first, the track seems to paint an idyllic domestic scene, but the lyrics soon grow into something darker: “She don’t eat, she don’t sleep/ Why, she don’t even drink,” Callahan sings in his conversational tone. “I drink so that we don’t fight/ She don’t drink so that we don’t fight.”

Although the song is about more than what the title implies, Callahan’s label Drag City and the coffee roasters at Four Letter Word have actually collaborated to create a special coffee in celebration of the new album. No joke – you can purchase some of it here.

Gold Record is out September 4. Previously, the singer-songwriter unveiled the tracks  ’35’, ‘Pigeons’, ‘Another Song’, ‘Protest Song’, and ‘The Mackenzies’.

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