A day after teasing the project with a new video, Tyler, the Creator has announced that his new album CHROMAKOPIA will arrive on Monday, October 28. It marks the rapper’s first LP since 2021’s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST. He hasn’t shared any further details about the record, but he did write, arrange, and produce all its songs. Take a look at the album cover below.
HEALTH and Filter have teamed up for a new song called ‘Free to Die’. It appears on the expanded edition of HEALTH’s latest album, Rat Wars, along with the previously shared ‘Ashamed’ with Lauren Mayberry, ‘The Drain’ with Bad Omens and Swarm, and a cover Deftones’ ‘Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)’. Take a listen below.
Full Of Hell have teamed up with Toronto industrial artist Andrew Nolan for a new collaborative LP, Scraping the Divine. It follows their 2023 joint LP with Nothing, When No Birds Sang. The 12-track LP is out November 15 on Closed Casket, and it’s led by the single ‘Burdened by Solar Mass’. Check it out below.
Full of Hell’s Dylan Walker described ‘Burdened by Solar Mass’ as “…the first meeting point between Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan. The end product is an amalgam of mangled guitars and dub pulses and an ominous warning about our own insignificance in the universe.”
Scraping the Divine features guest appearances from Taichi Nagura (Endon), GxCx (Contagious Orgasm, BBVGC, ex-Guilty Connector), Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, JK Flesh), Intensive Care, and Alex Hughes (Hatred Surge, Holy Money). The album artwork is illustrated by Savage Pencil.
Scraping the Divine Cover Artwork:
Scraping the Divine Tracklist:
1. Gradual Timeslip
2. Heat Death from the Pyre
3. Burdened By Solar Mass
4. Sphere of Saturn
5. Hemlock Gnosis
6. Blessed Anathema
7. Facing the Divide
8. Approaching the Monolith
9. Extinguished Glow
10. Common Miracles
11. Irradiated Sands
12. Paralytic Lineage
Dazy, the project of James Goodson, has teamed up with MSPAINT for a new song called ‘It’s Only a Secret’. It’s taken from the upcoming EP IT’S ONLY A SECRET (If You Repeat It), which arrives next Friday via Lame-O Records. Check it out below.
“I think the floodgates are maybe open again,” Goodson said of the new collection. “I certainly have a lot more songs where these came from, and if this project has taught me anything, it’s that once I start putting out music, I tend to not want to stop.”
Dazy released his most recent EP, OTHERBODY, last March.
IT’S ONLY A SECRET (If You Repeat It) Cover Artwork:
IT’S ONLY A SECRET (If You Repeat It) Tracklist:
1. Big End
2. Weigh Down On Me
3. It’s Only A Secret [feat. MSPAINT]
Connecticut-based band Anxious have announced their sophomore album, Bambi. The follow-up to 2022’s Little Green House will drop on February 21 via Run For Cover. Today, they’ve shared a Max Moore-directed video for the lead single ‘Counting Sheep’. Check it out below and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
Speaking about ‘Counting Sheep’, guitarist and co-vocalist Dante Melucci said in a statement: “This one is totally insane… I had the idea that I could turn the vibe of the Gorillaz self-titled record into a cool Anxious track, and once I had the verse melody and the quick 16th rhythm pacing I knew it was gonna be the best song. It’s about being lethargic and wasting your time and hiding, all because you’re too afraid to confront just about everything.”
Bambi Cover Artwork:
Bambi Tracklist:
1. Never Said
2. Bambi’s Theme
3. Some Girls
4. Counting Sheep
5. Audrey Go Again
6. Head & Spine
7. Tell Me Why
8. Sunder
9. Next Big Star
10. Jacy
11. I’ll Be Around
Sorry have released a new song called ‘Waxwing’. It marks the London-based group’s first new music since the release of their album Anywhere But Herein October 2022. Check it out via the accompanying video, directed and produced by FLASHA, below.
‘Waxwing’ interpolates teen-pop sensation Toni Basil’s ‘Hey Mickey’. The band’s Asha Lorenz said: “Mickey is desire? Mickey is the bomb? Mickey makes me money? Mickey makes my songs? Mickey makes a poem? Mickey in the drugs? Mickey is liar? Mickey making love? Mickey is desire?”
Nashville singer-songwriter Brennan Wedl has released a new single, ‘Heartland’. Check out the lo-fi video for the track, directed by Blaire Beamer, below.
According to Wedl, ‘Heartland’ explores “a long-winded divorce from the perspective of an adult child in Middle America.” She explained, “This visceral narrative of a dysfunctional family is inspired by the barebones storytelling heard in ‘My Father’s House’ by Bruce Springsteen. The blunt and emotional delivery is relatable to just about anyone who grew up in a family unit.”
Wedl added, “The ‘Heartland’ video is a testament to the friend we can find in the inner child. Nurturing this reminds us that play is essential in our personal growth no matter how old we are.”
Tyler, the Creator has released a new video titled ‘St. Chroma’, which appears to be teasing something called CHROMAKOPIA. Watch it below.
This is the first taste of new music from Tyler, the Creator since he released, in March 2023, the expanded edition of his 2021 album CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST. Last month, he joined Maxo Kream on the single ‘Cracc Era’.
Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died after falling off a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, TMZ reports. Payne was 31 years old.
Hailing from Wolverhampton, West Midlands in England, Payne first got involved with entertainment as a member of the Pink Productions Theatre Company at the age of 12. He first auditioned for The X Factor in 2008, and, despite moving past the first round with a performance of Frank Sinatra’s ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, was subsequently cut at the Boot Camp stage. Judge Simon Cowell advised him to “come back in two years,” and after auditioning again in 2010, Payne was put into a group with four other boys – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik – that would become One Direction, one of the best-selling boy bands in music history.
After signing with Cowell’s Syco imprint in 2010, One Direction became a global sensation and released their first studio album, Up All Night, the following November. Their subsequent albums Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), and Four (2014) all debuted atop the Billboard 200, making them the only group to have their first four albums end up at number one. Made in the A.M., the group’s last album before going on an indefinite hiatus, came out in 2015.
Payne began working as a producer under the monikers Big Payno or Payno, co-writing and remixing several tracks including Cheryl Cole’s ‘I Don’t Care’. In 2016, he signed with Republic Records and released his first solo album, LP1, in 2019. The record featured collaborations with Quavo, Rita Ora, J Balvin, French Montana, and Zedd. At the time of his death, Payne was reportedly working on his second studio album, and he released a single called ‘Teardrops’ in March.
Payne is survived by his son, Bear Grey Payne, who was born in 2017.