A. G. Cook has released ‘Soulbreaker’, the third single from his upcoming album Britpop. The track, which follows ‘Silver Thread Golden Needle’ and the Charli XCX-featuring title track, arrives with an animated music video directed by Gustaf Holtenäs. Check it out below.
Britpop, which spans 24 songs, is set to arrive on May 10 via New Alias.
Fontaines D.C. have announced their fourth album, Romance, which is slated for release on August 23 via XL Recordings. The follow-up to 2022’s Skinty Fia was made with producer James Ford. Lead single ‘Starbuster’ arrives today with a music video directed by Aube Perrie. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
“We’ve always had this sense of idealism and romance,” guitarist Conor Deegan shared in a statement. “Each album gets further away from observing that through the lens of Ireland, as directly as (Mercury Prize-nominated debut) Dogrel. The second album (the GRAMMY-nominated A Hero’s Death) is about that detachment, and the third (Skinty Fia) is about Irishness dislocated in the diaspora. Now we look to where and what else there is to be romantic about.”
Drawing a line between the album’s themes and Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s anime Akira, singer Grian Chatten elaborated: “I’m fascinated by that – falling in love at the end of the world. The album is about protecting that tiny flame. The bigger Armageddon looms, the more precious it becomes. This record is about deciding what’s fantasy – the tangible world, or where you go in your mind. What represents reality more? That feels almost spiritual for us.”
“We say things on this record we’ve wanted to say for a long time,” Chatten added. “I never feel like it’s over, but it’s nice to feel lighter.”
Romance Cover Artwork:
Romance Tracklist:
1. Romance
2. Starburster
3. Here’s The Thing
4. Desire
5. In The Modern World
6. Bug
7. Motorcycle Bo
8. Sundowner
9. Horseness is the Whatness
10. Death Kink
11. Favourite
One Step Closer have put out another track from their forthcoming record All You Embrace. This one’s called ‘Orange Leaf’, and it follows previous cuts ‘Leap Years’ and ‘Giant’s Despair’. Check it out below.
All You Embrace, the follow-up to 2021’s This Place You Know and last year’s Songs for the Willow EP, is out May 17 via Run for Cover.
The Folk Implosion – the duo of Lou Barlow and John Davis – have announced their first album in over two decades. Walk Thru Me is set for release on June 28 via Joyful Noise, and it’s led by the closing track, ‘Moonlit Kind’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Barlow and Davis worked on the album remotely, with help from producer Scott Solter. “Because we’re so separate, part of this album is me desperately trying to telepathically communicate to John and Scott, who are 700 miles away from me,” Barlow explained in a statement. “A big part of what I consider to be the Folk Implosion is taking disparate things and turning them into pop.”
Walk Thru Me follows the Folk Implosion’s 2003 album The New Folk Implosion, which Barlow recorded without Davis; their last LP together was 1999’s One Part Lullaby. In 2022, they released the Feel It If You Feel It EP.
Walk Thru Me Cover Artwork:
Walk Thru Me Tracklist:
1. Crepuscular
2. The Day You Died
3. Walk Thru Me
4. My Little Lamb
5. Bobblehead Doll
6 The Fable And The Fact
7. Right Hand Over the Heart
8. Water Torture
9. O.K. To Disconnect
10. Moonlit Kind
Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced his signing to Fat Possum, which will release his new album, When I’m Called, on July 17. ‘Going to Georgia’ leads the folk artist’s new LP. Check it out and find the album cover, tracklist, and Fussell’s upcoming tour dates below.
“I learned the traditional song ‘Going to Georgia’ from a few different places so my version is something of a collage,” Fussell explained in a statement. “There are a number of variants out there. Ralph Stanley played a version of it, as did the great song collector and revivalist/interpreter Paul Clayton. My main source was an early 1980s field recording of The Eller Family of Hiawassee, Georgia, brought to us by artist - documentarians Art and Margo Rosenbaum via their wonderful Folkways anthology Folk Visions & Voices: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia.”
When I’m Called was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. It features contributions from Elkington on guitar, piano, dobro, synth, organ, pedal steel, mandola, harmonica, and arrangements, Blake Mills on guitar, Joan Shelley on vocals, Ben Whiteley on bass, Joe Westerlund on drums and percussion, Robin Holcomb on vocals, Anna Jacobson on horns, Jean Cook on strings, and Hunter Diamond on woodwinds.
When I’m Called Cover Artwork:
When I’m Called Tracklist:
1. Andy
2. Cuckoo!
3. Leaving Here, Don’t Know Where I’m Going
4. Feeing Day
5. When I’m Called
6. One Morning in May
7. Gone to Hilo
8. Who Killed Poor Robin?
9. Going to Georgia
Jake Xerxes Fussell 2024 Tour Dates:
Thu May 16 – Charlotte, NC – The Evening Muse
Fri May 17 – Asheville, NC – The Outpost
Sat May 18 – Talbotton, GA – Talbotton Fest
Sun May 19 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
Fri June 21 – Roanoke, VA – Spot on Kirk
Sat June 22 – Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall
Sun June 23 – Mt. Solon, VA – Red Wing Roots Festival
Tue June 25 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
Thu June 27 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge ~
Fri June 28 – Catskill, NY – Avalon Lounge ~
Sat June 29 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
Tue July 16 – San Diego – The Casbah *
Wed July 17 – Los Angeles, CA – The Barnsdall Gallery *
Thu July 18 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Brisol’s Cider House *
Fri July 19 – Felton, CA – Felton Music Hall *
Sat July 20 -San Francisco, CA – The Chapel *
Sun July 21 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s *
Tue July 23 – Bend, OR – Volcanic Pub *
Wed July 24 -Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios *
Thu July 25 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern *
Fri July 26 – Bellingham, WA – Wild Buffalo *
Sat July 27 – Vancouver, BC – Wise Hall *
Fri Aug. 30 – London, UK – Lafayette
Sat Aug. 31 – Lewes, UK – Con Club Lewes nr Brighton
Sun Sept. 1 – Bristol, UK – Lantern Hall
Mon Sept. 2 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Tue Sept. 3 – Glasgow, UK – Mono
Wed Sept. 4 – Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institute
Fri Sept. 6 – Paris, FR – L’Archipel
Sat Sept. 7 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
Sun Sept. 8 – Rotterdam, NL – Kantine Walhalla
Thu Sept. 26 – Lafayette, LA – Acadiana Center for the Arts
~ with special guest Kath Bloom
* with special guest Robin Holcomb
This Is Lorelei, the solo project of Nate Amos of Water From Your Eyes, has dropped a new single, ‘I’m All Fucked Up’, from his upcoming album Box for Buddy, Box for Star. It follows last month’s ‘Dancing in the Club’. Check it out below.
“‘I’m All Fucked Up’ is just me trying to diagnose/comfort/scold my younger self – an amalgamation of real experiences I had jumbled and reset in inaccurate but contextually relevant locations,” Amos explained in a press release.
Box for Buddy, Box for Star arrives on June 14 via Double Double Whammy.
Hana Vu has unveiled an new single, ’22’, off her upcoming album Romanticism. It follows previous offerings ‘Care’ and ‘Hammer’. Check it out below.
“Being young, there’s so much that I experience for the first time, all the time,” Vu explained in a statement. “But as I experience more things, I become more desensitized to those things. You get wiser – I feel quite wiser – but less fervent, less hopeful.” She added, “‘22’ is about how I was paralyzed by grief and memories and by being 22; all at once a baby and the oldest I’ve ever been. But now I’m 23 and I’ll probably be 24 by the time I’ll get to perform this song for people.”
Romanticism, the follow-up to 2021’s Public Storage, arrives May 3 via Ghostly. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Hana Vu.
Austin, Texas-based quartet Good Looks have released a new single, ‘Self-destructor’. It’s lifted from their upcoming album Lived Here for a While, which was led by ‘If It’s Gone’. Check out director John TerEick‘s video for the new track below.
Lived Here for a While is set for release on June 7 via Keeled Scales.
Martha Skye Murphy has signed with AD 93, marking the announcement with a new single called ‘Need’. Murphy and Ethan P. Flynn co-produced the track, which was mixed by Marta Salongi and mastered by Heba Kadry. In its Billy Howard Price-directed video, Murphy plays several characters she says represent “the most feral parts of my being.” Check it out below.
Last year, Murphy released the song ‘Dogs’. It followed Distance on Ground, her 2022 collaborative EP with Maxwell Sterling, as well as the 2021 the triptych Concrete.
King Hannah have unveiled a new single, ‘Dave Says’, taken from their upcoming LP Big Swimmer. It follows the previously released title track, featuring Sharon Van Etten. Check out its music video, directed by the band’s own Craig Whittle, below.
“’Davey Says’ is our ode to 90s, American indie garage rock,” vocalist Hannah Merrick said in a statement. “We wanted this to be a raucous, fuzzy, light-hearted moment in the album, but to still have that feeling of ‘youcandoanything-ness’. The opening line ‘Meet me before the party, I don’t want to walk in alone’ is our attempt at that classic American 90’s imagery, of coming-of-age nostalgia and romance, of late warm summer nights when the future is draped in front of you.”
Big Swimmer comes out May 31 via City Slang. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with King Hannah.
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