Khruangbin and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré have shared ‘Tongo Barra’, the latest preview of their upcoming collaborative album Ali, which honours Vieux’s late father, the veteran bluesman Ali Farka Touré. Listen to it below.
Ali is slated for release on September 23 via Dead Oceans. ‘Tongo Barra’ follows the previously released single ‘Savanne’.
Pink Siifu and Los Angeles producer Real Bad Man have announced a new collaborative album, Real Bad Flights, which drops on September 16. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared a new single called ‘Looking for Water’, which features Boldy James, who teamed up with Real Bad Man for 2020’s Real Bad Boldy and this year’s Killing Nothing. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
In addition to Boldy James, Real Bad Fights features guest appearances from Armand Hammer, Kari Faux, and Chuck Strangers. “‘Looking for Water’ is just about somebody looking for a way out or a way to get what he need from tha morning to tha night, but from my perspective,” Siifu said in a statement to The FADER. “Risk and rewards and tha other bull shit that comes w tha day to day. Floatin but grinding at tha same time.”
“This was one of the first songs Siffu recorded for the project,” Real Bad Man commented. “He sent it back and it was just the first verse and chorus, and it faded out. I really wanted it to go on longer, it was fire. I had it looping on my speakers. At some point we talked and was like ‘I can hear Boldy on this track’, and Siffu was with it.”
Last year, Pink Siifu released his album GUMBO’!.
Real Bad Flights Cover Artwork:
Real Bad Flights Tracklist:
1. Real Negro Life [feat. Pier GKFAM]
2. Looking For Water [feat. Boldy James]
3. Tokyo Blunts [feat. Armand Hammer & Conquest Tony Phillips]
4. Astro Russian [feat. Amani]
5. View Of France [feat. Ahwlee]
6. Off The Pane [feat Kari Faux & EZ]
7. Pour The Wine [feat. Chuck Strangers & Peso Gordon]
8. Po Drama [feat. Lojii]
9. Real Bad Gospel
OFF! have dropped a new single, ‘Kill to Be Heard’, the second offering from their forthcoming album Free LSD. Give it a listen below.
Free LSD, the band’s first full-length album in eight years, will be released on September 30 via Fat Possum. The album was announced last month with the single ‘War Above Los Angeles’.
Quicksand have returned with a new single called ‘Giving It Away’. It arrives ahead of a tour with Clutch and Helmet in support of their 2021 album Distant Populations, their second LP since reuniting in 2017. Listen to it below.
“The working title for this song was ‘Greatest Quicksand Song Ever’ so you can imagine it was a very tough call leaving this song off Distant Populations,” the band explained in a statement. “The only reason we could agree on to leave it off was that we wanted to have some really strong material in reserve for later in the year. Ultimately the title came from the most prominent line in the song which is an embrace of the present which is very in line with our thinking with Distant Populations, we’re super proud of this one and are very psyched to share it with the world.”
Having just completed a run of shows in North America and Europe, Bauhaus have canceled their remaining tour dates. “It is with the utmost regret that the Bauhaus performances in North America have been canceled for the remainder of the year,” the band’s representative said in a statement. “Following a string of critically-hailed reunion shows across continents, Peter Murphy will be entering a rehabilitation facility to attend to his health and well-being.”
Earlier this year, Bauhaus released ‘Drink the New Wine’, their first new song in 14 years.
Titus Andronicus have shared another preview of their upcoming album The Will to Live. ‘An Anomaly’, which follows previous cuts ‘Give Me Grief’ and ‘(I’m) Screwed’, features a guitar solo delivered by Josée Caron of the Canadian band Partner. It comes with an accompanying video directed by the band’s Patrick Stickles and shot on the streets of France during his honeymoon. “It’s been clear for many years now that, in Paris, Titus Andronicus can’t get arrested,” Stickles remarked. Check it out below.
“The titular ‘anomaly’ refers to the perversion of certain ‘natural’ impulses that have occurred within us humans upon taking ourselves out of the food chain, and the natural world in general,” Stickles explained in a statement. “A lion killing and eating a wildebeest is not an act of evil, or even malice. Such imperatives are programmed into the very core of the wild animal. This drive exists within us also, but we have gone astray in not only holding on to this primal thirst for violence beyond the point of its utility, but expanding upon and fortifying it by way of our ever-more terrible technological advances, up to and including the invention of the atom bomb. If you want to know the true nature of that which we call ‘the Devil,’ that is where I would start.”
The Will to Live is set to drop on September 30 release via Merge.
Melbourne singer-songwriter Alex Lahey is back with a new single, ‘Congratulations’, alongside an accompanying video she co-directed with Jon Danovic. Watch and listen below.
Of the track, Lahey said in a statement: “Two of my exes got engaged within an improbably short space of time of one another. What are the odds? Couldn’t not write a song inspired by it.”
She also described the video as “deeply unhinged,” elaborating: “It felt like the perfect time to execute a long standing concept I had of making out with myself on camera. Now both the song and the video feel like a message about choosing yourself over anyone else.”
Last year, Lahey shared the songs ‘Spike the Punch’ and ‘On My Way’, the latter of which was the theme song for the animated film The Mitchells vs The Machines.
George FitzGerald has enlisted Animal Collective’s Panda Bear for a new track, ‘Passed Tense’. The song is taken from his upcoming album Stellar Drifting, which arrives this Friday, September 2 on Domino. Check it out below.
“Working with Noah (Panda Bear) on this track was such a highlight,” FitzGerald commented in a statement. “The tone of his voice and his lyrical style are both so unique. It put the music and the whole record in a completely new context emotionally and stylistically.”
Special Interest have announced a new album called Endure, which is set to arrive on November 4 via Rough Trade. Today, the band has previewed the LP with with a video for the new song ‘Midnight Legend’, which features Mykki Blanco. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover, tracklist, and Special Interest’s upcoming tour dates.
According to the band’s Alli Logout, ‘Midnight Legend’ is “a love song to all the girls leaving the club at 6 AM, a love song to everybody who doesn’t have love around them. The ways we numb ourselves or participate in high-risk behavior because we all feel so isolated and alone is also very much enabled by clubs, institutions, and party ‘friends.’ This song is about listening to people who never actually get heard.”
Logout continued: “I see the three legends portrayed in the video as a whole person, but all represent different processes of grief. You have the fucked-up outta their mind one, the slut phase one numbing themselves with bodies, and the moment when you are open to the world again and love can be let back in . They come together towards the end of the video, symbolizing coming back to yourself.”
Endure was self-produced and recorded at HighTower in New Orleans. It was engineered by James Whitten, mixed by Collin Dupuis, and mastered by Matt Colton. The record includes the previously unveiled single ‘(Herman’s) House’.
Endure Cover Artwork:
Endure Tracklist:
1. Cherry Blue Intention
2. (Herman’s) House
3. Foul
4. Midnight Legend
5. Love Scene
6. Kurdish Radio
7. My Displeasure
8. Impulse Control
9. Concerning Peace
10. Interlude
11. LA Blues
Björk has revealed that Fossora, her first album in five years, will come out on September 30. She’s also shared the LP’s cover artwork, which was shot by Viðar Logi, with creative direction from Björk and James Merry. Take a look below.
In a statement about the new album, Björk wrote:
each album always starts with a feeling
that i try to shape into sound
this time around
the feeling was landing
( after my last album utopia which was all island in the clouds element air and no bass )
on the earth and digging my feet into the ground
Last week, Björk announced that she will be discussing each of her 10 albums on a new podcast called Sonic Symbolism. Of Fossora‘s cover art, she said: “When I get asked about the differences of the music of my albums, I find it quickest to use visual short cuts. That’s kind of why my album covers are almost like homemade tarot cards. The image on the front might seem like just a visual moment, but for me it is simply describing the sound of it.”
Fossora Cover Artwork:
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