Jon Hopkins, Kelly Lee Owens, Sultan + Shepard, and Jerro have teamed up for the new single ‘To Feel Again / Trois’. Listen to it below.
“The energy of this track encapsulates the most blissful summer for me… being reunited with live music, old friends and new,” Owens wrote of the track on Twitter. “Jon & I tried to capture the joy of that in sonic form – an expansive, cosmic, blissful euphoria!”
Kelly Lee Owens released her latest album LP.8 back in April. Hopkins’ last LP, Music for Psychedelic Therapy, came out last year. Back in 2019, the two producers joined forces for the single ‘Luminous Spaces’.
First Aid Kid have released a new track, ‘Turning Onto You’, which will appear on their forthcoming album Palomino. Listen to it below.
In a statement, First Aid Kid described the new single as “a sweet love song. When recording this we wanted to achieve that old school ‘country soul’ sound. It was truly a team effort with an amazing brass section by Goran Kajfês and Per Johansson, a laid-back groove by Moussa Fadera, and killer George Harrison-slide guitar by Daniel Bengtson. Hope you like this one.”
Palomino is set to come out on November 4. So far, it’s been previewed with the singles ‘Out of My Head’ and ‘Angel’.
April has collaborated with Norwegian alt-pop artist Jimi Somewhere on the new single ‘Impossible’. It’s lifted off her upcoming mixtape STARLANE, which is due out October 21 via Atlantic Records. Give it a listen below.
“I wrote ‘Impossible’ at a time I was really reflecting on relationships — learning a lot about how feelings are fleeting and you can’t blame people for not feeling the same all the time,” April explained in a press release. “I asked Jimi to feature on ‘Impossible’ after we had a session together and became friends this year. I became instantly obsessed with his music, and had almost finished the STARLANE mixtape at the time, so I just really wanted to make sure he was on there somewhere. He wrote a verse and hopped on the song – I love it.”
STARLANE will follow April’s early 2022 EP When It Comes to You.
Meet Me @ the Altar have released a new track, ‘Say It (To My Face)’, taken from the Florida pop-punk trio’s forthcoming debut album. Check it out below.
“The song is essentially a diss track to all of our haters,” the band said in a statement. “We all have a love/hate relationship with the internet – it quite literally brought us together, but people also use the internet as a crutch to help mask their insecurities behind a screen and try to project them on us a lot of the time. They never seem to have the guts to actually say it to our faces.”
Meet Me @ the Altar’s debut LP is set for release early next year via Fueled By Ramen.
NewDad have shared a cover of Charlie XCX’s ‘ILY2’. The band’s rendition, produced by Jacob Manson and mixed by Alan Moulder, arrives with a video from director Hugh Mulhern. Check it out below.
“We’ve always been huge fans of Charli XCX and thought it could be cool to take one of her songs and make our own version,” frontperson Julie Dawson commented in a statement. “ILY2 with its distorted synths seemed like it could translate very well as a loud shoegazey song so we tried it out!”
The cover marks NewDad’s first new music since their Banshee EP, which came out in February. Revisit our Artist Spotlight Q&A with NewDad.
Cakes Da Killa has dropped a new single titled ‘W4TN’. It’s set to appear on the upcoming album Svengali – out October 28 on Young Art Records – alongside previous singles ‘Drugs Du Jour’, ‘Sip of My Sip’, and the title track. Check it out via the accompanying video, animated by Freddy Carrasco, below.
Origami Angel have shared a surprise new EP, re:turn. The stripped-back project includes three tracks and was produced by Jake Checkoway, who worked with the band on their 2021 double album GAMI GANG. It arrives ahead of the duo’s first full-US headlining tour, which kicks off on October 14. Check out the re:turn EP below.
Chicago DJ and producer Honey Dijon has revealed the details of her second album, Black Girl Magic. The follow-up to 2017’s The Best of Both Worlds is set to drop on November 18 via Classic Music Company. ‘Show Me Some Love’, the latest single from the LP, features Channel Tres and Sadie Walker. Check it out below, along with the album artwork and tracklist.
“This album is dedicated to love,” Dijon said of Black Girl Magic in a press statement. “Love of music, community, but most of all the love of self. Being true to who you are in spite of everything else and having the courage to love fearlessly.”
Speaking of ‘Show Me Some Love’, Channel Tres commented: “I had a lot of fun working with Honey on this track, and it’s been fun through each step of the process,” Channel Tres We weren’t together so it’s always exciting to see where a collaborator will take the record when you send your parts over and this one was special to me. It’s everything I love about underground dance music confident, and sexy.”
Eve, Pabllo Vittar, Josh Caffe, Mike Dunn, and more also feature Black Girl Magic. “I’m so excited to be a part of this album!” Eve remarked. “Working with Honey Dijon and Luke Solomun was so fun and something so different to what I’ve ever done before – singing for the first time on a house beat! I’m so grateful for Honey and Luke asking me to be a part of. I can’t wait for everyone to hear our track and for them to dance to it in the clubs.”
For the album artwork, Dijon collaborated with British sculptor Jam Sutton, who created 3D sculptural digital renderings of the artist. “It was such a pleasure collaborating with Honey on a series of sculptures,” Sutton said. “Honey visited my studio where we spent an entire day discussing life and creativity. During this time, I captured a series of form studies using 3D scanning. Over the course of two years, Honey and I worked together creating this body of work.”
“I’m interested in the moment of transformation from human to digital form, from physical to virtual,” Sutton continued. “There’s something compelling about capturing a portrait of my subject as three-dimensional data, which I then refine to create sculptural pieces. I’m attempting to record not only the form and contours of flesh, but also the essence of being; portraying human physicality suspended in digital space.”
Black Girl Magic Cover Artwork:
Black Girl Magic Tracklist:
1. Honey Dijon – ‘Love Is’ [feat. Kameelah Waheed]
2. Honey Dijon – Love Is A State Of Mind [feat. Ramona Renea]
3. Honey Dijon – It’s Quiet Now [feat. Dope Earth Alien]
4. Honey Dijon – Downtown [feat. Annette Bowen & Nikki-O]
5. Honey Dijon – Drama [feat. Rimarkable & Dope Earth Alien]
6. Honey Dijon – Stand [feat. Cor.Ece]
7. Honey Dijon – In The Club [feat. Eve]
8. Honey Dijon – Not About You [feat. Hadiya George]
9. Honey Dijon – Everybody [feat. Pabllo Vittar & Urias]
10. Honey Dijon – Love Me Like You Care [feat. Hadiya George]
11. Honey Dijon & Channel Tres – Show Me Some Love [feat. Sadie Walker]
12. Honey Dijon – Don’t Be Afraid [feat. LATÁSHA]
13. Honey Dijon – Work [feat. Cor.Ece, Dave Giles & Mike Dunn]
14. Honey Dijon – C’s Up [feat. Mike Dunn]
15. Honey Dijon – La Femme Fantastique [feat. Josh Caffe]
Alex G was the musical guest on last night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he performed his song ‘Miracles’. Watch it below.
‘Miracles’ appears on Alex G’s ninth studio album, God Save the Animals, alongside the early singles ‘Runner’, ‘Blessing’, ‘Cross the Sea’. The LP arrived last week via Domino. Back in July, Alex G brought ‘Runner’ to The Tonight Show, making his television debut.
dodie has today released her new EP Hot Mess. It features the previously unveiled tracks ‘Got Weird’ and the title song, as well as a new single, ‘Lonely Bones’. Listen to it and stream the full EP below.
“Lockdown 2020 had me spending a lot of time alone, dabbling in dissociation, depression and making furious promises to make sure life would be different soon,” dodie said of ‘Lonely Bones’ in a press release. “I felt feral! Manic, running on absolute fumes. I loved the idea of writing a gang vocal section that sounds like it should eventually be sung amongst friends and drinks and good vibes – but written from a much lonelier past.”
“Hot Mess is exactly that – a steaming, conflicting pile of raw ideas and feelings; heavy confessions, manic patches matched with seemingly stable moments of realisation and acceptance, painted with flickers of dissociated spiraling,” they added of the EP. “I am lost! I am confused but trying, and I accept myself and hate myself simultaneously while doing so.”
Hot Mess follows dodie’s debut album, 2021’s Build a Problem.
