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Skullcrusher Releases Video for New Single ‘It’s Like a Secret’

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Skullcrusher has released ‘It’s Like a Secret’, the latest single off her upcoming album Quiet the Room – out October 14 via Secretly Canadian. The track, which follows previous cuts ‘Whatever Fits Together’, ‘They Quiet the Room’, and ‘Quiet the Room’, comes with an accompanying video animated by Melanie Kleid. Check it out below.

“Writing this song was when I first felt connected to the album as a whole and really felt it taking shape,” Helen Ballentine explained in a press release. “I had been trying to put into words a very familiar sensation that seemed completely intangible and inexpressible. It’s sort of a burrowing into myself, which I associate most with being very immersed in a creative project and simultaneously quite disconnected from other people.”

She continued: “I think this feeling manifests in many different ways: as a shield or form of protection, a home, a place to hide and feel safe, an outlet for my creativity… but also a very confining and lonely space that further separates me from those around me. The song ended up being about this feeling and more specifically about the process and limitations of trying to communicate it. It feels very special to be able to convey these thoughts in some way.”

Watch St. Vincent Perform ‘Down’ on ‘Colbert’

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St. Vincent stopped by last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, performing her single ‘Down’ with Louis Cato & The Late Show Band. Watch it below.

‘Down’ is taken from St. Vincent’s sixth LP, Daddy’s Home, which came out last year. Earlier this year, Annie Clark covered Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ with the Colbert house band.

Cate Le Bon Unveils Video for New Song ‘Typical Love’

Cate Le Bon is back with a new standalone single, ‘Typical Love’, her first new music since the release of Pompeii earlier this year. The track arrives with an accompanying video co-directed by Stefan Ramírez Pérez and Le Bon’s longtime collaborator Phil Collins. Check it out below.

“‘Typical Love’ was a product of a rare jam session with dearest genius friend, Stella Mozgawa,” Le Bon explained in press materials. “The outline, written on bass along to one of Stella’s infectious grooves, was taken into the Pompeii sessions where I disassembled and reassembled it many times but it always felt like a second cousin to the other tracks so was put aside for a rainy day.”

Collins added: “Cate has always embodied a timeless mystique which distinctively conjures up the European silver screen. If Pompeii sounded like Antonioni at his most heartfelt and lyrical, then ‘Typical Love’, with its elegantly cinematic scope and crystalline propulsion, gestures towards the twisted melodramas of Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Franju, as well as the off-kilter glamour of Ilona Baltrush or early Ulrike Ottinger. And so, an important point of departure was working with the physicality and alchemy of 16mm, especially the unguarded moments at which the delicate tension between performer and character is acutely palpable.”

claire rousay Surprise-Releases New Benefit Album ‘wouldn’t have to hurt’

Los Angeles composer claire rousay has surprise-released a new album, wouldn’t have to hurt, via her own American Dreams Records imprint Mended Dreams. The title track is streaming publicly today, while the other two songs are only available upon purchase. Listen to ‘wouldn’t have to hurt’ below and buy the album here.

All proceeds from wouldn’t have to hurt will go towards The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and mental health organization for LGBTQ young people. According to press materials, “it’s rousay’s effort to give back to resources that have helped her in the past.”

The album’s title track samples YouTuber Madison Van Dine talking about mental health. Another one of its tracks, ‘beth’, reinterprets the Biblical story of Lazarus of Bethany. “This account refers to a restoration to life or some sort of ‘saving,’” rousay explained, “and while I am no longer religious, this story stays with me and maintains a different – but important – application to life.” The record also features guest piano and strings from Theodore Cale Schafer.

Earlier this year, rousay released her album everything perfect is already here as well as Never Stop Texting Me, a collaborative LP with more eaze. More recently, she contributed to American Dreams’ ambient compilation The Deep Drift You Will Find The Most Serene Of Lullabies.

wouldn’t have to hurt Cover Artwork:

wouldn’t have to hurt Tracklist:

1. beth
2. soft as i can
3. wouldn’t have to hurt

Fauness Releases New Song ‘Hours’

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London-based singer-songwriter Fauness has previewed her upcoming debut album with a new track called ‘Hours’. It’s the second offering from The Golden Ass, following August’s ‘Mystery’. The LP is due out October 28 via Cascine. Listen to ‘Hours’ below.

“’Hours’ is one of the few songs I’ve made where the lyrics were written after the music,” Cora Gilroy-Ware, aka Fauness, said in a statement. “The pounding nature of the beat made me think of a clock ticking, which reminded me of how I always feel like I’m at war with time, wishing there were more hours, minutes, seconds in the day. I mind myself thinking, if only I could manipulate time, expand and contract it according to what I need and what is required of me. Time is bound up with pleasure, ie, more time to do things you enjoy. This pleasure is the first thing to be sacrificed as the capitalist order makes its cruel demands on our time. Some say time is just as precious as money, but sadly time doesn’t pay the bills.”

Nick Hakim Shares Video for New Single ‘Vertigo’

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Nick Hakim has shared another single from his forthcoming album, following the lead track ‘Happen’. ‘Vertigo’, the first song to be recorded for COMETA, arrives with an accompanying video directed by Asli Baykal and shot on location in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Check it out below.

“The making of the video spanned over a transformative year, and our collaborative friendship with Nick became the center of the journey,” Baykal explained in a statement. “Initially, Nick showed me a video of a Tuxedomoon performance from Downtown 81. It was filmed in the studio where the camera was spinning in the middle.That idea gave life to the lyrics ‘Spinnin’, fast as hell can’t tell if it’s me or the room that’s moving.’ The room evolved into a moving house by a man who built it for his wife. Love is dizzying with multiple spins.”

COMETA comes out October 21 via ATO Records.

Bonnie Kemplay Announces Debut EP, Shares New Song ‘Static’

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Bonnie Kemplay has announced her debut EP, running out of things to say, running out of things to do, with a new single called ‘Static’. The Edinburgh-based’s first project since signing to Dirty Hit arrives on November 14. Check out ‘Static’ below.

“’Static’ is about my experience with a repetitive strain injury in my arms which put me out of playing guitar for 18 months,” Kemplay explained in a statement. “At the time I felt hopeless and uncertain of when or if I’d recover.” The 6-track EP will include the recent singles ’19’ and ‘Was it obvious?’.

running out of things to say, running out of things to do EP Cover Artwork:

running out of things to say, running out of things to do EP Tracklist:

1. Winter
2. 19
3. Checkers
4. Static
5. Blushing
6. Was it obvious?

Watch Björk’s Video for New Song ‘Ovule’

Björk has shared the second single from her forthcoming album Fossora. It’s called ‘Ovule’, and it arrives with a phantasmagoric video directed byNick Knight and produced by Bella Hollamby. Watch and listen below.

‘Ovule’ follows the record’s lead single ‘Atopos’, which came out last week and landed on our Best New Songs list. Of the song, Björk wrote:

ovule for me is my definition of love
it is a meditation about us as lovers walking around this world
and i imagine 2 spheres or satellites following us around
one above us that represents ideal love
one below us representing the shadows of love
and we ourselves walk around in the third sphere of real love ,
where the everyday monday-morning meet-in-the-kitchen-love lives in

Fossora, Björk’s first album since 2017’s Utopia, is set to arrive on September 30.

Fred Again.. Announces New Album ‘Actual Life 3’, Unveils New Song

Fred again.. has announced a new album called Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022). The third installment of his Actual Life trilogy will be out on October 28 via Atlantic Records. To mark the announcement, the producer has shared a new song, ‘Danielle (smile on my face)’, which samples 070 Shake’s ‘Nice To Have’. Check it out below, along with the cover art and tracklist.

The new LP will follow Actual Life (February 2nd – July 19th) and the accompanying Actual Life 2 (February 2 – October 15 2021). Fred again.. has recently shared collaborations with Swedish House Mafia and Future (‘Turn Out the Lights Again..’), I. Jordan (‘Admit It (U Don’t Want 2)’), and the xx’s Romy and HAAi (‘Lights Out’).

Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) Cover Artwork:

Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) Tracklist:

1. January 1st 2022
2. Eyelar (shutters)
3. Delilah (pull me out of this)
4. Kammy (like i do)
5. Berwyn (all that i got is you)
6. Danielle (smile on my face)
7. Nathan (still breathing)
8. Bleu (better with time)
9. Kelly (end of a nightmare)
10. Clara (the night is dark)
11. Mustafa (time to move you)
12. Winnie (end of me)
13. September 9th 2022

Show Me the Body Announce New Album ‘Trouble the Water’, Share New Single

Show Me the Body have announced their next LP: Trouble the Water drops on October 28 via Loma Vista. The follow-up to the New York City hardcore group’s 2019 record Dog Whistle is led by the single ‘We Came to Play’, which you can check out below.

The band recorded the new album, which features the previously released single ‘Loose Talk’, at Corpus studios in Long Island City and produced it with Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Turnstile, Municipal Waste). They’re set to embark on a world tour next month, kicking off a 15-date European run following performances at Desert Daze and Nothing Fest IV in California.

Trouble the Water Cover Artwork:

Trouble the Water Tracklist:

1. Loose Talk
2. Food From Plate
3. Radiator
4. We Came To Play
5. War Not Beef
6. Out of Place
7. Boils Up
8. Buck 50
9. Demeanor
10. Using It
11. WW4
12. Trouble The Water