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 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.”
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
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 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 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?
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.. 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 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
Halloween Ends, the latest installment in the current Halloween trilogy, will be released on October 14. The film’s score, composed by John Carpenter and his frequent collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter, is out the same day, with a physical release to follow on January 20. A companion EP features four versions of the Boy Harsher song ‘Burn it Down’, which will arrive in tandem with the soundtrack via Sacred Bones/Nude Club. Listen to ‘The Procession’ and ‘Burn It Down’ from the Halloween Ends score below.
Boy Harsher said of their contribution to the film:
“During an extremely brief period of rest between tours, we got this call from the music supervisor of Halloween Ends. The director, David Gordon Green, had listened to our music and wanted to use something for this final installment in the trilogy – Halloween Ends. We flew to New York the next day to meet the team and discuss the possibilities. It was totally surreal. Obviously we’re huge fans of Carpenter and the franchise is a fav, but to work with Gordon Green was also so special, his early films (George Washington, Undertow, Snow Angels) were heavy influences on our work. The real kicker is that Halloween Ends was shot in Savannah, GA – the birthplace of Boy Harsher and where we met. Unbelievable. It all felt too synchronous, and we knew we had to make something work although we were about to leave for a multi-month tour that week. We flew home to Massachusetts, dug through old demos, and found “Burn It Down”. In the end it was the perfect energy for the bittersweet love affair between the film characters Allyson and Corey, so during a couple days off – we cleaned it up and made it come alive.
Halloween Ends Cover Artwork:
Halloween Ends Tracklist:
1. Where Is Jeremy?
2. Halloween Ends (Main Title)
3. Laureis Theme Ends
4. The Cave
5. Drags To The Cave
6. Evil Eyes
7. Transformation
8. Because of You
9. Requiem For Jeremy
10. Kill The Cop
11. Corey and Michael
12. Corey’s Requiem
13. The Junk Yard
14. Where Are You?
15. Bye Bye Corey
16. The Fight
17. Before Her Eyes
18. The Procession
19. Cherry Blossoms
20. Halloween Ends (End Titles)
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