pinkpirate has announced their new EP, i don’t want to grow up boring, with a video for the new single ‘Daisy’. Check out the track, which was co-produced alongside Bullion, below.
“I started writing ‘Daisy’ when my girlfriend joked about me writing a song for her within the first few weeks of our relationship,” Caitlin Brown explained in a statement. “I wanted to try and capture the innocence of a brand new relationship, especially within a WLW relationship that is often seen in a sexualised or demonised way. Although it is partly a song for my partner, it’s also a song to help talk about WLW relationships in general. I really wanted to talk about small things that are relatable to everyone to try and highlight how queer relationships involve the same things as any other relationship. I began writing with the chorus and it was inspired by some more R&B/jazz music that I was listening to a lot of at the time, including H.E.R and Raveena.”
Of the video, Brown added: “We spent a day filming in Brighton, which is where my partner lives. The song is basically talking about being there together so it felt like it was only right to be shot there” says Caitliin, “It was also really nice to film in a place that is really LGBTQ+ friendly, with some of my favourite people, I think it all ties in really nicely with the song.”
SBTRKT, the musical project led by Aaron Jerome, has unveiled a new single, ‘Ghost’, featuring vocals from LEILAH. The track follows ‘Bodmin Moor’, which came out in June. Check it out below.
“‘GHOST’ is about how noisy the world feels, the fatigue it creates and as a result, shutting down and wanting to dissociate whilst withholding your state of mind,” SBTRKT explained in a statement. “We started this song when I met artist and now friend Saya Gray around three years ago. “This was one of the ideas that came from us linking up… Shortly after, I met LEILAH who’s also a very good friend now. We had been writing a lot together over the pandemic and co-wrote the remaining lyrics.”
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has shared a cover of ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’, the Marvin Gaye classic that was repopularized in the 1980s through the California Raisins commercials. The rendition was recorded for Claydream, an upcoming documentary about claymation pioneer Will Vinton, who created the California Raisins, Domino Pizza’s the Noid, and the M&M characters. Listen to it below (via Consequence).
Claydream, which is directed by Marq Evans, arrives in theaters on August 5.
Soccer Mommy has shared a Simlish version of ‘Shotgun’, the lead single from her latest album Sometimes, Forever. The track, dubbed ‘Shootbleng’, appears in the new The Sims™ 4 High School Years Expansion Pack. Check out Veronica Kocy‘s video for it below.
“Can’t believe u can hear shootbleng (aka shotgun) in sims now,” Sophie Allison wrote on social media. “My life has truly come full circle.”
Sometimes, Forever, Soccer Mommy’s third studio album, arrived earlier this year.
Hovvdy also contributed to the new Sims expansion pack, translating their song ‘Ruby’ song for the game. Japanese Breakfast, Lucy Dacus, and more have recorded Simlish versions of songs in recent years.
Sam Ray has shared another single from his forthcoming Teen Suicide album, honeybee tableat the butterfly feast. ‘death wish’ follows the previously unveiled songs ‘coyote (2015-2021)’ and ‘get high, breathe underwater (#3)’. Check it out below.
“This new song ‘death wish’ was one of the first tracks recorded for the record, back in 2019,” Ray explained in a statement. “I recorded the demo of it first, and then Kitty and Jaryk (Micah) helped me flesh it out, with the former ultimately recording vocals for it and the latter recording drums to replace my terrible demo drums. At this point, I also re-recorded the guitars and my vocals as well, leaving only the very basic shell of the song untouched—so it’s kind of like a phoenix in that way, or a building that gets built out of the bones of an older, mostly collapsing building.”
He added:
It’s a song about someone we hate—really about a couple of people we hate—awful, awful people who’ve done awful, awful things and then rolled around knowingly in the mess they created, like dogs rolling gleefully in their own shit. We sort of pulled together a couple of those people into one, for the song, one new, terrible idea of a person. Some people really are just pure evil. I’d say more but that’s really all there is. Despite that all, we tried to pull back into a less personal place, as is the nature of our band at its best, at least in my eyes. Rather than get into the specifics, into my own feelings or whatever, it all serves as a kind of launchpad for something bigger, broader, and more interesting to us than just vitriol – not that it lacks for it, either musically or lyrically.
At its core, it’s just sort of a pure Teen Suicide track – musically, we started it off by riffing on a new version of ‘the way we were with people’ and went from there. I came up with the twin guitar lead harmonized tapping part when we were on tour with Thursday, riffing on the aforementioned old ‘my own hell’ era track – and it stuck. That was always ~the~ idea for me, and everything else came naturally after, falling into place fairly quickly. There’s a lot of little buried details in there, too, despite it being a fairly straightforward song, compared to a lot of the record. I think that’s what happens when you have a lot of time to work on and finish something, and that’s really one of the things I love about it most. There’s always a new buried screaming vocal you notice in an odd, otherwise instrumental part, or a new panned harmony, a swirling backwards guitar beneath the rest, a dog barking faraway across the house picked up in a specific mic, and so on.
honeybee tableat the butterfly feast comes out August 26 via Run for Cover.
Actress and Mount Kimbie’s Kai Campos have collaborated on a new song called ‘AZD SURF’, out now via Ninja Tune. Listen to it below.
‘AZD Surf’ marks Actress’ first new material since the 2020’s Karma & Desire. Mount Kimbie’s most recent LP was 2017’s Love Survives, and they put out the tracks ‘Black Stone’ and ‘Blue Liquid’ last year.
Rachika Nayar has released two new songs ‘Our Wretched Fantasy’ and ‘Our Wretched Fate’, which bookend her upcoming album Heaven Come Crashing. The latter features vocals from Maria BC, who also appeared on the previously unveiled title track. Take a listen below.
Heaven Come Crashing is slated to arrive on August 26 via NNA Tapes. Last month, Nayar previewed the LP with the track ‘Nausea’.
Peel Dream Magazine, the project led by Joe Stevens, have announced their next album. Pad, the follow-up to 2020’s Agitprop Alterna, is set to arrive on October 7 via Slumberland/Tough Love. The LP’s lead single and title track is out today, and it’s accompanied by a video by Ryan McGlade and Stevens. Check it out below.
“We filmed this video in Bed-Stuy at the home of a director friend Ryan McGlade, on a day off from the Soccer Mommy tour in New York this past March,” Stevens commented in a statement. “That apartment is supposed to be my pad. In the story of the record, I’m just stuck there, having been kicked out of Peel Dream Magazine. I wanted to frame it as a fairytale, where everyone gets to meet this aggrieved character, and read excerpts from the actual story about how I arrived at this place. It’s just a beginning, though. The song is one of my favorites from the new record, it’s just got a really unusual feel to it for me, and I think some folks might find it surprising.”
Pad Cover Artwork:
Pad Tracklist:
1. Not In The Band
2. Pad
3. Pictionary
4. Wanting And Waiting
5. Self-Actualization Center
6. Walk Around The Block
7. Hamlet
8. Penelope’s Suitors
9. Hiding Out
10. Jennifer Hindsight
11. Reiki
12. La Sol
13. Message The Manager
14. Roll In The Hay
15. Back In The Band
The 1975 have released ‘Happiness’, the second single from their forthcoming album Being Funny in a Foreign Language. The band’s Samuel Bradley directed the song’s video, which you can check out below.
Discussing the new single in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, the 1975’s Matty Healy said:
“Happiness” is like… there’s literally loads of us in the room on that track. Locked eyes… doesn’t really have much structure. It came through like jamming. And we haven’t done that in like years. So we just wanted this record to be really like a captured moment and not be too constructed and even produced that much…. We did it in like a day or so. And it’s us having fun. And I think that there’s this real desire in art to see something remarkable with as little technology as possible.
Healy also talked about working with Jack Antonoff on the new LP. “I love Jack’s work, and those Lana [Del Rey] records, in particular, like, some of my favorite stuff,” he said. “So we were talking about that. We became friends talking about production and what I was doing and what he was wanting to do and what I was wanting to do. And then I kind of just thought, ‘Well, this is like a really nice new energy.’ I don’t… because we are so closed, me and George [Daniel], we’ve always been so closed. ‘Why don’t you like come down to the studio and see what happens?’ And then he did. And, then, ever since, we were just great, great friends.”
He continued:
He’s so good. What he does is identifies what an artist is really good at or where the truth is coming from. And it’s a bit like, if you think of like a great comedian, the language of like sense of humor, they can sense where the humor is in the situation. Jack’s like, he’s like me, you know what I mean? He’s like culture vulture, he’s like full of references. He knows his shit, man. He understands what artists need at any given moment. And it happened very, very naturally. And I think that we were just feeling loads of stuff out. And all these things just kind of came together. Yeah, and me and Jack were just like talking about music and then those conversations, me, Jack, and George. And then those conversations became about a 1975 record that felt more live. And then I was a bit like, “Well, why are we talking about this? Why don’t we just do this?”
In addition to the new track, the 1975 have announced a North American tour, billed the At Their Very Best Tour; find the list of dates below. Being Funny in a Foreign Language, which is out October 14, includes the previously released single ‘Part of the Band’.
The 1975 2022 Tour Dates:
Nov 3 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Arena
Nov 4 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Nov 7 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Nov 9 Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Nov 10 Washington, D.C. – The Anthem
Nov 12 Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
Nov 13 Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Nov 15 Grand Prairie, TX – Texas Trust CU Theatre
Nov 16 Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall
Nov 17 Austin, TX – Moody Center
Nov 20 Mexico City, Mexico – Corona Capital Festival
Nov 23 Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
Nov 25 Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels
Nov 26 San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
Nov 28 Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum
Nov 29 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Dec 1 Portland, OR – Moda Center
Dec 2 Seattle, WA – WAMU Theater
Dec 8 Independence, MO – Cable Dahmer Arena
Dec 10 Milwaukee, WI – The Eagles Ballroom
Dec 12 Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
Dec 16 Newport, KY – PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation
Dec 17 Pittsburgh, PA – UPMC Events Center
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