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ALASKALASKA Announce New Album ‘Still Life’, Share Video for New Song

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ALASKALASKA Announce New Album ‘Still Life’, Share Video for New Song

ALASKALASKA – the British experimental group led by Lucinda Duarte-Holman and Fraser Rieley – have announced their new album, Still Life, which comes out October 14 via Marathon Artists. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared a video for the LP’s title track. Check it out below.

In a statement about the new single, the band explained: “‘Still Life’ asks, is what is supposed to connect us on a worldwide scale being used more for vanity/ego, distraction or even surveillance/control? ‘Look at it breed, modern greed…’. It’s a bit of a cautionary tale, much like 1984…if you get my drift. Still though, there are glimmers of hope – ‘I’ve got the seed in my pocket….’ as in I’ve got seeds to sow, seeds to grow. Small gestures can make big changes.”

Still Life will follow ALASKALASKA’s 2019 debut, The Dots.

Still Life Cover Artwork:

Still Life Tracklist:

1. Growing Up Pains (Unni’s Song)
2. TV Dinners
3. Person A
4. Still Life
5. Pressure
6. Rise And Shine
7. Get Me High
8. Glass
9. Simple
10. Flowers
11. Long Lasting Pleasure

Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ Enters Billboard Hot 100 for First Time Following ‘Stranger Things’ Placement

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Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ Enters Billboard Hot 100 for First Time Following ‘Stranger Things’ Placement

Following its placement on Stranger Things, Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ has entered the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time ever, reaching No. 40 on the singles chart. Originally released in 1986, the title track from Metallica’s third album recently featured in the Stranger Things 4 finale. In the episode, titled ‘The Piggyback’, metalhead Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) shreds the song from the Upside Down (Tye Trujillo, the 17-year-old son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, recorded the actual guitar solo for the scene).

Last week, Metallica released a statement about the song’s inclusion on the show. “The way The Duffer Brothers have incorporated music into Stranger Things has always been next level, so we were beyond psyched for them to not only include ‘Master of Puppets’ in the show, but to have such a pivotal scene built around it,” the band wrote on Instagram. “We were all stoked to see the final result and when we did we were totally blown away… it’s so extremely well done, so much so, that some folks were able to guess the song just by seeing a few seconds of Joseph Quinn’s hands in the trailer!! How crazy cool is that?”

Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’, which has seen a resurgence after being prominently featured in the fourth season of Stranger Things, currently sits at No. 4 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100. It also topped the UK Singles Chart, 37 years following its debut.

 

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Sorcha Richardson Announces New Album ‘Smiling Like an Idiot’, Unveils New Single’

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Sorcha Richardson Announces New Album ‘Smiling Like an Idiot’, Unveils New Single’

Irish singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson has announced her sophomore album: Smiling Like an Idiot arrives on September 23 via Faction. The follow-up to 2019’s First Prize Bravery is led by the new single ‘Shark Eyes’, which you can hear below.

“It’s about falling in love with a person and a place, which in this case is Dublin, and how those two are interlinked,” Richardson said of the new album in a statement. “I started to think about things that accompany that intense euphoria. The deep anxiety that can sometimes go with it. That feeling you get when you’re on a rollercoaster, ascending – it’s exhilarating and terrifying. I think fear is a very big part of falling in love.”

Talking about the new song, she explained:

‘Shark Eyes’ is about being totally infatuated with someone who you know isn’t as interested in you as you are in them. It’s about following your darker and more destructive impulses and allowing yourself to be taken for a bit of a ride, partly out of boredom and curiosity, but also partly out of a lingering hope that maybe this time it will end differently. I think I wrote it as a way of admitting to myself that that relationship would never be anything more than it already was, but I wanted it to still have the sweetness of a love song. Sometimes there’s a real lightness and relief in coming to that realisation about someone and knowing and accepting the limits of your relationship with them.

It was the first song I wrote for this album and the first thing that Alex and I worked on together since we made my debut album First Prize Bravery. I think it acted as a bit of a green light to keep going.

Smiling Like an Idiot Cover Artwork:

Smiling Like an Idiot Tracklist:

1. Archie
2. Shark Eyes
3. Spotlight Television
4. Stalemate
5. Purgatory
6. 525
7. Good Intentions
8. Hard to Fake It
9. Holiday
10. Jackpot
11 .Smiling Like an Idiot

Steve Lacy and Fousheé Team Up on New Song ‘Sunshine’

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Steve Lacy and Fousheé Team Up on New Song ‘Sunshine’

Ahead of its release on Friday (July 15), Steve Lacy has shared a new track from his sophomore album, Gemini Rights, a duet with New York artist Fousheé called ‘Sunshine’. It follows the early singles ‘Mercury’ and ‘Bad Habits’. Check it out via the accompanying video below.

Goon Share New Single ‘Emily Says’

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Goon Share New Single ‘Emily Says’

Los Angeles art-rockers Goon have a new album out this Friday called Hour of Green Evening. Today, they’re previewing it with the advance single ‘Emily Says’, which follows previous entries ‘Angelnumber 1210’ and ‘Ochre’. Give it a listen below.

Frontman Kenny Becker wrote the new song about his wife Emily Elkin, who plays cello in Angel Olsen’s live band and has worked with Olivia Rodrigo, Halsey, Troye Sivan, and more. “This song is about how her and I meeting each other was the most joyful thing to ever happen to both of us, but also didn’t cure either of us from our anxieties or depression,” Becker said in a press release. “I wanted to focus on the heart-wringing conflict between those two things.”

Rachika Nayar Releases New Song ‘Nausea’

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Rachika Nayar Releases New Song ‘Nausea’

Rachika Nayar has released a new single titled ‘Nausea’. It follows ‘Heaven Come Crashing’, the eponymous track from the Brooklyn musician’s sophomore album, which featured Maria BC and made our Best New Songs list. Listen to ‘Nausea’ below.

“Around the time of writing this song, I was listening to a lot of 90s trance from labels like Eye-Q Records,” Nayar explained in a press release. “There’s just something incredible about how they wring such heart-wrenching dance floor anthems out of the plainest melodies and chintziest digital synths, one of which I used on this song (the M1 piano).”

Heaven Come Crashing is scheduled for release on August 26 via NNA Tapes.

Modern Woman Release New Song ‘Ford’

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Modern Woman Release New Song ‘Ford’

London quartet Modern Woman have put out a new single, ‘Ford’, following up their 2021 debut EP, Dogs Fighting In My Dream. The track was produced and mixed by Oli Barton-Wood, with mastering by Jason Mitchell. Check out its music video, directed by Sandra Ebert, below.

“‘Ford’ has been one of the oldest songs in our repertoire,” bandleader Sophie Harris explaned in a statement. “I wrote the bassline loop for it a long time ago, one day when I only had a bass to hand. I structured the song and added guitar and simple vocal. I wanted to give it a raw and slightly sinister feel to it. We can spend an incredibly long time working a song in our practice space before we ever play it live, so we wanted to make sure that energy resonated through the recording.”

She added: “Lyrically, it is about a girl who borrows her brother’s Ford and drives it around. For Juan’s vocals towards the end of the song, I went with a William Burroughs-esque cut up technique and collected different car-related writings, chopped them up and reformed them.”

Gordi Shares New Single ‘Inhuman’

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Gordi Shares New Single ‘Inhuman’

Gordi, the moniker of singer-songwriter Sophie Payten, has shared her new song ‘Inhuman’, the title track to her forthcoming EP. Check out a video for it below.

The new song was inspired by Payten’s experience as a healthcare worker. “When I wrote ‘Inhuman’, I was thinking about the blackened roadsides on my drive from Sydney to Lismore in 2019,” she explained in a statement. “I had to turn back halfway because the fires were too out of control. I was supposed to start work in Lismore Hospital on the Monday, where I would meet countless patients who couldn’t be discharged because their homes had been destroyed. Hearing one story after the next made me numb, and being numb to that sort of tragedy feels like forgetting to be human.”

Gordi’s Inhuman EP arrives August 19 on Jagjaguwar. It includes the previously unveiled single ‘Way I Go’.

Flo Milli Drops New Single ‘No Face’

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Flo Milli Drops New Single ‘No Face’

Flo Milli has shared a new single called ‘No Face’, which was produced by Tasha Catour. She’s also revealed the release date of her next album: You Still Here, Ho ? lands on July 22 via RCA. Check out ‘No Face’ below.

Flo Milli teased You Still Here, Ho ? last month with the song ‘Conceited’. The follow-up to Ho, Why Is You Here ? will also include the previously shared singles ‘Ice Baby’ and ‘PBC’.

Santigold Releases Video for New Song ‘Nothing’

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Santigold Releases Video for New Song ‘Nothing’

Santigold has released another single from her forthcoming album Spirituals, following previous cuts ‘High Priestess’ and ‘Ain’t Ready’. It’s called ‘Nothing’, and it comes alongside a video short by Frank Ockenfels. Watch and listen below.

“’Nothing’ is a song I wrote about invisibility,” Santigold explained in a press statement. “It’s a song for anyone who has not been seen, and for me it was an opportunity to explore how that feels. I wrote Nothing in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests, and in writing the lyrics I was able to release a heaviness that I did not know I was carrying. Being Black and being a woman, particularly one who has chosen the creative path that I have chosen, I have always felt invisible to a degree. People see only what they think they know, or what they think I should be. Or sometimes, they see nothing at all. This song is about the burden of existing beneath a veil of nothingness. And the strength it requires just to be, despite it.”

Of the accompanying visual, she added:

This video vignette was inspired by a Wangechi Mutu image called Snake Eater. I had seen the image years ago and when I was thinking up visual ideas for this song, this piece came to mind. I loved the idea of a being that is woman but also beyond human in some way, and even unclassifiable. A being for whom there is no name, no category, who is totally unique, and fierce. I wanted to become this type of creature in this video because I don’t believe we have to know how to name or define what we’re seeing to accept that it exists, that it’s beautiful and powerful and worthy of being exactly what it is. How exciting to encounter a being so magnificent that it is beyond our imaginations. How exciting to find that that beast is living within you and to set it free.

Spirituals is due out September 9 via Little Jerk Records.

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