Sam Smith is back with a new single, a short piano ballad called ‘Love Is a Stillness’, billed as a Valentine’s Day gift to their fans. “This song is such a special song to me and because it’s Valentine’s Day I wanted to share this with you as a gift to say I love you,” Smith said in a press release. Listen to it below.
Addison Rae Drops Video for New Single ‘High Fashion’
Addison Rae has shared a new single, ‘High Fashion’, her first new music of 2025. Like previous singles ‘Diet Pepsi’ and ‘Aquamarine’, the track was produced by Luka Kloser and Elvira Anderfjärd, but it’s a bit of a switch-up – a little more sinewy and off-kilter, but still infectious. It comes paired with a music video directed by Mitch Ryan, and you can check it out below.
Addison Rae’s debut album is expected later this year via Columbia.
Dolly Parton Joins Sabrina Carpenter on New ‘Please Please Please’ Remix
Sabrina Carpenter has released the deluxe edition of Short n’ Sweet just in time for Valentine’s Day. It includes the previously announced ‘Please Please Please’ remix featuring Dolly Parton, as well as the bonus tracks ’15 Minutes’, ‘Couldn’t Make It Any Harder’, ‘Busy Woman’, and ‘Bad Reviews’. Take a listen below.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco Announce Collaborative Album ‘I Said I Love You First’, Share Single
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have announced their first album as a couple, I Said I Love You First. The collaborative LP arrives on March 21 via SMG Music/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope Records. It’s led by the acoustic ballad ‘Scared of Loving You’, which Blanco produced with FINNEAS. Check it out below.
According to a press release, “This album came together organically as a direct result of the comfort that they both felt when working together creatively, allowing them to produce art that authentically reflects their experiences. It chronicles their entire story — before they met, falling in love and looking to what the future holds.”
I Said I Love You First Cover Artwork:
Cloth Announce New Album ‘Pink Silence’, Share New Single ‘Golden’
Cloth, the Glaswegian duo of twin siblings Rachael and Paul Swinton, have announced a new album: Pink Silence is out April 25 via Rock Action. The follow-up to 2023’s Secret Measure includes the previously released single ‘Polaroid’, as well as a new track, ‘Golden’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
The gentle, heartfelt ‘Golden’ “traces how it feels to grapple with the breakdown of a relationship, and wade through the aftermath,” according to a press release. Paul explained:
I remember writing the main chorus guitar hook of this song, Rachael adding a chord accompaniment, and me saying to her “this songs needs to sound like Talking Heads!” I think that plan of action maybe got a bit lost along the way, but it’s still one of the album’s most musically upbeat moments, with a great hi-hat-driven beat in the chorus and a bridge which might be my favourite of any Cloth song. The song deals with the tough breakdown of a relationship, and the feeling of that loss being so difficult to reconcile with you’d rather have never fallen in love at all. There’s a line in the song, ‘that scar on my wall, where all of those photographs remembered us falling” which came from me staring at my bedroom wall and seeing the faint outlines – the ‘scars’ – of where photos of really meaningful memories used to be stuck on. That seemed to me to be a really powerful image, even though, in a sense, there’s nothing to look at anymore.
Commenting on the title of the new album, the duo said: “This idea of pink silence describes the early morning or later in the evening, when you get this sort of strange ethereal light in the sky. It can mean one of two things; something which feels blissfully serene or something charged with a real sense of foreboding. We loved the idea that something so natural, beautiful and all-pervasive could have such an intense duality to it.”
Pink Silence Cover Artwork:
Pink Silence Tracklist:
1. Pink Silence
2. Polaroid
3. Stuck
4. Golden
5. The Cottage
6. It’s A Lot
7. I Don’t Think So
8. Stones
9. Burn
10. Write It Down
Track-by-Track Review: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, ‘Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory’
Subtlety is a virtue in the singer-songwriter world. In the face of a dying earth, however, and energized by collaborating for the first time in a writing capacity with her live band, the Attachment Theory – Devra Hoff on bass and vocals, Jorge Balbi on drums and machines, and TEEN’s Teeny Lieberson on synth, piano, guitar and vocals – Sharon Van Etten has made one of her boldest and biggest-sounding records to date. (The impeccable production work by Marta Salogni, who’s informed similarly charged records by Björk and Depeche Mode, also deserves credit.) Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory is as thunderous as it is propulsive, disquieting in its storm of existential questions but deliberate in how it sequences them; sounding like doubt at times, despair at others. But at its most resonant, Van Etten’s voice soars with pure wonder, unburdened by judgment or an easy way out: “Oh, what it must be like.” She’s singing about Southern life here, but really, about compassion – one of the few things that still doesn’t come attached with an expiration date.
1. Live Forever
“Who wants to live forever?” is the question Sharon Van Etten hits us with at the start of the album, a brooding thought repeated like it’s always seeping through the shadows of our lives. Synths waft, throb, and swell in the same atmospheric wavelength as the song’s percussion, but only initially. “It doesn’t matter,” she later sighs, her voice growing with resolve, which the band ultimately transforms into a prayer. By the end of the song, they’re locked into a sturdy groove, and Van Etten is howling out her desperation. The new band’s dynamic potential is firmly established; remarkably, it’s also the first song they wrote intentionally from start to finish when they went into the studio.
2. Afterlife
Sharon Van Etten aims for grandiosity only when she knows she has a hit in her hands. But the intensity of ‘Afterlife’ also befits the weight of its subject matter: the song was written around the death of a fan she and her band had befriended. In keeping with the tone of the opener, though, Van Etten frames ‘Afterlife’ not as an elegy but as a vehicle for questioning as existential as is it profoundly personal: “Does it feel like coming home?” she wonders, making it sound better than any kind of paradise.
3. Idiot Box
As the band turns its gaze outward, ‘Idiot Box’ is a call for emotional release: “Nervous, tired, desensitized/ Let it go!” A slick bassline anchors a more familiar indie rock arrangement, at least until Van Etten sings about realizing it’s all just a dream – and the band makes it glisten like one.
4. Trouble
This song immediately brought to mind an immortal lyric from Are We There, an album that, unbelievably, is over a decade old: “Every time the sun comes up, I’m in trouble.” As Van Etten accepts accountability for past mistakes and makes glib predictions of the future, trouble is still perpetually on the horizon, and she at the center of it. Like most songs about the fear of losing anything, it takes its time, warmly hanging on to the good parts. Oh, and if you liked the bass part on ‘Idiot Box’, wait till you hear the groove Devra Hoff holds down on this one.
5. Indio
‘Indio’ is a spiky slice of dream-pop, which isn’t necessarily what you’d expect from Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory. The band quickens its pace as Van Etten dips into her breathy falsetto, harmonizing with keyboardist Teeny Lieberson to hypnotic effect.
6. I Can’t Imagine (Why You Feel This Way)
Van Etten totally commands the song’s strutting groove, which lands somewhere between disco, post-punk, and new wave. It’s not exactly uplifting, though: she’s just a traveler, hoping the people on the same train as her, hearing the same screams, won’t support the same murderer they thought would be their savior. Sound familiar?
7. Something Ain’t Right
The four-on-the-floor bounce links this song with the previous one: the traveler not only questions those in authority, but now the friends and family responsible for putting them in charge. “Do you believe in compassion for enemies?/ Who is to blame when it falls to decay?” she sings, and it’s so easy to start humming along.
8. Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
This song arrived at a point in the band’s process where Van Etten wanted to loosen things up and not rehearse songs to death; the arrangement may have started out as a jam, but clearly they’d long discovered their collaborative language. Lyrically, Van Etten continues to dwell on the theme of compassion for those who may hold opposing views, this time considering her own history. She urges you to see things from the other side before including herself in the effort: “We must imagine what it must be like.” Her delivery alone, stretching each syllable without strain, is compelling enough.
9. Fading Beauty
Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment may be shooting for bold, ambitious rock music, but that doesn’t mean they won’t stop to zone in on “the subtle beauty of light.” Airy and delicate, it’s one way of showing us what’s at stake, as if anyone with an ounce of perspective could ignore it. “We all face it,” she intones in a revelatory moment, “All that’s life.”
10. I Want You Here
All the world’s a stage and Sharon Van Etten is sitting at the edge of it, bellowing out her devotion. In quite a tangible way, it’s the other end of ‘Live Forever’: she wants to, and she knows who she wants to share it with – not in some imaginary utopia, but here. As the song builds up and Van Etten reveals that all of this – the beauty, the change, the rage – amounts to “a moment,” it may seem a little deflating on paper. But the band places us right in the heart of it, and like a bolt of lightning we want it, too. For whatever it’s worth.
Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard Collaborate on New Single ‘Back In The Game’
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke have teamed up for a new song, ‘Back in the Game’. It marks their second collaboration, following 2016’s ‘Beautiful People’, which appeared on Pritchard’s album Under the Sun. The hazy, ominous track, which features Yorke’s vocals digitally distorted using the H910 Harmonizer, comes paired with a visual directed by Jonathan Zawada. Check it out below.
Discussing the video, Zawada said:
On first hearing the original demo of ‘Back In The Game’ I was immediately struck by the deranged bassline that made me think of the final scene of Staying Alive where John Travolta is cockily strutting through the New York streets but I saw it with a more sinister overlay. Slowly a version of that visual arose around a character wearing a kind of giant parade head with a fixed expression of mania stuck on their face, such that you couldn’t tell if their endless march was one of aggression or celebration. The more I paid attention to the lyrics the more details began to fill themselves out and the overall concept began to form of parade of many characters marching past a building from within which everything was being thrown out of a window and into a giant bonfire.
Ultimately the film for ‘Back In The Game’ ended up depicting a sort of blind celebration taking place as civilization slowly deteriorates around it, a kind of progression through regression. Overlaid onto this is an exploration of how and where we choose to place value in our collective cultural expression and how we collectively confront major cultural shifts in the 21st century.
Japanese Breakfast Shares Video for New Single ‘Mega Circuit’
Japanese Breakfast has shared a new single, ‘Mega Circuit’. It’s the second offering from the forthcoming LP For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), following ‘Orlando in Love’, one of our favorite songs of January. It’s rootsier in an eerie, captivating way. Its accompanying video was made by bandleader Michelle Zauner and Adam Kolodny; check it out below.
“‘Mega Circuit’ was one of the first songs I wrote, intent on making a creepier, more guitar driven record,” Zauner explained in a statement. “The song is sort of an examination of contemporary masculinity, and explores a conflicted desire to embrace a generation that in the absence of positive role models has found refuge in violence and bigotry. We had the legendary Jim Keltner — who’s played on everything from ‘These Days,’ to ‘Here You Come Again’ to ‘Dream Weaver’ — come in and play the fiercest shuffle you’ve ever heard.”
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) lands on March 21 via Dead Oceans.
Beirut Announces New Album ‘A Study of Losses’, Shares New Single
Zach Condon has announced a new Beirut album, A Study of Losses, which will arrive on April 18 on his own Pompeii Records. The follow-up to 2023’s Hadsel, which spans 18 tracks, was originally commissioned by Swedish circus Kompani Giraff for an acrobatic stage show of the same name. It includes last year’s ‘Caspian Tiger’, as well as the lead single ‘Guericke’s Unicorn’, which Condon interestingly frames as a bit of an outlier on the record. Check it out below.
“Guericke’s unicorn is a supposed reconstruction of a fossil unicorn which was actually created from the bones of a bunch of different animals like the woolly mammoth and a narwhal,” Condon explained in a statement. “It’s worth looking up the image. I’ve always been fascinated by these kinds of bizarre chapters and odd side notes of history, and I wanted to reflect the unorthodox / eccentric madness of that ‘unicorn’ in a more playful song that is somewhat disjointed from the rest of the album. I think my music can have that disjointed / chaotic tendency in general, but with the whole album otherwise being somewhat uniformly baroque inspired, ‘Guericke’s Unicorn’ really makes for an outlier on this record, having its origin in an old modular synth experiment of mine.”
Condon wrote and recorded the LP in Berlin, Germany and Stokmarknes, Norway. “When I was first approached about writing a soundtrack for a circus, a certain amount of ‘Elephant Gun’ era trauma initially came rushing up,” Condon previously shared. “I had been pigeon-holed for years as a whimsical circus waif, full of sepia-toned images of penny farthings and perhaps lion tamers with handlebar moustaches. It couldn’t have been further from how I pictured the music I was making. Ironic then, that I found Kompani Giraff’s project so enticing.”
Revisit our 2023 interview with Beirut.
A Study of Losses Cover Artwork:
A Study of Losses Tracklist:
1. Disappearances and Losses
2. Forest Encyclopedia
3. Oceanus Procellarum
4. Villa Sacchetti
5. Mare Crisium
6. Garbo’s Face
7. Mare Imbrium
8. Tuanaki Atoll
9. Mare Serenitatis
10. Guericke’s Unicorn
11. Mare Humorum
12. Sappho’s Poems
13. Ghost Train
14. Caspian Tiger
15. Mani’s 7 Books
16. Moon Voyager
17. Mare Nectaris
18. Mare Tranquillitatis
Devil’s Diner Season 2: Cast, Rumours & Release Date
Netflix has a great track record when it comes to horror. From Mike Flanagan’s haunting shows to light offerings like Santa Clarita Diet, the streamer understands that some viewers prefer their TV with a side of gore. Devil’s Diner is no exception.
An eerie series, it debuted in January 2025 as Netflix’s first Vietnamese drama. Thanks to its intriguing premise, it quickly drew in fans eager to get a taste of supernatural cuisine. If you’re one of them, you’re probably wondering whether you should expect a second helping. Here’s what we know so far.
Devil’s Diner Season 2 Release Date
Netflix hasn’t renewed Devil Diner at the time of writing, so the show’s fate is currently uncertain. That said, its chances of coming back are better the more people tune in. In other words, if you’re into it, spread the word.
In case the series does make a comeback, it will probably be a while until new episodes hit the streaming service. We’re guessing the earliest we could see Devil’s Diner Season 2 is sometime in 2026.
Devil’s Diner Cast
- Le Quoc Nam as Diner owner
- Nguyen Le Viet Hung as Hao
- Le Huynh as Mr. Khong
- Sy Toàn as Luan
- Vo Dien Gia Huy as An
- Vo Tan Phat as Huy
What Will Happen in Devil’s Diner Season 2?
Devil’s Diner centres on a mysterious chef who gives his customers an enticing proposition. He can offer them a delicious meal and make their biggest wishes come true. However, as it often happens in life, your greatest desire comes at a price. Whether or not these people are willing to pay it, you’ll have to tune in to find out.
Over the course of six episodes, the show explores greed, anger, delusion, pride, and suspicion. The season 1 finale revolves around the concept of karma, with the chef having to reckon with his own sins. While viewers get some answers, Devil’s Diner could also easily expand the tale in future installments.
In fact, Devil’s Diner is an anthology, with each episode following another customer. That pattern could continue in season 2, or the show could dig deeper into its mythology.
Is Devil’s Diner Based on a Book?
No, Devil’s Diner is an original story.
Filmmaker Ham Tran dubs it an ambitious and personal project. “Through this series, we’re not only telling uniquely Vietnamese stories but also universal tales of human longing and the choices we make when faced with impossible dilemmas,” he said.
Otherwise put, you’ll have to wait for new episodes to find out what happens next.
