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Superorganism Share Video for New Single ‘On & On’

Superorganism have dropped another single off their upcoming full-length World Wide Pop. The band’s latest is called ‘On & On’, and it follows earlier cuts ‘Teenager’, ‘It’s Raining’, and ‘crushed.zip’. Check out the song’s accompanying video, directed and animated by AEVA, below.

“It is a bit of an analogy between the ground-hog day effect touring can have, and the cyclical nature of growing as a person and repeating the same mistakes along the way,” band member Harry explained in a statement about ‘On & On’. Of the video, the group added:

Think of how today we look back on previous eras with fascination and an often rose-tinted vision, like the swinging 60s, but there was strife and anxieties in any era that isn’t necessarily captured by that nostalgia. We want to give a sense that there is no such thing as a ‘good old days,’ by showing someone in the future looking back at our current day thinking that the 2020s appear like the “good old days”.

World Wide Pop comes out July 15 via Domino.

Perera Elsewhere Announces New Album ‘Home’, Releases New Song ‘Hold Tite’

Perera Elsewhere, the moniker of experimental pop artist Sasha Perera, has announced a new album. The follow-up to 2017’s All of This is titled Home, and it’s set for release on September 30 via Friends of Friends. Check out lead single ‘Hold Tite’ below.

In a statement, Perera said of the new song: “It’s like a boxer getting mentally focused before going into the ring … an anthem to keep your demons in check … a clear message to the things that you fear the most…”

“I am somehow a little less shrouded in doom on this record, maybe more free with myself as a person, a producer & musician,” she added of Home. “This record resonates that freedom sonically, lyrically and visually.”

Home Cover Artwork:

Home Tracklist:

1. Delete
2. Hold Tite
3. Who I Am
4. Stranger
5. Like This
6. Heatwave
7. Early
8. HKW
9. Travel Lite
10. Der Wurm 1
11. Der Wurm 2
12. Translate Optimiser

Belief (Stella Mozgawa and Boom Bip) Unveil New Song ‘Art of Love’

Belief, the techno duo of Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and veteran producer Boom Bip, have released a new track called ‘Art of Love’. It’s taken from their upcoming self-titled album, which includes the previously shared singles ‘Jung’, ‘I Want To Be’, and ‘Ulu’. Take a listen below.

“‘Art of Love’ is a stripped-down piece that was intended to be an interlude,” Bryan Charles Hollon, aka Boom Bip, explained in a statement. “But then it started getting stuck in everyone’s head, so we extended it and bob’s your uncle. Its innocence reminds me of children or a soft moment with a partner. It’s pure and simple mood. Nothing more, nothing less.”

Belief is set to arrive on July 15 via Lex Records. Belief will join Warpaint (who just released their latest LP Radiate Like This) on the road this summer with dates in New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Toronto, and more.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Releases New Single ‘The Sleeper’

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has shared ‘The Sleeper’, the third single from his forthcoming LP When the Lights Go, which is slated for release on July 22 via Nice Age. The British producer previously previewed the album with the tracks ‘Blood In The Snow’ and ‘Crosswalk’. Listen to ‘The Sleeper’ below.

‘From the Basement’ Launches New Series With IDLES, Caribou, Nilüfer Yanya, and More

Nigel Godrich’s live music show From the Basement has relaunched with a new series featuring exclusive performances from IDLES, Sons of Kemet, Warpaint, Caribou, Squid, and Nilüfer Yanya. The new season, powered by WeTransfer and Sonos Radio, debuts with a performance by IDLES on June 1 and will run until October. Watch a trailer for it below.

“What a pleasure it has been doing this again!” Godrich commented in a statement. “I’m still just a fan, still super excited to have the opportunity to film all these great artists and have loved making these new shows. After being so busy doing other things I felt that the time was right to rekindle this idea.. to somehow bring it into the present, but the same rules apply now as they did then… no audience or presenter.. just a direct connection with the viewer and a chance for us to take some time to do something special in a controlled environment.. The priority being to make it sound and look great…”

IDLES’ Joe Talbot added: “There’s an atmosphere on From The Basement that I haven’t seen equalled – it’s unlike anything else. There’s a sense of mythology behind it and it’s a dream for us to be involved. We’ve wanted to do this for a very long time.”

WeTransfer Premium and Pro subscribers will have access to one additional song per artist in the new season. Audio versions of both new archived From the Basement sessions will be available on Sonos Radio.

Momma Share Video for New Song ‘Lucky’

Momma have shared the new song ‘Lucky’, which will appear on their forthcoming album Household Name. It arrives with an accompanying video directed by Emma Penrose and Zack Shorrosh. Watch and listen below.

“I wrote it after my significant other and I had to spend an unknown amount of time apart from each other on opposite sides of the country,” Etta Friedman, who takes lead vocals on the track, explained in a statement. “I wanted it to feel anthemic, like a sappy and sentimental love song, but I still wanted to speak on how exciting it feels to know you found true treasure with someone you are in love with.”

“We didn’t want to get too cheesy and literal so Etta suggested some ideas from the Green Day ‘Walking Contradiction’ video as well as the fun and etherealness of certain Beabadoobee videos,” Penrose added of the visual. “In the end, we feel like the video displays how much fun it was to film – everyone involved was a friend of either Zack & Emma’s or Etta & Allegra’s, so the project feels very personal and lighthearted.”

Household Name is due for release on July 1 via Lucky Number. Momma previously shared the singles ‘Speeding 72’, ‘Rockstar’, and ‘Medicine’.

Emma-Jean Thackray Enlists Wiki for ‘Golden Green’ Remix

London-based multi-instrumentalist Emma-Jean Thackray has shared a new remix of her Yellow track ‘Golden Green’, featuring New York rapper Wiki. Give it a listen below.

“We made something really special, as Wiki painted such an intimate picture of a moment at home with a lover,” Thackray said of the remix in a statement. “You can smell the cup of hot tea he describes. You can feel the sheets on your skin. I felt the warmth of the sun coming in through a gap in the blinds. The choruses he brought to the song are so perfect, because ‘Golden Green’ is actually about how I met my partner. It’s about those first moments together and the things about them that stick out and become entwined in your memory of them forever.”

Yellow, Thackray’s debut full-length, came out last year.

Courting Announce Debut Album ‘Guitar Music’, Share New Single ‘Loaded’

Liverpool four-piece Courting have announced their debut album, Guitar Music, which arrives on September 23 via Play It Again Sam. Along with the announcement, the band has shared a new single called ‘Loaded’. Check it out below.

“In ‘Loaded’ we tie together a lot of ideas about change, and stagnation,” frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill explained in a statement. “It is inspired heavily by pop music, specifically artists like SOPHIE. It is us just throwing everything at the wall and trying to create something fun and ridiculous.”

Guitar Music is realising you actually love the music you hated when you were 13,” Murphy-O’Neill said of the album, which was produced by James Dring. He continued:

It is lip fillers and being thousands of pounds in debt. It is missing mundane things about your childhood and mourning celebrities you were only aware of posthumously. It is dancing with your friends. It is falling in love with a drawing and it is always online. It is touching toes in bed, hearts carved into trees. It is swimming outside and listening to pop smoke. It is fireworks over family parks and Guitar Music is the opposite of our early releases in that it is very emotional. The stories told may be from the perspective of other characters at times, but these songs are filled with actual emotion rather than us trying to hide.

We felt that Guitar Music as a phrase was reductive and therefore decided to create a record with the intention of it being a body of work that could redeem being a “guitar band”, by pushing it to different boundaries. To us, this record is a statement piece, it felt very exciting to make, to us, it feels a lot more special than we’d originally expected it would be.”

Guitar Music Cover Artwork:

Guitar Music Tracklist:

1. Cosplay/Twin Cities
2. Tennis
3. Loaded
4. Famous
5. Crass (redux)
6. Jumper
7. Uncanny Valley Forever
8. PDA

Katy J Pearson Releases Video for New Song ‘Alligator’

Katy J Pearson has unveiled a new song, ‘Alligator’, taken from her upcoming album Sound of the Morning. The track follows earlier singles ‘Talk Over Town’ and ‘Game of Cards’. Check out a video for it, directed by Edie Lawrence, below.

Katy J Pearson said in a statement about the song:

I wrote this track with Dan Carey at his Streatham studio. The day we did so I was having the worst morning ever; I was really stressed as I had a £500 electric bill that I had to pay. I burst into tears at the studio and from that feeling, the song just surfaced from all my anxieties. The lyrics are quite literal and were born from the idea of dissociation when experiencing anxiety. The chorus note ‘it felt just like a dream, and it keeps on happening’ refers to when you are really stressed, things just don’t seem real. There is this juxtaposition between the lyrics and the soaring chorus which is quite euphoric – it’s quite tongue in cheek and I like that about it. Dan played the bass on this track and Yuri from the band Honeyglaze played drums which really gives the track some gusto!

Lawrence added:

’Alligator’ came about once we spoke about the track’s theme of paranoia, anxiety and intrusive thoughts. Panic attacks tend to mess with your perspective amongst other things, which is where the idea of placing Katy in a shrinking cafe of hysterical bean shovelling, age switching, glass eating customers came to me. Everything in the cafe was made to look as if Katy was sat in one of my miniature sets- so all food was made from latex, clay and gelatine and the counter, fridge, doors and frames were all made from cardboard. Katy was a dream to work with and completely trusted my vision throughout, I’m really excited about working with her again on future projects.

Sound of the Morning will be released on July 8 via Heavenly Recordings.

Hercules & Love Affair and ANOHNI Share New Single ‘One’

Hercules & Love Affair and ANOHNI have shared ‘One’, the latest collaborative single from the forthcoming album In Amber. It follows previous offerings ‘Poisonous Storytelling’ and ‘Grace’. Listen below.

“The lyrics speak of being othered, cast out, and to the ascent of the child spirit in the face of such adversity,” Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler explained in a press release.

In Amber, Hercules & Love Affair’s first album in five years, arrives on June 17 via Skint/BMG.