“‘Fables’ features one of Daniel’s hottest licks,” Paul Banks commented in a press release. “A breezy vocal with optimistic lyrics and a bouncy drum beat evocative of classic R&B with a nod to the golden age of hip hop. It’s a summer jam and a piece of music we are particularly proud of.”
The Other Side of Make-Believe arrives on July 15 via Matador.
Soccer Mommy has released the latest single from her forthcoming album Sometimes, Forever. It’s called ‘Bones’, and it arrives alongside a video from director Alex Ross Perry, who also helmed the visual for color theory‘s ‘yellow is the color of her eyes’. Check it out below, along with Soccer Mommy’s upcoming tour dates.
“’Bones’ is a song about struggling with the parts of yourself that you don’t like in a relationship,” Sophie Allison explained in a press release. “It’s about wanting to become better for someone and feeling like you’re standing in your own way.”
‘Bones’ follows the previously shared singles singles ‘Shotgun’ and ‘Unholy Affliction’, both of which landed on our Best New Songs segment. Sometimes, Forever, which was produced by Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never, is out June 24 via Loma Vista.
Soccer Mommy 2022 Tour Dates:
Jun 10 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Jun 12 – New York, NY – Governors Ball Festival
Jun 24 – Margate, UK – Leisure Festival
Jun 27 – Bristol, UK – Canons Marsh Amphitheater %
Jun 28 – Dublin, Ireland – Trinity College *
Jun 30 – Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain @ Vida Festival
Aug 8 – Seattle, WA – Day In Day Out Festival
Aug 31- Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
Sep 1 – Brighton, UK – Chalk
Sep 1 – 4- Salisbury, UK – End of the Road Festival
Sep 3 – Bristol, UK – Trinity
Sep 5 – Köln, DE – Bumann & Sohn
Sep 6 – Hamburg, DE – Molotow
Sep 8 – Stockholm, SE – Slaktkyrkan
Sep 9 – Oslo, NO – John Dee
Sep 10 – Copenhagen, DK – Loppen
Sep 12 – Berlin, DE – Frannz Club
Sep 13 – Bremen, DE – Lagerhaus
Sep 15 – Amsterdam, NL – Bitterzoet
Sep 16 – Nijmegen, NL – Merleyn
Sep 17 – Brussels, BE – Rotonde @ Botanique
Sep 18 – Paris, FR – Petit Bain
Sep 20 – Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz
Sep 21 – Cardiff, UK – Tramshed
Sep 22 – London, UK – O2 Forum
Sep 23 – Birmingham, UK – The Castle & Falcon
Sep 24 – Glasgow, UK – Queen Margaret Union
Oct 28 – Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi Annex &
Oct 29 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre &
Oct 30 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue &
Nov 1 – Chicago, IL – Metro &
Nov 4 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom &
Nov 5 – North Adams, MA – Mass MOCA &
Nov 6 – Boston, MA – House of Blues &
Nov 11 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall ^
Nov 12 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club ^
Nov 14 – Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom ^
Nov 16 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre ^
Nov 17 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade Heaven Stage ^
Nov 18 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn ^
Nov 19 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl ^
Nov 30 – St. Louis, MO – Pageant #
Dec 2 – Ft. Collins, CO – Washington’s #
Dec 3 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre #
Dec 4 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot #
Dec 7 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore #
Dec 8 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom #
Dec 10 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater #
Dec 11 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory #
Dec 13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern #
Dec 14 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren #
Dec 16 – Austin, TX – Emo’s East #
Dec 17 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues #
% with The War On Drugs
* with Haim
& with support from Lightning Bug
^ with support from Helena Deland
# with support from TOPS
I Guess Nothing Will Be The Same marks Liss’ first material since the death of lead singer Søren Holm in May 2021. “Søren constantly sought out new music and always shared his discoveries with everyone around him,” the band said of the new single in a statement. “He was never afraid to reach out to those people who inspired him. ‘Boys in Movies’ is a track that has had several different identities. It found its direction when we shared it with Nilüfer Yanya, who helped us highlight the energy and gave the song a whole new dimension.”
Launder has shared a new song, ‘Become’, which features lead vocals from Soko. It’s taken from Launder’s upcoming full-length debut, Happening, which arrives on July 15 via Ghostly and includes the early singles ‘Chipper’ and ‘Unwound’. Listen below.
“This is the most collaborative track on the record,” Launder’s John Cudlip said in a statement about the song, which was co-written with Jackson Phillips (Day Wave) and Zachary Cole Smith (DIIV). “I couldn’t have made this song what it is by myself.”
Soko elaborated: “’Become’ is about being stuck in situations where you know you deserve better, but it still drags you down. And you know deep down that to become your best self you have to break through thick layers of detangling old patterns and live with intention. Become the majestic lion you know you are… It’s also about the duality of anxiety: being stuck between feeling small and wanting to break free.”
Grace Ives has released her new single ‘Angel of Business’, taken from the upcoming albumJanky Star. The track follows lead cut ‘Lullaby’, and you can check it out below.
“I wrote this while going through a rough time at the start of my career (not so long ago),” Ives explained in a statement. “Uncomfortable meetings, overdrafted account, and sleazy suits. This is my message to myself to have a little faith in the future.”
Ahead of its release this Friday, fanclubwallet has unveiled the title track from her forthcoming debut album You Have Got To Be Kidding Me. It follows earlier singles ‘Gr8 Timing!’, ‘Trying to Be Nice’, and ‘That I Won’t Do’. Check out a video for it below.
“Sometimes people can be really mean to you and try to pass it off as a joke,” Hannah Judge said in a press statement. “That’s what the song ‘You Have Got To Be Kidding Me’ is about. It’s about reflecting on ways you’ve been mistreated and ways you’ve maybe acted not so much like yourself because of it. Lyrically it’s a little sad and a little tongue and cheek but for me this song instrumentally really feels like moving on after something bad has happened.”
Alanis Morissette has announced her first meditation album, the storm before the calm, which will come out on June 17. Featuring 11 different meditations, the LP was co-written alongside Dave Harrington of Darkside. In addition to traditional digital plaforms, the album will be released on the mental health app Calm. Listen to first single ‘safety—empath in paradise’ below.
“Meditating rests my interior, to the point where I can have access to ideas and visions and inspirations – I can hear my own capital-S Self,” Morissette said in a press release. “Music, for me, is like a portal in a way, an invitation into a state of being that I’m not normally in. Making the record kept me super connected and accountable during COVID, when I felt like I was just going to disappear and float away.”
1. light—the lightworker’s lament
2. heart—power of a soft heart
3. explore—the other side of stillness
4. space—pause on violence
5. purification—the alchemical crunch
6. restore—calling Generation X
7. awakening—in between thoughts
8. ground—I want to live.
9 safety—empath in paradise
10. mania—resting in the fire
11. vapor—amplified in stillness
Winnipeg’s Living Hour have announced their third LP, Someday is Today. The follow-up to 2019’s Softer Faces will arrive on September 2 via Next Door Records. To accompany the announcement, Living Hour have shared the new single ‘Feelings Meeting’, which features Jay Som’s Melina Duerte, one of the album’s producers. Check it out below, along with the album’s cover art and tracklist.
Songwriter Sam Sarty explained in a statement about the track:
The song is about struggling with internal worlds, habits and daily circumstances. This is one of the first songs I wrote on bass. I play guitar, and it felt really nice to pick up a four-string instrument instead of six. I really enjoy living in lower frequencies. ‘Feelings Meeting’ was so fun to write on bass, I played around with the high G string moving with it as my own voice moved matching notes, and harmonising with it felt so easy. A familiar register.
I like playing huge bass chords in this song at the chorus. It feels powerful and LOUD when playing live! And Melina totally nailed it in making the first chorus absolutely drive itself into my bones. shaking them around and projecting the full feeling I was trying to get across in writing the song.
Duerte added: “I met Living Hour in their hometown where they opened for my partner’s band. I remember instantly connecting and hitting it off with them because they’re all so kind. Shortly after the pandemic hit and then later on in the year, they asked me to do remote production and mixing for a few songs alongside Samur Khouja (Cate Le Bon, John Grant) and Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Liars, Snail Mail). I was so stoked on ‘Feelings Meeting’ because it’s such a headbanger – it was more energetic and rocking than the material they’ve put out in the past. I had a lot of fun manipulating Sam’s vocals into a synth and adding some extra harmonies and guitars.”
Someday is Today Cover Artwork:
Someday is Today Tracklist:
1. Hold Me In Your Mind
2. Lemons And Gin
3. Middle Name
4. Feelings Meeting
5. December Forever
6. Curve
7. Hump
8. Miss Miss Miss
9. Exploding Rain
10. No Body
11. Memory Express
Unloved have announced a new double LP: The Pink Album will be released on September 2 via Heavenly Recordings. The 22-track album features collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Étienne Daho, Raven Violet, and Jon Spencer. First single ‘Mother’s been a bad girl’ comes with a music video by Julian House. Check it out below.
“In my head, ‘Mother’s been a bad girl’ is a tale of duality, searching for authenticity,” lead singer Jade Vincent explained in a statement. “It slips effortlessly from the point of view of those watching — surmising, to those judging — cheekily chanting, “Mother’s been a bad girl”! over and over, all sass, steeped in tradition, and ending in the final words of the dignified matriarch, regaining her composure, Are you truly certain you can handle me?”
Unloved’s last album was 2019’s Heartbreak.
The Pink Album Cover Artwork:
The Pink Album Tracklist:
1. Rainbrose
2. Waiting for tomorrow
3. Now
4. Girl can’t help it
5. I don’t like you anymore
6. Foolin’
7. Mother’s been a bad girl
8. Boowaah
9. Lucky
10. WTC
11. Sorry, Baby
12. Number in my phone
13. Call me when you have a clue
14. No Substance
15. Love Experiment
16. Turn of the screw
17. To the day I die
18. Walk on, Yeah
19. Accountable
20. There’s no way
21. Ever
22. Thinkin’ about her
IAN SWEET is back with a new single called ‘FIGHT’. Following last year’s ‘f*ckthat’, the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Lucy Sandler. Watch and listen below.
Talking about the new song in a press release, Jilian Medford said: “Spending everyday with someone, doing everything together, not knowing if the world was going to end. Leaning on someone with such heaviness, putting our entire weight and being onto each other because it’s all we had. The song plays into both the monotony of the relationship and the catastrophe that I went through after it ended. I felt so content in the relationship but then my entire world fell apart when it ended and I didn’t know how to pick myself back up and move forward.”
Sandler added: “I can only describe making ‘FIGHT’ as a true celebration, a giant family affair. By the end of the day all our friends became friends, the bar owners were taking shots with everyone, and Jilian got to crowd surf which made me tear up because she was so happy. I just wanted to capture the rawness and excited vulnerability that comes with a karaoke performance.”
‘FIGHT’ is set to appear on a forthcoming EP called Star Stuff. Medford released her third studio album as IAN SWEET, Show Me How You Disappear, last year via Polyvinyl.
