Thom Yorke has released another track for the British drama series Peaky Blinders. ‘That’s How Horses Are’ is his second contribution to the show, following ‘5.17’, which came out last month. Check it out below.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Yorke and Jonny Greenwood had written original music for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders. “I’m over the moon about all of that,” director Anthony Byrne told NME. “The music has always been really important historically, and I was really keen to bring a dramatic score into it.”
Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel switched hosting duties on April Fool’s Day, with Kimmel traveling to New York to host ABC’s The Tonight Show and Fallon leading Jimmy Kimmel Live from California. Red Hot Chili Peppers were the musical guests on both shows, playing ‘Black Summer’ live from NBC Studios and delivering a pre-recorded performance of ‘These Are the Ways’ atop the historic Roosevelt Hotel. Check it out below.
Both tracks are taken from the band’s brand new album Unlimited Love, which was released yesterday and marks their first album since reuniting with guitarist John Frusciante in 2019. In addition to ‘Black Summer’ and ‘These Are the Ways’, the album includes the previously shared singles ‘Not the One’ and ‘Poster Child’. The band is set to embark on a world tour in support of the album, which kicks off June 4 in Seville, Spain.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ performance of ‘These Are the Ways’ was filmed on Thursday, when the band was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During the ceremony, drummer Chad Smith paid tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. “I have to give a shoutout to my brother Taylor Hawkins. I love you, Taylor,” Smith said. “He would laugh and make a smart ass comment about this whole thing.” Smith’s speech is included in a new tribute video compiling memorable moments between the two drummers, which was put together by Foo Fighters at the Acropolis director Daniel Catullo and shared via Variety. In both late-night performances, the name “Taylor” was displayed on Smith’s bass drum.
Wet Leg stopped by The Late Late Show With James Corden last night (March 31) to perform ‘Too Late Now’, a track off their upcoming self-titled debut album. Watch it below.
Brazilian drag queen, singer-songwriter, and activist Pabllo Vittar has enlisted Rina Sawyama for a new song called ‘Follow Me’. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Amber Park. Watch and listen below.
“I’m so excited to release this song with Rina,” Vittar said in a statement. “She is such an icon and I’m so pleased we managed to make this song work as it’s the perfect combination of our music styles. I really hope the fans love it as much as we do. Shooting the video was so much fun as well, wearing iconic outfits, and strutting our stuff on the runway! SERVE!”
Sawayama added: “I have been such an admirer of Pabllo for so long – she is nothing short of an icon and so for us to collaborate on an original I wanted a moment that felt fitting. When she sent me the idea for Follow Me I was just in love with it immediately and the process from then has been a dream. From working on the music to the video, I’m honored to be a part of the song and be let into her world – I hope both hers and my gorgeous fans are as obsessed with it as we are.”
Sawayama’s self-titled debut album came out in 2020. Vittar dropped Batidão Tropical last year. The two artists previously joined forces on the Brabo-produced remix of Charli XCX’s ‘Comme Des Garçons’.
Foals have shared a new song, ‘Looking High’, taken from their new album Life Is Yours, which is set to arrive on June 17. Give it a listen below.
“This is looking back to a more hedonistic time in my life, and a more innocent time in society in general, pre-pandemic and before the existential threat of climate change,” Yannis Philippakis explained in a statement. “It takes place in an alley in Oxford with two clubs – The Cellar and The Wheatsheaf – that all the city’s nightlife gravitated towards. It was before clubs started to close down and our cities started to change into more corporate, arid places. There’s an element of being haunted by nightlife that’s no longer there.”
Mall Girl have shared ‘Lilies’ Dew’, the final offering from the Norwegian art-pop band’s upcoming album, alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below.
“When you feel lost in life and left with no confidence that you’re on the right track in life, imagine you are in a huge field of lilies,” the band said of the new track in a statement. “Try to let your guard down and the lilies will embrace you and love you no matter what.”
Moderat – the electronic trio of Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary and Apparat’s Sascha Ring – have released ‘MORE LOVE’, the third single from their forthcoming album MORE D4TA. Listen to it below.
MORE D4TA, Moderat’s first LP in six years, is due for release on May 13 via Monkeytown Records. It includes the previously shared singles ‘Easy Prey’ and ‘Fast Land’.
ELIO has dropped a new single called ‘Vitamins’. The track arrives ahead of ELIO’s first international headline shows across the US and Canada as well as her run of European dates supporting Charli XCX. Give it a listen below.
“I wrote ‘Vitamins’ last May after staying at my boyfriends house for a couple months because of lockdown,” ELIO explained in a statement. “We got into the habit of taking vitamins everyday and it made me think it was just so cute to think of seeing someone as part of your daily routine and how healthy and easy that can be. I wanted the song to have the perfect balance of ‘your love is my drug’ but in a super healthy and secure way. When I began writing it with my friends Mike, Emily and Nick, it fell into place so easily. It was definitely one of my favourite songs to write.”
Arlo Parks appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (March 31), delivering a performance of her recent single ‘Softly’. Watch it below.
Parks released ‘Softly’ back in February, following her 2021 debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams. The London singer-songwriter is up for Best Alternative Music Album and Best New Artist at the 2022 Grammys. Earlier this week, she shared a cover of KAYTRANADA and Syd’s ‘You’re the One’ as part of the Spotify Singles Best New Artist series.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are back with the new album Unlimited Love, their first with guitarist John Frusciante back in the lineup since 2006. The Rick Rubin–produced LP was previewed with the singles ‘Not the One’, ‘Black Summer’, and ‘Poster Child’. “Our only goal is to get lost in the music,” the band said of the record in press materials. “We (John, Anthony, Chad and Flea) spent thousands of hours, collectively and individually, honing our craft and showing up for one another, to make the best album we could. Our antennae attuned to the divine cosmos, we were just so damn grateful for the opportunity to be in a room together, and, once again, try to get better. Days, weeks and months spent listening to each other, composing, jamming freely, and arranging the fruit of those jams with great care and purpose. The sounds, rhythms, vibrations, words and melodies had us enrapt.”
PUP have returned with a new LP called THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND. The Toronto punk band’s latest follows 2019’s Morbid Stuff as well as the 2020 EP This Place Sucks Ass. It was recorded and mixed over the course of five weeks in the summer of 2021 in producer Peter Katis’ Connecticut mansion and features contributions from Sarah Tudzin of illuminati hotties, NOBRO’s McCaughey, Casper Skulls’ Melanie St-Pierre, and Erik Paulson of Remo Drive. “As the weeks passed, we seemed less and less rational, objective, and sane,” vocalist and guitarist Stefan Babcock said in a press release. “You can hear the band start to fall off the cliff, and because of that, I think this record is our truest and most genuine to date. There is nothing more PUP than a slow and inevitable descent into self-destruction.”
Christian Lee Huston has followed up his 2020 LP Beginners with Quitters, out now via ANTI-. The album was produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst and includes the advance tracks ‘Cherry’, ‘Strawberry Lemonade’, and ‘Rubberneckers’. “When we made Beginners, the aim was to make simple digital recordings of how I would play the songs in the room,” Hutson explained in a statement. “With this record, Phoebe and Conor had an idea that it would be fun to make it to tape. Phoebe is my best friend and making Beginners with her was so comfortable and easy. So I wanted to work with her again.” He added: “I took a long time with Beginners. I had those songs for 10 years, but these songs came out a lot faster. There was a little bit of insecurity with the lyrics. Having Conor there served the purpose of someone who I really respect as a lyricist and could soothe my anxiety.”
Alabaster dePlume, the project of London-based composer, saxophonist, and poet Angus Fairbairn, has a new album out today titled GOLD – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love. Released via Chicago label International Anthem, the double-LP follows 2020’s To Cy and Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 and was recorded over two weeks at the Total Refreshment Center, with guest contributions from Falle Noike, Sarathy Korwar, Rozi Plain (This Is the Kit), and Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet). The recording process involved a different set of musicians each day, recording the same tunes without the opportunity to rehearse or listen back to the tracks. “They didn’t have enough preparation to be able to hide behind this piece of material or skill,” Fairbairn said. “They had to look up and respond to each other, and that’s what we’ve recorded. The method is part of the mission. It wasn’t like school. We had mayhem. We were having fun. That’s the story and the process – and I want to live that way.”
Duster – the San Jose indie rock trio of Clay Parton, Canaan Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini – have surprise-released a new album titled Together. The 13-track effort, which follows the band’s 2019 self-titled record, is available on streaming services today, and each song is also accompanied by a music video on YouTube. “I know people say, ‘Oh Duster music so sad, we’ve even said it ourselves before,” Parton said in a statement. “But it’s a lot more like absurdism than nihilism.”
more eaze, the electronic project of mari maurice, has issued a new album called oneiric. The six-track record features contributions from frequent collaborator claire rousay on ‘heartbreaker’ and Philadelphia-based musician Lucy Liyou on ‘uninvited’. “Each song is on the verge of communicating some deep truth but not quite being able to articulate it, like accidentally mumbling a secret while sleep-talking,” maurice explained in a statement. “During the time of creation, I began to develop deep, unrequited feelings for someone close to me, and my dreams began to consist of doing quotidian things with this person, but in environments that were geographically or architecturally impossible. The Texas Hill Country would open up to a neon-lit New York City that we’d walk arm and arm through. We’d go shopping at malls containing caverns and rivers next to Hot Topics and Macys.”
Pillow Queens – the Dublin-based band composed of vocalists Sarah Corcoran and Pamela Connolly, guitarist Cathy McGuiness, and drummer Rachel Lyons – have dropped their second album Leave the Light On via Royal Mountain Records. The follow-up to 2020’s In Waiting was preceded by the singles ‘No Good Woman’, ‘Hearts & Minds’, and ‘Be By Your Side’. The band wrote the record over the course of three months before entering the studio in the spring of 2021 with producer Tommy McLaughlin, who they also worked with on In Waiting.
Sondre Lerche has released a new double album called Avatars of Love. Spanning 14 tracks, the LP features guest appearances from AURORA, CHAI, Dirty Projectors’ Felicia Douglass, Mary Lattimore, Rodrigo Alarcon, and Ana Müller. While Lerche’s previous album, 2020’s Patience, took more than seven years to write and record, Avatars of Love was completed over the course of a year in his home country of Norway. “This is without a doubt the biggest, boldest, most complex thing I’ve ever done,” Lerche said in press materials. “At the same time, it was also the easiest, most natural, and most liberating. As an artist, it’s the kind of project you always dream about.” The album features the early tracks ‘Summer in Reverse’, ‘Dead of the Night’, ‘Cut’, and ‘Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All’.
Other albums out today:
Meshuggah, Immutable; Dreamville & J. Cole, D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape; Battle Ave, I Saw the Egg; Tree River, Time Being; Papercuts, Past Life Regression; Noon Garden, Beulah Spah; Jon Spencer & The HITmakers, SPENCER GETS IT LIT!; Confidence Man, TILT; Warmduster, At The Hot Spot; NCT DREAM, Glitch Mode; Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales, Consumed In Key; lobsterfight, Sun Soaking; Walt Disco, Unlearning; Anne Carner, Dear Unknown.
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PUP have returned with a new LP called 
Christian Lee Huston has followed up his 2020 LP Beginners with 
Alabaster dePlume, the project of London-based composer, saxophonist, and poet Angus Fairbairn, has a new album out today titled 
Duster – the San Jose indie rock trio of Clay Parton, Canaan Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini – have surprise-released a new album titled 
more eaze, the electronic project of mari maurice, has issued a new album called 
Pillow Queens – the Dublin-based band composed of vocalists Sarah Corcoran and Pamela Connolly, guitarist Cathy McGuiness, and drummer Rachel Lyons – have dropped their second album 
Sondre Lerche has released a new double album called 