Mallrat has teamed up with Azealia Banks on the new song ‘Surprise Me’, the latest offering from her upcoming debut album Butterfly Blue. Give it a listen below.
“It’s so true that the music you listen to when you’re little really shapes you. Or at least it hangs out in your subconscious for a very long time,” Mallrat said in a statement. “The first album I ever bought with my own money was Broke With Expensive Taste. She was truly the best to work with. It felt like she really cared, which you don’t always get with feature artists; often, it can feel like they’re fulfilling an obligation. Maybe I’m biased, but hers is one of the most iconic and memorable verses I’ve ever heard.”
Butterfly Blue comes out on May 13 via Nettwerk. Previously, Mallrat previewed it with the singles ‘Your Love’ and ‘Teeth’.
Kurt Vile has returned with a new album, (watch my moves), his first release on Verve Records. The follow-up to 2018’s Bottle It In was previewed with the singles ‘Like Exploding Stones’, ‘Hey Like a Child’, and ‘Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)’. Vile recorded the new LP primarily at his home studio, OKV Central. “It’s about songwriting. It’s about lyrics. It’s about being the master of all domains in the music,” he said in press materials. “I’m always thinking about catchy music, even though it’s fried, or sizzled, out. It’s my own version of a classic thing — it’s moving forward and backward at the same time.” The album features contributions from Chastity Belt, Cate Le Bon, Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, and Sarah Jones on percussion.
Swedish House Mafia’s long-awaited debut album, Paradise Again, has arrived via Republic Records. The LP spans 17 tracks and features appearances from A$AP Rocky, Sting, Connie Constance, Mapei, Seinabo Sey, and more. “In the past we put out single after single, and it was almost like we were chasing something,” the group’s Sebastian Ingrosso told NME. “When Steve first said, ‘We need to make an album’, I wanted to jump out the window. Swedish House Mafia have never made an album before, and historically it takes us a long time to even make a song. We’re really happy with what it’s become, though – we can’t wait to give it to the world.”
Alex G, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Alex G has released his soundtrack to Jane Schoenbrun’s new movie We’re All Going to the World’s Fair via Milan Records. The film is a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game. “Whenever it rains at night I put on Alex’s score and listen to how the rain on my roof sounds mixed with Alex’s beautiful, lonely music,” Schoenbrun said in a press statement. “I’ve been a fan of Alex’s records for so long, and it was literally a dream come true to get to collaborate with him on my first feature. I can’t imagine a better or more moving accompaniment to the film.” Ahead of its arrival, Alex G shared the tracks ‘End Game’ and ‘Main Theme’.
SAULT have-surprise released a new album titled AIR. The enigmatic UK group’s latest can be purchased via Bandcamp and follows 2021’s Nine, which was only available to stream and download for 99 days following its release. AIR marks SAULT’s fifth LP; they released a pair of albums, Untitled (Black Is) and Untitled (Rise), in 2020, which were preceded by 2019’s 7 and 5.
James Krivchenia has issued a new experimental solo LP, Blood Karaoke, via Reading Group. The Big Thief drummer and producer assembled the album by sampling unwatched YouTube videos found through random online generators, including clips of Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations, video game walkthroughs, old local news clips, and more. “It was a very iterative, long process, lots of editing and putting together little moments or 10 second chunks with lots of samples,” Krivchenia explained in a statement. “The music was conceived to be a somewhat unbroken 40 minute long composition and I think of the singles as excerpts.” He previewed the record with the single ‘Emissaries of Creation’.
Vundabar have put out their latest album, Devil for the Fire, via Amuse. Originally slated for release in February, the follow-up to 2020’s Either Light includes the previously unveiled singles ‘Lore’, ‘Aphasia’, and the title track. The LP was written and recorded throughout the summer and fall of 2020 and was inspired by readings on neuroplasticity as well as film noir, constructing a “dream state-y shadow world,” according to a press release. Singer Brandon Hagen described ‘Lore’ as “a walk through a bending mind,” adding: “It’s about the lineage of meaning, about how all these invisible threads of history, construct and memory (personal and collective) permeate everything around us and in many ways eclipse and obscure the moment.”
Joyride! are back with Miracle Question, the San Fransisco indie rock band’s first new album in six years. The follow-up to 2016’s Half Moon Bay is out now via Salinas Records. According to press materials, the album explores themes such as compassion, forgiveness, and nostalgia, and is influenced by the changes that occurred in songwriter Jenna Marx’s life, including going to grad school and starting a career in school counseling. Early single ‘Flyover States’ is about “entertaining fantasies of running away or starting over somewhere new, even when you know you never will,” the band told Punk Rock Theory.
Other albums out today:
Spanish Love Songs, Brave Faces Etc.; Jewel, Freewheelin’ Woman; more eaze, Spiraling; 50 Foot Wave, Black Pearl; Primer, Incubator; Tim Kasher, Middling Age; Prince Daddy & The Hyena, Prince Daddy & The Hyena; Janelane, Okay with Dancing Alone; Sophia Bel, Anxious Avoidant; Cremation Lily, Dreams Drenched in Static..
IDLES stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (April 14), performing ‘Crawl!’ from their latest album CRAWLER. Watch it below.
“This is the turning point, after you’ve crashed,” frontman Joe Talbot said of the track in a statement. “It’s a good anthem for me to discuss with people who aren’t on the other side or who aren’t sober. You’re not the best version of you and you need to hold yourself accountable for your addictions and who you’re letting down. But it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. ‘Crawl,’ the title is like, keep going. You’ll get there.”
IDLES are set to take the stage at Coachella this weekend. CRAWLER, the follow-up to 2020’s Ultra Mono, landed in November via Partisan.
Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler have announced a new collaborative album titled For All Our Days That Tear the Heart. It’s set for release on June 10 via EMI Records. Today, they’re previewing the album with the new single ‘The Eagle and the Dove’, which is named after a book by Vita Sackville-West. Listen to it below.
“Right now, I feel like I’ll never make another album again, because I can’t imagine another album happening the way this one did,” Buckley said in a statement. “It’s amazing that it even happened once. This obscure, organic, odd little thing that just found us.”
Butler added: “More than anything, I wanted it to be joyous – properly joyous – because there is such joy in Jessie, there really is. In spite of the darkness and the intensity in these songs, I’m just flying when I listen back to them.”
For All Our Days That Tear the Heart Cover Artwork:
For All Our Days That Tear the Heart Tracklist:
1. The Eagle & The Dove
2. For All Our Days That Tear The Heart
3. 20 Years A-Growing
4. Babylon Days
5. Seven Red Rose Tattoos
6. Footnotes On The Map
7. We’ve Run The Distance
8. We Haven’t Spoke About The Weather
9. Beautiful Regret
10. I Cried Your Tears
11. Shallow The Water
12. Catch The Dust
Kay Flock has teamed up with Cardi B, Dougie B, and Bory300 for the new song ‘Shake It’, which is produced by Elias Beats and samples Akon’s ‘Bananza (Belly Dancer)’. The track comes with an accompanying Jochi Saca-directed video featuring a cameo from fellow drill rapper B-Lovee. Check it out below.
Kay Flock dropped his debut project, The D.O.A. Tape, last year. He is currently behind bars, however, after being arrested in December on a charge of first-degree murder. The rapper is accused of fatally shooting a 24-year-old man named Oscar Hernandez in Manhattan on December 16.
Talking about ‘About Damn Time’ in an interview with Zane Lowe, Lizzo said:
I’m made the song of the summer with “About Damn Time”. I’m in my bag, and my bag is music. I’m good at music. It’s what I do.
“About Damn Time” can lead into so many conversations. It’s about damn time I feel better, it’s about damn time we get out this pandemic. It’s about damn time we to get the first black female Supreme Court Justice. There’s so many things. It’s about damn time we popped the champagne. It’s about damn time the tequila got here.
I have to give props to Ricky [Reed] and Blake Slatkin. I was in my diva bag on this one, because I thought I was done with my album, Zane. I was like, “I’m done, no more songs.” Then they were like, “Yo, we think we got something,” and I was like, “I ain’t coming to the studio unless it’s a hit.” They played a track, I heard the track, and I was like, “I’ll be there in 10 minutes.” You know what I’m saying? When I got there, the idea is disco was revolutionary for a lot of people, disco and funk. This was intentionally disco, funk, something to walk to coming out of this dark time. This was intentional, the genre of music.
Discussing her new album, she added: “I think that the music really is going to speak for itself. I’m writing songs about love from every direction, and I hope that I can turn a little bit of the fear that’s been running rampant in this world, energetically into love. That’s the point. I had a lot of fear, and I had to do the work on myself, and this music is some of that work in turning that fear into love. I hope that when people listen to this album, it makes their day just a little bit better, a little bit more filled with love.”
Since releasing her 2019 album Cuz I Love You, Lizzo shared a collaboration with Cardi B, ‘Rumors’, in the summer of 2021.
Phoebe Bridgers has released a new song called ‘Sidelines’ (via Dead Oceans). It appears on Conversations With Friends, the new Hulu series adapted from Sally Rooney’s novel of the same name. Bridgers co-wrote ‘Sidelines’ with Marshall Vore and Ruby Rain Henley, and it will be her only original track of 2022, according to a press release. Check it out below.
‘Sidelines’ marks Bridgers’ first new original material since 2020’s Punisher. She recently shared a stripped-back version of ‘Chinese Satellite’ for Secretly Canadian’s singles series. Today, Bridgers is set to hit the stage at Coachella for the first time.
Conversations With Friends stars Joe Alwyn, Alison Oliver, Jemima Kirke, and Sasha Lane. The show premieres on May 15 on Hulu and BBC Three.
You Belong There, the debut studio album from Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen, strikes a delicate balance. Its richly intricate arrangements and airy vocals aren’t such a great departure from the lush chamber folk of the group he made his name with – whose last album, Painted Ruins, came out half a decade ago, though it’s 2006’s Yellow House that more often echoes through this record – but it also feels like a deeply personal statement. Having learned to play different instruments during lockdown, including the cello, clarinet, and other woodwinds – while also reacquainting himself with upright bass, an instrument he last played as a child – Rossen handled most of the instrumentation on You Belong There, with Grizzly Bear’s Christopher Bear contributing drums and percussion throughout. On one hand, it serves as an opportunity to showcase his musical virtuosity, particularly as a guitarist capable of harnessing the instrument’s unique ability to evoke a state of solitude. On the other, it stands as a work of enchanting vulnerability that contemplates the turbulence of life during periods of change and constant motion, reflected as much through Rossen’s emotionally direct lyricism as in his propensity to mold, stretch, and fill out the songs in meticulously considered yet unexpected ways.
The album arrives ten years after Rossen’s Silent Hour/Golden Mile EP, which emerged from a time of isolation following his move out of the city to rural upstate New York. The musician now lives in the hills of Santa Fe with his wife and young daughter, and it’s in this new environment that You Belong With Me took shape. Perhaps as a result of these transitions, the songs avoid a romanticized view of the wilderness and self-exile, drifting instead with a sense of complex fluidity. Although the overall effect is unusually revealing, Rossen’s songwriting is far more ambiguous than it is purely confessional: “Chased out to a stolen range/ The red plains beyond the fence/ They’re dead calm but there’s solace here/ It’s a choice to live that way,” he sings on ‘Celia’, as if haunted by the ghost of something familiar yet out of reach. Elsewhere, he fixates on the empty remnants and lingering anxieties of the past, lamenting wasted time and purpose: “Nothing’s lost/ When there’s nothing there/ Whatever was and whatever will/ We belong here now,” he declares on the magnificent ‘Unpeopled Space’, but the busyness and warmth of the composition anchors the song in the present, lifting it into a shimmering space.
The music never quite settles in one place; at times, in the absence of a concrete narrative, it seems to respond directly to the evocative power of phrases like “relentless drifting” and “mindless movement.” Even shorter tracks like ‘Celia’ and the title track are rife with tension, thanks in part to the dynamic interplay between Rossen and Bear, as well as Rossen’s haunting use of vocal harmonies. ‘Tangle’, which is almost half the length of the album’s longest track, is a spectacular highlight; it begins with waves of eerie, manic dissonance but quickly finds beauty at the eye of the hurricane – “Terror kept us shaking but it was something to behold” – before ultimately landing on a note of strange intimacy, unveiling a quiet but simmering passion. When the songs do dwell in that ominous space for longer, it’s less about musical ambition than curiosity and freedom to explore where it might take them: ‘I’ll Wait for Your Visit’ moves at a languid, dreamlike pace that mirrors its stream-of-consciousness flow, while ‘Keeper and Kin’, a song seemingly about struggling to let go of your youth, becomes something of an exercise in restraint.
‘Repeat the Pattern’ is an interesting if slightly odd place to end You Belong There. It is the most straightforward and melodic track on the album, almost unburdened in its simplicity, though still coloured by tasteful embellishments. For an album that thrives in such an insular environment, where all that’s heard is the echo of one’s self, there’s something liberating about the way it adopts an external, almost impersonal approach to nature and all that lives through it: “Set yourself to the side and admire this anonymous place/ Ice that blankets the hills and beats the bramble down to the clay.” If nothing magical truly lasts, then all that’s left is to witness how things grow and decay, escape and return over years and years – and the lighter it all seems, the more unreal, less alone, the more you’ll be able to give back.
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Sonic Youth have released a live recording of a show that took place in Kyiv on April 14, 1989 as a live album on Bandcamp to raise money for World Central Kitchen and Ukraine relief. You can download a copy of Live In Kyiv, Ukraine 1989 here and stream the project below.
Following the success of Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth played a number of shows across Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine, which were part of the USSR at the time. Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz, who was in attendance at the show in Kyiv, wrote in a statement:
That SY Kyiv show was life changing for all musicians that were there… we were already attuned to Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, S Pistols and Discharge but these were the new vitamins we needed. I made a decision to experience NY right there. Plus my friends VV were opening so i got in free 🤟🏼. The fact that it wasn’t shut down half way through like all other punk gigs was the doing of a Ukrainian man named Mikhail Gorbachev, who set up the atmosphere of political “springtime” and a promise of change.
Sergey Popovich of Siggy Pop added: “In general, few people said how much the Sonics, with their arrival, promoted the entire soviets, and not just Kyiv. After all, in fact, perhaps, with that tour they hammered the final nail in the coffin of the soviets, and it was as if they let us in Kyiv breathe a mixture that was finally suitable for life.”
Sonic Youth recently released the album In/Out/In, which compiles unreleased material the band recorded between 2000 and 2010.
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