Wild Pink have shared the latest single from their forthcoming album ILSYM. It’s called ‘See You Better Now’, and it features a guitar solo from Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis. Listen below.
“‘See You Better Now’ is the most straightforward love song on the album and definitely inspired by Tom Petty and Traveling Wilburys,” John Ross said of the song in a statement. “It was one of the last songs I wrote for this album and a really fun song to record in the studio. It’s still wild to me that J Mascis did the guitar solo on it.”
LIES, the duo made up of cousins Mike and Nate Kinsella, have unveiled their new single ‘Corbeau’. Following the previously shared songs ‘Blemishes’, ‘Echoes’, and ‘Summer Somewhere’, the track features background vocals from Now, Now’s KC Dalager. Check it out below.
Broken Bells, the project of the Shins’ James Mercer and Brian Burton (Danger Mouse), have previewed their forthcoming LP with a seven-minute track called ‘Love on the Run’. It follows previous entries ‘We’re Not In Orbit Yet…’ and ‘Saturdays’. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying video directed by Johnny Chew.
Into the Blue, Broken Bells’ first full-length album in eight years, is due to arrive on October 7 via AWAL.
Maya Hawke has released ‘Luna Moth’, the latest single from her upcoming sophomore album MOSS. Out this Friday via Mom+Pop, the LP includes the previously shared songs ‘Thérèse’ and ‘Sweet Tooth’. Check out ‘Luna Moth’ below.
“The story of ‘Luna Moth’ doesn’t belong to me,” Hawke explained in a press release. “It was collected from a teacher I had in high school who told me a story of breaking a girl’s heart by killing a beautiful moth on her bathroom floor. I wanted to find a way of describing how you can ruin everything without thinking. A mistake can break a heart and breaking someone else’s heart can break your own.”
Floating Points has a new single out called ‘Problems’. It’s his third track of the year, following ‘Grammar’ and ‘Vocoder’, which landed on our Best New Songs segment. Give it a listen below.
‘Problems’ comes with a video from longtime collaborators Hamill Industries, who said in a statement: “‘Problems’ is meant to agitate every single room that its ecstatic sound waves reach. We wanted to celebrate it with movement and dance and reshape it through sound, by using techniques that allow the sonification of images. We have used lasers that spin and move with the music, making visible their sinuous shapes. It was important that this video shaped the electrical feeling you get when being on a dancefloor, the urge of dancing when sound waves reach your ears.”
Nilüfer Yanya has released a cover of PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid Of Me’. It marks the artist’s first release since her sophomore album PAINLESS, which arrived earlier this year. Listen to it below.
“‘Rid Of Me’ haunted me for many years after I first heard it, but in a comforting kind of way, like I knew it was always there for me,” Yanya remarked in a statement. “It comes across defiant, alien and twisted, but it is a perfect song. I actually think it’s very romantic despite what some of the lyrics get at.”
Swedish pop artist Merely has announced her new album, Sculpture, which is set to come out on October 14 via YEAR0001. To accompany the announcement, she’s shared two songs from the LP, ‘Tangerine Skies’ and ‘Bella Bugia’. Give them a listen below.
Merely’s last album was 2019’s Hatching the Egg. Earlier this year, the producer teamed up with Malibu on the track ‘Idle Citi’.
Sculpture Tracklist:
1. Blue
2. We’re Everlasting Energy
3. Tangerine Skies
4. Bella Bugia
5. Sculpture
6. Lover’s Lane
7. Ricochet Lullaby
8. The Killing Sun
9. Lucky Star
10. Far, far away
11. Megalith (you’re coming to save me again)
12. Heirloom
13. Book Of Hours
“Throughout this process I’ve worked on becoming a better producer and songwriter,” Thorvik said in a statement. “I’m liquid when it comes to music. My mind is set on making something emotional and refreshing. Some people might find my music schizophrenic, but playing with different genres and moods is what makes Jouska what it is.”
Wet Leg have shared a cover Ashnikko’s ‘Daisy’ as part of the Spotify Singles series. It’s paired with a reworking of their own track ‘Convincing’, which appears on their self-titled debut album. Take a listen below.
“I remember going to stay with Rhian around the time we recorded Chaise with Jon McMullen and she had told me about this artist she’d been listening to loads,” the band’s Hester Chambers said in a statement. “She sang and played ‘Daisy’ on the guitar in the morning while we had coffee. It feels like another little circle coming round in our Wet Leg world getting to make this cover.”
Commenting on the new version of ‘Convincing’, she added: “Most of our album was written in the depths of 2020, and right up to April 2021 when we went into the studio. Since live music has opened back up, we play some tracks just as they were recorded, but ‘Convincing’ is one of the songs that has gone through a little shapeshift over time as we’ve been playing gigs for the last year. This version we recorded with James leans into the more mellow and woozy world it exists in our live sets.”
Julien Chang has shared another preview of his upcoming record The Sale. ‘Snakebit’ follows the previously released songs ‘Marmalade’ and ‘Time & Place’. Check out its accompanying visual, animated by Vaughn Taormina, below.
“‘Snakebit’ emerged during a period of transformation,” Chang said in a press release. “This was around the time I left Baltimore for University in the middle of New Jersey. The awkwardness of the transition and the discomfort of ‘growing pains’ provoked in me a kind of creative agitation which found its outlet most decisively in this song. But the song is not only about changing. It is also about encountering change: in a reflective turn, encountering myself who is changing and then interrogating him, testing the limits of the ‘new me’ before finding that I am really not so different.”
Of the video, Chang commented: “The song takes the form of a self-interrogation. I have changed, but how? and when? Why? This video simulates the fragmented, unfocused, and self-contradictory search for clues that one falls into trying to answer. Taken as a whole, the animations all seem to go together on a single string, but examined individually, it is clear that what binds them is not any logical order. In this sense, the video has the structure of a dream. While dreaming, a rapid sequence of freely-associated images and events seems to make perfect sense. It is only upon sober reflection the following morning that these images and events become absurd, random, and nonsensical.”
