Ahead of the release of Mercurial World Deluxe this Friday, September 23, Magdalena Bay have shared a self-directed video for the new track ‘Unconditional’. Watch and listen below.
‘Unconditional’ follows the previously released song ‘All You Do’, which made our Best New Songs list. “We think of ‘Unconditional’ as ‘Secrets’ weird little cousin. Just like ‘All You Do’, we loved it when we made it but it didn’t quite fit the flow of Mercurial World,” the duo explained in a statement. “This video is our dream birthday party, and you’re all invited.”
Sudan Archives made her television debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (September 19), delivering a performance of ‘Selfish Soul’ with three backup singers (including Keiyaa) and a bassist. Watch it below.
‘Selfish Soul’ is taken from Sudan Archives’ sophomore album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, which came out earlier this month.
Disq have shared another single in the build-up to their forthcoming album Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet, which is out October 7 via Saddle Creek. ‘The Hardest Part’ follows previous entries ‘Cujo Kiddies’, ‘If Only’, and ‘(With Respect To) Loyal Serfs’. Check out a video for it below.
“‘The Hardest Part’ started with the riff and the instrumentation, which had been sitting dormant for several years until one late night the lyrics and melody came to me in a stream of consciousness, all at once,” guitarist Logan Severson said in a statement. “Because I just let the words come to me, I don’t know exactly what the song is about, but I can feel what the song is about and it holds deep meaning to me. I’m still in the process of understanding what I was trying to tell myself when I wrote it.”
White Lung are back with news of their next album, Premonition, which is billed as the Vancouver punks’ fifth and final LP. The follow-up to 2016’s Paradise lands on December 2 via Domino. To accompany the announcement, the band has shared two new singles, ‘Date Night’ and ‘Tomorrow’. Both tracks are accompanied by visuals directed by longtime collaborator Justin Gradin. Check them out below, along with the album artwork and tracklist.
Commenting on ‘Date Night’, frontwoman Mish Barber-Way said in a statement: “I felt like that part of my life was expiring, so I was projecting those angry and scared feelings out onto the city of L.A. because it’s safe and comfortable to live in your anger instead of being self-reflective.”
“‘Tomorrow’ is the song I wrote when I found out I was pregnant,” Mish added. “There was a very serious understanding that life would be different forever and I was relieved to welcome that change.”
In an interview with Melissa Broder, the person behind the @sosadtoday Twitter account, Mish elaborated on the origins of Premonition:
I was writing while I was pregnant with my son, not knowing that I was having a boy, so it was strange because it was the first time I had to write sober. It was sad that I had never sung a single vocal track without alcohol. I was also going through pregnancy hormones and major body changes. I felt like all my creativity was being sucked into the fetus. I couldn’t write. The words weren’t coming to me like they used to. It was like this baby inside me was taking up everything I had. I was consumed. I became fixated on that feeling, so the album is about the transition to motherhood, pregnancy, and the massive life change that I embarked on during the lull between our last album. The first three songs were written, then I found out I was pregnant, and Premonition became about that.
Of working with longtime collaborator Jesse Gander, she said:
We love working with Jesse. He has known our band through our entire existence. The intimate story of pregnancy on this album also deeply involves Jesse… he was the first one to know I was pregnant, before my husband!
We wanted to return to our punk roots as far as production goes, but we also wanted to take our time and record in chunks. Paradise was made in Los Angeles under a tight time limit and Lars Stalfors did an incredible job polishing those songs with us into beautiful, gritty glitter, but this time around we wanted to be able to enjoy the luxury of time…and that really is an understatement considering how long it has taken this record to finally come out. Kenneth went back and did a lot of guitar work. Sonically, this is a very busy and complex record. This album on a whole is very journal-esque. I needed to barf it out and be uncool. Afterall, I’m a mom now. It’s alright to be uncool.
Premonition Cover Artwork:
Premonition Tracklist:
1. Hysteric
2. Date Night
3. Tomorrow
4. Under Glass
5. Mountain
6. If You’re Gone
7. Girl
8. Bird
9. One Day
10. Winter
Margo Price has announced she has a new album on the way. Strays, the follow-up to 2020’s That’s How Rumors Get Started, lands on January 13, 2023. ‘Change of Heart’ is the latest preview of the album, following the previously released song ‘Been to the Mountain’. Check it out via the accompanying video, directed by Courtney Hoffman, and find the album artwork and tracklist below.
The new LP was produced by Price and Jonathan Wilson and was primarily recorded in the summer of 2021 at Fivestar Studio in California’s Topanga Canyon. It features additional vocals from from Sharon Van Etten, Mike Campbell, and Lucius.
“I feel this urgency to keep moving, keep creating,” Price said in a statement. “You get stuck in the same patterns of thinking, the same loops of addiction. But there comes a point where you just have to say, ‘I’m going to be here, I’m going to enjoy it, and I’m not going to put so much stock into checking the boxes for everyone else.’ I feel more mature in the way that I write now, I’m on more than just a search for large crowds and accolades. I’m trying to find what my soul needs.”
Neth month, Margo Price will publish her debut memoir, Maybe We’ll Make It.
Strays Cover Artwork:
Strays Tracklist:
1. Been To The Mountain
2.Light Me Up [feat. Mike Campbell]
3. Radio [feat. Sharon Van Etten]
4. Change of Heart
5. County Road
6. Time Machine
7. Hell In The Heartland
8. Anytime You Call [feat. Lucius]
9. Lydia
10. Landfill
isomonstrosity – the new project led by producer Johan Lenox, composer Ellen Reid, and conductor Yuga Cohler – have announced their self-titled debut album with ‘careful what you wish for’, a new single featuring Danny Brown, Johan Lenox, and 645AR. Out November 18 via Brassland, the LP also includes contributions from Kacy Hill, Danny L Harle, Empress Of, Vic Mensa, Tommy Genesis, and Zacari. Below, listen to ‘careful what you wish for’ and check out isomonstrosity‘s cover art and tracklist.
“Form and structure are something we talked about a lot on this album,” Cohler explained in a press release. “Johan and I in particular have discussed the significance of songs like Travis Scott’s ‘SICKO MODE’ and Kanye West’s ‘New Slaves’ which are really a stitching-together of multiple songs, in pushing formal boundaries in popular music. ‘careful what you wish for’ takes a page out of that book, and features some very disparate elements: the always great Danny Brown on top of a percussive beat, next to 645AR’s ethereal falsetto over clarinet processed through a vocoder. I really loved watching Johan have that ‘aha’ moment to craft an entirely new piece out of these really contrasting fragments.”
isomonstrosity Cover Artwork:
isomonstrosity Tracklist:
1. intro
2. shining [feat. Tommy Genesis]
3. cascades
4. too quiet
5. watch it burn [feat. Zacari]
6. i hope she is sleeping well [feat. Danny L Harle]
7. take me back [feat. Empress Of]
8. break glass
9. careful what you wish for [feat. Danny Brown, 645AR, and Johan Lenox]
10. wake up [feat. Vic Mensa]
11. i used to [feat. Kacy Hill]
12. losing my mind
Mamalarky have shared a new song, Pocket Fantasy’, alongside an accompanying video animated by Alex Futtersak. It’s the third single from their upcoming album Pocket Fantasy, following previous offerings ‘Mythical Bonds’ and ‘It Hurts’. Check it out below.
“This one goes out to conveniently anonymous YouTube haters,” guitarist/vocalist Live Bennett commented in a statement. “‘Shining Armor’ is an invitation for anyone who has shit to say about how I play guitar to go ahead and reveal themselves and play a little song for us! When I wrote this I was getting a bunch of comments about my gender and appearance and how that corresponds with how I play guitar. The only response was to covert that anger into something that’s genuinely so fun to play.”
Pocket Fantasy will be out on September 30 via Fire Talk.
South London artist Heartworms has released ‘Consistent Dedication’, her first release on Speedy Wunderground. Following her 2020 single ‘What Can I Do’, the track is produced by the label’s founder Dan Carey. Check it out below.
Poster Paints, the project of Carla J Easton and Simon Liddell, have shared another preview of their upcoming LP. ‘Not Sorry’ follows earlier cuts ‘Falling Hard’, ‘Never Saw It Coming’, and ‘Circus Moving On’. Listen to it below.
“This has quickly become a favourite to perform live and we are so pleased to release it!” Easton said of ‘Not Sorry’ in a statement. “A sort of sleepy Mazzy Star sound to it. Driving big chorus with blistering guitar amidst whispered reflective laments.”
Jessica Winter is the latest artist to sign to the independent label Lucky Number, accompanying the announcement with the new single ‘Choreograph’. “’Choreograph’ was born out of frustration, and from the desire to fully experience life and love in the present moment,” the artist explained in a statement. The track arrives with a James Ogram-directed music video that nods to Singin’ in the Rain. Check it out below.
