Jeanines, the NYC duo of Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith, have announced their sophomore LP. Don’t Wait for a Sign, the follow-up to their 2019 self-titled debut, arrives on April 22 via Slumberland. Lead single ‘Any Day Now’ is out today alongside a video directed by Artsick‘s Christina Riley. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.
Don’t Wait for a Sign Cover Artwork:
Don’t Wait for a Sign Tracklist:
1. That’s Okay
2 .Any Day Now
3. People Say
4. Don’t Wait For A Sign
5. I Lie Awake
6. Got Nowhere To Go
7. Who’s In The Dark
8. Dead Not Dead
9. Never Thought
10. Gotta Go
11. Through The Vines
12. Turn On The TV
13. Wishing Well
Girlpool have unveiled ‘Dragging My Life Into a Dream’, the latest offering from their forthcoming album Forgiveness. It follows previous cuts ‘Faultline’ and ‘Lie Love Lullaby’. Check out a self-directed video for the track below.
“I wrote ‘Dragging My Life Into a Dream’ after going out to a party,” the duo’s Avery Tucker said in a statement. “I had spent the last year confronting being on my own in a way I had been avoiding for a long time. Although I knew that I was growing and still needed to heal from past relationships, I missed feeling connected to somebody and inspired. This song is about romanticizing a past time and also longing for my heart to feel open and innocent again.”
Forgiveness is due for release on April 29 via ANTI-.
Florence and the Machine have returned with a new single called ‘King’. The track is out today alongside an accompanying video from Autumn de Wilde, who directed 2020’s Emma. Check it out below.
“As an artist, I never actually thought about my gender that much,” Florence Welch said of the new song in a statement. “I just got on with it. I was as good as the men and I just went out there and matched them every time. But now, thinking about being a woman in my thirties and the future, I suddenly feel this tearing of my identity and my desires. That to be a performer, but also to want a family might not be as simple for me as it is for my male counterparts. I had modeled myself almost exclusively on male performers, and for the first time I felt a wall come down between me and my idols as I have to make decisions they did not.”
California punk outfit Spice have announced their sophomore album. Viv, the follow-up to the band’s self-titled 2020 debut, will drop on May 20 via Dais Records. The LP was engineered by Jack Shirley and mixed/mastered by Sam Pura in Oakland. “We all got in a room and this is what came out,” vocalist Ross Farrar said in a press release. ‘Any Day Now’ is the first single from the album, and it comes with an accompanying video shot by Spice. Watch and listen below, and scroll down for Viv‘s cover art and tracklist.
Viv Cover Artwork:
Viv Tracklist:
1. Recovery
2. Any Day Now
3. Ashes in the Birdbath
4. Threnody
5. Melody Drive
6. Dining Out
7. Live Scene
8. Vivid
9. Bad Fade
10. Climbing Down the Ladder
!!! have announced the follow-up to 2019’s Wallop. It’s called Let It Be Blue, and it’s slated for release on May 6 via Warp. They’re also previewing the LP with the new single ‘Storm Around the World’, featuring Sink Ya Teeth’s Maria Uzor. Check it out below, along with the album’s cover art and tracklist.
“‘Storm Around the World’ is a song we’ve had since the last album that didn’t really come into focus until Maria Uzor from Sink Ya Teeth added her part and we turned it into a duet,” the band explained in a statement. “Originally an acid workout about parents who leave on tour it became much more than that with her vocal, which is equal parts sing-song and spoken word and who’s lyrics helped add both a familiarity and a mystery to the song. On this record we were looking for basic minimal arrangements – sub-bass, drums and vocals mostly – and that approach is what finally let us support the vocal parts in a way that worked. The final piece was the beat that our producer Patrick Ford made that felt somewhere between programmed, sampled and played, a blurriness that is another feature of this album, Let it be Blue, which was mostly built on computers but doesn’t always sound or feel that way.”
Let It Be Blue Cover Artwork:
Let It Be Blue Tracklist:
1. Normal People
2. A Little Bit (More)
3. Storm Around The World [feat. Maria Uzor]
4. Un Puente [feat. Angelica Garcia
5. Here’s What I Need To Know
6. Panama Canal [feat. Meah Pace
7. Man On The Moon [feat. Meah Pace]
8. Let It Be Blue
9. It’s Grey, It’s Grey (It’s Grey)
10. Crazy Talk
11. This Is Pop 2
Asheville indie rock band Wednesday have announced a new covers album titled Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’em Up. The 9-track collection is out March 11 via Orindal Records and includes their versions of songs by Vic Chesnutt, Smashing Pumpkins, Roger Miller, Drive-By Truckers, and more. Check out a video for the lead cover ‘She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)’, originally recorded by Gary Stewart, below.
“Wednesday owes so much to our musical influences,” vocalist Karly Hartzman said in a statement about the project. “The music we love is a big part of what brought us together. My bandmates Margo and Xandy both had infamous Asheville house show venues, Jake was in like a billion different bands which often played in their muggy basements and Alan was usually the one who brought the PA. Our immersion in music predated us trying to make songs together ourselves.”
“Our common interests in noisy ‘90s guitars, good lyrics, and country music was quickly what permeated into our voice as a band,” she continued. “Most decisions in our songs are made by an amalgamation of all five of our inputs, which happens pretty naturally because of this thread of influences that ties us together. So when we got an opportunity for some recording time with Alli Rogers at Betty’s studio in Durham, NC we decided to record covers, and hopefully repay in part the huge debt we are in to the artists who contributed so much to the music we write ourselves.”
Dama Scout have announced their debut album, gen wo lai (come with me), which will be out on April 22 via Hand In Hive. To mark the announcement, the art-rock trio have dropped a new single called ’emails from suzanne’, which follows November’s ‘dan dan bub’. Check out its self-directed video below.
The song pays homage to “the world’s finest vessel of passive aggression, wrought with the sincerest best wishes, high in frequency, low in fidelity – the email,” according to the band. They described the music video as “a short documentary exploring the death of the office, the nature of emerging flexible work environments and the relationship between labour and the millennial condition of perpetual adolescence.”
gen wo lai (come with me) Cover Artwork:
gen wo lai (come with me) Tracklist:
1. gen wo lai
2. pineapple eyes
3. back of my head
4. lonely udon
5. pink lips on a blue face
6. emails from suzanne
7. yuè liàng
8. ballet of your blood
9. dan dan bub
10. 一 個 謎 (a mystery)
11. gor gor
12. bubble bee
Dundalk, Ireland quintet Just Mustard have announced their sophomore LP: Heart Under, their first for Partisan Records, arrives on May 27. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Still’, alongside an accompanying video directed by Balan Evans. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
“‘Still’ is one of the earliest songs we worked on for the album and has gone through several formations,” vocalist Katie Ball explained in a statement. “We wanted to write a song that people can dance to. Instrumentally and lyrically it surrenders itself to other emotions expressed on the album, playing with repetition, tension and release.”
Heart Under, the follow-up to Just Mustard’s 2018 debut Wednesday, was produced by the band and mixed by David Wrench. The title is taken from the lyric “the heart under its foot” that appears on the album track ‘Sore’. “This album felt very blue to us,” Ball said. “There was sadness and sorrow in the album, and it felt like being underwater and under something very heavy. We let that influence the music, but it wasn’t a decision – it just naturally happened that way.”
Heart Under Cover Artwork:
Heart Under Tracklist:
1. 23
2. Still
3. I Am You
4. Seed
5. Blue Chalk
6. Early
7. Sore
8. Mirrors
9. In Shade
10. Rivers
U.S. Highball, the jangle pop duo composed of James Hindle and Calvin Halliday, have announced a new album. It’s called A Parkhead Cross of the Mind, and it lands on March 25 via Lame-O Records. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared the record’s first single, ‘Double Dare’. Check it out below.
Talking about the new song, Hindle said in a press release: “I guess Double Dare is the one lockdown-ish song; kind of about being trapped inside and being desperate to get out and the paranoia that came from that. on a wider note, it’s also just about battling with one’s own mind and decision making; daring yourself to make a change whilst half of you is telling yourself not to; that was the idea with the call and response vocals.”
A Parkhead Cross of the Mind marks U.S. Highball’s third LP, following their 2019 debut Great Record and 2020’s Up To High Doh.
A Parkhead Cross of the Mind Cover Artwork:
A Parkhead Cross of the Mind Tracklist:
1. Mental Munchies
2. Double Dare
3. Get In The Van
4. I’ve Stopped Eating
5. By The Clydeside
6. (You’ve Got To) Activate A Carrot
7. Grease The Wheel
8. Down In Timperley
9. Almost Cut My Hair
10. Bleatings From Yorkshire
11. Jump To The Left
12. Let’s Save Bobby Orlando’s House
‘Spirit Boy’ features contributions from musician Shane McLean. “We were fortunate to have Shane McLean, an outstanding musician and Taonga Pūoro facilitator, write and perform a spoken verse in Te Reo Māori,” the band’s Dave Le’aupepe explained in a statement. “A wonderful Māori woman performed “rongoā” on me — a sacred healing practice. It was a transformative experience, and I’m still not quite sure why. There was a moment when this wonderful woman looked at me and said “you’re a wairua boy” — wairua in Te Reo means something like “spirit”.”
angel in realtime. out on Friday, February 25 via Warner.
