“This song is a romantic vision of meeting a lover, running away together, and entering a dangerous new world,” vocalist Nick Kivlen said of ‘In Flight’ in a statement. “It’s less safe but also less suffocating. The video follows me through a series of twilight zone-style mishaps as I search to be seen or understood. Things only improve when I finally find like-minded people. Is it a dream? Is it the multiverse? It’s for the viewer to decide.”
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch has released a new single called ‘Parting Gift’. It’s set to appear on the composer’s upcoming third album Ravage, which arrives on May 27 via FatCat imprint 130701 Records. Listen below.
Ravage, Levienaise-Farrouch’s first album since 2018’s Époques, documents the process of grieving the loss of her father. “I wasn’t looking for a universal pattern or ‘5 stages of grief’, but at how loss is experienced on an individual level,” she explained in a statement. “It’s looking at an event that is so banal and yet cataclysmic, at how thoroughly unprepared we are for something almost all of us will experience, but also at how the loss of someone might help us understand them, remove any tension or resentment, and help us see their fragility.”
Commenting on the new single, Levienaise-Farrouch said: “I started writing this track around the same time I was developing the project that would become Ravage, but didn’t see it as part of the album; its more peaceful melancholy didn’t match how I felt in my grief. I intended to close the record with ‘Epilogue’ but kept coming back to the initial synth chord progression recorded through various old analogue gear. Eventually, I realised the reason it stayed on my mind was because it echoes the place I was slowly reaching, a place of acceptance of loss.”
Wolf Alice have announced the Blue Lullaby EP, which features stripped-down versions of tracks from their third album Blue Weekend. It’s set to arrive on June 24 via Dirty Hit. Today, the band has shared a piano-and-choir version of ‘The Last Man On Earth’, which they recently performed on The Tonight Show. Listen to it below.
“Blue Lullaby came about because we wanted to strip down some of our more emotional songs from Blue Weekend and see if they hit any different,” Ellie Rowsell explained in a press release. “We also had a really nice moment during the Blue Weekend campaign singing one of our songs with a choir and we wanted to experience that again with a few other songs, especially as there are a lot of harmonies and a lot of vocal layering on Blue Weekend. Hearing multiple voices singing together is an unparalleled feeling to me so I’m happy we got to record this experience and I hope people enjoy it.”
O-SHiN, the moniker of Berlin-based electronic artist Stefanie de Beurs, has announced her debut album: II / ∞ will be out August 19 via Galaxy Cat. To accompany the announcement, O-SHiN has shared a new single called ‘Losing My Nature’, which you can check out below.
“The older you is a different person, with different interests and even different looks,” O-SHiN said of her new single in a press release. “‘Keep me where the light is’ is the call to the universe to shine a light on that path of transformation so we can see where we’re going.”
Written over a period of five years, II / ∞ follows O-SHiN’s debut EP, I / ∞, which came out in 2018. “It was a long journey to find someone who understood what I was hearing in my head,” O-SHiN explained. “Vincent Kahler and Alex Hauer, who co-produced the album with me, were the ones who finally got it and helped me achieve the sound I wanted. I don’t like it when things sound too perfect, that’s boring to me. I am always searching for sounds that make me hear the world in a way I haven’t heard before.”
II / ∞ Tracklist:
1. Losing My Nature
2. Pleasure
3. Beat That My Heart Plays
4. Holy Night
5. Love Me Like Warm Water
6. Visitor
7. It Takes Time
8. My Future Me
9. Silence Is My Nature
Tirzah has released a new track called ‘Ribs’, which was written alongside her frequent collaborators Coby Sey and Mica Levi and mixed by Kwes. “Ribs sit close to the heart. It was another ‘future shadow’ – MF Doom,” Tirzah said of the song. Check it out below, along with Tirzah’s upcoming tour dates.
Tirzah released her latest album, Colourgrade, last year.
Tirzah 2022 Tour Dates:
May 21 – Corona Capital Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico
May 23 – Constellation Room, Santa Ana, CA
May 24 – Belasco, Los Angeles, CA
May 25 – August Hall, San Francisco, CA
May 27 – Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY
May 28 – The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD
Jun 18 – Electric Brixton, London
Jun 21 – Fiddlers, Bristol
Jun 22 – SWG3 Studio Warehouse, Glasgow
Jun 23 – The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Jun 24 – The Button Factory, Dublin
Jul 5 – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
Jul 6 – Berghain, Berlin
Jul 7 – Café de la Danse, Paris
Australian-born, London-based producer Mall Grab, aka Jordon Alexander, has announced his debut album, What I Breathe. It’s set for release on August 5 via Looking for Trouble. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Understand’, which features vocals from Brendan Yates of the Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover art and full tracklist.
In addition to Yates, What I Breathe features collaborations with Novelist, D Double E, and Nia Archives. “I have been lucky enough to work with some of my favourite artists which have really been the glue that keeps the project coherent,” Alexander commented in a press release. “There are a lot of familiar sounds on this album that my listeners and followers have become accustomed to and joined me in the deep dive.”
He continued: “Elements of emotional but hard and pumping club music are intertwined with House, Jungle, Rave and Grime. My adopted home city of London has been a huge inspiration to how my music has evolved and progressed, and on What I Breathe I wanted to create a body of work which not only had something for everyone who has been with me the past 6 years, but also those who aren’t yet aware of what I’m about or the music I make.”
What I Breathe Cover Artwork:
What I Breathe Tracklist:
1. Hand In Hand Through Wonderland
2. I Can Remember It So Vividly
3. Love Reigns
4. Understand [feat. Brendan Yates]
5. Patience Ft. Nia Archives
6. Without The Sun [feat. Jordon Alexander]
7. Spirit Wave
8. Breathing
9. Intercity Relations
10. Times Change [feat. Novelist, D Double E]
11. Distant Conversation
12. Metaphysical
13. Lost in Harajuku [feat. Jordon Alexander]
Everything Everything have shared ‘Pizza Boy’, the latest single from their forthcoming album Raw Data Feel. “The song is about recovering from trauma, by focussing on both hedonism and solitude,” the band said in a press release. Check it out via the accompanying video below.
Raw Data Feel will be released on May 20 via the band’s own imprint Infinity Industries/AWAL. It features the previously shared tracks ‘Bad Friday’, ‘Teletype’, and ‘I Want a Love Like This’.
Pond have released a new single, ‘Hang a Cross on Me’, alongside an accompanying video. It’s taken from the deluxe edition of their 2021 album 9, which is out May 20 and includes the previously unveiled ‘Lights of Leeming’. Check it out below.
“Hang A Cross On Me was made infinitely cooler by the return of Cowboy John – musician, poet, fashion icon, Poon’s Head Studio regular, legend,” frontman Nick Allbrook said of the track in a statement. “We got Cowboy to feature on Hobo Rocket back in the day. In both songs he insisted on improvising his own lyrics and on only doing one take, and both, of course, were perfect. He meditates on love, life, the universe and everything with his signature fantastical surrealism and cosmic wonder. It’s always a pleasure working with him. He is incredibly rare and brilliant and we love him.”
Of the song’s accompanying video, Allbrook added: “Me and Alex just sort of roamed around the vast old Fremantle stone chamber of Victoria Hall, setting up little scenes in the basement, on the stage, in the lesser hall and from the gods. The afternoon light blasts through the windows into the theatre. Joe Ryan lent me his laser gloves and everything just sort of came together as we danced about, me with a bedazzled and fringed cowboy hat built by a tripper, Alex with a camera. It felt like the right type of creativity, with lots of grooving around and fun easy ease.”
Clara Mann has unveiled a new song called ‘Thread’, out now via sevenfoursevensix. The track arrives ahead of the singer-songwriter’s EU/UK tour supporting Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen. Give it a listen below.
Speaking about the song, Mann said in a press release:
I wrote this the night I got home after spending three months living with my boyfriend in a one room cabin on Dartmoor. The cabin was at the edge of a farm owned by a wonderful woman called Maggie, who was in her 90s- over the three months, she became incredibly important to me. She had immense spirit, an absolutely wicked sense of humour, and was an incredibly powerful presence on the farm. We’d spend hours with her in the kitchen in the evenings, cooking for her and laughing – I loved her so much.
That night, when I got home, I got a call saying Maggie had gone into hospital, and that she might be dying. I didn’t know what to do, all I could do was try and hold onto her in my heart. I suddenly wrote Thread, and recorded it on my phone. It’s dedicated to her, but it’s about the whole of that autumn, and the grief and magic of that strange time. Maggie survived that night, and lived another year, before leaving us about a month ago. Traces of her light remain, and she touched me and many others deeply- I hope we meet again someday.
‘Thread’ follows Clara Mann’s 2021 debut EP, Consolations.
Abbie Ozard has shared a new single, ‘Rose Tinted’, taken from her upcoming Water Based Lullabies EP. Check out a video for it below.
“Rose tinted was a poem I wrote a few years back when I realised all my friends were growing up and I felt kinda left behind,” Ozard said of the track in a press release. “I found myself covering up these feelings with clothes and messing with the way I looked. I even tried meditating, which I hated because it made me think way too much. It’s an observation on how 20 somethings cope with transitioning into adulthood, how they share their morning routines online, meditate to stay calm, buy new outfits – that whole ‘don’t get depression vibe’. I want to be able to soundtrack my generation.”
