Maya Hawke has shared a video for ‘Sweet Tooth’, the second single from her upcoming sophomore album MOSS. It follows the previously released track ‘Thérèse’. Check out the Celine Sutter-directed clip below.
“’Sweet Tooth’ was the last song written for MOSS,” Hawke said of the song in a statement. “The lyrics were written in Atlanta while filming, but Christian [Lee Hutson] and I recorded the first demo in Nashville. “When we finished the first recording session, I felt this eruption of joy and I knew this feeling had to be on the record.
Sutter added of the video: “‘Sweet Tooth’ was born out of conversations with Maya about the song, the album, and the unique feel of sweetness, cavity, death, and joy. We discussed care, caretaking, and childhood adult friendships. In the edit, we found the deconstructed nature of the dream with the behind-the-scenes footage – as if Maya was participating in the making of, and the theater of, her own funeral. ‘Sweet Tooth’ is a trippy, playful video that embraces the dichotomy of its themes: a joyful and melancholic funeral, a fake dream world with real footage, care and loneliness, sweetness and pain.”
MOSS is set for release on September 23 via Mom+Pop.
Mallbangs, the project of Atlanta musician Aidy, has announced a new EP titled Checking For Daggers. It’s set to arrive on October 14, and its first single, ‘New Face’, is out today. Check it out below.
The follow-up to 2021’s Put Me Out EP, Checking For Daggers was produced by Grouplove’s Daniel Gleason. “‘New Face’ is about different sentiments of a friend who passed away in 2020 who had struggled with drug abuse; just sort of a way to express feelings surrounding that,” Aidy explained in a statement. “Musically it’s a crazy one because all the parts were there in the original demo. It was when we added Daniel’s bass line and Benjamin’s drumming that it just exploded the way it does now. This was a really fun one to work on. We ended up using this prototype guitar from Mike Baranik that Daniel was loaned for a while. That weird, muted guitar part in the verse is where you can really hear it because it has this cool piece attached to the bridge that makes things sort of sound like a sitar.”
Checking For Daggers Cover Artwork:
Checking For Daggers Tracklist:
1. Do Not Respond
2. New Face
3. Make Believe
4. WOW! OK!
5. You Can Have It All
6. Double Dog Dare
“I’m the kind of person who wants to go swimming, but takes like ten minutes to get all the way into the cold water, slowly and painfully,” Liz Stokes remarked in a statement about the track. “I hate this about myself, and am kind of envious of people who can just jump straight in the deep end. In a shocking twist, this is also a metaphor?! For how I wish I was the kind of person who was brave and decisive instead of cautious and scared.”
Indigo Sparke has shared a new song, ‘Blue’, the second offering from her forthcoming Aaron Dessner-produced record Hysteria. The track, which follows lead single ‘Pressure In My Chest’, arrives with an accompanying video directed by Angela Ricciardi. Watch and listen below.
“This is one of the closest songs to my heart I have ever written,” Sparke said of ‘Blue’ in a press release. “It was a freak accident that came out all in one go, the words, it just didn’t stop pouring out. Everything in shades of Blue. I had just gotten back to Australia from New York and the pandemic hit shortly after. I was in some sort of strange altered state of reality, deep in a grief wave and a relationship death. It felt like something was trying to purge itself out of me. Maybe rage. Maybe hope. Maybe love. I can’t fully explain how deeply I feel this song inside of me. It just is. Like my blood pumping through my veins.”
Ricciardi had this to say about the song’s visual: “This video is an ode to a city that has shown me continual moments of both wonder and ferocity. Indigo came to me with the initial idea of creating a video that follows her walking throughout the city, and I think that ‘Blue’, in all of its beauty and severity, is a fitting soundtrack to that universal experience. My creative approach was informed by characteristic time quality: seeing everything in a stage of becoming, which requires simultaneous patience and immediacy. I like when something forces me to look. Like falling in love, when time slows and you notice the dance of life that we all belong to. That’s where the magic happens.”
No Devotion – the band composed of Geoff Rickly (of Thursday), guitarist Lee Gaze, and bassist Stuart Richardson – have shared a new single called ‘Repeaters’. It’s taken from their forthcoming second album No Oblivion, which includes the previously released track ‘Starlings’. Listen to ‘Repeaters’ below.
No Oblivion, the follow-up to Permanence and the band’s first release in seven years, comes out September 16 on Velocity Records.
London-based jazz composer Sarathy Korwar has announced his next album. KALAK, the follow-up to 2019’s More Arriving, comes out November 11 via the Leaf Label. To celebrate the news, Korwar has shared a new single, ‘Utopia Is A Colonial Project’, which arrives with an Elliott Gonzo-directed visual starring choreographer and dancer Botis Seva. Check it out and find the album cover (by Sijya Gupta and Fabrice Bourgelle) and tracklist below.
“Utopia can be seen as a diagram for colonisation,” Korwar explained in a press release. “Ideas of utopia are intrinsically linked to the mindset of settler colonialism. It comes from seeing the natural world as an inanimate resource rather than a living, sentient being. We need to be antiutopian, and anti-dystopian. We need to be able to imagine futures drastically different to the kind of ‘utopias’ that are being sold by right-wing populist politicians in South Asia and beyond.”
Recorded at Real World Studios with producer Photay, KALAK features The Comet Is Coming’s Danalogue on synths, Tamar Osborn’s baritone sax, Al MacSween on keys, and percussionist Magnus Mehta, as well as vocals by Melt Yourself Down’s Kushal Gaya of Melt Yourself Down and Mumbai-based producer Noni-Mouse. Korwar elaborated on the ideas behind the record:
The discourse around futurism is often deeply rooted in Eurocentric ideas of the world. Much like Afro-futurism, Indo-futurism is moving the focus to the global south. In South Asia, culturally, we envisage our relationship to the future and the past in ideas of cyclicality. For example, karma as a concept. Time doesn’t have to flow in a line but can be understood to flow in a circle.
In music, there’s an inherent hierarchy when you talk about left to right and top to bottom. I started thinking about a rhythmic notation system that was circular. These patterns started forming over time, and the more I thought about that, and the kind of symbolism that they began to have, I realised that this would be the core of the record.
KALA Cover Artwork:
KALA Tracklist:
1. A Recipe To Cure Historical Amnesia
2. To Remember [feat. Kushal Gaya]
3. Utopia Is A Colonial Project
4. Back In The Day, Things Were Not Always Simpler [feat. Noni-Mouse]
5. The Past Is Not Only Behind Us, But Ahead Of Us
6. Kal Means Yesterday And Tomorrow
7. Remember Begum Rokheya
8. That Clocks Don’t Tell But Make Time [feat. Kodo]
9. Remember Circles Are Better Than Lines
10. Remember To Look Out For The Signs
11. KALAK – A Means To An Unend
Wyldest has previewed her forthcoming album Feed the Flowers Nightmares with a new track, ‘Hungry For You to Know’. It follows previous offerings ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’, ‘Abilene’, and ‘Tin Foil Girl’. Check out its accompanying video, directed and animated by Tom Gaiger, below.
“Human relationships are kind of like a game of tug-of-war; sometimes you’re pulling, sometimes you’re being pulled,” Wyldest, aka Zoë Mead, explained in a statement. “We’re all just looking for other people who make us feel good. But in return (to maintain a healthy relationship) we need to be able to give back and be aware when we are not holding our end of the bargain.”
She added: “‘Hungry For You To Know’ is about caring for someone, but needing to push them away to ensure you’re not being pulled out of your own lane and can keep focussed on your own world. It can be deemed as selfish, but sometimes it’s important to prioritise yourself for the benefit of you and others.”
Martha have announced a new album: Please Don’t Take Me Back will be released on October 28 via Specialist Subject Records. To accompany the announcement, the Durham indie-pop band has shared a brand new single, ‘Baby, Does Your Heart Sink’, alongside a video featuring the Futureheads’ Ross Millard, Michael McKnight of Frankie and the Heartstrings, Mehzeb Chowdhury, and Elf Kingdon. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
“‘Baby, Does Your Heart Sink’ is just your classic break-up song, but one designed to be played at the disco at the end of the world,” Martha explained in a press release. “If there are multiple timelines, worlds, and universes out there, you’ve really got to wonder how things are going in the others, don’t you?”
The accompanying visual was directed by the band’s drummer, Nathan Stephens-Griffin, who commented: “This was the first time we’d all been together as a band for a while, and it was a really fun day. Pop Recs is a brilliant thing, and we want to support as much as possible – everyone should visit when they get a chance. We’ll be doing our Northeast album launch on that very same stage in early December and we can’t wait. Hopefully the people watching are more into it on the night though! It was also extremely cool to get to direct a video featuring a Futurehead and a Heartstring!”
Please Don’t Take Me Back is Martha’s first LP since 2019’s Love Keeps Kicking. Martha released the album’s title track back in May.
Please Don’t Take Me Back Cover Artwork:
Please Don’t Take Me Back Tracklist:
1. Beat, Perpetual
2. Every Day the Hope Gets Harder
3. Please Don’t Take Me Back
4. Irreversible Motion
5. Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?
6. F L A G // B U R N E R
7. Neon Lung
8. Take Me Back to The Old Days (Reprise)
9. Total Cancellation of The Future
10. I Didn’t Come Here to Surrender
11. You Can’t Have a Good Time All of the Time
TOLEDO have released two new tracks, ‘Flake’ and ‘What Happened to the Menorah?’, lifted from their upcoming debut LP How It Ends. Take a listen below.
Talking about ‘Flake’, the duo explained in a statement: “It’s one step forward, two steps back. Sometimes when you feel like you’re heading in the right direction, you slip up and fall back into old habits. You only have yourself to blame, but aren’t your parents to blame for how you end up? It’s really a fuck you to myself and my dad. Our legacy of shit. Sonically it’s Barenaked Ladies meets Fleetwood Mac. And that’s Twitch live streamer Dakotaz in the opening of the song! Accidentally caught in the recording crossfire.”
Low have cancelled their upcoming tour dates in Europea and the UK, citing Mimi Parker’s ongoing cancer treatment. “As some of you know, Mimi has been fighting cancer,” the band wrote on social media. “Recent developments and changes in treatment have made extensive travel impossible at this time. Our hope is that she will respond to new treatments and be able to play the shows we have scheduled for the fall, including the Water Is Life festival in Duluth on September 4.”
They added: “We are very sorry for the inconvenience of ticket shuffling and travel expenses/changes. We welcome your positive hopes/prayers as we hope and pray for you all.”
Parker was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in late 2020. She first spoke publicly about her diagnosis on the Sheroes Radio podcast in January. The band have played a number of shows this year in support of their latest album, HEY WHAT, including a stop at Primavera Sound 2022. They’re set to open for Death Cab for Cutie on a handful of their 2022 tour dates.
