“’Call Me Home’ is dedicated to anyone who has blown up their life just to remember what it’s like to feel something,” Sasami said in a press release. “It’s about the darkness of feeling nothing and the creeping ache of apathy that can swallow you whole if you let it. It’s about skipping town, driving all night and knowing you’ll always have a home to come back to.”
Squeeze is due for release on February 25 via Domino.
Mallrat, the moniker of Australian pop songwriter Grace Shaw, has released a new single called ‘Your Love’. Check out the track, which was co-produced by Stylaz Fuego, below.
“When I wrote ‘Your Love’, I was listening to a lot of old Memphis rap, like Three 6 Mafia and Project Pat,” Shaw explained in a press release. “I genuinely loved producing this song, and am obsessed with the energy that the Gangsta Pat sample brings.”
She continued: “I shot the Your Love video in Tasmania with my friends James Robinson (Director) and Amy Dellar (Cinematographer). My favourite shots are in the final scene – it was 1am and we spontaneously decided to shoot on the football field. And then the sprinklers came on and it was magic.”
Following a trio of EPs, Mallrat returned last year with the single ‘Rockstar’.
Norwegian art-pop outfit Mall Girl have announced their debut album, Superstar, set for release on April 29 via Jansen Records. Today, the band have shared their new single ‘For Hannah’, which follows the previously shared ‘Bachtap’ and ‘Bubbly Cool Drink’. Check it out below.
Elaborating on the new single, Mall Girl said in a statement: “All the feelings and thoughts you hide from the other person in a relationship, where do they end up and what will they lead to? As life keeps on moving forward towards an uncertain future, you sit and wonder what your desires are in the midst of all the uncertainty. These questions are the story told in this song: “Who will catch me if I fall? Will you run if things get too tough? What are your true, inner desires?” And until you get your answers you’ll sit down, observe the world around you and try to find as much comfort in the future unfolding before your eyes.”
Members Iver Armand Tandsether, Hannah Veslemøy Narvesen, Eskild Myrvoll, and Bethany Forseth-Reichberg recorded the LP at Studio Paradiso in Oslo with longtime collaborator Marcus Forsgren. “Because of COVID regulations and the four of us living in two different cities, we changed the way we worked with the songs quite radically in the months leading up to the studio recording,” Narvesen explained. “We’ve always been very oriented towards the live performance of the songs, including when we compose them together in our rehearsal space. That way of working has led to some challenges when recording, as you end up listening to the songs in a different manner and might figure out you should have done everything differently.”
Superstar Cover Artwork:
Superstar Tracklist:
1. Pink NASA
2. Lilies Dew
3. Bubbly Cool Drink
4. Feel Like Crying
5. Dance Alone
5. Close My Eyes
6. Bachtap
7. Poolside Person
8. Think About It
9. For Hannah
10. Machine Gun Mystery
11. Slush
12. See My Soul
13. You And I
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have announced their next album: Endless Rooms is due out May 6 via Sub Pop. The announcement arrives with the release of a new single called ‘The Way It Shatters’, which is accompanied by a Nick Mckk-directed video. Check it out and find the album’s cover art and tracklist below.
“It’s about how ending up in your particular situation in life is the result of absolute randomness,” the band said of the new song in a statement. “If you happen to be born into wealthy Australia or happen to be born into a war zone in Syria. That’s just the way it shatters. So it’s when this good luck is mistaken for a sense of pride in one’s self or their country they become confused and deluded about what’s important. It’s when those on the other side of the luck scale are completely othered and considered not worthy.”
The group’s five members exchanged ideas for Endless Rooms online during Australia’s lockdowns. Between lockdowns, the band were able to decamp to a mud-brick house the Russo family built in the bush in the ’70s (featured on the album cover) to record the LP, which they self-produced alongside collaborator Matt Duffy. The record was informed by the acoustics of the space and includes field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind. “It’s almost an anti-concept album,” the band explained. “The Endless Rooms of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. We treat each of them as a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities.”
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever put out their sophomore album, Sideways to New Italy, in 2020.
Endless Rooms Cover Artwork:
Endless Rooms Tracklist:
1. Pearl Like You
2. Tidal River
3. The Way It Shatters
4. Caught Low
5. My Echo
6. Dive Deep
7. Open Up Your Window
8. Blue Eye Lake
9. Saw You At The Eastern Beach
10. Vanishing Dots
11. Endless Rooms
12. Bounce Off The Bottom
Kamasi Washington made his late night television debut last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing his brand new track ‘The Garden Path’. Watch it below.
‘The Garden Path’ was released just yesterday, marking the jazz saxophonist’s first new music in nearly a year. In 2021, he shared the track ‘Sun Kissed Child’ for The Undefeated’s Music For The Movement series and contributed a cover of Metallica’s ‘My Friend of Misery’ for their The Metallica Blacklist compilation. Washington’s latest studio album was 2018’s Heaven and Earth, which he followed with a score for Netflix’s 2020 Michelle Obama documentary Becoming.
King Crimson have unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming documentary In the Court of the Crimson King. The film, directed by Toby Amies and commissioned by King Crimson, will have its world premiere at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival in March. The new clip features a conversation with bandleader Robert Fripp, live concert footage, and more. Check it out below.
“What began as a traditional documentary about the legendary band King Crimson as it turned 50, mutated into an exploration of time, death, family, and the transcendent power of music to change lives; but with jokes,” the film’s official description reads. “In the Court of the Crimson King is a dark, comic film for anyone who wonders whether it is worth sacrificing everything for just a single moment of transcendence. It explores the unique creative environment of King Crimson, one in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary demands on the band’s members – only alleviated by the applause of an audience whose adoration threatens to make their lives even harder. It’s a rewarding and perilous space in which the extraordinary is possible, nothing is certain, and not everyone survives intact.”
In 2019, King Crimson celebrated the band’s 50th anniversary by going on an extensive tour and releasing a new box set for their 1969 debut LP, In the Court of the Crimson King.
Australian producer Flume has announced a new album titled Palaces, which will be released on May 20 via Future Classic and Transgressive. It features guest spots from Damon Albarn, Caroline Polachek, Oklou, Kučka, and Vergen Maria. Lead single ‘Say Nothing’, featuring May-A, is out now alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork (by Jonathan Zawada) and tracklist.
“This song is about feelings of post relationship clarity,” Flume explained in a statement. “We wrote the song midway through 2020 while the pandemic was still pretty new. I was really excited about the initial idea but it was only once I got back to Australia in early 2021 and linked up in the studio with May-A that the song really came to life.”
“Working with Flume on ‘Say Nothing’ has been a really incredible experience,” MAY-A added. “I’m such a big fan of Harley’s so it’s unbelievable to be in a position to create music with someone I look up to and can learn so much from. His creative process is a really inspiring thing to be a part of. I’m so excited for everyone to hear the song!”
Palaces Cover Artwork:
Palaces Tracklist:
1. Highest Building [feat. Oklou]
2. Say Nothing [feat. May-A]
3. DHLC
4. Escape [feat. Kučka] – with Quiet Bison
5. I Can’t Tell [feat. Laurel]
6. Get U
7. Jasper’s Song
8. Only Fans
9. Hollow [feat. Emma Louise]
10. Love Light
11. Sirens [feat. Caroline Polachek]
12. Go
13. Palaces [feat. Damon Albarn]
British electronic producer Loraine James has announced her debut album under the ambient alias Whatever the Weather. The self-titled record arrives April 8 via Ghostly International. It’s led by the new single ’17°C’, which comes with a video directed by Michael Reisinger. Check it out below.
Each of the album’s 10 tracks takes its name from a different temperature and aims to mirror its mood, with James describing her approach as “free-flowing, stopping when I felt like I was done.” She cites Deftones’ Chino Moreno and American Football’s Mike Kinsella as influences for her singing on the project.
James released her most recent album, Reflection, last year. Read about it in our 50 Best Album Covers of 2021 list.
illuminati hotties have released a new one-off single called ‘sandwich sharer’. Check it out below.
“‘Sandwich Sharer’ was very much written at the precipice of unknowns – I was seeking a teammate at a time where I felt swayed by nostalgia for youth as opposed to the reality of the momentum of life,” Sarah Tudzin explained in a statement. “And it feels so good to be close to someone who knows you so well it’s like you finish each others’… sandwiches.”
illuminati hotties’ latest album, Let Me Do One More, dropped last year. Next week, the band will embark on a North American tour that will feature shows with Fenne Lilly, Pom Pom Squad, and Katy Kirby.
String Machine have released ‘Soft Tyranny’, the latest offering from their upcoming album Hallelujah Hell Yeah. Check out a lyric video for the track below.
“This song was probably the most challenging to write,” vocalist David Beck explained in a statement about the new single. “This was me confronting the ways I had expressed certain emotions, and feeling guilty about it.” He added: “The synth lead after the choruses was very much a callback to one of my favorite bands, Motion City Soundtrack. There were many moments on this album that we all decided to let our guards down and unashamedly let certain influences in.”
