Loraine James has shared a new track from her upcoming album Building Something Beautiful For Me, which pays homage to the late New York composer Julius Eastman. It’s called ‘Choose to Be Gay’, and it riffs on Eastman’s ‘Femenine’. Listen to it below.
Building Something Beautiful For Me is scheduled for release on October 7 via Phantom Limb. It includes the previously unveiled song ‘Maybe If I (Stay On It)’.
Hailey Beavis has announced her debut album, I’ll Put You Where The Trombone Slides, which arrives November 4 via Ok Pal Records. To accompany the announcement, the indie folk artist has shared a new single called ‘Crow’. Check it out, along with the LP’s cover and tracklist, below.
“Looking back at my life, I could suddenly see the pattern, and I felt like the wrong type of animal, always trying to fit the mould and be something for somebody else,” Beavis said of ‘Crow’ in a press release. “But at some point you have to accept your own true nature instead of trying to make it small and hidden. You have to be uncompromising and you have to walk away from things.”
Talking about the album, she added: “I want to throw a rope around every feeling, every moment and haul it around with me just as much as I want to set it all on fire and be free. Making an album seems like the perfect compromise. A place to put it all. I like the idea of all of this abstract emotion perpetually suspended in the act of the trombone being played. It’s quite a surreal thought, yet it’s comforting to me.”
I’ll Put You Where The Trombone Slides Cover Artwork:
I’ll Put You Where The Trombone Slides Tracklist:
1. Anything That Shines
2. Shipwreck
3. Sinking Sunset
4. All It Takes
5. Crow
6. Blackbird
7. Shot At The Coconut
8. Shark Bite
9. New Heat
10. Happier
11. Back To The Water
Placebo have shared a cover of Tears for Fears’ classic 1985 single ‘Shout’. Check it out below.
Placebo released their latest album, Never Let Me Go, back in March. They’re set to embark on a tour of the UK and Ireland later this year.
The WAEVE, the new project consisting of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall, has announced their self-titled debut album. It arrives on February 3, 2023 via Transgressive. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared a video for the new single ‘Can I Call You’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
THE WAEVE was recorded earlier this year with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence & The Machine, Foals, HAIM). The band released the standalone single ‘Something Pretty’ back in May.
The WAEVE Cover Artwork:
The WAEVE Tracklist:
1. Can I Call You
2. Kill Me Again
3. Over And Over
4. Sleepwalking
5. Drowning
6. Someone Up There
7. All Along
8. Undine
9. Alone And Free
10. You’re All I Want To Know
Brooklyn-based post-punk band S.C.A.B. have announced their self-titled album, which will drop on November 11 via Grind Select. Lead single ‘Tuesday’ is out today and comes with an accompanying video directed by Matthew Marino. Check it out below.
“‘Tuesday’ is a song about disillusionment with trying to form meaningful connections, and searching aimlessly for something worthwhile,” the band’s Sean Camargo said in a statement. “There’s a scene from Seinfeld where Newman says “Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel…” and that type of unspecific, hard to pinpoint vibe is what I wanted to express with the lyrics… you’re trying to get through the week, find any ounce of happiness to cling on to (sitting in the sun, feeling it burning your skin), looking for something but not finding it.”
S.C.A.B. Cover Artwork:
S.C.A.B. Tracklist:
1. Why Do I Dream Of You
2. MTA LUX
3. Small Talk
4. Tuesday
5. C86
6. Six Songs Into Your Spotify Playlist
7. Beige and Green
8. Myrtle-Wyckoff
9. Rockefeller Pleather
10. Pink Tire
Sorry have dropped a new single from their upcoming LP Anywhere But Here. Following previous offerings ‘There’s So Many People That Want to Be Loved’ and ‘Let the Lights On’, ‘Key to the City’ arrives with an accompanying music video directed by FLASHA. Listen and watch below.
“‘Key to the City’ is a song that stemmed from a very specific situation in my life but that I hope has a more universal resonance,” Asha Lorenz explained in a press release. “It’s meant as a kind of tender ‘fuck you’ at the dying moment of a relationship you don’t necessarily want to end – when it’s hard to reconcile feelings of anger, jealousy, resentment etc. with the undeniable love you still have for that person. That crossover of pride and vulnerability led me to an image of a deer in the headlights. It’s about trying your hardest to retain control when you know you’re exposed emotionally, sexually, spiritually, everything. In the nude of the headlights, in the nude of someone’s love.”
She continued: “The song came together after the original recording session and stemmed from Louis experimenting with new tunings to give us a bit of a push. This one has a Nick Drake feel. We wanted it to sound cinematic and lonely.”
Anywhere But Here lands on October 7 via Domino.
Philadelphia’s 2nd Grave have released a new song, ‘Me & My Blue Angels’, lifted from their forthcoming second LP Easy Listening. Check it out below.
“I wrote ‘Me & My Blue Angels’ about my band, but really it goes out to anyone who you trust 100% to have your back when the shit hits the fan,” the band’s Peter Gill explained in a statement. “As a kid I would go to the air show in Brunswick, Maine and be awed by the sights and sounds of stunt planes overhead performing dangerous aerial fugues in tight formation. The melody and overall composition here are meant to emulate the force, grace, grandiosity, and technical precision of the Blue Angels’ flight paths.”
Easy Listening is set to arrive on September 30 via Double Double Whammy. It features the previously shared track ‘Strung Out on You’.
Courtney Maries has unveiled her new single ‘These Are the Good Old Days’, the latest preview of her forthcoming album Loose Future. Check it out below.
“‘These are the good old days’ is a saying my uncle always says to try and remind us of the beauty of the now,” Andrews explained in a statement. “I tend to always live in a constant state of hindsight being 20/20, and I wanted to write this as a sort of mantra to honor my family’s sentiment. I also genuinely wanted to write a feel-good song after such a dark few years. Even in the saddest of times, there are little moments you’ll always look back on with a fondness that don’t seem so sad after all – they seem perfectly placed.”
Loose Future is slated for release on October 7 via Fat Possum. ‘These Are the Good Old Days’ follows the previously shared singles ‘Satellite’ and the title track.
LA-based, Iranian-American producer Maral has announced a new album titled Ground Groove, which is due out October 18 via Leaving Records. To mark the announcement, Maral has shared the lead single ‘Feedback Jam’, alongside a video directed by Brenna Murphy, who also designed the album artwork. Check it out below.
The making of the ‘Feedback Jam’ video, Murphy explained in a press release, involved “working with simple geometries, atomizing them and composing recipes for flowing surfaces. The forms reflect structures I picked up in Maral’s sound – hinges, doorways, moving walls.”
Ground Groove will follow Maral’s 2020 record Push and 2019’s Mahur Club. Last year, she collaborated with Animal Collective’s Panda Bear on the track ‘On Your Way’.
Ground Groove Cover Artwork:
Ground Groove Tracklist:
1. Feedback Jam
2. Heart Shimmer
3. Avaz-e-Del
4. Hold My Hand, Go For a Walk
5. That’s Okay, Ruin it
6. Shy Night [feat. Brenna Murphy]
7. Come Around
8. Behind the Rock and Into the Tunnel
9. Mari’s Groove
10. A Walk and A Talk
11. Glimmer’s Kiss
Jobber – the New York band led by guitarist/vocalist Kate Meizner and drummer Mike Falcone, both current members of Hellrazor – have announced their debut EP and shared its lead single. The Hell in a Cell EP comes out October 21 via Exploding in Sound. Check out a music video for ‘Entrance Theme’ below.
“Hell in a Cell can be interpreted two ways,” Meizner said in a statement. “It’s the name of a notorious annual event where wrestlers fight for titles in a giant cage – but to me it’s also being a worker but to me it’s also being a worker in a cubicle cell or warehouse or rideshare vehicle, living the hell of spending most waking hours at an exploitative job devoid of basic labor protections.”
Of ‘Entrance Theme’, she told FLOOD: “I challenged myself to go against my natural intuition to write songs with lots of twists and turns, and instead pen a cohesive, fuzzed-out pop song in the style of The Cars and The Rentals to be an entrance theme for a babyface wrestler – which is wrestling jargon to describe one of the ‘good guys’.”
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