poolblood, the moniker of Toronto artist Maryam Said, has shared a new single called ‘twinkie’, which was produced by Shamir, via Next Door Records. Check out its accompanying Emma Cosgrove-directed visual below.
“‘twinkie’ is a song I wrote about the tenderness of time, time as a source of love, and the way time is the ultimate parent,” Said explained in a statement. “Starting over is as sweet as a golden sponge cake. The song is about starting over, so it was great timing to have Emma and I shoot the video while the flowers were blooming.”
Pianos Become the Teeth have shared a new single, ‘Skiv’, lifted from their upcoming album Drift – out August 26 via Epitaph Records. The track follows lead offering ‘Genevieve’, and you can listen to it below.
“[Skiv] is one of my favorite songs we have ever done,” guitarist Mike York commented in a statement. “It’s slow and brooding and feels uncomfortably dry at times. This song feels like what a 3 AM night feels like to me after having too much to drink.”
Ty Segall has released the latest single from his forthcoming LP “Hello, Hi”, which is due out July 22 via Drag City. Following ‘Saturday Pt. 2’ and the title track, ‘Don’t Lie’ is a cover of a song by The Mantles, which originally appeared on the Oakland band’s 2009 self-titled debut. Give it a listen below.
“Hello, Hi” will follow last year’s surprise-released Harmonizer, as well as Segall’s recently released soundtrack to the Matt Yoka documentary Whirlybird.
New Jersey indie-punks Well Wisher have signed to Egghunt Records, marking the announcement with a single called ‘Need You Around’. It’s taken from a forthcoming album that’s due out in the fall. Check out the song’s accompanying video below.
“‘Need You Around’ is about fragility and the need for others’ love,” lead singer Natalie Newbold explained in a statement. “After playing a pretty isolating solo show in Jersey City, I wrote it in my head on the drive home. The song is largely for my partner and visual collaborator, Jenna Murphy. The rain was really coming down that night, just pouring, and it was sometime in late Spring; I hadn’t really eaten very much, so needless to say, my ride was a little uncomfortable. As I spiraled through the looping highways of North Jersey to get home, all I could think about was getting there, curling up in bed with Jenna, and how the whole debacle made me feel so grateful for her comfort, safety, and love.”
Well Wisher released their debut album, This Is Fine, in 2018.
PONY, the Toronto pop-punk outfit led by Sam Bielanski, has dropped a new single called ‘Did It Again’. “It highlights how well we can mask our emotions, even right up to the moment that we break down,” Bielanski said in a statement, commenting on the single’s cover artwork. Check it out below.
‘Did It Again’ follows PONY’s debut LP, TV Baby, which came out last spring. Earlier this year, Bielanski joined the cast of the My Little Pony series Tell Your Tale, voicing the character of Jazz. Next month, they’ll be accompanying Fucked Up on their David Comes to Life tour.
Peach Fuzz is a new supergroup featuring Raffaella, Samia, Sara L’Abriola (Hank), and Victoria Zaro (Ryann). Today, they’ve announced their debut EP, Can Mary Dood the Moon?, which comes out July 22 via Psychic Hotline, the label founded by Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn. It was produced by Sachi DiSerafino (Joy Again), Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Lupin), and Caleb Hinz (Baby Boys). Check out the new single ‘Hey Dood’ below, along with the EP’s cover art and tracklist.
Raffaella dropped her latest single, ‘BUICK’, earlier this month on Mom+Pop. Samia followed up her 2020 debut The Baby with the Scout EP last year.
Can Mary Dood the Moon? Cover Artwork:
Can Mary Dood the Moon? Tracklist:
1. Hey Dood
2. Shaking the Can
3. I Saw the Moon
4. Mary’s Gone Crackers
R.E.M. have announced a reissue of their debut EP, Chronic Town, in honour of its 40th anniversary. Featuring songs like ‘Gardening at Night’, ‘Wolves, Lower’, and ‘1,000,000’, the new edition is due for release on August 19 (via I.R.S./UMe) on CD, picture disc, and cassette.
The reissue comes with liner notes by the original producer Mitch Easter. “One might fancifully say that Chronic Town was the sound of an expedition, ready for anything, setting forth,” Easter said in a statement about the EP, which followed the band’s breakout 1981 single ‘Radio Free Europe’. “If R.E.M.’s ‘Radio Free Europe’ single was a signpost, the Chronic Town EP was the atlas.”
Hudson Mohawke has announced his third studio album: Cry Sugar arrives on August 12 via Warp Records. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Bicstan’, which is accompanied by a kingcon2k11-directed visual, as well as ‘Cry Sugar (Megamix)’. Take a listen below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork (by Wayne horse Willehad Eilers).
For Cry Sugar, Mohawke drew inspiration from apocalyptic film soundtracks by everyone from the late Vangelis to John Williams. The album follows a series of mixtapes the Scottish producer put out in 2020: B.B.H.E., Poom Gems, and Airborne Lard. Back in 2016, he composed the soundtrack for the video game Watch Dogs 2.
NNAMDÏ has today announced a new album, Please Have a Seat, his first for new label home Secretly Canadian. It’s slated for release on October 7. The first single ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Famous’ is out today, and it comes with an accompanying video directed by Austin Vesley. Check it out and find the album cover (by Austin Call/duhrivative) and tracklist below.
NNAMDÏ wrote, produced, and performed the 14 songs on Please Have a Seat entirely himself. “I realised I never take time to just sit and take in where I’m at,” the Chicago multri-instrumentalist said in a press release. “It’s just nice to not be on ‘Go, Go, Go!’ mode, and reevaluate where I wanted to go musically. I wanted to be present.”
NNAMDÏ released his last LP, Brat, in 2020. It was followed by two EPs, Black Plight and last year’s Are You Happy.
Please Have a Seat Cover Artwork:
Please Have a Seat Tracklist:
1. Ready to Run
2. Armoire
3. Dibs
4. Touchdown
5. Grounded
6. I Don’t Wanna Be Famous
7. ANXIOUS EATER
8. Anti
9. Dedication
10. Smart Ass
11. Benched
12. Careful
13. Lifted
14. Somedays
My Morning Jacket’s Jim James has announced a deluxe reissue of his 2013 debut solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God, which will include the original nine-track album along with a bonus LP featuring rare B-sides, previously unreleased demos, and alternate takes. It will be available on July 29 via ATO Records. Listen to the previously unheard song ‘Read Between (Begin Again)’ below.
“I have changed a lot since then, many times over,” James reflected in a statement. “So, in a lot of ways, it’s like a time machine, thinking about these songs, remembering what life was like back then. What I have gained and lost since. It makes me feel grateful for all of the gifts I have been given and for all of the love I have experienced in my life. It also makes me really miss some people, places, and things as well that I know I can never get back. It’s wild how as we age, we become more and more aware, more and more conscious, at least it seems that way to me. For most of my life, I feel like I was just RUNNING…trying my best but not fully conscious or aware of what was really happening. So lost – for better or worse. Not that we ever will be fully aware of anything but when I look back a lot of the time, I get this feeling where I am just blown away by how much we change as life goes on, and it seems to me one of the supreme gifts of getting older is increased awareness.”
Commenting on ‘Read Between (Begin Again)’, he added:
I wrote ‘Read Between’ about my great aunt who was suffering from dementia at the time,” James says. “It is so wild to watch someone you love slowly disappear right before your eyes mentally while their body continues to hang on for a while. Really made me question the nature of the soul and spirit – what exactly is it that truly makes a person who they are? Where does ‘the soul’ go as dementia sets in? Is the soul slowly slipping into the next realm but part of it is hanging on and doesn’t want to let go yet? Is the soul gone and the body left to just spit out random information? It’s so WILD to watch that notion of ‘soul’ slip away in someone and wonder if one day it will slip away for me too in a similar way? As I zoomed out from it and thought more about the nature of death in general, I really have learned in a lot of ways to come to peace with death and accept that it is just another doorway – the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another, so in that way it also makes me feel really excited about what possibilities lay beyond the end of this particular lifetime. Not that I am in any hurry for this lifetime to be over but also, I am excited to see what comes next. Who knows?!
Last year, My Morning Jacket released their self-titled album. Jim James’ last solo LP was 2018’s Uniform Clarity.
Regions of Light and Sound of God (Deluxe Reissue) Tracklist:
Side A:
State of The Art (A.E.I.O.U.)
Know Til Now
Dear One
A New Life
Exploding
Side B:
Of The Mother Again
Actress
All Is Forgiven
God’s Love To Deliver
Side C:
All Is Forgiven (Alt Version)
State of The Art (A.E.I.O.U.) [Demo]
A New Life (Alt Version)
Dear One (Demo)
God’s Love To Deliver (Demo)
Side D:
You Always Know
Read Between (Begin Again)
Epichord
Sweets
Moving Away (Alt Version)
Hallway of Trees
