Braids have returned with a new single called ‘Retriever’. It marks their first new music since the release of the 2021 tracks ‘Slayer Moon’ and ‘2020’. Take a listen below.
The Montreal-based band – composed of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Austin Tufts, and Taylor Smith – described ‘Retriever’ as “a 9-minute journey track, simple in its sentiment of love and friendship, yet complex in its lush arrangement and textural experimentation.” They added: “We returned to our roots with this one, exploring new corners of sound, collaboration and a ‘DGAF’ attitude with where we ended up. This song is a trip back to euphoric freedom and lightness during a time of intense isolation. We were happy to travel there, and for you to now dive into it.”
Braids’ most recent album, Shadow Offering, came out in 2020.
California-based singer-songwriter Cornelia Murr has released a new single called ‘All Souls’. It marks her first new music since the 2021 single ‘Hang Yr Hat’. Check it out via the self-directed video below, along with Murr’s upcoming tour dates with Dana Gavanski.
“‘All Souls’ is about how love expands and enriches us even when it’s not returned,” Murr explained in a statement. “It’s about how grief can turn ecstatic as it connects us to the whole, showing us who or what we love in everyone and everything, reminding us we’re made of the same love we wish to receive. It’s about how our capacity to feel, even in grief, is a super power.”
Cornelia Murr 2022 Tour Dates:
September 9 – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade
September 10 – Frome, UK – The Tree House
September 11 – Brighton, UK – The Prince Albert
September 12 – London, UK – Moth Club
September 14 – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
September 15 – Manchester, UK – Yes
September 16 – Edinburgh, UK – The Voodoo Rooms
September 18 – Oxford, UK – Florence Park Community Centre
“A tupperware party was an event hosted by pyramid sellers in the mid-20th century to sell tupperware products to their friends,” Bleach explained in a statement. “I thought it would make the perfect backdrop for this story – even the background characters are desperate to break out of suburban monotony. Tupperware Party is about a wall-street banker who hates his life, so embarks on a quest to find his first love, a girl from his improv group in college.”
UK artist NANCY has announced that his debut LP, English Leather, will be out on October 28 via Blame Recordings. To celebrate the announcement, NANCY has unveiled the new single ‘Would You Be My Judy?’, which follows the previously released track ‘I Hate Rock & Roll’. Check it out below.
“When I was 18 I moved from Sunderland to Brighton,” NANCY said of the new song in a statement. “It was a culture shock, a mix of the thrilling, terrifying and profound. My song ‘Judy’ is a story of mine from that time, when I was learning who I was, experimenting and exploring everything that life had to offer me.”
English Leather will follow NANCY’s 2021 mini-LP 7 Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues.
English Leather Cover Artwork:
English Leather Tracklist:
1. English Leather
2. Can’t Get Rid Of You
3. Would You Be My Judy?
4. Ruby
5. Moonlight
6. Driftwood
7. I Caught Feelings
8. I Hate Rock & Roll
9. Black Choral Bells
10. -Sweet Like Sugarcane
The New York band Altopalo have teamed up with Bartees Strange for the new single ‘love that 4 u’. The track will appear on Altopalo’s upcoming album frenemy, which lands on September 23 via Nettwerk. Check out its accompanying video, courtesy of POND Creative, below.
Altopalo drummer Dillon Treacy said of the collaboration in a statement: “This joint is a diss track to ourselves. Every line in the song is a feeling one of us has had to the other and are all very honest feelings that we have talked about internally. We sometimes have a round table roasting where we’re like ‘hey, this thing that u do bothers me and imma letcha know about it.’ IDK if it’s the healthiest but it works for us. Also, Bartees with the guest verse is something we’ve never done and I’m so happy he contributes to the spirit of the song. The ride out at the end has always represented the coming together after an emotional conversation. regardless of what we say, we come together and know that our love knows no bounds and we’re always gonna be there for each other.”
Bartees Strange added, “I was really excited to contribute to this song because I believe in altopalo so much. They’re so bril. Also – I know how much they have been through as a band. So contributing a verse to a song that’s really about their journey to become closer was a gift.”
Bartees Strange released his sophomore album, Farm to Table, earlier this year.
Editors have shared their latest single, ‘Kiss’. It’s lifted from their upcoming seventh album EBM, their first with Benjamin John Power (aka Blanck Mass) as a full-time member. The song’s accompanying video was conceptualized by guitarist Justin Lockey and directed by Lockey’s brother’s production company Hand Held Cine Club. The clip features dancers Harry Ondrak-Wright and Rory Macleod, with choreography from Sophia Hurdley. Watch and listen below.
“The idea of this video came out of a want to do something simple and abstract that didn’t read too deep into the lyrics or any kind of blow by blow literal take on the lyrics,” Lockey explained in a statement. “It was more about using the title to spark a theme to work on, using movement as the core medium. The idea I landed on would be to show the story of two souls constantly attracting and repelling each other, never quite fully coming together… until ultimately they succumb to being intertwined together for better or for worse.”
Santigold has shared another sample of her forthcoming album Spirituals. ‘Shake’, which was produced by SBTRKT, follows the previously shared singles ‘High Priestess’, ‘Ain’t Ready’, and ‘Nothing’. It arrives alongside an accompanying video, which you can check out below.
Santigold shared the following statement about the new song:
‘Shake’ is one of those songs that was just floating around me for the taking. What I mean is that there are some songs that basically write themselves, and all you have to do as the artist is be open enough to reach out and pull it in and say thank you. When that happens I am always so grateful because it’s like the universe just handed me a gem. I sit down to write and as soon as I open my mouth the song just pours out. In this instance SBTRKT had sent me several tracks he’d been working on, and this one stood out because it sounded so different from anything I’d ever heard from him, and also so unlike anything I had ever done before. I literally stepped in front of the mic, and opened my mouth and said “ooh – hoo, shake, shake shake!”, and the whole rest of the melody poured out from there. And then when I sat down to finish the lyrics, they came just as quick. I can’t say this song is about one thing, as much as it’s about a feeling. It’s about flow, about riding the ebb and flows of life, it’s about rolling with it, moving through it, letting it all move through you. And it’s about the feeling in that moment when you feel life flowing through you, the rapture of it all. It’s about our resilience as humans, and our ability to keep rising back up in the face of hardship and moving forward.
Of the video, she added: “For this piece, I was inspired by the images of the civil rights protesters being pounded with high-pressure water hoses, turned on them by the authorities, during their peaceful protests. The strength and fortitude that it took for them, many just teenagers and young adults, to endure what they did and keep going, is monumental. This video is an homage to them, in which I try to power through singing this song while enduring the pain of a high-pressure water hose.”
Spirituals comes out September 9 via Santigold’s label Little Jerk Records.
Disq have shared a new single from their forthcoming sophomore album, Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet, which arrives on October 7 via Saddle Creek. It’s called ‘If Only’, and it follows the lead cut ‘Cujo Kiddies’. Listen to it below.
Discussing the new song, the band’s Isaac deBroux-Slone explained in a statement:
This is a song to listen to when you’re confused about somebody’s intent in a relationship. It started as a sort of “British invasion” vibe but I wanted to take it in a more interesting direction. The feeling of the song is longing and I thought some of the wistful chords and moods from the plethora of ‘90s and 2000’s indie I’d been listening to at the time would fit just right, so I pulled those influences in. The band and I fleshed it out into something close to its current state after I had the initial idea in the Summer of 2020 but something was still missing… It felt “boring” to me so I had my friend Matthew Sanborn come over and help me figure out some new chords to insert into the middle of the song. I added the synth guitar solo over it all and what we now internally refer to as the “freak out” section was born. We attempted to inject as many nostalgic moments and sonic sighs into “If Only” as we could. Hopefully the results tug on your heartstrings.
Talking about the track, Wienman explained in a press statement: “I wrote ‘Vines’ a few years ago. It’s a tiny song about placing a lot of weight on seemingly small memories, and living with the love and frustration of those moments, both then and now. The title was inspired by a conversation with my sister and I want to thank her for that because I write most of my songs starting with the title.”
Moby and serpentwithfeet have teamed up for the new song ‘On Air’. It marks the second release via Moby’s new label, Always Centered at Night. Check out its accompanying video, directed by Moby and LA filmmaker Mike Formanski, below.
“One of the greatest things about Always Centered at Night is working with remarkable singers,” Moby said in a statement. “Serpentwithfeet has an approach to music and vocals that I find to be fascinating and beautiful.”
Along with the announcement of the label in June, Moby shared ‘Medusa’, a collaboration with Aynzli Jones.
