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Big Thief’s James Krivchenia Announces New Album ‘Blood Karaoke’, Shares New Song

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Big Thief’s James Krivchenia Announces New Album ‘Blood Karaoke’, Shares New Song

Big Thief drummer and producer James Krivchenia has announced a new solo album: Blood Karaoke is set for release on April 15 via Reading Group. He’s also released the experimental LP’s lead single, ‘Emissaries of Creation’. Listen to it below.

Krivchenia put together Blood Karaoke by sampling unwatched YouTube videos found through random online generators, including clips of Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations, video game walkthroughs, old local news clips, and more. “It was a very iterative, long process, lots of editing and putting together little moments or 10 second chunks with lots of samples. The music was conceived to be a somewhat unbroken 40 minute long composition and I think of the singles as excerpts,” he explained in a statement.

Big Thief issued their fifth album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, last month. The LP was produced and conceptualized Krivchenia, who put out his last solo album, A New Found Relaxation, in 2020.

Blood Karaoke Cover Artwork:

Blood Karaoke Tracklist:

1. Emissaries of Creation
2. Null States
3. Culture Complex
4. Calendrical Rot
5. Artifact of Error
6. Inherited Forms
7. The Trackless Way
8. Scaleable Future Self Continuity Interventions
9. Sub-Creational Reality
10. The Science of Imaginary Solutions
11. God In Every Way
12. Styles of Imprisonment
13. Exaptation
14. Wall Facer

Neneh Cherry Enlists Robyn and Mapei for New Version of ‘Buffalo Stance’

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Neneh Cherry Enlists Robyn and Mapei for New Version of ‘Buffalo Stance’

Neneh Cherry has enlisted Robyn and Mapei for a new version of her 1988 song ‘Buffalo Stance’. Devonté Hynes contributes production on the song, which will appear on a “forthcoming collaboration album,” according to a press release. Give it a listen below.

Cherry said of the collaboration in a statement:

I love that I could write an essay with all the things I could say about Robyn and I love that she leaves me speechless at the same time. Her talent is soulful because she leads with her heart and spirit, she is absolutely there, ever present with honest intensity in her offerings which leave me blubbering with hairs standing erect on my arms and legs, dancing on my own talking to myself with a feeling that everything is going to be alright. The first time I saw Robyn live in Stockholm with my daughter Mabel (then a young struggling teenager) she only said two things that night: “Hej Stockholm” and in the middle of a song shouted out “MABEL!” Mabel was so happy I had tears streaming down my cheeks. Robyn gave everything and when she needed a pick-me-up she ate a banana….she stole my heart. I’ve known Robyn for 3 decades, she is my sister, my friend, my family, a creative inspiration. So to have Robyn doing her version of a new life interpretation of ‘Buffalo Stance’ is an absolute honour…and with Dev Hynes and Mapei, this is what dreams are made of!

Cherry’s most recent album, Broken Politics, arrived in 2018.

Kevin Morby Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Single

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Kevin Morby Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Single

Kevin Morby has announced a new album called This Is a Photograph. The follow-up to 2020’s Sundowner will be released on May 13 via Dead Oceans. Today, Morby has shared the album’s title track, which comes with an accompanying video directed by Chantal Anderson and filmed in a remote California town. Check it out below and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.

The new album was helmed by Morby’s frequent collaborator Sam Cohen, who also produced 2016’s Singing Saw and 2019’s Oh My God. Collaborators on the record include Cassandra Jenkins, Makaya McCraven, Tim Heidecker, Alia Shawkat, and others.

“Sam Cohen and I wanted to throw everything at the wall with this one. It’s about the battle every family faces, that of chasing the clock, to live our lives and hold onto one another for as long as possible,” Morby explained in a statement. “That, and, the dreams that come with being a young family in America and where those dreams eventually end up.”

This Is a Photograph Cover Artwork:

This Is a Photograph Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. This Is A Photograph
3. A Random Act Of Kindness
4. Bittersweet, TN
5. Disappearing
6. A Coat Of Butterflies
7. Rock Bottom
8. Forever Inside A Picture
9. Five Easy Pieces
10. Stop Before I Cry
11. It’s Over
12. Goodbye To Good Times

Emma Ruth Rundle Announces ‘Orpheus Looking Back’ EP, Unveils New Song

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Emma Ruth Rundle Announces ‘Orpheus Looking Back’ EP, Unveils New Song

Emma Ruth Rundle has announced the Orpheus Looking Back EP, a collection of unreleased songs from the sessions of her latest album, Engine of Hell. It’s out March 25 via Sargent House. Listen to the new track ‘Pump Organ Song’ and find the EP’s cover artwork and tracklist below.

Orpheus Looking Back opens with ‘Gilded Cage’, a song Rundle wrote in Berlin several years ago that was “an outlier and couldn’t make the cut but deserved to live beyond the live show somehow.”

Of the second track, ‘Pump Organ Song’, which was written spontaneously in the studio, Rundle said: “In the year that has come since recording the song, I feel more and more connected to this love song. It is still speaking to me about the process of parting ways and how romantic arrangements change and relationships close.”

The final track, ‘St. Non’, was written in Wales after Rundle visited the eponymous well, chapel and spring at Saint David in Pembrokeshire.

Engine of Hell was released in November 2021 and landed on our list of the best albums of the year.

Orpheus Looking Back EP Cover Artwork:

Orpheus Looking Back EP Tracklist:

1. Gilded Cage
2. Pump Organ Song
3. St. Non

Mallrat Announces Debut Album ‘Butterfly Blue’, Shares New Single ‘Teeth’

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Mallrat Announces Debut Album ‘Butterfly Blue’, Shares New Single ‘Teeth’

Australian artist Grace Shaw has announced her debut album as Mallrat. Butterfly Blue is set for release on May 13 via Nettwerk. She’s also shared ‘Teeth’, the third single from the LP following ‘Your Love’ and ‘Rockstar’. Check it out below.

“I’ve always valued music that is interesting, beautiful, and unpretentious. Something timeless and not reactive,” Shaw said of the album in a statement. “Butterfly Blue was made with that in mind. It’s a demonstration of not pretending to be anyone else.”

Commenting on the new track, Shaw added: “I like to think that if ‘Teeth’ was out in 2004, it would be on the OC soundtrack. In the song, I describe a big, omnipresent ‘it.’ When I wrote these lyrics, I was playing with the idea that we talk about sex, prayer, violence, and power with very similar language. I wanted to see if I could blur all of these things into one blurry ball of energy.”

Mallrat’s Butterfly Blue will follow three EPs: 2016’s Uninvited, 2018’s In the Sky, and 2019’s Driving Music.

POND Unveil New Single ‘Lights of Leeming’

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POND Unveil New Single ‘Lights of Leeming’

POND have shared a new song called ‘Lights of Leeming’. It’s set to appear on the deluxe edition of their 2021 album 9 alongside three previously unreleased tracks. Check out a visual of ‘Lights of Leeming’ below.

“‘Lights Of Leeming’ is a true story about the crushing boredom of suburbia and the wild and destructive things people do to break the monotony,” frontman Nicholas Allbrook explained in a statement. “To see that there’s at least something you can do to affect your surroundings — to be seen and validated as a real, existent part of the world — even if it’s just breaking something or getting in trouble. It’s pretty dumb fun, but dumb fun is important, right?”

The deluxe version of 9 features etching and a holographic gatefold sleeve, as well as a 12-page booklet. It’s out May 20 via Spinning Top Records.

Julia-Sophie Releases New EP ‘it feels like thunder’

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Julia-Sophie Releases New EP ‘it feels like thunder’

Julia-Sophie has shared a new EP called it feels like thunder, her first release on Beat Palace Records, the new imprint founded by Metronomy’s Anna Prior. Listen to the three-song project below.

“It’s about ending the ending, the last time you’re going to speak to someone you love,” the Oxford-based musician said of the EP’s lead single, ‘Dial Your Number’. “You know, even though you don’t want something to end but you can’t see any other way out. I was trying to use that heavy, almost tribal drum beat to reflect that punch in the gut feeling. It’s pretty relentless, it makes it hard for you to breathe and expresses how I feel really deep inside.”

Of the second track, ‘Not Beautiful’, Julia-Sophie commented: “I only do depressive shit because that’s what’s in me, I’m afraid. Life doesn’t always have to be beautiful. By trying to make everything perfect we’re setting ourselves up for a fall.”

Talking about closer ‘Video Game’, she said: “I guess I wanted to show a vulnerable side, which was really exposing, with all my hurt, fragility and longing. It’s a bit of a nod to my roots, my singer-songwriter background, because I love writing songs. It’s pretty open, vulnerable, and is imbued with feelings of solitude in the opening half of the song. I loved playing with the production and structure of what could have been a very straight up acoustic song, I wanted to really play with the idea of being open and vulnerable verses that safety, the sheen we can all hide behind. The world is this relentless fucking beating machine, and I’m trying to put the human back in. I’m trying to find the human inside me too and not just become a machine.”

 it feels like thunder follows Julia-Sophie’s y? and </3 EPs, which came out in 2020 and 2021 respectively.

Francis of Delirium Release New Single ‘The Funhouse’

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Francis of Delirium Release New Single ‘The Funhouse’

Francis of Delirium are back with a new single called ‘The Funhouse’. Accompanied by a self-directed video, the track comes ahead of the band’s debut US tour supporting The Districts, which kicks off next week. Check it out below.

“The Funhouse is largely about how we are adapting to the chaos that is present in our everyday lives,” Jana Bahrich explained in a press release. “The way it can feel that the world is crashing down around us and in order to protect ourselves, we become numb to the sheer terror of it all. Sort of like walking through a funhouse and attempting to remain unphased by the mayhem that surrounds you.”

‘The Funhouse’ follows Francis of Delirium’s recent singles ‘Come Out and Play’ and ‘All Love’, as well as their two EPs, All Change and Wading. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Francis of Delirium.

W. H. Lung Share New Video for ‘Kaya’, Announce Tour Dates

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W. H. Lung Share New Video for ‘Kaya’, Announce Tour Dates

W. H. Lung have shared a new music video for ‘Kaya’, a track from their second album Vanities. It arrives alongside news that the group will head to Austin in March for SXSW and play their biggest headline show to date at London’s Village Underground on November 2. They’ve also announced a string of EU dates and rescheduled their sold-out shows in Manchester and Glasgow. Watch the Craig McLaughlin-directed video for ‘Kaya’ and find the list of dates below.

“The original thought behind any creative venture begins life as a feeling, a sensation, which the artist then fumbles into the physical world,” singer Joesph Evans said in a statement. “Original inspiration for this video came from David Hockney’s timelapse iPad paintings. The creature who is chased into the studio is inspired by the Japanese movement art of Butoh.”

Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with W. H. Lung.

W. H. Lung 2022 Tour Dates:

Mar 16 – British Music Embassy, Licks Party, SXSW Official – Austin, Texas
Mar 17 – Hotel Vegas, Fire Records Party, SXSW Official – Austin, Texas
Mar 18 – The Green Jay, SXSW Official – Austin, Texas
Apr 1 – Strange Waves O2 Ritz – Manchester
May 26 – Dauwpop – Hellendoorn, Netherlands
Jun 11 – Long Division Festival – Wakefield
Jun 19 – Pinkpop Festival – Landgraaf, Netherlands
Jul 14 – The Lanes – Bristol
Jul 16 – Gorilla – Manchester
Jul 17 – Hug & Pint – Glasgow
Jul 18 – Hug & Pint – Glasgow
Jul 24 – Bluedot Festival, Jodrell Bank Observatory
Sep 24 – Float Along Festival – Sheffield
Nov 2 – Village Underground – London

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Share New Single ‘Tidal River’

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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Share New Single ‘Tidal River’

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have released ‘Tidal River’, the second single from their upcoming album Endless Rooms. The track follows lead offering ‘The Way It Shatters’ and arrives with an accompanying video directed by Nick Mckk. Check it out below.

“‘Tidal River’ is a little snapshot of living in a place at a time when it feels like there is no-one at the wheel,” Tom Russo explained in a statement. “If there were a complacency Olympics, Australia would win gold by a mile. In the ‘lucky country’, the luckiest ones jealously guard their fortune, as if it will disappear if they share it around. There is so much potential to do better, but it sometimes seems like progress is two steps forward, two steps back. Tidal River is located in what Europeans named Wilsons Promontory, where the river meets the ocean. It has great significance for the Gunai/Kurnai and Boonwurrung peoples, who call it Yiruk and Wamoon respectively. No matter the struggles and politics that go on, the river keeps churning into the sea.”

Endless Rooms comes out on May 6 via Sub Pop.

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