Chance the Rapper appeared on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, performing his recent song ‘Child of God’. The single features cover art from the Gabonese artist Naïla Opiangah, who joined Chance at the end of the performance. The rapper also sat down for an interview with Colbert, talking about visiting Ghana and his favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavors. Watch it below.
Released on March 25, ‘Child of God’ also features guest vocals from Moses Sumney. Chance the Rapper’s last album was 2019’s The Big Day.
Built to Spill have announced a new album: When the Wind Forgets Your Name will drop on September 9 via their new label, Sub Pop. Lead single ‘Gonna Lose’ is out today alongside a video directed by Jordan Minkoff and featuring animations from Minkoff and Lee McClure. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover art (designed by Alex Graham) and tracklist.
When the Wind Forgets Your Name marks the band’s first album of original material since 2015’s Untethered Moon. It was produced by Doug Martsch, who recorded the album with two members of the Brazilian psychedelic jazz-rock band Oruã, Le Almeida and João Cases. Oruã will support Built to Spill on tour this year, while Martsch will be backed by his new lineup of Melanie Radford, and Teresa Esguerra.
“Making When the Wind Forgets Your Name was such a great experience,” Martsch said in a press release. “I had an incredible time traveling and recording with Almeida and Casaes. I also learned so much about Brazilian culture and music while creating it. My Portuguese was terrible when I first met Almeida and Casaes, but by the end of the year it was even worse.”
When the Wind Forgets Your Name Cover Artwork:
When the Wind Forgets Your Name Tracklist:
1. Gonna Lose
2. Fool’s Gold
3. Understood
4. Elements
5. Rock Steady
6. Spiderweb
7. Never Alright
8. Alright
9. Comes a Day
Desire – the electronic project of Megan Louise and Johnny Jewel – have announced that their new album, Escape, will come out on May 3 via Italians Do It Better. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Telling Me Lies’, which you can check out below.
Escape was written and recorded in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. Originally scheduled for release in the summer of 2020, it marks Desire’s first full-length album in nine years and includes the previously shared singles ‘Black Latex’, ‘Zeros’, and the title track. Johnny Jewel produced the LP, which was mixed by Vaughn Oliver.
Escape Cover Artwork:
Escape Tracklist:
1. Black Latex
2. Telling Me Lies
3. Liquid Dreams
4. Love Is A Crime [feat. Mirage]
5. Zeros
6. Dark Age
7. Haenim [feat. Ether]
8. Ghosts
9. Escape
10. The Young And The Restless
11. Days & Nights
12. L’Amulette De Vie
13. Friends & Enemies
Drive-By Truckers have announced their new album, Welcome 2 Club XIII, which arrives on June 3 via ATO Records. Today, the band has shared the record’s title track, alongside an accompanying music video. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
‘Welcome 2 Club XIII’ pays tribute to the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start with their former band, Adam’s House Cat. “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had, but it wasn’t all that good, and our band wasn’t particularly liked there,” Hood remarked in a statement. “From time to time the owner would throw us a Wednesday night or let us open for a hair-metal band we were a terrible fit for, and everyone would hang out outside until we were done playing. It wasn’t very funny at the time, but it’s funny to us now.”
Hood added: “Cooley and I have been playing together for 37 years now. That first band might have failed miserably on a commercial level, but I’m really proud of what we did back then. It had a lot to do with who we ended up becoming.”
Following 2020’s The Unraveling and The New OK, the new LP was produced by longtime collaborator David Barbe and was created over the course of three in the summer of 2021. It features background vocals from Margo Price, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, singer-songwriter Schaefer Llana, and more.
Welcome 2 Club XIII Cover Artwork:
Welcome 2 Club XIII Tracklist:
1. The Driver
2. Maria’s Awful Disclosures
3. Shake and Pine
4. We will never wake you up in the morning
5. Welcome 2 Club XIII
6. Forged In Hell and Heaven Sent
7. Every Single Storied Flameout
8. Billy Ringo In The Dark
9. Wilder Days
Just Mustard have released a new track called ‘Mirrors’, which will appear on their upcoming sophomore album Heart Under. The song arrives with an accompanying visual directed by Dylan Friese-Greene. Check it out below.
Speaking about the single, the band’s David Noonan said in a statement: “‘Mirrors’ was one of the final songs to be written for ‘Heart Under,’ the lyrics and music arrived together in what felt like one moment and we wanted to keep the feeling of one thought or moment constant throughout the song.”
Heart Under is slated for release on May 27 via Partisan. So far, the Ireland five-piece have previewed the LP with the singles ‘Still’ and ‘I Am You’.
Interpol have shared the new song ‘Something Changed’, taken from their upcoming album The Other Side of Make-Believe. Lead single ‘Toni’ was accompanied by the opening installment of a two-part film from director Van Alpert, and ‘Something Changed’ completes the short film. Watch and listen below.
“In ‘Something Changed’, part 2 of our short film with Van Alpert, reality and reverie converge and our two lead characters find themselves in a kind of dream state – being pursued inexorably by an ominous figure (played by myself),” Paul Banks said in a press release. “The lives of the three are intertwined in a nebula of fear, retribution, desire, and defiance. Who will receive their just deserts? Stay tuned and find out.”
Alpert added: “Paul and I like the idea that Something Changed would be like a dream. It’s as if our two main characters wake up from what happened in Toni and their lives are irreparably different. They are now on the run from some dark force that is a bit more primal and encroaching.“
The Other Side of Make-Believe arrives on July 15 via Matador.
Jordana has unveiled a new single called ‘To the Ground’, taken from her forthcoming album Face the Wall. The track follows previous offerings ‘Catch My Drift’ and ‘Pressure Point’. Check out its Thomas Lange-directed video below.
“It’s about being alone and starting from square one, not knowing how and where to start, a venture into adulthood,” Jordana explained of ‘To the Ground’ in a statement. “With the path to growing up, it’s wanting to not ask for any help on any growth to feel accomplished and self brought up, emotionally and physically. The only help being asked for in this song is to be stripped completely and figuratively thrown to the ground to get back up.”
Face the Wall is due for release on May 20 via Grand Jury.
Wyldest, the moniker of singer-songwriter Zoe Mead, has shared a new single called ‘The Best Is Yet to Come’. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by previous collaborator Laurie Barraclough. Check it out below.
“This was written in the midst of isolation, friends and family were shuffling around moving away, changing,” Mead said in a press release. “I chose to stay in the city, but could feel my world changing, disappearing in a way. However I suppose it was evolving into something different. Like many people during 2020/21 I felt a little trapped within my own existence, being resistant to change and resentful that people close to me were moving away, doing what they felt they needed to.”
100 gecs have shared a new song, ‘Doritos & Fritos’, the second preview of their upcoming album 10000 gecs. The track follows ‘Mememe’, which arrived last November. Listen to ‘Doritos & Fritos’ below.
10000 gecs does not yet have a release date. It will follow the duo’s 2019 debut, 1000 gecs, as well as the remix LP 1000 gecs and the Tree of Clues. 100 gecs are set to perform at a number of festivals this year, including Coachella, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, and Lollapalooza.
Flock of Dimes has released a new song, ‘Go With Good’. It’s lifted from Head of Roses: Phantom Limb, a collection of unreleased tracks, demos, live performances, and covers recorded around the same time as her latest LP, Head of Roses. Listen to ‘Go With Good’ below.
“‘Go With Good’ is about making peace with those moments in which what we believe we want for ourselves doesn’t end up aligning with what life actually has in store for us,” Jenn Wasner said of the track in a statement. “It’s about trying to step outside of ourselves enough to see and accept things as they truly are – letting go of the illusion of control that keeps us stuck, and revising the false narratives that we may have constructed to protect ourselves from pain.”
Head of Roses: Phantom Limb arrives April 15 via Sub Pop.
