Beach Bunny have announced their sophomore album, Emotional Creature, which arrives on July 22 via Mom+Pop. Along with the announcement, the Chicago-based quartet has shared the album’s lead single, ‘Fire Escape’. Check it out below.
“We are always changing, growing, and adapting – it’s a deeply ingrained part of the human experience,” Beach Bunny’s Lili Trifilio remarked in a press release. “We strive to be stronger, trust we’ll grow smarter, and spend most of our lives reaching for comfort and happiness. Sometimes, life is stagnant, sometimes, life is difficult – but the wonderful part of being human is that we evolve and make the bleak moments beautiful – we find new ways to survive. Humans are emotional creatures and I wanted to capture that with this album in order to show how complex, sometimes tragic, and mostly wonderful the human experience can be.”
Written immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Emotional Creature was produced by Sean O’Keefe (Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack) at Chicago’s Shirk Studios. Beach Bunny’s debut LP, Honeymoon, came out in 2020.
Emotional Creature Cover Artwork:
Emotional Creature Tracklist:
1. Entropy
2. Oxygen
3. Deadweight
4. Gone
5. Eventually
6. Fire Escape
7. Weeds
8. Gravity
9. Scream
10. Infinity Room
11. Karaoke
12. Love Song
Interpol and Spoon are heading out on tour together. The Lights, Camera, Factions Tour is set to take place across North America in August and September, with fellow Matador signees the Goon Sax opening. Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 1. Check out the bands’ tour schedule below.
Spoon released their latest album, Lucifer on the Sofa, back in February. Interpol’s seventh LP is due out later this year.
Interpol and Spoon’s Lights, Camera, Factions Tour Dates:
Aug 25 Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summer Stage
Aug 26 Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage #
Aug 27 Portland, ME – Thompson’s Point
Aug 28 Providence, RI – Bold Point Pavilion
Aug 30 Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live! Outdoor
Sep 1 Cincinnati, OH – Andrew J. Brady Music Center
Sep 2 Atlanta, GA – The Eastern %
Sep 3 Asheville, NC – Rabbit Rabbit
Sep 4 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium *
Sep 6 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE Outdoors
Sep 8 Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River Park
Sep 9 St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre
Sep 10 Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
Sep 13 Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
Sep 14 Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre
Sep 16 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
Sep 17 Portland, OR – Pioneer Courthouse Square
Sep 18 Portland, OR – Pioneer Courthouse Square
# Metric, Interpol, Spoon
% Interpol only
* Spoon Only
All dates with The Goon Sax except August 26
Black Pumas co-founder Adrian Quesada has announced a new solo album titled Boleros Psicodélicos. The record – out June 3 via ATO – is led by the single ‘Mentiras con Cariño’, which features iLe. Check out a video for it below.
Boleros Psicodélicos serves as a celebration of the golden era of balada music in Latin America throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. “I always wanted to pay tribute to that sound that I was already hearing in my head without realizing that people had already done it,” Quesada said in a statement. “Balada changed the face of Latin music forever. If something like that happened today, it would be normal because everyone’s connected on Instagram. Think how powerful this sound had to be for everyone to be connected through the songs. As someone who grew up speaking two languages and living on both sides of the border, I love how much music can transcend barriers and boundaries. It really is a universal language, especially back then.”
Commenting on the collaboration, iLe said in a statement: “Making ‘Mentiras con Cariño’ with Adrian was very fun since we share a similar appreciation for old school boleros. We both love the style of musical arrangements and textures that became a classic signature sound in those times where imperfections made everything feel just right. I wrote this song thinking about feeling sufficient with yourself on your own, even though love didn’t turn out to be the way you wanted.”
In addition to iLe, the LP features contributions from Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Angelica Garcia, Girl Ultra, Marc Ribot, and more. Quesada’s previous album was 2018’s Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul.
Boleros Psicodélicos Cover Artwork:
Boleros Psicodélicos Tracklist:
1. Mentiras con Cariño [feat. iLe]
2. El Paraguas [feat. Gabriel Garzón-Montano]
3. Ídolo [feat. Angelica Garcia]
4. Hielo Seco [feat. Marc Ribot and Money Mark]
5. El Payaso [feat. Girl Ultra]
6. Tus Tormentas [feat. Mireya Ramos]
7. Puedes Decir de Mi [feat. Gaby Moreno]
8. Eso No lo He Dicho Yo [feat. College of Knowledge]
9. Esclavo y Amo [feat. Natalia Clavier]
10. Ya No Me Quieres [feat. Jaron Marshall]
11. El León [feat. Rudy de Anda]
12. El Muchacho de los Ojos Tristes [feat. Tita]
My Idea, the duo of Lily Konigsberg and Nate Amos, have shared another single from their upcoming debut LP CRY MFER. It’s called ‘Breathe You’, and it arrives with a music video directed by Amos’ Water From Your Eyes bandmate Rachel Brown. Watch and listen below.
“‘Breathe You’ was never really intended to be on the album. I made the hook/beat in the middle of a night when I was unable to sleep and sent it to Lily as a sort of ‘check out how ridiculous this is’ joke; she recorded the verses and sent it back within a day,” Amos explained in a statement, continuing:
This was during a really difficult time for both of us and we were processing our emotions in very different ways – I buried my sadness inside of humour and Lily wore hers on her sleeve. After it was finished we both forgot about it for months, eventually adding it to the album at the request of a few trusted friends. In spite of the absurdity of the song at a basic level it ended up being as honest and accurate as anything we’ve made, and it took us months to realise that. Usually I hand off my vocal parts to Lily, but this is one of a few moments where my demo vocals remain in the final cut. We are both really really proud of this song. It is not particularly easy for either of us to listen to but we hope that you (!) like it and find some consolation in it (whatever you may be dealing with at this time).
CRY MFER comes out on April 22 via Hardly Art. It includes the previously unveiled ‘Crutch’ and the title track.
TV Priest have announced their second album, My Other People. The follow-up to last year’s Uppers arrives on June 17 via Sub Pop. The album will include last month’s single ‘One Easy Thing’ as well as the new track ‘Bury Me In My Shoes’, which comes with an accompanying video. Check it out and find the LP’s tracklist and cover art below, along with TV Priest’s upcoming tour dates.
“My Other People is a more “open’” set of songs, both musically and in our themes; in the process of writing we found ourselves talking about things other than anger or aggression,” frontman Charlie Drinkwater said of the album in a press release. “We wanted to discuss love, loss and joy too. It’s a record about personal disintegration and destruction, but also rebuilding again after this. It’s also heavily rooted in place, the music being a very direct response to Britain and England in 2021, but in a more abstract and textural sense. A muddy field viewed from a train window between cities, a patch of wild flowers growing next to a motorway, sticky carpets in a suburban flat roof pub, pissing rain on an August bank holiday and the smell of diesel in an out of town supermarket car park. An angry, hopeful, shitty, beautiful island.”
Commenting on the new single, he added: “‘Bury Me In My Shoes’ is a hangover of a song. Last year was about reminding ourselves to hang on to good things; to remember you can love and hate in equal measure. That the answers are rarely found by looking backwards. ‘Bury Me’ was written as a response to that general feeling of unease and creeping dread. A feeling you get from bad news on no breakfast.”
My Other People Cover Artwork:
My Other People Tracklist:
1. One Easy Thing
2. Bury Me In My Shoes
3. Limehouse Cut
4. I Have Learnt Nothing
5. It Was Beautiful
6. The Happiest Place On Earth
7. My Other People
8. The Breakers
9. Unravelling
10. It Was A Gift
11. I Am Safe Here
12. Sunland
TV Priest 2022 Tour Dates:
Fri Jun 17 – London, UK – Rough Trade East
Mon Jun 20 – Brighton, UK – Resident
Tue Jun 21 – Southsea Portsmouth, UK – Pie & Vinyl
Wed Jun 22 – Totnes, UK – Drift
Thu Jun 23 – Leeds, UK – The Vinyl Whistle
Sun Oct 30 – Bristol, UK – The Louisiana
Mon Oct 31 – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
Tue Nov 1 – Dublin, IE – The Workman’s Cellar
Thu Nov 3 – Manchester, UK – Yes (Pink Room)
Fri Nov 4 – Glasgow, UK – Broadcast
Sat. Nov. 5 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall
Mon Nov 7 – Cambridge, UK – Portland Arms
Tue Nov 8 – Leicester, UK – Firebug Bar
Thu. Nov 10 – London, UK – Scala
Fri Nov 11 – Reading, UK -The Face Bar
Sat Nov 12 – Southampton, UK – The Joiners
Sun Nov 13 – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
Stephen McBean has shared a cover of Black Flag’s ‘Nervous Breakdown’, which opens his forthcoming Pink Mountaintops album Peacock Pools. Check out a video for the track below.
“Steven McDonald used to always play a disco version of that bassline to annoy [Black Flag co-founder] Keith Morris when they were sound-checking for OFF!, and it ended up fitting perfectly with the demo I’d made,” McBean said in a statement. Morris himself commented: “Great job taking a song that’s been beaten to death by numerous punker dunkers and turning it into your own song! BRAVO!!!!”
Pink Mountaintops announced Peacock Pools, their first album since 2014’s Get Back, last month, sharing a video for the single ‘Lights of the City’. The LP is out May 6 via ATO.
Warpaint have previewed their forthcoming album Radiate Like This with a new single called ‘Stevie’. The track arrives alongside a video created in collaboration with Fascinated By Everything, an art and technology collective created by Chris Holmes. You can watch the fully immersive video (made for Oculus) as well as the 2D version below.
“’Stevie’ is a love song, pure and true,” the band said in a statement. “Sincere as it comes with a little bit of Freak. A cosmic celebration of the thing we all look for in life. And our contribution to one of the most beloved song genres.”
“Thinking of visuals for ‘Stevie’ we weren’t seeing a story or a performance, but a kind of ‘Tunnel Of Love’ image kept coming to my head, more like waves of serotonin, what love feels like,” Warpaint’s Emily Kokal commented on the video. “Right around that time Chris showed us what he was working on and it was like, ‘Woah, this is way more ‘Tunnel Of Love’ than we could’ve imagined!’”
“All of the visuals are made from physical objects, so all of the light color and texture come from the real world and not just computer-generated graphics,” Holmes added. “It’s been such a joy to work with one of my favorite bands, Warpaint and collaborate to make some inter-dimensional kaleidoscopic beauty to radiate some love and light into this world.”
Radiate Like This is set for release on May 6. It was led by the single ‘Champion’, which recently got a music video.
Katy J Pearson has announced her new album, Sound of the Morning, which is due for release on July 8 via Heavenly Recordings. Today’s announcement comes with the release of lead single ‘Talk Over Town’, alongside an accompanying video from director Abbie Stephens. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.
Commenting on the video for ‘Talk Over Town’, Stephens said:
This video was such a joy to shoot – to meet Katy and work with such an open artist who brought so much of herself to the video was a real treat. She is a brilliant collaborator and an artist set for big big things. I love nothing more than creating visual worlds and designing aesthetics to fit with the sound of exciting new artists. This video became a comment on that, how for recording artists there is pressure to be the face of their music, and to package it up visually. I wanted to shed light on the music video through the eyes of Katy, the joy and also the beautiful bizarreness.
We had an amazing girl crew on this job and it really made for a great vibe on set. Thank you to Beatrix Sastre and her crew who made each set-up look like a painting, to Gabby Sellen on art dept who gave everything and more, and to the wonderful Stina Campagna and Nohelia Reyes on Styling and Makeup.
Sound of the Morning, which follows Katy J Pearson’s 2020 debut Return, was written and recorded in late 2021. It was co-produced by Ali Chant and Dan Carey.
Sound of the Morning Cover Artwork:
Sound of the Morning Tracklist:
1. Sound of the Morning
2. Talk Over Town
3. Riverbed
4. Howl
5. Confession
6. The Hour
7. Float
8. Alligator
9. Game Of Cards
10. Storm To Pass
11. Willow’s Song
Everything Everything have shared ‘I Want a Love Like This’, the latest offering from their upcoming album Raw Data Feel. Following previous cuts ‘Bad Friday’ and ‘Teletype’, the track arrives with an accompanying video, which you can check out below.
“This song started as a challenge Alex set Jon to demo a “4-chord banger” that he could put through a particular rhythmic processor on his home-made modular synthesiser,”the band said of ‘I Want a Love Like This’ in a statement. “It’s another very instinctive and impulsive composition, talking about a new relationship and a feel of optimism and possibility.”
Raw Data Feel is out May 20 via the band’s own imprint Infinity Industries/AWAL.
spill tab has shared ‘Sunburn’, her first new single of 2022. Co-produced with Solomonphonic, the track comes alongside the announcement of headline shows in Paris and London this May. spill tab will also play The Great Escape festival this year. Check out a visual for the track below.
“I had a lot of fun making this with Solomonophonic, he’s been a homie for a while, and I’m such a fan of everything he works on so I was stoked to work together,” spill tab said in a press release. “He’s such a energetic and dynamic person which translates into music, and we both wanted to make something loud and a bit weird. So we started making ‘Sunburn’ on one of his synths running through with a weird ass pedal he had just gotten and went from there. The lyrics come from a place of unsettledness and frustration, which felt like it matched the energy of the instruments.”
