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Santigold Announces New Album ‘Spirituals’, Shares Video for New Song ‘Ain’t Ready’

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Santigold Announces New Album ‘Spirituals’, Shares Video for New Song ‘Ain’t Ready’

Santigold has announced her fourth album, Spirituals, which will be out on September 9. To accompany the announcement, Santigold has shared a video for the new single ‘Ain’t Ready’, which follows the recently released ‘High Priestess’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover art and tracklist.

Discussing the new track in a statement, Santigold said:

‘Ain’t Ready’ is a song I started with Illangelo. Dre Skull and Sbtrkt came on board to help bring it home, another true collaboration of such distinct and amazing talent. It was one of those songs where as soon as I opened my mouth the whole melody just poured out. There were no words but all the emotion was there. To me, the song sounded full of struggle and perseverance. It sounded like a battle, and I wanted the production to sound tough, to mirror that grit. I struggled to find the right lyrics at first, but when I got them right, and I started singing them one night in my studio alone, I cried. This song was my own battle song. It’s about taking the hits that life brings and getting back up. It’s about change and moving forward. It’s about faith and vision. And it’s about stepping into your own power.

Also featuring contributions from Rostam, Boys Noize, and others, Spirituals was mostly recorded during lockdown in 2020. “All of a sudden there I was with three small children out of school—just-turned-two-year-old twins and a six-year-old—I was cooking, cleaning, doing laundry and changing diapers from morning to night, with three little kids coming in and out of my bed throughout each night like musical chairs,” Santigold explained. “I was losing touch with the artist me, stuck in a part of myself that was too small. I felt the other parts of me were shrinking, disappearing.”

She continued: “Recording this album was a way back to myself after being stuck in survival mode. It wasn’t until I made the space to create that I realized I wasn’t only creating music but a lifeline. I’d never written lyrics faster in my life. After having total writer’s block, they started pouring out. I decided to create the future, to look towards where we are going, to create beauty and pull towards that beauty. I need that for myself, but it’s also there for whoever else needs it.”

Spirituals Cover Artwork:

Spirituals Tracklist:

1. My Horror
2. Nothing
3. High Priestess
4. Ushers Of The New World
5. Witness
6. Shake
7. The Lasty
8. No Paradise
9. Ain’t Ready
10. Fall First

Perfume Genius Unveils New Short Film ‘Pygmalion’s Ugly Season’

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Perfume Genius Unveils New Short Film ‘Pygmalion’s Ugly Season’

Ahead of the release of his new album Ugly Season this Friday (June 17), Perfume Genius has today shared its accompanying short film, Pygmalion’s Ugly Season. Featuring music from the album, the 30-minute film is a collaboration with visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite. Check it out below.

Ugly Season was written for Perfume Genius and choreographer Kate Wallich’s immersive dance piece, The Sun Still Burns Here, which was performed in various cities in the US throughout 2019. The LP was produced with longtime collaborator Blake Mills, with contributions from Hadreas’ longtime partner Alan Wyffels.

Camp Trash Release New Song ‘Lake Erie Boys’

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Camp Trash Release New Song ‘Lake Erie Boys’

Camp Trash have previewed their forthcoming debut album The Long Way, The Slow Way with a new single called ‘Lake Erie Boys’. It follows previous entries ‘Weird Florida’, ‘Let It Ride’, and ‘Pursuit’. Take a listen below.

The Long Way, The Slow Way is set to arrive on July 1 on Count Your Lucky Stars. Last year, the band released its Downtiming EP, which landed on our best EPs of the year list.

black midi Release Video for New Single ‘Eat Men Eat’

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black midi Release Video for New Single ‘Eat Men Eat’

black midi have unveiled ‘Eat Men Eat’, the second single from their upcoming album Hellfire. Layered into the track are more than 50 fan-submitted recordings as well as percussion provided by Demi García Sabat. Check out its accompanying video, directed by Maxim Kelly, below.

‘Eat Men Eat’ references The Red River Mining Company, which first appeared on the Cavalcade track “Diamond Stuff’. “The story starts in the desert with two men engaged in a desperate search for missing friends,” the band’s Cameron Picton explained in a statement. “Their quest leads them to a strange mining facility which, despite a dearth of natural resources in the area, opens its doors for even stranger hosts to welcome them.” He continued:

That evening, with zero sign of their friends, a massive feast is laid on by the mine’s cantankerous Captain, who performs a long speech encouraging all to indulge as this is to be the workers’ last night before returning to their families. With good reason for suspicion the protagonists feign gluttony and consume as little as humanly possible. Unfortunately, as they later find, even that’s not quite enough. Night falls, they hide and as the workers fall comatose the wardens, overseen by the Captain, make preparations to pump their poisoned stomachs. It turns out the purpose of the mine is to procure an excess of human stomach acid used in the production of a bastardized blood red wine, sold and loved in the region.

After the wider conspiracy is revealed and upon realizing their friends must be long gone, the partners decide they must destroy the facility. A spanner plugs the works however, as one of the men experiences mild effects of the poison and the production of acid in his stomach goes into overdrive. As his chest literally bubbles he says what may be his final goodbyes to his partner and the other man is left to do the heavy lifting alone.

He succeeds and as they flee, arm in arm, the demon Captain erupts from the burning embers and curses the two men to the hell of crippling acid reflux for the rest of their days. They see no reason to worry though, as they’re sure to return home hailed as heroes.

black midi’s Hellfire is out July 15 via Rough Trade. ‘Eat Men Eat’ follows lead single ‘Welcome to Hell’.

LIFE Share Video for New Single ‘The Drug’

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LIFE Share Video for New Single ‘The Drug’

LIFE have shared a video for their new single ‘The Drug’, lifted from their forthcoming third record North East Coastal Town. It follows previous offerings ‘Big Moon Lake’ and ‘Friends Without Names’. Check out the clip, directed by longtime collaborator Luke Hallett and drummer Stewart Baxter, below.

“’The Drug’ is a love song,” vocalist Mez Green said in a statement. “I wrote the lyrics in the cold mountains of Italy before taking them into the room with the band. ‘The Drug I needed has always been here, the drug I needed has always been near” is, for me, realising that loved ones and those that love you, no matter where you are, can always be present. I’d never really believed this before and whilst this purity is at the lyrical heart of the song musically the band decided to inject flecks of dance, pop, harmonics, and dirty pulses to give the song drive, repetition and jerk-ability.”

North East Coastal Town is set for release on August 19 via the Liquid Label.

Polaris Music Prize 2022 Longlist: Arcade Fire, The Weeknd, Ada Lea, Destroyer, and More

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Polaris Music Prize 2022 Longlist: Arcade Fire, The Weeknd, Ada Lea, Destroyer, and More

Arcade Fire, the Weeknd, Ada Lea, and Destroyer are among the names on the longlist for the Polaris Music Prize, the annual award for the best Canadian album of the year. Tanya Tagaq, Orville Peck, PUP, Julie Doiron, and Backxwash also made the cut. Check out the full list of nominees below.

The 197-member jury reviewed a total of 223 albums for this year’s prize. A shortlist of 10 albums will be announced on July 14, with winners revealed on September 19. Cadence Weapon took home the award last year for his album Parallel World.

Polaris Music Prize Long List 2022:

Ada Lea – One Hand on the Steering Wheel the Other Sewing a Garden
Adria Kain – When Flowers Bloom
Ahi – Prospect
Arcade Fire – WE
Backxwash – I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses
BadBadNotGood – Talk Memory
Basia Bulat – The Garden
Cedric Noel – Hang Time
Charlotte Day Wilson – Alpha
Chiiild – Hope for Sale
Destroyer – Labyrinthitis
The Garrys – Get Thee to a Nunnery
The Halluci Nation – One More Saturday Night
Haviah Mighty – Stock Exchange
Hubert Lenoir – Pictura de Ipse : Musique Directe
Jean-Michel Blais – Aubades
Joyful Joyful – Joyful Joyful
Julie Doiron – I Thought of You
Kelly McMichael – Waves
Les Louanges – Crash
Lisa Leblanc – Chiac Disco
Loony – soft thing
Luna Li – Duality
Lydia Képinski – Depuis
Men I Trust – Untourable Album
Myst Milano – Shapeshyfter
Ombiigizi – Sewn Back Together
Orville Peck – Bronco
Ouri – Frame of a Fauna
Pierre Kwenders – José Louis and the Paradox of Love
P’tit Belliveau – Un homme et son piano
PUP – The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
Sate – The Fool
Shad – Tao
Sister Ray – Communion
Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Life After
Stars – From Capelton Hill
Tanika Charles – Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly
Tanya Tagaq – Tongues
The Weeknd – Dawn FM

Moor Mother Shares New Single ‘RAP JASM’ Featuring Akai Solo and Justmadnice

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Moor Mother Shares New Single ‘RAP JASM’ Featuring Akai Solo and Justmadnice

Moor Mother has shared a new song, ‘RAP JASM’, featuring Akai Solo and Justmadnice. It’s taken from her recently announced LP Jazz Codes, a companion to last year’s Black Encyclopedia of the Air that includes the previously unveiled track ‘Woody Shaw’. Check out both singles below.

Jazz Codes, Moor Mother’s second album for ANTI-, is out July 1. It features contributions from Mary Lattimore, Fatboi Sharif, Irreversible Entanglements, and Yungmorpheus. “It’s poetry that drives this album,” Camae Ayewa explained in a statement. “The stories of these artists and countless others not named but felt—is the leading motivation. I wanted to honor & give offerings, hold them in my body, dream with them, send sweetness.”

April Releases New Single ‘That Feeling’

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April Releases New Single ‘That Feeling’

April has shared a new single called ‘That Feeling’. Following her 2021 EP When It Comes To You, the Irish alt-pop artist made the track with producer RISC (Cat Burns, dexter, Sophia Alexa). Give it a listen below.

“‘That Feeling’ is about being independent,” April explained in a press release. “A lot of my coming songs are roughly based around this feeling – it wasn’t on purpose, but I suppose it was how I was feeling. ‘That Feeling’ was written post-relationship, about when after a long time of relying on somebody for happiness and reassurance in yourself, you find a new confidence in yourself. It’s about when you realise that you can feel those things on your own – through different experiences, like moving away, meeting new people, going to new places etc. It’s a very special song to me and I remember making it and feeling a weight lift off my shoulders, like I’d found a new sound and could have fun with it.”

Hercules & Love Affair Release New Single ‘Dissociation’

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Hercules & Love Affair Release New Single ‘Dissociation’

Ahead of its release on Friday (June 17), Hercules & Love Affair has shared the latest single from the upcoming LP In Amber. Following ‘Grace’, ‘Poisonous Storytelling’, and ‘One’, the new song is called ‘Dissociation’ and features vocals by Icelandic singer Elin Ey. Check it out below.

“‘Dissociation’ is a song that speaks to the fatigue I have felt brought on by the both the distortion of self and simultaneous fracturing of a coherent, shared, real-time experience of life that technology and specifically, the insidious personal interjection of social media into our live shas produced,” Andy Butler explained in a press release. “Sung by the delicately emotive voice of Elin Ey, the detachment and increasingly programmed self doubt and mistrust of what we see and read has created a collective need to ‘dissociate’ on some level. As I chime in the chorus, ‘I am here, I am here, reel me in, reel me in’, the possibility of human intervention seems possible and incredibly comforting.”

Ellie Bleach Announces Debut EP ‘No Elegant Way to Sell Out’, Unveils New Single

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Ellie Bleach Announces Debut EP ‘No Elegant Way to Sell Out’, Unveils New Single

Ellie Bleach has announced her debut EP, No Elegant Way to Sell Out, with the new single ‘Big Strong Man’. The 5-track project arrives on October 6 via Sad Club Records. Listen to ‘Big Strong Man’ below.

“‘Big Strong Man’ is my most sincere song of my releases,” Bleach remarked in a statement. “It’s about the divine relief of admitting defeat. On the surface level it’s quite a bitter song, but I like to think there’s a kind of optimistic nihilism to it. It’s saying, ‘okay, whatever. I give up. You carry on being a tortured genius. See you around.’”

Commenting on the title of the EP, Bleach added: “I see ‘selling out’ as abandoning oneself in pursuit of success, in whatever form that may be. Whether it’s romantic love or industry acclaim, all of the characters in the EP are desperate to be understood and appreciated.”

No Elegant Way To Sell Out Cover Artwork:

No Elegant Way To Sell Out Tracklist:

1. Tupperware Party
2. Precious Feelings
3. Doing Really Well Thanks
4. Something Wrong
5. Big Strong Man

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