Berlin-based producer, DJ, and vocalist LSDXOXO has teamed up with New York artist Eartheater for a new track, ‘Demons’. Eartheater also directed the song’s accompanying music video, which you can check out below.
“’Demons’ is an ode to dark, all-consuming love,” LSDXOXO said of the song in a press release. “The exchange that takes place between two passionate lovers can be quite vampiric. Is that so bad, if it’s what both parties desire?”
Dry Cleaning have announced their sophomore album, Stumpwork, which arrives on October 21 via 4AD. The follow-up to the London band’s 2021 debut New Long Leg was recorded with producer John Parish. It includes the new single ‘Don’t Press Me’, which comes with an animated video created by Peter Millard. Check it out and find the album artwork (by multi-disciplinary artists Rottingdean Bazaar and photographer Annie Collinge) and tracklist below.
In a statement, vocalist Florence Shaw explained that ‘Don’t Press Me’ is a song about the “pleasure of gaming and the enjoyment of intense and short-lived guilt-free experiences.” She added: “The words in the chorus came about because I was trying to write a song to sing to my own brain, ‘You are always fighting me/ You are always stressing me out’.”
Stumpwork Cover Artwork:
Stumpwork Tracklist:
1. Anna Calls From the Arctic
2. Kwenchy Kups
3. Gary Ashby
4. Driver’s Story
5. Hot Penny Day
6. Stumpwork
7. No Decent Shoes for Rain
8. Don’t Press Me
9. Conservative Hell
10. Liberty Log
11. Icebergs
Pool Kids have dropped a new single called ‘I Hope You’re Right’. It’s the second offering from the Florida band’s forthcoming self-titled LP, following ‘That’s Physics, Baby’, which landed on our Best New Songs segment. Check out its accompanying Zach Miller-directed video below.
According to vocalist Christine Goodwyne, the lyrics of ‘I Hope You’re Right’ are about “men who think they have perfect politics and nothing left to work on.” The visual, Goodwyne added, centers on “an unusual, complicated sexual relationship with someone who is totally empty upstairs but still somehow obsessed with getting their way.”
Pool Kids, the follow-up to 2018’s Music To Practice Safe Sex To, is set to arrive on July 22 via Skeletal Lightning.
Preoccupations have announced they have a new album on the way. Titled Arrangements, the follow-up to 2018’s New Material is slated to arrive on September 9 – Flemish Eye will handle the record’s Canadian release, with the band self-releasing it in the rest of the world. Check out lead single ‘Ricochet’ below.
“The lyrics are pretty conspicuous and self-explanatory on this one, but it’s basically about the world blowing up and no one giving a shit,” lead vocalist and songwriter Matthew Flegel said of the new track in a statement.
Arrangements Tracklist:
1. Fix Bayonets!
2. Ricochet
3. Death Of Melody
4. Slowly
5. Advisor
6. Recalibrate
7. Tearing Up The Grass
London quintet High Vis, who recently announced their signing to Dais Records, have shared the details of their new album. Blending is set to land on September 9, and it includes the new single ‘Fever Dream’. Simon B. Wellington directed the song’s accompanying video, which you can check out below.
“‘Fever Dream’ was written during the hottest days of summer and is about a kind of existential aimlessness that is at its best and worst during that time of the year – when it’s easy to feel more alive, but the longer, empty days can do bad things to overactive minds,” guitarist Martin Macnamara explained in a press release. “Musically it walks a narrow line between that sense of hope and despair but emphasises the former by nodding towards a baggy, swirling Northern sound.”
“The video for ‘Fever Dream’ was shot over the course of three years and assembled as a kaleidoscopic document of the highs and lows of life as a band,” Wellington commented. “Through intimate studio, tour and live footage we were aiming to capture the essence of a band bridging the gap between nostalgic reflection and a newly realized optimism. It’s the sound of summer in the capital; chaotic nights blending into aimless days.”
Blending Cover Artwork:
Blending Tracklist:
1. Talk For Hours
2. 0151
3. Out Cold
4. Blending
5. Trauma Bonds
6. Fever Dream
7. Morality Test
8. Join Hands
9. Shame
Enumclaw have announced their debut LP: Save the Baby is set to arrive on October 14 via Luminelle Recordings. Following their 2021 debut EP Jimbo Demo and recent single ‘2002’, the album was produced by Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy, Adrianne Lenker, Fleet Foxes). Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new song ‘Jimmy Neutron’, which is accompanied by a visual from director John C. Peterson. Check it out and find the album’s cover art and tracklist below.
“”This song is about getting so close to love that you can almost taste it,” frontman Aramis Johnson said in a statement. “All the highs of being in love and how ridiculously unlike yourself it can make you act. All the day dreaming you do about what things could be and how they might go. There’s always a catch though and in this story as soon as you reach out to grab “love” and have it in your hands you drop it.”
Save the Baby Cover Artwork:
Save the Baby Tracklist:
1. Save the Baby
2. 2002
3. Park Lodge
4. Blue Iris
5. Paranoid
6. Somewhere
7. Cowboy Bepop
8. Can’t Have It
9. Jimmy Neutron
10. 10th and J 2
11. Apartment
Titus Andronicus have returned with their first new music in three years: a cover of Cock Sparrer’s 1982 punk anthem ‘We’re Coming Back’. The track arrives with a music video created by the band’s Patrick Stickles in collaboration with filmmaker Ray Concepcion. Watch and listen below.
“All I can tell you right now is that Cock Sparrer gave us the most open-hearted and uplifting song in all of British punk’s second wave, perhaps even of any wave, foreign or domestic,” Stickles commented in a statement. “I have wept to this song many times over the years, and it is a joy to share our version with the world, especially since it afforded me the opportunity to work once again with the inimitable Ray Concepcion.”
“I do not claim to be any kind of athlete,” Stickles continued, “and after three intense days of shooting this video, I have been, and continue to be, more sore than ever before. It’s rough getting old, but I have never shied from suffering for my art, nor do I intend to pursue a path of such cowardice in the future.”
“It’s right there in the title,” he concluded. “There’s nothing more to say… we’re coming back.”
Art Moore – the project of Boy Scouts’ Taylor Vick and Ezra Furman collaborators Sam Duerkes and Trevor Brook – have shared a new single called ‘A Different Life’. It’s lifted from their upcoming self-titled debut LP, which includes the previously unveiled tracks ‘Muscle Memory’ and ‘Snowy’. Check it out below.
“‘A Different Life’ was inspired by the experience of daydreaming up another version of your life,” Vick explained in a statement. “I can easily get caught up in the imaginary worlds in my head, overwhelmed by the endless possibilities and versions of me that exist within them. But I am most fascinated by the version just parallel to this one, the one with only a few differences or enhancements. This song is about the experience of longing for that not so far off possibility.”
Nina Nastasia has released the latest single from her upcoming LP. ‘Afterwards’ follows previous outings ‘This Is Love’ and ‘Just Stay in Bed’, and you can listen to it below.
Nastasia said in a statement about the new song:
I don’t believe in ghosts…so far, but dead people can stick around for the longest time. They can tell you what to do and stop you from doing. I have no interest in finding out that ghosts exist. In fact I really hope they don’t. Things are complicated enough.
Riderless Horse, Nastasia’s first album in 12 years, arrives on July 22 via Temporary Residence.
Julia Jacklin has unveiled a new single from her upcoming album PRE PLEASURE. It’s called ‘I Was Neon’, and it follows lead cut ‘Lydia Wears a Cross’. Check out its accompanying self-directed video, filmed in Melbourne, below.
“I first wrote ‘I was neon’ for a band called rattlesnack, a short-lived much loved 2019 side project that I played drums in,” Jacklin explained in a press release. “I rewrote it for my album in Montreal, during a time when I was desperately longing for a version of myself that I feared was gone forever. I was thinking of this song when I made the album cover, this song is the album cover really.”
