Kaytranada has teamed up with Anderson .Paak on a new song called ‘Twin Flame’. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by .Paak, which you can check out below.
Since putting out his Intimidated EP, which featured H.E.R., Mach-Hommy, and Thundercat, last year, Kaytranada has shared collaborations with IDK (‘Taco’) and Joyce Wrice (‘Iced Tea’). He previously joined forces with .Paak on ‘GLOWED UP’, off 2016’s 99.9%.
Gordi has released two new songs, ‘Stranger’ and ‘Visitor’, which are taken from her upcoming EP Inhuman. Take a listen below.
“After spending the day with Alex Somers in his studio in Reykjavík while making my first album in January 2017, I walked back through the heavy snow to my hostel,” Sophie Payten said of ‘Stranger’ in a statement. “I sat down on one of the eight bunk beds and wrote ‘Stranger.’ The song has lived in many forms since, and I’ve always wanted to find a home for it. In one of Melbourne’s many lockdowns, I eventually rewrote the track – I got my friend, JT Bates, to add some drums in the midwest.”
Of ‘Visitor’, she added: “I have spent a lot of my life driving long distances. Returning to a chapter of life only to feel like a visitor, a stranger to your own experience. This song began sitting at my parents’ piano, I built the arrangement over six or seven months. As the song came together, a phrase I had come across circled around my head: the literal meaning of the overused and under-appreciated ‘nostalgia’ – the sorrow of homecoming.”
Gordi’s Inhuman EP arrives August 19 via Jagjaguwar. It includes the previously unveiled single ‘Way I Go’ and the title track.
Carly Rae Jepsen has announced that her new album is called The Loneliest Time, and it will be out on October 21 (via 604/Schoolboy/Interscope). You can check out its cover art below.
Jepsen collaborated with Rostam Batmanglij (who produced the single ‘Western Wind’), Tavish Crowe, Bullion, Captain Cuts, John Hill, Kyle Shearer, and Alex Hope on the new LP, which will follow 2019’s Dedicated and its accompanying Side B. “I’m quite fascinated by loneliness. It can be really beautiful when you turn it over and look at it,” Jepsen wrote in a social media post announcing the record. “Just like love, it can cause some extreme human reactions.”
Last month, Jepsen teamed up with Lewis OfMan for a collaborative track, ‘Move Me’. She’s going on tour this fall, with support from Empress Of.
The Loneliest Time Cover Artwork:
Okkervil River leader Will Sheff has announced his debut solo album: Nothing Special is set for release on October 7 via ATO Records. The LP was recorded with Sheff’s Okkervil River bandmates Will Graefe and Benjamin Lazar Davis, as well as singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, Dawes drummer Griffin Goldsmith, and Death Cab For Cutie pianist Zac Ra. It was engineered over the course of three separate sessions by John Congleton, Matt Linesch, and Marshall Vore, and features guest vocals from Cassandra Jenkins and Eric D. Johnson. Check out lead single ‘Estrangement Zone’ below, along with the album cover and tracklist.
“When I was just a kid, I got caught up in the dream of being a rock and roll star, Sheff said in a statement about the album. “Like so many other young people, I fell in love with the idea of being called to this glorious path outside of ordinary life. And I ended up in a band with people who felt this same call – especially our brilliant drummer Travis Nelsen, who was like a brother to me. We would trade tales of hilarious antics and outrageous excess and tragic death like they were almost scripture. Travis and I fell out painfully, and he died in the early weeks of lockdown. I think a big part of Nothing Special centers around grieving for him, grieving for everything my friends have lost, grieving for the rock and rock and roll myth, and trying to open my eyes to a more transcendent reality.”
‘Estrangement Zone’ comes with a video directed by Johnny North. “I think of the ‘Estrangement Zone’ video as a kind of magical spell the crew and I were trying to cast — a parable about endings and beginnings happening simultaneously,” Sherrif remarked.
Nothing Special Cover Artwork:
Nothing Special Tracklist:
1. The Spiral Season
2. In The Thick Of It
3. Estrangement Zone
4. Nothing Special
5. Holy Man
6. Like The Last Time
7. Marathon Girl
8. Evidence
Winter, the moniker of Samira Winter, has announced her new album, What Kind of Blue Are You?, which comes out on October 14 via Bar/None Records. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘atonement’, featuring Hatchie’s Harriette Pilbeam and Joe Agius. Check out a visual for it below.
“Every time I hear this song a new version of the story plays out in my head – an escape, a mystery, a forbidden love,” Winter explained in a statement. “By the time it reaches full climax there is a big reveal – the secret is out, the we discover who committed the crime, the two lovers find each other.”
Pilbeam said the song “really wrote itself and was a lot of fun to make.” Agius added, “The concept for the video immediately came to mind when working on the song together. The dark and talkative verses contrasting with the bubbly hopeful choruses really conveyed the kinda energy I wanted to translate.”
In addition to Hatchie, What Kind of Blue Are You? also features a guest appearance from SASAMI. “I feel like I’ve come full circle, making an album that my 22-year-old self who just started Winter would love,” Winter commented. “It’s my inner shadow girl, revealing herself in all her brokenness, despair and beauty.”
What Kind of Blue Are You? Cover Artwork:
What Kind of Blue Are You? Tracklist:
1. wish I knew
2. atonement [feat. Hatchie]
3. good [feat. SASAMI]
4. sunday
5. crimson enclosure
6. write it out
7. lose you
8. fool
9. mr. on my mind
10. kind of blue
Frankie Cosmos have announced their next album: Inner World Peace arrives on October 21 via Sub Pop. The follow-up to 2019’s Close It Quietly was produced by the band, Nate Mendelsohn, and Katie Von Schleicher at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn. Lead single ‘One Year Sad’ comes paired with a music video from director Eliza Lu Doyle. Check it out below, along with the album’s cover artwork (featuring illustrations by band member Lauren Martin) and tracklist.
“We conceived of the setting for the video as a cross between a diorama and an empty arena stage,” Eliza Lu Doyle explained in a statement. “To me, the interaction between Greta and the camera is almost like an act of faith—a reach toward an absent audience. We wanted to channel the pleasure of half-performing for that imaginary gaze.”
Band leader Greta Kline added: “This music video was created with my best friend Eliza, who makes video and performance art. It feels like an encapsulation of the record in that it’s strange and vast while also being contained and interior. Clowning and playing are a huge part of collaborating for me and Eliza. We wanted to perform a dance without dancing—the kind of movements you fall into in private, banal moments, playing without even realizing. Choreographing together felt like we were in sixth grade again, all id and giggles. The album and the video were made in these environments of love and pleasure.”
Inner World Peace Cover Artwork:
Inner World Peace Tracklist:
1. Abigail
2. Aftershook
3. Fruit Stand
4. Magnetic Personality
5. Wayne
6. Sky Magnet
7. A Work Call
8. Empty Head
9. Fragments
10. Prolonging Babyhood
11. One Year Stand
12. F.O.O.F.
13. Street View
14. Spare the Guitar
15. Heed the Call
Los Angeles band Cheekface have surprise-released a brand new album. Too Much to Ask is out today, and it includes the previously shared songs ‘We Need a Bigger Dumpster’, ‘Featured Singer’, and ‘Pledge Drive’, as well as track titles such as ‘You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East’ and ‘Vegan Water’. Stream the full project below.
Cheekface – the trio composed of guitarist/singer Greg Katz, bassist Amanda Tannen, and drummer Mark “Echo” Edwards, wrote Too Much to Ask over the last couple of years and recorded it mostly in 2022. The LP follows their 2019 debut Therapy Island and 2021’s Emphatically No..
The Mountain Goats have shared ‘Mark on You’, the latest single from their forthcoming LP Bleed Out. It follows ‘Training Montage’ and ‘Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome’, both of which landed on our Best New Songs segment. Give ‘Mark on You’ a listen below.
“‘Mark on You’ was the point where I knew where I was going in the writing of the album: songs with physical situations and palpable threats, something visceral for the tail end of lockdown,” John Darnielle explained in a statement. “Producer Alicia Bognanno ran wild on this one, one of the first ones I sent her; she shapes the sound with an intensely sick riff over the chorus, teasing out the extensions and expanding the blasting surface. Sickest Wurster beat, all pocket no seams. Enjoy!”
Bleed Out is set for release on August 19 via Merge.
Ducks Ltd. have teamed up with Jane Inc. for a cover of the Cure’s 1985 single ‘In Between Days’. It’s the second installment of The Sincerest Form of Flattery cover series, following their take on Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Head On’ featuring illuminati hotties. Check it out below.
Discussing the cover, vocalist Tom McGreevy said in a statement:
Robert Smith is a genius and the Cure are the best and I absolutely love this song. It’s such a simple one but all of the pieces slot together so neatly. We listened to all the demos he made of it, and it’s cool to hear how clearly the fundamental parts of it are realized on the very first one, even though he doesn’t have any lyrics yet and is just wordlessly singing the melody (which I also do when we demo stuff!). We mostly tracked this one on a day off when we were on tour with Nation of Language, so the vocal was tracked in the front seat of a parked Mitsubishi Outlander in the middle of the night outside an Airbnb in Grand Junction, Colorado. It’s also the first thing we’ve made that our bass player Katie plays on.
Carlyn Bezic (aka Jane Inc) has been a pal for maybe a decade and is one the best musicians in Toronto. I’ve seen her in so many bands and it’s been so cool to watch the Jane Inc project come together, as it feels like she just keeps refining and perfecting a creative vision that was already clear in some of the first projects I saw her in. I’ve wanted to do something with her for forever, so I was super excited she said yes to this!
Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Ducks Ltd.
Hot Chip have released ‘Freakout/Release’, the title track from their forthomcing album, which is due out August 19 via Domino. It follows previous offerings ‘Eleanor’ and ‘Down’. Take a listen below.
“Freakout/Release is about pent-up energy and the need for release, and escape,” Alexis Taylor explained in a press release. “It’s also about making sense of music, and at times being plagued by the thing you focus on – music never leaves my head for a second, which is usually a good feeling, but it can feel claustrophobic at times too. It’s also about finding your place in relation to music and to performing. The riff should feel brutal and dumb and elemental and Joe was thinking about Seven Nation Army and the simplicity of that swinging from quiet to loud and back and forth.”
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