Artsick, the collaborative project of Christina Riley (Burnt Palms), Donna McMean (Lunchbox/Hard), and Mario Hernandez (Kids On A Crime Spree, Ciao Bella), have shared a new single. ‘Look Again’ is taken from the band’s upcoming debut album Fingers Crossed, which arrives on January 21 via Slumberland Records. Recorded over the course of a year with Tim Brown, the LP also includes the previously released tracks ‘Despise’ and ‘Ghost of Myself’. Check out ‘Look Again’ via the accompanying video, directed and edited by Christina Riley, below.
Yard Act Share Video for New Song ‘Rich’
Yard Act have shared their new single ‘Rich’, the final preview of their upcoming debut album The Overload. Following previous outings ‘Payday’, ‘The Overload’, and ‘Land of the Blind’, the track comes with an accompanying video directed by James Slater. Check it out below.
Elaborating on the new track, James Smith said in a statement: “‘Rich’ is the natural successor to ‘Payday’. That’s the end of the story right? Success! Status! Security! Except, there’s always more money to be made, and you’re deemed a failure if your life starts to head back in the direction it came from. It’s about being so lost you’re sure you know exactly where you are and how you got there. I also wrote it because I thought it would be quite funny if Yard Act made a shit ton of money after I’d written an anti-capitalist concept album. It’ll be funny if I’m singing this song on stage when I’ve made my mint.”
“At worst it makes no sense, at best it comes off as pretentious, but that’s the point I’m trying to make when I write anything really,” he continued. “Things only really make sense if you exclude the bits that don’t back up the point you’re trying to make. I’m a hypocrite just like everyone else. I don’t have the answers and I’m just trying to do the best I can. It’ll never be good enough though. Enjoy the ride, life is short and you never know what’s round the corner.”
The Overload is out January 21 via Zen F.C. / Island.
Binker & Moses Announce New Album ‘Feeding the Machine’, Share New Single ‘Accelerometer Overdose’
Binker & Moses, the free jazz duo of Moses Boyd and Binker Golding, have announced a new album titled Feeding The Machine. The follow-up to 2017’s Journey to the Mountain of Forever is due out February 25 via Gearbox Records. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared the new single ‘Accelerometer Overdose’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Feeding The Machine was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios by producer Hugh Padgham and features Max Luthert on tape loops and electronics. Talking about the new material, Moses Boyd said in a press release:
I feel myself and Binker have been wanting to create this album for some years. The timing was never right, and I also feel we needed some more experience under our belt to attempt a record like this. We knew we wanted it to be different from all our previous material. Each Binker and Moses record has a strong identity and we wanted to maintain that whilst contributing something new that excites us both.
When the opportunity came up to record it was quite last minute. We had no material planned but just a concept. Really, we took a huge leap of faith and went in the studio empty-handed. The only concept I had was this idea of feeding our improvisation through these different machines / configurations in the studio. We enlisted our long-time friend and collaborator Max Luthert on tape loops and modular synths to achieve this.
This album is less about the forms and melodies but more about pushing ourselves creatively within a different way of working. I feel we achieved something special which I’m very proud of.
Binker Golding added: “I think the album for the most part has a really lonely feel. It’s the loneliest of the Binker & Moses albums, despite the dance tracks and I quite like that about it. It marks it out as different. Moses and I wanted to expand the sound of the band, but without adding more instrumentalists as we had on previous albums. In order to expand the sound of the saxophone and drums, we decided to ask Max Luthert to assist us on modular. Most of what you hear coming from the modular is actually a re-ordering of acoustic sax and drums. The only thing is it’s so distorted, that you wouldn’t recognise the acoustic sounds.”
Feeding The Machine Cover Artwork:
Feeding The Machine Tracklist:
1. Asynchronous Intervals
2. Active-Multiple-Fetish-Overlord
3. Accelerometer Overdose
4. Feed Infinite
5. After The Machine Settles
6. Because Because
Jenny Lewis Joins the Cactus Blossoms on New Song ‘Everybody’
The Cactus Blossoms have enlisted Jenny Lewis for a new track called ‘Everybody’. It’s lifted from the Minneapolis duo’s upcoming third album, One Day, which arrives on February 11. Brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum previously previewed the record with the single ‘Hey Baby’. Listen to ‘Everybody’ below.
Torrey said in a statement about the new track: “Have you ever heard the saying “everyone is just doing the best they can”? I wanted to put that idea into a song. It started out as a kind of sad one-sided story, but when I heard it in my head as a back and forth between two people and imagined Jenny singing the lines it became something different. I’m so glad she was up for it, because without her I don’t think it would have the hopefulness that I was looking for.”
Back in November, Jenny Lewis released the single ‘Puppy and a Truck’, which she went on to perform on The Tonight Show.
Gang of Youths Share New Song ‘In the Wake of Your Leave’
Gang of Youths have shared a new song, ‘In the Wake of Your Leave’, taken from their upcoming album angel in realtime. The track follows previous entries ‘The Angel of 8th Ave.’, ‘Unison’, ‘The Man Himself’ and ‘Tend the Garden’. Listen to it below.
“I wanted to reflect on how I became dependent on grief for solace and inspiration,” frontman Dave Le’aupepe said of the song in a statement. “The cycle from numbness to acceptance to yearning plays a role in my approach to grieving my dad’s death. As a result, most of the time, I feel a bit futile as a person.”
angel in realtime, the follow-up to 2017’s Go Farther In Lightness, is due for release on February 25 via Warner Records.
Earl Sweatshirt Unveils ‘SICK!’ Tracklist, Releases New Song ‘Titanic’
Earl Sweatshirt has unveiled the tracklist for his forthcoming record SICK!, which is out on January 14. The 10-track effort features guest appearances from Armand Hammer and Bruiser Brigade’s Zelooperz. The rapper has also shared a new song called ‘Titanic’, following the previously released track ‘Tabula Rasa’. Check it out below.
SICK! will follow Earl Sweatshirt’s 2019 record FEET OF CLAY. “SICK! is my humble offering of 10 songs recorded in the wake of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns,” the rapper said in an earlier statement. “Before the virus I had been working on an album I named after a book I used to read with my mother (‘The People Could Fly’). Once the lockdowns hit, people couldn’t fly anymore. A wise man said art imitates life.”
He added: “People were sick. The People were angry and isolated and restless. I leaned into the chaos cause it was apparent that it wasn’t going anywhere. these songs are what happened when I would come up for air. Peace and love to Zelooperz the enigma, The Armand Hammer, and my good friends Alchemist and Black Noi$e. Peace and love to u.”
SICK! Tracklist:
2. 2010
3. Sick!
4. Vision [feat. Zelooperz]
5. Tabula Rasa [feat. Armand Hammer]
6. Lye
7. Lobby (Interlude)
8. Good Laughs
9. Titanic
10. Fire in the Hole
Albums Out Today: The Weeknd, Gunna, Soichi Terada, Wilderun
In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on January 7, 2022:
The Weeknd, Dawn FM
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- Spotify
- Apple Music
- TIDAL
The Weeknd is back with a new album. Announced earlier this week, Dawn FM – which follows Abel Tesfaye’s 2020 album After Hours – features appearances from Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, Quincy Jones, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jim Carrey, Swedish House Mafia, Max Martin, Calvin Harris, and Uncut Gems co-director Josh Safdie. After sharing a trailer for the 16-track album, the singer unveiled its tracklist, which includes the 2021 single ‘Take My Breath’. “You are now listening to 103.5 Dawn FM. You’ve been in the dark way too long,” Carrey narrated in the trailer for the LP. “It’s time to walk into the light and accept your fate with open arms.”
Gunna, DS4EVER
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- Spotify
- Apple Music
- TIDAL
Gunna has dropped his latest full-length project, DS4EVER. It’s the final installment in the Atlanta rapper’s years-long DS series, following 2018’s Drip Season 3 mixtape as well as his most recent studio LP, WUNNA. Gunna teased the record with a snippet of the track ‘Come On’ featuring Young Thug and Future. Kodak Black, Lil Baby, G Herbie, Nechie, and Yung Blue also have guest spots on DS4EVER.
Soichi Terada, Asakusa Light
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- Bandcamp
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Physical
Soichi Terada has issued his first new album of house music in over 25 years, Asakusa Light, via Rush Hour. The Japanese deep house pioneer produced the album over 18 months, using the same synths and drum machines behind his ’90s work. “I tried to recall my feelings 30 years ago, but when I tried it, I found it super difficult,” he said in a statement. “I tried different methods, including digging up my old MIDI data and composing by remembering old experiences.” The LP follows Terada’s Ape Escape 3 soundtrack, which came out in 2016.
Wilderun, Epigone
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- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Physical
Progressive metal band Wilderun have followed up their 2019 record Veil of Imagination with Epigone, out now via Century Media Records. The LP includes the advance singles ‘Passenger’, ‘Distraction I’, and ‘Identifier’. “This is certainly a ‘meta’ record for me,” guitarist and vocalist Evan Berry stated in press materials. Bassist/composer Dan Muller added, “This record has a different kind of inner turmoil than Veil Of Imagination. So much of that album was focused on the past and reminiscing on the progression from childhood to adulthood, and had a brighter, more flowery texture to it. This one is darker, and to me feels more introspective.”
Other albums out today:
Spector, Now or Whenever; Odezenne, 1200 mètres en tout; RuPaul, Mama Ru; Twin Atlantic, Transparency; Dope Lemon, Rose Pink Cadillac.
FKA twigs Announces New Mixtape ‘CAPRISONGS’
FKA twigs has announced a new mixtape, CAPRISONGS, which is out on January 14. The 17-track project will feature the artist’s recent Weeknd collaboration ‘Tears in the Club’, which made our Best New Songs segment, as well as guest appearances from Pa Salieu, Daniel Caesar, Shygirl, Jorja Smith and Unknown T, and Dystopia. Executive produced by FKA twigs and El Guincho, the mixtape also has production credits from Koreless, P2J, Mike Dean, Marius de Vries, Jasper Harris, Teo Halm, Arca, FRED, Sega Bodega, Warren Ellis, and more. Check out the full tracklist and cover artwork below.
FKA twigs said in a statement about her new record:
CAPRISONGS… it’s bronzer in the sink, alco pop on the side, a cherry lolly, apple juice when you’re thirsty, friends in the park, your favourite person, that one sentence somebody said to you that changed everything, a club pre-game, your bestie who is always late but brings the most to the party, meeting a friend at the airport, just togetherness. And my world: London, Hackney, Los Angeles, New York City and Jamaica.
It’s my stubborn Caprisun ass telling me to work thru my pain by delivering at work, don’t think just go studio and create. My Sagi moon being the enigmatic temptress craving the club, to dance and to be social and my Pisces/Venus hot mess disastrous heart falling in love all over again. But this time with music and with myself.
The CAPRISONGS mixtape will follow FKA twigs’ 2019 full-length MAGDALENE.
CAPRISONGS Cover Artwork:
CAPRISONGS Tracklist:
1. Ride the Dragon
2. Honda [feat. Pa Salieu]
3. Meta Angel
4. Tears in the Club [feat. The Weeknd]
5. Oh My Love
6. Pamplemousse
7. Caprisongs Interlude
8. Lightbeamers
9. Papi Bones [feat. Shygirl]
10. Which Way [feat. Dystopia]
11. Jealousy [feat. Rema]
12. Careless [feat. Daniel Caesar]
13. Minds of Men
14. Minds of Men (Outro)
15. Darjeeling [feat. Jorja Smith and Unknown T]
16. Christie Interlude
17. Thank You Song
Peter Bogdanovich Dies at 82
Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director behind The Last Picture Show (1971), Paper Moon (1973), and What’s Up, Doc? (1972), passed away at the age of 82. His daughter Antonia Bogdanovich stated that he died of natural causes.
As a director, Bogdanovich was regarded as an auteur and became most well-known for his 1971 film The Last Picture Show starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, and Cybill Shephard. The picture gave Bogdanovich two nominations. One for Best Director and the other for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. While he didn’t win, the film seized two Oscars for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, which Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman won.
Bogdanovich directed over 30 films throughout his career and won a BAFTA for Best Screenplay for The Last Picture Show. Moreover, he received a Palme d’Or nomination in 1985 for Mask starring Cher, Eric Stoltz, and Sam Elliott.
Pinegrove Share New Single ‘Respirate’
Pinegrove have previewed their upcoming album 11:11 with a new single called ‘Respirate’, which follows previous offerings ‘Orange’ and ‘Alaska’. Give it a listen below.
“With ‘Respirate’, I was thinking about the opportunity we had in the chaos Covid brought to redesign society so that it works well for more people, but that instead what’s unfolding is a doubling down on the same bent and venal structures that have resulted in so much inequity in the first place,” singer/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall explained in a statement. “So, how can we compassionately respond to such cold and blatant greed? How can we make sure to look out for one another in the absence of meaningful leadership and materially significant policy? We’ve been stranded but we will look out for each other—what choice do we have? The song is a reminder that we’re in this together.”
11:11 is set for release on January 28 via Rough Trade.
