Wet Leg have offered their take on Irish singer Ronan Keating’s ‘Life Is a Rollercoaster’. It arrives as part of their Apple Music Home Session, for which the Isle of Wight duo also did an acoustic version of their song ‘Wet Dream’. Listen below.
“I think we chose to cover ‘Life Is a Rollercoaster’ just because we felt like we could relate to the sentiment of it,” Rhian Teasdale explained in a statement. “Kinda goes hand-in-hand with another motto that we live by, of ‘Feel the fear and do it anyway.’ It’s been such a wild and unexpected ride for us since starting Wet Leg, and we’re all ’90s babies, so we’ve grown up with Ronan Keating on the radio—so it seemed appropriate.”
Wet Leg will release their self-titled debut on April 8 via Domino. So far, they’ve previewed it with the singles ‘Chaise Longue’, ‘Wet Dream’, and ‘Too Late Now’. More recently, they shared a cover of Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’ and announced a run of UK instore shows.
YG has joined forces with J. Cole and Moneybagg Yo for a new song called ‘Scared Money’. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Drew Kirsch. Check it out below.
‘Scared Money’ marks YG’s first single since ‘Sign Language’, which arrived in October. His most recent solo album was 2019’s 4Real 4Real; last year, he teamed up with Mozzy for Kommunity Service.
Last week, J. Cole guested on Benny the Butcher’s single ‘Johnny P’s Candy’. He released The Off Season in May 2021. Back in 2018, Moneybagg Yo dropped his debut studio LP Reset, which featured collaborations with both YG (on ‘Curry Jersey’) and J. Cole (on ‘Say Na’).
Scottish singer-songwriter Dot Allison has shareda remix of her 2021 track ‘Love Died in Our Arms’ by the late Lee “Scratch” Perry. It’s billed as “the final project of the legendary producer’s career.” Take a listen below.
The new single is taken from Allison’s upcoming Entangled Remix EP, which follows her 2021 album Heart-Shaped Scars and will also feature contributions from Saint Etienne, Anton Newcombe, Lomond Campbell, and others. It’s out April 28 via SA Recordings. “I titled this ‘Entangled Remix EP’ to tie with Heart-Shaped Scars but also in a way the slightly disparate influences on the EP spanning decades from when I was first influenced by dub music & did a remix for St. Etienne to Anton in Berlin & the Anchoress now,” Alison said in a press release.
Talking about the collaboration with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, she added:
I contacted Lee to ask if he’d consider doing a mix of ‘Love Died In Our Arms’ and got a lovely reply saying ‘yes’. He later confirmed the parts had arrived and the mix was going well. So I was deeply saddened to hear he’d passed soon after and so soon after we’d been in touch. Naturally I assumed the mix had not been completed and left it at that. So I was stunned two days later to hear, from Lee’s wife, that my song had been “the last thing in his life that Lee worked on.” As if that wasn’t enough, she responded to my email a day or so later expressing my gratitude and deepest sympathies by sending the finished mix. I genuinely cannot put into words what a profound moment and an honour and gift it felt under the circumstances – I was completely blown away. That my co-producer Fiona Cruickshank was there with me when I first heard it turned this into a really magical moment. I feel a duty to Lee’s own artistry and his fans to release his last remix and I do so with a deep gratitude to Lee, his wife and family for still forwarding me this mix under such sad circumstances, I remain deeply moved and grateful for my music to have been touched by Lee’s musical genius and spirit.
The Weather Station made their late-night debut last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Tamara Lindeman and her band performed ‘Tried to Tell You’, from their 2021 album Ignorance. Watch it below.
The Weather Station will be releasing a companion piece to Ignorance called How Is It That I Should Look at the Starson March 4 via Fat Possum. Last year, they performed ‘Tried to Tell You’ and other tracks from the LP on CBS This Morning.
Mitski is back with her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell. Out now via Dead Oceans, the follow-up to 2018’s Be the Cowboy includes the previously released songs ‘Working for the Knife’, ‘The Only Heartbreaker’, ‘Heat Lightning’, and ‘Love Me More’. “I needed love songs about real relationships that are not power struggles to be won or lost,” Mitski said of the new album in press materials. “I needed songs that could help me forgive both others and myself. I make mistakes all the time. I don’t want to put on a front where I’m a role model, but I’m also not a bad person. I needed to create this space mostly for myself where I sat in that gray area.” She recorded the LP with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland during the pandemic, when some of the songs “slowly took on new forms and meanings, like seed to flower,” and the record as a whole became “more uptempo and dance-y.” Read our review of the album.
Animal Collective have returned with their eleventh studio album and first since 2016’s Painting With. Out today via Domino, Time Skiffs was preceded by the tracks ‘Prester John’, ‘Walker’, and ‘Strung With Everything’, and ‘We Go Back’. Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, and Panda Bear recorded the LP across the course of 2020, with Marta Salogni handling the mixing. A press release described the songs on the album as “love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder, same as they ever were.”
Cate Le Bon has released her new album Pompeii via Mexican Summer. The Welsh musician wrote and recorded her sixth LP with co-producer Samur Khouja in an “uninterrupted vacuum” in Cardiff, with exits sealed, granting herself “permission to annihilate identity.” Le Bon explained in a statement: “Pompeii was written and recorded in a quagmire of unease. Solo. In a time warp. In a house I had a life in 15 years ago. I grappled with existence, resignation and faith. I felt culpable for the mess but it smacked hard of the collective guilt imposed by religion and original sin.” The album was previewed with the singles ‘Running Away’, ‘Moderation’, and ‘Remembering Me’.
Black Country, New Road have followed up their 2021 debut For the first time with Ants From Up Here, which is out now via Ninja Tune. The 10-track LP includes the previously unveiled tracks ‘Concorde’, ‘Bread Song’, ‘Chaos Space Marine’, and ‘Snow Globes’. While their debut blended klezmer, post-rock, and experimental music, their latest also incorporates elements of classical minimalism and indie folk. “Releasing two albums in one year has been a fun and interesting challenge,” the band stated in a press release. “At the start of 2021 we decided to make something really good together. We were lucky enough to leave London and cross a small body of water to go to the Isle of Wight to record the album – being in the countryside was a creatively enriching experience.” Just days ahead of the album’s release, the London collective announced that frontman Isaac Wood has left the group, which will continue as a six-piece.
Let The Festivities Begin!, the debut album from Los Bitchos, has arrived via City Slang. The London-based, pan-continental instrumental four-piece – comprised of Serra Petale, Agustina Ruiz, Josefine Jonsson, and Nic Crawshaw – previewed the record with the singles ‘Good to Go!’ and ‘Las Panteras’, and ‘Pista (Fresh Start)’, all of which came with videos directed by Tom Mitchell. The record was produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand in Gallery Studios, London, the recording space owned by Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera.
yeule, the London-based artist born Nat Ćmiel, has released their latest LP, Glitch Princess. The follow-up to 2019’s Serotonin II features the previously shared tracks ‘Friendly Machine’, ‘Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself’, and ‘Too Dead Inside’. Combining video game sounds, experimental shoegaze, and art-pop, Glitch Princess “opens a channel to the in-between spaces: error messages and broken computer code, what it is to be conceptually manifested and the curation of the aesthete,” according to a press release. “Ćmiel’s experiences with sobriety resulted in a flood of emotions and Glitch Princess is the undiluted excerpt of this downpour. A redirection of chaotic energy into verse, and the opportunity to confront their own vices.”
Saba has dropped a new album called Few Good Things. It marks the Chicago rapper-producer and Pivot Gang co-Founder’s third studio LP and includes collaborations with Pivot Gang, G Herbo, Black Thought, Krayzie Bone, 6LACK, Smino, Mereba, Fousheé, Benjamin Earl Turner. “The concept of ‘Few Good Things’ is the realization of self after a search for exterior fulfillment,” Saba explained in a statement. “It is the satisfaction and completeness you gain by simply living a life that is yours. Few is a small number, but few is not lonely. In the face of all adversity, a few good things is recognizing and accepting blessings. Few is to count them, one by one – an empty glass is full of air, an empty bank is full of lessons., and an empty heart is full of memories. Few good things is to grow comfortable with the empty, and despite that, finding your fullness.”
Rolo Tomassi have put out their latest album, Where Myth Becomes Memory, via MNRK. The follow-up to the UK post-hardcore band’s 2018 LP Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It was preceded by the singles ‘Cloaked’, ‘Drip’, and ‘Closer’. It completes a trilogy of albums that began with 2015’s Grievances, with all three albums being produced by longtime collaborator Lewis Johns. “This is a really important album for all of us,” keyboardist/vocalist James Spence explained in press materials. “Of anything we’ve done, it’s the one I’m most proud of. I think it’s the most ambitious and creative that our band has ever sounded and something that we’ve all needed to get through the last few years. We can’t wait to share it and to have you help us bring it to life.”
Other albums out today:
Erin Rae,Lighten Up; Korn, Requiem; 2 Chainz, Dope Don’t Sell Itself; The Districts, Great American Painting; A Place to Bury Strangers, See Through You; Hippo Campus, LP3; recovery girl, NAUSEA POP vol 2; The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Summer at Land’s End; Bastille, Give Me the Future; Wild Rivers, Sidelines; Partner Look, By the Book; Sofia Bolt, Soft Like a Peach.
METZ have shared a new song called ‘Demolition Row’. The track will appear on an upcoming split 7″ with Adulkt Life, which is set for release on March 4 on What’s Your Rupture?. Listen to it below.
“Our motivation for doing this split 7″ was really just a way of doing something special for our upcoming tour where we’ll be playing with Adulkt Life in London,” METZ said in a press release. “We’ve done a few similar projects in the past (Mission of Burma, John Reis, APTBS remix, Clipping) and it’s because we are fans of the music. Book of Curses was a record we all enjoyed and one thing led to another. ‘Demolition Row’ is a song we recorded ourselves and I think it’s quite singular as far as the METZ catalogue is concerned. We’ve never sounded this way before.”
Adulkt Life released their debut LP, Book of Curses, in 2020. That same year, METZ issued their most recent full-length, Atlas Vending.
Kae Tempest has shared a new track, ‘Salt Coast’, the second offering from their upcomnig album The Line is a Curve. “My love song to this complex, devastating, deeply beautiful island Salt Coast is out now,” Tempest said in a statement. “This song means the world to me. Hope you feel it.” Take a listen below.
The Line is a Curve, the follow-up to 2019’s The Book of Traps and Lessons, is out on April 8 via Fiction Records. It was led by the single ‘More Pressure’, which features Kevin Abstract of BROCKHAMPTON.
Liam Gallagher has shared the first single from his upcoming album, C’mon You Know, which is out May 27 via Warner. ‘Everything’s Electric’ is produced by Greg Kurstin and co-written by Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl. According to press materials, the track takes inspiration from Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ with and The Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’. Give it a listen below.
‘Everything’s Electric’ marks Liam Gallagher’s first new song since 2020’s ‘All You’re Dreaming Of’. Gallagher is set to perform the track at the BRIT Awards on Tuesday, February 8. His last album was 2019’s Why Me? Why Not?.
French producer Kavinsky has announced the release date and tracklist of his upcoming album Reborn. The follow-up to 2013’s OutRun is out March 25 via Fiction/Virgin Music France. He’s also previewing the LP with a new song called ‘Zenith’, which features vocals from Prudence (formerly of The Dø) and Diamond Nights vocalist Morgan Phalen. According to a press release, Kavinsky envisioned ‘Zenith’ as a sequel to his 2010 breakout single ‘Nightcall’. Check it out below, along with the album tracklist.
Back in December, Kavinsky returned with ‘Renegade’, which was co-written by Justice’s Gaspard Augé and featured vocals from Cautious Clay.
Mitski has shared a new music video for ‘Stay Soft’, a track that appears on her just-released album Laurel Hell. The clip is directed by Maegan Houang, who previously co-directed the visual for ‘The Only Heartbreaker’. Watch it below.
“This video is heavily inspired by Romanticism and paintings and artwork from the Victorian era,” Houang explained in a press release. “Like the lyrics of the song ‘Stay Soft,’ paintings from that era have a gentle quality, but they still evoke a certain feeling of unexplored darkness and danger. I want the audience to feel safe within this fabricated world and then realize that the character Mitski plays is being hunted.”
Of the song, Mitski said:
‘Stay Soft’ was a more straightforward rock song when I wrote it on guitar, but the darkly sexual lyrics sung in that context felt too heavy and melodramatic. So we couched the depressing lyrics in an inviting dance beat, which is a trick people have used for hundreds of years. The remnants of the original grungy feeling can be heard starting at the instrumental interlude, when the distorted guitar comes in.
This song, frankly, is about hurt people finding each other, and using sex to make sense of their pain. This is by no means the correct way to cope with trauma, but it’s a thing people do regardless, and I always want to write songs about what we actually do, so that we don’t feel alone in them.
Mitski is back with her sixth studio album,
Animal Collective have returned with their eleventh studio album and first since 2016’s Painting With. Out today via 
Cate Le Bon has released her new album 
Black Country, New Road have followed up their 2021 debut For the first time with 
yeule, the London-based artist born Nat Ćmiel, has released their latest LP, 
Rolo Tomassi have put out their latest album, 
