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Big Thief Release New Song ‘Simulation Swarm’

Big Thief have released a new song, ‘Simulation Swarm’, taken from their forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in YouThe 20-track LP is out February 11, and it includes the previous singles ‘Time Escaping’, ‘Little Things’, ‘Change’, ‘Certainty’, ‘No Reason’, and ‘Spud Infinity’. Check out ‘Simulation Swarm’ below.

Along with the new track, Big Thief have announced the rescheduled dates of their European tour, which was set to kick off in France at the end of January. Find their updated schedule below, too.

Big Thief 2022 Tour Dates: 

Feb 24 – Manchester, England – Manchester Academy
Feb 25 – Glasgow, Scotland – Barrowland Ballroom
Feb 26 – Dublin, Ireland – The National Stadium
Feb 27 – Bristol, England – O2 Academy Bristol
Mar 2 – London, England – 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Mar 3 – London, England – 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Mar 4 – London, England – 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Mar 5 – London, England – 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Apr 12 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre
Apr 16 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre
Apr 18 – Montreal, Quebec – L’Olympia
Apr 19 – Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall
Apr 21 – Washington, D.C. – The Anthem
Apr 22 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
Apr 23 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
Apr 25 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
Apr 26 – Milwaukee, WI – The Pabst Theater
Apr 27 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
Apr 29 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
Apr 30 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
May 2 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
May 3 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
May 4 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
May 7 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre
May 10 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre
May 11 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre
May 12 – San Diego, CA – Observatory North Park
May 14 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
May 15 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
Jun 5 – Paris, France – La Cigale
Jun 6 – Paris, France – La Cigale
Jun 7 – Lyon, France – Le Transbordeur
Jun 8 – Bordeaux, France – Rock School Barbey
Jun 9 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound 2022
Jun 11 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret
Jun 12 – Berlin, Germany – Tempelhof Sounds
Jun 13 – Copenhagen, Denmark – VEGA
Jun 14 – Stockholm, Sweden – Filadelfia
Jun 16 – Helsinki, Finland – Sideways 2022
Jun 18 – Stavanger, Netherlands – Mablis Festival 2022
Jun 20 – Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller Music Hall
Jun 21 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik
Jun 23 – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
Jun 27 – Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli Vredgenburg
Jun 28 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royal
Jul 1 – Hamburg, Germany – Fabrik
Jul 4 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys

Superchunk Share New Single ‘This Night’

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Superchunk have shared the latest single from their forthcoming album, Wild Loneliness. Featuring strings by Owen Pallett and backup vocals by Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura, Tracyanne & Danny), ‘This Night’ follows the previously unveiled track ‘Endless Summer’. Check out a lyric video for it below.

“Like much of Wild Loneliness, this song was written in the mode of ‘let’s look around and be thankful for what we have rather than focusing on what Republicans have taken from an entire generation’; it’s nostalgic but in a way that tries to capture what’s still relevant and positive about long relationships,” Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan explained in a statement. “So, backwards- and forwards-looking about music, love, day-to-day life. The song itself reminded me of some of my favourite pop bands like Camera Obscura, and through the magic of technology (and maybe the only good thing about the internet?), we are lucky to have Tracyanne Campbell lending her inimitable voice to the song.”

Wild Loneliness is set for release on February 25 via Merge Records.

Black Country, New Road Release New Single ‘Snow Globes’

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Black Country, New Road have previewed their upcoming album Ants From Up There with a new single called ‘Snow Globes’. It follows previous entries ‘Concorde’, ‘Bread Song’, and ‘Chaos Space Marine’. Give it a listen below.

Talking about the new single, drummer Charlie Wayne said in a statement:

‘Snow Globes’ was one of the songs which had existed before we wrote the majority of the songs on AFUT. Though it’s a pretty good representation of the musical world we wanted to explore on the album at large. Rather than writing a song with a number of distinct sections we wanted to see what we could do with one continuous riff. It was a real exploration in trying to create something maximalist whilst limiting ourselves with minimal musical choices.

Because the melodic instruments are all playing the riff in unison, Snow Globes left the drums with an interesting opportunity. The drums don’t sit separately from the rest of the band on Snow Globes, but we wanted to use them in a way that we hadn’t in the past. The initial idea was to feel like the drums were recorded for a completely separate track. They were meant to be totally arrhythmic and just sort of bubble below the surface – like at the end of White Ferrari. As the song progressed the drums still occupy a slightly different sound world, but because the rest of the band is playing in such a syncopated style, the drums were given a space to disregard rhythm and be completely expressive.

Ants From Up There is due out February 4 via Ninja Tune.

Hatchie Announces New Album ‘Giving the World Away’, Shares Lead Single ‘Quicksand’

Hatchie has announced a new album called Giving the World Away, which is slated for release on April 22 via Secretly Canadian. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the lead single ‘Quicksand’, which was co-written with Olivia Rodrigo collaborator Dan Nigro and produced by Jorge Elbrecht. Check out its Nathan Castiel–directed video below, and scroll down to find the album cover and tracklist.

Giving the World Away will follow Hatchie’s 2019 album Keepsake. “There’s more to me than just writing songs about being in love or being heartbroken – there’s a bigger picture than that,” Harriette Pilbeam explained in a statement. “This album really just feels like the beginning to me, and scratching the surface – and even though it’s my third release as Hatchie, I feel like I’m rebooting from scratch.”

Commenting on the new song, Pilbeam said: “’Quicksand’ is about dealing with the realisation that you’ll never be satisfied. I started writing it when I was home between tours in 2019 before finishing it with Joe Agius and Dan Nigro the next year. I was feeling guilty and ungrateful for not being happy about a few different things in my life that were technically going well. I had to work through some tough learned thought processes and emotions that had been working away for years to try to understand how to be happy with my present, and stop fixating on my past and future. The video digs deeper into showing this juxtaposition of such sadness and anger despite being surrounded by glamour and grandeur.”

Nathan Castiel added: “For ‘Quicksand’, I created a video that plays off of some tropes of Hollywood glamour in a melancholy and surreal way while giving Harriette room to perform and express the song’s raw emotions. We leaned into a neon-tinged after hours aesthetic and shot on 16mm which added a griminess to the opulent locations and set pieces.”

Giving the World Away was previewed in September with the single ‘This Enchanted’, one of our Best New Songs.

Giving the World Away Cover Artwork:

Giving the World Away Tracklist:

1. Lights On
2. This Enchanted
3. Twin
4. Take My Hand
5. The Rhythm
6. Quicksand
7. Thinking Of
8. Giving The World Away
9. The Key
10. Don’t Leave Me In The Rain
11. Sunday Song
12. Til We Run Out of Air

Dirty Projectors’ Maia Friedman Announces Debut Album, Shares New Song

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Maia Friedman of Dirty Projectors and Coco has announced her debut solo album, Under the New Light. It’s out March 11 via Last Gang Records. Along with the announcement, Friedman has followed up her November single ‘Where the Rocks Are’ with a new one titled ‘First to Love’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album artwork (a photo of young Maia taken by her mother Willow Young) and tracklist.

Friedman commented on the new single in a press release:

It is a humbling privilege to love someone in all their humanness and imperfection, to not only support but celebrate them through their journey of growth and exploration, to be by their side as they evolve into new versions of themselves. “Peel away / Keeping me up through the night // Escape / Be whatever you like” translates to: I will love even the deepest layers of who and what you are. A question I pose to myself is, what if this person were me?

On Under the New Light, Friedman collaborated closely with Tom Deis (Pineapple Room Studio), Peter Lalish, and producer Dan Molad, working sporadically on the album across the US, in Omaha, New York, and Los Angeles.

Under the New Light Cover Artwork:

Under the New Light Tracklist:

1. Where The Rocks Are
2. First To Love
3. Happiness
4. Under The New Light
5. Elevate Us
6. Sunny Room
7. Raintime For Yohei
8. All We Are (How To Last)
9. Interlude
10. A Sleep In The Garden

Camp Cope Announce New Album ‘Running With the Hurricane’, Unveil New Song

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Melbourne trio Camp Cope have announced their new album Running with the Hurricane, which will be out on March 25 via Run For Cover Records. Following their sophomore LP How To Socialise & Make Friends, the album is named after the song of the same name by the Australian political folk group Redgum. Listen to the title track below.

Running with the Hurricane was produced by singer Georgia Maq (whose late father was a part of Redgum) and engineer Anna Laverty at Sing Sing Recording Studios. “The first record was us diving into whatever Camp Cope created, the second album was us when we were in the thick of it, and then this album is about how we’ve come out the other side,” Maq said in a statement. “And we’ve come out stronger, more loving, more peaceful and better friends.”

Back in November, Camp Cope shared the first single from the new record, ‘Blue’, which landed on our best new music segment.

Running with the Hurricane Cover Artwork:

Running with the Hurricane Tracklist:

1. Caroline
2. Running with the Hurricane
3. One Wink at a Time
4. Blue
5. The Screaming Planet
6. Love Like You Do
7. Jealous
8. The Mountain
9. Say the Line
10. Sing Your Heart Out

Girlpool Announce New Album ‘Forgiveness’, Release New Song ‘Lie Love Lullaby’

Girlpool – the Los Angeles–based duo of Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad – have announced their next album. The follow-up to 2019’s What Chaos Is Imaginary is called Forgiveness, and it arrives April 29 via ANTI-. Along with the announcement, Girlpool have shared the new song ‘Lie Love Lullaby’, which comes with an Amalia Irons–directed video. Check it out below and scroll down for the album artwork and full tracklist.

“‘Lie Love Lullaby’ is a song about a time where I felt that my innocence affected my ability to choose a person who was good for me,” Tucker explained in a statement. “In the past, it’s been painful to choose somebody that didn’t believe in me, and I think the most painful part was that I allowed myself to pick a person that didn’t recognize my entirety. I wrote this song wondering, did I recognize it myself? If I had the wherewithal to tolerate their minimizing perspective?”

Girlpool collaborated with producer Yves Rothman on the new LP to achieve an “intersection of Hollywood futurism and post-grunge sincerity,” as a press release puts it. “A lot of my songs on this record are about relationship dynamics where I experienced frustration and pain, and struggling to hold a lot of complexity in my emotions,” Tucker said. “Writing Forgiveness helped me fit all those pieces into an acceptance: that my fate pushes me exactly where I need to go.” Tividad added: “A lot of life feels like unavoidable experiences to me. To me, Forgiveness is about accepting that concept. It’s about forgiving reality for having to be exactly what it is all the time.”

Back in December, Girlpool unveiled the album single ‘Faultline’, which made our Best New Songs list.

Forgiveness Cover Artwork:

Forgiveness Tracklist:

1. Nothing Gives Me Pleasure
2. Lie Love Lullaby
3. Violet
4. Junkie
5. Dragging My Life Into a Dream
6. Faultline
7. Light Up Later
8. Country Star
9. Butterfly Bulletholes
10. Afterlife
11. See Me Now
12. Love333

Watch Japanese Breakfast Perform ‘Slide Tackle’ on ‘Corden’

Japanese Breakfast made an appearance on last night’s episode of The Late Late Show With James Corden, where Michelle Zauner and her band performed ‘Slide Tackle’, from their third album Jubilee. Check it out below.

Jubilee came out in June of last year and landed on our 50 Best Albums of 2021 list. Japanese Breakfast is up for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album at the 2022 Grammys.

Animal Collective Share Video for New Single ‘Strung With Everything’

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Animal Collective have shared a new single called ‘Strung With Everything’. It’s taken from their upcoming album Time Skiffswhich also features the advance tracks ‘Prester John’ and ‘Walker’. Check out a music video for it, directed by Abby Portner, below.

“Recently for Animal Collective’s live shows I have been designing and animating all of the video content out of cut paper,” Portner said in a statement. “I have been editing together symbols and coloured static silhouettes that match the music’s feeling and rhythm. The videos are like pictographs that tell a story organically and simply. For the “Strung with Everything” video we wanted to continue with this process to match the style of the band’s live shows in a music video.”

Time Skiffs is due out February 4 via Domino.

Bambara Unveil New Single ‘Birds’

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Bambara have released a new single called ‘Birds’. It’s the second and last offering from their upcoming mini-album Love on My Mind, following October’s ‘Mythic Love’Check it out below.

“‘Birds’ compresses the events of many months into three and a half minutes,” Bambara’s Reid Bateh explained in a press statement. “A time when the couple we follow throughout the record are growing closer together. On the train, they fall in and out of sleep, reliving shared moments, when a childhood memory bubbles up to the surface of the protagonist’s mind, revealing his complex relationship to the idea of love.”

The six-track Love on My Mind is due to arrive on February 25 via Wharf Cat. Bambara’s most recent full-length was 2020’s Stray.