Mall Girl have shared ‘Lilies’ Dew’, the final offering from the Norwegian art-pop band’s upcoming album, alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below.
“When you feel lost in life and left with no confidence that you’re on the right track in life, imagine you are in a huge field of lilies,” the band said of the new track in a statement. “Try to let your guard down and the lilies will embrace you and love you no matter what.”
Moderat – the electronic trio of Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary and Apparat’s Sascha Ring – have released ‘MORE LOVE’, the third single from their forthcoming album MORE D4TA. Listen to it below.
MORE D4TA, Moderat’s first LP in six years, is due for release on May 13 via Monkeytown Records. It includes the previously shared singles ‘Easy Prey’ and ‘Fast Land’.
ELIO has dropped a new single called ‘Vitamins’. The track arrives ahead of ELIO’s first international headline shows across the US and Canada as well as her run of European dates supporting Charli XCX. Give it a listen below.
“I wrote ‘Vitamins’ last May after staying at my boyfriends house for a couple months because of lockdown,” ELIO explained in a statement. “We got into the habit of taking vitamins everyday and it made me think it was just so cute to think of seeing someone as part of your daily routine and how healthy and easy that can be. I wanted the song to have the perfect balance of ‘your love is my drug’ but in a super healthy and secure way. When I began writing it with my friends Mike, Emily and Nick, it fell into place so easily. It was definitely one of my favourite songs to write.”
Arlo Parks appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (March 31), delivering a performance of her recent single ‘Softly’. Watch it below.
Parks released ‘Softly’ back in February, following her 2021 debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams. The London singer-songwriter is up for Best Alternative Music Album and Best New Artist at the 2022 Grammys. Earlier this week, she shared a cover of KAYTRANADA and Syd’s ‘You’re the One’ as part of the Spotify Singles Best New Artist series.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are back with the new album Unlimited Love, their first with guitarist John Frusciante back in the lineup since 2006. The Rick Rubin–produced LP was previewed with the singles ‘Not the One’, ‘Black Summer’, and ‘Poster Child’. “Our only goal is to get lost in the music,” the band said of the record in press materials. “We (John, Anthony, Chad and Flea) spent thousands of hours, collectively and individually, honing our craft and showing up for one another, to make the best album we could. Our antennae attuned to the divine cosmos, we were just so damn grateful for the opportunity to be in a room together, and, once again, try to get better. Days, weeks and months spent listening to each other, composing, jamming freely, and arranging the fruit of those jams with great care and purpose. The sounds, rhythms, vibrations, words and melodies had us enrapt.”
PUP have returned with a new LP called THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND. The Toronto punk band’s latest follows 2019’s Morbid Stuff as well as the 2020 EP This Place Sucks Ass. It was recorded and mixed over the course of five weeks in the summer of 2021 in producer Peter Katis’ Connecticut mansion and features contributions from Sarah Tudzin of illuminati hotties, NOBRO’s McCaughey, Casper Skulls’ Melanie St-Pierre, and Erik Paulson of Remo Drive. “As the weeks passed, we seemed less and less rational, objective, and sane,” vocalist and guitarist Stefan Babcock said in a press release. “You can hear the band start to fall off the cliff, and because of that, I think this record is our truest and most genuine to date. There is nothing more PUP than a slow and inevitable descent into self-destruction.”
Christian Lee Huston has followed up his 2020 LP Beginners with Quitters, out now via ANTI-. The album was produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst and includes the advance tracks ‘Cherry’, ‘Strawberry Lemonade’, and ‘Rubberneckers’. “When we made Beginners, the aim was to make simple digital recordings of how I would play the songs in the room,” Hutson explained in a statement. “With this record, Phoebe and Conor had an idea that it would be fun to make it to tape. Phoebe is my best friend and making Beginners with her was so comfortable and easy. So I wanted to work with her again.” He added: “I took a long time with Beginners. I had those songs for 10 years, but these songs came out a lot faster. There was a little bit of insecurity with the lyrics. Having Conor there served the purpose of someone who I really respect as a lyricist and could soothe my anxiety.”
Alabaster dePlume, the project of London-based composer, saxophonist, and poet Angus Fairbairn, has a new album out today titled GOLD – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love. Released via Chicago label International Anthem, the double-LP follows 2020’s To Cy and Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 and was recorded over two weeks at the Total Refreshment Center, with guest contributions from Falle Noike, Sarathy Korwar, Rozi Plain (This Is the Kit), and Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet). The recording process involved a different set of musicians each day, recording the same tunes without the opportunity to rehearse or listen back to the tracks. “They didn’t have enough preparation to be able to hide behind this piece of material or skill,” Fairbairn said. “They had to look up and respond to each other, and that’s what we’ve recorded. The method is part of the mission. It wasn’t like school. We had mayhem. We were having fun. That’s the story and the process – and I want to live that way.”
Duster – the San Jose indie rock trio of Clay Parton, Canaan Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini – have surprise-released a new album titled Together. The 13-track effort, which follows the band’s 2019 self-titled record, is available on streaming services today, and each song is also accompanied by a music video on YouTube. “I know people say, ‘Oh Duster music so sad, we’ve even said it ourselves before,” Parton said in a statement. “But it’s a lot more like absurdism than nihilism.”
more eaze, the electronic project of mari maurice, has issued a new album called oneiric. The six-track record features contributions from frequent collaborator claire rousay on ‘heartbreaker’ and Philadelphia-based musician Lucy Liyou on ‘uninvited’. “Each song is on the verge of communicating some deep truth but not quite being able to articulate it, like accidentally mumbling a secret while sleep-talking,” maurice explained in a statement. “During the time of creation, I began to develop deep, unrequited feelings for someone close to me, and my dreams began to consist of doing quotidian things with this person, but in environments that were geographically or architecturally impossible. The Texas Hill Country would open up to a neon-lit New York City that we’d walk arm and arm through. We’d go shopping at malls containing caverns and rivers next to Hot Topics and Macys.”
Pillow Queens – the Dublin-based band composed of vocalists Sarah Corcoran and Pamela Connolly, guitarist Cathy McGuiness, and drummer Rachel Lyons – have dropped their second album Leave the Light On via Royal Mountain Records. The follow-up to 2020’s In Waiting was preceded by the singles ‘No Good Woman’, ‘Hearts & Minds’, and ‘Be By Your Side’. The band wrote the record over the course of three months before entering the studio in the spring of 2021 with producer Tommy McLaughlin, who they also worked with on In Waiting.
Sondre Lerche has released a new double album called Avatars of Love. Spanning 14 tracks, the LP features guest appearances from AURORA, CHAI, Dirty Projectors’ Felicia Douglass, Mary Lattimore, Rodrigo Alarcon, and Ana Müller. While Lerche’s previous album, 2020’s Patience, took more than seven years to write and record, Avatars of Love was completed over the course of a year in his home country of Norway. “This is without a doubt the biggest, boldest, most complex thing I’ve ever done,” Lerche said in press materials. “At the same time, it was also the easiest, most natural, and most liberating. As an artist, it’s the kind of project you always dream about.” The album features the early tracks ‘Summer in Reverse’, ‘Dead of the Night’, ‘Cut’, and ‘Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All’.
Other albums out today:
Meshuggah, Immutable; Dreamville & J. Cole, D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape; Battle Ave, I Saw the Egg; Tree River, Time Being; Papercuts, Past Life Regression; Noon Garden, Beulah Spah; Jon Spencer & The HITmakers, SPENCER GETS IT LIT!; Confidence Man, TILT; Warmduster, At The Hot Spot; NCT DREAM, Glitch Mode; Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales, Consumed In Key; lobsterfight, Sun Soaking; Walt Disco, Unlearning; Anne Carner, Dear Unknown.
Florence and the Machine have released a Glass Animals remix of their recent single ‘My Love’. Give it a listen below.
‘My Love’ is lifted from Florence and the Machine’s upcoming album Dance Fever, which Florence Welch co-produced with Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley and Jack Antonoff. The LP, out May 13, includes the previously unveiled singles ‘King’ and ‘Heaven is Here’. Florence and the Machine recently announced a North American tour with support from Arlo Parks, Japanese Breakfast, Wet Leg, and more.
Big Thief were the musical guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (March 31), where they delivered a performance of their single ‘Spud Infinity’. Check it out below.
‘Spud Infinity’ is taken from Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, Big Thief’s fifth studio album, which came out in February. The double LP was produced by drummer James Krivchenia, who is releasing his latest solo album Blood Karaoke on April 15. A month ago, Big Thief played ‘Simulation Swarm’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
Freddie Gibbs has enlisted Rick Ross for a new single called ‘Ice Cream’. The track reimagines Raekwon’s song of the same name from 1995’s Only Built 4 Cubin Line and features production from Kenny Beats. Check out a music video for it below.
‘Ice Cream’ arrives ahead of Gibbs’ Coachella performance with Madlib. The rapper signed with Warner Records following the release of his Grammy-nominated 2020 album with the Alchemist, Alfredo, and is readying his debut album for the label. Back in November, he teamed up with Jadakiss for the single ‘Black Illuminati’.
Arooj Aftab has shared a cover of Rosalía’s ‘Di Mi Nombre (Cap.8: Éxtasis)’ for the Spotify Singles series, which is currently celebrating the Best New Artist category at the 2022 Grammys. The Grammy nominee also performed a new rendition of her own ‘Baghon Main’ for the installment. Take a listen below.
“I’ve always felt a very strong kinship to flamenco music, and recently having visited the south of Spain, even more undeniably so,” Aftab said in a statement. “It’s always been in my periphery to make something with that energy. The driving rawness of the palmas, the haunted vocals. Very much my vibe. The opportunity to cover a previous Best New Artist pointed me directly to Rosalía. And while it was a very ambitious choice, I had a great time versioning this song!”
Arooj Aftab is nominated for Best New Artist and Best Global Music Performance (for ‘Mohabbat’) at the 64th Grammy Awards. In the past few days, Spotify has collaborated with Best New Artist nominees Arlo Parks, FINNEAS, Japanese Breakfast, and Jimmie Allen on exclusive recordings.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are back with the new album 
PUP have returned with a new LP called 
Christian Lee Huston has followed up his 2020 LP Beginners with 
Alabaster dePlume, the project of London-based composer, saxophonist, and poet Angus Fairbairn, has a new album out today titled 
Duster – the San Jose indie rock trio of Clay Parton, Canaan Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini – have surprise-released a new album titled 
more eaze, the electronic project of mari maurice, has issued a new album called 
Pillow Queens – the Dublin-based band composed of vocalists Sarah Corcoran and Pamela Connolly, guitarist Cathy McGuiness, and drummer Rachel Lyons – have dropped their second album 
Sondre Lerche has released a new double album called 
