Matilda Mann has released her latest single, ‘Margaux’. It follows recent offerings ‘Hell’, ‘Nice’, and ‘Four Leaf Dream’. Give the track a listen below.
“I think whenever I’m overwhelmed or stressed, the best thing for me has always been, having some time alone,” Mann said of the new song in a statement. “Sometimes you can feel yourself slipping away from someone, and you’re not quite sure why, until you figure out that it’s because you’re best apart. I guess Margaux is from the perspective of who you’re leaving. How they saw you fall away. How the subtle things started to change. And how life is without them.”
NEU! have shared a new pair of tracks from their upcoming boxset. The single features Fink’s rework of ‘Weissensee’, as well as a new NEU!-inspired original track from Guerilla Toss titled ‘Zum Herz’. Take a listen below.
“I have walked around Weissensee many times – a little urban lake in a pretty rundown part of Berlin - particularly beautiful when it’s frozen over,” Fink explained in a statement. “And so I had to try this one – stepping up to NEU! and the anniversary of their debut was an honour, a challenge and a joy.”
Guerilla Toss commented: “NEU! are one of the most important bands of the 20th century, and a personal favourite of GT’s. Their influence on psych, rock, punk, and electronic music is enormous. The lineage of so many great bands can be traced back to NEU! We are thrilled to be part of this compilation. Our song ‘Zum Herz’ draws heavily from the NEU! aesthetic, with the repetitive Klaus Dinger Moterik beat and Michael Rother style multi-layer guitar production. I like to think that the U.S. / U.K created Rock music, but the Germans made it forever weird. Thanks NEU!”
The Tribute box set will be released on September 23 via Grönland Records. It also features contributions from The National, IDLES, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Mogwai, New Order’s Stephen Morris, and more.
Fred again.. has teamed up with Swedish House Mafia for the new single ‘Turn on the Lights Again’, which also features Future. Check it out below.
‘Turn On The Lights Again’ follows a series of collaborative singles from Fred Again.., including January’s ‘Lights Out’ with HAAi & Romy and March’s ‘Admit It (U Don’t Want 2)’ featuring I. Jordan. Fred is set to embark on a US headline tour this September.
The Comet Is Coming – the London-based jazz rave trio composed of Danalogue (Dan Leavers), Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings), and Betamax (Max Hallett) — have announced their next album, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, with the new single ‘CODE’. The follow-up to 2019’s The Afterlife will drop on September 23 via Impulse! Records. Check out a visual for ‘CODE’ below, along with the album cover and the group’s upcoming tour dates.
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio, with assistance from The Comet Is Coming’s longtime engineer Kristian Craig. After the four-day long recording process, Danalogue and Betamax sampled, distilled, and arranged the material into a “musical message about the future of technology, humankind, spirituality, and the connectivity of the universe,” per a press release.
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam Cover Artwork:
The Comet Is Coming 2022 Tour Dates:
Sep 24 – Bentonville, AR, USA – Format Festival
Sep 25 – Nashville, TN, USA – Basement East
Sep 26 – Atlanta, GA, USA – Terminal West
Sep 27 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Rickshaw Theatre
Sep 30 – Seattle, WA, USA – Crocodile Showroom
Oct 1 – Portland, OR, USA – Revolution Hall
Oct 3 – San Francisco, CA, USA – The Independent
Oct 4 – San Francisco, CA, USA – The Independent
Oct 5 – Los Angeles, CA, USA – El Rey Theater
Oct 13 – Chicago, IL, USA – Thalia Hall
Oct 14 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Axis Club
Oct 15 – Montreal, QC, Canada – Fairmount Theater
Oct 18 – Boston, MA, USA – Crystal Ballroom
Oct 19 – Philadelphia, PA, USA – Underground Arts
Oct 20 – Washington, DC, USA – Union Stage
Oct 22 – New York, NY, USA – Bowery Ballroom
Beyoncé is back. Renaissance, the follow-up to 2016’s Lemonade, is out now and features the previously released single ‘Break My Soul’, as well as contributions from Jay-Z, Drake, Skrillex, 070 Shake, The-Dream, and others. “Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world,” Beyoncé said in a statement. “It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom. It was a beautiful journey of exploration.”
Florist’s self-titled album has arrived via Double Double Whammy. Composed of Emily Sprague, Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro, and Felix Walworth, the New York four-piece previewed the LP – a companion to 2019’s Emily Alone, which was essentialy a solo album for Sprague – with the singles ‘Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning)’, ‘Spring In Hours’, ‘Sci-Fi Silence’, and ‘Feathers’. “We called it Florist because this is not just my songs with a backing band,” Sprague explained. “It’s a practice. It’s a collaboration. It’s our one life. These are my best friends and the music is the way that it is because of that.”
Maggie Rogers has returned with her sophomore album, Surrender, out today via Capitol/Polydor. The follow-up to 2019’s Heard It in a Past Life was recorded in three different locations – her parents’ garage, Electric Lady Studios in New York City, and Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios – and was co-produced with Kid Harpoon. The tracks ‘Horses’, ‘That’s Where I Am’, and ‘Want Want’ preceded he album. “There was no public life to write about,” Rogers said in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “It’s about me and my fears and my love life and my friends and my anger and my joy.” Read our review of Surrender.
God’s Country is the debut LP from Oklahoma noise rock band Chat Pile, following a couple of EPs and the soundtrack for the 2021 film Tenkiller. Released via the San Francisco-based label The Flenser, the album includes the early tracks ‘Wicket Puppet Dance’, ‘Why’, and ‘Slaughterhouse’. Describing the themes of the album, bassist Stin told New Noise Magazine: “More than anything, we’re trying to capture the anxiety and fear of seeing the world fall apart. Raygun is especially talented at that, even if the lyrics are fantasy based at times. I think that that specific type of anxiety comes through no matter what.” In press materials, the band describes it as “Oklahoma’s specific brand of misery.”
King Princess – aka Brooklyn vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Mikaela Straus – has followed up her 2019 debut Cheap Queen with Hold On Baby, which is out now via Zelig/Columbia. Straus co-produced the LP with Mark Ronson, Ethan Gruska, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Dave Hamelin, Shawn Everett, and Tobias Jesso Jr. The record also features contributions from Zach Fogarty, Amy Allen, and Fousheé, as well as the advance tracks ‘Too Bad’, ‘Cursed’, ‘For My Friends’, ‘Little Bother’, and ‘Change the Locks’. Read our review of the album.
Philadelphia-based band Friendship have released their first album for Merge, Love the Stranger. The group – led by Dan Wriggins and featuring guitarist Peter Gill, drummer Michael Cormier-O’Leary, and bassist Jon Samuels – co-produced the LP with Bradford Krieger (Horse Jumper of Love, Ian Sweet). Ahead of its release, Friendship shared the singles ‘Hank’ – which came with a Joe Pera-directed video – ‘Chomp Chomp’, ‘Alive Twice’, and ‘Ugly Little Victory’. Love the Stranger follows 2017’s Shock Out of Season and 2019’s Dreamin’.
Of Montreal have put out their latest album, Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck, via Polyvinyl. It follows last year’s self-released I Feel Safe With You, Trash as well as the 2020 LP Ur Fun. The album was informed by the isolation bandleader Kevin Barnes felt during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The experience of just trying to keep my head above water and navigate through the last couple years played a huge role in this record,” Barnes commented. The band previewed the album with the singles ‘Marijuana’s a Working Woman’ and ‘Blab Sabbath Lathe of Maiden’.
Singer-songwriter and Highwomen member Amanda Shires has issued her new album Take It Like a Man via ATO Records. Featuring the singles ‘Hawk for the Dove’, ‘Empty Cups’, and the title track, the follow-up to 2018’s To the Sunset was written and recorded during lockdown and includes guest vocals from Brittney Spencer, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby. It was produced by Lawrence Rothman, who said of working Shires: “I was just mesmerized. I thought she was the new Dolly Parton; Dolly for a new generation.”
Other albums out today:
Jemima Coulter, Grace After a Party; Tallies, Patina; Hayley Kiyoko, PANORAMA; Ithaca, They Fear Us; Precipitation, Glass Horizon; DC Gore, All These Things; Nav, Demons Protected By Angels; Warren Hue, Boy of the Year; Beach Rats, Rat Beat; PHONY, AT SOME POINT YOU STOP; Josh Rouse, Going Places; Naked Flames, Miracle in Transit; Murder By Death, Spell/Bound; $uicideboy$, Sing Me a Lullaby My Sweet Temptation; Cheerbleederz, Even in Jest; Wiz Khalifa, Multiverse; Wombo, Fairy Rust; Suemori, Tawamure; Lava La Rue, Hi-Fidelity.
dodie has returned with ‘Got Weird’, her first single of 2022. Check out a lyric video for it below.
“‘Got Weird’ was written after a strange date,” dodie explained in a statement. “The whole song can probably be described as; I get the ick with myself whenever I date girls. It might be internalised biphobia, it might be from lack of representation growing up (“no one told me, course I stumbled”) – but regardless, ‘Got Weird’ is about a kiss with a girl on a date following a faux confident arrangement (“I played the man, and you bought it”), and how clearly, following that, I really have got some “shit to figure out”.”
Whitney have shared two new songs, ‘BLUE’ and ‘TWIRL’, which are lifted from their upcoming album SPARK. Check them out below.
“With ‘TWIRL’, John Congleton and Brad Cook really created the framework for us to explore a new palette,” the band explained in a statement. “What started as a simple love song grew into a wider take on human connection that we feel lucky to have made.”
Of ‘Blue’, they added: “We wrote ‘BLUE’ at what I would now call ‘peak isolation’ in the beginning of 2021. In hindsight it’s clear that we were attempting to manifest a different set of circumstances through the fantasy of love.”
SPARK comes out September 16 via Secretly Canadian. Whitney announced the LP last month with the single ‘REAL LOVE’.
Joni Mitchell has announced The Asylum Albums (1972-1975), the next installment in her archival series. Set for release on September 23, it features remasted versions of For the Roses (1972), Court And Spark (1974), the double live album Miles Of Aisles (1974), and The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975). All four albums were remastered by Bernie Grundman. Check out a remastered version of For the Roses‘ ‘You Turn Me on I’m a Radio’ below.
The Asylum Albums (1972-1975), the third installment in Mitchell’s archival series, follows Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) and Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971). Joni Mitchell left Reprise Records to join Asylum Records in 1972. The transition led her to incorporate more jazz elements into her songwriting, culminating in 1979 with Mingus, her collaboration with jazz legend Charles Mingus. It was her last studio album for Asylum.
The Cure have announced a 30th anniversary reissue of their album Wish. Newly remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, the deluxe edition will include 24 previously unreleased tracks and four that were only available as a mail-order cassette and are new to CD and digital. Check out the tracklist, as well as a Dim-D mix of ‘Uyea Sound’, below.
“There’s a side to the album which I had kind of forgotten, a very gentle, yearning thing which is quite beautiful,” Smith said of the album in a press release. “‘Trust’ is one of the best things we’ve ever done I think, it’s played with great feeling, and ‘To Wish Impossible Things’ is another gorgeous, melancholic piece… in fact it could well be my favourite song on the record.”
“In the studio control room it all sounded excellent, but I got too busy sorting out our upcoming concerts to properly oversee the mastering,” he continued. “It was too late to do anything about it; the album was out, and we were off around the world again. It has really bugged for me for a very long time. It has taken 30 years, but finally, finally my Wish has come true.”
The anniversary version of Wish will be released on 3xCD, double LP, single CD, and digitally on October 7.
Wish (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Tracklist:
1. Open (2022 Remaster)
2. High (2022 Remaster)
3. Apart (2022 Remaster)
4. From the Edge of the Green Sea (2022 Remaster)
5. Wendy Time (2022 Remaster)
6. Doing the Unstuck (2022 Remaster)
7. Friday I’m in Love (2022 Remaster)
8. Trust (2022 Remaster)
9. A Letter to Elise (2022 Remaster)
10. Cut (2022 Remaster)
11. To Wish Impossible Things (2022 Remaster)
12. End (2022 Remaster)
1. The Big Hand (1990 Demo) (2022 Remaster)
2. Cut (1990 Demo)
3. A Letter to Elise (1990 Demo) (2022 Remaster)
4. Wendy Time (1990 Demo) (2022 Remaster)
5. This Twilight Garden (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
6. Scared as You (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
7. To Wish Impossible Things (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
8. Apart (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
9. T7 (Instrumental Demo)
10. Now Is the Time (Instrumental Demo)
11. Miss van Gogh (Instrumental Demo)
12. T6 (Instrumental Demo)
13. Play (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
14. A Foolish Arrangement (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
15. Halo (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
16. Trust (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster)
17. Abetabw (Instrumental Demo)
18. T8 (Instrumental Demo)
19. Heart Attack (Instrumental Demo)
20. Swing Change (Instrumental Demo)
21. Frogfish (Instrumental Demo)
1. Uyea Sound (Dim-D Mix)
2. Cloudberry (Dim-D Mix)
3. Off to Sleep… (Dim-D Mix)
4. The Three Sisters (Dim-D Mix)
5. A Wendy Band (Instrumental)
6. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea (Partscheckruf Mix) (2022 Remaster)
7. Open (Fix Mix) (2022 Remaster)
8. High (Higher Mix) (2022 Remaster)
9. Doing the Unstuck (Extended 12″ Mix)
10. Friday I’m in Love (Strangelove Mix) (2022 Remaster)
11. A Letter to Elise (Blue Mix) (2022 Remaster)
12. End (Live in Paris, 1992)
Blue Note Records has announced a new Leonard Cohen tribute album that will be released on October 14. Produced by Larry Klein, Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen features covers from Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel, Norah Jones, Mavis Staples, Sara McLachlan, James Taylor, David Gray, and Nathaniel Rateliff. Taylor’s cover of ‘Coming Back To You’, which appears on Cohen’s 1984 album Various Positions, is out today. Check it out below, along with the collection’s cover art and tracklist.
“When Larry Klein invited me to participate in a Leonard Cohen tribute album, I accepted immediately,” Taylor said in a statement. “Both because Larry is a great producer of excellent recordings and a good friend, and because, like almost everyone in my generation, I venerate Leonard Cohen. As soon as I began seeking out my own musical preferences, Cohen’s songs were among my few favorites and had a major influence on my own progression as a songwriter.”
Taylor continued: “For the project, I was drawn to a relatively obscure piece that was new to me, ‘Coming Back To You’. Larry opted to cut the song in Cohen’s original key, which was certainly at the bottom of my own range. But somehow moving me out of my comfort zone helped me find my own approach to the song. Like so much of Leonard Cohen’s writing, this lyric resonates deeply with his forlorn and hopeless take on the bleak landscape of love and attachment. So, breathe a deep sigh and, drink up…”
Discussing the album, Klein commented:
Leonard Cohen had been a friend since 1982 or so, and in the last 15 years of his life, he became a close friend. He was possibly the wisest and funniest friend that I had, and someone that I enjoyed, immensely, in every way. After he passed away, I found myself frequently covering his songs with other artists that I was working with. One reason, of course, is that the songs are so good—in a certain way, Leonard is the best pop songwriter ever—but the other reason was that it helped keep him in the air around me.
It was an immensely gratifying experience to recontextualize these poems, and shine a different light on them. I hope that this musical language that we developed together, the context that we put these things in, makes the songs connect with people in a new way.
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen Cover Artwork:
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen Tracklist:
1. Steer Your Way – Norah Jones
2. Here It Is – Peter Gabriel
3. Suzanne – Gregory Porter
4. Hallelujah – Sarah McLachlan
5. Avalanche – Immanuel Wilkins
6. Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye – Luciana Souza
7. Coming Back to You – James Taylor
8. You Want It Darker – Iggy Pop
9. If It Be Your Will – Mavis Staples
10. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy – David Gray
11. Famous Blue Raincoat – Nathaniel Rateliff
12. Bird on The Wire – Bill Frisell
Beyoncé is back. 
Florist’s 
Maggie Rogers has returned with her sophomore album, 
God’s Country
King Princess – aka Brooklyn vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Mikaela Straus – has followed up her 2019 debut Cheap Queen with 
Philadelphia-based band Friendship have released their first album for 
Of Montreal have put out their latest album, 
Singer-songwriter and Highwomen member Amanda Shires has issued her new album 
