The Weeknd has shared a new music video for ‘Sacrifice’, a track from his just-released album Dawn FM. The clip was directed by Cliqua, the duo who also helmed the video for advance single ‘Take My Breath’. Check it out below.
Announced earlier this week, Dawn FM is the follow-up to the Weeknd’s 2020 album After Hours. It features guest 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.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s have shared a remix of ‘Black Hot Soup’ by DJ Shadow. The track will appear on Butterfly 3001, a collection of remixes of songs from the band’s 2021 LP Butterfly 3000. ‘Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow ‘My Own Reality’ Re-Write)’ arrives with an accompanying video directed by John Angus Stewart that stars Australian radio host and documentary maker John Safran and features appearances from Alkiviadis Grapsas and John Dimoulas. Watch it below.
Nashville pop-country singer Maren Morris has unveiled a new single, ‘Circles Around This Town’, alongside an accompanying music video. The track was written by Morris with frequent collaborators Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels and Jimmy Robbins and produced by Greg Kurstin. Check out the Harper Smith-directed visual below.
“I could see the visuals for ‘Circles Around This Town’ the moment I wrote the song,” Morris said in a press release, continuing:
I’ve always been so inspired by the industrial, blown out colors of music videos from the 90s, so Harper Smith and I wanted the aesthetics of this video to reflect that grainy, devil-may-care attitude of all my females heroes from that era: Sheryl, Fiona, Alanis. Obviously, having a penchant for the nostalgic, we decided to recreate my teenage bedroom and pin old photos of me as a kid on the walls and have me typing on an old PC computer. I knew I didn’t want to take anything too seriously in this video, so all our amplified ‘signs of the universe’ are purposefully campy, but they also ask the viewer, ‘Is the universe actually showing you signs or do you just know when you need to make a real change?’ ‘Circles Around This Town’ is my story, so I felt like I truly got to relive my journey from Texas to Nashville again.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters have released a new track, ‘Farewell, OK’, which will appear on their forthcoming album The Boy Named If. Check it out below.
“Like a lot of good rock and roll songs this began with a drummer down in a basement and a singer howling outside the backdoor,” Costello explained in a statement about ‘Farewell, OK. “It’s a blurred gaze, a drink too much, an accidental punch and a kiss goodnight all in the tumult of a dancehall.”
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 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, 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
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 arriveson 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.”
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 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:
1. Old Friend
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
