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CHVRCHES Surprise Release Three New Songs for ‘Screen Violence: Director’s Cut’

CHVRCHES have released Screen Violence: Director’s Cut, an expanded version of their most recent album. It features three new songs: ‘Killer’, ‘Bitter End’, and ‘Screaming’. You can listen to them below.

Talking about the new tracks, frontwoman Lauren Mayberry said in a statement: “This album was thematically so different to previous CHVRCHES albums that it would have been rude of us to let Halloween come and go without injecting some more Screen Violence into it. ‘Killer’, ‘Bitter End’ and ‘Screaming’ were all started in 2020 and finished just after the album was released. As any good horror fan knows, just because the film ends, it doesn’t mean the story does.”

Lil Uzi Vert Drops New Song ‘Demon High’

Lil Uzi Vert has shared a new single called ‘Demon High’. It marks the rapper’s first solo release since appearing on the soundtrack for Space Jam: A New Legacy. Give it a listen below.

This year, Lil Uzi Vert has released collaborations with Justin Bieber (‘There She Go’), Trippie Redd (‘Holy Smokes’), Pi’erre Bourne (‘Sossboy 2’), the late Juice WRLD (‘Lucid Dreams’), and Meek Mill (‘Blue Notes 2’). He dropped his second album, Eternal Atake, last year, and has teased a new project called Pink Tape, though no further details have been announced.

Alicia Keys Details New Album ‘KEYS’, Releases New Song ‘Best of Me’

Alicia Keys has announced that her next album, KEYS, will be released on December 10. The LP will feature two different iterations: Originals and Unlocked. Along with the announcement, she’s released two versions of the first single from the record, ‘Best of Me’. Take a listen below.

“The Originals come from that classic side of me! It’s that AK that we WANT!! A homecoming,” Keys wrote on social media. “The Unlocked side, I wanted to sample The Originals to create a whole other sonic experience. So, [Mike WiLL Made-It] and I connected and made magic. Together, they are a fusion of the worlds within me with the KEYS as the main ingredient.”

Alicia Keys issued her most recent album, ALICIA, last fall. She also collaborated with Brandi Carlile on a single called ‘A Beautiful Noise’.

Wolf Alice Cover Alex G’s ‘Bobby’

Wolf Alice have offered their take on Alex G’s ‘Bobby’, from his 2017 album Rocket. The cover appears on the new deluxe edition of their latest album Blue Weekend. Check it out below.

Blue Weekend arrived back in June via Dirty Hit. In addition to their rendition of ‘Bobby’, the Tour Deluxe version of the album also includes live recordings of four songs from the LP.

Jay-Z Shares New Songs From ‘The Harder They Fall’ Soundtrack

Jay-Z has released two new songs, ‘Guns Go Bang’ (with Kid Cudi) and ‘King Kong Riddim’ (with Jadakiss, Conway the Machine, and BackRoad Gee), which appear on the soundtrack for the new Netflix film The Harder They Fall. The OST also includes new songs from Koffee, Fatoumata Diawara and Ms. Lauryn Hill, Laura Mvula and Mayra Andrade, and Seal. Stream it below.

The Harder They Fall, which was directed by Jeymes Samuel and co-produced by Jay-Z, comes out on Netflix on November 3. It stars Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, and LaKeith Stanfield.

Kelly Lee Owens Releases ‘Unity’, the Theme Song for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup

Kelly Lee Owens has released a new single, ‘Unity’, which will serve as the official theme song for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Give it a listen below.

“‘Unity’ is a song that I put everything I had into it,” Owens wrote on Twitter. “Rising arpeggios, rising basslines…. It’s led with my voice, but I wanted the sense of community brought in with choirs.”

Owens’ last studio album, Inner Song, arrived last year. Earlier this year, she shared a remix of Sigrid’s ‘Mirror’.

Album Review: Circuit des Yeux, ‘-io’

The first thing Circuit des Yeux does is claim her own space. In the lyric sheet for her previous album, 2017’s Reaching for Indigo, she commanded the listener to “create your own language”; on her latest, she invokes that of the universe, the natural laws that bind us, before beginning to carve out her own. Cosmic is often the only direction that feels appropriate when grappling with the enormity of grief, and after an extended period of being unable to write in the wake of personal loss, it’s where Haley Fohr found her lyrics returning to. Before attempting to arrange any of it into song, the Chicago experimental musician introduces us to the world she’s built by sending out a signal in the form of ‘Tonglen | In Vain’, half a minute of sliding strings that sound like a lift-off. By the time ‘Vanishing’ comes in, with its apocalyptic swagger and long list of goodbyes, you begin to understand why Fohr called this world “a place where everything is ending all the time.”

The planet is named -io. It might bring to mind Squirrel Flower’s own Planet (i) or Strand of Oaks’ In Heaven, 2021 records that sonically belong to a different galaxy but are grounded in a similar premise: drawing a line between the vastness above and within in the hope of finding some kind of solace. Of course, the instinct is always to go bigger; Fohr was already making the most ambitious music of her career as Circuit des Yeux, but -io expands the scope of her work in ways that are intentional and compelling. For all its astronomical references, you can hear the bones of these songs, which, despite being arranged for and featuring a 23-piece orchestra, came together bit by bit, the initial process more solitary and less collaborative than before. The feeling of impending doom is never quite released, and instead of the explosive catharsis that tends to be a point of resolution for this kind of album, what it evokes instead is a kind of implosion, of something immense collapsing in on itself.

It’s this idea that feeds into ‘Neutron Star’, which ends on an imposing note: “Descend bold traveler and attain the center of the earth.” Astoundingly, Fohr finds the beauty in it. While obsessing over black holes, whose gravitational pull is mirrored in her dizzying compositions, she’s said the neutron star emerged as a “gorgeous representation of those that linger and those who wander” in the way it “uses this mass density that it carries around itself.” The track itself is one of the most striking and immersive on the album, its harrowing, voluminous guitars pummelling through with an electric charge that threatens to swallow the whole mix. But Fohr captures a delicate dance, and her songs thrum with a similar kind of density even when they don’t directly point to the cosmos: take ‘The Chase’, whose nightmarish mood and whispered vocals deftly channel a traumatic memory where “the walls are caving in like the valley in your mind.”

In this relentless rise and fall – the only movement that can contain Fohr’s sweeping, operatic vocals – it can be hard to fathom how -io could have possibly been conceived as an attempt to “explore the hard work of joy.” But even if that became more of an impossibility as she dove further into the process and the pandemic became an all-consuming reality, I find it harder not to see glimpses of that feeling here, particularly as the grand presentation gives way to a simpler framework following the climactic peak of ‘Neutron Star’. It’s then that the album seems to pick up where Reaching for Indigo and Fohr’s Jackie Lynn project left off, weaving in a quiet warmth between bursts of emotion, but with a renewed, empathetic perspective. ‘Stranger’ is a piano ballad about passing by someone on the street and being moved by the infinite possibilities that belie such an interaction – a profoundly human and earthbound experience, yet one that Fohr elevates into high drama with the arresting performance she spins off the word “street.”

It’s only fitting that in the Listening Guide for this record, one of her instructions is to “walk a very far distance” after taking a break around the halfway point, perhaps after the staggering ‘Sculpting the Exodus’. Whatever you end up finding there – between the floor and the ceiling, the clouds and the stars, darkness and light, yourself and someone – just giving off radiation, might in fact be its own small universe. Creating your language might be freeing in an abstract sense, even impossible, but as she suggests on ‘Walking Toward Winter’, there’s no gift like listening closely to someone else’s words and seeing them become your own.

The Most Unusual Movie Couples of All Time

Lots of people hate romantic movies, believing they have nothing to do with breathtaking storylines and ambiguous characters. If you are one of such people, then watching these movies will help you change your mind.

Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013

How long does love live? The characters of Only Lovers Left Alive have proven that it can live forever. Adam and Eve are vampires whose love has definitely stood the test of time. They seem to know all the iconic artists of the last few centuries. Now the couple has decided to live separately, Eve in warm countries by the ocean and Adam in the most ordinary city. Everything changes when a flighty sister, Eva, stands in the way of the lovers. A struggle for love, blood, and survival lies ahead.

Her, 2013

Could you imagine falling in love with a machine, like an RNG algorithm at TonyBet or an AI? If not, then Her will be quite a surprise for you.

A 21st century love story that won an Oscar for best screenplay starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Scarlett Johansson. To escape his loneliness, writer Theodore buys mankind’s newest invention – an operating system that grants any wish. Now Samantha accompanies the hero every day, and he begins to fall in love with the technology, but will Samantha be faithful to Theodore, or will he have to return to the real world?

Warm Bodies, 2013

Love during the zombie apocalypse: When the planet is on the brink of extinction, and there is a real standoff between humans and zombies, only true feelings will help you survive. It is at this time that a zombie whose name in life began with the letter “R” decides to save the girl he was planning to eat. The relationship between R and Julie was the beginning of a big change in the world and proved that the saving key at all times is one, and that is love.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, 2004

Joel is an ordinary shy guy living an unremarkable life. When the hero deviates from his usual route to work, he meets an extraordinary girl with bright blue hair. Joel and Clementine have so much in common, as if the characters have known each other for years. Who would have thought that in the past the heroes were even a couple, but decided to erase all memories of that period. There is one thing they did not think of: the heart remembers everything. Will they be able to rekindle the love they’ve forgotten?

Harold and Maude, 1971

Harold and Maude are considered perhaps the strangest romantic couple in cinema. The problem, of course, is the age difference. The melancholy son of wealthy parents, Harold is in his twenties, the vivacious old lady Maude is almost eighty. They meet at a funeral, which Harold likes to attend for nothing when he is not busy staging his own suicides, and unexpectedly turn out to be kindred spirits. 

Murphy’s Romance, 1985

Another age-gap story, a standard melodrama disguised as a love story between a divorced woman in her thirties and an elderly pharmacist, Murphy, who is twice her age. Murphy helps Emma settle down and find her place in the provincial town where she moves with her twelve-year-old son. Although in Max Schott’s book, on which the film is based, Murphy and Emma remained friends, in the movie a real romance develops between the characters.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947

The romantic relationship between ghosts and living people will still be found in movies, but this story has the most prosperous ending. Gene Tierney plays Lucy Muir, a young widow who moves into a cottage by the sea with her daughter Anna. It turns out that there is another tenant in the cottage. It’s former homeowner Captain Daniel Gregg. 

The captain doesn’t mind sharing his memories with the world, which Lucy carefully records for publication. A romance flares up between the ghost Gregg and his literary slave, but the couple realizes the hopelessness of the situation, and the ghost nobly yields his beloved to a living suitor. True, a couple more plot twists await the heroine until she is reunited in afterlife bliss with her true love.

Let the Right One In, 2008

Unusual novels seem to have been especially popular in the 1980s. Set in the early 1980s somewhere on the outskirts of Stockholm, Let the Right One In is a romantic horror novel. Oskar fails to make friends at school, where the boys lavish him with blows and bullying. But a strange girl with vampire tendencies comes to the apartment next door. Or maybe not a girl at all. Oscar is fine in the girl’s company, and she is literally ready to tear his abusers apart. Thanks to atmospheric camerawork, Let the Right One In almost reeks of a prickly frosty air that makes you cringe at the screen.

6 Movies With the Most Annoying Endings

Everyone has things that irritate them. Some get annoyed when they cannot meet with their friends, others become angry if their bets at 22Bet don’t win, and there are millions of people who are provoked with illogical movie endings. These 6 are the most annoying examples.

Signs, 2002

A Knight Shyamalan film starring Mel Gibson about an alien invasion. It has everything: mysterious crop circles and evil aliens wishing to destroy humanity as a whole and the family of single father Graham Hess in particular. In the finale it turns out that the aliens can be defeated by water, because it is about as deadly to them as sulfuric acid is to us.

Why, then, did they come to a planet composed of 70% water?

This brings to mind War of the Worlds (2005), where the bloodthirsty Martians were decimated by Earth’s microorganisms. But in this case you can forgive the film this fact, because when Herbert Wells wrote the book that was the basis of the movie, microorganisms seemed to be something outlandish.

City of Angels, 1998

A touching picture about an angel who falls in love with an ordinary mortal girl. He loves her so much that he gives up immortality. And almost at the same moment the girl crashes her bicycle into a truck.

The only thing worse than such a painful and abrupt ending could be a stab wound to the stomach on her name day from her beloved grandmother.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 2008

“Indiana Jones” is one of a series of films that have been “killed off” by greedy movie companies. While the first three films are golden classics, the last one is clearly made to shake money out of fans.

It has all the commercial clichés: a disgusting and ill-conceived script, nuclear explosions, tons of bad computer graphics, aliens, and a blurred ending.

What’s most striking in the ending is that a spaceship that’s been deep in the ground for hundreds of years just takes off without explaining anything or saying goodbye to anyone.

Superman, 1978

Toward the end of the movie, Superman’s beloved girlfriend Lois Lane dies. The grief-stricken lover lets out an inhuman scream and decides to bring her back to life in a radical way. He begins circling the Earth at the speed of light against its rotation, time on the planet goes backwards, and the beloved comes back to life.

Such an illogical finale that destroys all the laws of physics can only be explained by the fact that the writers drove themselves into a dead end and decided to get out of it any way they could.

Lucy, 2014

Film critics consider this to be Luc Besson’s weakest film. And it has an ending to match.

Devious smugglers use Lucy to transport drugs and sew them into the girl’s stomach. But the bag bursts, the drug gets into her blood, and the heroine’s brains start working like Stakhanovites. She immediately gets a bunch of new skills and abilities: telepathy, two-handed shooting and excessive pathos.

The film ends with the killer getting close to Lucy and shooting her in the head, but a moment before she shifts her consciousness into cyberspace and disappears. Then Lucy sends everyone the message, “I’m everywhere now,” and also leaves her friends an unusual flash drive.

Many questions arise: What about Lucy? Is she on the Internet, on the flash drive, or in the universe? And what is the message of this movie?

Ready Player One, 2018

The movie is based on the novel by Ernest Cline. Fans of the book won’t like it because there’s not much left of it. Steven Spielberg decided not to bother with character development and building a good pacing, and just stuffed the film with pop culture references.

In the finale, the protagonist, along with his new girlfriend and friends, takes control of the game Oasis and immediately makes it two forced-mandatory weekends for all the players to spend time with their families. Doesn’t he realize that by doing so he will be bringing down the global economy every week? And on the other hand, just two days a week per family? It sounds a little too implausible even for a sci-fi movie.

Popular Gaming Genres of 2021

The gaming industry has almost taken over the world over the past few years. Although video games have been a thing for decades, it is only since the introduction of the digital world where it has really taken off. Now, it wouldn’t be hard to find someone with a deep love of gaming. People of all ages are now interested in the pastime. This is largely due to the increase in variety and quality.

There is so much more to gaming than there used to be. You are no longer limited to one console or genre. There is so much to choose from. If you are a gaming fan that loves lots of genres, there is a good chance you probably won’t even get to play all the different games you love. There would be simply too many to get through if you were to have a huge interest. But what are the most popular gaming genres? Here are some of the options gamers have to choose from.

Shooter

Shooting games have been one of the most popular genres since gaming became mainstream. This is largely thanks to titles such as Call of Duty and Battlefield. Both franchises regularly release new titles, with each game attempting to be better than the last. One of the major pull factors when it comes to these shooter games is the social aspect. Although the games hold so much quality for solo players, being able to play alongside your friends is one of the best aspects of the game. Talking war tactics with your friends is something a lot of gamers love to do, hence to popularity.

Platform

Platformer games were one of the first types to hit the market. This is due to the massive popularity the Mario franchise received. It is an extremely straightforward concept. A 2D world where you try to get to the end of the course. However, gaming developers figured out a way to make plenty of unique levels and aspects in their game. This is why these games still remain so fresh and played to this day.

Browser

Not everyone has the luxury of owning a console or gaming computer. However, game developers recognised this and noticed a gap in the market. This is where browser games come from. These games require no download or special technology to play. It is because of this accessibility that they gained so much popularity. The main type of browser game played is online casino games. These sites offer exciting opportunities for players from their smartphone, laptop, or desktop.

Horror

Horror games have been around for a long time. However, it wasn’t until the graphics started to sharpen up that people took a major interest. Now, the games are genuinely terrifying. One bad mistake, and you are getting jump-scared into a heart attack. Another major factor in their rise in popularity is YouTubers. Seeing people’s live reactions to being scared is extremely entertaining. After all, better them than you.