The Weather Station made their late-night debut last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Tamara Lindeman and her band performed ‘Tried to Tell You’, from their 2021 album Ignorance. Watch it below.
The Weather Station will be releasing a companion piece to Ignorance called How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars on March 4 via Fat Possum. Last year, they performed ‘Tried to Tell You’ and other tracks from the LP on CBS This Morning.
In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on February 4, 2022:
Mitski is back with her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell. Out now via Dead Oceans, the follow-up to 2018’s Be the Cowboy includes the previously released songs ‘Working for the Knife’, ‘The Only Heartbreaker’, ‘Heat Lightning’, and ‘Love Me More’. “I needed love songs about real relationships that are not power struggles to be won or lost,” Mitski said of the new album in press materials. “I needed songs that could help me forgive both others and myself. I make mistakes all the time. I don’t want to put on a front where I’m a role model, but I’m also not a bad person. I needed to create this space mostly for myself where I sat in that gray area.” She recorded the LP with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland during the pandemic, when some of the songs “slowly took on new forms and meanings, like seed to flower,” and the record as a whole became “more uptempo and dance-y.” Read our review of the album.
Animal Collective have returned with their eleventh studio album and first since 2016’s Painting With. Out today via Domino, Time Skiffs was preceded by the tracks ‘Prester John’, ‘Walker’, and ‘Strung With Everything’, and ‘We Go Back’. Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, and Panda Bear recorded the LP across the course of 2020, with Marta Salogni handling the mixing. A press release described the songs on the album as “love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder, same as they ever were.”
Cate Le Bon has released her new album Pompeii via Mexican Summer. The Welsh musician wrote and recorded her sixth LP with co-producer Samur Khouja in an “uninterrupted vacuum” in Cardiff, with exits sealed, granting herself “permission to annihilate identity.” Le Bon explained in a statement: “Pompeii was written and recorded in a quagmire of unease. Solo. In a time warp. In a house I had a life in 15 years ago. I grappled with existence, resignation and faith. I felt culpable for the mess but it smacked hard of the collective guilt imposed by religion and original sin.” The album was previewed with the singles ‘Running Away’, ‘Moderation’, and ‘Remembering Me’.
Black Country, New Road have followed up their 2021 debut For the first time with Ants From Up Here, which is out now via Ninja Tune. The 10-track LP includes the previously unveiled tracks ‘Concorde’, ‘Bread Song’, ‘Chaos Space Marine’, and ‘Snow Globes’. While their debut blended klezmer, post-rock, and experimental music, their latest also incorporates elements of classical minimalism and indie folk. “Releasing two albums in one year has been a fun and interesting challenge,” the band stated in a press release. “At the start of 2021 we decided to make something really good together. We were lucky enough to leave London and cross a small body of water to go to the Isle of Wight to record the album – being in the countryside was a creatively enriching experience.” Just days ahead of the album’s release, the London collective announced that frontman Isaac Wood has left the group, which will continue as a six-piece.
Let The Festivities Begin!, the debut album from Los Bitchos, has arrived via City Slang. The London-based, pan-continental instrumental four-piece – comprised of Serra Petale, Agustina Ruiz, Josefine Jonsson, and Nic Crawshaw – previewed the record with the singles ‘Good to Go!’ and ‘Las Panteras’, and ‘Pista (Fresh Start)’, all of which came with videos directed by Tom Mitchell. The record was produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand in Gallery Studios, London, the recording space owned by Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera.
yeule, the London-based artist born Nat Ćmiel, has released their latest LP, Glitch Princess. The follow-up to 2019’s Serotonin II features the previously shared tracks ‘Friendly Machine’, ‘Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself’, and ‘Too Dead Inside’. Combining video game sounds, experimental shoegaze, and art-pop, Glitch Princess “opens a channel to the in-between spaces: error messages and broken computer code, what it is to be conceptually manifested and the curation of the aesthete,” according to a press release. “Ćmiel’s experiences with sobriety resulted in a flood of emotions and Glitch Princess is the undiluted excerpt of this downpour. A redirection of chaotic energy into verse, and the opportunity to confront their own vices.”
Saba has dropped a new album called Few Good Things. It marks the Chicago rapper-producer and Pivot Gang co-Founder’s third studio LP and includes collaborations with Pivot Gang, G Herbo, Black Thought, Krayzie Bone, 6LACK, Smino, Mereba, Fousheé, Benjamin Earl Turner. “The concept of ‘Few Good Things’ is the realization of self after a search for exterior fulfillment,” Saba explained in a statement. “It is the satisfaction and completeness you gain by simply living a life that is yours. Few is a small number, but few is not lonely. In the face of all adversity, a few good things is recognizing and accepting blessings. Few is to count them, one by one – an empty glass is full of air, an empty bank is full of lessons., and an empty heart is full of memories. Few good things is to grow comfortable with the empty, and despite that, finding your fullness.”
Rolo Tomassi have put out their latest album, Where Myth Becomes Memory, via MNRK. The follow-up to the UK post-hardcore band’s 2018 LP Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It was preceded by the singles ‘Cloaked’, ‘Drip’, and ‘Closer’. It completes a trilogy of albums that began with 2015’s Grievances, with all three albums being produced by longtime collaborator Lewis Johns. “This is a really important album for all of us,” keyboardist/vocalist James Spence explained in press materials. “Of anything we’ve done, it’s the one I’m most proud of. I think it’s the most ambitious and creative that our band has ever sounded and something that we’ve all needed to get through the last few years. We can’t wait to share it and to have you help us bring it to life.”
Erin Rae, Lighten Up; Korn, Requiem; 2 Chainz, Dope Don’t Sell Itself; The Districts, Great American Painting; A Place to Bury Strangers, See Through You; Hippo Campus, LP3; recovery girl, NAUSEA POP vol 2; The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Summer at Land’s End; Bastille, Give Me the Future; Wild Rivers, Sidelines; Partner Look, By the Book; Sofia Bolt, Soft Like a Peach.
METZ have shared a new song called ‘Demolition Row’. The track will appear on an upcoming split 7″ with Adulkt Life, which is set for release on March 4 on What’s Your Rupture?. Listen to it below.
“Our motivation for doing this split 7″ was really just a way of doing something special for our upcoming tour where we’ll be playing with Adulkt Life in London,” METZ said in a press release. “We’ve done a few similar projects in the past (Mission of Burma, John Reis, APTBS remix, Clipping) and it’s because we are fans of the music. Book of Curses was a record we all enjoyed and one thing led to another. ‘Demolition Row’ is a song we recorded ourselves and I think it’s quite singular as far as the METZ catalogue is concerned. We’ve never sounded this way before.”
Adulkt Life released their debut LP, Book of Curses, in 2020. That same year, METZ issued their most recent full-length, Atlas Vending.
Kae Tempest has shared a new track, ‘Salt Coast’, the second offering from their upcomnig album The Line is a Curve. “My love song to this complex, devastating, deeply beautiful island Salt Coast is out now,” Tempest said in a statement. “This song means the world to me. Hope you feel it.” Take a listen below.
The Line is a Curve, the follow-up to 2019’s The Book of Traps and Lessons, is out on April 8 via Fiction Records. It was led by the single ‘More Pressure’, which features Kevin Abstract of BROCKHAMPTON.
Liam Gallagher has shared the first single from his upcoming album, C’mon You Know, which is out May 27 via Warner. ‘Everything’s Electric’ is produced by Greg Kurstin and co-written by Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl. According to press materials, the track takes inspiration from Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ with and The Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’. Give it a listen below.
‘Everything’s Electric’ marks Liam Gallagher’s first new song since 2020’s ‘All You’re Dreaming Of’. Gallagher is set to perform the track at the BRIT Awards on Tuesday, February 8. His last album was 2019’s Why Me? Why Not?.
French producer Kavinsky has announced the release date and tracklist of his upcoming album Reborn. The follow-up to 2013’s OutRun is out March 25 via Fiction/Virgin Music France. He’s also previewing the LP with a new song called ‘Zenith’, which features vocals from Prudence (formerly of The Dø) and Diamond Nights vocalist Morgan Phalen. According to a press release, Kavinsky envisioned ‘Zenith’ as a sequel to his 2010 breakout single ‘Nightcall’. Check it out below, along with the album tracklist.
Back in December, Kavinsky returned with ‘Renegade’, which was co-written by Justice’s Gaspard Augé and featured vocals from Cautious Clay.
Reborn Tracklist:
1. Pulsar
2. Reborn [feat. Romuald]
3. Renegade [feat. Cautious Clay]
4. Trigger
5. Goodbye [feat. Sébastien Tellier]
6. Plasma [feat. Morgan Phalen]
7. Cameo [feat. Kareen Lomax]
8. Zenith [feat. Morgan Phalen, Prudence]
9. Vigilante [feat. Morgan Phalen]
10. Zombie
11. Outsider
12. Horizon
Mitski has shared a new music video for ‘Stay Soft’, a track that appears on her just-released album Laurel Hell. The clip is directed by Maegan Houang, who previously co-directed the visual for ‘The Only Heartbreaker’. Watch it below.
“This video is heavily inspired by Romanticism and paintings and artwork from the Victorian era,” Houang explained in a press release. “Like the lyrics of the song ‘Stay Soft,’ paintings from that era have a gentle quality, but they still evoke a certain feeling of unexplored darkness and danger. I want the audience to feel safe within this fabricated world and then realize that the character Mitski plays is being hunted.”
Of the song, Mitski said:
‘Stay Soft’ was a more straightforward rock song when I wrote it on guitar, but the darkly sexual lyrics sung in that context felt too heavy and melodramatic. So we couched the depressing lyrics in an inviting dance beat, which is a trick people have used for hundreds of years. The remnants of the original grungy feeling can be heard starting at the instrumental interlude, when the distorted guitar comes in.
This song, frankly, is about hurt people finding each other, and using sex to make sense of their pain. This is by no means the correct way to cope with trauma, but it’s a thing people do regardless, and I always want to write songs about what we actually do, so that we don’t feel alone in them.
Out now via Dead Oceans, Laurel Hell includes the previously released singles ‘Working for the Knife’, ‘The Only Heartbreaker’, ‘Heat Lightning’, and ‘Love Me More’. Read our review of the album here.
Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby have teamed up for the new song ‘Do We Have a Problem?’. The single was announced with an advice hotline through which fans could submit any problems they were facing to be solved by Minaj. It comes paired with a music video directed by Benny Boom and co-starring the actors Joseph Sikora and Cory Hardrict. Check it out below.
Nicki Minaj’s last album, Queen, dropped in 2018. Lil Baby released a collaboration with Lil Durk, The Voice of the Heroes, last year.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced a new album: Unlimited Love is out April 1 via Warner. It marks their first album with guitarist John Frusciante back in the lineup since 2006 and their first with producer Rick Rubin since 2011. The record is led by the new single ‘Black Summer’, which arrives ahead of the band’s upcoming global stadium tour with the Strokes, Haim, A$AP Rocky, St. Vincent, and more, set to kick off in June 2022. Check it out below.
“Our only goal is to get lost in the music,” the band said of their new album in a press release. “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.”
They continued: “We yearn to shine a light in the world, to uplift, connect, and bring people together. Each of the songs on our new album UNLIMITED LOVE, is a facet of us, reflecting our view of the universe. This is our life’s mission. We work, focus, and prepare, so that when the biggest wave comes, we are ready to ride it. The ocean has gifted us a mighty wave and this record is the ride that is the sum of our lives. Thank you for listening, we hope you enjoy it. ROCK OUT MOTHERFUCKERS!”
Frusciante added: “When we got together to start writing material, we began by playing old songs by people like Johnny “Guitar” Watson, The Kinks, The New York Dolls, Richard Barrett and others. Ever so gradually, we started bringing in new ideas, and turning jams into songs, and after a couple of months the new stuff was all we were playing. The feeling of effortless fun we had when we were playing songs by other people, stayed with us the whole time we were writing. For me, this record represents our love for, and faith in each other.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ previous album, The Getaway, came out in 2016. Produced by Danger Mouse, it marked their last with Josh Klinghoffer, who began playing with the band in 2007.
Unlimited Love Cover Artwork:
Unlimited Love Tracklist:
1. Black Summer
2. Here Ever After
3. Aquatic Mouth Dance
4. Not The One
5. Poster Child
6. The Great Apes
7. It’s Only Natural
8. She’s A Lover
9. These Are The Ways
10. Whatchu Thinkin’
11. Bastards of Light
12. White Braids & Pillow Chair
13. One Way Traffic
14. Veronica
15. Let ‘Em Cry
16. The Heavy Wing
17. Tangelo
Rosalía has dropped a new single called ‘SAOKO’, taken from her forthcoming album MOTOMAMI. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Valentin Petit. Check it out below.
In a statement, Rosalía explained:
Naming my next track “SAOKO” and sampling Yankee and Wisin for me is the most direct homage I can make to classic reggaeton, a genre that I love and that has been a constant and great inspiration throughout the MOTOMAMI project.
I started “SAOKO”‘s beat playing the upright piano at Electric Lady’s Studio B in NY, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was at night and making this beat seemed as fun as driving a Lambo. I then distorted this piano and added some classic reggaeton drums from a library that NaisGai had sent me some time ago, which by the way is something very special to me because this library has been passed from one generation of producers to another for a long time.
Before starting this track I kept thinking that I wanted to see some jazz touches in a reggaeton track and sampling Wisin and Yankee’s iconic track seemed like the best way for me to open the song. I also thank Noah, David, Dylan and Uzi for sharing this creative process with me.
If you notice, the lyrics revolve around the same concept: transformation. Each and every phrase is an image of transformation. Celebrating transformation, celebrating change. Celebrating that you are always yourself even though you are in constant transformation or even that you are you more than ever at the very moment you are changing.
Rosalía revealed the artwork for MOTOMAMI, the follow-up to 2018’s El Mal Querer, last month. She previously shared a video for her collaboration with the Weeknd, ‘LA FAMA’. The LP is out March 18 via Columbia.
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