Deer Scout has shared a new song, ‘Peace With the Damage’, lifted from her forthcoming debut album Woodpecker. Listen to it below.
“‘Peace With The Damage’ is a song by my father, Mark Miller, originally recorded by my parents’ band, Spuyten Duyvil,” Dena Miller explained in a statement. “My dad is one of my favorite songwriters and this is a song I always wanted to record even though it’s a little bit of an outlier on the album. It’s a retrospective song about the past and regret. We recorded it together as a duet with me singing both parts, 4 years apart, so it feels like a conversation between a past and present self. My dad played guitar and was generous enough to trust me with it.”
Woodpecker is out on April 8 via Carpark Records. Last month, Miller previewed it with the single ‘Cowboy’.
“We’ve been wanting to work with Toogie for years after seeing her dynamic work with a diverse cast of artists from Perfume Genius to Dua Lipa,” Lucius’ Jess Wolfe said in a statement. “Because the song is about finding your joy and tapping into it, we thought what better way to emphasize that than with a group of people in their everyday life moments, breaking out with movement. We really wanted the video to convey the way the song feels when we hear it, and as a team, it really came to life.”
Jack White has released two new songs: ‘Hi-De-Ho’ and ‘Queen of the Bees’. ‘Hi-De-Ho’, a collaboration with Q-Tip, is taken from the first of White’s two upcoming albums, Fear of the Dawn, while ‘Queen of the Bees’ will appear on Entering Heaven Alive. Take a listen below.
‘Hi-De-Ho’ samples a song by Cab Calloway. “I just heard that Cab Calloway song on the radio in the kitchen one day and I thought, ‘I love that song, and it’s just so powerful,” White told Rolling Stone. “I said, “You know what would be great? It’d be great to sample that scatting that Cab Calloway does on there and have that scatting go along with a drumbeat.” He continued:
So I sampled it and then just played a drumbeat that seemed to go along with it and then I grabbed a bass and I wrote a bassline for that drum beat and on and on it went. And then pretty soon I thought, ‘Man, this is so interesting. I wonder if Q-Tip would find something interesting about this?’”
Five minutes later, [Q-Tip] sent me back his own scatting on top of it. I love synthesizing different moments, different areas of music, different time periods. The best part about it all is everybody I played to kept thinking that Cab Calloway was me. And I thought, ‘No, it’s obviously not me. Do I actually sound like that?’ So that was bizarre.
Big Thief drummer and producer James Krivchenia has announced a new solo album: Blood Karaoke is set for release on April 15 via Reading Group. He’s also released the experimental LP’s lead single, ‘Emissaries of Creation’. Listen to it below.
Krivchenia put together Blood Karaoke by sampling unwatched YouTube videos found through random online generators, including clips of Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations, video game walkthroughs, old local news clips, and more. “It was a very iterative, long process, lots of editing and putting together little moments or 10 second chunks with lots of samples. The music was conceived to be a somewhat unbroken 40 minute long composition and I think of the singles as excerpts,” he explained in a statement.
Big Thief issued their fifth album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, last month. The LP was produced and conceptualized Krivchenia, who put out his last solo album, A New Found Relaxation, in 2020.
Blood Karaoke Cover Artwork:
Blood Karaoke Tracklist:
1. Emissaries of Creation
2. Null States
3. Culture Complex
4. Calendrical Rot
5. Artifact of Error
6. Inherited Forms
7. The Trackless Way
8. Scaleable Future Self Continuity Interventions
9. Sub-Creational Reality
10. The Science of Imaginary Solutions
11. God In Every Way
12. Styles of Imprisonment
13. Exaptation
14. Wall Facer
Neneh Cherry has enlisted Robyn and Mapei for a new version of her 1988 song ‘Buffalo Stance’. Devonté Hynes contributes production on the song, which will appear on a “forthcoming collaboration album,” according to a press release. Give it a listen below.
Cherry said of the collaboration in a statement:
I love that I could write an essay with all the things I could say about Robyn and I love that she leaves me speechless at the same time. Her talent is soulful because she leads with her heart and spirit, she is absolutely there, ever present with honest intensity in her offerings which leave me blubbering with hairs standing erect on my arms and legs, dancing on my own talking to myself with a feeling that everything is going to be alright. The first time I saw Robyn live in Stockholm with my daughter Mabel (then a young struggling teenager) she only said two things that night: “Hej Stockholm” and in the middle of a song shouted out “MABEL!” Mabel was so happy I had tears streaming down my cheeks. Robyn gave everything and when she needed a pick-me-up she ate a banana….she stole my heart. I’ve known Robyn for 3 decades, she is my sister, my friend, my family, a creative inspiration. So to have Robyn doing her version of a new life interpretation of ‘Buffalo Stance’ is an absolute honour…and with Dev Hynes and Mapei, this is what dreams are made of!
Cherry’s most recent album, Broken Politics, arrived in 2018.
Kevin Morby has announced a new album called This Is a Photograph. The follow-up to 2020’s Sundowner will be released on May 13 via Dead Oceans. Today, Morby has shared the album’s title track, which comes with an accompanying video directed by Chantal Anderson and filmed in a remote California town. Check it out below and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.
The new album was helmed by Morby’s frequent collaborator Sam Cohen, who also produced 2016’s Singing Saw and 2019’s Oh My God.Collaborators on the record include Cassandra Jenkins, Makaya McCraven, Tim Heidecker, Alia Shawkat, and others.
“Sam Cohen and I wanted to throw everything at the wall with this one. It’s about the battle every family faces, that of chasing the clock, to live our lives and hold onto one another for as long as possible,” Morby explained in a statement. “That, and, the dreams that come with being a young family in America and where those dreams eventually end up.”
This Is a Photograph Cover Artwork:
This Is a Photograph Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. This Is A Photograph
3. A Random Act Of Kindness
4. Bittersweet, TN
5. Disappearing
6. A Coat Of Butterflies
7. Rock Bottom
8. Forever Inside A Picture
9. Five Easy Pieces
10. Stop Before I Cry
11. It’s Over
12. Goodbye To Good Times
Emma Ruth Rundle has announced the Orpheus Looking Back EP, a collection of unreleased songs from the sessions of her latest album, Engine of Hell. It’s out March 25 via Sargent House. Listen to the new track ‘Pump Organ Song’ and find the EP’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
Orpheus Looking Back opens with ‘Gilded Cage’, a song Rundle wrote in Berlin several years ago that was “an outlier and couldn’t make the cut but deserved to live beyond the live show somehow.”
Of the second track, ‘Pump Organ Song’, which was written spontaneously in the studio, Rundle said: “In the year that has come since recording the song, I feel more and more connected to this love song. It is still speaking to me about the process of parting ways and how romantic arrangements change and relationships close.”
The final track, ‘St. Non’, was written in Wales after Rundle visited the eponymous well, chapel and spring at Saint David in Pembrokeshire.
Engine of Hell was released in November 2021 and landed on our list of the best albums of the year.
Australian artist Grace Shaw has announced her debut album as Mallrat. Butterfly Blue is set for releaseon May 13 via Nettwerk. She’s also shared ‘Teeth’, the third single from the LP following ‘Your Love’ and ‘Rockstar’. Check it out below.
“I’ve always valued music that is interesting, beautiful, and unpretentious. Something timeless and not reactive,” Shaw said of the album in a statement. “Butterfly Blue was made with that in mind. It’s a demonstration of not pretending to be anyone else.”
Commenting on the new track, Shaw added: “I like to think that if ‘Teeth’ was out in 2004, it would be on the OC soundtrack. In the song, I describe a big, omnipresent ‘it.’ When I wrote these lyrics, I was playing with the idea that we talk about sex, prayer, violence, and power with very similar language. I wanted to see if I could blur all of these things into one blurry ball of energy.”
Mallrat’s Butterfly Blue will follow three EPs: 2016’s Uninvited, 2018’s In the Sky, and 2019’s Driving Music.
POND have shared a new song called ‘Lights of Leeming’. It’s set to appear on the deluxe edition of their 2021 album 9 alongside three previously unreleased tracks. Check out a visual of ‘Lights of Leeming’ below.
“‘Lights Of Leeming’ is a true story about the crushing boredom of suburbia and the wild and destructive things people do to break the monotony,” frontman Nicholas Allbrook explained in a statement. “To see that there’s at least something you can do to affect your surroundings — to be seen and validated as a real, existent part of the world — even if it’s just breaking something or getting in trouble. It’s pretty dumb fun, but dumb fun is important, right?”
The deluxe version of 9 features etching and a holographic gatefold sleeve, as well as a 12-page booklet. It’s out May 20 via Spinning Top Records.
Julia-Sophie has shared a new EP called it feels like thunder, her first release on Beat Palace Records, the new imprint founded by Metronomy’s Anna Prior. Listen to the three-song project below.
“It’s about ending the ending, the last time you’re going to speak to someone you love,” the Oxford-based musician said of the EP’s lead single, ‘Dial Your Number’. “You know, even though you don’t want something to end but you can’t see any other way out. I was trying to use that heavy, almost tribal drum beat to reflect that punch in the gut feeling. It’s pretty relentless, it makes it hard for you to breathe and expresses how I feel really deep inside.”
Of the second track, ‘Not Beautiful’, Julia-Sophie commented: “I only do depressive shit because that’s what’s in me, I’m afraid. Life doesn’t always have to be beautiful. By trying to make everything perfect we’re setting ourselves up for a fall.”
Talking about closer ‘Video Game’, she said: “I guess I wanted to show a vulnerable side, which was really exposing, with all my hurt, fragility and longing. It’s a bit of a nod to my roots, my singer-songwriter background, because I love writing songs. It’s pretty open, vulnerable, and is imbued with feelings of solitude in the opening half of the song. I loved playing with the production and structure of what could have been a very straight up acoustic song, I wanted to really play with the idea of being open and vulnerable verses that safety, the sheen we can all hide behind. The world is this relentless fucking beating machine, and I’m trying to put the human back in. I’m trying to find the human inside me too and not just become a machine.”
it feels like thunder follows Julia-Sophie’s y? and </3 EPs, which came out in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
