Kamasi Washington made his late night television debut last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing his brand new track ‘The Garden Path’. Watch it below.
‘The Garden Path’ was released just yesterday, marking the jazz saxophonist’s first new music in nearly a year. In 2021, he shared the track ‘Sun Kissed Child’ for The Undefeated’s Music For The Movement series and contributed a cover of Metallica’s ‘My Friend of Misery’ for their The Metallica Blacklist compilation. Washington’s latest studio album was 2018’s Heaven and Earth, which he followed with a score for Netflix’s 2020 Michelle Obama documentary Becoming.
King Crimson have unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming documentary In the Court of the Crimson King. The film, directed by Toby Amies and commissioned by King Crimson, will have its world premiere at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival in March. The new clip features a conversation with bandleader Robert Fripp, live concert footage, and more. Check it out below.
“What began as a traditional documentary about the legendary band King Crimson as it turned 50, mutated into an exploration of time, death, family, and the transcendent power of music to change lives; but with jokes,” the film’s official description reads. “In the Court of the Crimson King is a dark, comic film for anyone who wonders whether it is worth sacrificing everything for just a single moment of transcendence. It explores the unique creative environment of King Crimson, one in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary demands on the band’s members – only alleviated by the applause of an audience whose adoration threatens to make their lives even harder. It’s a rewarding and perilous space in which the extraordinary is possible, nothing is certain, and not everyone survives intact.”
In 2019, King Crimson celebrated the band’s 50th anniversary by going on an extensive tour and releasing a new box set for their 1969 debut LP, In the Court of the Crimson King.
Australian producer Flume has announced a new album titled Palaces, which will be released on May 20 via Future Classic and Transgressive. It features guest spots from Damon Albarn, Caroline Polachek, Oklou, Kučka, and Vergen Maria. Lead single ‘Say Nothing’, featuring May-A, is out now alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork (by Jonathan Zawada) and tracklist.
“This song is about feelings of post relationship clarity,” Flume explained in a statement. “We wrote the song midway through 2020 while the pandemic was still pretty new. I was really excited about the initial idea but it was only once I got back to Australia in early 2021 and linked up in the studio with May-A that the song really came to life.”
“Working with Flume on ‘Say Nothing’ has been a really incredible experience,” MAY-A added. “I’m such a big fan of Harley’s so it’s unbelievable to be in a position to create music with someone I look up to and can learn so much from. His creative process is a really inspiring thing to be a part of. I’m so excited for everyone to hear the song!”
Palaces Cover Artwork:
Palaces Tracklist:
1. Highest Building [feat. Oklou]
2. Say Nothing [feat. May-A]
3. DHLC
4. Escape [feat. Kučka] – with Quiet Bison
5. I Can’t Tell [feat. Laurel]
6. Get U
7. Jasper’s Song
8. Only Fans
9. Hollow [feat. Emma Louise]
10. Love Light
11. Sirens [feat. Caroline Polachek]
12. Go
13. Palaces [feat. Damon Albarn]
British electronic producer Loraine James has announced her debut album under the ambient alias Whatever the Weather. The self-titled record arrives April 8 via Ghostly International. It’s led by the new single ’17°C’, which comes with a video directed by Michael Reisinger. Check it out below.
Each of the album’s 10 tracks takes its name from a different temperature and aims to mirror its mood, with James describing her approach as “free-flowing, stopping when I felt like I was done.” She cites Deftones’ Chino Moreno and American Football’s Mike Kinsella as influences for her singing on the project.
James released her most recent album, Reflection, last year. Read about it in our 50 Best Album Covers of 2021 list.
illuminati hotties have released a new one-off single called ‘sandwich sharer’. Check it out below.
“‘Sandwich Sharer’ was very much written at the precipice of unknowns – I was seeking a teammate at a time where I felt swayed by nostalgia for youth as opposed to the reality of the momentum of life,” Sarah Tudzin explained in a statement. “And it feels so good to be close to someone who knows you so well it’s like you finish each others’… sandwiches.”
illuminati hotties’ latest album, Let Me Do One More, dropped last year. Next week, the band will embark on a North American tour that will feature shows with Fenne Lilly, Pom Pom Squad, and Katy Kirby.
String Machine have released ‘Soft Tyranny’, the latest offering from their upcoming album Hallelujah Hell Yeah. Check out a lyric video for the track below.
“This song was probably the most challenging to write,” vocalist David Beck explained in a statement about the new single. “This was me confronting the ways I had expressed certain emotions, and feeling guilty about it.” He added: “The synth lead after the choruses was very much a callback to one of my favorite bands, Motion City Soundtrack. There were many moments on this album that we all decided to let our guards down and unashamedly let certain influences in.”
Kamasi Washington has released a new song called ‘The Garden Path’. The Los Angeles jazz saxophonist will perform the track for the first time ever tonight on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, making his television debut. Give it a listen below.
“The world feels turned upside down,” Washington said of the song in a statement. “There’s so much push and pull in every direction, from everyone you meet—no one knows what to think, who to believe, or how to approach life right now. No matter how smart you are, it’s hard not to feel blind.”
Last year, Washington shared the track ‘Sun Kissed Child’ for The Undefeated’s Music For The Movement series as well as a cover of Metallica’s ‘My Friend of Misery’ for their The Metallica Blacklist compilation. In 2020, he released his score for Becoming, the Netflix documentary about Michelle Obama.
Korean-Canadian songwriter and producer Luna Li has announced her debut album with the single ‘Silver Into Rain‘, featuring beabadoobee. Duality comes out March 4 via In Real Life. Check out ‘Silver Into Rain’ below.
“‘Silver Into Rain’ is about longing to become a better self. In the song I’m lamenting all of the things about myself that I feel are holding me back in life, and how sometimes it can feel like everything you touch turns bad, turns to rain,” Li explained in a statement. “Bea came in with the most angelic voice and perfect sentiment for the song, and brought it to a really brilliant place.”
“The songs never quite have only one feeling,” she added of the album, which also features contributions from Jay Som and Dreamer Isioma. “Each song had some element of light and dark — where there’s happiness there’s still uncertainty; where there’s anxiety there’s also beauty; and where there’s tension there’s freedom.”
1. Cherry Pit
2. Boring Again [feat. Jay Som]
3. Afterglow
4. Trying
5. Flower (In Full Bloom) [feat. Dreamer Isioma]
6. Alone But Not Lonely
7. Silver Into Rain [feat. beabadoobee]
8. What You’re Thinking
9. Star Stuff
10. Magic
11. Misery Moon
12. Space
13. Lonely/Lovely
Lucy Dacus has shared a new song called ‘Kissing Lessons’. The track was teased through a series of flyers that appeared in several US cities last week with tear-off tabs for a ‘Kissing Lessons’ hotline number, and those who called could hear the single. Check out its accompanying Mara Palena-directed video below.
‘Kissing Lessons’ will be released alongside ‘Thumbs Again’, a full-band version of Dacus’ song ‘Thumbs’, as a 7” single on June 3. The singer-songwriter issued her third album Home Video last year.
Many Voices Speak, the project of Swedish musician Matilda Mård, has announced a new album called Gestures. The follow-up to her 2018 debut Tank Town arrives April 29 via Strangers Candy. Today’s announcement comes with the release of a new single, ‘Seat for Sadness’. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
“The verse of this song kind of came to me all at once. Then it took quite a long time until I got the rest of the song out of me,” Mård said of ‘Seat for Sadness’ in a statement. “I lived in Berlin at the time and rented a piano room at a music school, and most of the hours spent in there I was searching for the rest of the song. It wasn’t until me and Petter Nygårdh had started recording the album back home in Sweden, that I came up with the melody that would become the chorus. The new chorus pushed us in a new direction by making the whole song require something more. We had only brought a small part of the home studio to a country house to escape the noise from the neighbour’s renovation, but we found an acoustic guitar in that house that ended up being an important part of Seat For Sadness, and later on an important part of the album as a whole.”
Talking about the album, Mård added: “What unites the songs is a need for inner change, to handle the things in life that can’t be changed. I’m creating strategies for myself – new ways of thinking, so I can live with certain things. The title comes from that. I’ve figured out that gestures are important because they’re proof of love, and that’s the only power we have against death and separation.”
Gestures Cover Artwork:
Gestures Tracklist:
1. Want It Kept
2. Seat For Sadness
3. Within Reach
4. Worthy
5. Phase Out
6. Nothing’s Gone
7. Assured
8. Visual Fields
