Spoon have offered their take on the late David Bowie’s Blackstar track ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’. The band recorded their cover for Amazon Music’s month-long [RE]DISCOVER campaign, a month-long celebration of Bowie’s 75th birthday, which is this Sunday, January 8. Listen to it below.
“‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’ is a tune Alex and I have been playing since we learned it for an acoustic and piano show in Mexico City in 2016,” bandleader Britt Daniel said in a press statement. “It’s just a fantastic song, and as the last song on Bowie’s final album it doesn’t disappoint. We recorded this version live in December 2021.”
SASAMI has unveiled another single from her forthcoming LP Squeeze. It’s called ‘Say It’, and it follows ‘The Greatest’ and ‘Skin a Rat’, which accompanied the album announcement in October. Listen to it below.
“’Say It’ is a rage anthem dance track about spinning out because someone isn’t communicating with you,” Sasami explained in a statement. “I feel like when I hear the song I see a hot femme with a mystical flamethrower engulfed in emotional blue flames throwing elbows alone in an industrial dance club in outer space.”
Burial has released a new EP titled ANTIDAWN. Out now via Hyperdub, the project spans five tracks and 43 minutes. Stream it below.
According to press materials, “the record explores an interzone between dislocated, patchwork songwriting and eerie, open-world, game space ambience. In the resulting no man’s land, lyrics take precedence over song, lonely phrases colour the haze, a stark and fragmented structure makes time slow down.”
“Antidawn seems to tell a story of a wintertime city, and something beckoning you to follow it into the night,” the release continues. “The result is both comforting and disturbing, producing a quiet and uncanny glow against the cold. Sometimes, as it enters ‘a bad place,’ it takes your breath away. And time just stops.”
ANTIDAWN follows Burial’s 2021 track ‘Dolphinz’ as well as Shock Power of Love, his split EP with London-based producer Blackdown.
Sondre Lerche has announced a new double album: Avatars Of Love arrives on April 1. It features guest appearances from CHAI, Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors, Mary Lattimore, Rodrigo Alarcon, Ana Müller, and another special guest “to be announced at a later date.” Listen to the new songs ‘Cut’ and ‘Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All’ below, and scroll down for the album’s full tracklist and cover artwork (created in collaboration with Norwegian artist Nikolai Torgersen).
“I originally wrote ‘Cut’ imagining a love affair between actors on a film set, where the lines are constantly blurred between what is real, what’s performative,” Lerche explained in a press release. “I saw it as a film noir, but during the recording it no longer felt black and white, it felt colorful and erotic and it reminded me of some of Brian DePalma’s 80s neo-noir films that I love. The music video also captures some of this.”
He continued:
‘Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All’ was the last song I wrote before leaving LA right as the pandemic started. I like the contrast between it and ‘Cut,’ which it follows on the album. ‘Cut’ tries to capture an ephemeral feeling that may not even be real, while ‘Sentimental’ can’t help but fall back into nostalgia, while second guessing a central life choice. I remember thinking of ‘Both Sides Now,’ and how Joni wrote that so young, and how she probably could add many new verses and perspectives to it later in life, if need be. And I thought about some of my own songs where I made statements that no longer correspond with the way I see the world or myself. So it’s also an ode to songs and the many truths and phases they document and contain. It’s a very special and tender song to me.
While Lerche’s last album, 2020’s Patience, took more than seven years to write and record, Avatars of Love was completed in his home country of Norway over the course of a year. “This is without a doubt the biggest, boldest, most complex thing I’ve ever done,” Lerche said. “At the same time, it was also the easiest, most natural, and most liberating. As an artist, it’s the kind of project you always dream about.”
A few weeks ago, Lerche shared a cover of Doja Cat’s ‘Kiss Me More’.
Avatars of Love Cover Artwork:
Avatars of Love Tracklist:
1. Guarantee That I’d Be Loved
2. Dead of the Night
3. Will We Ever Comprehend [feat. Rodrigo Alarcon, Ana Müller]
4. Cut
5. Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All
6. What Makes Me Tick
7. My Love Still Waits
8. Avatars of Love
9. Summer In Reverse [feat. CHAI]
10. Now She Sleeps Beside Me
11. Special Needs [feat. Felicia Douglass]
12. The Other Side of Ecstasy
13. Magnitude of Love [feat. Mary Lattimore]
14. Alone in the Night
Vein.fm, the Boston hardcore band formerly known as Vein, have announced their next album. This World Is Going to Ruin You is out March 4 via Closed Casket Activities. To accompany the announcement, the band have shared the lead single ‘The Killing Womb’ alongside a music video directed by Max Moore. Watch and listen below.
This World Is Going to Ruin You will follow Vein.fm’s 2018 debut Errorzone. The new record was produced by Will Putney and features guest appearances from Thursday’s Geoff Rickly, Jeromes Dream’s Jeff Smith, and BONES.
This World Is Going to Ruin You Cover Artwork:
This World Is Going to Ruin You Tracklist:
1. Welcome Home
2. The Killing Womb
3 Versus Wyoming
4 Fear in Non Fiction
5. Lights Out
6. Wherever You Are
7. Magazine Beach
8. Inside Design
9. Hellnight
10. Orgy in The Morgue
11. Wavery
12. Funeral Sound
Denzel Curry has announced a new album called Melt My Eyez See Your Future with a trailer that sees the Florida-born rapper walking through a desert. The clip teases contributions from T-Pain, 6lack, Rico Nasty, JID, slowthai, Thundercat, Kenny Beats, Robert Glasper, Karriem Riggins, JPEGMAFIA, and more. A release date has not yet been revealed, but the trailer’s YouTube description reads “coming to a stereo near you.” Check it out below.
Denzel Curry’s last solo album, Zuu, came out in 2019. He followed it up with a Kenny Beats collaboration, 2020’s Unlocked, and shared the track ‘The Game’ in August of last year.
Turnstile have shared their ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’ for NPR. Filmed in drummer Daniel Feng’s house, the 17-minute set includes stripped-down performances of tracks from the band’s latest album GLOW ON, including ‘Endless’, ‘Underwater Boi’, ‘Blackout’, ‘Don’t Play’, ‘Mystery’, ‘T.L.C. (Turnstile Love Connection’, and ‘Alien Love Call’. Watch it below.
St. Vincent appeared on The Late Late Show With James Corden last night to perform her Daddy’s Home track ‘…At the Holiday Party’ from behind a cocktail bar. She also sat down for an interview with Corden to talk about the musical inspirations behind the record, receiving a call from Paul McCartney about the remix she contributed to McCartney III Imagined, and her family holiday tradition of acting out Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and calling it a A Clarkmas Carol. Check it out below.
St. Vincent’s Daddy’s Home arrived in May. To promote its release, Annie Clark performed tracks from the LP on SNL and The Tonight Show.
alt-J have released ‘Hard Drive Gold’, the latest offering from their forthcoming album The Dream. The track arrives with an accompanying video co-directed by vocalist Joe Newman and his partner Darcy Wallace. Check it out below.
“‘Hard Drive Gold’ is a slightly tongue-in-cheek song written at what we thought was the height of the cryptocurrency gold rush,” Newman explained in a press release. “It’s the story of the ultimate childhood fantasy, the schoolboy who becomes a millionaire overnight, and the different interactions he has with people in his life from teachers to neighbors. How ironically you interpret its message is entirely up to you…”
Of the video, he added: “Growing up enjoying cinema greatly I saw our music videos as opportune moments for directors to create stories purely and so we the band did not appear in our videos. By avoiding cuts to a band playing in an ‘airplane hanger’ the audience could focus on the cinema over the indie band music video tropes,” Newman says. “I had ideas for videos that I passed on to directors to develop, watching these directors execute some of these ideas inspired me and now I want to understand and experience the process at a deeper level.”
The Dream, the follow-up to 2017’s Relaxer, comes out February 11 via Canvasback/Atlantic. It includes the previously released singles ‘U&ME’ and ‘Get Better’.
The Smile, the new trio comprised of Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, have shared their debut single. It’s called ‘You Will Never Work in Television Again’, and it was produced by Nigel Godrich. Check it out below.
The Smile are set to perform three consecutive live shows at Magazine London on January 29 and January 30 to a seated audience in the round. The shows will be broadcast in real time via livestream for online ticketholders. “The performances bring together a live show, a livestream and a cinematic film, captured by award-winning director Paul Dugdale (The Rolling Stones, Adele, Paul McCartney) and produced by Driift,” a press release notes. Physical and livestream tickets will go on general sale from 9am on January 7. The performances will take place the following times:
BROADCAST #1: London – 8pm Sat. / New York – 3pm Sat. / Los Angeles – 12pm Sat. / Sydney – 7am Sun. / Tokyo – 5am Sun.
BROADCAST #2: London – 1am Sun. / New York – 8pm Sat. / Los Angeles – 5pm Sat. / Sydney – 12pm Sun. / Tokyo – 10am Sun.
BROADCAST #3: London – 11am Sun. / New York – 6am Sun. / Los Angeles – 3am Sun. / Sydney – 10pm Sun. / Tokyo – 8pm Sun.
The Smile made their first public performance on Glastonbury Festival’s Live at Worthy Farm livestream, which they followed with a surprise performance on Instagram in December. More recently, Yorke delivered a solo rendition of the track ‘Free the Knowledge’ at an event in London.
