Sun June have released a new single called ‘Reminded’. It appears on the expanded edition of the band’s 2021 album Somewhere, which is out today via Run For Cover and Keeled Scales and also includes the previously unveiled song ‘Easy’. Check out a visual for the new track below.
“‘Reminded’ is about being captivated by someone you have a bad history with and wanting to reconcile with past mistakes, despite it being the most unhealthy decision,” lead singer Laura Colwell explained in a statement. “It’s about gazing narrowly into an old flame… Basically, it’s the sexiest song we’ve ever written. The song leans so far into romance that we thought it would be fun to add some sax. Justin got to arrange it all, and then we had local saxophonist David Alvarez (from Medellin Collection, and Hyah!) lay it down.”
King Princess has teamed up with Fousheé for a new song called ‘Little Bother’. King Princess and Fousheé wrote the song alongside Zach Fogarty (A$AP Rocky, Girlpool, Claud), who also co-produced the track. Check it out below.
“I have been a big fan of Fousheé for a while, so when we started DM’ing and eventually set a date in the studio, it was a dream,” King Princess said in a press release. “‘Little Bother’ kind of came out of nowhere; Zach had the guitar part and Fou and I just started going off. It became this song about tiptoeing around someone you’ve lost and feeling like a pest. It poses questions to a person who may not be listening at all and I think that’s a beautiful sentiment.”
‘Little Bother’ follows King Princess’ 2021 single ‘House Burn Down’, as well as 2020’s ‘PAIN’ and ‘Only Time Makes It Human’. Next week, the singer will begin supporting Kacey Musgraves on her US tour.
deathcrash have released ‘Doomcrash’, the final preview of their forthcoming debut LP Return. The track follows previous singles ‘Horses’ and ‘Unwind’. Listen to it below.
Talking about the new song, bassist Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement:
This all started with a really over-the-top doom riff I would play on the bass in rehearsal sometimes, with an absurd amount of distortion. We all loved it but whenever we tried to take it anywhere it lost its magic. Tiernan, as he often does, got very obsessed with the ‘idea’ of this doom riff, and became determined to make it into something. None of us liked what Tiernan was doing and it got to the point where I refused to even play the riff. I don’t know how it actually unfolded but i remember when we were in this awful rehearsal room filled with soft rock memorabilia, me and Tiernan were sitting on the sofa and he showed me a new riff he’d made, based around the chords from the dreaded doom riff. I was back on board. Immediately I started writing the most post-rock bass riff I could think of, unplugged, there on the sofa. We recorded it on a phone. That’s why I love deathcrash, because one of us can always see something that the others can’t, and then it clicks.
Years & Years has today released a new single, ‘Sooner or Later’, the final offering from his upcoming album Night Call. The track was co-written by Olly Alexander, Clarence Coffee Jr., and Mark Ralph, who also produced the LP. Give it a listen below.
Night Call, the follow-up to 2018’s Palo Santo, is set to arrive on January 21 via Interscope. So far, Alexander has previewed the record with the songs ‘Sweet Talker’, ‘Starstruck’, and ‘Crave’.
Earl Sweatshirt is back with a new album titled SICK!. Out now via Tan Cressida/Warner Records, the follow-up to 2019’s FEET OF CLAY was preceded by the singles ‘Tabula Rasa’, ‘Titanic’, and ‘2010’ and includes guest appearances from Armand Hammer and Bruiser Brigade’s Zelooperz. “SICK! is my humble offering of 10 songs recorded in the wake of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns,” the rapper said in a statement. “Before the virus I had been working on an album I named after a book I used to read with my mother (‘The People Could Fly’). Once the lockdowns hit, people couldn’t fly anymore. A wise man said art imitates life. People were sick. The People were angry and isolated and restless. I leaned into the chaos cause it was apparent that it wasn’t going anywhere. these songs are what happened when I would come up for air.”
FKA twigs has dropped her new mixtape, CAPRISONGS, via Young/Atlantic. Arriving three years after MAGDALENE, the 17-track effort features the artist’s recent Weeknd collaboration ‘Tears in the Club’ as well as contributions from Shygirl, Rema, Pa Salieu, Koreless, Tobias Jesso Jr., Fred again.., Jorja Smith, Mike Dean, Warren Ellis, and more. “if you are lonely or feel isolated or void of encouragement by your immediate circle you can borrow my friends on the mixtape,” twigs wrote on Twitter. “i think it’s my response to where the world has been at in recent times the humm of the background podcast acting as the soundtrack to our lives as we desperately try not to be alone pablo had so much belief in me it gave me a lot of confidence to want more for myself as an artist. also to reach out and collaborate with other artists and also to push myself to channel my pain and anxiety into work that felt more inclusive and dare i say joyful this is something i have never been able to do before in my art.”
Cat Power has released a new covers album, simply titled Covers, which is out now via Domino. Produced entirely by Chan Marshall, the LP includes her versions of songs by Frank Ocean, Billie Holiday, Bob Seger, Lana Del Rey, Jackson Browne, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, The Replacements, The Pogues, and more. It also features a new take on her own song ‘Hate’, from 2006’s The Greatest, retitled ‘Unhate’. Completing a trilogy of sorts, Covers follows Cat Power’s previous mostly-covers collections Jukebox (2008) and The Covers Record (2000).
Storm Queen is the sophomore album by Melbourne singer-songwriter Grace Cummings. Out now via ATO Records, the follow-up to 2019’s Refuge Cove was produced by Cummings herself and includes the previously released singles ‘Heaven’, ‘Up In Flames’, and the title track. “In the past there were times when I’ve let other people’s opinions affect me too much,” she explained in a statement. “But with this record I learned that I’m allowed to influence myself instead of taking in anyone else’s ideas. I learned to completely trust what I see and hear in my head, and I stuck with that and just focused on creating what I love the most: something real and raw and ugly and beautiful.”
Elvis Costello has issued a new album with his band the Imposters. The Boy Named If, out today via EMI/Capitol, includes the advance tracks ‘Farewell, OK’, ‘Paint the Red Rose Blue’, and ‘Magnificent Hurt’. ”The full title of this record is ‘The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories)’,” Costello said in press materials. “‘IF,’ is a nickname for your imaginary friend; your secret self, the one who knows everything you deny, the one you blame for the shattered crockery and the hearts you break, even your own.” Co-produced with Sebastian Krys, the album is a collection of songs that “take us from the last days of a bewildered boyhood to that mortifying moment when you are told to stop acting like a child – which for most men (and perhaps a few gals too) can be any time in the next fifty years,” Costello added.
The Wombats have returned with a new album called Fix Yourself, Not the World. Out today via AWAL, the LP was recorded remotely during various COVID-19 lockdowns and was produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Gabe Simon (Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey), Paul Meaney (Twenty One Pilots, Nothing But Thieves), Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) and Mike Crossey (The 1975, The War on Drugs, Yungblud). The band members were never in the same room during the process of making the album; Matthew “Murph” Murphy is based in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo, and drummer Dan Haggis in London.
Other albums out today:
Cordae, From a Bird’s Eye View; Bonobo, Fragments; Fuss, We’re Not Alone; Sea Girls, Homesick; Fickle Friends, Are We Gonna Be Alright?; The Lumineers, Brightside; Anna Von Hausswolff, Live at Montreal Jazz Festival; Underoath, Voyeurist; Blood Red Shoes, Ghosts on Tape.
Phil Elverum has shared the details of an expansive, career-spanning Microphones box set. The 10xLP set, titled The Microphones – completely everything, 1996 – 2021, will include all seven official Microphones albums, download codes for 74GB worth of digital material (including the complete discography, early cassettes, unreleased outtakes, live recordings, and stems), plus a 107-page book featuring never-before-seen photos, notebook pages, artworks, and detailed notes. There’s also a “special fancy little decorative sash garlanding the top of the box, silver foil stamped and delicate.” Watch a trailer for the release below.
On his website, Elverum suggests that completely everything will mark the end of the Microphones project. “Here you can buy everything from the Microphones contained in a humongous box,” he wrote. “This is final. To commemorate and tombstone 25 years of this intermittently-awake recording project, we made this chunk. It’s a 10 pounder, lift with your legs.” The box set, which ships out in February, will be a limited-edition, one-time run, and will not be re-pressed. You can pre-order it here.
PJ Harvey has announced a reissue of her ninth studio album, 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project. It’s due for release on March 11, and a demo version of ‘The Wheel’ is out today. Check it out below.
Last year, PJ Harvey reissued several of her albums on vinyl, including 2000’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, 2004’s Uh Huh Her, and 2007’s White Chalk. Next up is a reissue of 2011’s Let England Shake, which comes out January 28. In April, PJ Harvey will publish a book-length narrative poem called Orlam written in the Dorset dialect.
Saba has recruited Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Krayzie Bone for a new song called ‘Come My Way’. It’s taken from Saba’s upcoming album, Few Good Things, which is set to arrive on February 4 and includes the previously released singles ‘Fearmonger’ and ‘Stop That’. Listen to ‘Come My Way’ below.
“When I think back on first discovering Bone Thugs-N-Harmony as a child, it immediately stood out to me as unique,” Saba said of the collaboration in a statement. “I started paying attention and really learning how to rap from listening to them and trying to recite it. It felt honest and completely true to themselves — authentic in a way that doesn’t come around very often and in a way that will be impossible to recreate. Their mix of melody and rhythms that I had never heard is what connected with me in a way that other music just didn’t. It inspired me to be more creative.“
Talking about the inspiration behind the track, Saba added:
It’s an ode to nostalgia, and growing up, and I think ‘hopeful’ and ‘soulful’ are accurate descriptions of the song. I considered a poverty song as a concept for this one. ‘All I’m doing [is] thinking how to get some money, and then we’ll be good.’ This is a false statement, but one that I believed at a point, and many others believe right now. This song also takes place in that nostalgic kind of setting. I’m describing many things that are normal on the westside of Chicago, so that it plays like just any other day — pretty stagnant but having so much life. ‘We ain’t got no time to relax’ is a harsh reality for so many people experiencing this type of poverty where the focus is on work and survival. ‘Had to run them niggas shooting shit, I wish that the guys had shields’ is an acknowledgement of grief, but the song is not written as to feel sad or sorry for ourselves. It is a reality, not one I or anyone else can change, so this song is about getting up the next day and getting to work, or getting to it however you provide, but just moving on in that fashion. ‘And then we’ll be good,’ throughout whatever adversity, and challenges, and otherwise just fucked up shit comes our way.
Jack White has released ‘Love Is Selfish’, the first single to be taken from his second album of 2022, Entering Heaven Alive. Listen to it below.
Jack White is putting out two LPs this year: Fear of the Dawn, which arrives on April 8, and Entering Heaven Alive, which is out July 22. Back in October, he shared Fear of the Dawn‘s opening track, ‘Taking Me Back’. To support the albums, White will embark on his Supply Chain Issues Tour, which includes dates in the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe.
Eddie Vedder has shared a new single, ‘Brother the Cloud’, which is set to appear on his upcoming solo album Earthling. The track follows previous entries ‘Long Way’ and ‘The Haves’. Give it a listen below.
Earthling, Vedder’s first solo LP since 2011’s Ukulele Songs, is due out February 11 via Seattle Surf/Republic. The album features guest appearances from Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Andrew Watt, Chad Smith, and Josh Klinghoffer.
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