Back in May, CupcakKe shared the track ‘Lemon Pepper’ in support of the Minnesota Freedom Fund. Earlier this week, she teamed up with pop artist MkX for a collaborative track titled ‘Down’. Now, the rapper is back with a fiery new song called ‘Discounts’. Check it out below.
The rapper’s last album was 2018’s Eden, a follow-up to Ephorize, which was released the same year. In 2019, she released a series of singles, including ‘Bird Box’, ‘Ayesha’, and ‘Old Town Hoe’. Back in September, she announced she’d be retiring from music and canceling her tour dates during an Instagram livestream, saying that her music is “corrupting the youth” due to its frequently hypersexualized nature. She teased her return two months later, writing: “Jesus fasted for 40 days… and so did I.”
After releasing his first album in six years with 2019’s critically acclaimed Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, singer-songwriter Bill Callahan has announced a new album titled Gold Record. It’s set for release on September 4 via Drag City. Below, check out the cover art and tracklist for the album.
Callhan dropped the announcement on Twitter, writing: “hey! new album — GOLD RECORD — coming sept. 4.” Written while Callahan was touring in support of his last LP and recorded with a band including guitarist Matt Kinsey and bassist Jaime Zurverza, the 10-track album will feature a reworking of Smog’s ‘Let’s Move to the Country’, from the 1999 album Knock Knock. According to the label, one single from the record will be released every Monday between now and the album’s release date.
Gold Record Cover Artwork:
Gold Record Tracklist:
01. Pigeons
02. Another Song
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04. Protest Song
05. The Mackenzies
06. Let’s Move to the Country
07. Breakfast
08. Cowboy
09. Ry Cooder
10. As I Wander
After already releasing Sleep Talk back in April, 14-year-old lo-fi indie pop artist Patricia Lalor has announced yet another EP. It’s called Do It Again and it’s set for release on July 24th.
The Dublin singer has also shared the first taste from the new project with a single titled ‘Alone’. Recalling the likes of Clairo and Billie Eilish, the track is a mesmeric, woozy tune accompanied by an equally dreamy video. Check it out, as well as the single’s cover art, below.
Lalor started rising to prominence at just 11 years old, when Hozier caught her cover of his song ‘Cherry Wine’ and called it “hands down, one of the best covers I’ve seen.” She kept posting videos on YouTube, garnering over 138K since then.
twst, the project of Welsh songwriter, vocalist and producer Chloé Davis, has released her debut EP TWST0001 via her own label, hikikomori baby. The EP features the previously released singles ‘Girl on Your TV’, ‘Always’, ‘sad girls club but u gotta be cute’, and ‘Are You Listening?’, as well as a new track called ‘Are You Filming Me?’, which arrives with a video filmed in quarantine. Check it out below.
The video shows twst performing a virtual live show as she sings, “Everything seems eerie/ Are you filming me?/ It’s like my microwave is looking at me/ Is that you I can see?”
The faces of those “watching” appear to be blurred, with comments like “If this is the Billie Eilish and Finneas O’ Connell legacy, I’m absolutely living for it” appearing in the chat.
All of the tracks on TWST0001 were co-produced by twst and collaborator Danio Forni, except for ‘sad girls club but u gotta be cute’, which was produced solely by twst. The EP also features mixing from Rob Kinelski (Billie Eilish, King Princess, Alice Merton, Alessia Cara).
Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with twst here.
In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on June 26th, 2020:
HAIM,Women in Music Pt. III
HAIM are back with their highly anticipated third studio album, Women in Music Pt. III, out now via Columbia Records. Originally scheduled for release on April 24 but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the album was produced by Danielle Haim, former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij, and Ariel Rechtshaid. The album’s cover art was notably shot by acclaimed filmmaker and frequent collaborator Paul Thomas Anderson, who also directed the videos for the singles ‘Summer Girl’, ‘I’m in It’, and ‘Hallelujah’, at Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles.
Arca,KiCk i
The fourth studio album by Venezuelan electronic producer Arca has arrived via XL Records. The follow-up to 2017’s self-titled record was preceded by the singles ‘Nonbinary’, ‘Time’, ‘Mequetrefe’, and ‘KLK’ and features contributions from Björk, Shygirl, and Sophie. Speaking of the album, Arca said that “there was a clear intention to allow every self to express itself. Not to decide how much air time each self would get, but to allow for modulation between them in a spontaneous way.” The album’s cover artwork was shot by Catalan artist Carlota Guerrero, Carlos Sáez, and Arca herself.
Jessie Ware,What’s Your Pleasure
Jessie Ware has returned with her fourth studio album, What’s Your Pleasure, out now via PMR/ Friends Keep Secrets/ Interscope. Postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pop singer’s follow-up to 2017’s Glasshouse includes contributions Kindness, Metronomy’s Joseph Mount, James Ford, Midland, and more. “It feels so amazing to be back making music, so much has happened recently. Some crazy exciting things but I feel so happy to be back to my first love,” Ware said in a statement. The album features the previously released singles ‘Adore You’, ‘Mirage (Don’t Stop)’, ‘Spotlight’, ‘Ooh La La’, and ‘Save a Kiss’.
Khruangbin, Mordechai
Khruangbin have a new album out called Mordechai, released through Dead Oceans/ Night Time Stories. Consisting of bassist Laura Lee, guitarist Mark Speer, and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, the Houston-based band’s previous album was their 2018 sophomore effort Con Todo El Mundo, though they also released an EP with Leon Bridges earlier this year called Texas Sun. The 10-track LP draws “reference points from Pakistan, Korea, and West Africa, incorporating strains of Indian chanting boxes and Congolese syncopated guitar”, according to a press release. It also “features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band.”
Remo Drive, A Portrait of an Ugly Man
Midwest emo rockers Remo Drive have come through with their third studio album called A Portrait of an Ugly Man via Epitaph. The duo, consisting of brothers Erik and Stephen Paulson, have been especially prolific as of late, releasing the Natural, Everyday Degradation LP as well as a tagalong EP last year. “I wanted to get back to playing guitar the way I used to, and then throw songwriting on top of that,” Erik Paulson explained in a statement. “On the last album, I approached playing guitar in a more songwriter-y way. I had really scaled it back so it wouldn’t be as hard for me to sing and play simultaneously, but the guitar is way more forward again now.”
Other albums out today:
Jack Rua, Narcissus;Tenille Townes,The Lemonade Stand.
The In-Between is a superb travelling series by Jacob Howard, a highly-gifted photographer out of Wellington, New Zealand. The series itself is located “somewhere between Tangier and Sidi Ifni” claims Howard, and features some beautiful and impressive views.
JPEGMAFIA has shared a politically-charged new song titled ‘THE BENDS!’, alongside a self-directed music video in which he dances around a country road in a beekeeper’s suit. Check it out below.
In addition to referring to the current political climate as “sad”, the track also makes allusions to Radiohead’s sophomore album The Bends, as well as the band’s OK Computer single ‘No Surprises’: “No surprises, you know it’s the bends with me,” he raps.
The latest from Peggy follows a series of singles released in 2020, including ‘BALD!’, ‘Covered in Money!’, ‘BODYGUARD!’, and ‘CUTIE PIE!’.
Check out our review of JPEGMAFIA’s latest album, 2019’s All My Heroes Are Cornballs.
Japanese experimental metal band Boris have announced a new album titled NO, to be self-released on July 3 via Bandcamp. They also shared a searing new track titled ‘Loveless’, which you can check out below, along with the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.
The announcement came with a statement/ manifesto from Boris in response to the “closing” of international borders. “The anger and discontent we had no outlet for in our youth shone through in our music, helping us to channel negative energy channeled towards creative ends and leading us to new means of expression and artistry,” they explained. “We hope this latest album can be a mirror that gathers and reflects people’s negative energy at a different angle, one that is positive. That is the power and potential of the dark, extreme, and brutal noise music that we have experienced up to this point.”
They added: “Today’s society is littered with words that may or may not be true, making it easy to want to just not listen to what anyone has to say. But, that’s all the more reason why we hope that you will at least open your ears to these songs sung in the language of another land. These shouts that have no proper meaning as words will help release the raw, unshaped emotions within you. This is ‘extreme healing music.”
The album will also include a cover of the song ‘Fundamental Error’ by legendary Japanese hardcore punk band GUDON, as well as a guest appearance from guitarist Katsumi, formerly of the Japanese hardcore punk bands OUTO and CITY INDIAN and now a member of SOLMANIA.
Pre-orders are available now via Bandcamp. Boris’ last album was 2019’s LφVE & EVφL, which was released through Jack White’s Third Man Records.
NO Artwork:
NO Tracklisting :
1. Genesis
2. Anti-Gone
3. Non Blood Lore
4. Temple of Hatred
5. 鏡 -Zerkalo-
6. HxCxHxC -Parforation Line-
7. キキノウエ -Kiki no Ue-
8. Lust
9. Fundamental Error
10. Loveless
11. Interlude
Kelly Lee Owens has shared a new single from her upcoming album Inner Song. The song comes with an accompanying video directed by Kasper Häggström depicting a young man driving along the Norwegian coastline with his golden retriever. Check it out below.
“This is perhaps the most intimate and personal song I’ve written so far—the two halves of the track reflect upon sad acceptances of the truth and then the joyous aftermath of liberation that can come from that,” the producer/musician said in a press release. “This can definitely be heard in the production and arrangement of the track—the first half sonically connecting to the inner revelations and the second half, the liberation in action, the forward motion.”
Inner Song was originally slated for release in May, but was postponed to August 28th due to the coronavirus pandemic. Owens previously shared the singles ‘Night’ and ‘Melt!’, as well as a collaborative track with Jon Hopkins called ‘Luminous Spaces’.
Doja Cat has quietly dropped a new track titled ‘Unisex Freestyle’ via Soundcloud. Check it out below.
The rapper shared the link to the song on Twitter, writing: “I made some more horny shit check it out.” She originally revealed the track during an Instagram Live stream, where she described it as “kinda fire. I like it, I like it, and I know why it’s bad, but I still like it. But, it just needs to be mastered, like — made better. … And I made this beat, this song is cute as f*ck. … I like this song, it’s funny.”
In addition, she also shared a preview of the music video for her latest single, ‘Like That’ feat. Gucci Mane. Inspired by Sailor Moon, the video is set to be released tomorrow (June 26). Watch the preview below.
Doja Cat recently came under fire after it was alleged that she had taken part in racist video chats in the past, as well as for using a racist slur in her 2015 song ‘Dindu Nuffin’.
“I understand my influence and impact and I’m taking this all very seriously,” she wrote in response. “I love you all and I’m sorry for upsetting or hurting any of you. That’s not my character, and I’m determined to show that to everyone moving forward. Thank you.”
HAIM are back with their highly anticipated third studio album, Women in Music Pt. III, out now via 
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Jessie Ware has returned with her fourth studio album, What’s Your Pleasure, out now via 
Khruangbin have a new album out called Mordechai, released through 
Midwest emo rockers Remo Drive have come through with their third studio album called A Portrait of an Ugly Man via 
