Lonely Guest is a new collaborative project that was conceived and put together over the last 18 months by Tricky. Today, Tricky has announced Lonenly Guest’s debut self-titled album, which features appearances from the late Lee “Scratch” Perry, IDLES’ Joe Talbot, Maxïmo Park’s Paul Smith, Marta, Oh Land, Breanna Barbara, and more. It’s out October 22 via False Idols, and the new single ‘On a Move’, which features Kway, is out now. Give it a listen below and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.
Earlier this year, Tricky released the album track ‘Pre War Tension’ with Joe Talbot and Polish singer Marta Złakowska.
Lonely Guest Cover Artwork:
Lonely Guest Tracklist:
1. Lonely Guest [feat. Marta]
2. Pre War Tension [feat. Joe Talbot, Marta, Tricky]
3. Under [feat. Oh Land]
4. Pay My Taxes [feat. Murkage Dave]
5. Atmosphere [feat. Lee “Scratch” Perry, Marta, Tricky]
6. Move Me [feat. Marta]
7. Pipe Dreamz [feat. Rina Mushonga]
8. On a Move [feat. Kway]
9. Christmas Trees [feat. Paul Smith]
10. Big Bang Blues [feat. Breanna Barbara]
Back in January, The War on Drugs appeared on Colbert for a remote performance of their 2008 track ‘Arms Like Boulders’. Their last studio album, A Deeper Understanding, came out in 2017, followed by the live album LIVE DRUGS last year. I Don’t Live Here Anymore, the band’s first LP for Atlantic Records, is set to arrive on October 29.
Circuit des Yeux has shared the second single from her upcoming LP,-io. ‘Sculpting the Exodus’ follows lead offering ‘Dogma’, which landed on our Best New Songs list. It arrives today alongside a music video shot in Chicago during the same session that yielded the album’scover image, for which Haley Fohr trained with stunt coordinator Talin Chat (The Mandalorian) to perform a series of 5-7’ free-falls on camera. Watch and listen below.
Fohr had this to say about ‘Sculpting the Exodus’ in a statement:
What is Sculpting the Exodus? It is devotion. It is the well. It is my grandmother going into hospice, writhing in pain. It is reality exploding on an island made of sand. It is depression and the isolation of deep grief. I was trapped in a choir of myself with nothing to grab onto but echoes of past selves. It obliterated my heart until the only working parts of me were the appendages furthest from my mind. A few notes here A couple notes there… The fingers were working when nothing else could. And I was fantasizing of leaving like I always do…
-io, Circuit des Yeux’s debut for Matador, is due out October 22.
Pavement have announced a UK and European reunion tour that’s set to take place in 2022. The band, who reunited in 2010 for a run of international dates, will kick off their latest reunion with two dates connected to Primavera Sound before heading to the UK and Europe in October 2022, including a four-night residency at the Roundhouse in London. UK tickets go on sale at 10 am on Saturday (September 11) here. See the full list of dates and check out the tour poster below.
Pavement 2022 UK and European Tour Dates:
Oct 17 – O2 Academy, Leeds
Oct 18 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
Oct 19 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Oct 20 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
Oct 22 – Roundhouse, London
Oct 23 – Roundhouse, London
Oct 24 – Roundhouse, London
Oct 25 – Roundhouse, London
Oct 27 – Le Grand Rex – Paris, France
Oct 29 – Vega – Copenhagen, Denmark
Oct 30 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo, Norway
Oct 31 – Cirkus – Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 2 – VoxHall – Aarhus, Denmark
Nov 4 – Pier 2, Bremen – Germany
Nov 5 – Tempodrom – Berlin, Germany
Nov 7 – Cirque Royal – Brussels, Belgium
Nov 8 – Royal Carré Theater – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 10 – Vicar Street – Dublin, Ireland
Francis of Delirium are back with a new song, ‘Come Out and Play’, which arrives alongside a self-animated video. The track was mixed by Jolyon Thomas (Royal Blood, Slaves) and mastered by Joe Lambert (Sharon Van Etten, Deerhunter). Check it out below.
““I kept thinking about clowns when making this song, I watched Felini’s 8 ½ and the closing scene where a procession of clowns play in a band stuck with me,” Jana Bahrich explained in a statement. “I had them in my mind for months, thinking about the way they hid behind painted faces, keeping so much hidden from the audience, and also just how sad they seemed. I wanted this song to feel dark and to have an eeriness that would make sense in the background of some weird art movie about funhouses and carnivals.”
‘Come Out and Play’ follows the release of Francis of Delirium’s second EP, Wading. The band are set to embark on a UK headline tour this October. Find the full list of dates below.
Sep 8 – Crossroads Festival – Roubaix, France
Sep 9 – Waves Vienna 2021 – Wien, Austria
Oct 18 – Broadcast – Glasgow, UK
Oct 19 – Castle Hotel – Manchester, UK
Oct 20 – Folklore – London, UK
Oct 21 – Ramsgate Music Hall – Ramsgate, UK
Oct 22 – The Crofters Rights – Bristol, UK
Oct 24 – Drummonds – Worcester, UK
Oct 26 – The Bullingdon – Oxford, UK*
Oct 27 – The Boilerroom – Guildford, UK*
Oct 28 – Omeara – London, UK*
Holly Humberstone has shared a new single, ‘Scarlett’, the latest offering from the singer-songwriter’s upcoming EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin. The song arrives with an accompanying video directed by Raja Virdi, which you can check out below.
Humberstone said of ‘Scarlett’ in a statement:
This track is my absolute favourite. It’s a fuck you to the guy that was going out with my closest friend Scarlett and it was written as they were breaking up. The relationship was totally one sided and lasted for years. Scarlett was all in and had pretty much planned their future and it was pretty clear to me that he was stringing her along, until he broke up with her in a really insensitive and heartless way. I was her closest confidant and so I knew everything she was feeling, and I’d see how passive he was with her at parties first hand. She vented to me for probably about a year and so I went through all the stages of a break up with her and watched as she slowly realised her worth and that he wasn’t worth her tears anymore. I wanted to write this one from her point of view. It’s a pretty positive song as it’s about her finally letting go, realising his many faults and taking back her life.
Of the track’s video, Humberstone added:
Sonically and lyrically, Scarlett breaks away from the rest of the EP and in so many ways it feels like such a release. It was really important to me that the music video felt really empowering and a reminder that you can shake off anything rubbish going on in your life and be in control of your own destiny. Obviously the song is about Scarlett so she had to be in the video – especially after being named an ‘emotional grim reaper’ lol. The two of us break into an airport hanger, steal and spray paint an arctic truck, then I perform on the back of it as Scar drives it down the runway. It was honestly the most fun.
Pearl Jam leader Eddie Vedder has announced a new solo album. Earthling will be released via Seattle Surf/Republic, and it includes a new song called ‘Long Way’, which finds him working with Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt for the first time. Listen to it below.
Last month, Vedder featured on the soundtrack to Sean Penn’s new film Flag Day, for which he collaborated with Glen Hansard on eight new songs, including a cover of R.E.M.’s ‘Drive’. He’s also set to appear on Elton John forthcoming album The Lockdown Sessions.
Last December, Vedder released an EP called Matter of Time. Earthling will mark his proper follow-up to 2011’s Ukulele Songs.
Tasha has announced her new album, Tell Me What You Miss The Most. The follow-up to the Chicago-based artist’s 2018 debut Alone at Last comes out November 5 digitally and December 3 physically via Father/Daughter Records. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Perfect Wife’, which is accompanied by a video directed by John TerEick and Jake Nokovic of the directing duo coool. Check it out below and scroll down for the album artwork and tracklist.
“When thinking about the visual for this song, I knew it had to exude romance, joy, and sweetness,” Tasha explained in a press release. “I found John and Jake by happenstance, but our work together felt totally seamless. This visual represents the giddiness and excitement of going on a first date with someone, and having it turn out even better than you could have imagined. Paired with their vision for a retro, theatrical, musical-movie kind of world, I think this video wonderfully captures that magic of being totally head over heels for someone perfect. John and Jake were a dream to work with, and I’m so grateful for their expert imagination.”
coool’s John TerEick and Jake Nokovic added:
When Tasha approached us with the song, we knew there had to be flowers and there had to be dancing. It’s this pure, magical love song that, for all of us, felt like those ‘too good to be true’ moments that occur when you’re really falling for someone. It was important for us to not tell the story of the date itself, but rather the aftermath, when you’ve come home to your apartment. How can you not just want to throw yourself around the room and move your body when you feel that elated? It’s that feeling that gave us the idea to inject visual language and choreography that felt reminiscent of mid-century films like Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Singin’ in the Rain.
1. Bed Song 1
2. History
3. Perfect Wife
4. Sorry’s Not Enough
5. Love Interlude
6. Dream Still
7. Burton Island
8. Lake Superior
9. Year From Now
10. Bed Song 2
Houston rapper Maxo Kream and Tyler, the Creator have teamed up for a new song called ‘Big Persona’. The collaboration is taken from Maxo’s newly announced album Weight of the World, which is due out in October (via Big Persona/88 Classic/RCA Records). Watch the track’s music video, which sees the pair cruising around in a Rolls Royce, below.
Earlier this year, Maxo Kream dropped ‘Local Joker’, his first solo track since 2019’s Brandon Banks. Tyler, the Creator released his most recent LP, Call Me If You Get Lost, this June.
Los Angeles–based trio MUNA have teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers for a new song called ‘Silk Chiffon’. The track, the band’s first since signing to Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label imprint earlier this year, arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Ally Pankiw and inspired by the 1999 cult film But I’m A Cheerleader. In a statement, guitarist and producer Naomi McPherson described ‘Silk Chiffon’ as “a song for kids to have their first gay kiss to.” Check it out below.
MUNA released their debut LP, About U, back in 2017. They followed it up with Saves the World in 2019.
