Beabadoobee has shared the final preview from her upcoming album, Fake It Flowers, out this Friday via Dirty Hit. Check out ‘Together’ below, alongside an accompanying music video.
Bea said in a statement about the song: “This song is about the dependency you have with someone and missing that when you’re away and learning to be by yourself. It’s written from that point when you’re feeling alone and thinking everything is better when you’re with that other person.”
In addition to the new single, beabadoobee has also announced that she’ll be playing a special full band live performance of her new album this Friday at at 8:30pm UK time via her YouTube channel. Fake It Flowers includes the previously released singles ‘How Was Your Day?’, ‘Care’, ‘Sorry’, and ‘Worth It’.
“‘Ascension’ is about the continual growth that we are all undertaking at every stage of our life,” KUČKA said in a statement. “We’re constantly faced with new challenges whether we realize it or not and it’s important that we don’t let our fears get in the way of our enjoyment of the process.”
Commenting on the video, she added: “The video emphasises our interconnectedness and the depth we can feel through a digital network.”
Demi Lovato has shared a new song called ‘Commander in Chief’. As its title suggests, the track, which was co-written by FINNEAS, takes aim at US President Donald Trump. Listen to it below.
“Commander in chief, honestly/if I did the things you do, I couldn’t sleep,” Lovato sings on the track. In a statement to her fans, the singer wrote: “Please join me and vote in this year’s election.” She also directed fans to the I Will Vote website and announced that a music video would be dropping tomorrow (October 15).
Last month, Demi Lovato teamed up with Marshmello for the joint single ‘OK Not To Be OK’, which was released in partnership with with Hope for the Day, a not-for-profit agency that aims to raise awareness about suicide prevention and mental health education.
The Body have announced a new album called I’ve Seen All I Need to See. The Portland noise metal duo’s latest arrives January 29, 2021 via Thrill Jockey. The band have previewed the album with the lead single, ‘A Lament’, via Bandcamp. Listen to it below.
In addition to the Body’s core duo of Chip King and Lee Buford, the new LP includes contributions from vocalist/pianist Chrissy Wolpert as well as vocalist Ben Eberle. I’ve Seen All I Need to See was mastered by Matt Colton (Aphex Twin, New Order, Sunn O))), Sumac) and engineered by Seth Manchester.
“It’s a meditation on distortion,” Seth Manchester said of the album in statement. “We tried pushing the limits of each piece of gear in the studio to hear what its breaking point sounded like and then recorded it—even feeding the console back on itself during one particular live take.”
Matt Colton added: “The distortion has this ability to envelope you, and not push you away. It has this strange kind of beautiful timbre…once you give into the sheer power of it, and let it take you on a ride then it becomes this whole other kind of sonic experience.”
Stevie Wonder has returned with his first new music in almost four years. His two new songs – ‘Can’t Put it in the Hands of Fate’ (featuring Rapsody, Cordae, Chika, and Busta Rhymes) and ‘Where Is Our Love Song’ (featuring Gary Clark Jr.) – are being released via his new label, So What the Fuss Music, an imprint of Republic Records and Universal Music Group. Listen to both tracks below.
The two new tracks mark the first time Wonder has released music separate from Motown Records in almost 60 years; he first signed with the label as an 11-year-old in 1961. In a press conference, Wonder discussed future plans for his new label – which takes its name from his 2005 Prince-featuring single ‘So What the Fuss’ – including a compilation EP and a new solo album. No further details for either projects have yet been revealed.
Speaking of ‘Where Is Our Love Song’, he explained (via NME): “It is a song that really I started working on when I was 18, not even knowing what the song was going to be about, but I had the melody. Then this year came all the confusion and all the hate and all the east versus west, left versus right. It’s just a heartbreak. And those who say ‘This is what God has said… this is my religion,’ it’s just a lot of confusion… I’m watching all this and say, ‘Hold up, how can you be talking about God and there be hate in your spirit?’.”
Of ‘Can’t Put It In The Hands Of Fate’, he added: “I was thinking about where we are in the world. And I was thinking about how this is most crucial time. Not just Black people or people of colour but young people everywhere are going, ‘This is not acceptable.’ Change is right now. We can’t put it in the hands of fate. Ain’t nobody got time to wait.”
In a press release, Claud Mintz said of the new track: “‘Gold’ is about contradictions; an instructor attempting to teach a class of monsters proper manners so they can assimilate; a relationship getting so tired and so old that even gold starts to rust (which isn’t scientifically possible).”
Mintz previously used to make music under the moniker Toast before going by the mononym Claud. They’ve recently played shows with the likes of Bleachers and Girlpool.
John Frusciante has shared a new song from his upcoming album Maya. ‘Brand E’ serves as the opener for the record and comes with an accompanying abstract sci-fi short filmed in Los Angeles and starring Frusciante and Lee Bootee. The visual was directed by Amalía Irons. Check it out below.
Maya is due out October 23 via Venetian Snares’ Timesig label and includes the previously released single ‘Amethblowl’. Dedicated to Frusciante’s late cat of the same name, it marks his first solo release in six years and the first-ever instrumental electronic full-length under his own name.
Cloud Nothings have announced a new album: The Shadow I Remember arrives February 26, 2021 via Carpark. It finds the group reuiniting with producer Steve Albini, who worked on Cloud Nothings’ 2012 LP Attack on Memory. The band have also previewed the album with the lead single ‘Am I Something’, which comes with a Lu Yang–directed music video. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.
“I became familiar with Lu Yang’s work through her exhibit in Cleveland, Ohio at MOCA Cleveland in 2017,” Cloud Nothings frontman Dylan Baldi said in a statement. “I was really drawn to her approach of tying religion into gender and various gendered bodily functions. The animation style of some of her work is also exactly on my wavelength—like a psychedelic genderless Sims game. Very excited to be able to work with Lu!”
Lu Yang added: “The music video created for Cloud Nothings is a scene from my video game The Great Adventure of Material World which depicts an artistic reality where we are exploring and roaming, in a non-binary way, post-death delusions and the intermediate state of Bardo. Bardo has a particularly special meaning in Buddhism as the connecting point and intermediate state between life and death, past and future lives, waking and sleep, and the space in-between.”
Cloud Nothings are also set to release a 10th anniversary reissue of their debut album Turning On on January 29 (via Carpark). Back in July, they released their quarantine record, The Black Hole Understands.
The Shadow I Remember Cover Artwork:
The Shadow I Remember Tracklist:
1. Oslo
2. Nothing Without You
3. The Spirit Of
4. Only Light
5. Nara
6. Open Rain
7. Sound of Alarm
8. Am I Something
9. It’s Love
10. A Longer Moon
11. The Room It Was
Sharon Van Etten has released a new song called ‘Let Go’. The track was written for Arthur Jones’ documentary Feels Good Man, which centers around Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog, as he struggles to reclaim control of the character from members of the alt-right. Listen to it below.
“After watching the documentary, I just followed the feeling of coming to terms with something and tried to evoke peace through my melody and words,” Sharon Van Etten said in a statement about the song.
Tom Leighton, a talented photographer out of London, U.K, has unveiled an eye-pleasing series named Kynance. In this series, Leighton mixes vibrant colour with the stunning layers of the earth’s crust to create quite the image that combines nature and photo manipulation.
Writing about the series Leighton stated: “Kynance Cove was driven from the earth’s crust hundreds of millions of years ago. Created from a sequence of eruptions, the stacked cliffs and caves and tunnels of Kynance are an unusually dramatic testament to geological power: layer upon layer of once molten crust and magma hurled though moving plates upwards to the surface of the earth. Rare also is some of the rock found in these structures, made up of the minerals thrown from the magma chambers – and exposed in places as a reptilian multi-coloured, scaly sheen which may give it the name Serpentine. The series of colour manipulated works are intended as a tribute to a sense of energy and intense beauty which you can experience in the cove even on the dullest day.”
