Minneapolis punk trio VIAL have announced Grow the Fuck Up, a re-recorded and reworked version of their debut project Grow Up. It’s set to arrive on November 29 via Get Better Records. They’ve also shared a video for the track ‘DIY or Die’. Watch it below.
“We rerecorded our debut EP Grow Up to look back on our progress as musicians and revisit some very nostalgic songs after 5 years of VIAL,” the band said in a statement. “It’s like a little love letter to our younger selves. When we first recorded Grow Up, we had very limited resources during the recording process and didn’t even use our own cables. We feel very lucky we’re able to revisit this EP now that we have access to the funds, skills, and equipment we’d always wanted to allocate towards these eight songs.”
American-born, London-based singer-songwriter Joni has announced her signing to Hand in Hive and Keeled Scales (in North America), marking the news with the single ‘Avalanches’. Check it out below.
Joni completed the new track with producer Luke Sital-Singh at his Los Angeles studio. “‘Avalanches’ is a song about the duality of love and heartbreak,” she shared in a statement. “And how you can’t really have one without the other. And despite all the pain, fear, exhilaration, risk, I’d do it all again and again and again…”
Clara Mann has announced her debut album: Rift is due for release on March 7 via state51. The London-based artist has also shared the new single ”Til I Come Around’, which follows last month’s ‘Stadiums’. Check it out below.
“‘Til I Come Around’ is about intimacy, in every sense,” Mann said in a statement. “Sometimes the flip side of beautiful, intense things is very dark- and once you know that, once you’ve lived it once, it’s hard to live the beautiful things without thinking about the heaviness. This is about trying to live with all those contradictions, about bitterness and loss, about love, about passion.”
Rift was primarily recorded at the 4AD Studios in London, with production and mixing by Fabian Prynn (Martha Skye Murphy, Ex:Re, Fabiana Palladino). It follows Mann’s 2022 EP Stay Open. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Clara Mann.
Rift Tracklist:
1. It Only Hurts
2. ‘Til I Come Around
3. Driving Home The Long Way
4. Stadiums
5. Reasons
6. Remember Me (Train Song)
7. Doubled Over
8. Rift
9. Oranges
10. The Dream
Superheaven are back with ‘Long Gone’, their first new song in nine years. It arrives alongside the announcement that the alt-rock band has signed to Blue Grape Music (Gel, Spiritual Cramp, Code Orange), which will release the two-track single Long Gone / Numb To What Is Real on December 10. Check it out below.
“Hearing the demo back for the first time was really inspiring,” drummer Zack Robbins said of ‘Long Gone’ in a statement. “To hear us making something new, but to have it still really feel like our sound.”
The track was engineered by guitarist/vocalist Jake Clarke and Robbins, then mixed by Rich Costey. “We didn’t want to be told no,” Clarke remarked. “We got to try every pedal, try every amp, and have all the time we wanted to do it.”
Superheaven released their sophomore album, Ours Is Chrome, in 2015.
Angel Olsen has announced a new project called Cosmic Waves Volume 1, which will be out on December 6. Marking the second release on somethingscosmic, Olsen’s own Jagjaguwar imprint, the compilation is split into two halves: the first features original songs personally curated by Olsen from Poppy Jean Crawford, Coffin Prick, Sarah Grace White, Maxim Ludwig, and Camp Saint Helene, while Side B sees Olsen offering her take on songs from those artists. Today’s announcement comes with the release of ‘Glamorous’ by Los Angeles musician Poppy Jean Crawford, along with Olsen’s acoustic version of Crawford’s ‘The Takeover’. Take a listen below.
“As someone that emerged into the music scene through a small tape label, Iʼve wanted to continue the spirit of discovery and of my debut release, Strange Cacti, while supporting and collaborating with artists and friends whose music I have been moved by,” Olsen explained in a press release. “I feel there is something unique and special about covering another artist’s song. We all make it our own, or we try to, but I personally always learn something new about the process when Iʼm engaging someone elseʼs words and melodies in such a close way. Itʼs fun to write and make my own stuff, but listening to and putting myself into various different styles of songs can lead to new ways of thinking and creating…”
About Crawford’s music, Olsen said: “I remember speaking with my good friend Angela Ricciardi about Poppy starring in the film The Giver Gives to Give, and was immediately transfixed by her overall vibe and ‘30s era beauty. But it wasn’t until later when Angela shared one of Poppy’s early demo grunge songs with me that I was blown away. Poppy gives me hope that guitar music will come back. She has such a powerful voice made for pop while also having this edge to her that, for me, communicates the kind of rage I can always relate to.”
Cosmic Waves Volume 1 Cover Artwork:
Cosmic Waves Volume 1 Tracklist:
1. Glamorous – Poppy Jean Crawford
2. Blood – Coffin Prick
3. Ride – Sarah Grace White
4. Make Believe You Love Me – Maxim Ludwig
5. Wonder Now – Camp Saint Helene
6. The Takeover (Poppy Jean Crawford Cover) – Angel Olsen
7. Swimming (Coffin Prick Cover) – Angel Olsen
8. Sinkhole (Sarah Grace White Cover) – Angel Olsen
9. Born Too Blue (Maxim Ludwig Cover) – Angel Olsen
10. Farfisa Song (Camp Saint Helene Cover) – Angel Olsen
Sunny War has a new album on the way: Armageddon in a Summer Dress will be released on February 21 via New West Records. The follow-up to 2023’s Anarchist Gospel features appearances by Valerie June, John Doe of X, Tré Burt, Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs, Kyshona Armstrong, John James Tourville of the Deslondes, and more. The first single, ‘Walking Contradiction’, is a duet with Steve Ignorant of Crass. Check out a video for it below, and scroll down for the album’s cover art and tracklist.
“He’s my hero for life,” War said of collaborating with Ignorant. “When I started listening to Crass, it changed everything about how I thought about everything.”
Steve Ignorant commented: “It’s always an honour to collaborate with someone you respect and Sunny War is no exception. She is the younger voice, taking up the torch of hope in this dark world. The minute I heard the song I knew it would work and recording it was an incredibly emotional experience. The lyrics are now in my head for good – which is not a bad thing, and who knows – maybe one day we’ll get the chance to perform it together live.”
“Touring behind Anarchist Gospel made me want to make a bigger-sounding record and have a whole band rather than just playing solo acoustic or with a three piece,” War added of the LP. “I wanted to try stuff out of my comfort zone and try and have more fun playing. I definitely wanted to make this album for a badass five-piece band.”
Armageddon in a Summer Dress Cover Artwork:
Armageddon in a Summer Dress Tracklist:
1. One Way Train
2. Bad Times
3. Rise
4. Ghosts
5. Walking Contradiction [feat. Steve Ignorant]
6. Cry Baby [feat. Valerie June]
7. No One Calls Me Baby
8. Scornful Heart [feat. Tré Burt]
9. Gone Again [feat. John Doe]
10. Lay Your Body
11. Debbie Downer
Geologist & D.S. – the new project of Animal Collective’s Brian “Geologist” Weitz and White Magic and Highlife musician Doug Shaw – have announced their debut album. A Shaw Deal is due for release on January 31 via Drag City, and it’s previewed today by the track ‘Route 9 Falls’. Check out Danny Perez’s video for the track below.
A couple of years ago, Doug Shaw was posting videos of his guitar playing on Instagram, which his longtime friend Geologist found to be an escape from reality. As a birthday present for Shaw, Geologist took the audio and ran it through his modular system, tweaking and looping it to create a new record. “I didn’t set out to make a Geologist record, or even a record anyone but Doug would hear,” Weitz commented. “I didn’t add any new sounds beyond what existed, and just fed the raw materials through myself as a possible channel. That way, I could say, ‘Happy birthday. You made a record, you just didn’t know it.’”
A Shaw Deal Cover Artwork:
A Shaw Deal Tracklist:
1. Route 9 Falls
2. Wit of the Watermen
3. Ripper Called
4. Loose Gravel
5. Petticoat
6. Knuckles to Nostrils
7. Avarice Edit
Julia Holter has released a new song, ‘The Laugh Is in the Eyes’, which was born out of the demos for her latest LP Something in the Room She Moves. The track takes its title from one of the album’s singles, ‘Spinning’. Check it out below, along with the singer-songwriter’s upcoming tour dates.
“‘The Laugh Is in the Eyes’ came out of the Something in the Room She Moves writing sessions and it shares that album’s devotion to transformation and bodily senses,” Holter explained in a press release. “There’s a loopy restlessness, a rhythmic 5ness alongside a 4ness, a circle and a square. Like in the song ‘Spinning,’ a surprise awakening awaits in the state of ‘night’—from stagnancy to the anticipation of flowers, flutes, feeling.”
Julia Holter 2024 Tour Dates:
Nov 17 – Braga, Portugal – Gente Sentada
Nov 19 – San Sebastian, Spain – Teatro Principal
Nov 20 – Madrid, Spain – Festival Mileni
Nov 21 – Barcelona, Spain – Festival Mileni
Nov 22 – Valencia, Spain – Ram Club
Nov 24 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Hotel Cecil
Nov 26 – Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
Nov 27 – Stockholm, Sweden – Slaktkyrkan
Nov 29 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Opderschmelz
Dec 1 – Paris, France – Maroquinerie
Dec 2 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Zonnehuis
Dec 3 – Ghent, Belgium – Ha Concerts
Dec 5 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
Dec 6 – Bristol, UK – Lantern
Dec 7 – Manchester, UK – Band on Wall
Dec 9 – Glasgow, UK – St. Luke’s
Dec 11 – Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
Hull-based quartet bdrmm have announced their third full-length, Microtonic, which will arrive on February 28 on Mogwai’s Rock Action label. The follow-up to 2023’s I Don’t Know is led by the single ‘John on the Ceiling’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“The themes surrounding ‘John on the Ceiling’ are that of confusion and doubt,” vocalist and guitarist Ryan Smith explained in a statement. “When something ends and another starts, you lure yourself into a false sense of security that the mistakes made won’t happen again. This happens over and over until you are paralysed in limbo. Can people ever truly change?”
Recorded with the band’s longtime collaborator Alex Greaves, Microtonic features guest appearances from Sydney Minsky Sargeant of Working Men’s Club and Olivesque of Nightbus. “I felt very constrained writing a certain type of music to fit the genre [we were known for] but something lifted and I felt more free to create what I want,” Smith added. “And what I seem to be doing at the moment is a lot of electronic music – taking influence from different spans of electronica, from dance music to ambient and more experimental sources.”
Microtonic Cover Artwork:
Microtonic Tracklist:
1. goit [feat. Sydney Minsky Sargent]
2. John On The Ceiling
3. Infinity Peaking
4. Snares
5. In The Electric Field [feat. Olivesque]
6. Microtonic
7. Clarkycat
8. Sat in the Heat
9. Lake Disappointment
10. The Noose
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