The Horrors have announced Night Life, their first new album in eight years. They worked with producer Yves Rothman on the record, which follows a pair of 2021 EPs, Lout and Against the Blade. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘The Silence That Remains’ and its Sarah Piantadosi-directed video. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
The band’s new lineup features two original members, frontman Faris Badwan and bassist Rhys Webb, as well as keyboardist Amelia Kidd and Telegram drummer Jordan Cobb. Of the new song, they said: “’The Silence that Remains’ is a 3am insomnia walk through the city, retracing our steps and putting the past to bed. Our new chapter is beginning and we’re looking forward to taking you with us. The Horrors are never-ending.”
Night Life Cover Artwork:
Night Life Tracklist:
1. Ariel
2. Silent Sister
3. The Silence That Remains
4. Trial By Fire
5. The Feeling Is Gone
6. Lotus Eater
7. More Than Life
8. When The Rhythm Breaks
9. LA Runaway
Fontaines D.C. delivered a rendition of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Say Yes to Heaven’ for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. They also performed their Romance single ‘Favourite’. Check it out below.
The band’s cover choice isn’t entirely surprising. Back in 2022, vocalist Grian Chatten told NME that he thinks they could do “a really good tune” with Lana Del Rey. “Her music leans into an era of cinema that I love, and she writes in a way where people can find stories in her music,” he said.
The Smile have released a new song from their upcoming album, Cutouts, ahead of its arrival Friday. ‘Bodies Laughing’ follows the previously unveiled ‘Don’t Get Me Started’, ‘The Slip’, ‘Foreign Spies’, and ‘Zero Sum’. Listen to it below.
In addition to the string of singles, the Smile are previewing new material with a series of Through the Glass events taking place in NYC and London from October 1, which features exclusive visuals from Weirdcore as well as codes to unlock album tracks.
Madi Diaz has announced the deluxe edition of her latest album, Weird Faith, which came out in February. It’s out October 25th via ANTI-, and it features the newly unveiled ‘Worst Case Scenario’, as well as a new version of ‘For Months Now’ with Lizzy McAlpine and the previously shared Lennon Stella collab ‘One Less Question’. Check out ‘Worst Case Scenario’ below.
“Sometimes when I’m afraid, I test out a theory I’ve made up in the last few years: Life has never completely gone the way I imagined it would go (for better or worse),” Diaz said of the new song in a press release. “From time to time, I find myself daydreaming up scenes and playing them out in my mind, thinking if can get ahead of it all by thinking of the worst and how I’d survive it, then maybe it won’t actually happen. This song was my prevention plan against what I imagined would be the worst possibilities playing out.”
“This deluxe edition is an ode to the era of Weird Faith. Some of the demos capture the magic of the moment they were written that will never happen quite the same way ever again. It feels so important to honor those moments,” Diaz explained. “There’s a rawness to the energy the second a song is finished and sung. I try to touch that feeling every time I perform — the feeling that there is still something new here, a lesson or an unlocking. I hope these demos show what these songs unlocked for me, and maybe they might unlock something in you too.”
Weird Faith (Digital Deluxe) Cover Artwork:
Weird Faith (Digital Deluxe) Tracklist:
1. Same Risk
2. Everything Almost
3. Girlfriend
4. Hurting You
5. Get To Know Me
6. Kiss The Wall
7. God Person
8. Don’t Do Me Good (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
9. For Months Now
10. KFM
11. Weird Faith
12. Obsessive Thoughts
13. Worst Case Scenario
14. For Months Now (III) (feat. Lizzy McAlpine)
15. One Less Question (feat. Lennon Stella)
16. Human Condition (demo)
17. Don’t Do Me Good (demo)
18. Get To Know Me (demo)
19. Same Risk (demo)
20. Weird Faith (demo)
Mdou Moctar have announced Tears of Injustice, a new version of their latest LP Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It’s out February 28, and the first single, ‘Imajighen (Injustice Version)’, is out now. Check it out below.
“We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” the band’s US-based bassist and producer, Mikey Coltun, explained in a statement. “We’re always playing around with arrangements at shows. We wanted to prove that we could do it on a record, too. And there’s a whole other side of the band that comes out when we play a stripped down set. It becomes something new.”
“When Mdou writes the lyrics, he typically writes them with an acoustic guitar. So you’re getting closer to that original moment,” Coltun added. “It retains heaviness, but it’s haunting.”
Faye Webster has shared a new song, ‘After the Kiss’, alongside an accompanying video. Check out the clip, directed by Kyle Ng of Brain Dead Studios, below.
Ela Minus has announced a new album, DIA, which will be released on January 17 via Domino. It follows the Colombian artist’s 2020 debut, acts of rebellion, as well as her collaborative ♡ EP with DJ Python. Today, she’s shared the single ‘BROKEN’, alongside a video co-directed with Losmose. Check it out below.
‘BROKEN’ follows the previously released single ‘COMBAT’. “I started writing this thinking I was perfectly fine and finished writing knowing I was not,” Minus explained.
The Weather Station has a new album on the way: Humanhood is out January 17 via Fat Possum. It follows 2021’s Ignorance and its 2022 companion, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Neon Signs’, which is accompanied by a video co-directed by bandleader Tamara Lindeman and Jared Raab. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Discussing ‘Neon Signs’, Lindeman said in a statement: “The song came with multiple strands entwined; the way that something that is not true seems to have more energetic intensity than something that is, the confusion of being bombarded with advertising at a moment of climate emergency, the confusion of relationships where coercion is wrapped in the language of love. Ultimately though, isn’t it all the same feeling?”
The new album was recorded over two sessions in the fall of 2023 at Canterbury Music Company with drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Philippe Melanson, improviser Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley. Lindeman co-produced it with Marcus Paquin, and it features contributions from Sam Amidon, James Elkington, and Joseph Shabason.
Earlier this year, the Weather Station contributed to the soundtrack for Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow.
Wed Feb 26 – Hamburg, DE – Nochtspeicher
Thu Feb 27 – Copenhagen, DK – DR Studie 2
Fri Feb 28 – Berlin, DE – Silent Green
Sun Mar 2 – Amsterdam, NL – Tolhuistuin
Mon Mar 3 – Brussels, BE – Botanique / Museum
Tue Mar 4 – Paris, FR – Point Ephemere
Thu Mar 6 – Brighton, UK – CHALK
Fri Mar 7 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Sat Mar 8 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory
Mon Mar 10 – Glasgow, UK – Saint Luke’s
Tue. Mar. 11 – Manchester, UK – Band On The Wall
Wed Mar 12 – Bristol, UK – The Fleece
Thu Mar 13 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
Grumpy, the NYC-based project of Heaven Schmit, has shared a new song called ‘Flower’. It’s taken from their upcoming EP Wolfed, which was led by the single ‘Saltlick’, and arrives with a music video co-starring May Rio. Check it out below.
“Relationships arent’ forever, but love can be,” Schmit said of the new song in a statement. “Flower is about how, for me, at this stage of my life, love isn’t about building a permanent commitment to someone, it’s about nurturing a bond so that it may last a lifetime. In Flower, I accept the end of a relationship with a peacefulness and gratitude that it happened at all. When I love someone, I know that love is bound to change shape, rather than dissolve, post romance.”
Kassie Krut – the new project featuring Kasra Kurt and Eve Alpert (of the defunct Philly experimental outfit Palm) and Matt Anderegg (Mothers, Body Meat) – have signed to Fire Talk. To mark the news, they’ve shared a new single called ‘Reckless’, which is accompanied by a Guy Kozak-directed video filmed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Check it out below.
“‘Reckless’ is an exercise in restraint,” the band explained in a press release. “We challenged ourselves to write a song with one bass note, one drum beat and just a couple simple chords. Sometimes we experience self-doubt so it was fun to create a tougher version of ourselves – someone who’s fast and mean – as well as playing w the misconception that Kassie is an individual and not a band. Also our project name is a little strange so we took the opportunity to spell it out for the listener.”
“The idea of a museum visit came early on, as did the idea of the name spelled out with hands and signage,” Kozak added. “I like that the track works as a sort of introduction to the band, and I wanted the video to work in a similar way. I love this song!”
