The Last Dinner Party have announced Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers, a deluxe edition of their debut album. It features reimagined versions of the band’s own songs alongside a few covers, including a rendition of Sparks’ classic 1974 single ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us’. Listen to it below.
Prelude to Ecstasy: Acoustics & Covers is out October 11. The Last Dinner Party recently covered Blondie’s ‘Call Me’ for triple j’s Like a Version series
Tasha has unveiled a new single, ‘Love’s Changing’, taken from her upcoming album All This and So Much More. It follows previous cuts ‘The Beginning’, ‘Michigan’, and ‘So Much More’. Check out a video for it below.
“‘Love’s Changing’ is the last song I finished writing for the album and feels like its perfect final note,” Tasha explained in a statement. “While the album is in some ways about loss, it’s also about all of the beauty discovered on the other side of loss, and this song encapsulates that warmth and optimism. I wanted both the instrumentation and the video paired with this song to reflect the breeziness and ease that can come when one surrenders to the love around them. The memory of pain never quite leaves us, and in fact often sneaks up when we least expect it (as heard in the song), but there’s always wonder and joy to be found that brings us back to ourselves.”
All This and So Much More is set to arrive on September 20 via Bayonet Records. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Tasha.
Bryan Ferry has returned with his first solo composition in a decade. The new song, ‘Star’, began “as a sketch by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross,” according to a press release. Ferry completed it with guest vocalist Amelia Barratt. It arrives with a music video co-directed by Ferry and James Garzke and starring Barratt, which you can check out below.
“A couple of years ago I helped her record an audiobook here in my studio,” Ferry said of the collaboration with Barratt in a statement. “I was very impressed by her writing, and this is the first song we did together. I’m very excited about this new work – there’s a lot more to come.”
‘Star’ marks Ferry’s first original music since the release of his album Avonmore in 2014. It’s set to appear on the Roxy Music frontman’s upcoming compilation Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023, which is out October 5 and covers the past five decades of his solo career. The box set was announced with a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘She Belongs To Me’.
A new song from the posthumous SOPHIE album has been released. ‘Exhilarate’, a collaboration with Bibi Bourelly, was written by SOPHIE, Bourelly, and Kennedi Lykken (Dua Lipa, Kesha). Listen to it below.
SOPHIE is set for release on September 27 via Transgressive and Future Classic. So far, the late producer’s second album has been previewed by the tracks ‘Berlin Nightmare’ (featuring Evita Manji), ‘One More Time’ (with Popstar), and ‘Reason Why (featuring BC Kingdom and Kim Petras).
Tomato Flower’s Jamison Field Murphy has announced a new solo album titled It Has to End. It’s set to drop on October 11 via Ramp Local. The lead single ‘Field’, described by Murphy as a song “about social opacity and the inability to get through,” is out today. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Tomato Flower released their debut full-length No earlier this year. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Tomato Flower.
It Has to End Cover Artwork:
It Has to End Tracklist:
1. Ermine Cloak
2. Fool To Ride
3. That Boy
4. It Has To End
5. Señal
6. Hate
7. Torment
8. R&D
9. Field
10. Later On
11. God On The Hill
12. True Friend
13. Little Coaster
14. Cully Room
15. Queen View
deBasement – the Los Angeles-based electronic duo of Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout and producer/DJ Margo XS – have shared their debut songs (via In Real Life). Check out ‘FRONT LEFT SPEAKER’ and ‘FTDJ (Thank God)’ below.
Over the summer, deBasement have been touring across London and Berlin with Model/Actriz and Marie Davidson. Revisit out our Artist Spotlight interview with Special Interest.
Surf Gang leader Evilgiane has linked up with Nourished by Time and producer Goner for a new song called ‘Instant Death’. Listen to the instrumental track below.
Earlier this year, Evilgiane released his mixtape #HEAVENSGATE VOL. 1 and teamed up with Georgia-based rapper Slimesito for the joint effort Evilslime. Nourished By Time’s breakout album, Erotic Probiotic 2, arrived last year. He recently followed it up with the Catching Chickens EP.
Mediocre have put out a new song called ‘Litterbug!’. It’s lifted from their forthcoming debut album Growth Eater, following last month’s ‘Fun Time Fix (We Go Go)’. Check it out below.
“It’s about an awareness of littering your environment with your own clutter and your own racing thoughts with endless chatter, perpetually disorganized and entrapped by chaos,” the band said of ‘Litterbug!’ in a statement. “Knowing that these issues are self constructed is what makes the wound sting the most, and coming to terms with your own trash, your own litter, is the only way to actually find the guts to start picking it up.”
Growth Eater will be out September 27 on Dangerbird. Guitarist/vocalist Piper Torrison and bassist/vocalist Keely Martin were joined by drummer Jake Pavlica and producer Danny Nogueiras for the LP.
Military Genius – the project of Bryce Cloghesy, a member of the Canadian art-punk collective Crack Cloud – has announced a new album. Scarred for Life, the follow-up to his 2020 debut Deep Web, will land on November 1 via Unheard of Hope. Listen to the new single ‘Darkest Hour’ below.
“‘Darkest Hour’ encapsulates the feeling of being swept away by time, into an endless night,” Cloghesy reflected in a statement. “There is a certain melancholy in leaving the past behind, dwelling on simpler, antiquated ways of life as we are pushed forward. This message is poignant on a personal level — becoming a father has led me to contemplate my own childhood, witnessing a purity of emotion prior to self-awareness. This applies to a broader collective consciousness too, as the march of progress fundamentally alters our shared experience. It’s all about embracing the journey, stepping beyond the point of no return, and facing the future.”
The album’s title refers to a near-death experience Cloghesy had in 2012, when he fell through a window. “I tore up my left arm real good and never slowed down to process the trauma,” Cloghesy explained. “It took some time to realize that I had been working tirelessly for years, white-knuckling life without any tools to process stress or trauma. So there are many lyrics about that mental health journey, learning to cope and accept.”
Scarred for Life Cover Artwork:
Scarred for Life Tracklist:
1. Walk the Earth
2. Twisted Root
3. Darkest Hour
4. Scarred For Life
5. Window to the Soul
6. Forlorn Dub
7. Solitary Flame
8. Cactus Christ
9. This Prison
10. Into the Unknown
Sunflower Bean have released a new single, ‘Teach Me to Be Bad’, which is taken from their forthcoming EP Shake – out September 27 via Lucky Number. According to the band, it’s about how “a chance meeting with a special person can change your life forever. It can be exhilarating and frightening to fall madly for someone you barely know.” Check it out below.
The video for ‘Teach Me to Be Bad’, also out today, is part of a short film built around the new EP, with each visual representing one of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. The band will premiere the film at Roxy Cinema in NYC on September 23, an event that will feature a Q&A session with Sunflower Bean and director Isaac Roberts, as well as a showing of Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975). Tickets are available here.
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