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.
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.
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.
“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.
Allie X has teamed up with Empress Of for a new version of ‘Galina’, a track from Allie’s fifth LP Girl With No Face. Check it out via the accompanying visual, directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, below.
“Empress Of is an artist I’ve admired for many years and it felt like the right collaboration for this song, which is an exploration of maternal and mystical relationships between women,” Allie X said in a statement.
“The lyric ‘I hope I catch you on the mend’ is a sort of mantra I used at the time to help myself learn to softly let go,” Hannah Liuzzo said in a statement about the new song. “My instinct if someone hurt me used to be to default to anger or resentment, but as I’ve evolved and cultivated better access to my own feelings, I learned it’s better to wish people well instead of holding negative feelings. That state of mind is idealistic, though, so there’s still a tinge of side-eye in on the mend. Sometimes wishing someone well is a performance to help yourself heal, sometimes it’s a performance to save face while you’re scheming on the inside.”
Kim Deal of the Breeders (and formerly of Pixies) has announced her debut solo album: Nobody Loves You More will arrive on November 22 via 4AD. The 10-track collection includes the recent single ‘Coast’, as well as a new song called ‘Crystal Breath’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
The oldest songs on Nobody Loves You More, ‘Are You Mine?’ and ‘Wish I Was’, date back to 2011, shortly after Deal came off the Pixies’ Lost Cities Tour and moved to Los Angeles. (Early versions of those songs were included in the five-part, ten-song seven-inch vinyl series she self-released in 2013.) The last recording for the LP took place in November 2022 with the late Steve Albini, who helmed closer ‘A Good Time Pushed’ at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago.
Collaborators on the LP include past and present members of the Breeders (Mando Lopez, twin sister Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, Britt Walford), as well as Raymond McGinley (Teenage Fanclub), Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs), and Savages’ Fay Milton and Ayse Hassan. Nobody Loves You More was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry.
Nobody Loves You More Cover Artwork:
Nobody Loves You More Tracklist:
1. Nobody Loves You More
2. Coast
3. Crystal Breath
4. Are You Mine?
5. Disobedience
6. Wish I Was
7. Big Ben Beat
8. Bats In The Afternoon Sky
9. Summerland
10. Come Running
11. A Good Time Pushed
“My friend Matt (Matthew E. White) and I began getting together and writing songs every couple of weeks or so, back when I lived in Virginia,” Bollinger explained in a press release. “On October 2nd of 2020, we met up for the first time on the tiny basketball court outside his studio with a keyboard and a vocal mic going through an amp, and wrote one of many since-abandoned songs. ‘Sweet Devil’ and ‘Lonely’ are two of our surviving collaborations.”
