“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.”
Kim Gordon has teamed up with model home – the experimental duo of Washington, DC-based artists Nappy Nappa and p cain – for a new single. It’s called ‘razzamatazz’, and it arrives with an accompanying video created by p cain. Watch and listen below.
Gordon released her second solo album, The Collective, earlier this year. In June, she put out the single ‘ECRP’.
Caribou has announced a new album, Honey, which lands on October 4 via City Slang. It includes the previously released title track, ‘Broke My Heart’, and ‘Volume’, and today, Dan Snaith has shared another single, ‘Come Find Me’. Check out its Richard Kenworthy-directed video below, and scroll down for the album artwork and tracklist below.
“I love this kind of chord sequence and the sort of French touch type of vibe but it took a lot of time to find the right vocal hook and breakdown and make it more pop and concise,” Snaith said of the new song in a statement. “When I play that one in DJ sets, when it drops down to just the singing and then suddenly it’s a song that surges back in – I know for a fact no one in the crowd has heard it before and yet people always respond in this really emotionally charged, euphoric way… that’s always the best litmus test that a track has come together in the right way.”
Honey serves as the follow-up to 2020’s Suddenly. Discussing the album, Snaith shared:
One thing that hasn’t changed for me from the very beginning is a manic curiosity of seeing what I can make out of sound. Not so much what someone can make out of sound – a ‘professional’ with a host of collaborators and resources at their disposal, but me.. in my little basement studio. There’s more equipment in here than there used to be but essentially it’s the same as ever: still chasing that thrill of when something hits really hard and I find myself jumping up and down or the hairs standing up on my arms in excitement. How lucky am I that that’s never gone away? That the chance of making something new and exciting is still as exhilarating as ever. And as much fun as ever. Starting the day with nothing and (finishing most days with nothing good but occasionally…) having something that didn’t exist before stuck in my head by the end of the day. It still seems like a kind of alchemy.
Along with the album news, Snaith has also announced a four-night live residency at London’s The Waiting Room; find the list of dates below, too.
Honey Cover Artwork:
Honey Tracklist:
1. Broke My Heart
2. Honey
3. Volume
4. Do Without You
5. Come Find Me
6. August
7. Dear Life
8. Over Now
9. Campfire
10. Climbing
11. Only You
12. Got To Change
Caribou 2024 Tour Dates:
Sep 8 – London – The Waiting Room
Sep 9 – London – The Waiting Room
Sep 10 – London – The Waiting Room
Sep 11 – London – The Waiting Room
The Smile have announced a new album: Cutouts is slated for release on October 4 via XL Recordings. It marks the band’s third studio album, following January’s Wall of Eyes and 2022’s A Light for Attracting Attention. It includes the previously shared singles ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ and ‘The Slip’, and today, the trio of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner have shared two new tracks: ‘Foreign Spies’ and ‘Zero Sum’. Take a listen below.
The Smile debuted several songs from Cutouts during their UK tour in March. Produced by Sam Petts-Davies, the LP was recorded in Oxford and at Abbey Road Studios during the same period of time that Wall Of Eyes was recorded, and the cover artwork was painted by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke. The album features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Katrina Ford (of Love Life, Celebration, and Mt. Royal) is back with a new single called ‘Dundalk Dungeon’. Listen to it below.
“This song was inspired by the view of the Harbor from 395,” Ford explained in a press release. “It was a clear day and seeing at the time the Key Bridge and Dundalk Terminal. I feel like this song has an energetic yet sleepy feeling.”
She continued: “We wrote this song in July 2023. Tragically, on 26th March six construction workers were killed when a container ship struck the Key Bridge and it collapsed. This is lighthearted though, inspired by the beauty and the grime of Baltimore. In Dundalk Dungeon, the Baltimore harbor’s geography is personified as a gambler in an illegal establishment, a secret bar known as The Dungeon. Now its meaning is more nuanced, with the loss.”
The WAEVE – the duo of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall – have released a new single, ‘Broken Boys’. It’s lifted from their upcoming second album City Lights, which has already been previewed by the title track and ‘You Saw’. Check it out below.
Ahead of the release of their new album Midas on Friday, Wunderhorse have released one more single called ‘Arizona’. They’ve also shared an intimate acoustic rendition of the track, performed by frontman Jacob Slater. Take a listen below.
Following the band’s 2022 debut Cub, the new album was recorded at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studio with producer Craig Silvey. “When we first went into the studio to make this record, the only thing we were sure about is how we wanted it to sound: very imperfect, very live, very raw,” Slater explained. “We wanted it to sound like your face is pressed up against the amplifiers, like you’ve been locked inside the bass drum.”
London-based group Man/Woman/Chainsaw have dropped a new single, ‘Grow a Tongue in Time’. It’s set to appear on their upcoming debut EP Eazy Peazy alongside last month’s ‘Ode to Clio’. Check it out below.
“[Grow A Tongue In Time] is a stream-of-consciousness look at jealousy, desire and self-pity,” the band explained in a statement. “This began with a very stripped back arrangement on just bass, which gradually grew as we added different elements, from droning violin to creaking bowed guitar. Although It’s a moment of calm in the chaos of the set, the song builds its own intensity without relying on aggression.”
