Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard have joined forces for the Neptunes EP, which is due November 22 via Smugglers Way. Today, they’ve shared the EP’s title track, alongside an Aron Sanchez Barada-directed video. Check it out below.
“I loved what the rhythm made me feel when I first heard it,” Smith said of ‘Neptunes’. “I actually thought he was tapping into Neptune as a planet, and the qualities I felt it possesses. So my side of things brought out more space-themed sounds as a result.”
Neptunes EP Cover Artwork:
Neptunes EP Tracklist:
1. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard – Neptunes
2. Joe Goddard – Rapid Fire [feat. Laima]
3. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Around You
4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Around You (Joe Goddard Remix)
5. Joe Goddard – Rapid Fire (Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Remix)
two blinks, i love you – the project of Liverpool songwriter Liam Brown – has announced ep 2, sharing the song ‘better the knife you know’ along with the news. The EP, which includes the recent single ‘my girl’, arrives November 22 via Heist or Hit. Check out the new track below.
Speaking about ‘better the knife you know’, Brown said:
‘better the knife’ was the first track we recorded together and it kind of set the standard of how fast we ended up working. When I wrote the demo (which essentially is how you hear it on the ep) it was probably the quickest I’d ever written a song before, I felt like I knew exactly how it was going to sound. It was a really exciting moment, and a very focused level of creating something – which I hadn’t felt that intensely before. The demo was written, recorded, and sent over to the label within an hour!
Thematically, there’s quite a lot of post relationship feelings in there, going back to your old life after leaving somebody and becoming a kind of island again, there’s also lots about coming back from New York and feeling a bit flat and desensitised from such a strange trip. It’s a kind of diary entry for a lot of feelings at that particular time I think.
Brown recorded the EP at Nan’s House in Liverpool with Sophie Ellis. “She facilitated and transferred all my creative decisions and ideas practically without any friction, which was super important to me,” he explained. “We worked rapidly, how I like to work, and it felt like there existed so much alchemy in our spontaneity.”
“ep 2 as a whole is combing through a lot of different feelings over the past year,” Brown added. “Some of the songs on here are quite retrospective about loss. It presents itself in different ways that I didn’t even recognise until listening to them back; at the time I thought it was hidden in lots of subtext but in actuality it wasn’t. Some of the other songs however, are more love songs. I always love how direct and charming a plain and simple love song can be, not particularly the most poetic or the most dramatic by any means, but speaking of the smaller insignificant things and the idiosyncrasies of moments unique to your experience with love and everything surrounding that, whether that be friendship, the city you live in, or the city you visit for a week.”
ep 2 Cover Artwork:
ep 2 Tracklist:
1. better the knife you know
2. alright
3. amends
4. my girl
5. for good
6. baby drums
Beach Bunny have put out a new single, ‘Clueless’. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Bertie Gilbert. Check it out below.
“I wrote this song in February reflecting on the passing new year,” frontperson Lili Trifilio explained in a statement. “It took me 5 minutes to write, in a lot of ways it wrote itself – it’s not supposed to be sad, I just hope it makes you feel something. Time & changing are complicated subjects, I didn’t write this track with the intention of forming any conclusions, I really just needed to get my thoughts out – I still don’t understand it all, but that’s the fun part of being alive: figuring it out along the way.”
Earlier this year, Beach Bunny returned with the song ‘Vertigo’ and joined Hank Heaven on ‘Beloved’. Their last album was 2022’s Emotional Creature.
Liquid Mike have dropped a new single called ‘Crop Circles’. It follows ‘Man Dies’ and ‘Man Lives’, which were recently released as part of the deluxe edition of the power-pop band’s latest LP, Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot. Give it a listen below.
Ahead of its release on Friday (September 27), Low’s Alan Sparhawk has shared a new single from his debut solo LP, White Roses, My God. It’s called ‘Heaven’, and it follows previous offerings ‘Can U Hear’ and ‘Get Still’. Check it out via the Rick Alverson-directed video below.
Maxo Kream and Tyler, the Creator have reunited for a new song called ‘Cracc Era’. It follows the rappers’ 2021 collaboration ‘Big Persona’. Check it out below.
Maxo Kream has dropped a series of singles over the past year, including ‘Bang the Bus’, ‘Talkin in Screw’, and ‘Eye Know’. Tyler, the Creator was recently announced as part of the cast of A24’s upcoming Josh Safdie-directed movie Marty Supreme.
Two Shell have announced their self-titled debut album, which comes out October 25 via Young. Today’s announcement comes with the release of a new single, ‘Everybody Worldwide’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Earlier this year, the London duo released the single ‘gimmi it’, which appears on the record, as well as the standalone tracks ‘Round’ (featuring Sugababes) and the FKA twigs collab ‘Talk to Me’.
Two Shell Cover Artwork:
Two Shell Tracklist:
1. </>
2. come to terms
3. (rock solid)
4. hurt somebody
5. ({~_-})
6. Everybody Worldwide
7. gimmi it
8. /inside//
9. dreamcast
10. Stars..
11. be somebody
12. Mad Powers
13. Mirror
London singer-songwriter Matilda Mann has announced her debut album, Roxwell. It’s slated to arrive on February 28 through 7476. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Say It Back’, which follows the recent tracks ‘Meet Cute’ and ‘Tell Me That I’m Wrong’. Check it out below.
“Say it back is that frustrating confusion of why, if you love someone so much and do everything you can, do they still not love you back?” Mann explained in a statement. “Unrequited love hurts the most because there’s that feeling of “the chase” and it never being reciprocated. Are you just not their type? Smart enough? Cool enough? It can make you overthink so much you’d do crazy things for them.”
Introducing Roxwell, Mann said: “This is my debut album. Every song feels like a part of me, and I’m so, so excited that it’s finally coming out. It explores various types of love, the experience of growing up and reflecting on the past, the struggle of not being able to give someone your all, getting stuck in the past, and accepting what you can’t change.”
Searows has announced a new EP, flush, arriving on November 22 via Last Recordings on Earth. The follow-up to last year’s End of the World EP was made with producer Jonathan Pearce (The Beths). It includes the recent single ‘martingale’, as well as a new song, ‘toothache’. Listen to it below.
“For a lot of my life I have put far too much effort into being nice and accommodating in situations where I didn’t need to be,” Searows, aka Alec Duckart, said in a statement. “I think this song is about learning how to let go of the need to make other people feel comfortable at the cost of your own dignity and personhood.”
Amyl & the Sniffers have dropped ‘Big Dreams’, the latest offering from their upcoming LP Cartoon Darkness. It follows the previously released tracks ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ and ‘Chewing Gum’. Check out the song’s accompanying video, directed by PHC Films, below.
“I am writing this before ‘Big Dreams’ comes out, and I am actually a bit nervous that it’s a single, because it’s so different from a lot of people’s expectations of us,” singer Amy Taylor said in a statement. “This song was written because a lot of people in my life are struggling financially, and it’s really hard to make your dreams come true when you’re trying to get by day-to-day. But when I think of my friends doing what they love, and I see how good they are at it, I just know they’ve never been dull, they’ve always been lit, and there’s nothing that will break that or take it away from them.”
“The video we shot in the desert, it was the first clip we shot for this album, and it was fun as hell,” she added.”
