New York City artist duendita has returned with a new single called ‘planetary’, their first new music since 2022. Created between Berlin and New York, the track was recorded at Baketown, the experimental recording studio and art space in Schöneberg. Check it out via the accompanying visual, directed by longtime collaborator Sandy Ismail, below.
Hinds Drop Video for New Song ‘Superstar’
Hinds have shared another single from their upcoming album Viva Hinds. This one’s called ‘Superstar’, and it follows earlier cuts ‘Coffee’, ‘En Forma’, and the Beck collab ‘Boom Boom Back’. Check out its self-directed video below.
“‘Superstar’ talks about the disappointment and the pain you feel when someone you love deeply disappears with no explanation,” Hinds said in a press statement. “You feel worthless, you start thinking you never really knew that person, and you question your shared past and if what you remember really happened. It’s hard to let people go, but writing this song helped. People need closure, and this song is ours.”
Viva Hinds is due September 6 through Lucky Number.
Enumclaw Release New Song ‘Not Just Yet’
Enumclaw have dropped a new single, ‘Not Just Yet’, from their forthcoming album Home in Another Life. Arriving on the heels of lead cut ‘Change’, the song was written for band members Aramis Johnson and Eli Edwards’ uncle Mike, who was recently diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers. It arrives alongside a music video directed by John C. Peterson, which you can check out below.
Home in Another Life is slated to arrive on August 30 via Run for Cover.
Origami Angel Announce New Album ‘Feeling Not Found’, Share New Songs
Origami Angel have announced a new album, Feeling Not Found, which will be out September 27 via Counter Intuitive Records. The follow-up to the duo’s 2023 mixtape The Brightest Days was recorded with Will Yip. It includes the previously released single ‘Fruit Wine’, as well as two new songs, ‘Dirty Mirror Selfie’ and ‘Where Blue Light Blooms’. Part one of their accompanying double video was directed Britain Weyant, while part two was directed by Kay Dargen. Watch and listen below.
Feeling Not Found Cover Artwork:
Feeling Not Found Tracklist:
1. Lost Signal
2. Dirty Mirror Selfie
3. Where Blue Light Blooms
4. Viral
5. Underneath My Skin
6. Wretched Trajectory
7. AP Revisionist History
8. Living Proof
9. Fruit Wine
10. Sixth Cents (Get It?)
11. Secondgradefoofight
12. HM07 Waterfall
13. Higher Road
14. Feeling Not Found
MUNA’s Katie Gavin Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares New Single
MUNA singer Katie Gavin has announced her debut solo album: What a Relief arrives on October 25 via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records. It’s led by the single ‘Aftertaste’, which is accompanied by a video Gavin co-directed with Alexa Viscius. Check it out and find the album’s cover art and tracklist below.
“That song takes place inside of the magnetic force, when I’m really drawn to somebody and still feeling like it’s gonna work,” Gavin said of ‘Aftertaste’ in a statement. “Sometimes it’s fun to surrender to that feeling – I think a lot of songwriters have a strong relationship with romantic fantasy.”
“I thought this song would be a good place to start because to me it kind of serves as a bridge, sonically and thematically, between MUNA’s world and the world we are going to with the solo record…” Gavin continued. “‘Aftertaste’ is a sweet song about carrying a torch for someone, realizing that you are going out to concerts and parties hoping to run into them there. The song is a playing out of a fantasy, really, both because it involves confessing your crush and finding out that it is reciprocated.”
Commenting on the video, Gavin added: “Naomi McPherson helped me come up with the idea for the video, in which I’m the subject of a nude drawing class, and Alexa Viscius co-directed with me and brought in an amazing team of Chicago creatives to bring it to fruition,” Gavin added.” Filming in the city I’m from felt very right for introducing this solo work. Back to my roots, if you will.”
What a Relief includes a collaboration with Mitski called ‘As Good As It Gets’. “This record spans a lot of my life – it’s about having a really deep desire for connection, but also encountering all the obstacles that stood in my way to be able to achieve that, patterns of isolation or even boredom with the real work of love,” Gavin reflected. “What A Relief explores and portrays it honestly, without shame.”
What a Relief Cover Artwork:
What a Relief Tracklist:
1. I Want It All
2. Aftertaste
3. The Baton
4. Casual Drug Us
5. As Good As It Gets ft. Mitski
6. Sanitized
7. Sketches
8. Inconsolable
9. Sparrow
10. Sweet Abby Girl
11. Keep Walking
12. Today
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Unveil New Single ‘Hog Calling Contest’
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have dropped ‘Hog Calling Contest’, the latest offering from their 26th LP, Flight b741 – out August 9 via their own p(doom) records. It follows lead single ‘Le Risque’. Along with the track, the band has shared a mini-documentary about the making of the album, Oink Oink Flight b741: The Making of…, directed by Guy Tyzack. Check it out and listen to the new song below.
“While recording Flight b741, we occasionally had these ultra inspired tune-up/warm-up jams,” the band commented in a press release. “Of course, we were never actually recording during these moments though. Lost to time. Except one time; This time. We learnt to record these moments; ‘Daily Blues’ came together this way too. But ‘Hog Calling Contest’ retains a unique unhinged-ness that only comes when you’re fooling around with your mates and you don’t think you’re being recorded. Happy in mud!”
Tyzack said of the documentary: “We were tasked with capturing the band make an album from scratch in two weeks, they purposefully didn’t prepare much for the recordings so it was very difficult for me to plan what to film. I just knew they’d be in one room and three of them might drop out at any moment because they were expecting babies. The room looked brown and boring so I painted it like the sky to match the theme of the album in one 17hr stretch with three friends and a slab of mids.”
Spirit of the Beehive Share New Songs ‘SOMETHING’S ENDING’ and ‘I’VE BEEN EVIL’
Spirit of the Beehive have dropped two new songs, ‘SOMETHING’S ENDING’ and ‘I’VE BEEN EVIL’, alongside an accompanying double video. They’re taken from the band’s forthcoming LP YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING, which was led by the single ‘LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE’. Watch and listen below.
Of the music video, which was filmed in rural Appalachia, director Kelsea Dakota Larson said in a statement: “My collaborator and spouse Jim and I have been waiting for the right project to film here in rural Appalachia since we moved a few years ago, when we heard these new tracks, we knew this was the right one. We took the titles literally, and wanted to highlight the darkness that can be right under your nose in a beautiful little mountain town, or anywhere really, while outsiders carry on.”
YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING lands on August 23 via Saddle Creek.
Naima Bock Shares Video for New Song ‘Gentle’
Naima Bock has previewed her upcoming record Below a Massive Dark Land with a new track, ‘Gentle’. Following earlier cuts ‘Kaley’ and ‘Further Away’, the song arrives with an accompanying video directed by Ellie Wintour and Sophie Lincoln. Watch and listen below.
“I’ve lived with this song for a couple of years,” Bock explained in a statement. “It’s a kind of copy and paste of different sections of my life, each verse is a different version of myself or situation I was in. None of them link in reality, but they fit together in this song, which leaves me with a sense of union and satisfaction. I would like to allow for the listener to take the lyrics in whatever way is relevant to them. I can say it’s my favourite song to play and one of my favourite songs that I’ve written. It means a lot to me.”
Ellie Wintour and Sophie Lincoln commented: “Our jumping off point for the video began with the lyrics ‘You want me to be gentle, fragile, you want me to stay young. I pray that I stay gentle, fragile, I pray that I stay.’ We developed Naima a character playing on femininity as facade, but also her sense of easygoing style. In using two-dimensional substitutes for three-dimensional objects – mixing worlds of the real and make-believe – we tried to play on the song’s themes of expectation, assigned roles, and conformity.”
Below a Massive Dark Land, the follow-up to 2022’s Giant Palm is set for release on September 27 via Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Naima Bock.
Efterklang Share New Single ‘To a New Day’
Efterklang have unveiled a new single, ‘To a New Day’, which will appear on their upcoming LP Things We Have in Common. It follows previous entries ‘Getting Reminders’ featuring Beirut’s Zach Condon, ‘Plant’ featuring Mabe Fratti, and ‘Animated Heart’. Take a listen below.
“Our first gathering creating Things We Have in Common took place in a studio situated deep in the forests of Sealand’s (Denmark) western region,” vocalist Casper Clausen explained in a statement. “We spent our days jamming on ideas and early song sketches, punctuated by long walks amidst the forest landscape. Each morning brought fresh inspiration, and ‘To a New Day’ emerged as one of these spontaneous creations. There was a pulsating energy to it, a sense of upward momentum that resonated with us. Most of the vocal melodies were crafted that particular morning, with the lyrics and structure evolving gradually.”
Clausen continued:
The song truly came into its own when we returned to Copenhagen recording with a wonderful lineup of musicians. Hector Tosta’s immediate response to the song was these beautiful decorative melodies and arrangements injected a new dimension into the track, reminiscent of orchestral Beach Boys albums. It was as if the song had been yearning for this warm, playful energy, a Venezuelan soul to breathe new life into it, unbeknownst to us.
While compling the final playlist for Things We Have in Common, this song kinda felt like a step away from the rest of the songs and therefore the perfect outlier to conclude the album. Many friends have remarked that ‘To a New Day’ embodies the quintessential Efterklang sound of the album, whatever that may entail.
Things We Have In Common arrives September 27 via City Slang.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Release New Song ‘Long Dark Night’
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have released a new song, ‘Long Dark Night’, lifted from their forthcoming album Wild God. It follows previous offerings ‘Frogs’ and the title track. Check it out below.
The new song draws inspiration from ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ by the Spanish 16th-century poet St. John of the Cross. “‘Long Dark Night’ is inspired by one of the greatest and most powerful poems of conversion ever written,” Cave explained in a statement. “Ultimately, though, it’s a beautiful country tune. It feels like a sweet companion to the song, ‘Wild God’.”
Wild God is set for release on August 30.
