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Military Genius Announces New Album, Unveils New Song ‘Darkest Hour’

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Military Genius Announces New Album, Unveils New Song ‘Darkest Hour’

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 Release New Song ‘Teach Me to Be Bad’

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Sunflower Bean Release New Song ‘Teach Me to Be Bad’

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 and Empress Of Team Up for New Version of ‘Galina’

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Allie X and Empress Of Team Up for New Version of ‘Galina’

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.

Empress of released her most recent album, For Your Consideration, back in March. Read our interview with Allie X about the inspirations behind Girl With No Face.

little bit Unveils New Single ‘on the mend’

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little bit Unveils New Single ‘on the mend’

little bit has released a new single, ‘on the mend’, off her forthcoming debut EP talk a blue streak – out September 20 via Hit the North Records. It follows earlier cuts ‘out to dry’, ‘lying to you’, and ‘lead you on’. Check it out below.

“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 Announces Debut Solo Album, Releases New Single ‘Crystal Breath’

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Kim Deal Announces Debut Solo Album, Releases New Single ‘Crystal Breath’

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

Kate Bollinger Shares New Songs ‘Lonely’ and ‘Sweet Devil’

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Kate Bollinger Shares New Songs ‘Lonely’ and ‘Sweet Devil’

Kate Bollinger has unveiled two more songs from her upcoming debut record Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind. Listen to ‘Lonely’ and ‘Sweet Devil’ below.

“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.”

Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind drops on September 27 via Ghostly International. So far, it’s been previewed by the tracks ‘To Your Own Devices’, ‘Any Day Now’, and ‘What’s This About (La La La La)’.

Kim Gordon and model home Collaborate on New Song ‘razzamatazz’

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Kim Gordon and model home Collaborate on New Song ‘razzamatazz’

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 Announces New Album ‘Honey’, Shares New Single ‘Come Find Me’

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Caribou Announces New Album ‘Honey’, Shares New Single ‘Come Find Me’

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 Announce New Album ‘Cutouts’, Share New Songs ‘Foreign Spies’ and ‘Zero Sum’

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The Smile Announce New Album ‘Cutouts’, Share New Songs ‘Foreign Spies’ and ‘Zero Sum’

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.

Cutouts Cover Artwork:

Katrina Ford Unveils New Single ‘Dundalk Dungeon’

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Katrina Ford Unveils New Single ‘Dundalk Dungeon’

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.”

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