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Charly Bliss Release New Single ‘Waiting for You’

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Charly Bliss Release New Single ‘Waiting for You’

Charly Bliss have dropped a new single, ‘Waiting for You’, from their forthcoming album Forever – out August 16 on Lucky Number. Following previous cuts ‘Calling You Out’ and ‘Nineteen’, the track comes paired with a video directed by frequent collaborator Henry Kaplan. Check it out below.

According to the band’s Eva Hendricks, ‘Waiting for You’ is “a love song for my bandmates. While I was separated from Sam, Spencer, & Dan during the pandemic, I remember watching videos of us playing shows and thinking ‘How could I have taken this for granted?’ I couldn’t see how beautiful everything really was and how lucky we were. It was agonizing to be apart for that long but helpful, because I don’t think I’ll ever let myself forget that again.”

Of the accompanying clip, Kaplan said: “The room is full of personal little Charly Bliss Easter eggs. Sam’s daughter’s first school photo, a t-shirt I made with my best friend Amanda at the mall when we were 8 years old, birthday cards, letters, and notes. It had to be personal to match how sentimental the lyrics are, and Henry and the whole team worked so hard to make that possible.”

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn Announce New Album, Release New Song ‘Breath Out’

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Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn Announce New Album, Release New Song ‘Breath Out’

Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer Zahn have announced their second collaborative album, Quiet in a World Full of Noise. The follow-up to 2022’s Pigments will be released on October 4 via Merge Records. Check out the lead single ‘Breath Out’ below, and scroll down for the album cover, tracklist, and the duo’s just-announced tour dates.

The making of the new LP began last year in upstate New York. “I wrote all these stream-of-consciousness pieces on piano, and they were eerie, spacious piano tracks,” Zahn said in a press release. A day after listening to Zahn’s piano recordings, Richard went into the studio to write and record melodies and lyrics. “I did not write this down—I purged it out, and then I didn’t change anything after it,” she explained. “Our family has a distorted view of therapy; I’ve had to do a lot of healing on my own.”

Quiet in a World Full of Nois features Bryan Senti on strings, CJ Camerieri on brass, and the 26-person Budapest Film Orchestra. “Right now, everyone’s a little bit overwhelmed,” Richard concluded. “I hope that this will be the record that people put on when they need the opportunity for reflection, when they need the stillness in their lives, now more than ever.”

Quiet in a World Full of Noise Cover Artwork:

Quiet in a World Full of Noise Tracklist:

1. Stains
2. Quiet in a World Full of Noise
3. Traditions
4. Diets
5. Stay
6. Life in Numbers
7. Moments for Stillness
8. The Dancer
9. Breath Out
10. To Remove
11. Ocean Past
12. Try

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn 2024 Tour Dates:

Sat Jul 27 – Carrboro, NC – Merge 35 Festival
Tue Oct 22 – Minneapolis, MN – Dakota
Wed Oct 23 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
Thu Oct 24 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
Sat Oct 26 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Andy Warhol Museum
Sun Oct 27 – Toronto, ON – Lula Lounge
Tue Oct 29 – Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
Wed Oct 30 – Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
Sat Nov 2 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
Sun Nov 3 – Boston, MA – Institute of Contemporary Art
Sat Nov 16 – London, UK – London Jazz Festival

Christian Lee Hutson Announces New Album, Shares New Single ‘After Hours’

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Christian Lee Hutson Announces New Album, Shares New Single ‘After Hours’

Christian Lee Hutson has announced a new album, Paradise Pop. 10, which is set for release on September 27 via ANTI- Records. The follow-up to 2022’s Quitters was co-produced by frequent collaborators Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore, and Joseph Lorge. It also includes guest vocals from Bridgers, as well as Katy Kirby and Maya Hawke. The first single, ‘After Hours’, which features synths from Shahzad Ismaily, comes with a video directed by Meg Ha. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.

“I wanted to make an eyes up record,” Hutson, who moved from Los Angeles to New York, said in a statement. “A looking forward record.” He added:

Sometimes when you live somewhere for a really long time, the place starts to feel like a memory graveyard. Every corner becomes kind of haunted in a way, kind of dragging you out of the present. That’s what LA became like for me. Spending so much time revisiting all these emotional landmarks ended up giving me the feeling that I was missing my life. Like it was passing me while I was looking the other way…. It felt really connected to the city. I would spend half my life in the car, just completely on autopilot, re-living my life, from the beginning, on repeat every day.

Paradise Pop. 10 takes its name from a real location deep in the woods of Parke County, Indiana, near where Hutson spent part of his childhood. Just past the population sign, a row of 5 houses sit on one side of the road and a cemetery on the other.

“When I was a kid, my dad used to take me up there, mostly because of the novelty of the town limits sign, but also because it was so quiet and peaceful,” Hutson explained. “For years, he would say that if life ever got too crazy, we could go up there and start living our real lives; be the people we were always meant to be.”

He continued: “It occurred to me while making this record, that most of our lives we spend waiting to ‘be the people we were always meant to be.’ I wanted to name this record after that town because it always symbolized an arrival to me. It was the ‘when’ that I looked forward to as a child. ‘When’ it all made sense and I was finally who I was meant to be.”

Paradise Pop. 10 Cover Artwork:

Paradise Pop. 10 Tracklist:

1. Tiger
2. Carousel Horses
3. Autopilot
4. Water Ballet
5. Candyland
6. Flamingos
7. Fan Fiction
8. After Hours
9. Forever Immortalized
10. Skeleton Crew
11. Beauty School

W. H. Lung Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song ‘How to Walk’

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W. H. Lung Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song ‘How to Walk’

W. H. Lung have announced a new album called Every Inch of Earth Pulsates. The follow-up to 2021’s Vanities is set for release on October 18 through Melodic. Check out the new single ‘How to Walk’ below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.

The new LP finds the Mancunian synthpop outfit working with Ross Orton (MIA, Arctic Monkeys, Working Men’s Club). “Ross is the Sheffield Steve Albini,” singer Joseph Evans said in a press release. “He’s the king of not overthinking it and trusting the process of the art of recording songs. He was always there to stop us fucking around with cerebral stuff and get it down.”

Guitarist Tom Sharkett added: “He was the exact producer we needed without us even realising. His productions and mixes are bombastic, lively and in your face. He brought a real dose of magic to the songs we’d written.”

Read our Artist Spotlight interview with W. H. Lung.

Every Inch of Earth Pulsates Cover Artwork:

 

Every Inch of Earth Pulsates Tracklist:

1. Lilac Sky
2. Bliss Bliss
3. Thinner Wine
4. Bloom and Fade
5. How to Walk
6. Flowers in the Rain
7. I Can’t Lie
8. The Painting of the Bay
9. I Will Set Fire to the House

MOULD Announce Debut EP, Share New Single ‘Glow’

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MOULD Announce Debut EP, Share New Single ‘Glow’

MOULD – the Bristol trio composed of vocalist/guitarist Joe Sherrin, vocalist/bassist Kane Eagle, and drummer James Luxton – have announced their self-titled debut EP. It comes out August 2 via Nice Swan Records, and the single ‘Glow’, which was produced by Harri Chambers, is out now. Check it out below.

“‘Glow’ is taken from a short story about a writer who sits under an autumnal sky and uses the weather’s imagery to write poetically,” the band explained in a statement. “The autumnal weather is sick of people doing this, becomes enraged and attacks the writer.”

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Announce New Album ‘Flight b74’, Share New Single

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Announce New Album ‘Flight b74’, Share New Single

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced their 26th album: Flight b741 drops on August 9. It’s the first release on their own (p)doom records imprint, and today, they’ve shared the lead single ‘Le Risque’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist.

‘Flight b74’ arrives with an accompanying from director Guy Tyzack, who commented: “We were super lucky to have been granted access to this amazing air hanger. The song was chosen because most of the Gizz guys had a singing part and I was excited for the mic to be passed around at a fun, never stopping pace. The day was super packed tight for what we wanted to get and we didn’t want to cut corners. Our crew was tight and the Gizz guys know how to put on a show. We were so tight for time that I didn’t pee all day.”

Speaking about the album, the band’s Stu Mackenzie said, “We wanted to make something that was primal, instinctual, more ‘from the gut’, just people in a room, doing what feels right. We wanted to make something fun.”

“This is our most collaborative record – the collaboration was occurring in the room, it was free, and everyone was bringing in songs and ideas,” Mackenzie added. “And we wanted to have as many lead vocalists as we could, and to pass the mic, like, ‘This is my part, my idea, I’m gonna sing it and then I’m gonna pass the mic along to you and you can do your thing’. The whole record is built around that. We ended up doing a lot of backing vocals and extra recording, everyone in a room around a couple of microphones, just to give it that feel.”

He continued: “We had broad themes for every song, and for the bigger picture of the album as a whole, but once the mic was passed it was all up to the person who was singing. These songs weren’t written in isolation – someone would write their verse, sing it for the demo, and that would inspire the next person’s part. So we were riffing off each other. Lyrically, it’s all pretty introspective – we’re having a lot of fun, but we’re often singing about some pretty heavy shit, and probably hitting on some deeper, more universal themes than usual. It’s not a sci-fi record, it’s about life and stuff.”

Flight b741 Cover Artwork:

Flight b741 Tracklist:

1. Mirage City
2. Antarctica
3. Raw Feel
4. Field Of Vision
5. Hog Calling Contest
6. Le Risque
7. Flight b741
8. Sad Pilot
9. Rats In The Sky
10. Daily Blues

Floating Points Announces New Album ‘Cascade’, Shares New Single ‘Key103’

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Floating Points Announces New Album ‘Cascade’, Shares New Single ‘Key103’

Floating Points has announced a new album: Cascade will be out September 13 via Ninja Tune. It includes the previously shared tracks ‘Birth4000’ and ‘Del Oro’, and today’s announcement comes with the release of a new single, ‘Key103’. The track is named after “an underground Manchester radio station I’d listen to religiously,” Sam Shepherd explained. Its accompanying video sees the producer continuing his collaboration with Tokyo-based artist Akiko Nakayama, who also created the album artwork. Check it out below.

Cascade follows Mere Mortals, Shepherd’s first ballet score made in collaboration with the San Francisco Ballet, as well as Promises, his 2021 collaborative album with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra. “I’m just constantly chasing challenges,” he remarked. “I always want to keep things moving and go all in on things that excite me. Whether that’s working with a 100-piece orchestra on a ballet or on a laptop on my own.”

Cascade Cover Artwork:

Cascade Tracklist:

1. Vocoder (Club Mix)
2. Key103
3. Birth4000
4. Del Oro
5. Fast Forward
6. Ocotillo
7. Afflecks Palace
8. Tilt Shift
9. Ablaze

Body Meat Unveils New Single ‘Electrische’

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Body Meat Unveils New Single ‘Electrische’

Body Meat – the musical project of Chris Taylor – has shared another track from his forthcoming debut album Starchris, which is out August 23 on Partisan Records. This one’s called ‘Electrische’, and it follows previous singles ‘North Side’, ‘High Beams’, and ‘Focus’. Check it out below.

According to a press release, Taylor wrote ‘Electrische’ as a late-night exercise in free writing and overthinking, which he likened to “driving a fast car through the hills of Switzerland at night where you can the lights of a club faintly off in the distance.”

Jon Hopkins Shares New Single ‘RITUAL (palace)’

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Jon Hopkins Shares New Single ‘RITUAL (palace)’

Jon Hopkins has unveiled ‘RITUAL (palace)’, the second preview of his upcoming record. Described as “a window into the glowing melodic core of the album,” it follows the previously released ‘RITUAL (evocation)’. Check it out below.

“In 2022, I was commissioned to compose for a project called Dreamachine – a beautiful immersive experience created by a team of artists, scientists, and philosophers, which was experienced by tens of thousands of people throughout 2022 and beyond as it continues to tour,” Hpkins explained in a statement. “‘RITUAL (palace)’ is an evolution of the music I composed for that project. I am so grateful to all those involved.”

Jennifer Crook, Artistic Director of Dreamachine, added: “Dreamachine is a multidisciplinary collaboration that engages audiences in a powerful new kind of collective experience. Jon’s original composition for Dreamachine provides the essential heartbeat to this cerebral journey, designed to build inner connection. RITUAL’s evolution of his composition builds beautifully on this unique collaboration, bringing this extraordinary music to an even wider audience.”

RITUAL is slated to arrive on August 30 via Domino.

Finding High-Quality Cheap or Free Games on Different Platforms

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Finding High-Quality Cheap or Free Games on Different Platforms

Gaming is one of the most welcoming hobbies on the planet. No matter your age or where you’re from, hundreds of titles exist to perfectly suit your tastes. The downside is that gaming can also be expensive, where even the base device can be a significant investment. Looking at the different major gaming platforms, we’ll explore the options you can use to save your wallet and get more for less.

Starting with Mobiles

Yes, we do consider mobiles strong gaming platforms. They’re also some of the easiest places to find free games, requiring little more than a search on the Apple or Google Play stores. You can even just run a quick search for the best free games on Android to get you started.

Mobiles could also be the right home for casino game fans, these games are also perfectly well-suited to desktops and laptops. In this case, look for regional services with features like NJ casino promotions to open the doors. These provide bonuses like free spins and deposit matches that can be used in games like slots, table games, and live casino titles. If your goal is more iGaming for less, it’s hard to beat this approach.

On the Consoles

Gaming on consoles is our next step, and there are a lot of free and cheap options available here too. Firstly, free games can be searched directly from the PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch online storefronts. These will tend to be multiplatform F2P games like Apex Legends, Fall Guys, and Warframe.

For not-free but still cheap options, the best choice often comes from each console’s respective subscription service. These will cost somewhere around £10-£15 a month on the cheap end, but each can feature a special selection of AAA games available for play. These titles are rotated usually monthly, so be sure to check what’s available regularly.

For PC

The big boy of gaming choice, and where the most free and cheap options can be found. Aside from the free multiplatform games you’ll see on consoles, PC users can also expect an enormous range of new and old exclusive titles up for grabs. Storefronts like Steam can help a lot here, but for a chance at completely free AAA options, we especially recommend the Epic Games Store. This store often features completely free mainstream expensive games to draw users to their platform, so you should watch it carefully.

PC players also have options in thousands of older titles that are on sale for just a few pounds, or which have been abandoned completely. If a game is no longer available for sale, it’s fair game for a legal download, just be sure you’re careful about which site you download it from.

Once you’re over the initial cost hurdle of getting into gaming, the cost of thousands of hours of entertainment can be ridiculously low. Every genre imaginable has options, it’s just a matter of looking around. Just remember your ergonomics and your back and hands will thank you for it.

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