Jessica Boudreaux – formerly of Summer Cannibals – has announced a new album called The Faster I Run. It’s set to arrive on July 19 via Pet Club. Lead single ‘Back Then’ arrives with a music video directed by Karlee Boon, which you can check out below.
Boudreaux recorded and produced The Faster I Run at her own Pet Club Studio. “I know a lot more about myself now than I did when I was with Summer Cannibals and it was exciting to write because I suddenly have access to all these different parts of myself that I didn’t before,” she explained. “Every song was a necessary part of healing, it’s genuinely the most that I have leaned on music to work through things. The whole record reflects on my past through an entirely new lens.”
The Faster I Run Cover Artwork:
The Faster I Run Tracklist:
1. Back Then
2. Be Somebody Else
3. Doctor
4. Exactly Where You Wanna Be
5. Main Character
6. Suffering
7. Put Me On
8. Sweetest Fruit
9. Cut and Run
10. Smoke Weed
11. Something In My Gut
12. You’ll Say It Was Fun
Colin Stetson has announced a new album, The love it took to leave you, which will be out September 13 on Envision Records. It marks the saxophonist and composer’s first solo recording since 2017. Listen to the record’s title track below.
“The first and titular song on my latest record, performed on solo alto saxophone, ‘The love it took to leave you’ is a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain,” Stetson explained in a statement.
The love it took to leave you was recorded over a week in early 2023 at Montreal’s The Darling Foundry, a 144-year-old former metalworks facility. Stetson commented, “We were using the same live setup as I normally would to amplify—a full PA in the building’s spaces—so we were really able to move the kind of air that I can move—really saturating the room, hitting the walls hard. And then we further fleshed it out.”
“The essence of it is me,” he added. “It’s the most personal thing that I do — and can do. There’s an evolution of my body and technical capabilities that keeps on, so every time I make another record, there are things that I could only have played now.”
The love it took to leave you Cover Artwork:
The love it took to leave you Tracklist:
1. The Love It Took To Leave You
2. The Six
3. The Augur
4. Hollowing
5. To Think We Knew From Fear
6. Malediction
7. Green And Grey And Fading Light
8. Strike Your Forge And Grin
9. Ember
10. So Say The Soaring Bullbats
11. Bloodrest
“The opening line of this song stuck to me like gum for about eight months – ‘I’m your roommate, I’m here for you,'” Michael Doherty explained in a statement. “I started living with Nick and our new drummer Noah, who’s also our engineer Scoops’ brother. It was a vulnerable time for everyone for many different reasons, and I just kept singing that line to myself. That winter was also when I’d been watching a lot of Sesame Street, which began to influence a lot of the music I was writing. I finally decided to commit to this line and what came out reminds me a lot of a ballad you might hear on the show, something like Ernie’s “I Don’t Want To Live On the Moon.”, We played characters like the ones you’d see on the show as we recorded the background vocals, it’s some of the most fun we had in the studio. It was some real world building.”
Copenhagen artist Fine has shared a new single, ‘Coasting’, taken from her upcoming debut LP Rocky Top Ballads. It follows last month’s ‘Days Incomplete’. Give it a listen below.
“I approach sounds thinking that everything has potential, ‘Coasting’ was created in one big flow with recordings coming from many different places and time, all forced together,” Fine shared in a statement.
Rocky Top Ballads is set to arrive on June 7 via Escho.
Winter has dropped a new song from her upcoming EP …and she’s still listening. ‘shaniatwainlovestory’ follows lead single ‘Sallow’. “I watched Shania Twain’s documentary and felt enraged by how her husband left her for one of her best friends,” Winter explained in a press release. Listen below.
…and she’s still listening, which follows Winter’s 2022 LP What Kind of Blue Are You?, is out on May 24. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Winter.
Belong – the duo of Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich – have announced their third album and first in 13 years. The Common Era follow-up is called Realistic IX, and it’s set for release on August 9 via Kranky. Today, the band has shared two songs from it, ‘Souvenir’ and ‘Image of Love’. Take a listen below.
Realistic IX Cover Artwork:
Realistic IX Tracklist:
1. Realistic (I’m Still Waiting)
2. Difficult Boy
3. Crucial Years
4. Souvenir
5. Image Of Love
6. Bleach
7. Jealousy
8. AM / PM
Tindersticks have announced their latest album, Soft Tissue, which comes out September 13 via City Slang. It’s led by the single ‘New World’. Check it out and find the album’s cover art and tracklist below.
The music video for ‘New World’, as well as the album cover, were made by bandleader Stuart Staples’ daughter Sidonie Osborne Staples. “Sid was making these tiny ceramic characters, so I asked her to make some of the band,” he explained. “Later I wrote this song ‘New World’ about somehow trying make sense of this strange world I felt developing around me and these little guys came back into my mind — Let’s take them on a stop motion journey across a strange land, from the barren rocks to the bountiful fruit that is not familiar and maybe poisonous. Sid put the landscapes together and moved the figures, millimeters at a time. Neil Fraser took the photographs, we edited as we went along.”
Discussing the album, Staples added:
‘Baby I was falling, but the shit that I was falling through. Thought it was just the world rising.’ These are the opening lines of the album, it seems all the songs on ‘Soft Tissue’ inhabit this confusion somehow – despairing at the destruction, suspecting you are responsible.
Musically, it seemed that since 2016’s ‘The Waiting Room’, the band’s output had been reactionary. The last two tindersticks have been so opposed to each other – 2019’s ‘No Treasure But Hope’ was an extremely naturalistic recording process – due in part as a reaction to the previous few years of experimental projects (High Life, Minute Bodies) and in turn as a reaction to this purity 2021’s ‘Distractions’ became one of the bands most dense, experimental albums.
It felt like time to stop lurching to these extremes and to find a way to marry the rigor of the songwriting and the joy of the band playing together with a more hard-nosed experimental approach.
Soft Tissue Cover Artwork:
Soft Tissue Tracklist:
1. New World
2. Don’t Walk, Run
3. Nancy
4. Falling, The Light
5. Always a Stranger
6. The Secret of Breathing
7. Turned My Back
8. Soon to be April
Cassandra Jenkins has released ‘Delphinium Blue’, the second preview of her forthcoming LP My Light, My Destroyer. Following lead single ‘Only One’, it comes with a music video directed by Jenkins herself. Check it out below, and scroll down for the singer-songwriter’s upcoming tour dates.
Speaking about the new song, Jenkins said: “Sometimes when I don’t know where to turn, I look for something reliably beautiful. Applying for a job at my local flower shop felt like survival instinct kicking in, and that job got me through one of the bluest periods in my life– being surrounded by flowers didn’t just make the weight easier to bear– it helped me understand it and myself better. I began to dream in technicolor; flowers became the language of my subconscious. At times I felt like I was surrounded by a Greek Chorus while I went about my menial tasks– they took on an all knowing quality, like they held the keys if I was willing to listen, like they were porters of my grief, and delicate portals to awareness.”
“The lyrics of ‘Delphinium Blue’ had a solitary residence in the back of my mind for years, and the recording process was very collaborative,” Jenkins continued. “The song felt like a crustacean crawling around the ocean floor, trying on different shells, until it finally found a home when I called Isaac (Eiger, of Strange Ranger). We got together at his home studio & worked together to shape its form, before I sent it to Andrew Lappin and he agreed to sneak it onto the album as the paint was starting to dry. It felt like just the right outlier, so we worked in Andrew’s LA studio to bring it into the world of the album with players like Spencer Zahn on fretless bass, Kosta Galanopolos for some of the more bombastic percussion, and Michael Coleman on synths. It’s my melancholy bi-coastal bop.”
Jun 6 – Toronto, ON – Luminato Festival
Jul 11 – Brooklyn, NY – Public Records (sold out)
Sep 19 – Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village
Sep 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Sep 22 – Boston, MA – Sinclair
Sep 27 – Montreal, QC – Pop Montreal
Oct 9 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
Oct 11 – Portland, OR – The Old Church
Oct 13 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
Oct 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
Oct 30 – Brooklyn , NY – MHOW
Nov 9 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Main Hall
Nov 11 Copenhagen, DK – Lille Vega
Nov 12 – Hamburg, DE – Nachtasyl
Nov 13 – Berlin, DE – Silent Green
Nov 15 – Paris, FR – Le Hasard Ludique
Nov 16 – Brussels, BE Grand Salon
Nov 18 – Manchester, UK – YES Pink Room
Nov 20 – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
Nov 21 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Community Room
Nov 22 – Glasgow, UK Stereo
Nov 24 – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade
Nov 25 – Brighton, UK – Komedia Main
Nov 26 – London, UK – Earth Theatre
Porches, the project led by Aaron Maine, has announced a new album called Shirt. The follow-up to 2021’s All Day Gentle Hold ! lands on September 13 via Domino. It includes the previously shared track ‘Rag’, as well a new single, ‘Joker’, which is out today alongside a music video directed by Nick Harwood. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album artwork, tracklist, and Porches’ upcoming tour dates.
Shirt Cover Artwork:
Shirt Tracklist:
1. Return Of The Goat
2. Sally
3. Bread Believer
4. Precious
5. Rag
6. School
7. Itch
8. Joker
9. Crying At The End
10. Voices In My Head
11. USA
12. Music
Porches 2024 Tour Dates:
Sep 18 Munich, Germany – Kranhalle
Sep 19 Berlin, Germany – Frannz Club
Sep 20 Hamburg, Germany – Reeperbahn Festival
Sep 21 Hamburg, Germany – Reeperbahn Festival
Sep 22 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Bitterzoet
Sep 23 Brussels, Belgium – Le Botanique
Sep 24 Paris, France – Point Éphémère
Sep 26 Brighton, England – Chalk
Sep 27 Bristol, England – Thekla
Sep 28 Manchester, England – Band on the Wall
Sep 30 Glasgow, Scotland – Stereo
Oct 1 Birmingham, England – Mama Roux’s
Oct 2 London, England – Heaven
Oct 15 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
Oct 16 Washington, D.C. – The Atlantis
Oct 17 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
Oct 18 Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
Oct 19 Atlanta, GA – Hell at the Masquerade
Oct 21 Nashville, TN – Exit/In
Oct 22 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Oct 24 Saint Paul, MN – Amsterdam
Oct 25 Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
Oct 26 Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge
Oct 28 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
Oct 29 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
Oct 31 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
Nov 1 Vancouver, British Columbia – Hollywood Theatre
Nov 2 Seattle, WA – Barboza
Nov 6 San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365
Nov 7 Los Angeles, VA – Fonda Theatre
Nov 9 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
Nov 12 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
Nov 13 Austin, TX – Antone’s
Nov 15 Birmingham, AL – Workplay Theatre
Nov 16 Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi
Nov 20 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Strand of Oaks has released ‘Future Temple’, the latest offering from his forthcoming album Miracle Focus. It follows previous entries ‘Party at Monster Lake’ and ‘More You’. Check it out via the accompanying video below.
