London duo O. have previewed their debut LP WeirdOs with a new single, ‘Micro’. It follows the previously unveiled tracks ‘Green Shirt’ and ‘176’. Check out director Wendy Vision‘s video for it below.
WeirdOs will be released on June 21 via Speedy Wunderground.
Hagop Tchaparian has shared a new single called ‘Treacle’. It marks the British-Armenian producer’s first new music since his 2022 debut album Bolts. Out now via Four Tet’s Text Records label, the track is “heavily inspired by watching Four Tet play at Warung club in Brazil,” according to Tchaparian. Give it a listen below.
Martha Skye Murphy has announced her debut album, Um, which is set for release on June 14 via AD 93. To mark the news, Murphy has shared the new single ‘Pick Yourself Up’, which follows the Roy Montgomery-featuring ‘Need’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“I wanted the album to feel like this constant tension between being in a very intimate domestic space, and then propelled into a far stranger environment that is difficult to situate,” Murphy explained in a statement. “I want people to feel disoriented, erotically charged by the intimacy of a bedroom, then catapulted into a desert.”
“It’s taking a lot of the tenets of what I’ve been interested in before to another level,” Murphy added. “Having the scope of an album has meant I can push it all further, the wanting to take the listener on a journey, push endurance levels, and toy with the tensions between fictional and factual spaces.”
Murphy co-produced Um with Ethan P. Flynn; the record was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry. In addition to Roy Montgomery, it also features contributions from claire rousay, Dan English, Gentle Stranger, caroline’s Alex McKenzie, and Squid’s Laurie Nankivell.
Um Cover Artwork:
Um Tracklist:
1. First Day
2. Need [feat. Roy Montgomery]
3. Pick Yourself Up
4. Theme Parks
5. Spray Can
6. Call Me Back
7. Kind
8. The Words
9. Dust Yourself Off
10. IRL
11. Forgive [feat. claire rousay]
Finom have shared the latest preview of their upcoming LP Not God, which is out May 24 via Joyful Noise. Following previous cuts ‘Haircut’ and ‘As You Are’, ‘Cyclops’ arrives with a music video directed by Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa “Missy” Dabice. Check it out below.
“Your band is your own personal Odyssey,” Finom explained in a statement. “You have to want to go on it, you have to fight for it, you have to live for it. I think this song is reacting to some of the subtle undercurrents and mental demons we’ve had to fight off when it comes to persisting as a band. But also, really thinking about battling a cyclops and all of the injury you endure to make it through to the other side.”
Good Looks have dropped a video for ‘Can You See Me Tonight’, the new single from their upcoming album Lived Here for a While. It follows previous offerings ‘If It’s Gone’ and ‘Self-destructor’. Check out the Riley Engemoen-directed clip below.
‘Can You See Me Tonight’ is about “the connection to why I write songs and perform them, and how it affects my other relationships, turning darkness to light in the process,” according to frontman Tyler Jordan.
The accompanying video features local Austin celebrity Dr. Dan and his wife Dori. “My friend Liz and I met Dan & Doris at the Broken Spoke and have since been creating a documentary on them called ‘Forcefield of Love’,” Engemoen explained. “Dr. Dan is known as ‘Austin’s coolest marriage and family therapist.’ Him and Doris are enamored with one another, always color-coordinated in a honeymoon state. They spend most evenings dancing through Austin’s honky tonks and jazz clubs – blissfully and unabashedly forming a quantum energy field of Love – hypnotizing all of those in their orbit.”
John Cale has released a new single, ‘Shark-Shark’, taken from his forthcoming LP POPtical Illusion. Following lead track ‘How We See the Light’, the track arrives with a music video from director Abigail Portner. Check it out below.
“Sometimes, you write a song purely for a mood,” Cale said in a press release. “‘Shark-Shark’ has two versions — both a nod to finding humor in music. When youʼre feeling too much of the real world, the best diversion is something that puts a grin on your face. I donʼt know how Abby and team kept this shoot together; being ‘unserious’ was a lot of fun!”
POPtical Illusion will be released on June 14 via Domino.
Efterklang have announced their new album, Things We Have In Common, which arrives September 27 via City Slang. The LP completes the trilogy that began with 2019’s Altid Sammen and continued with 2021’s Windflowers. It includes the previously unveiled song ‘Getting Reminders’, as well as a new single, ‘Plant’, which features Guatemalan composer Mabe Fratti on cello and vocals. Check out its accompanying video, directed by Søren Lynggaard and Niels Buhl Henriksen, and scroll down for the album’s cover and tracklist below.
According to vocalist Casper Clausen, ‘Plant’ is “a song dedicated to the act of reaching out, beyond ourselves, daring to go beyond our inner world and share ourselves with others, putting our vulnerability on display, like a plant reaching for the light. This is one of the first songs we wrote for the new album, and it’s been a long journey, starting from a sketch by our longtime friend, collaborator, and co-founder of Efterklang, pianist Rune Mølgaard.”
Fratti added that recording the song “was extremely joyful as I remember witnessing the song developing when I went with Efterklang to Sommertræf two years ago. It’s a breeze, this song. I felt that Casper’s tone and mine are super friendly with each other!”
Pianist and composer Rune Mølgaard formed Efterklang, who left the band after their 2007 sophomore LP Parades, co-wrote seven of the nine songs on the record. During his absence, Rune fell in love with a woman who had grown up in the Mormon Church and embraced the religion himself; in 2022, he cut ties with the Mormon Church.
“Towards the end of the album process we talked about belonging, in relation to Rune’s journey — how he no longer found that feeling in the church,” Rasmus Stolberg explained. “We talked about how Casper’s sense of belonging is tied to something nomadic, and about how Mads and I associate this with our families.”
“It became a completely therapeutic process for me,” Mølgaard reflected. “When we write music together, it happens from a genuinely curious place, in a shared experience of the moment.”
In addition to Fratti, Things We Have In Common includes contributions from Finnish drummer Tatu Rönkkö and Venezuelan guitarist Hector Tosta, while the South Denmark Girls’ Choir sing on ‘Animated Heart’ and ‘To a New Day’.
Things We Have In Common Cover Artwork:
Things We Have In Common Tracklist:
1. Balancing Stones
2. Plant
3. Getting Reminders
4. Ambulance
5. Leave It All Behind
6. Animated Heart
7. Shelf Break
8. Sentiment
9. To A New Day
Lush frontwoman Miki Berenyi has released the debut single from her new group, the Miki Berenyi Trio, which features her Piroshka collaborators Kevin ‘Moose’ McKillop on guitar and Oliver Cherer on bass. ‘Vertigo’ arrives with a video directed by Sébastien Faits-Divers and filmed in the Consortium Museum in Dijon. Check it out below.
“‘Vertigo’ is about anxiety and the efforts to talk myself down from the precipice – the usual cheerful stuff,” Berenyi explained in a statement. She added, “It’s a challenge to not have a drummer, and to use more programming, but the essence of the music is still guitars and melody – as it always has been, particularly in mine and Moose’s bands.”
Miki Berenyi Trio 2024 Tour Dates:
May 29 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre**
May 31 – Mcgill, NV – Schellraiser Campground
Jun 1 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall**
Jun 3 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Mission Theater**
Jun 4 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s**
Jun 6 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater**
Jun 7 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge**
Jun 8 – New York, NY – Webster Hall**
Jun 9 – Margate, UK – Where Else
Aug 10 – Brighton, UK – At The Edge of The Sea Festival
Aug 31 – Ipswich, UK – St Stephens Church
Aug 4 – London, UK – The Lexington
Aug 5 – Southampton, UK – Heartbreakers
Aug 7 – Birmingham, UK – The Hare & Hounds
Aug 8 – Horwich, UK – Risers Fest
Aug 20 – Saint Leonards-on-sea, UK – The Piper
Aug 19 – Halifax, UK – Town Festival
**with Lol Tolhurst & Budgie
As album titles go, Future Nostalgia served to encapsulate the particular aesthetic Dua Lipa was aiming for, one encompassing “a future of infinite possibilities while tapping into the sound and mood of some older music.” The philosophy of Radical Optimism, on the other hand, is broader and distinctly less musical. “Radical optimism in the way that I see it is this idea of rolling with the punches,” the pop star told Zane Lowe, which, okay? Lipa might be a canny enough pop star to poke fun at this concept in her Saturday Night Live monologue, but the majority of the album is humourless and entirely sincere, positioning itself as another pop-album-as-therapy-session instead of a dance album capable of moving the needle the way Future Nostagia did. Since its release, it’s become clear that timing was instrumental in the ubiquity of that album during the COVID lockdowns and beyond, and by the time of her Barbie soundtrack hit ‘Dance the Night’, Dua Lipa was ready to put an end to her retro disco phase.
Instead of Jamiroquai, Blondie, and Prince, she’s cited the likes of Massive Attack, Britpop, and psychedelia as inspirations for her new album. That’s more specific than talking about “the idea of going through chaos gracefully and feeling like you can weather any storm,” but it gives less of an actual, well, idea of what Lipa was seeking out of Radical Optimism. If you have spent time with any part of the album – even just the promotional singles – you’ll know those reference points hardly track, and Lipa sounds way more eager to move into a new era in her promotional zone than she does in her actual music. Which is fine – part of what made the dance music of Future Nostalgia so infectious was its effortlessness, and such a radical musical shift would sound forced. Rather than bringing in producers such as Danny L Harle and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker to materialize those influences, she uses them to add some exciting new sparkle and detail to songs still rooted in dancefloor escapism. The problem is that they just don’t have the same staying power.
A pop song lives and dies on its central conceit, which can be totally absurd – there’s a reason Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ is destined to be the song of the summer, despite the fact that disco revivalism seems to be wearing thin. Radical Optimism should have been packed with song of the summer contenders, and ‘Houdini’ is a perfect one: “Catch me or I go Houdini” is succinct, tongue-in-cheek, and memorable (if not quite as confounding as “That’s that me espresso”) and its escapist theme reverberates through the whole tune. But so much around it pales in comparison, even when relaying sentiments she’s excelled in previously: ‘Illusion’ has none of the alluring vigor of ‘Hallucinate’, and ‘Whatcha Doing’ is a telling case of Lipa singing about “heading for collision” while sounding perfectly poised. There’s no tension on an album so polished and overcooked. Another track centers on the line “If these walls could talk, they’d tell us to break up,” which even the lovers in question might scoff at if one were to utter the words out loud. But ‘These Walls’ plays it totally earnest, and the wistfulness comes off totally awkward.
There’s nothing wrong with a radically optimistic pop album with mass appeal. But these songs, all about various stages of a romantic relationship, are frustratingly polite and dull, not to mention corny and perplexing. ‘These Walls’ is a hypothetical when it sounds like it should be a plea, while ‘Falling Forever’ makes romantic euphoria sound like an uphill battle, as if oddly responding to the “heading for collision” cue instead of “just keep getting better.” Elsewhere, oddness works to the album’s benefit, like when it gestures toward flamenco on ‘Maria’ and ‘French Exit’, the album’s best non-singles. ‘Maria’ finds Lipa addressing a lover’s ex with a sense of curiosity that’s layered and intriguing, even while sticking to Lipa’s habit of not divulging too much. But when she sings about an ex’s new relationship on the closer ‘Happy for You’, she once again plays it entirely straight, even with lines like “Together you look hot as hell,” and it just falls flat. It doesn’t take long to get the idea of Radical Optimism; too often, though, the emotion falls by the wayside.
Taking any therapy without knowing its research history won’t be a good idea. Red light therapy today has captured the eyes of many people worldwide. The skyrocketing demands are creating more craze among people.
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Without further ado, let’s dive into the blog!
Numbers of research on Red Light TherapyTens of research and studies have been conducted, and so far, red light therapy has been promising. Whether it be aiding with hair growth, skin and wound healing, dealing with wrinkles or fine lines, or even helping with depression, red light therapy has it all covered.
However, there are many other claims, like the therapy dealing with cancer and several other conditions, but to justify this, more solid evidence is required. This is why scientists are still in the research process to figure out the answers. |
In this section, I’ve listed some solid research facts and findings on red light therapy. So, make sure to read on till the end of the section.
Here’s how red light therapy evolved:
According to many different research and studies, red light therapy has been shown to bring in tens of benefits with skin repair. And especially the handheld red light therapy devices from PlatinumLED have proved to work like magic.
RLT has been quite promising with the treatments, whether acne breakouts or scars. That’s not all; further research even concluded that RLT could improve collagen production. So you can see your skin heal naturally without adverse effects.
There have been claims that red light therapy can even take on diabetic ulcers, which itself is astounding! However, researchers state that to get the best results, you need to be active with the therapy sessions, and it may even take several multiple sessions.
Therefore, to strongly confirm this claim, scientists are still continuously researching and trying to figure out the truth.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could reverse the younger state of your skin? Definitely yes! Research shows that red light therapies have anti-aging properties, which help reduce any signs of wrinkles and fine lines.
Further research states that RLT stimulates fibroblast production, which allows your body to generate more collagen. This way, your skin gets better strength and structure, and you see a youthful appearance.
Scientists even say that when you have more collagen, your skin’s elasticity restores and your fine lines disappear like magic. Red light therapy can even help you have a more lifted face; however, it must be regularly massaged.
Red light therapy can be highly beneficial if you let it get exposed to your hair. Continuous exposure to this therapy can help you have a proper hairline and improve hair growth.
So, according to scientists, if you use the proper red light therapy with the correct settings, you can quickly achieve your ideal hair length.
Now, one of the reasons RLT can help you get your hair fixed is because it can aid with blood circulation. Therefore, more blood gets circulated to your scalp, which helps more nutrition to reach the scalp, and your hair gets hydrated.
This increase in blood flow also helps you get more volume in your hair, making it dense and strong.
Red light therapy devices help a lot when it comes to dealing with your pain. And according to scientists, it’s one of the most recommended therapy sessions where you can get immense relief without worrying about side effects.
Plus, when you use it regularly, you tend to get better and faster results. However, taking these therapy sessions at a fixed time of the day brings more benefits to the table.
Further research even states that red light therapy can cover your back with its anti-inflammatory properties. This helps improve your movement ability and releases most of the pain.
So, red light therapy can be a great pick if you’re an athlete or someone with pain in the knees, bones, or any part of the body.
Research doesn’t end here! Dentists even figured out that RLT can also deal with jaw pains, which is why these therapy devices are present in dental clinics.
If you don’t know, red light therapy can also help you with your mental health! When you’re deprived of sunlight, it can decrease your overall mental condition.
RLT can aid you with certain conditions because this therapy can mimic the sunlight, crucial in elevating your mood. So, when your mood is elevated, it’s evident that you’ll have better mental health.
Researchers even claimed that you get an enhancement of mood due to the melatonin released to your brain for RLT. ‘Now, what about depression? Can RLT also solve that?
You bet it can! Studies confirmed that RLT can help you with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), which is effective in treating depression.
That’s not all; migraine and fatigue can also be quickly dealt with red light therapy. Although red light therapies don’t require any prescriptions, we’ll always recommend that you consult your healthcare provider before taking this as your ultimate treatment option.
Dementia is one of the leading neurodegenerative disorders that affects many people worldwide. According to many recent studies and research, red light therapy has proven to have in magical impact on the condition.
Not only dementia, red light therapy has also shown promise in conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s condition, and many other neurodegenerative conditions.
However, more research is being conducted to ensure these conditions can be looked through with red light therapy.
Without question, red light therapy brings in tens of benefits. Red light therapy can deal with acne breakouts, wrinkle and skin elasticity problems, aging issues, and even neurological conditions.
Many users even claim to get many other benefits through red light therapy:
Now, these are just some of the benefits many users have claimed to get through consistent use of the red light therapy sessions.
However, there are certain drawbacks to red light therapy. Here are some of them:
These are a few possible drawbacks you may face with red light therapy. But, if you know the insights and follow the instructions of the manual and your healthcare specialist, this therapy will go smoothly.
Yes, red light therapy is quite effective when it comes to the stimulation and production of collagen. When your body gets exposed to red light, it elevates the flow of blood, which plays a vital role in the stimulation of collagen.
Red light is famous for its ability to reduce wrinkles and fine lines. However, to get the best results, you need to be consistent and regular with each therapy session.
No, NASA didn’t develop the red light therapy. However, they do play a huge role in the research and development of this therapy.
No, there still hasn’t been any solid evidence that red light therapy comes with any form of cancer. However, further studies are in process to determine if there’s any link between red light therapy and cancer.
After going through this blog, you should now understand the latest research on red light therapy. Red light therapy and its devices are evolving and bringing in more and more benefits to people.
Although certain research studies might not be solid, most of the studies are. The significant evidence of this device’s effectiveness is the users’ opinion. And so far people have been getting positive results.
So, we believe the therapy comes with promise, and with stronger future research, the therapy will have better and more effective treatment results.
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