Yaeji has returned with a new single, ‘booboo’, her first single of 2024. The NYC-via-Seoul singer-producer debuted the track during her Boiler Room set at Brooklyn Mirage. Check it out below.
Speaking about the track, Yaeji said: “i think with anything — a little breathing room, a little break — distance makes the heart grow fonder. with the overpowering attention that came from ‘raingurl’, i took a break from clubbing, dance music, and the underground scene, but in that time away from it all, it’s allowed me to gain new perspective and a deeper appreciation for it. this year is the 10-year mark for many of the parties my friends and i used to go to, so ‘booboo’ coming out now feels like full circle moment. and with my closest friends — who i’ve witnessed grow as DJs and start their own labels, throwing parties & having fun, all while creating a radical and safe space, it’s been so fun being their cheerleader and now rejoining them in the club, front right!”
Yaeji’s debut LP, With a Hammer, came out last year.
fantasy of a broken heart have released a new single called ‘Follow Your Captain’. Check it out below.
Discussing the song, the duo’s Bailey Wollowitz shared:
‘Follow Your Captain’ was recorded in 12 hours in Al’s bedroom earlier this summer and mixed the next day. The essence of the song has existed for as long as the rest of the tunes on the record, yet we never attempted to finish it until long after the album was completed. I had always wanted to release an extra last minute song, perhaps in goofy admiration of pop stars who have the resources to redo all their mixes the night before the album comes out. Or “it’s the same and there’s three more” style.
And yet, we stumbled across this song, which while existing somewhat in the pop stratosphere had always felt too dark and personal to release. Captain is about our youth together, our time spent in the woods and tunneling underground, and a human’s ability to recklessly let themselves be controlled by another. A lot of the sound design was inspired by Smash Bros. It’s the quickest we’ve ever completed a recording from start to finish, and I think the anxiety of doing so is palpable.
fantasy of a broken heart are releasing their debut LP, Feats of Engineering, on September 27 via Dots Per Inch. ‘Follow Your Captain’ doesn’t appear on the LP, but the New York experimental group have already previewed it with the songs ‘AFV’, ‘Ur Heart Stops’, and ‘Loss’.
Danish-Chilean artist Molina has announced her debut album, When You Wake Up. It’s set to arrive on October 11 via Escho. Today’s announcement comes with the release of ‘Organs’, a new collaboration with fellow Copenhagen singer-songwriter ML Buch. Check it out below.
“‘Organs’ is very much a fusion of our individual approaches to perceiving melodies, recordings, and sound in general,” Molina explained in a statement. “We are both fascinated by the “pulse” in music and how a song can be perceived to move at different paces. We also share a mutual attraction to catchy melodies. ML tends to unfold words with the melody in an elastic manner, while I prefer more on-the-note vocals that introduce unexpected harmonic shifts. “Organs” kind of holds all those elements of fascination and exploration together.”
“It’s a record where I focused on the accidental and immediate,” Molina said of When You Wake Up, allowing these qualities to “become the center of the songs.”
When You Wake Up Cover Artwork:
When You Wake Up Tracklist:
1. Navel
2. Scorpio
3. I Am Your House
4. The Road From Here
5. A New Day [feat. GB]
6. Homesick
7. Flowers
8. Neverland
9. The Valleys Of Tomé
10. Organs [feat. ML Buch]
Foxing have dropped a new single, ‘Hell99’, from their upcoming self-titled album. It follows lead offering ‘Greyhound’. Check it out below.
“Hell 99 is about burnout and fatigue,” guitarist Eric Hudson, who takes on lead vocals on ‘Hell99, said of the track. “It is meant to capture frustration and mania with repeating cultural trends, the way a cat video and a horrifying news story can be viewed in successive moments, and the mental fatigue and shame that you are left with in taking it all in.”
Magdalena Bay have served up another track from their upcoming album, Imaginal Disk, ahead of its release this Friday (August 23). It’s called ‘That’s My Floor’, and it follows earlier cuts ‘Tunnel Vision’, ‘Image’, and ‘Death & Romance’. Check it out via the accompanying video, directed by Amanda Kramer, below.
The adversity of life is desire never fulfilled. Doing the dishes cleaning, but never the one eating the meal, so close but it’s never enough, and trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth despite it being robbed away, so choosing ignorance, choosing to be dumb and choosing love, despite everything, choosing bad decisions for love, for life, because it is short, or is it long? Surrendering to joy, surrendering to being a vision, in your own power, because making decisions based on emotion rather than logic is liberating, and despite the external inferno, you walk away unscathed, through flames, burnt but only superficially, unstopped, unaffected, unhuman. Life is work, life is not free, we can never work enough because the end goal doesn’t exist, so all we can do is choose to be wrong.
The follow-up to 2021’s Comfort to Me was recorded with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles in early 2024. “Cartoon Darkness is about climate crisis, war, AI, tiptoeing on the eggshells of politics, and people feeling like they’re helping by having a voice online when we’re all just feeding the data beast of Big Tech, our modern-day god,” Taylor explained. “It’s about the fact that our generation is spoon-fed information. We look like adults, but we’re children forever cocooned in a shell. We’re all passively gulping up distractions that don’t even cause pleasure, sensation or joy, they just cause numbness.”
She continued: “Cartoon Darkness is driving headfirst into the unknown, into this looming sketch of the future that feels terrible but doesn’t even exist yet. A childlike darkness. I don’t want to meet the devil half-way and mourn what we have right now. The future is cartoon, the prescription is dark, but it’s novelty. It’s just a joke. It’s fun.”
Cartoon Darkness Cover Artwork:
Cartoon Darkness Tracklist:
1. Jerkin’
2. Chewing Gum
3. Tiny Bikini
4. Big Dreams
5. It’s Mine
6. Motorbike Song
7. Doing In Me Head
8. Pigs
9. Bailing On Me
10. U Should Not Be Doing That
11. Do It Do It
12. Going Somewhere
13. Me And The Girls
Tindersticks have released ‘Always A Stranger’, a new single from their forthcoming album Soft Tissue. The track arrives with a music video directed by frontman Stuart Staples and shot by guitarist Neil Fraser. Watch and listen below.
“Some of the songs I write, I understand their reference points,” Staples reflected in a statement. “For ‘New World’ and ‘Don’t Walk, Run,’ I probably understood their reference points. But some songs I don’t understand where they come from at all – They just kind of happen. ‘Always a Stranger’ is one of those songs, it holds a kind of mystery to me at the very centre of it.”
Soft Tissue is set for release on September 13 via City Slang. It’s already been previewed by the tracks ‘Nancy’ and ‘New World’.
Ahead of the release of their first album in 24 years, The Bed I Made this Friday (August 23), the Softies have unveiled one more single, ‘Go Back in Time’. It follows the previously shared tracks ‘California Highway 99’, ‘I Said What I Said’, and ‘Tiny Flame’. Give it a listen below.
Speaking about the track, the duo said: “’Go Back in Time’ started as a song about a missing a faraway loved one but then also became a song about missing former versions of ourselves, longing for the familiarity of a time that is long gone.”
julie have dropped a new single, ‘very little effort’. It’s taken from their upcoming debut album my anti-aircraft friend, which was led by the single’ ‘clairbourne practice’. Check it out via the accompanying visual, directed by the band and Lizzie Klien, below.
my anti-aircraft friend comes out September 13 on Atlantic Records.
duendita has announced a new EP, the mind is a miracle, which will be out September 27. It includes the recently released single ‘planetary’, and today the New York City artist has followed it up with ‘born with power’. Check out Ammer Kazmi‘s video for the track and find the EP’s cover art and tracklist below.
“‘born with power’ was once just an a capella voice note,” duendita explained in a statement. “The melody and lyrics popped into my head within seconds while on tour in Europe. Months later, Noah [Becker] and I were on the road again, this time in the US. Working in headphones in the living room of our AirBnB while our friends watched Squid Game, we made ‘born with power.’ We performed it on stage for the first time days later. Live performance is at the center of our creative process, and we let those early performances of the song inform this final version. When we got back to New York, pianist Paul Wilson blessed the track, which was endlessly fun for me to edit. The entire process from voice note to final export was extremely collaborative, and that’s what makes this song so special.”
the mind is a miracle Cover Artwork:
the mind is a miracle Tracklist:
1. multi
2. soupie
3. alright!
4. feel
5. gummy
6. fts
7. planetary
8. born with power
