Pillow Queens have offered another preview of their new album Name Your Sorrow – out April 19 – with ‘Like a Lesson’. The track follows earlier cuts ‘Gone’ and ‘Suffer’. Listen to it below.
“The notion of finding safety and comfort in the presence of love of limerence is emphasized, contrasting with the paralyzing fear of making mistakes or ruining your life or someone else’s,” the band said in a statement about the new song. “It delves into the feeling of being a lesson for someone, a side character in someone else’s story.”
“Sonically, we were influenced by a range of artists from Blur and REM to Seminsonic, New Radicals, and Squeeze,” they continued. “It began as a song we felt had a strong country music influence and morphed into something that referenced a wide range of our musical tastes. It’s the 90s soft rock song on the album.”
Full of Hell have announced a new LP, Coagulated Bliss, which will arrive on April 26 via Closed Casket Activities. To mark the news, they’ve shared the lead single ‘Doors to Mental Agony’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Coagulated Bliss was written and recorded shortly after the completion of Full of Hell’s collaborative LP with Nothing, When No Birds Sang. “That was a good experience of learning how to find what actually services a song,” the band’s guitarist Spencer Hazard Hazard reflected. “Even with Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home, even when we’ve had an extreme grindcore influence, I still wanted it to be catchy.” Singer Dylan Walker also cites the band’s work with the Body for helping him to “recognize that there was value in pop music.”
“I wanted to try to take every aspect of what we’ve done from previous releases and integrate it into this one,” Hazard added.
Elaborating on the album’s title, Walker said: “Your happiness is just out of reach and you don’t know why. Too much of this bliss, you think you’ve found your endpoint, but it’s really just this small, tiny, little thing that’s going to ruin your fucking life. And that could be anything.”
Coagulated Bliss Cover Artwork:
Coagulated Bliss Tracklist:
1. Half Life of Changelings
2. Doors to Mental Agony
3. Transmuting Chemical Burns
4. Fractures Bonds to Mecca
5. Coagulated Bliss
6. Bleeding Horizon
7. Vomiting Glass
8. Schizoid Rupture
9. Vacuous Dose
Gasping Dust
Gelding of Men
Malformed Ligature
Babehoven have released a new single, ‘Lightness Is Loud’, lifted from their forthcoming LP Water’s Here in You. It follows previous offerings ‘Birdseye’ and ‘Chariot’. Check it out below.
“We exist in a vacuum of sound, trying to hear each other, wishing to open up, seeing the abundance of light surrounding us, approximately 200 billion trillion stars and yet we falter, we harden in our shells,” the band’s Maya Bon said of the new song in a statement. “With the ‘coral snake curl[ing] inside you,’ I intend to evoke an image of protection. The ‘soft wool’ is the innate warmth and safety one can find within connection. The ‘rough blue’ is the scratchiness of the wool that can cause us to seek refuge away from one another. And the ‘pearl inside you’ is indicative of the belief that we all contain beauty, worthiness, a special gem within us.”
Justice have shared ‘Incognito’, the latest offering from their upcoming album Hyperdrama. Out April 2, the record was announced in January with the Tame Impala collab ‘One Night/All Night’ and ‘Generator’. Listen to the new track below.
“Like many songs on this record, it switches from all electronic to all human music abruptly, multiple times within its four-minute run,” the duo said of ‘Incognito’ in a statement. “The structure is dictated by what feels good at the moment it happens, without necessarily following any other rule. We had to unlearn everything we thought we knew about song structures, and music in general, when we started working on Hyperdrama, which was very refreshing.”
Austin band Good Looks have announced a new LP, Lived Here for a While. The follow-up to 2022’s Bummer Year was recorded at Texas’ Dandy Sounds with producer Dan Duszynski (of Loma and Cross Record). It’s out June 7 via Keeled Scales, and lead single ‘If It’s Gone’ is out today. Check it out below.
“I went through a breakup on day one of the pandemic,” frontman Tyler Jordan explained in a statement. “‘If It’s Gone’ kind of opened up the floodgates, and a lot of the other songs on this record were written afterward, so it feels really fitting that this is the first song on the record. I’m kinda hoping I don’t have to write any more break up songs, and if this is the last one I ever write, I’d be ok with it. I feel really proud of this one.”
Lived Here for a While Cover Artwork:
Lived Here for a While Tracklist:
1. If It’s Gone
2. Can You See Me Tonight?
3. Broken Body
4. Day of Judgment
5. Desert
6. Self-destructor
7. Vaughn
8. White Out
9. Vultures
10. Why Don’t You Believe Me?
Camera Obscura have shared a new single from their comeback album, Look to the East, Look to the West, which arrives May 3 via Merge. It’s called ‘We’re Going to Make It in a Man’s World’, and it follows lead cut ‘Big Love’. Check it out below.
Frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell co-wrote ‘We’re Going to Make It in a Man’s World’ with keyboardist Donna Maciocia, originally for filmmaker Margaret Salmon’s 2021 film Icarus(After Amelia).“This is a co-write with Donna, one of the first of many songs we have since written together,” Campbell said in a press release. “It is a bit tongue-in-cheek with a message at its core. As middle-aged women in the music industry, are we relevant? Who is interested in us? Where’s our place in an industry where women are so underrepresented?”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have announced their eighteenth studio album: Wild God will arrive on August 30. The follow-up to 2019’s Ghosteen was produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, with mixing by David Fridmann. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the record’s title track. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Cave began writing Wild God on New Year’s Day 2023. Sessions took place at Miraval Studios in Provence, France and Soundtree Studios in London, England, with additional performances from Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood (who joined the Bad Seeds’ touring band in 2023) and Luis Almau on guitar.
“I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me,” Cave said in a statement. “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”
He added: “Wild God…there’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.”
Nick Cave recently shared a cover of Édith Piaf’s ‘La Vie En Rose’ for The New Look soundtrack. Cave and Warren Ellis, who last released Carnage in 2021, are also set to score the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black.
Wild God Cover Artwork:
Wild God Tracklist:
1. Song of the Lake
2. Wild God
3. Frogs
4. Joy
5. Final Rescue Attempt
6. Conversion
7. Cinnamon Horses
8. Long Dark Night
9. O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
10. As the Waters Cover the Sea
Blunt Chunks has unveiled a new song, ‘High Hopes’, which is lifted from her forthcoming album The Butterfly Myth. Following lead cut ‘Psyche’s Flight’, the track is featured on tomorrow’s new episode of Law & Order Toronto. Take a listen below.
“I first wrote ‘High Hopes’ in 2018,” Caitlin Woelfle-O’Brien explained in a statement. “I just sort of left it as an unfinished idea and over the years I would come back to it, finesse the chorus, and sing it to myself as my little anthem. When we started working on the record I really wanted to include it but I was struggling to figure out the structure, so Dave and I called upon Maddee Ritter for help, and we figured it out one night. Then Diego added some jazzy Rhodes and the song really took a new shape.”
She continued: “The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory, just about an anxious feeling I had when the person I was falling in love with was pulling away, and honestly how angry I was that they had lead me to believe they wanted more than they actually did! I was inspired by the alt-songwriters of the 90’s like Sheryl Crow and Aimee Mann and wanted to make a heartache anthemic sort of tune.”
Iron & Wine has collaborated with Fiona Apple on ‘All in Good Time’, which will appear on his upcoming album Light Verse. “Her voice is a miracle that sounds like both a sacrifice and a weapon at the same time,” Sam Beam said in a press release. Listen to it below.
Light Verse, Iron & Wine’s first proper album in seven years, comes out April 26 on Sub Pop. It includes the previously released single ‘You Never Know’.
Kamasi Washington has announced a new album titled Fearless Movement, which is out May 3 via Young. Following 2018’s Heaven and Earth, the 12-track LP features guest appearances from André 3000, Thundercat, George Clinton, Terrace Martin, BJ The Chicago Kid, and more. The first single, ‘Prologue’, arrives today with a music video directed by AG Rojas and choreographed by Samantha Blake Goodman. Watch and listen below.
In a press release, Washington described Fearless Movement as his dance album. “It’s not literal,” he explained. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music – expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.”
The album finds Washington shifting his focus away from cosmic ideas and toward the everyday. “Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” he said. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality – realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.”
Fearless Movement Cover Artwork:
Fearless Movement Tracklist:
1. Lesanu
2. Asha The First [feat. Thundercat, Taj Austin, Ras Austin]
3. Computer Love [feat. Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat, Brandon Coleman]
4. The Visionary [feat. Terrace Martin]
5. Get Lit [feat. George Clinton, D Smoke]
6. Dream State [feat. André 3000]
7. Together [feat. BJ the Chicago Kid]
8. The Garden Path
9. Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance)
10. Road to Self (KO)
11. Lines in the Sand
12. Prologue
Kamasi Washington 2024 Tour Dates:
May 4 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
May 5 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
May 7 – Toronto, QC – History
May 8 – Cincinnati, OH – Ludlow Garage
May 9 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
May 10 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
May 11 – St. Paul, MN – Fitzgerald Theater
May 12 – Omaha, NB – Slowdown
May 14 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston
May 15 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Dallas
May 16 – San Antonio, TX – Empire Theater
May 17 – Austin, TX – Empire Garage
May 30 – Vancouver, BC – The Vogue Theatre
May 31 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
Jun 1 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre
Jun 2 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
Jun 5 – Sacramento, CA – Crest Theatre
Jun 6 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre
Jun 7 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield
Jun 8 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
Jun 9 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up
Jun 11 – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center
Jun 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl Jazz Fest
Jul 31 – Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere
