Sleater-Kinney have released a new single, ‘Untidy Creature’, taken from their upcoming album Little Rope. Following previous cuts ‘Say It Like You Mean It’ and ‘Hell’, the track arrives with a music video directed by Nick Pollet and featuring Australian freediver Amber Bourke. Watch and listen below.
Little Rope is due for release on January 19 on Loma Vista.
Finnofuns Wake – the project led by Royal Headache’s Tim ‘Shogun’ Wall and Finn Berzin – have shared a new track, ‘So Nice’. It’s set to appear alongside ‘Lovers All’ and ‘Blue Skies’ on their upcoming debut EP, Stay Young, out January 26 via What’s Your Rupture? Take a listen below.
“‘So Nice’ is about a crazy night out where things get a bit topsy-turvy and people’s true colors are revealed,” Shogun said of the song in a press release.
SLIFT have released a video for their new single ‘Weavers’ Weft’, which is lifted from their forthcoming LP ILION. It arrives on the heels of previous singles ‘Ilion’ and ‘Nimh’. Check it out via the accompanying visual below.
“‘Weavers’ Weft’ is the song that opens the album’s second half,” the band shared in a statement. “There was a tipping point in the narrative at the end of the first half of the album. The second half of the record is no longer situated in the linear flow of time that serves as a backdrop for many stories. From ‘Weavers’ Weft’ onwards, time goes both into the past and into the future. The piece talks about weavers of the fabric of time, entities who continually create space-times, each containing its share of universes. Everything that exists is written there, and it is possible to travel between frames. Everything is cyclical and infinite. To illustrate this (or maybe it’s the other way around?), we wanted something monolithic and timeless. It is as if this song has been sung for millennia (time goes back to the past!). The heavier parts are inspired by bands like Part Chimp and Gnod.”
ILION, the French psychedelic rock outfit’s Sub Pop debut, is due out January 19.
Mary Timony has shared a new single, ‘The Guest’, which appears on Untame the Tiger, her first solo album in 15 years. Following lead cut ‘Dominoes’, the song features David Christian on drums, Brian Betancourt on bass, and Betsy Wright and Dennis Kane on backup vocals. The track comes with a video made by longtime collaborator Brett Vapnek and filmed around Santa Barbara. Check it out below.
“I was imagining loneliness as a house guest who keeps knocking on your door,” Timony said of ‘The Guest’ in a statement. “I thought it would be funny to say loneliness is the only one who always comes back.”
Of the accompanying visual, Timony added, “The first video Brett and I made together was in about 1995 for the Helium song ‘Honeycomb,’ and later she also did one for ‘Dr. Cat’ (on The Golden Dove). I also acted in a short movie she made called Dream Machine.”
Katy Kirby has released ‘Hand to Hand’, the latest offering from her forthcoming album Blue Raspberry. It follows previous entries ‘Cubic Zirconia’, ‘Table’, and ‘Party of the Century’. Check it out below.
“I wrote this at a moment I was witnessing the gory breakdown of several relationships/couples all at the same time,” Kirby explained in a statement. “I don’t really want to invoke the word ‘heteropessimism’ here, but I guess it’s about something like it, or just about commitment in general. It all seems like such an incredibly risky idea? I’m feeling less dark about it these days but I also fell in love with someone recently, so have tried to think about it less.”
Blue Raspberry comes out January 26 on ANTI-. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Kary Kirby.
Cambridge, UK band Grieving have announced their debut album, Everything Goes Right, All at Once. The 11-track LP is out March 15 on By The Time It Gets Dark, and its first single, ‘Tarpaulin’, is out today. According to bassist Jack Hurst, the track is about “personally approaching a sense of self-doubt, and accepting that certainty in life is rarely exactly that.” Listen to it below, and scroll down for the album’s cover art and tracklist.
Everything Goes Right, All at Once was recorded in part by Matty Moon (Lonely the Brave, Spielbergs) at Half Ton Studios and with Bob Cooper (The Orielles, Nai Harvest, Self Defense Family) at his Crooked Rain Studios in Leeds. It includes the previously released singles ‘Ownership’ and ‘My Friend, the Ghost’.
Everything Goes Right, All at Once Cover Artwork:
Everything Goes Right, All at Once Tracklist:
1. Brian Emo
2. 10 x Michelangelo
3. Pristine
4. My Friend, The Ghost
5. Tarpaulin
6. Wiseau
7. Start Young
8. Ownership
9. Puritans (The Weight)
10. The World Still Turns feat. Stephen Davidson
11. Old Wives
Colouring – the project of Nottingham-based songwriter Jack Kenworthy – has released ‘Love to You, Mate’, the title track off his upcoming album, alongside a video directed by Darshan Gajjar. Check it out below.
Kenworthy’s life was upended in February 2021, months before the release of his debut LP Wake, when his brother-in-law Greg Baker was diagnosed with stage four cancer. What followed was the most “unbelievable” year of family unity. “I’ve always been on the side of making up scenarios rather than being really honest about my life within my music,” Kenworthy said of the album. “This is the first time I’ve been able to do that. I’ve been less scared of it because it’s not my story. It’s a shared one.”
The new single, he added, is “the story of Christmas 2021 spent with my wife’s family in hospital together. My brother-in-law Greg became very ill and in hindsight, that period marked the beginning of the end. But through all the worry and uncertainty, we just laughed and cried together in the most incredible ways – it was so special; Greg and the whole family were just amazing. This is a message to all of them and the still-point of the record really.”
Love To You, Mate is slated for release February 23 via Bella Union.
Oslo trio Mall Girl have dropped new single called ‘Emo Shred’. It’s the final preview of their sophomore album Pure Love, the follow-up to 2022’s Superstar, which is out January 26 via Jansen Records. Check it out below.
“This was the first step into our new musical bubble, previously released as a demo,” vocalist Bethany Forseth-Reichberg said of ‘Emo Shred’ in a statement. “It has now metamorphosed into a real song, but is still a song about just driving around in a Chevrolet by the beach. Picture LA nights, sand between your toes and nothing on your mind, except that life feels pretty darn good.”
The Last Dinner Party have previewed their upcoming debut album Prelude to Ecstasy with a new single, ‘Caesar on a TV Screen’. The track arrives with a music video directed alongside Harv Frost, who also worked on the band’s ‘My Lady of Mercy’ video. Check it out below.
“Ecstasy is a pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion, from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain, and it is this concept which binds our album together,” the band said in a press release. “This is an archeology of ourselves; you can exhume our collective and individual experiences and influences from within its fabric. We exorcised guitars for their solos, laid bare confessions directly from diary pages, and summoned an orchestra to bring our vision to life.”
Prelude to Ecstasy arrives February 2 via Island Records.
Ducks Ltd. have shared a new single, ‘Train Full of Gasoline’, which is lifted from their upcoming sophomore album Harm’s Way. The song, which follows previous entries ‘Hollowed Out’ and ‘The Main Thing’, features backing vocals from Ratboys’ Julia Steiner and Moontype’s Margaret McCarthy, as well as Ratboys’ Marcus Nuccio on drums. Check it out below.
“The jumping off point for this song was a friend telling me about the Lac Megantic rail disaster in Quebec,” vocalist Tom McGreevy said in a statement. “A 73 car train full of crude oil was left unattended and rolled down a hill before derailing and exploding in a town. I read about it a bunch, and to my understanding it was a scenario where a bunch of small errors built up and compounded each other, with the result being a catastrophe out of proportion with any of the individual failures that precipitated it. The song is about self destructive patterns. How if you try to ignore or minimize issues in your life they can manifest in places you don’t expect.”
Harm’s Way, the follow-up to 2021’s Modern Fiction, lands on February 9 via Carpark. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Duckts Ltd.
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