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English Teacher’s ‘This Could Be Texas’ Wins 2024 Mercury Prize

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English Teacher’s ‘This Could Be Texas’ Wins 2024 Mercury Prize

Leeds-based quartet English Teacher have won the Mercury Prize for their debut LP, This Could Be Texas. Presented by BBC radio presenters Huw Stephens and Annie Mac, this year’s live event was broadcast from Abbey Road studios.

The judging panel said: “This has been a really tough year for the Mercury Prize judges, with the final 12 albums being so reflective of our diverse & rich musical landscape. There was so much passion and enthusiasm for each one.

“In the end, though, we did agree that ‘This Could Be Texas’ by English Teacher stands out for its originality & character,” they added. “A winning lyrical mix of surrealism and social observation, alongside a subtle way of wearing its musical innovations lightly, displays a fresh approach to the traditional guitar band format. ‘This Could Be Texas’ reveals new depths on every listen; the mark of a future classic.”

Last year, the Mercury Prize went to Ezra Collective for their album Where I’m Meant to Be.

Slowdive Share ‘kisses’ Remixes by Grouper and Daniel Avery

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Slowdive Share ‘kisses’ Remixes by Grouper and Daniel Avery

Slowdive have shared two new versions of ‘kisses’, the lead single off last year’s everything is alive. Listen to UK producer Daniel Avery’s remix and Grouper’s reinterpretation of the track below.

“Making music was only an idea in my head when I first fell in love with Slowdive,” Liz Harris aka Grouper said in a statement. “What a strange dream all these years later to work with them. This track was such a lush pop hit to start, I just tried to boost and smear those gauzy highs and fields of dreamy texture, and Rachel’s ethereal vocals. Added a touch of tape, Wurlitzer, and space echo too. It was a pleasure to work on.”

They Are Gutting a Body of Water Remix Winter’s ‘shaniatwainlovestory’

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They Are Gutting a Body of Water Remix Winter’s ‘shaniatwainlovestory’

Winter has unveiled a remix of her song ‘shaniatwainlovestory’ by Philadelphia shoegazers They Are Gutting a Body of Water. Listen to it below.

“It was truly one of the coolest and most inspiring experiences to witness Doug remixing ‘shaniatwainlovestory’ on the spot at the Julia Recs warehouse space in Philly,” Samira Winter shared in a statement. “There was this boundless electricity and creativity in his process as he experimented with beats and processing sounds that lead to even creating new words. It’s a track that to me already crosses interesting sonic boundaries and now this new version takes it further to a new artistic place.”

‘shaniatwainlovestory’ is taken from Winter’s latest EP …and she’s still listening. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Winter. 

Charly Bliss Share New Video for ‘I’m Not Dead’

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Charly Bliss Share New Video for ‘I’m Not Dead’

Charly Bliss have shared a new video for ‘I’m Not Dead’ a highlight from their new album FOREVER. The band’s own Dan Shure directed the clip, which you can watch below.

“I wrote this song at the start of covid when I thought I was going to die and I was sad that I hadn’t partied more, if this was truly the end,” Eva Hendricks explained.

Shure added: “We thought this song needed a music video. Eva and I have both become huge fans of Murder She Wrote, so this was the perfect chance to make a fun, creative lyric video. We shot this on an iPhone literally one day after we wrapped the Back There Now video (which was also my birthday). We started writing the song over zoom, alongside K.Flay. Over a year later, as the song went through a few different versions, we finally ended up with this soaring fuzzy power pop hit.”

Read about how The Summer I Turned Pretty, Lexapro, friendship, and more inspired FOREVER in our interview with Charly Bliss.

Vera Sola Announces New EP ‘Ghostmaker’, Shares New Single

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Vera Sola Announces New EP ‘Ghostmaker’, Shares New Single

Vera Sola has announced a new EP, Ghostmaker, which comes out November 15 via City Slang. It features reworked “(or re-remembered)” tracks from the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter’s latest album Peacemaker, with guest appearances from Marisa Nadler and another The Milk Carton Kids. Check out the new single ‘The Ghostmaster’s Daughter’ below.

Vera Sola shared the following statement about the new track:

This is a song that originally was set to be on my most recent album, Peacemaker, but didn’t fit sonically or thematically. Since the record release, however, it’s become a favorite to play. I’ve also received countless requests for where to find it. Here is the answer. I re-recorded it following the first leg of the tour, and offer it up as just my voice and guitar, as close to what you’d hear from me on stage as possible.

In brief it’s a love story staged across lifetimes—which at its core touches upon the possibility of transformation and transcendence. The end of a romance doesn’t have to mean the end of love. All that ends offers a chance at a beginning. Along with it is to come a handful of reimagined tracks from the full Peacemaker LP. Reimagined might not be the right word. Remembered is more like it; as I wanted to present what these songs were like when I wrote them initially.

Ghostmaker Cover Artwork:

Ghostmaker Tracklist:

1.⁠ ⁠The Ghostmaster’s Daughter
2.⁠ ⁠⁠The Line (Redux) [feat. Marissa Nadler]
3.⁠ ⁠⁠Hands (Redux)
4.⁠ ⁠⁠Get Wise (Redux)
5.⁠ ⁠⁠Waiting (For You) [feat. The Milk Carton Kids]

Cornelia Murr Unveils New Single ‘How Do You Get By’

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Cornelia Murr Unveils New Single ‘How Do You Get By’

Cornelia Murr has returned with a new single, ‘How Do You Get By’. Out now via the singer-songwriter’s new label 22TWENTY, the track comes paired with a video shot by Melanie Drew Chambers and starring Jack Henry Robbins. Check it out below.

“On the one hand, it is playfully provoking a conversation about money, how we make it and deal with it (in these hard economic times, with certain new particular challenges for musicians),” Murr said of the song in a statement. “It’s bringing innocence to the understandable curiosity about how other people and other artists make it all work, which we’re conditioned to think is rude to wonder about. But more so it’s loosely examining different forms of currency and what we choose to give value. Be it money, creative expression, spirituality, love… what keeps us going, what sustains us. Often people who have one of these want the other.”

Murr released the EP Corridor in November 2022. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Cornelia Murr.

BENEE Shares Video for New Single ‘Sad Boiii’

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BENEE Shares Video for New Single ‘Sad Boiii’

BENEE is back with a new single called ‘Sad Boiii’. The song arrives with an accompanying video directed by Nikki Milan Houston. Check it out below.

“I tried to write a summery and happy tune with a dark meaning,” BENEE said in a press release. “I’d go to local festivals as a kid, and I wanted to capture the vibe of the outdoor setting. A lot of New Zealand music has a reggae energy, which is very nostalgic for me. Lyrically, ‘Sad Boiii’ is about being in a relationship where you’re pissed off with the other person because he has a façade going on. Even though he pretends to be tough, he’s just another damaged boy who needs help. Maybe you came from that in a past relationship and thought this guy was more stable, but he ends up being a depressed dude too. I fall for so many of those men, and it’s draining. They don’t want to get therapy; they just want to stay with you. Don’t be fooled by the bad boy image!”

BENEE is currently on tour with Wallows and will join Olivia Rodrigo on the Australian leg of her GUTS Tour this October. Earlier this year, she was credited as a co-writer on NewJeans’ ‘How Sweet’.

Machine Girl Drop New Song ‘Motherfather’

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Machine Girl Drop New Song ‘Motherfather’

Machine Girl have put out a new song from their first album in five years, MG Ultra. This one’s called ‘Motherfather’, and it follows lead single ‘Until I Die’. Check out its John Lee-directed video below.

“Motherfather is a smash of all things intended to work well but only make a mess by mere existence – technology, love, marriage, creation,” Lee said in a statement.

Machine Girl added: “Disclaimer: All of the AI effects in the video were self-generated using original footage and 3D models that were recorded/made specifically for this video, giving it that uncanny nightmare fuel effect.. I was personally assured by the director John Lee (PFFR founder, co-creator of Wonder Showzen and Xavier Renegade Angel) that his sentiments on generative AI are the same as mine (that it sucks and is deeply unethical). Enjoy <3”

MG Ultra comes out October 18 via Future Classic.

Yasmin Williams Unveils New Single ‘Hummingbird’

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Yasmin Williams Unveils New Single ‘Hummingbird’

Yasmin Williams has shared a new track, ‘Hummingbird’, taken from her upcoming album Acadia. Featuring Tatiana Hargreaves on fiddle and Allison de Groot on banjo, the song arrives on the heels of lead single ‘Virga’. Listen to it below.

“Being thrust into the folk genre has granted me several invitations to play at various folk and bluegrass festivals,” Williams explained. “This style of music is not one that I grew up with and is still relatively new to me; however, I can’t help but be somewhat influenced by the amazing musicianship of all the bluegrass, folk, and old-time musicians I’ve seen in the last few years. Although this wasn’t on my mind consciously when I wrote this tune, I assume these influences entered my subconscious.”

Acadia arrives October 4 on Nonesuch.

Ada Lea Announces ‘notes’ EP, Shares New Song ‘come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera’

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Ada Lea Announces ‘notes’ EP, Shares New Song ‘come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera’

Alexandra Levy, aka Ada Lea, has announced a new EP titled notes. Following 2021’s one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, the six-track effort arrives October 4 via Saddle Creek. The new single ‘come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera’ was co-produced by Phoebe Bridgers collaborator Marshall Vore. Check it out below.

“I wrote this song while on a very challenging tour that took everything out of me,” Levy explained in a statement. “Over the years, I’ve developed a suspicion that your skin must be made of macho steel to ‘make it’ in the industry — you’ve gotta be able to suck it up, put a nice smile on your face, and do a little dance with a twinkle in your eye. The chorus runs with that belief, in a cheeky, noncommittal and playful way.”

Read our track-by-track interview with Ada Lea breaking down one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden.

notes EP Cover Artwork:

notes EP Tracklist:

1. i95
2. come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera
3. make me a promise
4. serait-il…?
5. hometown
6. heard you

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