“Clive James said, ‘Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing,’” Kaya Wilkins shared in a statement. She added: “Wrote this slacker disco song about wanting to be, if not a not a brightsider, then at least a belly laugher. Sometimes tricky to access just that bliss, but if you’re happy and you know it, check your face! It was fun and warming to make this track on the island during a frigid winter. It was a quiet time without much social stimuli. If you’re gonna dance alone in your basement, might as well make a song-to-dance match.”
Oh My God – that’s so me will be self-released on September 6.
John Davis, formerly of Superdrag and the Lees of Memory, has shared a new track called ‘Take My Brains Out’. It’s set to appear on his upcoming album JINX, which is out September 27, alongside the previously unveiled ‘The Future’. Check it out below.
“Tom (Pappas, from Superdrag) laughed out loud the first time he heard this chorus,” Davis said in a statement about the new song. “It sounds funny, but it strikes at something deeper. Sometimes your own mind can be your worst enemy; it can even try to destroy you! So I guess I was longing for a removable one. Also, the lead guitar always makes me laugh. I’ve read in several places that if something about a song makes you laugh, by all means leave it in.”
The Jesus Lizard have offered up a new single, ‘Moto(R)’, alongside an accompanying video. It’s taken from the band’s forthcoming album Rack, following previous cuts ‘Hide & Seek’ and ‘Alexis Feels Sick’. “It’s not Motörhead, and it’s not Radiohead either,” guitarist Duane Denison remarked. Check it out via the Jon Tucker-directed video below.
Rack, the Jesus Lizard’s first LP in 26 years, is set for release on September 13 through Ipecac.
Drug Church have released ‘Chow’, the latest offering from their forthcoming album PRUDE. It follows earlier cuts ‘Myopic’ and ‘Demolition Man’. Check it out below.
“It’s a love song that has nothing to do with being with the other person or even whether it is reciprocated,” Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote said of the new track. “We’re talking about the most simple version of it. Love is like a magic shelter that you can take everywhere with you.”
They added: “We started this adventure of directing all the music videos of this album with a bag full of imagination and dreams. the friends, the bikes, the dancing, a business that never existed, the body guards of beck, and ice-creams, hollywood, and surrealism and tiny houses. very slowly we wanted to guide you and place your attention in what we really do: music. For ‘The bed, the room, the rain and you,’ we wanted to finish the story with where everything started: recording the album.”
Pittsburgh-based artist Merce Lemon has unveiled the title track from her upcoming album Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild. Following last month’s ‘Backyard Lover’, the song also serves as the album’s closer. Give it a listen below.
“This song is really the first time I collaborated with someone from the early stages of writing, my friend Spencer Smith, who was playing keys in my band at the time, sent me a voice memo of a chord progression he had written,” Lemon explained. “I had been toying with an idea for a song based on a story my friend had told me about Michael Hurley, but I hadn’t found a home for the lyrics. This song came to life singing over Spencer’s piano on loop until the melody settled in.”
“‘Mutations’ deals with change brought about by circumstance,” Yanya explained in a press statement. “This is not the phoenix rising from the ashes but the subtle change that happens constantly as millions of tiny decisions and actions shape your being. It’s kind of like survival, for me. Less of a transformation and more something that’s born out of your environment and surroundings, that you need to do to survive. Mutation is just something you have to go through- you have to evolve.”
My Method Actor, the follow-up to 2022’s PAINLESS, arrives on September 13 via Ninja Tune.
Fievel Is Glauque have announced their sophomore LP, Rong Weicknes. The follow-up to 2022’s Flaming Swords is due out October 25 via Fat Possum. Lead single ‘As Above So Below’ is out today, and you check out its accompanying video below.
Discussing ‘As Above So Below’, the duo’s Zach Phillips said in a statement:
This phrase comes from the Emerald Tablet, a 9th century hermetic text foundational for alchemy and later occultist movements; it refers to the reciprocality between heaven and earth, the knowable and unknowable, the here and the hereafter. Sounds heady, right? But as usual, the title came out of nowhere, gleaned from phonetic murmurings during the writing process, and Ma and I laughed a lot making this one… Normally we write linearly, improvising bit by bit using only piano and voice, but we ended up constructing As Above out of scattered song sections we’d recorded with my laptop mic in free software over a loop from a ‘70s drum sampling record, which drummer Gaspard Sicx and percussionist Daniel Rossi reinterpreted in the studio. After writing upwards of 35 songs over the course of a couple 2023 writing trips, we were surprised to knock out probably our most conventional tune yet. The lyrics could be said to both troll and co-sign typical pop lyricism. Thom Gill’s blazing guitar solo gets me every time… When [music video director] Joey Agresta asked what I was imagining visually, all I could muster was, “the Sound of Music, Ma spinning in a field, ‘90s ‘positivity,’ Dido…
To make the new LP, Phillips and Brussels-based singer and performer Ma Clément enlisted Thom Gill on guitar, Logan Kane on bass, Daniel Rossi on percussion, André Sacalxot on saxophone and flute, Gaspard Sicx on drums, and Chris Weisman on guitar and electric sitar. The musicians convened at the Outlier Inn, a farm and music studio in upstate New York, to record the album with mixing and mastering engineer Steve Vealey.
Rong Weicknes Cover Artwork:
Rong Weicknes Tracklist:
1. Hover
2. As Above So Below
3. Would You Rather?
4. Love Weapon
5. Rong Weicknes
6. Toute Suite
7. It’s So Easy
8. I’m Scanning Things I Can’t See
9. Kayfabe
10. My Oubliette
11. Dark Dancing
12. Great Blues
13. Transparent
14. Eternal Irises
15. Haut Contre Bas
Fashion Club – the moniker of Los Angeles-based artist Pascal Stevenson – has announced her sophomore album, A Love You Cannot Shake. Out October 25 via Felte Records, the follow-up to 2022’s Scrutiny is led by the single ‘Forget’, which features Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“It’s trying to love a version of myself that I’ve spent so long trying to distance from,” Stevenson said of the new song in a statement. “But it’s also a recognition that if I drift too far away from the version of myself that I see as really flawed, I might forget the things about myself that I felt I needed to change.”
“By the time Scrutiny came out, I had transitioned, and I was making different music and caring about different things,” Stevenson explained. “I felt less held back by ‘Oh I’m this kind of person, I have to make this kind of music,’ and I reached a point where I was like, ‘Let me just try to write a bunch of songs on acoustic guitar and piano, where I think the songs are good and have a solid core and then start producing them and see what happens if I don’t put any limitations in place.’”
A Love You Cannot Shake includes the previously released single ‘Rotten Mind’, a collaboration with Julie Byrne. The LP also features a guest appearance from Jay Som on ‘Ghost’
A Love You Cannot Shake Cover Artwork:
A Love You Cannot Shake Tracklist:
1. Faith
2. Confusion
3. Forget [feat. Perfume Genius]
4. Ghost [feat. Jay Som]
5. Enough
6. One Day
7. Ice Age
8. Deny
9. Rotten Mind [feat. Julie Byrne]
10. Deify
Wild Pink have dropped a new song, ‘Sprinter Brain’, lifted from their forthcoming album Dulling the Horns. It arrives on the heels of lead single ‘The Fences of Stonehenge’. Check out a video for the track below.
“This song is kind of about learning how to deal with your problems and not catastrophizing,” leader John Ross shared in a statement about ‘Sprinter Brain’. “Just trying to be more realistic and objective when times get stressful. It’s one of the faster songs I’ve written in a while and really fun to play live.”
