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Wild Pink’s John Ross and Laura Wolf Launch New Project Lilts, Share Song

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Wild Pink’s John Ross and Laura Wolf Launch New Project Lilts, Share Song

Lilts is the new collaboration between Wild Pink’s John Ross and Laura Wolf, who have today shared their debut single, ‘Dodge Street’. It’s set to appear on an upcoming EP called Waiting Around, which is out October 13 via Better Company Records. Listen below.

“‘Dodge Street’ was written as a game of telephone,” Wolf explained in a statement. “John sent me a voice memo called ‘Dodge Street’ after the name of the street where he happened to be parked. I chopped up the recording of his guitar strumming, reimagined the chord progression and sent him back a song structure with a vocal melody. He interpreted my demo with added bass and drums and from there I built a lyrical scenario originally intended to rhyme with ‘Dodge Street.’ Though the title didn’t make it into the song, the heart of the title remained. ‘Dodge Street’ is about the disappointment of living for someone’s else’s dreams.”

Wild Pink released their latest LP, ILYSM, last year.

Waiting Around Cover Artwork:

Waiting Around Tracklist:

1. Dodge Street
2. Kiss Your Face
3. Too Late
4. Waiting Around

Devendra Banhart Unveils Video for New Song ‘Sirens’

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Devendra Banhart Unveils Video for New Song ‘Sirens’

Devendra Banhart has previewed his upcoming album Flying Wig with a new song, ‘Sirens’. Following lead cut ‘Twin’, the track arrives with a video co-starring multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood and comedians Tim Heidecker and Mitra Jouhari. Check out the clip, a collaboration with Christian Stavros directed by Joseph Wasilewski, below.

“‘Sirens’ is about the bewilderment that precedes longing, the space between ‘everything hurts’ and ‘oh there’s a nail stuck in my back,’ it’s like the relief mixed with fear that comes from finally finding the target,” Banhart explained in a statement. “We haven’t hit it yet – but we know where to aim, that’s where the ‘And Yet’-ness of this song is. Another theme that seems prevalent throughout the album is obstacles into antidotes. I mean, what a bummer right? ‘Only the violence will ever hold me tight’ but if there’s no getting rid of then our only sane option is to learn to dance with it. This is all lyrical…musically we wanted it to feel like dancing alone, weeping in a crowd, and somehow even relaxing into that melancholy, the sensual side of sorrow, the mournful side of joy.”

“We wanted to make a mini sci fi film that was equally dystopian and utopian,” Banhart added of the video. “What we came up with was a world where only artists are allowed to run for any government positions, the presidency is always shared between two people. In our world two legends won, Tim Heidecker and Mitra Jouhari, and in this world everyone’s a masseuse and massages are mandatory (played by myself and the amazing Dorian Wood) and crying is obligatory and enforced by law.”

Flying Wig, which was recorded with Cate Le Bon in a cabin studio in Topanga, is due out September 22 2023 via Mexican Summer.

Be Your Own Pet Share New Single ‘Big Trouble’

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Be Your Own Pet Share New Single ‘Big Trouble’

Be Your Own Pet have dropped a new single, ‘Big Trouble’, which will appear on their third album Mommy. It follows previous offerings ‘Hand Grenade’ – which marked the garage-punk band’s first song in 15 years – ‘Worship the Whip’, and ‘Goodtime!’. Check it out below.

“I live in a country that has taken away the basic human right to an abortion and then has the audacity to ask ‘why are you so angry?,’” vocalist Jemina Pearl Abegg said in a statement. “‘Big Trouble’ is about how the daily injustices are all connected to the overarching societal issues of living in a patriarchy.”

Mommy comes out August 25 on Third Man Records.

Becca Mancari Unveils New Single ‘Homesick Honeybee’

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Becca Mancari Unveils New Single ‘Homesick Honeybee’

Becca Mancari has shared a new single, ‘Homesick Honeybee’, taken from their third album Left Hand. It follows previous offerings ‘Don’t Even Worry’ (with Brittany Howard) and ‘Over and Over’ (featuring Julien Baker). Check it out below.

In a statement about the track, Mancari explained:

Homesick Honeybee” came from a technique I practised during the making of ‘Left Hand’: Whenever I felt stuck in my writing process, I would pull out my 1980s Webster dictionary and scan through sections at a time. One day, I landed on the H’s, and both “homesick” and “honeybee” were words that lingered with me. I wondered; Could a bee actually be homesick? So, I did some reading and learned how a bee cannot survive for very long when it’s separated from its hive. Even if it finds another hive, the bees will not accept them into their colony because they smell different than the rest of them.

In some ways, this song is about my own homesickness; trying to find a place to call my home. The beginning of the song starts with a voicemail from my 93-year-old grandpa who was the first elder in my family to accept me unconditionally as a queer person. One time when he was visiting my parents, he quite literally asked me to “sneak” him out of their house in order to finally meet my partner of many years. In his words, “God is love and there is nothing that could separate him from me.” I think for years I starved my heart from love, for fear of being hurt again and again. But with one perfect act of love from my grandfather I learned how to build a home of my own, and to trust and love myself enough to let my broken heart finally start to mend.

Left Hand arrives August 25 via Captured Tracks.

Animal Collective Announce New Album ‘Isn’t It Now?’, Share New Single ‘Soul Capturer’

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Animal Collective Announce New Album ‘Isn’t It Now?’, Share New Single ‘Soul Capturer’

Animal Collective have announced their next studio album: Isn’t It Now? arrives September 29 via Domino. The follow-up to 2022’s Time Skiffs will feature the recently released 22-minute track ‘Defeat’, as well as a new single called ‘Soul Capturer’. Check it out below, along with the cover artwork (by Dave Portner) and tracklist.

The new album finds Animal Collective teaming up with Grammy-winning producer Russell Elevado, who is known for his work on records by D’Angelo, the Roots, and Kamasi Washington. Recorded during two weeks at New York’s The Bunker in late 2021, the LP clocks in at 64 minutes, making it the longest Animal Collective album ever. It also includes ‘King’s Walk’, a song the band has been playing live for the last few years.

Isn’t It Now? Cover Artwork:

Isn’t It Now? Tracklist:

1. Soul Capturer
2. Genie’s Open
3. Broke Zodiac
4. Magicians From Baltimore
5. Defeat
6. Gem & I
7. Stride Rite
8. All The Clubs Are Broken
9. King’s Walk

Glen Hansard Announces New Album ‘All That Was East Is West of Me Now’, Shares New Single Featuring Warren Ellis

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Glen Hansard Announces New Album ‘All That Was East Is West of Me Now’, Shares New Single Featuring Warren Ellis

Glen Hansard has announced that his fifth solo LP, All That Was East Is West Of Me Now, will be released on October 20 via ANTI-. Today, the singer-songwriter has previewed the record with the opening track ‘The Feast of St. John’, which features Warren Ellis on violin. Listen to it below, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork, tracklist, and Hansard’s upcoming tour dates.

The songs on All That Was East Is West Of Me Now began taking taking shape through a five-show residency Hansard arranged at his small local pub in November 2022. He then recorded the album with long-time collaborator David Odlum at his home studio on the outskirts of Dublin.

“I told no one. We set up in the corner and played to the locals, some of whom were only half listening,” Hansard explained. “A collection of farmers and workers, dart players, pool sharks. I played two hours of new songs each week, some songs finished, some half-baked. Through this process I realized what I had and what I had to work on further – which songs landed and which ones were only good in my imagination. It solidified my choices right away. It was as if the album appeared in that bar. And not before.”

Hansard’s previous album was 2019’s The Wild Willing.

All That Was East Is West Of Me Now Cover Artwork:

All That Was East Is West Of Me Now Tracklist:

1. The Feast Of St. John
2. Down On Our Knees
3. There’s No Mountain
4. Sure As The Rain
5. Between Us There Is Music
6. Ghost
7. Bearing Witness
8. Short Life
9. Reprise

Glen Hansard 2023 Tour Dates:

Mon 30 Oct – Palladium, London, UK
Tue 31 Oct – RNCM Theatre, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Thu 2 Nov – La Cigale, Paris, France
Fri 3 Nov – Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
Sun 5 Nov – E-Werk, Köln, Germany
Mon 6 Nov – Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Wed 8 Nov – Circus Krone, Munich, Germany
Thu 9 Nov – Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria
Sat 11 Nov – Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Sun 12 Nov – Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, Italy
Tue 14 Nov – Velky sál Lucerna, Prague, Czech Republic
Wed 15 Nov – Palladium, Warsaw, Poland
Fri 17 Nov – Verti Music Hall, Berlin, Germany
Mon 20 Nov – Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam, Netherlands – SOLD OUT
Tue 21 Nov – Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam, Netherlands – SOLD OUT
Wed 13 Dec – Vicar St., Dublin, Ireland – SOLD OUT
Fri 15 Dec – Leisureland, Galway, Ireland
Sat 16 Dec – St Columbs Hall, Derry, UK
Mon 18 Dec – Ulster Hall, Belfast, UK
Tue 19 Dec – City Hall, Cork, Ireland

Cafuné Announce New EP ‘Love Songs for the End’, Share New Single ‘Demise’

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Cafuné Announce New EP ‘Love Songs for the End’, Share New Single ‘Demise’

Cafuné – the NYC duo of Sedona Schat and Noah Yoo – have announced a new EP titled Love Songs for the End. It’s set to arrive on October 13 via Elektra Entertainment. To mark the news, they’ve shared the new single ‘Demise’, which is co-produced by Imad Roya. Check out a lyric video for it below.

“We wrote ‘Demise’ about feeling mentally stuck in that internal dialogue of being unkind to yourself; trapped in decision paralysis, silencing yourself for fear of being misunderstood,” Schat explained in a statement. “Sometimes it’s helpful to laugh at yourself to get over these self-sabotaging patterns.”

Cafuné released their debut album, Running, in 2021. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Cafuné. 

Nation of Language Share Video for New Song ’Too Much Enough’

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Nation of Language Share Video for New Song ’Too Much Enough’

Nation of Language have shared ‘Too Much Enough’, the latest preview of their forthcoming album Strange Disciple. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Robert Kolodny and starring Jimmi Simpson (Westworld, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia) as well as musician including Reggie Watts, Kevin Morby, Tomberlin, Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green, and LVL UP’s Greg Rutkin. Watch and listen below.

Elaborating on the new song in a press release, the band said:

‘Too Much, Enough’ is a song born out of an exhaustion with the 24 hour news cycle and the outrage bait it uses to get everyone permanently wound up. It seems the only way to find an edge in the media business is to appeal to our most base instincts of disgust (see: the high ratings of Fox News, etc.), and we end up suffering both individually and collectively for it.

When it came to creating a visual to go alongside the song, we didn’t want the music video to be its own form of outrage bait so we went with a more absurdist approach, gathering some friends of ours, and of our incredible director Robert Kolodny, to make something fun and outlandish to that effect. We also laced the video with as many NOL-related Easter eggs and iconography as possible to give anyone watching an opportunity to play along at home and be a part of that absurdity. It felt good to try to name a problem for ourselves without leaning on fear and rage.

It’s a powerful thing to deny someone the ability to manipulate your most destructive emotions, and that’s something we want to celebrate here.

The overarching theme of Strange Disciple is infatuation and how one’s reality can be warped by it. We went a more romantic route with that on the previous video, but News is one of those less interpersonal activities it feels like everyone takes part in, so we wanted to show our disciple is just as susceptible to it as any other figure.

Strange Disciple, the follow-up to 2021’s A Way Forward, is set for release on September 15 via PIAS. It includes the previously released singles ‘Sole Obsession’, ‘Weak in Your Light’, and ‘Stumbling Still’.

Sofia Kourtesis Announces Debut Album ‘Madres’, Shares New Single ‘Si Te Portas Bonito’

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Sofia Kourtesis Announces Debut Album ‘Madres’, Shares New Single ‘Si Te Portas Bonito’

Sofia Kourtesis has announced her debut album, Madres, sharing the lead single ‘Si Te Portas Bonito’ along with the news. Featuring the early tracks ‘Estación Esperanza’ and the title track, the LP arrives October 27 Ninja Tune. Of the new song, Kourtesis said: “If you want to date someone special! Step up your game and behave nice.” Check it out and find the album cover (by Dan Medhurst) and tracklist below.

Madres Cover Artwork:

Madres Tracklist:

1. Madres
2. Si Te Portas Bonito
3. Vajkoczy
4. How Music Makes You Feel Better
5. Habla Con Ella
6. Funkhaus
7. Moving Houses
8. Estación Esperanza
9. Cecilia
10. El Carmen

Buck Meek Releases New Single ‘Cyclades’

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Buck Meek Releases New Single ‘Cyclades’

Buck Meek has offered another taste of his upcoming album Haunted Mountain, which is out August 25 on 4AD. ‘Cyclades’ follows earlier cuts ‘Paradise’ and the title track. Listen to it below.

‘Cyclades’ is based on a true story of Meek’s father narrowly avoiding a motorcycle collision with a herd of elk. “These are all true stories, or at least as I was told, or remember them being told,” Meek said in a statement. “There’s a thin line between history and mythology. Our lives are made of an endless myriad of unfinished stories, of every encounter of billions of people at the centre of thousands of years in each direction. The telling is secondary.”

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