Luna Li has dropped ‘Golden Hour’, the latest single from her forthcoming album When a Thought Grows Wings. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by Issac Roberts. Check it out below.
“I wanted this song to feel soft and sensual, while also peeking into a psychedelic world,” Li shared in a statement. “’Golden Hour’ tells the story of an afternoon I spent with someone a couple of years ago in a meadow sitting six feet apart, drenched in rain water and uncertainty, but having a wonderful time experiencing a slow descent into love.”
Magdalena Bay have announced their sophomore album, Imaginal Disk. The follow-up to 2021’s Mercurial World will be out on August 23 via Mom+Pop. It includes the previously released single ‘Death & Romance’, as well as the new song ‘Image’, which arrives alongside a music video directed by Amanda Kramer. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
1. She Looked Like Me!
2. Killing Time
3. True Blue Interlude
4. Image
5. Death & Romance
6. Fear, Sex
7. Vampire in the Corner
8. Watching T.V.
9. Tunnel Vision
10. Love Is Everywhere
11. Feeling DiskInserted?
12. That’s My Floor
13. Cry for Me
14. Angel on a Satellite
15. The Ballad of Matt & Mica
“It takes a certain kind of bravery to fully trust your instincts,” Yanya said of the inspiration behind ‘Call It Love’. “It’s about allowing your calling to lead you, to let it guide you somewhere. Let that consume you and destroy you.”
My Method Actor, the follow-up to 2022’s PAINLESS, is set to arrive on September 13 via Ninja Tune.
Sarah Tudzin has released the title track from her upcoming illuminati hotties album POWER. It follows lead single ‘Didn’t’ featuring Cavetown. Check it out below.
“‘Power’ is a reckoning with mortality,” Tudzin explained in a press release. “It was the song I avoided writing every time I sat down with a guitar until it finally fell out of me. In it I’m asking over and over, how am I supposed to participate in earthly existence after the passing of my mom, who so selflessly gave me her confidence, who instilled my power? There is no answer, and there is no sign.”
Bartees Strange is back with a new single, ‘Lie 95’. Co-produced by Strange and notcharles, with additional production from longtime collaborator Graham Richman, the song features vocals by Kacy Hill and Charlene Gibbs. Check it out via the accompanying video, directed by Vincent Martell & Jordan Phelps of VAM STUDIO, below.
“This song is about searching for love all across the Northeast corridor (I-95) – my universe,” Strange said in a press release. “I’m thinking of Love in a broad way: partners, friends and community. This one’s for the highway…and everything I meet through it.”
Strange released his sophomore album, Farm to Table, in June 2022. More recently, he was featured in the star-studded soundtracks for Apple TV’s The New Look and A24’s I Saw the TV Glow.
Chicago-born artist Tasha has announced a new album, All This and So Much More. The follow-up to 2021’s Tell Me What You Miss the Most is out September 20 on Bayonet Records. Along with the previously released song ‘Michigan’, it includes a new single, ‘The Beginning’. Check it out below and scroll down for the LP’s cover art and tracklist.
“As one of the first songs I wrote for this album, ‘The Beginning’ feels like an introduction to the journey of self-discovery I found myself on throughout the year to come (and in turn, the songs that emerged),” Tasha explained in a statement. “While the song touches on uncertainty, sadness, and a desire for connection, the very first line – ‘This is not the end, it’s just the beginning’ – encapsulates the sense of hope and possibility I continued to arrive at after it all. For me, there’s a lingering excitement at the end of Greg Uhlmann’s spinning guitar solo outro – it can be hard to see in the moment, but big endings are so often openings to adventures you haven’t even begun to imagine.”
Tasha wrote the new album over the course of 2022 and 2023, right on the cusp of being cast in Illinoise, the Tony-winning Broadway musical adaption of Sufjan Steven’s Illinois. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Tasha.
All This and So Much More Cover Artwork:
All This and So Much More Tracklist:
1. Pretend
2. The Beginning
3. Be Better
4. Good Song
5. Michigan
6. Party
7. Nina
8. Eric Song
9. So Much More
10. Love’s Changing
Galaxie 500 have announced their first release of new archival material in nearly 30 years. Due September 20 via Silver Current Records and the band’s own imprint 20/20/20, Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 spans 24 tracks comprising the complete Noise New York studio recordings, featuring previously unreleased outtakes, B-sides, and non-album output. It was compiled by the band and traces their career from their earliest recordings in the studio to their last. Listen to two never-before-heard tracks, ‘Shout You Down’ from the Today album sessions and ‘I Wanna Live’ from the On Fire album sessions, and check out the full tracklist below.
Galaxie 500 recorded three classic LPs in three years over the span of five studio sessions with producer and Shimmy Disc label boss Kramer at his studio Noise New York in Manhattan. Along with those original albums — Today, On Fire, and This Is Our Music — Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 brings together all Galaxie 500 recordings at Noise New York during that period. This includes the restoration of no less than eight never-before-heard studio tracks, chronologically sequenced along with previously released but rare material. The set will be available on 2xLP, 2xCD, and 2xTape.
”Opening up these tape boxes was like looking into an old journal or databook,” drummer Damon Krukowski said in a statement. “I had forgotten most of this happened at all, but it only took a few quick details to put me right back in the drum seat. There are songs from all the Galaxie 500 recording sessions included here.”
”There is a sweetness in hearing the progression of us finding our own sound, our own collective voice,” bassist Naomi Yang reflected. The Proustian power of music. Listening to these early recordings I can hear myself figuring out how I wanted to play bass – finding my way up the neck to where the notes would cut through, where there could be a counter-melody to the singing. Making the bass my singing voice.”
Singer and guitarist Dean Wareham said: “I can see why we left some of these songs in the vaults, but there is pleasure in hearing them today; they sound very alive, like Galaxie 500 playing in the brick-walled room that was Noise New York.”
Talking about the scope of the set, Silver Current label owner Ethan Miller explained: “It isn’t just an ‘odds and sods’ collection, it is a secret history of the band told in music. It tells an untold story of the band in full as they move steadily across the arc of their growth and creative expansion. It reveals not so much an alternate history of the band, as a different perspective of their actual history, viewed from the other side of the mirror from beginning to end.”
Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 Cover Artwork:
Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 Tracklist:
(February 1988 session)
1. Shout You Down (previously unreleased)
2. See Through Glasses (previously unreleased)
3. On the Floor (Noise NY version) (previously unreleased)
4. Can’t Believe It’s Me (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, otherwise unreleased)
5. Oblivious (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, Chemical Imbalance fanzine 7-inch)
6. King of Spain (Today CD bonus track, Aurora Records 7-inch B-side)
(July 1988 session)
7. Jerome (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, otherwise unreleased)
8. Song in 3 (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, otherwise unreleased)
9. Crazy (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, European Today CD bonus track)
(February 1989 session)
10. I Wanna Live (previously unreleased)
11. I Will Walk (previously unreleased)
12. Cold Night (On Fire CD bonus track, Rough Trade BlueThunder EP)
13. Ceremony (On Fire CD bonus track, Rough Trade BlueThunder EP)
(August 1989 session)
14. Never Get to Heaven (previously unreleased)
15. Maracas Song (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, otherwise unreleased)
16. Victory Garden (On Fire CD bonus track, Rough Trade BlueThunder EP)
17. Blue Thunder (w/sax) (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, Rough Trade EP)
(June1990 session)
18. Cheese and Onions (Ryko BoxSet bonus CD, Rutles Highway Revisited Shimmy Disc LP)
19. Fourth of July (video mix)
20. Cactus (previously unreleased)
21. Moonshot (previously unreleased)
22. Them (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, otherwise unreleased)
23.Final Day (Ryko Box Set bonus CD, otherwise unreleased)
24. Here She Comes Now (This Is Our Music CD bonus track, Rough Trade Fourth of July 12-inch B-side)
Field Music have announced Limits of Language, their first new album in nearly four years. The Flat White Moon follow-up comes out October 11 via Memphis Industries. Today, Peter and David Brewis are previewing it with a new song called ‘Six Weeks, Nine Wells’. Check it out below.
“We came to the conclusion that we should just start making, pursuing whatever we were most excited about at that moment, and if that music felt like it should be part of a Field Music record, then we would go with that,” David Brewis shared in a statement. “And if not, well, we’ll make other records.” 2023 saw the release of David’s Soft Struggles and Peter’s Blowdry Colossus.
“I think we’ve always been quite pure in our intentions as artists. We’ve never altered what we do for the sake of making money or chasing what other people like,” he added. “And there’s not really any reward for doing that beyond getting to make the music you want to make. But what if after all that you can’t even make the music?”
Limits of Language Cover Artwork:
Limits of Language Tracklist:
1. Six Weeks, Nine Wells
2. The Guardian of Sleep
3. The Limits of Language
4. Sounds About Right
5. Absolutely Negative
6. Curfew in the Square
7. Turn the Hours Away
8. On the Other Side
9. The Waitress of St Louis
10. I Might Have Been Wrong
11. Between the Bridges
Brisbane group Nice Biscuit have announced their sophomore album, SOS, which is set to drop on October 4. The follow-up to 2018’s Digital Mountain and the 2021 EPs Create Simulate and Passing Over is led by the single ‘The Star’. The track comes with a video directed by 2021 EPs Create Simulate and Passing Over and filmed on Bundjalung Country. Watch and listen below.
“’The Star’ (inspired by the tarot card of the same name) is about the period of well-deserved healing and peace following big hardship,” the band explained in a statement. “It is the follow-up to our song The Tower – that depicted chaos and challenges. The Star explores the feeling of surrendering into yourself just as you are and trusting others to guide you through challenges to usher you into a new & brighter chapter of life. The Star was influenced by the joy of being together and peeling away the pressures and anxiety of life. It was created incidentally one morning during a songwriting session, and what felt like an ephemeral jam at the time captured a moment of taking a step back and just appreciating that time together. We felt like we could share that feeling through this song.”
SOS Cover Artwork:
SOS Tracklist:
1. The Star
2. Love That Takes You Up
3. SOS
4. Rain
5. Moment
6. Desolation
7. Discomfort
8. Fade Away
9. Breathe
Patterns in Repeat, the follow-up to 2020’s Song for Our Daughter, was recorded primarily at Marling’s home studio and co-produced by Dom Monks, with assistance from Rob Moose. Marling shared the following statement about the LP:
Over the course of nine months, I had happily prepared myself for the fact that my life as a songwriter would be put on hold while I adjusted to life as a new parent. How delighted then was I to discover that for the first few months of a baby’s life, you can bounce them in a bouncer and play guitar all day. For the first time in my life, I was able to gaze into another human’s eyes as I wrote. Of course, new parents feel like they discovered that feeling – one of the very finest that life has to offer, of looking into the eyes of your child and feeling the enormity of the picture as a whole, the enormity of a precarious life, celestial, fragile and extraordinary, taking its place among the comparatively banal constellation of a family. This banal constellation seems to have dominated the writing of Patterns in Repeat – the drama of the domestic sphere, the frail threads that bind a family together, the good intentions we hold onto for our progeny and the many and various ways they get lost in time. So much complexity in the banal, the caged, the everyday.
Being as I am, 34 years old, now 15 years and 8 albums into a life in song, I am unable to escape the fact that each record has served as a time-stamped chapter of my life (though some have appeared more a premonition). Now, here we are, following a youth spent desperately trying to understand what it is to be a woman, I am at the brow of the hill, with an entirely new and enormous perspective surrounding me.
Patterns in Repeat Cover Artwork:
Patterns in Repeat Tracklist:
1. Child of Mine
2. Patterns
3. Your Girl
4. No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can
5. The Shadows
6. Interlude
7. Caroline
8. Looking Back
9. Lullaby
10. Patterns in Repeat
