Pip Blom have returned with a new single called ‘Tiger’. It marks the Dutch band’s first new music since their 2021 record Welcome Break. The track is set to appear on their as-yet-unannounced third LP for Heavenly. Check it out below.
“It’s my favorite song off the album, and quite different to what we’ve done before,” Blom said in a press release. “I don’t want to sound arrogant, and I find these things difficult to say about my own tracks, but it’s quite an earworm! It’s good to surprise people with a new sound, and though it still sounds like a Pip Blom track because it has my voice on it and the melodies I tend to write, it feels like it’s from a different source. I wanted to be bold and do something new.”
Ahead of the release of their new LP Still Life in Decay this Friday (April 7), Chicago art-rock outfit FACS have dropped one more single, ‘Constellation’. It follows the previously shared tracks ‘When You Say’ and ‘Slogan’. Check it out below.
Still Life in Decay is the follow-up to 2021’s Present Tense. In press materials, FACS described it as a “post-event review” addendum to their last album.
SQÜRL, the project of Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, have released their latest new single, ‘John Ashbery Takes a Walk’, which features Charlotte Gainsbourg. Following lead single ‘Berlin ’87’, the track is taken from their upcoming album Silver Haze and arrives with an accompanying video created by Jem Cohen. Check it out below.
feeble little horse have dropped a new song, ‘Steamroller’, taken from their forthcoming album Girl With Fish. Check it out below.
According to vocalist Lydia Slocum, ‘Steamroller’ is “a shame song overall” and her “most embarassing song to sing.” The band’s Sebastian Kinsler added, “When I played Lydia the first voice memo she liked how clicky the guitar sounded so I recorded a track through my iPhone for the intro. Also, when we were working on vocals, I was like I think you should go ‘yeah’ in the pause after the chorus and she was thinking the same thing, really good sync energy that day.”
“When the song was first laid out, I saw it was like 3.5 minutes and I was like ‘Are y’all sure you wanna release a song that long?” Jake Kelley recalled. And Ryan Walchonski commented, “We wrote it while I was sick. I also remember asking Seb if I could do a guitar solo on this one (something we rarely do) and he said yes and I was happy.”
Girl with Fish is set to arrive June 9 via Saddle Creek. feeble little horse shared the song ‘Tin Man’ along with its announcement.
Cola – the project of former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright – have released a new single, ‘Keys Down If You Stay’. It marks the band’s first new music since their 2022 debut Deep in View. Check it out below.
“Evan woke from a dream one morning: the three of us jamming with the memory of this exact drum part still etched in his mind,” Darcy explained in a press release. “That was how this one started… ‘Keys Down If You Stay’ has already become a live staple for us so we were thrilled to finally lay it down earlier this year. Our friend OK Pederson created the brilliant video for the track, a piercing and funny take on Cost Of Living.”
Dua Lipa has joined the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. She’ll be playing a mermaid version of the doll, as confirmed by character posters that have just been released. The cast for the movie also includes Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Simu Liu, Emma Mackey, Michael Cera, Helen Mirren, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, and more.
Back in 2021, Dua Lipa revealed she was set to make her acting debut in Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller Argyle, which does not yet have a release date but is expected to come out this year. Last year, she joined Young Though on Calvin Harris’ song ‘Potion’.
Albert Hammond Jr. has announced a new album, Melodies on Hiatus, which arrives on June 23. Spanning 19 tracks, it follows the Strokes guitarist’s 2018 LP Francis Trouble. Lead single ‘100-99’, which features GoldLink, comes paired with a music video directed by Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg. Check it out below.
“I grew up listening to 90s hip-hop, and I would always gravitate towards the melodic hooks in the songs I heard on the radio, specifically anything Dr. Dre was producing or rapping on,” Hammond Jr. said of the new track. “Years later, I noticed myself pulling from the style of those melodic lines in my guitar work, even though it wasn’t obvious to anyone else as I was so directly associated with being in a rock band. ‘100-99’ was something I’ve wanted to do for some time—work with a rapper over a beat and guitar part I wrote—and it’s really exciting that I was able to do it with GoldLink.”
In a joint statement about the video, Ricciardi and Weinberg shared: “When we first met with Albert, it was clear we were all on the same page: we wanted to have fun and we wanted to experiment with simple concepts that tell a deeper story. The album is 19 tracks, it’s sprawling but interconnected in a special kind of way, and we wanted to maintain that visually as well. The five videos we made for Melodies on Hiatus take place in a series of rooms all within one larger space, different scenes that string together one very long night. Throughout the entire process, Albert was so open and kind, he trusted us, and it cultivated a really pure, almost psychedelic environment.”
Melodies on Hiatus Cover Artwork:
Melodies on Hiatus Tracklist:
1. 100-99 [feat. GoldLink]
2. Downtown Fred
3. Old Man
4. Darlin’
5. Thoughtful Distress [feat. Matt Helders & Steve Stevens]
6. Libertude
7. Memo of Hate
8. Home Again
9. I Got You
10. Caught by Night
11. Dead Air
12. One Chance
13. Remember feat. Rainsford
14. 818
15. Fast Kitten
16. I’d Never Leave
17. Never Stop
18. False Alarm
19. Alright Tomorrow [feat. Rainsford]
Beach Fossils have shared a new track, ‘Dare Me’, lifted from their upcoming album Bunny. It arrives alongside an accompanying video directed by Kevin Clark, who also helmed the visual for the lead single ‘Don’t Fade Away’. Watch and listen below.
“‘Dare Me’ is a song about conflict, friendship and the intoxication of new love,” frontman Dustin Payseur explained in a statement. “Willing to let yourself be stupid, vulnerable, pissed off and forgiving.”
Trevor Powers has previewed his upcoming Youth Lagoon album, Heaven Is a Junkyard, with a new single called ‘Prizefighter’. Check it out via the accompanying video below.
Powers shared the following statement about the new song:
4 years ago, I started writing a song about brothers. I grew up with 3 of them, so our house was doomsday but with more sugar cereal. Our love was strong and so was our barbarity. It was real joy — the kind you didn’t have to look for cuz it smacked you in the face or pushed you off the bed into a file cabinet. Beyond that, we were homeschooled. 4 fuckin’ weirdos home all day who adored each other and hated each other and played baseball everyday in the backyard and threw rocks at each other’s heads and laughed ’till we threw up. Our bond is forever. That song I started those years ago meant too much to me to finish. I was scared of it. Scared of not making it great… so I tabled it.
A couple weeks before leaving to make the record, I went through some old voice memos while watching a VHS of ‘Drugstore Cowboy.’ I listened to that 30-second sketch called ‘Prizefighter.’ It was like an angel fell from the sky to tell me how to finish it. “Don’t make it great,” she said. “Make it true.” I finished the song in 2 days.
Heaven Is a Junkyard arrives June 9 via Fat Possum. Youth Lagoon announced the LP with the single ‘Idaho Alien’.
“‘Days Go By’ is the first song I wrote for this album, kind of,” Horn explained in a statement. “I began thrumming its two notes, repeating its refrain, ‘days go by / they don’t have time,’ the summer in Austin before I moved to Virginia. This song feels a bit like a bridge between two lives. It spans time, place. I’m glad it was slow to come (‘distance is a gift / not chosen’). And now that I’ve written ‘spans time,’ all I’m thinking of is Buffalo 66…”
