Kali Uchis has unveiled a new track in the lead-up to her upcoming album Red Moon in Venus. It’s called ‘Moonlight’, and it follows the previously shared single ‘I Wish You Roses’. Check it out below.
Red Moon In Venus is due for release on March 3 via Geffen Records.
Chvrches are back with the new single ‘Over’, their first new music since 2021’s Screen Violence. Arriving ahead of a South American stadium run in support of Coldplay, the track finds the group teaming up with producer Oscar Holter. Check it out below.
In a statement about the new song, Chvrches shared: “’Over’ is a song that we wrote with Oscar Holter, a producer we really respect and admire. Normally we collect songs over the course of months (or years!) until we have an album’s worth of material, but this time we just wanted to release something we were excited about and give the fans something new to mark the end of the Screen Violence era, and the start of whatever the next CHVRCHES chapter might be.”
In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on February 24, 2023:
Gorillaz are back with their eighth album, Cracker Island, out now via Parlophone. It features collaborations with Thundercat, Tame Impala and Bootie Brown (‘New Gold’), Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Bad Bunny, and Beck. The 10-track LP was recorded last year in Los Angeles alongside producers Greg Kurstin and Remi Kabaka Jr., with Murdoc, Noodle, Russel, and 2D having relocated to Silverlake, California “as they recruit new members to join ‘The Last Cult’, in search of the one truth to fix the world,” according to press materials. “Cracker Island is the sound of change and the chorus of the collective,” Noodle remarked. Read our review of the album.
U.S. Girls have released their latest album, Bless This Mess, via 4AD. It marks Meg Remy’s eighth album under the moniker, following 2020’s Heavy Light. Featuring the advance tracks ‘So Typically Now’, ‘Futures Bet’, and the title song, the LP was created in tandem with the conception and birth of Remy’s twin boys, and the closing track, ‘Pump’, samples her breast pump. Collaborators on the record include Alex Frankel of Holy Ghost!, Marker Starling, Ryland Blackinton of Cobra Starship, Basia Bulat, Roger Manning Jr. (Jellyfish and Beck), Alanna Stuart, and Remy’s husband, Maximilian Turnbull. Read our review of Bless This Mess.
Shame have returned with a new LP, Food for Worms, out today via Dead Oceans. The follow-up to 2021’s Drunk Tank Pink was produced by Flood, who has worked with the likes of U2, Nine Inch Nails, and PJ Harvey, and features the previously unveiled singles ‘Fingers of Steel’, ‘Six-Pack’, and ‘Adderall’. “I don’t think you can be in your own head forever,” frontman Charlie Steen said in a statement about Food for Worms. “It’s weird, isn’t it? Popular music is about love, heartbreak, or yourself. There isn’t much about your mates.” He also referred to the album as “the Lamborghini of Shame records.”
Algiers have issued a new album, Shook, today via Matador. Following their 2020 record There Is No Year, the 17-track album boasts guest spots from billy woods, Backxwash, Zack de la Rocha, Future Islands’ Samuel Herring, the Dungeon Family’s Big Rube, Hammered Hulls’ Mark Cisneros, Lee Bains III, and more. “I think this record is us finding home,” the group’s Ryan Mahan in press materials. Singer Franklin James Fisher added: “It was a whole new positive experience – having a renewed relationship with the city we’re from and having a pride in that. I like the idea that this record has taken you on a voyage but it begins and ends in Atlanta.”
mui zyu, the project of Dama Scout’s Eva Liu, has come through with her debut album, Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century, via Father/Daughter Records. Following the 2021 EP a wonderful thing vomits, the record was co-produced with Liu’s bandmate Luciano Rossi and includes the early singles ‘Rotten Bun’, ‘Ghost with a Peach Skin’, ‘Sore Bear’, ‘Dusty’, and ‘Talk to Death’. “The ‘rotten bun’ refers to the rotting heart of the lonesome warrior,” Liu explained in a press release. “We have to overcome these initial fiends who mock, bully, hurt by becoming strong enough whereby we are unaffected by their ‘rotten tongues’… A bit like a tutorial to a video-game where you are guided through the introduction and still have to destroy a final boss as part of your training.”
Radiohead’s Philip Selway has released his first solo album since 2014’s Weatherhouse. Out now via Bella Union, Strange Dance features guest contributions from Hannah Peel, Adrian Utley, Quinta, Marta Salogni, Valentina Magaletti, and Laura Moody, as well as the advance tracks ‘Check for Signs of Life’, ‘Picking Up Pieces’, and ‘Strange Dance’. “The scale of it was very deliberate for me, from the outset,” Selway said of the album. “I wanted the soundscape to be broad and tall but somehow get it to wrap around this intimate vocal at the heart of it.” He added, “One of the things I’ve liked about this record is it’s me as a 55-year-old not trying to hide that fact. It feels kind of unguarded rather than seeing that ageing process as something that needs to be hidden.”
Iris DeMent has issued her seventh album, Workin’ on a World. It marks the singer-songwriter’s first LP since 2015’s The Trackless Woods, and her first of original material since 2011. She pieced the record together with collaborators Richard Bennett, Jim Rooney, and Pieta Brown in Nashville over the past six years. “Every day some new trauma was being added to the old ones that kept repeating themselves, and like everybody else, I was just trying to bear up under it all,” she recalled in press materials. “My mom always had a way of finding the song that would prove equal to whatever situation we were facing. Throughout my life, songs have been lending me a hand. Writing songs, singing songs, putting them on records, has been a way for me to extend that hand to others.”
Follow the Cyborg is the debut album from Miss Grit, aka New York-based, Korean-American artist Margaret Sohn. Released via Mute, the follow-up to 2021’s Impostor EP was recorded entirely in their home studio and features contributions from Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint, Aron Kobayashi Ritch of Momma, and Pearla. Sohn cites films including Her, Ex Machina, and Ghost in the Shell, as well as essays by Jia Tolentino and Donna Horroway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, as inspirations for the record, which was preceded by the singles ‘Like You’, ‘Lain (phone clone)’, ‘Nothing’s Wrong’, and the title track.
Death Valley Girls have put out their latest LP, Islands in the Sky, via Suicide Squeeze Records. Bandleader Bonnie Bloomgarden came up with the album’s title while she was bedridden with a mysterious illness that lasted five months, explaining, “When I was sick I had to sleep most of the day. I kept waking up every few hours with an intense message to take care of the island, feed the island…I have no idea why, but making music for the island kept coming up… I started to wonder if it would be possible to write a record with messages of love to my future self.” She added, “I realized that if we are all part of one cosmic consciousness, as we [Death Valley Girls] believe, then Islands in the Sky could serve not only as a message of love and acceptance to myself, but also from every self to every self, because we are all one!”
More Than a Goodbye is the debut full-length from New York-based singer-songwriter Carolyn Flaherty, who records Carol. Following her 2019 EP Softest Destroyer, the album was laid down in the summer of 2020. “The songs on this album are about the most simple dualities and the most simple ceremonies that we can see all the time,” Carol shared in a statement. “I’m not only thinking about the languages that exist between people, but also the language between worlds, between us and nature, and how as much as language can help us communicate, it can also prohibit us from learning things in so many ways.”
Yeat, Aftërlyfe; Quinnie, flounder; Gina Burch, I Play My Bass Loud; BIG|BRAVE, nature morte; Sam Gendel, COOKUP; Don Toliver, Love Sick; Dougie Poole, The Rainbow Wheel of Death; Tink, Thanks 4 Nothing; Model/Actriz, Dogsbody; Gracie Abrams, Good Riddance; Model/Actriz, Dogsbody; Hundred Reasons, Glorious Sunset; Jenny O., Spectra; David Brewis, The Soft Struggles; Babymetal, The Other One; Logic, College Park; Godsmack, Lighting Up the Sky; The Necks, Travel; Yosuke Tokunaga, 8 Quadrants; Chicks on Speed, Uploading the Human; Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary, Evicted in the Morning.
The Weeknd has shared a new remix of ‘Die for You’ with frequent collaborator Ariana Grande. Grande teased the remix on TikTok, where the 2016 Starboy single has gone viral, sharing a snippet of her verse earlier this week. Listen to it below.
In the past, the Weeknd and Ariana Grande have teamed up for 2014’s ‘Love Me Harder’, 2020’s ‘Off The Table’, and the 2021 remix of ‘Save Your Tears’. The Weeknd released his latest album, Dawn FM, in January 2022. Grande’s last album was 2020’s Positions.
A former girlfriend who had accused Marilyn Manson of abuse has recanted the allegations in a declaration of support submitted in his defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood. In the declaration, Smithline claimed that she was “manipulated” by Wood and others to speak out against the singer.
“I succumbed to pressure from Evan Rachel Wood and her associates to make accusations of rape and assault against Mr. Warner that were not true,” Smithline wrote. “Eventually, I started to believe that what I was repeatedly told happened to Ms. Wood and [others] also happened to me.”
Smithline publicly accused Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, in an interview with People in 2021, detailing numerous instances of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse from 2010 to 2013. “I have bonded with the five main girls who went through this, and we have found such a strength in numbers,” she told the publication. “Our stories are identical, it’s disgusting.” Smithline’s lawsuit was filed in June 2021 and dismissed last month after she failed to replace her former legal counsel.
In the new court document, Smithline recalled speaking with Wood and other Manson accusers – including Manson’s former assistant Ashley Walters and Game of Thrones actress Esme Bianco – who asked if she had experienced the same things. “I remember [Wood] asked me whether I had been, among other things, whipped, chained, tied up, branded/cut, assaulted while sleeping, beaten, or raped,” Smithline claimed. “She said all of these things happened to Ms. Wood and others, and that when Ms. Wood was with Mr. Warner every moment was a moment of survival. When I said, no this did not happen to me and this was not my experience, I recall being told by Ms. Wood that just because I could not remember did not necessarily mean that it did not happen.”
In a statement, Manson’s attorney Howard King said: “As we have always said, the coordinated campaign of #MeToo lies against Brian Warner is going to go down as one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. Vulnerable women were manipulated by unscrupulous individuals seeking to build their own brands and pursue their own vendettas. This sworn testimony proves it.”
A spokesperson for Wood denied Smithline’s claims in a statement to Billboard, saying, “Evan never pressured or manipulated Ashley. It was Ashley who first contacted Evan about the abuse she had suffered. It’s unfortunate that the harassment and threats Ashley received after filing her federal lawsuit appear to have pressured her to change her testimony.”
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Yaeji has shared a new single, ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’, alongside an accompanying video. It’s taken from her upcoming album With a Hammer, which includes the previously unveiled song ‘For Granted’. Check out the self-directed clip for ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’, which was shot in Seoul and features Yaeji and her grandfather dressed in bunny-dog costumes, below.
It was time for Gorillaz to return to a healthy balance. Although the brainchild of Blur’s Damon Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett has remained glued to pretty much the same formula for over two decades, they’ve been toying with its extremes in recent years – emulating a solo album on 2018’s guest-light The Now Now, then leaning into its playlist-friendly qualities with 2020’s overstuffed Song Machine: Season One: Strange Timez. The new album, Cracker Island, even apparently began as a continuation of that project before being restructured as a conventional album, one that might strike just the right chord for fans of the band’s earlier, more streamlined run of releases. If that means recycling the thematic concerns and broad-strokes dystopianism of classics like Plastic Beach, it’s a risk this world-renowned gang of cartoon characters is willing to take.
For the most part, it works to their benefit. If there’s a strange cloud hovering over Cracker Island, it’s got little to do with the album’s concept – we’re told the group has relocated to Silverlake, California, where they’ve discovered “the one truth to fix the world is to invite fans to join ‘The Last Cult’.” It’s how this world, with all its new problems, appears seemingly unchanged, and how content Albarn and company seem to respond by sticking to their guns. The result is an album where nearly every choice feels both calculated and effortless, that’s wary of falling into the trap of nostalgia but isn’t quite energized to move the needle, either. They avoid making it feel like a retread of old ground mostly by tightening the songs’ structure – you can hear it in a song like ‘Oil’, which slightly quickens the heartbeat of a conventional Gorillaz ballad.
Left with the task of livening things up are Cracker Island‘s guests, who are often cleverly employed. ‘Oil’ is elevated by an appearance from Stevie Nicks, whose signature rasp grounds a song that has its eye to the cosmos. The truth on cracker island, they say on the title track, is “AutoTuned,” and the hope Gorillaz offer can feel that way too – but when the two voices end the song by declaring that “Individual actions change the world/ Fill them up with love,” the invitation feels genuine and moving, not part of some narrative ploy. Even when noteworthy guests don’t really take center stage, their talents aren’t underutilized: Thundercat and Beck are there to polish the most vibrant and downcast songs on the album – ‘Cracker Island’ and the closer ‘Possession Island’, respectively – but their contributions add a soulful, human touch that is sorely lacking elsewhere. But it’s Adeleye Omotayo’s ethereal performance that renders ‘Silent Running’ one of the album’s biggest highlights, countering the song’s jaded, melancholy fantasies by making them feel less familiar and cartoonish.
Still, Cracker Island seems to find solace not so much in its message of unity but the world-weary pleasantness that pervades it. This is nothing new for Gorillaz. Not much on the album is – except for ‘Tormenta’, a collaboration with Bad Bunny that’s so refreshing and necessary it almost feels obvious (and in a more thrilling way than Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Bootie Brown trading verses on ‘New Gold’). Albarn’s palpable fascination with the prospect animates the song as much as Bad Bunny’s typically engaging performance, the kind of excitement that’s then brought to ‘Skinny Ape’, an electrifying jolt of energy that’s more reliant on Gorillaz’s own brand. Clearly, the group can excel in both modes. As they embark on their search for the one truth, a press release informs us what the characters have been up to, and “2D is busy being 2D.” Though this isn’t framed like another 2D solo album, it solidifies the impression that, as modern society continues to decay, Gorillaz will be busy being Gorillaz. When they do it right, that can only be a blessing.
The Chicago poet and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson has announced their debut album. It’s called Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?, and it arrives on April 14 via September. Check out the new singe ‘Pawnshop’ below, along with the album’s cover art and tracklist.
According to Jackson, ‘Pawnshop is “about uncovering how worth is subjective. It’s taking ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ and reveling in that sentiment, taking pride in the fact that even if people can’t understand your value, only you know how priceless you are.”
Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love features production contributions from Nnamdï, Kaina, and Sen Morimoto, as well as the early singles ‘No Fun/Party’, ‘Dickhead Blues’, and ‘Brain’.
Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? Cover Artwork:
Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? Tracklist:
1. recognized
2. no fun/party
3. dickhead blues
4. therapy
5. pawnshop
6. brain
7. free
8. lily
9. rat
10. Why does the earth give us people to love?
11. curtains
12. recognize reprise
13. liquor
Death Cab for Cutie have shared an acoustic version of ‘Foxglove Through the Clearcut’, taken from their upcoming LP Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic). They previously previewed the collection, a stripped-down reworking of the band’s latest album, with a new take on ‘Pepper’ and a cover of Low’s ‘The Plan’ in tribute to the late Mimi Parker. Listen to ‘Foxglove Through the Clearcut (Acoustic)’ below.
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