Khruangbin have announced a new album, A la Sala, which is Spanish for “To the Room.” Marking their first proper LP since 2020’s Mordechai, it’s due out April 5 on Dead Oceans. Lead single ‘A Love International’ arrives today alongside a video directed by Scott Dungate. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
In 2022, Khruangbin collaborated with Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré for Ali, a project honoring Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré.
A la Sala Cover Artwork:
A la Sala Tracklist:
1. Fifteen Fifty-Three
2. May Ninth
3. Ada Jean
4. Farolim de Felgueiras
5. Pon Pón
6. Todavía Viva
7. Juegos y Nubes
8. Hold Me Up (Thank You)
9. Caja de la Sala
10. Three From Two
11. A Love International
12. Les Petits Gris
Jane Weaver has announced a new album, Love in Constant Spectacle, which comes out April 5 via Fire Records. The British singer-songwriter recorded the LP with John Parish, and it’s being previewed today with the new song ‘Perfect Storm’. Check it out below.
“A lot of the album’s themes stem from interpretation and translation, observations and emotional cues. I love the nuances in translation on foreign film subtitles,” Weaver explained in a statement. “Sometimes, it’s exaggerated or more beautiful, stand-alone statements that don’t make sense, but when accompanied by a visual image, we can see the scene play out.”
Love in Constant Spectacle Cover Artwork:
Love in Constant Spectacle Tracklist:
1. Perfect Storm
2. Emotional Components
3. Love In Constant Spectacle
4. Motif
5. The Axis And The Seed
6. Is Metal
7. Happiness In Proximity
8. Romantic Worlds
9. Univers
10. Family Of The Sun
Rachel Gagliardi (Slutever, Upset) has released a new single from Forgot About Me, her debut album under the name Pouty. It’s called ‘TV on TV’, and it follows previous cuts ‘Salty’ and ‘Virgos Need More Love’. Take a listen below.
Forgot About Me is set for release on February 9 through Get Better Records.
The Dandy Warhols have announced a new album, Rockmaker, following up 2020’s Tafelmuzik Means More When You’re Alone. It’s set for release on March 15 via Sunset Blvd. Records. Today, they’ve dropped a new single, ‘Danzig with Myself’, which features Pixies frontman Frank Black. Check it out below.
“It started with a riff that either sounded like Misfits or Danzig and then got slowed down,” Courtney Taylor-Taylor explained in a statement. “Over time, it became the working title, and then we couldn’t change it. I mean, come on… ‘Danzig with Myself’?!”
“Rockmaker is the manifestation of our desire to hear a record of heavy raw punk and metal guitar riffs handled in a way that we felt was cooler or sexier but has its own alley,” Taylor-Taylor added. The album was mastered by Keith Tenniswood and mixed by Jagz Kooner.
Rockmaker Cover Artwork:
Rockmaker Tracklist:
1. The Dooms Day Bells
2. Danzig With Myself [feat. Black Francis]
3. Teutonic Wine
4. Summer Of Hate
5. I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem
6. The Cross
7. Root Of All Evil
8. Must’ve Always Been A Thing
9. Love Thyself
10. Real People
11. I will Never Stop Loving You
Devon Welsh, formerly of Majical Cloudz, has announced a new solo album titled Come With Me If You Want to Live. The follow-up to 2019’s True Love is slated to arrive on March 15 via American Dreams. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘You Can Do Anything’. Check out Jason Harvey’s video for it below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover and tracklist.
“It’s a soundtrack for a film that doesn’t exist and probably shouldn’t exist,” Welsh said of Come With Me If You Want to Live in a statement. “In that sense it’s a fantasy album. But a lot of the songs are personal fantasies, so it’s also something of a personal album. I hope it’s a fun album in the sense that it inspires your own personal action movie. So you could call it an action album. It would be fair to call it a pop album, in that I would be pleased if it were popular. It’s my album, but I want to give it to you. So it’s your album now.”
“You should take the title both as an homage to The Terminator and also as me saying to you, ‘I want you to live’. So in that sense, the album is about living,” he added. “I am still alive.”
Speaking about ‘You Can Do Anything’, Welsh commented: “I hope that as you listen to this song, you will feel what the title says. It’s the opening scene to the film, where we meet the protagonist in the midst of an explosive sequence full of melodrama and winks at the camera. If I constructed it correctly, the song should fill you with a sense of momentum and can-do attitude.”
Come With Me If You Want to Live Cover Artwork:
Come With Me If You Want to Live Tracklist:
1. You Can Do Anything
2. Stranger
3. Fooled Again
4. That’s What We Needed
5. Heaven Deserves You
6. Face To Face
7. Brother
8. Twenty Seven
9. Best Laid Plans
10. Before The Moon Was Full
11. Sister
12. Alone
13. Come With Me If You Want To Live
Madi Diaz has unveiled a new single, ‘Everything Almost’, lifted from her forthcoming record Weird Faith. It’s the third offering from the LP, following the Kacey Musgraves-featuring ‘Don’t Do Me Good’ and ‘Same Risk’. Check it out below.
‘Everything Almost’ is ‘about my constant wondering within a relationship,” Diaz explained in a statement. “How much should I be saying things out loud or am I saying too much out loud? What should I keep for myself? What’s mine that could become ours, that should become ours? What dreams are just mine that I could share with you only to discover they’re your dreams too? It’s an investigation of the depth of how far this thing could go. Am I allowed to keep some of me for me? Saying all of this out loud feels important. It is about realizing I can’t ever be everything for someone but maybe I can be almost everything.”
Weird Faith is due for release on February 9 via ANTI-.
Kim Gordon has announced her second solo album, The Collective. The follow-up to 2019’s No Home Record is set for release on March 8 via Matador. It finds Gordon continuing her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor) and features additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. Along with the announcement, she’s shared a new single, ‘Bye Bye’, alongside a video directed by photographer and filmmaker Clara Balzary, with cinematography by Christopher Blauvelt. Check it out and find The Collective‘s cover art and tracklist below.
The Collective Cover Artwork:
The Collective Tracklist:
1. BYE BYE
2. The Candy House
3. I Don’t Miss My Mind
4. I’m a Man
5. Trophies
6. It’s Dark Inside
7. Psychedelic Orgasm
8. Tree House
9. Shelf Warmer
10. The Believers
11. Dream Dollar
Friko have released ‘Where We’ve Been’, the semi-title track to their upcoming debut LP Where we’ve been, Where we go from here, which arrives February 16 via ATO. It follows previous cuts ‘Crimson to Chrome’, ‘Crashing Through’, and ‘For Ella’. Check out the video for it below.
“‘Where We’ve Been’ has sort of become the Friko theme song for the band,” vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan said in a statement. “Recording it was kind of the moment where it felt like the band really took on what it represents to all of us now.” Kapetan continued:
When we recorded it in the studio it was one rotation shorter and didn’t have the ending group vocal refrain, ‘Where we’ve been where we go from here, take your weight and throw your arms around me.’ It kind of just fizzled out. After completing a few takes, Scott Tallarida (the producer of the record and our friend) took us aside and basically told us the song wasn’t finished. We were already in an emotional state from not getting the take we wanted and hearing that the song IS NOT FINISHED while recording it is kind of crazy.
Bailey had the idea to go to a straight-ahead beat and I said that I would just start screaming whatever came to mind. We recorded it fully through and once we were done we were all sobbing. And that’s the take on the record. We knew having it be the opening track was a bold choice but it felt necessary because of how much the song means to us.
Baltimore-based band Tomato Flower have announced their debut album, No. Following their 2022 EPs Gold Arc and Construction, the 12-track effort is set to land on March 8 via Ramp Local. New offering ‘Saint’ is the second single from the LP, following last year’s ‘Destroyer’. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
Speaking about ‘Saint’, the band said in a statement: “Frenetic guitars and drums reflect a racing mind, while a slower guitar, cold vocal delivery, and a bass that crashes into the ground reflect the speaker’s failure to articulate herself in time. The outro can be read as rhapsodic, ironic, or remorseful—a remembrance or acknowledgment of overwhelming emotion.”
1. Saint
2. Destroyer
3. Radical
4. Do It
5. No
6. Sally & Me
7. Harlequin
8. Lost Lunar One
9. Temple of the Mind
10. Magdalene
11. Spoon Jade
12. Jem
Yard Act have released ‘We Make Hits’, the latest preview of their upcoming sophomore LP Where My Utopia? – out March 1 via Island. It follows earlier cuts ‘Dream Job’ and ‘Petroleum’. Watch the James Slater-directed video for it below.
“‘We Make Hits’ started like most Yard Act songs do these days, in Ryan’s spare bedroom,” the band’s James Smith explained in a statement. “He’d recorded a couple of basslines and I went round to throw some words on top just to see what might happen. I was reflecting on how things had changed so much for us over the last few years when I realised that sat round a laptop trying to make each other laugh, necking black coffee and craneing our heads out of the window to smoke cigs every hour or so, all that had really changed within the writing process was that, thanks to my baby, we were at Ryan’s house rather than mine and that Ryan had a place of his own now, which was nice. Despite the outside blowing up, behind closed doors, we were the same, and I’m grateful for that.”
“You can see the cynicism and the silliness on the surface of ‘We Make Hits’ without much effort, but at its core, for me, it’s really an ode to friendship and the unfiltered joy you feel when you’re making music with the people you hold dear in your life,” Smith continued. “Meanwhile back in the Yardiverse, we’re getting the origin story of the hitmen Dynamite Dave and Dudley Sunglasses. A valid parable about the trappings of late capitalism, and the compromises we have to make to survive sometimes.”
