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Cherry Glazerr Announces New Album, Releases New Song ‘Soft Like a Flower’

Cherry Glazerr has announced her new album, I Don’t Want You Anymore, which will be released September 29 via Secretly Canadian. “The songs on this one are songs I’ve dreamed of making,” frontwoman Clementine Creevy said of the follow-up to 2019’s Stuffed and Ready, which was co-produced with Yves Rothman. Check out its lead single, ‘Soft Like a Flower’, below, along with the cover artwork and tracklist.

“It’s a real ‘losing your fucking shit’ kind’ve vibe,” Creevy explained of ‘Soft Like a Flower’. “I wanted this album to be just heart and soul. Completely exposed. It’s also a little bit about loving the anguish and toxicity that comes with being ruined by another person. Letting go and submitting to them but then catching yourself becoming too much like them.”

I Don’t Want You Anymore Cover Artwork:

I Don’t Want You Anymore Tracklist:

1. Addicted To Your Love
2. Bad Habit
3. Ready For You
4. Touch You With My Chaos
5. Soft Like A Flower
6. Sugar
7. Golden
8. Wild Times
9. Eat You Like A Pill
10. Shattered
11. I Don’t Want You Anymore

Another Michael Announce Two New Albums, Share New Songs

Philadelphia’s Another Michael have announced not one, but two new albums. Wishes to Fulfill will arrive on September 22, while Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down is due out in early 2024 via Run for Cover. The band has also shared Wishes to Fulfill‘s lead single, ‘Angel’, as well as the title track from Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down. Take a listen below.

According to a press release, the albums celebrate the deeply personal connection that can develop between a listener and a song they love. “Music is a medium of communication,” bassist/co-producer Nick Sebastiano said in a statement. “It’s not a purposeful decision to talk about music in our songs but it just inherently means so much to us. If something makes your heart sing, the audience is going to hear it.” Vocalist/songwriter Michael Doherty added, “I think good songs are just ones you can find yourself bringing with you all your life no matter where it takes you.”

Another Michael’s last album was 2021’s New Music and Big Pop. Last year, they shared the song ‘Water Pressure’, which appears on Wishes to Fulfill.

Wishes To Fulfill Cover Artwork:

Wishes To Fulfill Tracklist:

1. Guitars
2. Candle
3. Angel
4. Baseball Player
5. Research
6. Water Pressure
7. Common Ground
8. Wishes To Fulfill
9. Piano Lessons

Water From Your Eyes Reimagine Interpol’s ‘Something Changed’

Water From Your Eyes have reimagined Interpol’s ‘Something Changed’. It’s the latest in a series of interpolations of songs from Interpol’s latest album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, which has so far featured contributions from Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, and Jesu. Check it out below.

“The idea was to invert the tone of the song, like a photo negative,” the duo’s Nate Amos explained in a statement. “Reframing change from something foreboding into something encouraging – as well as creating a conversation between Paul and Rachel in order to place the thoughts externally rather than internally.”

Water From Your Eyes released their latest album, Everyone’s Crushed, earlier this year. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Water From Your Eyes.

The Drums Announce New Album ‘Jonny’, Share New Song ‘Better’

Jonny Pierce has announced the sixth studio LP from the Drums. Jonny is set for release on October 13 via ANTI- Records, and it includes the recently released tracks ‘Obvious’, ‘I Want It All’, and ‘Plastic Envelope / Protect Him Always’. Check out the new single ‘Better’ below.

“When I finished Jonny, I listened to it, and I heard my soul reflected back at me,” Pierce said in a press release. “It is devastating and triumphant, it is lost and found, it is confused and certain, it is wise and foolish. It is male and female, it is hard and gentle. To encapsulate ones’ whole self in an album, to honor each and every part of you – even the parts that feel at odds with each other, is to make something deeply human, and because my religion is humanism, the album becomes a sacred place for me to worship. Each feeling a different pew, each song a hymn to the human heart.”

Jonny Cover Artwork:

Georgia Unveils New Single ‘All Night’

Georgia has released a new track from her upcoming full-length, Euphoric, which is due out July 28 via Domino. ‘All Night’ follows previous cuts ‘Give It Up for Love’ and ‘It’s Euphoric’. “I want people to feel inspired and empowered listening to this song,” Georgia said in a statemet. “It’s a celebration of life & the world.” Check out a lyric video for it below.

Special Interest Release New Song ‘Disco 1.5’

Special Interest have shared a new single titled ‘Disco 1.5’. They’ve also announced a run of European tour dates for the fall, including a supporting slot on Sleaford Mods’ UK and Ireland shows at the end of the year. Listen to ‘Disco 1.5’ and find the list of dates below.

Special Interest released their most recent album, Endure, last year. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Special Interest.

Special Interest 2023 Tour Dates:

Aug 3 – Rees Haldern, DE – Haldern Pop
Aug 4 – Katowice, PL – OFF Festival
Aug 5 – Tasov, CZ – Beseda U Bigbitu
Aug 10 – Oslo, NO – Oyafestivalen
Aug 11 – Gothenburg, SE – Stay Out West
Aug 16 – Porto, PT – Paredes de Coura
Aug 17 – St Malo, FR – Route Du Rock
Aug 20 – Wales, UK – Green Man Festival
Nov 3 – Los Angeles, US – Substance
Nov 9 – Paris, FR – Pitchfork Festival
Nov 11 – Barcelona, ES – Mira Festival
Nov 22 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy*
Nov 23 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy*
Nov 25 – Dublin, IE – National Stadium*
Nov 28 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy*
Nov 29 – Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse*
Nov 30 – Bristol, UK – O2 Academy*
Dec 2 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace*

*with Sleaford Mods

Laurel Halo Announces New Album ‘Atlas’, Shares New Single

Laurel Halo has announced a new LP, Atlas, which is out September 22 via her new imprint Awend. The follow-up to 2018’s Raw Silk Uncut Wood is led by the single ‘Belleville’. Check it out below, along with the album cover, tracklist, and Halo’s upcoming tour dates.

Halo began working on Atlas in 2020 as she reacquainted herself with the piano, writing and recording various sketches and improvisations. She then took up a residency at Ina-GRM Studios in Paris, where dubbed, stretched, and manipulated some of the material she’d recorded. Splitting her time between Berlin and London, she laid down additional guitar, violin, and vibraphone, as well as acoustic instrumentation from friends and collaborators including saxophonist Bendik Giske, violinist James Underwood, cellist Lucy Railton, and vocalist Coby Sey.

Atlas Cover Artwork:

Atlas Tracklist:

1. Abandon
2. Naked to the Light
3. Late Night Drive
4. Sick Eros
5. Belleville
6. Sweat, Tears of the Sea
7. Atlas
8. Reading the Air
9. You Burn Me
10. Earthbound

Laurel Halo 2023 Tour Dates:

Fri July 21 – New York, NY – Elsewhere *
Sat July 22 – Chicago, IL – Smartbar *
Fri Aug. 4 – Berlin, DE – Panorama Bar *
Sat Aug. 5 – Brussels, BE – C12 *
Sat Aug. 19 – Oslo, NE – Blå *
Fri Aug. 25 – Lisbon, PT – Lux Fragil *
Sat Aug. 26 – London, UK – Venue MOT *
Thu Sep. 7 – Berlin, DE – Atonal +
Fri Sep. 8 – Dublin, IE – Dublin National Hall +
Sun Sep. 10 – London, UK – Barbican +
Wed Sep. 13 – Amsterdam, NL – Muziekgebouw +
Sat Sep. 16 – Bochum, DE – Ruhrtriennale +
Fri Sep. 22 – Philadelphia, PA – Making Time Festival *
Fri Nov. 3 – Iowa City, IA – FEaST Festival +
Sun Nov. 5 – Chicago, IL – Bond Chapel +
Wed Nov. 8 – Philadelphia, PA – Sanctuary of the First Unitarian Church +
Thu Nov. 9 – New York, NY – (Le) Poisson Rouge +
Sat Nov. 11 – New York, NY – Public Records *
Sun Nov. 19 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room +

* = DJ set
+ = Laurel Halo presents Atlas Live

How Is Brightening The Images Solution To Low Light?

Have you ever clicked a nice shot but felt that the image brightness could be a little better? We understand how frustrating it can be when you click a great shot but it lacks proper lighting. If you’re thinking of never being able to click another great shot but this time with proper lighting, we’ve got a solution for you.

There’s something called CapCut’s Low-light Image Enhancer, which is the ultimate solution to low lights in any given image. Other than that, you can also try out the free text to speech tool if you want.

If you’re interested in correcting your photos by adding proper lighting to them, that too automatically, then perhaps you need to try out CapCut’s Low-light Image Enhancer. This article is a complete guide to adding perfect lighting to your dull images in bliss.

The Problem Of Low Light In An Image

The term “low light problem” in images refers to the challenges or issues that arise when capturing photographs in conditions with inadequate lighting. In low light situations, the amount of available light is limited, which can result in several difficulties and drawbacks for photography.

Why Brighten Your Dull Images?

Enhancing the light in your low light images can offer several benefits.

Improved Visibility

Low light images often lack sufficient brightness, which can make details difficult to see. Enhancing the light can help reveal hidden details, making the image clearer and easier to interpret.

Enhanced Contrast

Low light conditions can result in reduced contrast, with less distinction between light and dark areas. By enhancing the light, you can improve the contrast in the image, making it visually more appealing and impactful.

Highlighting Subject Details

When a photo is taken in low light, the subject may appear dim or obscured. Enhancing the light can bring out the details and features of the subject, making it more prominent and recognizable.

Balancing Exposure

Low light images often suffer from underexposure, where the overall image appears too dark. By increasing the light, you can restore a more balanced exposure, ensuring that the image is adequately lit and well-exposed.

Correcting Color Cast

Low light conditions can sometimes introduce unwanted color casts, altering the natural colors of the scene. Enhancing the light can help correct these color shifts and restore a more accurate representation of the original colors.

Enhancing Mood and Atmosphere

Adjusting the light in a low light image can also influence the overall mood and atmosphere. By adding brightness and enhancing the light, you can create a more uplifting, vibrant, or inviting ambiance in the photo.

How To Resolve Low Light In Your Image?

Look for a reputable online tool specifically designed for enhancing low light images. Read user reviews, check the tool’s features and capabilities, and ensure it meets your requirements. The ultimate solution is CapCut Low-light Image Enhancer.

CapCut Low-light Image Enhancer is a perfect solution to your low light images that can be rectified to perfection in no time. There are tons of reasons why you should be using CapCut’s Low-light Image Enhancer over other tools in the market to brighten images.

Reasons To Use CapCut’s Low-light Image Enhancer

It Works With Perfection

There are a lot of myths about image light enhancement tools. However, CapCut has broken all the barriers to come up with the ultimate solution to low light images. CapCut’s Low-light Image Enhancer works like a charm and generates the most accurate and perfect results in no time. The images won’t get distorted. Moreover, there’s no way that the details will be left out, or the image will get altered in a negative way.

The Images Will Be Automatically Brightened

You’ll agree with us that manual tools are really risky and tricky since you’ll have to adjust every aspect of light all by yourself. But, CapCut Low-light Image Enhancer is intelligent enough to add images automatically, resulting in a perfectly brightened image. By opting for CapCut Low-light Image Enhancer tool, you’re ensuring that you don’t mess up your image by trying to adjust the light manually. Let the tool take the lead and do all the work for you.

Guide To Brightening Your Images

This section lists all the steps that you need to follow to get your dull images a touch of light.

Step 1: Upload Your Image

One image is allowed at a time. You need to visit the official website and click the button that says “upload”. Or you can directly drag and drop your dull image on the box. Let it get uploaded. The brightening process will begin automatically.

Step 2: Choose Different Brightness Levels

Once CapCut optimizes brightness on your image, you’ll get 4 brightness options to choose from. Click on each of them and try them out. See the results. Choose the one that you think suits the best. CapCut has, however, managed to choose the most fitting filter by default, but you always have the option to go with what you think is the best.

Step 3: Save Your Results

Once you’re happy with the brightness, you can hover your mouse over the image and click the download button to save it to your device. CapCut will ask you to log into your account and you can choose to log in using Facebook, Google, etc.

What’s Next After Brightening My Images?

Once you’re done with CapCut Low-light Image Enhancer, you can do these following:

    • Crop & Modify The Dimensions: After you’re done brightening the images, you may want to consider cropping the image to eliminate the unwanted portions from your image.
  • Change The File Format: Sometimes certain file formats are not supported on some platforms. If you’re considering uploading your brightened images on any social media platform or any other place, you might prefer changing the file format of your image to the most common and supported one such as JPEG/JPG.

Conclusion

By now you must have understood how well CapCut Low-light Image Enhancer works. If you’ve got a couple of images that you wish to brighten, you can take help of this tool. It’ll let you edit images for free and all you have to do is sign up for free.

Album Review: ANOHNI and the Johnsons, ‘My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross’

The subject matter of Anohni’s songwriting is most often heavy, tragic, and inescapable. Which is why one of the most striking things about My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross – which follows her 2016 masterpiece HOPELESSNESS and marks her first release bearing the Johnsons moniker in over a decade – is how she’s able to carry it with such remarkable lightness. Co-produced with Jimmy Hogarth, who’s worked with the likes of Amy Winehouse and Duffy, the album contains some of her loosest, most organic, and grounded material to date – terms not usually associated with the artist’s consistent and mountainous acclaim. Guitars chime softly against Anohni’s aching, desperate voice on ‘It Must Change’, which communicates the depths of her grief while flickering in spirit between personal and environmental catastrophe. It’s an urgent cry, but the band is in no rush to get the message across or serve it unambiguously, instead giving shape to the emotion tearing at its very core: “No one’s getting out of here/ That’s why this is so sad.” It works to articulate, without really trying to transform or define, everything that rises out of this – and to guide, stir, and strengthen those who also happen to be passing through the same fragile space.

It’s no coincidence, then, that Anohni’s aspirations and inspirations for the project are both carefully aligned and especially pronounced. By drawing directly from Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On? and using a portrait of legendary trans activist Marsha P. Johnson – the band’s namesake – as the album cover, she is forcing us to consider the continued pertinence of their revolutionary work and how they might converge, but also how much things have actually changed in half a century. At the same time, she foregrounds her voice in ways that are moving and destabilizing, immersing us into an internal world that’s never stripped from the broader systems and history that pervade it.

It’s not hard to hear this tug-of-war play out in the different layers of the music. There is unassailable beauty in both the melodies and the instrumentation, but these elements are never totally in sync – they buttress and console and contradict without ever quite facing off against each other, even when they seem at odds. Underneath the pure, melancholic singing of ‘It Must Change’ is an illuminating spoken word passage: “You know how they always said that light was the opposite of darkness?/ It’s just fire in darkness, creating life/ So those opposites, they don’t exist/ It’s just an idea that someone told you.”

This idea is one of many of Anohni’s tackles on My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, often subtly, sometimes with greater force. The tender, jazz-inflected chords and clean production that anchor ‘Can’t’ accentuate the nuance and empathy of her sharply determined performance, and even as the intensity starts to burn, Rob Moose’s string arrangement is there to offer levity – or gesture gently above. The psychedelic grit of the record is amplified on ‘Rest’, which is both a prayer and a song of unrest, expressing a longing Anohni compares to “a fire of tenderness” as Hogarth’s guitar smolders into the sky. On a couple of songs, though, it becomes untamed and visceral. Her rage splatters over distorted guitar on ‘Go Ahead’, utilizing feedback so uncanny it makes more sense when you discover it’s a sample of a lemur’s song. Then she gives it time to unfurl on the gut-wrenching ‘Scapegoat’, where every bit of violence pierces inward: “I take all of your hate into my flesh and body,” she admits, before the song begins its sweet, absurdly glorious ascent.

On ‘Sliver of Ice’, Anohni pays tribute to her friend and mentor Lou Reed, who in his last days described to her the sensation of an ice cube melting on his tongue. This kind of heightened awareness seems to tie into the relative simplicity of Anohni’s approach on My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, even if the path she takes is never quite straightforward. What is the usefulness of appreciating such precious beauty, you wonder? Is physical pleasure inextricable from pain? A quick glance at the track titles reveals that the singer’s frustration contains a fair amount of guilt: ‘It’s My Fault’, ‘There Wasn’t Enough’, ‘Why Am I Alive Now?’. But the way she sings the words on that last track, bearing witness to our world’s suffering, the I is not a far cry from we, which is a little less sad. As she puts it at the very beginning, on ‘It Must Change’: “It’s just gonna be a lonely place for us.”

The Best Doggy Daycare Options in Notting Hill, London

Every pet owner recognises the unmistakable look of longing in their dog’s eyes when they head out for the day. That is where doggy daycare comes in, offering a nurturing environment for your furry friends to enjoy while you are out of the house.

Thus, if you are based in Notting Hill, London, you are actually in for a treat with several top-quality facilities to choose from. Indeed, Notting Hill shines as an ideal location for discerning dog owners. The quality and diversity of doggy daycare services available in this part of London are simply unparalleled.

Discover High-End Doggy Daycare Facilities in Notting Hill

  • 84 Acres Canine Country Club

Leading the pack is the exemplary 84 Acres Canine Country Club. Known for their unique approach to doggy daycare, they collect your dogs in the morning and transport them to an extensive 84-acre manor location near Farnborough. Here, your pets can play and socialise safely before being returned to your home by evening.

84 Acres stands out for its uncompromising quality and affordability. Despite their premium offerings, they maintain a flat rate of £35 per day, significantly lower than the market average. Their high standards extend to transportation as well, employing spacious VW Crafter LWB vans, each fitted with individual crates, ensuring a secure and comfortable journey for every dog. To get started, all you need to do is to just fill out their contact form and enrolment form on their website.

  • Urban Mutts Hotels

Following up, Urban Mutts Hotels impresses with their dedicated care services designed to meet your dog’s every need. Their expert staff goes above and beyond to provide an environment where your pet can thrive. Offering a range of stimulating activities and a social setting, Urban Mutts ensures your pet will have a delightful day.

  • DogDaddies Ltd

Completing our roundup, DogDaddies Ltd has carved a niche for itself with a focus on personalised care. Their well-trained staff ensures your pet enjoys a day filled with fun activities and plenty of rest and relaxation. With their commitment to your dog’s well-being, you can be confident your pet is in good hands.

The Bottom Line

Certainly, Doggy Daycare Notting Hill offers an unmatched range of options for the discerning dog owner. In essence, it is a haven where pets get to spend their day in an idyllic manor location, far from the hustle and bustle of the city. Not to mention, they offer pet transport in comfortable, spacious vans and an enjoyable, socialising day of care at an affordable price, bringing unparalleled peace of mind to pet owners.

As we conclude, it is also worth noting that the quality of doggy daycare services can significantly influence a pet’s well-being. Therefore, choosing a service like 84 Acres assures top-tier care, freedom for owners to focus on their day, and, most importantly, a joyful and fulfilled pet. Notting Hill, with its mix of urban chic and dog-friendly services, definitely offers the best of both worlds. As pet owners, entrusting our beloved pets to excellent daycare providers, such as 84 Acres, is one of the best decisions we can make for them and for us.