Young Fathers have announced their next album: Heavy Heavylands on February 3 via Ninja Tune. The group’s first LP since 2018’s Cocoa Sugar will include the previously shared track ‘Geronimo’, which came out in July, as well as a new one called ‘I Saw’. Check out its accompanying video, directed by David Uzochukwu, below.
Of the album, Young Fathers’ Kayus Bankole remarked in a statement: “You let the demons out and deal with it. Make sense of it after.”
Heavy Heavy Cover Artwork:
Heavy Heavy Tracklist:
1. Rice
2. I Saw
3. Drum
4. Tell Somebody
5. Geronimo
6. Shoot Me Down
7. Ululation
8. Sink or Swim
9. Holy Moly
10. Be Your Lady
Biig Piig has dropped a new song called ‘This Is What They Meant’. It will appear on her forthcoming debut mixtape, Bubblegum, which has been set for release on January 20 via RCA. The song is about “experiencing the city through someone else’s eyes, and wanting to stay in that moment regardless of the consequences,” according to Biig Piig. Listen to it below.
Bubblegum, which follows last year’s The Sky Is Bleeding EP, will include the previously released single ‘Kerosene’.
Norwegian singer-songwriter Siv Jakobsen has released a new song, ‘Tangerine’, lifted from her upcoming album Gardening. The track features contributions from Marcus Hamblett (Laura Marling, James Holden) and (This Is The Kit, Lucy Rose). Give it a listen elow.
“I imagined someone who was held against their own will inside a run of the mill suburban house, looking out from the front room and willing for someone to come let them out,” Jakobsen said of ‘Tangerine’ in a statement. “This someone is mentally stuck, a deer in headlights, scared and frozen. Not wanting to stay but unable to leave – worthless in another’s world, like a carefully peeled, squashed and tossed tangerine.”
Gardening will be released on January 20, 2023 via The Nordic Mellow. Jakobsen has some tour dates this November in support of Beach Bunny before embarking on a headline UK/EU tour in February 2023.
Sam Bielanski and Pretty Matty are back with a new PONY track, ‘French Class’. Following their recent outings ‘Peach’ and ‘Did It Again’, the song was originally written as part of the Tornto band’s TV and songwriting podcast ‘2 MUCHTV’, where they go through the The Ringer‘s Top 100 TV Episodes of all time list and write a song about each one. Check out the video for ‘French Class’ below.
Rosie Thomas has teamed up with Iron & Wine for the new song ‘Fly Little Crow’, which is taken from the second volume of her Lullabies for Parents series. Listen to it below.
Discussing the new project, Thomas said in a press release:
I imagine most parents, like myself, have some constant background anxiety of making sure we can impart any/all wisdom we’ve gathered through our lives – to pass along what we’ve learned, and hope to not miss anything. As it happens, when I think about those things, it’s often the same life lessons that are helpful to remind myself of too as an adult to ease my own worry. Plus, as much as we want to say all the right things the right way, (impossible,) I have to remember they learn the most from just watching us, so I have to try to exhibit those attributes myself most of all. No pressure! Volume 2 deals with a lot of those “lessons/reminders” – a lot of the main ideas I want to communicate to my kids: to live wild and free, to be bold and confident in who they are, to be discerning, and not to settle. To treat women with dignity and respect, to stand up for themselves and others. To have empathy, to look out for the overlooked, and let them know they are seen, worthy, and loved. Acknowledging while I may not have all the answers, I will always be there to help them figure it out for themselves. My hope is that wherever they land on the “big” questions of worldview, to always error on the side of love, and treat others how they would want to be treated. Okay, I just got a little angsty again thinking about it all. It’s okay. It’ll be alright;)
Boldy James has shared the details of his next album, Mr. Ten08, which is produced in its entirety by Futurewave. It’s set to land on November 4, and its lead single, ‘Flag on the Play’, is out now. Check out a video for it below.
Over the past year, James has put out three full-length projects – Super Tecmo Bo, Killing Nothing, and Fair Exchange No Robbery – in collaboration with three different producers: The Alchemist, Real Bad Man, and Nicolas Craven, respectively.
MR. Ten08 Cover Artwork:
MR. Ten08 Tracklist:
1. The Whole Hundro
2. Mortermir Milestone
3. Smacked
4. Dormin’s FEAT 2100 Bagz
6. 5. My Double Trigger
7. Disco Fever
8. Could Be Worse
9. Flag On The Play
10. Jam Master J
11. Indivisible
Shakira has released her new song ‘Monotonía’, a collaboration with Ozuna. It arrives with an accompanying video co-directed by Shakira and Jaume de la Iguana and filmed in Manresa, Spain. The clip finds the Colombian singer running into an ex at a grocery store, where he blows up her chest and her heart shoots out of her body. Check it out below.
Earlier this year, Shakira teamed up Rauw Alejandro for the track ‘Te Felicito’.
Phoenix have shared another song in the lead-up to their upcoming album Alpha Zulu – out November 4 via Loyauté/Glassnote Records. Following ‘Tonight’ with Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and the title track, ‘Winter Solstice’ comes with an accompanying video directed by Warren Fu. Check it out below.
‘Winter Solstice’ is the only song on Alpha Zulu not composed in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, where the band recorded the album. Working remotely, Lauren Brancowitz, Christian Mazzalai, and Deck D’Arcy sent a loop to frontman Thomas Mars, who then provided the lyrics.
Röyksopp have teamed up with Detroit-based R&B artist Maurissa Rose for the new single ‘Feel It’. It’s lifted from Profound Mysteries III, the final installment of their Profound Mysteries series. Listen to it below.
“’Profound Mysteries’ is – among many things – an esoteric tribute to some of the genres and time periods that has forged Röyksopp,” the band explained in a statement. “’Feel It’ is (specifically) a nod to the danceable, eclectic blend of musical styles, which originated on the Ibiza club scene in the mid 80s and early 90s, commonly referred to as Balearic beats. The track itself is a house-influenced Italo-dub, blending genres in a ‘if it works, it works’ aesthetic. An approach that’s always been very dear to us.”
Profound Mysteries III includes the earlier singles ‘Speed King’, ‘The Night’ featuring Alison Goldfrapp, and ‘Me&Youphoria’. According to the duo, it “concludes our triple album endeavor. Beneath its golden, shimmering sheen, lie levels of ambiguity and contrast; the sweet and the harrowing, the wonderful and the wrong. We are human, we dream.”
Okay Kaya, the moniker of Kaya Wilkins, has shared a new song, ‘Inside of Plum’, taken from her forthcoming album SAP. Following previous cuts ‘Spinal Tap’ and ‘Jolene From Her Own Perspective’, the single arrives with a video made in collaboration with visual artist Austin Lee using DALL·E 2 – OpenAI. Watch and listen below.
Speaking about the new track, which was inspired by ketamine therapy, Kaya said: “The doctor said ketamine treatment could interrupt behavioral patterns by growing new literal physical branches in your brain, providing cognitive flexibility. My doctor described the brain as a snow globe and the treatment as a fresh layer of snow enabling new slopes. Mood-riding.”
“I wanted to explore what it would be like to be the ripple, move through,” Kaya added of the video. “Whether it’s mundane objects, zoomed in on the natural or magical imagery and shapes.”
