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Fleet Foxes Release New Song ‘A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen’ Featuring Tim Bernardes

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Fleet Foxes Release New Song ‘A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen’ Featuring Tim Bernardes

Fleet Foxes have released ‘A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen’, an original song written for the Amazon Studios documentary Wildcat. The song was recorded in Amsterdam and New York City and features singing and guitar contributions from Brazilian musician Tim Bernardes. Listen to it below.

Directed by Melissa Lesh and Trevor Beck Frost, Wildcat “follows the emotional and inspiring story of a young veteran (Harry Turner) on a journey into the Amazon,” per a press release. “There, he meets a young woman (Samantha Zwicker) running a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center, and his life finds new meaning as he is entrusted with the care of an orphaned baby ocelot.”

Commenting on ‘A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen’, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold said: “I was inspired by how the film employed unconventional means to arrive at something universally moving, and was struck by all the collisions inherent in the film’s conceit — between species, between hemispheres, between individuals, between the psychological and the natural. In hotel rooms and in borrowed studios, on time stolen from a world tour, I put this song together. It was an honor to be asked to make a song that could serve as an end-cap to this unique and affecting story and to collaborate with Tim again.”

Wildcat arrives in theaters on December 21 and globally on Prime Video on December 30.

Fleet Foxes’ most recent album was 2020’s Shore. On November 15, Fleet Foxes will release Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes via Tin House, a book containing Pecknold’s complete lyrics along with notes on his creative process and inspirations, with an introduction by novelist Brandon Taylor.

Hatchie Shares New Single ‘Nosedive’

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Hatchie Shares New Single ‘Nosedive’

Hatchie has dropped a new single, ‘Nosedive’, alongside an accompanying video. The track follows her latest album Giving the World Away, which came out in April. Give it a listen below.

“I wrote ‘Nosedive’ with Joe [Agius] and Jorge [Elbrecht] last year after we hit up an amazing goth megaclub in Denver on a weeknight,” Hatchie explained in a statement. “We were inspired to recreate the energy we felt there and experiment with a lyric-free chorus. There aren’t any other songs in our live show that are this punchy, so we wanted to write something angry and powerful. It’s about realizing you don’t have control over your life despite your best efforts; I wanted the lyrics to sound like the devil on your shoulder convincing you to self sabotage.”

Floating Points Releases New Single ‘Someone Close’

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Floating Points Releases New Single ‘Someone Close’

Floating Points has released a new single called ‘Someone Close’. Sam Shepherd has also announced that the track will be released alongside the recently shared tracks ‘Grammar’, ‘Vocoder’, and ‘Problems’ on limited 12″ vinyl, which will be available on December 16 via Ninja Tune. Listen to ‘Someone Close’ below.

spill tab Unveils New Song ‘CRÈME BRÛLÉE!’

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spill tab Unveils New Song ‘CRÈME BRÛLÉE!’

spill tab has dropped a new single, ‘CRÈME BRÛLÉE!’. Produced with Solomonophonic, the track follows spill tab’s 2022 outings ‘Splinter’ and ‘Sunburn’. Check it out below.

“‘CRÈME BRÛLÉE!’ is the result of Solomonophonic and I wanting to make the zazziest song we could,” spill tab explained in a statement. “We spent many days tweaking and creating different dynamics, wanting to make it fluid but jarring at the same time. I’m super excited that it’s finally out.”

Black Honey Announce New Album ‘A Fistful of Peaches’, Share Video for New Single ‘Heavy’

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Black Honey Announce New Album ‘A Fistful of Peaches’, Share Video for New Single ‘Heavy’

Black Honey  – the Brighton quartet comprising frontwoman Izzy Bee Phillips, guitarist Chris Ostler, bassist Tommy Taylor, and drummer Alex Woodward –  have announced their third album. A Fistful of Peaches is out March 17, 2023 via FoxFive Records, and lead single ‘Heavy’ is out today, alongside a music video directed by and starring Drag Race UK’s Dakota Schiffer. Watch and listen below.

“We wrote this song the day I found out the founder of our fan club passed away from Covid-19,” Phillips explained in a statement. “We were talking about the weight of grief and the way it holds you down, about the parallels between grief and depression. The weight of mental illness and how it brings you a deeper understanding of grief. There’s always a glimmer of light though and I love how Heavy has that kind glitter darkness. It’s in my nature to become co-dependant and I think in this song I’m reaching for someone to help me climb back out. I talk a bit about the never-ending story as it was my first dialog with death and depression as a child. Watching Artax the horse getting swallowed by the nothing whilst Atreyu screamed helplessly from the edges of a swamp really spoke to me.”

Commenting on the song’s visual, Dakota Shiffer said: “For my directorial debut it was crucial to me that Heavy centred around the themes of trans femininity. A self-portrait of a struggling trans person who’s exterior appears alluring and glamorous but is constructed out of a need for survival. That survival has led many trans people in history to endanger themselves in pursuit of euphoria. The showgirl aesthetic, the location, and the pastel colour pallet puts the creative firmly in a distinct era but everything is not as it appears. Writing the lipstick on the mirror as a reference to Butterfield 8, an infamously misogynistic movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, is the finale to a dreamscape of an evening in which the song narrates perfectly.”

A Fistful of Peaches will follow Black Honey’s 2021 album Written & Directed. “If the vibe of Written & Directed was creating this whole Tarantino world and this safe space of me almost refusing help and saying I was fine, then with this album it’s the opposite,” Phillips commented. “Lockdown had happened, I’d had two years of not writing anything and feeling like my entire purpose had gone down the drain, I’d been in intense therapy which was exhausting, and what came out was just me regurgitating things from my entire life and building my brain cells back to how they should be. I’ve had to be more honest and vulnerable with myself, but I feel like I’d be disservicing anyone who spends their time and passion and energy into this project to not fucking unveil it all.”

A Fistful of Peaches Cover Artwork:

A Fistful of Peaches Tracklist:

1. Charlie Bronson
2. Heavy
3. Ups Against It
4. Out of My Mind
5. Rock Bottom
6. Cut the Cord
7. OK
8. I’m a Man
9. Nobody Knows
10. Weirdos
11. Tombstone
12. Bummer

Dream Wife Release New Song ‘Leech’

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Dream Wife Release New Song ‘Leech’

Dream Wife have returned with a new single called ‘Leech’. It marks the London-based trio’s first new music since the 2020 LP So When You Gonna… Take a listen below.

“‘It’s an anthem for empathy,” the band said of ‘Leech’ in a statement. “For solidarity. Musically tense and withheld, erupting to angry cathartic crescendos. The push and pull of the song lyrically and musically expands and contracts, stating and calling out the double standards of power. Nobody really wins in a patriarchal society. We all lose. We could all use more empathy. As our first song to be released in a while, we wanted to write something that feels like letting an animal out of a cage. It’s out. And it’s out for blood…”

Ailbhe Reddy Announces New Album ‘Endless Affair’, Releases New Single

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Ailbhe Reddy Announces New Album ‘Endless Affair’, Releases New Single

Ailbhe Reddy has announced her new album, Endless Affair. The follow-up to the Irish singer-songwriter’s 2020 debut Personal History will be out on March 17, 2023. Today, she’s shared a video for the lead single ‘Shitshow’, which you can check out below.

Speaking about the new track, Reddy said in a statement: “Sh*tshow came from a lyric I played with for a few months which was ‘my god, look at the state of me, this is so embarrassing, won’t you take me home?’ It’s kind of addressing another person and kind of addressing myself from the perspective of the morning after. I had those lyrics for a while and while working with Tommy McLaughlin on the record he jokingly said we should call the album Sh*tshow and I vowed to work that word into a lyric so it perfectly fit into this song. It’s about looking back on a night out with regret while also addressing and apologising to an ex-partner about my antics. The first verse is to myself and the second verse is to someone else. It’s kind of a tongue in cheek examination of a bad hangover.”

Endless Affair Cover Artwork:

Endless Affair Tracklist:

1. Sh*tshow
2. A Mess
3. Damage
4. Inhaling
5. Bloom
6. Last To Leave
7. Shoulder Blades
8. I’m Losing You’re Winning
9. Good Time
10. You Own The Room
11. Pray For Me
12. Motherhood

Pile Announce New Album ‘All Fiction’, Share Video for New Song ‘Loops’

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Pile Announce New Album ‘All Fiction’, Share Video for New Song ‘Loops’

Pile have announced their next album: All Fiction is set to arrive on February 17 via Exploding in Sound. Today, they’ve shared the album’s lead single, ‘Loops’, along with an accompanying video. Check it out below.

“Throughout most of Pile’s existence, I’ve used songwriting as a means to work through personal issues and to express uncomfortable feelings in what I’ve perceived to be a healthy form of processing emotions,” frontman Rick Maguire explained in a press release. “While doing this I’ve also been working hard to create a career in writing music. The song ‘Loops’ is about the confusion I’ve experienced in the place where those two roads meet, and reflecting on whether what I’m creating is for personal growth or for personal gain has ended up leading to more questions than answers.”

All Fiction is Pile’s eighth LP, following 2021’s Songs Known Together, Alone and In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room. “I’ve been trying to get out of what I think is ‘the rock band format,’ and I was also tired of what I saw as our identity as a band,” Maguire said. “The confusion about identity combined with existential anxiety led to exploring my imagination as a means of escape.”

All Fiction Cover Artwork:

All Fiction Tracklist:

1. It Comes Closer
2. Loops
3. Gardening Hours
4. Link Arms
5. Blood
6. Lowered Rainbow
7. Forgetting
8. Poisons
9. Nude With A Suitcase
10. Neon Gray

Alabama’s Jeff Cook Dies at 73

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Alabama’s Jeff Cook Dies at 73

Jeff Cook, a co-founding member and lead guitarist of the country band Alabama, has died at the age of 73. According to a statement posted on the band’s official social media accounts on Tuesday, Cook “passed away peacefully yesterday, November 7, with his family and close friends by his side at his beach home in Destin, Florida.” In 2012, Cook was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and publicly revealed his diagnosis in 2017.

Born in 1949 in Fort Payne, Alabama, Cook earned his broadcaster’s license at 14 and worked at a local radio station as a DJ while still in high school. In 1972, he co-founded the band Young Country with his cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry. The group eventually changed its name to Wild Country before going by Alabama, releasing their debut album, Wild Country, in 1976. They put out 22 more albums, eight of which reached No. 1 on the US country charts. They had more than 30 No. 1 country hits and several crossover hits, with songs like ‘Song of the South’, ‘Mountain Music’, ‘I’m In A Hurry’, ‘Cheap Seats’, and ‘Dixieland Delight’ remaining staples to this day.

After the band stopped actively performing in 2004, Cook formed the groups Cook & Glenn and the Allstar Goodtime Band. In 2005, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as a member of Alabama. He continued touring with Alabama through 2018, at which point permanently retired from the road.

 

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Don Lewis, Electronic Musician and Synth Pioneer, Dead at 81

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Don Lewis, Electronic Musician and Synth Pioneer, Dead at 81

Electronic music pioneer Don Lewis has died. Pitchfork reports that the composer and musician, who created an instrument called the Live Electronic Orchestra (LEO), passed away on Sunday (November 6). He was 81 years old.

Lewis grew up in Dayton, Ohio and developed an interest in music as a child after watching an organist perform at his church. He studied electronics engineering student at the former Tuskegee Institute, where he also joined the Tuskegee Chorus and played music at rallies for Martin Luther King Jr. In 1961, he enlisted in the Air Force and served as a Nuclear Weapons Specialist for four years in Roswell, New Mexico. He then relocated to Denver, Colorado, where he worked as an engineering technician, before quitting his job to become a full-time musician and moving to Los Angeles.

Lewis designed LEO, a synthesizer system linking multiple synths together that predated the MIDI controller by ten years, in 1974 and completed it in 1977. He also worked with Roland founder Ikutarô Kakehashi on rhythm units such as the FR-7L, CR-68, and CR-78, and contributed to the making of the Yamaha DX7.

Lewis collaborated with a number of notable musicians and producers, including Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendez, and Michael Jackson. He also opened for the Beach Boys on their 1974 tour and performed at the 1975 and 1976 Newport Jazz Festival.

A feature-length documentary chronicling his life, Ned Augustenborg’s The Ballad of Don Lewis: The Untold Story of a Synthesizer Pioneer, was released in 2020. The film will make its US broadcast debut on PBS in February 2023 as Don Lewis and the Live Electric Orchestra.

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