LIES, the project of American Football members and cousins Mike Kinsella and Nate Kinsella, have announced their debut album. The self-titled LP will be released on March 31 via Polyvinyl. Check out a video for the new single ‘Resurrection’ along with the album artwork and tracklist below.
“I’m not used to putting any gold-linings or much of any positive spin into my songs (there’s already enough of that garbage existing in the world), but writing about conquering whatever shame and guilt I have for whatever wants and desires I have, felt cathartic / almost therapeutic for me,” Mike Kinsella said in a statement. “The process of writing it and expressing the value in actually believing it has helped me feel more confident and assured with who I am and what I want (dare I say, ‘need’…).”
“‘Resurrection’ is a celebration song about reawakening a part of the self that has been hidden away in hibernation,” Nate Kinsella added. “We used mirrors and some camera angle trickery to superimpose our heads onto the bodies of a couple of professional dancers, whose movements illustrate a kind of unselfconscious joy and freedom – feelings that maybe we have a hard time accessing, or tapping into. I hope the video transmits the sense of fun and liberation that we envisioned (and experienced!) when making it.”
Sidney Gish and Bartees Strange have released new tracks for the latest installment of the Sub Pop Singles Club. They each have contributed two songs: Gish has offered up ‘Filming School’ and ‘MFSOTSOTR’, while Strange has shared ‘Tisched Off’ and ‘Keekee’in’ (featuring Daniel Kleederman). Take a listen below.
“Sometimes, I try to overcome this habit by skipping the ‘ideas’ phase, and improvising a song to completion within a few hours,” Gish explained in a statement. “Both ‘Filming School’ and ‘MFSOTSOTR’ were created this way. ‘Filming School’ was recorded in fall 2021 at my apartment in Brooklyn. The lyrics were freestyled while reflecting on film school, which I did not attend. In 2022, I added bass & synth to ‘Filming School,’ as well as piano, engineered by Lily Wen at Figure 8 Studios. ‘MFSOTSOTR’ was recorded in late summer 2019 at my old apartment on Mission Hill. The lyrics were freestyled while staring at a meme of a buff man wearing high-waisted jeans. No edits were ever made to ‘MFSOTSOTR.’ It has haunted my hard drive for three years.”
Speaking about ‘Tisched Off’, Strange said: “As an up and coming musician, there’s a very special pain that comes with realizing a huge chunk of the artists you’re competing with have way more money and resources than you. This song takes little digs at them. It’s cute. Tisch is like the fashion school at NYU. When I was living in BK I ran into a bunch of young punk bands and experimental acts that rose quickly from that school. I remember feeling like damn – how do you compete with people like that? They’ve got some very real resources. Anywho – it’s just me making fun.”
Of ‘Keekee’in’, he added: “This song is extremely special to me. During our tour with Car Seat Headrest the band had Covid. I was bunkered down with my guitarist Dan at his family’s house in the basement. I figured it would be cool to write something using only the tools we had. All of the instrumentation was done with stuff from that room. Matchsticks, pillows for drums, very random keyboards, etc. I wrote this song to get some feelings out I had about some business people I was considering working with – they ended up being shady and I was feeling very betrayed. I was thinking about how valuable it is to have people you can really trust. And how few those people are.”
Bartees Strange released his sophomore album, Farm to Table, last year. Sidney Gish’s last LP was 2017’s Dogs Allowed.
Lonnie Holley has unveiled ‘I Am A Part of the Wonder’, one of two collaborations with Moor Mother that will appear on the artist’s forthcoming album Oh Me Oh My. Holley, Camae Ayewa, and Jacknife Lee co-wrote the single, which includes the previously released title track featuring R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe. Check it out below.
Oh Me Oh My is set for release on March 10 via Jagjaguwar. In addition to Moor Mother and Michael Stipe, it features contributions from Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten, Jeff Parker, and Rokia Koné.
Indigo De Souza has announced the follow-up to her 2021 album Any Shape You Take. It’s called All of This Will End, and it will arrive on April 28 via Saddle Creek. Today, the North Carolina-based singer-songwriter has shared the album’s lead single, ‘Younger & Dumber’, alongside a video that features clothing she designed and constructed alongside her mom, Kimberly Oberhammer (who also created the album’s cover art), as well as a mask designed by Henry Shearon. Check it out below, along with De Souza’s upcoming tour dates.
“All of This Will End feels more true to me than anything ever has,” De Souza remarked in a statement. Discussing ‘Younger & Dumber’, she said:
‘Younger and Dumber’ is a flood beam of my emotional and spiritual human experience. My growing up defeated by a world brutally littered with trash, violence and grief, and somehow finding beauty, purpose, and boundless love existing in the same place. This song felt really emotionally intense for me when I wrote it. I was sitting in my house and it kind of flowed right to me as if it had already been written by some other force. A lot of the lyrics are a nod to the idea that your experiences make you who you are. I endured some heavy darkness and dysfunction when I was a teenager. But if I hadn’t been through those things, I wouldn’t be who I am now. When you’re young, you don’t know any better, but you learn from your experiences, and then you become somebody who’s been alive and learning. It’s also about how heartbreaking that is; to start as a child with vivid curiosity, innocent imagination and joy, and for the world to end up being kind of brutal to be a part of. This song is a love letter to everyone’s inner child. No one can prepare us for how insane it is to be alive. How many times we will have to rise from the ashes and what courage it will take.
Of the video, she added:
I took psilocybin for the shoot. I have a very specific way of dancing when I’m on mushrooms. The movements feel like electricity rising up from the earth through ancient networks of mycelium. It feels like the trees and plants are moving my body for me and I am just surrendering. It feels so clear to me now more than ever, how important it is to unabashedly embody my truest spirit. Because I am not special, and I’m fleeting, and it feels like it’s my purpose to help mobilize others to come home to themselves. To wake from our societal sleepwalk and consider the importance in creating deep connection within community and relationships. To find a preciousness in the time we have and the earth we’re nourished by. To see nature in all its primordial magic, as something to learn from and grow with. Something to protect.
1. Time Back
2. You Can Be Mean
3. Losing
4. Wasting Your Time
5. Parking Lot
6. All of This Will End
7. Smog
8. The Water
9. Always
10. Not My Body
11. Younger & Dumber
Indigo De Souza 2023 Tour Dates:
Mar 1 – Savannah, GA – Lodge of Sorrows
Mar 3 – Okeechobee, FL – Okeechobee Festival
Mar 11 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
Mar 12 – New Orleans, LA – Toulouse Theatre
Mar 14-17 – Austin, TX – SXSW
Mar 18 – Fort Worth, TX – Tulips (Southside Spillover)
Mar 19 – Houston, TX – Secret Group
May 13 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court Block Party
May 17 – Madison, WI – The Majestic
May 18 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
May 19 – Detroit, MI – El Club
May 20 – Toronto, ON – Opera House
May 22 – Boston, MA – The Royale
May 23 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
May 24 – New York City, NY – Webster Hall
May 26 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
May 30 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
May 31 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Jun 2 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Jun 3 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
Aug 14 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at West River State Park *
Aug 15 – Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live! *
Aug 17 – St Louis, MO – The Pageant *
Aug 18 – Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland *
Aug 19 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory *
Aug 24 – Troutdale, OR – Edgefield *
Aug 25 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre *
Aug 27 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
Aug 30 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley *
Aug 31 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre *
Sep 1 – Del Mar, CA – The Sound *
Sep 6 – Las Vegas, NV – Brookly Bowl *
Sep 8 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren *
Sep 9 – Santa Fe, NM – Santa Fe Opera *
Sep 10 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
Algiers have released a new single, ‘73%’, lifted from their forthcoming LP SHOOK. “‘73%’ is an impressionistic love letter to the energy and movement of New York City that I missed so much when I was exiled in ATL during quarantine,” frontperson Franklin James Fisher said in a statement. Listen to it below.
SHOOK is set to come out on February 24 via Matador. So far, they’ve previewed it with the singles ‘Bite Back’ featuring billy woods and Backxwash, ‘Irreversible Damage’ with Zack de la Rocha, and ‘I Can’t Stand It!’ featuring Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring and Jae Matthews of Boy Harsher.
Daughter have released a new song called ‘Party’. It’s the second from their upcoming album Stereo Mind Game, which was announced with the single ‘Be On Your Way’. Check out a Tiff Pritchett-directed video for ‘Party’ below.
Stereo Mind Game, Daughter’s first new LP in seven years, is due for release on April 7 via 4AD.
UK quartet Django Django have announced a new LP called Off Planet. It will be unveiled in four parts, with the full album set for release on June 16 via Because Music. The first part is out today, and it’s led by the single ‘Complete Me’, featuring Self Esteem. Check it out along with Off Planet‘s details below.
“The instrumental for ‘Complete Me’ was made sometime in 2020 or 21 when the world was in lockdown and I was making music in my garden shed studio,” the band’s Dave Maclean explained in a press release. “It was a dance track that I didn’t really know what to do with. I sent it to Rebecca and she loved the vibe of it and really quickly came up with some vocal ideas that kind of stuck straight away and locked well with the track. The production was inspired by a lot of 90s breakbeat house and hip-house records that I’ve always been really into and loved Djing with over the years.”
Django Django’s last full-length was 2021’s Glowing in the Dark.
Off Planet Cover Artwork:
Off Planet Tracklist:
1. Wishbone
2. Complete Me [feat. Self Esteem]
3. Osaka
4. Hands High ft Refound*
5. Lunar Vibrations [feat. Isabelle Woodhouse]
6. Don’t Touch That Dial [feat. Yuuko]
7. Back to Back [feat. Patience]
8. Squid Inc
9. Come Down
10. Golden Cross
11. No Time [feat. Jack Penate]
12. A New Way Through
13. Galaxy Mood [feat. Toya Delazy]
14. The Oh Zone
15. Dead Machine [feat. Stealing Sheep]
16. Dumb Drum
17. Fluxus
18. Slipstream
19. Who You Know [feat. Bernardo]
20. Black Cadillac
21. Gazelle
South London outfit Moreish Idols have released a new single, ‘Nocturnal Creatures’. It follows their debut EP for Dan Carey’s Speedy Wunderground, last year’s Float, which included the early single ‘Speedboat’. “Nocturnal creatures can teach us to be more observant, in case they dig up your treasure and bury their bones,” the band said in a statement. Check out their self-directed video for the track below.
London-based trio Dream Wife have announced their next album: Social Lubrication drops on June 9 via Lucky Number. New single ‘Hot (Don’t Date a Musician)’ comes with an accompanying video, which you can check out below.
In a press release, the band described the new album as “hyper lusty rock and roll with a political punch, exploring the alchemy of attraction, the lust for life, embracing community and calling out the patriarchy. With a healthy dose of playfulness and fun thrown in.”
Commenting on the new single, vocalist Rakel Mjöll said: “Dating musicians is a nightmare. Evoking imagery of late night make-outs with fuckboy/girl/ambiguously-gendered musicians on their mattress after being seduced by song-writing chat. The roles being equally reversed. Having a laugh together and being able to poke fun at ourselves is very much at the heart of this band. This song encapsulates our shared sense of humour. Sonically it is the lovechild of CSS and Motorhead. It has our hard, live, rock edge combined with cheeky and playful vocals.”
Social Lubrication, the follow-up to Dream Wife’s 2020 album So When You Gonna…, will include the previously shared single ‘Leech’.
Social Lubrication Cover Artwork:
Social Lubrication Tracklist:
1. Kick In The Teeth
2. Who Do You Wanna Be?
3. Hot (Don’t Date A Musician)
4. Social Lubrication
5. Mascara
6. Leech
7. I Want You
8. Curious
9. Honestly
10. Orbit
Sharon Van Etten has announced an anniversary reissue of her third album, 2012’s Tramp. Out March 24 via Jagjaguwar, the new edition includes a previously unreleased track called ‘This Is Too Right’, and will be available in Crimson Splash vinyl. Along with the announcement, Van Etten has shared a new video for ‘Serpents’ directed by Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi. Check it out below.
“Upon hearing ‘Serpents,’ I was struck by the emotion in the song, the raw anger. I imagined showing this fury escaping and overtaking the room — Sharon’s rage as expressed in the song manifesting itself in physical space,” Yang said in a statement. “We made the video on a cold January day in 2012, in an East Village walk-up loft borrowed from friends. It was me, on camera, with Susanne Sasic running the projections she had designed, and Sharon performing. I am delighted to know that now, on the 11th anniversary of Tramp, the ‘Serpents’ video will be seen at last.”
In a letter to fans about Tramp’s anniversary, Van Etten wrote:
Dear Reader,
About a year or two ago, Naomi Yang (of Galaxie 500) reached out to me after she had rediscovered a video that we had made together in 2011, during the making of Tramp, just before the album’s release. It was for the song “Serpents.” At the time, I didn’t have much experience with music videos. I was very insecure about being the focus of a video. Maybe I wasn’t ready to face my demons. I know it sounds funny. I could write and perform them, but facing them and baring my soul on camera felt like an entirely different thing, and when I looked at myself, I felt uncomfortable in my own skin. I chose not to release the video.
While reading Naomi’s email during the pandemic, and watching this younger version of myself, I felt empathy for the emotions I was trying to express in the song and the video form. I could see the drive within me to share my soul and connect with others that felt a similar drive and desperation for answers, resolution.
The timing was uncanny, approaching the anniversary of Tramp. Thinking about my time in New York while in the bubble of Los Angeles and my home. Thinking about how restless I was, and now settled down and stable. Thinking about how Aaron Dessner took a chance on me after I messaged him with a fury of demos. He could see through the hiss and crappy vocals on my GarageBand demos, and that I had something to say. He could hear my shitty finger tapping drum beats and knew I had an inner rock kid in me. I remember when he handed me his Fender Jag, and told me to play Serpents after hearing the original demo. He gave me the confidence to be loud and to scream my rage and feel founded and justified in my own pain. He gave me more tools to find catharsis in my work. I have carried that with me ever since.
Being on the west coast the last two years, I look back on my community in New York and am forever grateful. I had so many friends and peers step up and help me unfold these demos into the album that it became. Doug Keith and Ben Lord from my original touring band, Logan Cole, Peter Silberman from The Antlers, Jessica Larrabee from She Keeps Bees, Thomas Bartlett of Doveman, Rob Moose of yMusic, Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak, Julianna Barwick, Zach Condon of Beirut, Matt Barrick (of The Walkmen), Clarice Jensen, Ben Lanz, Bryce Dessner, and Bryan Devendorf (of The National).
I had almost forgotten about a song titled “This Is Too Right” that didn’t make it onto the record. It was one of the first guitar “riffs” I had ever written and Jenn Wasner sang on it with me. A song about not believing how good I had it. Like the other shoe was about to drop. I still feel so lucky for the things I have gotten to experience and accomplish, and I feel so blessed to celebrate this anniversary with you. It means so much that all these amazing musicians gathered around me to help me find my voice. I still have so much to figure out, in my life and my work, but I still feel the support and community to this day, even though we are all a bit scattered. I hope everyone that helped make this record, and that supported it, feel the love and admiration that I continue to hold for all of you. I hope that in sharing this record again, with a new video and this forgotten track, that new listeners are brought in to this album and find meaning and relevance in it today. I may have been just 30 when I made this album, but I was a lost, broken, vulnerable kid. All of the musicians on this album helped me come to life and perform in ways I never had before.
May these songs find you well. Sending all my love.
