O., the South London duo of sax player Joseph Henwood and drummer Tash Keary, have released their debut single, ‘OGO’, via Speedy Wunderground. Check out the track, produced by the label’s own Dan Carey, below.
“We wrote OGO in a soundcheck in Oslo, whilst on tour supporting black midi,” Henwood explained in a press release. “It had hit minus 5 outside so we started jamming something fast to try and keep our hands warm. Playing live is a really big part of O., so we loved the Speedy Wunderground approach of recording one track in one day, holding off on major edits, and we are not even listening to the track until it’s released. It’s just the two of us on the single (as it is live) with Dan Carey and Adele Phillips helping us recreate that gig feeling in the studio.”
The 1975 stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (November 10) to perform their single ‘I’m in Love With You’. Check it out below.
The 1975 are currently touring in support of their latest album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language. In addition to ‘I’m in Love With You’, it includes the advance singles ‘All I Need to Hear’, ‘Happiness’, and ‘Part of the Band’. Last month, they appeared on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, where they performed a cover of Take That’s ‘A Million Love Songs’.
BROCKHAMPTON have shared another single from their final album, The Family. Following last week’s ‘Big Pussy’, ‘The Ending’ was produced by Boylife and is once again led by Kevin Abstract. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Joshuah Melnick, which you can check out below.
The Family is set to drop on November 17 via Question Everything/RCA Records.
Rihanna has shared her second single for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack. Following last month’s ‘Lift Me Up’, ‘Born Again’ was written by The-Dream, who also wrote Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ and ‘Birthday Cake’. Listen to it below.
‘Lift Me Up’, which marked Rihanna’s first new song as a lead artist in six years, was co-written with Tems, producer Ludwig Göransson, and director Ryan Coogler. The track was later accompanied by a music video directed by Autumn Durald Arkapaw.
Earlier this week, Rihanna held the fourth iteration of her Savage X Fenty lingerie fashion show. Anitta, Burna Boy, Don Toliver, and Maxwell performed on the program, which featured appearances from Johnny Depp, Taraji P. Henson, Taylour Paige, Simu Liu, and Bella Poarch, among other models.
A follow-up to Rihanna’s 2016 album Anti- has yet to be announced. In September, the singer announced that she would perform the Super Bowl halftime show.
Country Westerns have released a new song, ‘Money on the Table’. Produced by Matt Sweeney, the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Miranda Zipse. Check it out below.
“‘No money left on the table’ was Matt Sweeney’s mantra while making our new record,” vocalist Joseph Plunket said of the song in a statement. “Instead of crass commercialism or economic concerns, I took it to mean every song needed to be perfectly minted and we tried to comply. We came in with a lot of material ready to record but I still spent a lot of sleepless nights writing and rewriting between sessions. ‘Money on the Table’ is an ancient riff I’ve been kicking around for a decade-plus but never quite nailed it down.
“After a long day in the studio, I felt something was missing from the record as a whole and I went home, tackled the riff and wrote the lyrics in one sitting,” he continued. “We recorded the next morning in two takes. Even Sweeney agreed there was nothing left on the table.”
Iggy Pop has announced his new album, Every Loser. It’s scheduled for release on January 6 via Atlantic Records and producer Andrew Watt’s Gold Tooth Records. The follow-up to 2019’s Free will feature the previously shared single ‘Frenzy’, as well as contributions from the late Taylor Hawkins, Blink-182’s Travis Barker, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro and Eric Avery, and more. Check out the album’s tracklist and artwork by Raymond Pettibon below.
“I’m the guy with no shirt who rocks; Andrew and Gold Tooth get that, and we made a record together the old-fashioned way,” Iggy Pop said in a press release. “The players are guys I’ve known since they were kids and the music will beat the shit out of you.”
Andrew Watt added: “Iggy Pop is a fucking icon. A true original. The guy invented the stage dive…. I still can’t believe he let me make a record with him. I am honored. It doesn’t get cooler. This album was created to be played as loud as your stereo will go…. Turn it up and hold on…”
Every Loser Cover Artwork:
Every Loser Tracklist:
1. Frenzy
2. Strung Out Johnny
3. New Atlantis
4. Modern Day Rip Off
5. Morning Show
6. The News for Andy
7. Neo Punk
8. All the Way Down
9. Comments
10. My Animus Interlude
11. The Regency
Our love for films may be eternal, but that doesn’t mean they’re always easy to appreciate. The older we get, the more patterns become obvious, and more cliches and inaccuracies stick in our minds.
If this gets to us, there can be moments where lines or actions can drag us out of the experience, and make us laugh or scoff. As a remedy, we need to suspend our disbelief, but this always isn’t easy.
What is Suspension of Disbelief?
For anyone not aware of the term, suspension of disbelief refers to how we overlook parts of the media that are obviously wrong in favour of continuing to enjoy the plot.
Sometimes these moments involve components only an expert in a specific field could pick out, but other times they revolve around contradictions directly stated earlier in the movie. The varied nature of these deliberate or accidental oversights can be completely ignorable or frustrating, depending on the viewer.
The Good and Bad
Lucy, released in 2014, started with a great example of a terrible plot point. One of the film’s key lines claims that ‘most people only use around 10% of their brain’. To anyone who has even a passing understanding of the brain, we know that this is hilariously wrong. For psychologists, students, and people who paid attention to biology, this could make the entire following film eye-rolling terrible, as based on a widespread misconception.
Better examples where we can suspend disbelief centre around the main character having unusual levels of high luck. Consider when a character goes to a casino to play something like craps, for example. The odds of the player continuously winning on a 3 or 11 or 2 or 12 bet are low, but they’re still within the realm of realism. These are just odds, and odds can be beaten, so we tend to have an easier time accepting this scenario.
How do we Address a Suspension of Disbelief?
This is the question many of us face in the age of comic book films, where spectacle takes a front seat and science and good decisions are left behind. Ultimately, if something silly affects you deeply on a level, it’s impossible to overlook. There is a straightforward trick, however, that can help. In fan culture, this is called a headcanon, but the term can apply to all other viewers too.
A headcanon is the way you can add your own details into a world that explains what the writers or filmmakers overlooked or didn’t care about. For something like an entry in the MCU, for example, we can get by by thinking of their universe as one where the laws of physics are fundamentally different. In martial arts films, we can see their worlds as ones where the human body tires ten times slower than it does in real life, and so on. It might require relegating every film to a kind of science fiction in this way, but if it helps, it helps.
Margo Price has shared a new single, ‘Lydia’, taken from her upcoming album Strays. The track follows earlier offerings ‘Been to the Mountain’ and ‘Change of Heart’. Check it out below, along with a live performance video.
Discussing the new song, Price explained in a press release:
I wrote ‘Lydia’ in one sitting in a tiny hotel room after walking around the city of Vancouver one day. I was jet lagged and feeling really depressed, hopeless, but instead of taking a nap, I picked up the guitar and the words just flowed out all in one quick moment. I hit record on my phone to make a demo and sort of blacked out or went into this meditative state, and boom – eight minutes later, I had this song. It’s one of the only songs I’ve ever written that doesn’t have any real melody or even rhyme, but somehow it still works. Songs like that are rare and don’t come often.
It was inspired by a cacophony of things. There was a women’s health clinic and a methadone clinic with a needle exchange right outside of our venue. I was looking into the eyes of the people I passed and thinking about their stories and really being a conduit for pain.
The song feels like a premonition now, with women’s rights being stripped and all the abortion bans happening. When I listen back, I hear what might go through a woman’s mind when she has a difficult decision to make about her body, her choices and her future.
Fever Ray has announced Radical Romantics, their first new album in over five years. The 10-track LP is set to arrive on March 10 via Rabid Records. It will include the previously released single ‘What They Call Us’, which we named a Song of the Week, as well as a new track called ‘Carbon Dioxide’, co-produced by Vessel. Check it out below and scroll down for the LP’s cover art and tracklist.
Karin Dreijer started working on the follow-up to 2017’s Plunge in the fall of 2019 with their brother and former bandmate in the Knife, Olof Dreijer. Other co-producers and performers include Nine Inch Nails’rent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Portuguese DJ and producer Nídia, Johannes Berglund, Peder Mannerfelt, and Pär Grindvik. Longtime collaborator Martin Falck assisted Dreijer in constructing the visual world for the project.
Radical Romantics Cover Artwork:
Radical Romantics Tracklist:
1. What They Call Us
2. Shiver
3 New Utensils
4. Kandy
5. Even It Out
6. Looking for a Ghost
7. Carbon Dioxide
8. North
9. Tapping Fingers
10. Bottom of the Ocean
The Arcs have shared ‘Heaven Is a Place’, the second offering from their forthcoming album Electrophonic Chronic. Following lead track ‘Keep On Dreamin’, it arrives with an accompanying visual from director Robert “Roboshobo” Schober. Check it out below.
Electrophonic Chronic is the follow-up to the Dan Auerbach-led group’s 2015 debut Yours, Dreamily, and their first album since the passing of bandmate Richard Swift. It’s set for release on January 27 via Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound.
