Beth Orton has released a new song, ‘Fractals’, the latest offering from her forthcoming album Weather Alive. The track features Aabaster dePlume on saxophone, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and bassist Tom Herbert of The Invisible. Listen to it below.
“The track is a beautiful example of the nature of collaboration, where people come in as they are,” Orton said in a statement. “You’re hearing the first take. I would never have been able to conjure that music without these musicians.”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced three new albums – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, Laminated Denim, and Changes — which will all drop in October. Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava arrives on October 7, followed by Laminated Denim on October 12 and Changes on October 28. Check out the new single ‘Ice V’ below, along with the details for each LP.
Discussing Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, the band’s Stu Mackenzie said in a statement: “All we had prepared as we walked into the studio were these seven song titles. I have a list on my phone of hundreds of possible song titles. I’ll never use most of them, but they’re words and phrases I feel could be digested into King Gizzard-world.”
Of Laminated Denim, Mackenzie noted that the title is “an anagram of Made In Timeland,” the King Gizard record that came out in March.
“I think of Changes as a song-cycle,” Mackenzie said of the band’s fifth album of 2022. “Every song is built around this one chord progression — every track is like a variation on a theme. But I don’t know if we had the musical vocabulary yet to complete the idea at that time. We recorded some of it then, including the version of ‘Exploding Suns’ that’s on the finished album. But when the sessions were over, it just never felt done. It was like this idea that was in our heads, but we just couldn’t reach. We just didn’t know yet how to do what we wanted to do.”
“It’s not necessarily our most complex record, but every little piece and each sound you hear has been thought about a lot,” Mackenzie added.
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava Cover Artwork:
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava Tracklist:
1. Mycelium
2. Ice V
3. Magma
4. Lava
5. Hell’s Itch
6. Iron Lung
7. Gliese 710
Laminated Denim Cover Artwork:
Laminated Denim Tracklist:
1. The Land Before Timeland
2. Hypertension
Changes Cover Artwork:
Changes Tracklist:
1. Change
2. Hate Dancin’
3. Astroturf
4. No Body
5. Gondii
6. Exploding Suns
7. Short Change
Loraine James has shared a new track from her upcoming album Building Something Beautiful For Me, which pays homage to the late New York composer Julius Eastman. It’s called ‘Choose to Be Gay’, and it riffs on Eastman’s ‘Femenine’. Listen to it below.
Building Something Beautiful For Me is scheduled for release on October 7 via Phantom Limb. It includes the previously unveiled song ‘Maybe If I (Stay On It)’.
Hailey Beavis has announced her debut album, I’ll Put You Where The Trombone Slides, which arrives November 4 via Ok Pal Records. To accompany the announcement, the indie folk artist has shared a new single called ‘Crow’. Check it out, along with the LP’s cover and tracklist, below.
“Looking back at my life, I could suddenly see the pattern, and I felt like the wrong type of animal, always trying to fit the mould and be something for somebody else,” Beavis said of ‘Crow’ in a press release. “But at some point you have to accept your own true nature instead of trying to make it small and hidden. You have to be uncompromising and you have to walk away from things.”
Talking about the album, she added: “I want to throw a rope around every feeling, every moment and haul it around with me just as much as I want to set it all on fire and be free. Making an album seems like the perfect compromise. A place to put it all. I like the idea of all of this abstract emotion perpetually suspended in the act of the trombone being played. It’s quite a surreal thought, yet it’s comforting to me.”
I’ll Put You Where The Trombone Slides Cover Artwork:
I’ll Put You Where The Trombone Slides Tracklist:
1. Anything That Shines
2. Shipwreck
3. Sinking Sunset
4. All It Takes
5. Crow
6. Blackbird
7. Shot At The Coconut
8. Shark Bite
9. New Heat
10. Happier
11. Back To The Water
The WAEVE, the new project consisting of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall, has announced their self-titled debut album. It arrives on February 3, 2023 via Transgressive. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared a video for the new single ‘Can I Call You’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
THE WAEVE was recorded earlier this year with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence & The Machine, Foals, HAIM). The band released the standalone single ‘Something Pretty’ back in May.
The WAEVE Cover Artwork:
The WAEVE Tracklist:
1. Can I Call You
2. Kill Me Again
3. Over And Over
4. Sleepwalking
5. Drowning
6. Someone Up There
7. All Along
8. Undine
9. Alone And Free
10. You’re All I Want To Know
Brooklyn-based post-punk band S.C.A.B. have announced their self-titled album, which will drop on November 11 via Grind Select. Lead single ‘Tuesday’ is out today and comes with an accompanying video directed by Matthew Marino. Check it out below.
“‘Tuesday’ is a song about disillusionment with trying to form meaningful connections, and searching aimlessly for something worthwhile,” the band’s Sean Camargo said in a statement. “There’s a scene from Seinfeld where Newman says “Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel…” and that type of unspecific, hard to pinpoint vibe is what I wanted to express with the lyrics… you’re trying to get through the week, find any ounce of happiness to cling on to (sitting in the sun, feeling it burning your skin), looking for something but not finding it.”
S.C.A.B. Cover Artwork:
S.C.A.B. Tracklist:
1. Why Do I Dream Of You
2. MTA LUX
3. Small Talk
4. Tuesday
5. C86
6. Six Songs Into Your Spotify Playlist
7. Beige and Green
8. Myrtle-Wyckoff
9. Rockefeller Pleather
10. Pink Tire
“‘Key to the City’ is a song that stemmed from a very specific situation in my life but that I hope has a more universal resonance,” Asha Lorenz explained in a press release. “It’s meant as a kind of tender ‘fuck you’ at the dying moment of a relationship you don’t necessarily want to end – when it’s hard to reconcile feelings of anger, jealousy, resentment etc. with the undeniable love you still have for that person. That crossover of pride and vulnerability led me to an image of a deer in the headlights. It’s about trying your hardest to retain control when you know you’re exposed emotionally, sexually, spiritually, everything. In the nude of the headlights, in the nude of someone’s love.”
She continued: “The song came together after the original recording session and stemmed from Louis experimenting with new tunings to give us a bit of a push. This one has a Nick Drake feel. We wanted it to sound cinematic and lonely.”
Philadelphia’s 2nd Grave have released a new song, ‘Me & My Blue Angels’, lifted from their forthcoming second LP Easy Listening. Check it out below.
“I wrote ‘Me & My Blue Angels’ about my band, but really it goes out to anyone who you trust 100% to have your back when the shit hits the fan,” the band’s Peter Gill explained in a statement. “As a kid I would go to the air show in Brunswick, Maine and be awed by the sights and sounds of stunt planes overhead performing dangerous aerial fugues in tight formation. The melody and overall composition here are meant to emulate the force, grace, grandiosity, and technical precision of the Blue Angels’ flight paths.”
Courtney Maries has unveiled her new single ‘These Are the Good Old Days’, the latest preview of her forthcoming album Loose Future. Check it out below.
“‘These are the good old days’ is a saying my uncle always says to try and remind us of the beauty of the now,” Andrews explained in a statement. “I tend to always live in a constant state of hindsight being 20/20, and I wanted to write this as a sort of mantra to honor my family’s sentiment. I also genuinely wanted to write a feel-good song after such a dark few years. Even in the saddest of times, there are little moments you’ll always look back on with a fondness that don’t seem so sad after all – they seem perfectly placed.”
Loose Future is slated for release on October 7 via Fat Possum. ‘These Are the Good Old Days’ follows the previously shared singles ‘Satellite’ and the title track.
