Lil Nas X has dropped the new song ‘Star Walkin’ (League of Legends Worlds Anthem)’, which accompanies the announcement that he is the new president of the competitive online game League of Legends. The track also serves as the anthem for this year’s League of Legends world championship. Check out a video for it below.
“I felt like it was time for me to try something new,” Lil Nas X said in a press release. “I’ve left my mark on pop culture in so many ways, and now it’s time to take on the world of gaming. I will be the greatest President, of League of Legends, of all time. Also I’m going to make the best Worlds anthem of all time and put on the biggest, coolest, sexiest Worlds in the history of all Worlds!”
He added: “STAR WALKIN’ is the only song anyone is allowed to listen to from now on. Swag fr!”
Earlier this year, Lil Nas X shared the NBA YoungBoy collaboration ‘Late to Da Party’.
Björk has released a new song, ‘Ancestress’, the latest preview of her upcoming album Fossora. A tribute to her late mother, the song arrives with a video directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, with co-creative direction by Björk and James Merry. Watch and listen below.
On Instagram, Björk wrote that ‘Ancestress’ one of two songs addressed to her late mother, “written after her worldly funeral and is probably a common musician’s reaction, the impulse of making your version of the story, later.” She elaborated:
this song is a letter to my mother , her story seen from my point of view it is written in chronological order , the first verse is my childhood and so on only recently did i discover that this song is probably somehow inspired by an icelandic song “grafskrift” which is somehow a very direct and patriarchial account of someones life i probably wanted to approach this in a more feminine way her biological and emotional story not her professions , partners or dates of birth and death
i am very grateful to my son , sindri eldon , to arrange and sing vocals for the verses as he has a delicious voice and was very close to her .
for 20 years i have not been able to attend funerals as something in them rubbed me the wrong way . possibly a big part of it is after having lived a life of thousand concerts , i probably have too strong ideas on how a ritual should be , what kinda sound , musical structure , words and it took me all this time to discover that for me all funerals should be outside . probably what was offending me most was how can one set off the spirit in such a claustrophobic environment as a church ? when the soul sets off , it needs to be outside so there is room for how enormous it becomes when it merges with the elements
Fossora comes out on September 30. So far, it’s been previewed with the singles ‘Ovule’ and ‘Atopos’.
Alvvays have released two new singles, ‘Belinda Says’ and ‘Very Online Guy’, which will appear on their upcoming album Blue Rev. They both come paired with videos co-directed by Colby Richardson and the band’s Molly Rankin and Alec O’Hanley. Check them out below.
The band had this to say about the new songs in a statement:
Two new lambs for the cultural volcano! One more sweet slurp of alcopop dedicated to the girls wiping tables called ‘Belinda Says’ and the dial-up electronic dream ‘Very Online Guy.’
We painted and shot the Belinda Says video in our living room. We directed a mosaic-mode vid for ‘V.O.G’. with our videoguru friend Colby. This was easily the funnest thing we’ve ever shot. Enjoy our clunky low-bit collage of aliased key clacking and step-dance scramble on your CRTs.
Indigo Sparke has shared a video for ‘Hysteria’, the title track and latest single from her forthcoming Aaron Dessner-produced album. It follows previous entries ‘Blue’ and ‘Pressure in My Chest’. Watch and listen below.
“This song is about being inside of love, right at the edge of hysteria,” Sparke explained ina statement. “There is often an axis point in things. A place where things can tip into chaos or become unhinged. A marker point. As beautiful and turbulent as these moments are, sometimes it’s hard to return from them to a place that makes sense and feels safe. I think for so long and maybe still, sometimes, I find it hard to keep my balance in love. So many fireworks. So many sorry’s. So much hope. So much deep yearning. So much joy. So much poignant reflection in the tidal pools of intimacy. This song was the birth place of the whole album. I had this song and the title before the rest found a home inside of this world too. I am still trying to unravel the bitter sweet nature of love and longing. What it means to truly let go. What it means to truly love.”
Nina Gofur, who directed the song’s visual, said: “Indigo’s voice has this unique vulnerability to it. It’s simultaneously tender and raw, yet possesses a lot of strength. Her lyrics wrap around you like a silver thread, stitching together different feelings you’ve been afraid to acknowledge. When I first heard the song I wanted to honor the feeling it elicited – an ode to reconciling the parts of yourself that seem to be in a tug of war. Indigo’s constant motion paints a blurred image of her either running away or returning to herself. Ultimately, she welcomes Hysteria as a guest; a temporary visitor. I wanted the visual to speak to the temporality of Hysteria and all the beautifully complex feelings it brings.”
Sophie Jamieson has released a new track, ‘Downpour’, alongside an accompanying video directed by herself and Ros Bullard. Check it out below.
The new song is lifted from Jamieson’s debut album Choosing, which is slated for release December 2 via Bella Union and was led by the single ‘Sink’. “This song came from a desperate need to fill a void I could not seem to fill myself,” the singer-songwriter explained in a statement. “I wanted to fix, and be fixed by somebody who was in no position to do so. I was blinded by this idea that they were the way out of my pain, and when they said no, the walls came tumbling in every time and I didn’t know how to hold them up.”
“The video was filmed at my local riverside in South East London,” Jamieson added. “I was fascinated by the movement of water and everything that changes its direction and its force. The way it both moves around, and pushes against everything it touches… even pushing against itself and eventually calming down. The way it has the ability to create space, and also to overwhelm, to drown.”
SZNZ: Autumn, the latest installment of Weezer’s seasonally themed EP series, has arrived on the official first day of fall. As they did around the release of their Spring and Summer EPs earlier this year, the band also performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night (September 21). Watch them play ‘What Happens After You’ and stream SZNZ: Autumn below.
Miss Grit, the moniker of New York-based, Korean-American artist Margaret Sohn, has announced their signing to Mute Records with a new single called ‘Like You’. Give it a listen below.
“I had the character of Ex Machina in mind as the voice I was singing from,” Sohn said of the song in a statement. “Her arc in the movie felt really beautiful to me, and I wanted to reach the same ending as her in this song.”
They added: “Mute is one of the labels I put on a pedestal in my mind. So the fact I was even on their radar was really flattering. And then to think they believed in my music enough to want to work together made me so happy.”
Peel Dream Magazine have shared a new single, ‘Hiding Out’. It’s taken from their upcoming album Pad, which includes the previously unveiled cuts ‘Pictionary’ and the title track. Check it out below, along with a video in which the band goes out surfing.
Speaking about the video, Peel Dream Magazine’s Joseph Stevens said in a statement:
“I’m originally from New York and I’d never surfed before, but I’ve met quite a few surfers here in LA and it has an obvious mystique. I asked my friend Leon if he had an extra board and if he would take me to one of his spots in Malibu, and we managed to rope our friend Bryce into filming it. I thought it would be funny to do the anti-surfing video, where all I do is fall over and over again, and I think we achieved that. You see the raw beauty of the landscape and the incredible vibes that were felt that day. There’s an obvious Beach Boys connection there too — when I think of my favorite album ‘Friends,’ this song and video channel that energy. Pure, but a little twisted. The song is about needing space, and funny enough, all of the lyrics are about me walking around Queens during quarantine. Calvary is a cemetery in Woodside that I would walk to regularly (“They guard the gates at Calvary, a secret place to be”), and I talk about wandering up to the Queensboro Bridge. On the one hand I’m downtrodden, but in the chorus, I enter my own secret world full of magic and color. It’s odd to be singing a song about New York from the cliffs of Malibu, but then again I am hiding aren’t I?
“‘in a breath’ is from my heart. It’s a song I’ve held on to for years,” said Pinkshift’s Ashrita Kumar, who wrote the track in 2018. “It’s a dive into my core, my greatest hopes, desires, loneliness, traumas, and fears. It’s a song about feeling dissociated from my body and fighting to stay alive despite it. It explores the existence of an impossible reality, contemplates the existence of a god, and contemplates our capacity to love and be loved. It’s about guilt, shame, redemption, and acceptance.”
Alice Glass has released her new song ‘Lips Apart’, which she’s been performing live since 2018. The track was co-produced by Matt Radd and Jupiter Io. Listen to it below.
Alice Glass issued her debut solo album, PREY//IV, back in February. She’s currently touring North America in support of the record.
