The Go! Team have released a new track, ‘Look Away, Look Away’, which features the Benin-based vocal group The Star Feminine Band. It’s taken from their upcoming album Get Up Sequences Part Two, which has already been previewed with the IndigoYaj-assisted ‘Divebomb’. Check it out below.
“I heard about a really interesting group from Benin called the Star Feminine Band,” the band’s Ian Parton explained in a press release. “They’re a group of singers between the ages of 12 and 19, formed by the father of two of the girls in the group who was hoping to inspire change in the way women and girls were treated in Benin. He founded a free music school for girls with the help of the local government, which is where the Star Feminine Band was born. I got in touch and a day later we were on Zoom with me in Brighton and the band in Natitingou in Benin. A month later a team travelled from the capital of Benin to their hometown with a mobile sound recording setup to record their vocals, with the lyrics written by them in French. They gave it a charging, all-out gang vocal that I wasn’t expecting but really love.”
White Reaper have announced their next album, Asking for a Ride, with a Lance Bangs-directed music video for the new song ‘Pages’. The follow-up to 2019’s You Deserve Love drops January 27 via Elektra Entertainment. Check out ‘Pages’ below.
White Reaper recorded and largely self-produced the new LP in Nashville with assistance from engineer Jeremy Ferguson. Guitarist/vocalist Tony Esposito remarked in a statement: “We ask ourselves: ‘Does it sound good when we play it in the room together?’ And if it does, those are the songs we want to pursue.” Guitarist Hunter Thompson added, “We started to recognize how we operate best as a band.”
Commenting on the new single, Esposito said: “It seems like ‘Pages’ could’ve easily existed on one of our earlier records, it’s just a few chords and a simple melody; but because of that, I’d say that it’s pretty unique to the rest of our new album. We can’t wait to show everyone what we’ve been working on.”
Lance Bangs added: “White Reaper are a joy to make things with, 5 guys that are good company in recording studios, house parties, live shows, and anywhere else you can spend time among them. We had a great experience shooting saturated color motion picture film on handheld cameras for the ‘Real Long Time’ video for their previous album, and I wanted to get everyone together for an outdoor daylight look in one of my favorite architectural public spaces, the Keller Fountain in Portland Oregon. It was designed in the late 60s and opened to the public in 1970. It’s an enduring free space where people can spend time. We filmed on a bright, warm afternoon and conjured up a video that feels like the song: dynamic, catchy, genuine.”
Asking for a Ride Cover Artwork:
Asking for a Ride Tracklist:
1. Asking for a Ride
2. Bozo
3. Fog Machine
4. Getting into Trouble w/ the Boss
5. Funny Farm
6. Pink Slip
7. Heaven or Not
8. Crawlspace
9. Thorn
10. Pages
King Tuff (aka Kyle Thomas) has announced a new album, Smalltown Stardust, which will be out on January 27 via Sub Pop. Today, Kyle Thomas has previewed the LP with a video for the title track. Check it out below, along with the album’s cover art and tracklist.
The follow-up to 2018’s The Other was co-produced and largely co-written with SASAMI. In a press release, Thomas described it as “an album about love and nature and youth.” He added of the title track:
The truth is I never really wanted to leave my little town in Vermont. I knew it was something I had to do in order to actually pursue a career as a musician, but I loved my life there, and I cried and cried the day I left on a Greyhound bus for LA in 2011. In some alternate dimension there’s a version of me still living there, still hanging on the stoop, drawing pictures in the coffeeshop, walking the railroad tracks that run along the river… but alas, in this here dimension, I’m nothing but a townie without a town! ‘Smalltown Stardust’ is a song about keeping that little place and all its strange magic with me wherever I go. It’s a portal that I can access when I need inspiration, or when the city feels too big and hot and I need to mentally escape into some dark woods. It’s a place I found myself going to often in the last few years while I was writing this record, stuck in scorched and crispy ol’ Los Angeles, so it felt fitting as an album title as well as the first song to release into the world. Enjoy!
Smalltown Stardust Cover Artwork:
Smalltown Stardust Tracklist:
1. Love Letters To Plants
2. How I Love
3. A Meditation
4. Portrait of God
5. Smalltown Stardust
6. Pebbles in a Stream
7. Tell Me
8. Rock River
9. The Bandits of Blue Sky
10. Always Find Me
11. The Wheel
“I wrote ‘annual birthday cry’ just after I turned seventeen,” Carroll explained in a statement. “I was feeling overwhelmed with growing up in a world that feels so dark and unsafe. I guess I’ve always just thought ‘oh when I’m older I’ll have this figured out’ and then each year goes by and I still have absolutely no clue how to be a human being! The song is a brain dump of all of my fears, and it’s not the happiest thing I’ve made but I think I just needed to get it all out.”
Carrol released her debut EP, when the sun came up, earlier this year.
Winter has shared the music video for ‘crimson enclosure’, a track from her latest album What Kind of Blue Are You?. The visual arrives ahead of a headline tour of the East Coast with Peel Dream Magazine that kicks off this weekend. Watch it below.
“Crimson is my favorite song off the record,” Winter said in a press release. “It’s heavy and fucked up. It’s pure saturation and sludge. A play on words with the classic ‘Crimson and Clover’ it’s an anthem to the post-break up longing of an ex.”
Andrew Bird and Phoebe Bridgers have collaborated on a new single reimagining Emily Dickinson’s ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’. Listen to the duet below.
Andrew Bird released his latest album, Inside Problems, earlier this year. “I came across this Emily Dickinson poem and found it to be the most vivid description of an inner world I’ve ever encountered,” he explained in a statement. “It became an inspiration for the songs on Inside Problems. Who better to sing it with than Phoebe Bridgers? I sent her a demo and so, here we are. Thanks to Ms. Dickinson’s publisher at Harvard University Press for allowing us to use this poem. As I understand, her poems weren’t published as she intended them until the 1950s – that is, without the heavy hand of her male editors.”
Algiers have announced their new album: Shook comes out February 24 via Matador. The follow-up to 2020’s There Is No Year will include the previously released single ‘Bite Back’ (with billy woods and Backxwash), as well as the new track ‘Irreversible Damage’, which features Zack de la Rocha. “The end of that song is the sound of joy,” frontman Franklin James Fisher said in a statement. “That’s what hope sounds like in 2022 when everything’s falling apart.” Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.
Spanning 17 tracks, the LP also includes collaborations with Big Rube (The Dungeon Family), Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher), LaToya Kent (Mourning [A] BLKstar), Nadah El Shazly, DeForrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music), Patrick Shiroishi, Lee Bains III, and Mark Cisneros (Hammered Hulls, The Make-Up, Kid Congo Powers).
“I think this record is us finding home,” bassist Ryan Mahan said. Fisher added: “It was a whole new positive experience — having a renewed relationship with the city we’re from and having a pride in that. I like the idea that this record has taken you on a voyage but it begins and ends in Atlanta.”
Shook Cover Artwork:
Shook Tracklist:
1. Everybody Shatter [feat. Big Rube]
2. Irreversible Damage
3. 73%
4. Cleanse Your Guilt Here
5. As It Resounds [feat. Big Rube]
6. Bite Back [feat. billy woods & Backxwash]
7. Out of Style Tragedy [feat. Mark Cisneros]
8. Comment #2
9. A Good Man
10. I Can’t Stand It! [feat. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews]
11. All You See Is
12. Green Iris
13. Born [feat. LaToya Kent]
14. Cold World [feat. Nadah El Shazly]
15. Something Wrong
16. An Echophonic Soul [feat. DeForrest Brown Jr. & Patrick Shiroishi]
17. Momentary [feat. Lee Bains III]
Algiers 2023 Tour Dates:
Thu Feb 9 – Ireland, Dublin, Workman’s
Wed Feb 15 – Belgium, Brussels, Botanique Rotonde
Thu Feb 16 – Switzerland, Winterthur Salzhaus
Fri Feb 17 – Italy, Ravenna, Bronson
Sat Feb 18 – Italy, Pordenone, Capitol
Mon Feb 20 – Slovenia, Ljubljana, Kino Šiška
Tue Feb 21 – Austria, Vienna, Flex
Wed Feb 22 – Austria, Linz, Posthof
Fri Feb 24 – Czech Republic, Prague, Lucerna Music Bar
Sat Feb 25 – Poland, Warsaw, Niebo
Wed Mar 1 – Germany, Dresden, Beatpol
Thu Mar 2 – Germany, Berlin, Hole44
Fri Mar 3 – Germany, Bielefeld, Forum
Sat Mar 4 – Germany, Schorndorf, Manufaktur
Sun Mar 5 – Germany, Cologne, Club Volta
Tue Mar 7 – France, Paris, Petit Bain
Wed 8 Mar – UK London, The Dome
Berlin-based musician LSDXOXO has released a new single called ‘Freak’. Following recent offerings ‘DRaiN’ and ‘Demons’ (featuring Eartheater), the track comes alongside an accompanying visual made in collaboration with Maurice Andresen. Check it out below.
“Something I made to step out of the heady process that is finalizing a debut album as a new writer and even newer vocalist,” LSDXOXO said in a statement. “‘Freak’ is the closing summary of a summer spent as a digital diva constantly on the move. Tour life isn’t always sexy, but when it is, it’s something to write home about!”
Philip Selway has announced a new LP, Strange Dance, which will be released on February 24 via Bella Union. It features guest contributions from Hannah Peel, Adrian Utley, Quinta, Marta Salogni, Valentina Magaletti, and Laura Moody. Listen to the lead single ‘Check for Signs of Life’ below.
Strange Dance marks Selway’s first solo album since 2014’s Weatherhouse, though in recent years he has worked on the soundtracks for the films Let Me Go and Carmilla. “The scale of it was very deliberate for me, from the outset,” Selway said of the album in a press release. “I wanted the soundscape to be broad and tall but somehow get it to wrap around this intimate vocal at the heart of it.”
He added: “One of the things I’ve liked about this record is it’s me as a 55-year-old not trying to hide that fact. It feels kind of unguarded rather than seeing that ageing process as something that needs to be hidden.”
Strang Dance Cover Artwork:
Strang Dance Tracklist:
1. Little Things
2. What Keeps You Awake At Night
3. Check For Signs Of Life
4. Picking Up Pieces
5. The Other Side
6. Strange Dance
7. Make It Go Away
8. The Heart Of It All
9. Salt Air
10. There’ll Be Better Days
Feeble Little Horse have announced their signing to Saddle Creek. Today, the label has re-released the Pittsburgh band’s debut album,Hayday, which arrived last year via Julia’s War Recordings. It includes the previously unreleased ‘Dog Song 2’, a full-band version of ‘Dog Song (Wet Jeans)’, as well as a remix of ‘Termites’ by Full Body 2. They’ve also shared an animated video for the album track ‘Chores’, created by Corrinne James. Check it out below.
Feeble Little Horse was formed by Sebastian Kinsler (guitar, production, vocals, bass) and Ryan Walchonski (guitar, vocals) in February 2021, and has since expanded into a four-piece featuring Jake Kelley and Lydia Slocum. Haydya was preceded by the Modern Tourism EP.
