Decisive Pink, the duo of Kate NV and Angel Deradoorian, have unveiled a new track called ‘Dopamine’. It’s set to appear on their upcoming album Ticket to Fame along with the previously released singles ‘Haffmilch Holiday’, ‘Destiny’, and ‘Ode to Boy’. Check out its JJ Stratford-directed video below.
Ticket to Fame is set for release on June 9 via Fire Records.
Joyer – the duo of brothers Nick and Shane Sullivan – have dropped a new single, ‘Silver Moon’, via Julia’s War Recordings, the label run by They Are Gutting a Body of Water’s Doug Dulgarian. The track was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Bradford Krieger at Big Nice Studio. Check out its accompanying video below.
“‘Silver Moon’ felt like a big change in approach for us as we shift to heavier and more energetic songwriting,” the band shared in a stateemnt. “The song touches on overcoming personal shortcomings and feelings of inferiority while making an effort to appreciate smaller aspects of life. This combined with the aggressive feel of the song makes it a really cathartic and satisfying one to play. It was written kind of a while ago and has been part of our live sets as of late. It’s definitely the most fun song for us to perform so we’re really excited to share the studio version of it.”
Joyer’s latest full-length, Perfect Gray, came out in 2021.
Ahead of the release of their new collaborative LP Orbweaving this Friday (May 12), Madeline Johnston (aka Midwife) and Angel Diaz (Vyva Melinkolya) have unveiled one more single, ‘Plague X’. Following the previously shared tracks ‘Miss America’ and ‘NMP’, the track is accompanied by a video shot by Jon Mcwilliams and edited by Angel Diaz. Check it out below.
“The ‘Plague X’ video was shot alongside recording the album in the summer of 2021,” Johnston explained in a statement. “The collected footage shows behind-the-scenes of our time together in and out of the studio. At night we went herping, or looking for reptiles (rattlesnakes) and wildlife, along the deserted roads near Las Cruces. A lot of the concepts interwoven into Orbweaving were informed by our residency spent in Southern New Mexico. The video is a document of this deeply meaningful and special time.”
“I wrote this song after a particularly special and memorable tour opening for Pedro the Lion in the west of the US,” Cornfield explained in a press release. “Something strong clicked on that tour, and I was experiencing joy on the road in a way I really hadn’t before, feeling fully present and just revelling in the company of my bandmates and taking in the spectacular landscape in a way that felt like a deep breath.” Cornfield says, “I had never really been to the desert before, to Southern Utah and Arizona, and I was very moved by it. This is a drifting summer song to me, about letting grief and anxiety go and feeling light and buzzed and in love and joyful.”
Ali Vanderkruyk commented: “The video is a 16mm travelogue following the hand of a wanderer writing postcards to a loved one back home. Each vignette acts as vessel for the lyrics for the song, acknowledging the beauty of home while observing the unfamiliar. We see the kitsch in chosen images for a postcard, as well as the ways one can personalize an object that is available to the masses.”
Geese have dropped a new single, ‘Mysterious Love’, lifted from their upcoming sophomore LP 3D Country. It follows the previously released song ‘Cowboy Nudes’ as well as the album’s title track. Check it out below.
“This song is about a dozen ‘90s rock cliches mixed into one little over-produced package,” frontman Cameron Winter explained in a statement. “We like the contrast in mood between the first and second halves. We used to punctuate the very end with one last hit and be done with it, but then one day Max [Bassin, drummer] just kept hitting his drums, and we kept doing the same ending hit for like, two minutes. When we recorded it, there were about 40 hits, but our label begged us to cut them out. We ended up at around 15 after negotiations.”
Trevor Powers has previewed the upcoming Youth Lagoon album with a new single, ‘The Sling’, which follows February’s ‘Idaho Alien’. Check it out via the accompanying video below.
Speaking about the track, Powers said in a press release: “For years, I’ve been chasing a phantom. This feeling of an unseen world deep inside of me. It’s why I make music. I have a compulsion to understand myself. Or learn to love myself. Maybe that’s the same thing. I’ve been asked by multiple people to describe ‘The Sling’ — where does it come from? What does it mean? Every time I start an explanation, I contradict myself. I’d consider it a song about time. And love. That I can say with confidence. I wrote it one night I felt trapped. The next morning I was free.”
Jessy Lanza has announced a new album, Love Hallucination, which is slated to arrive July 28 via Hyperdub. The 11-track LP finds Lanza working with producers including Jacques Greene, David Kennedy, Paul White, Jeremy Greenspan, and Marco ‘Tensnake’ Niermeski. It features the previously shared single ‘Don’t Leave Me Now’, as well as a new track, ‘Midnight Ontario’, which is out today. Check out a music video for it, directed by Infinite Vibes, below.
Commenting on the ‘Midnight Ontario’ visual, Infinite Vibes said: “I’m mostly trying to accentuate what I felt from the song which has a beautiful, hazy atmosphere that’s sometimes strangely unsettling – along with homages to LA & Ontario, with references to real life events that are rendered in a dreamy way. It’s based around a technique which I’ve been honing for a couple of years which involves creating 3D animations and augmenting them through AI, in this case Stable Diffusion. It’s been a really fun one to make and I can’t wait to hear the track nice and loud on some dancefloors.”
Love Hallucination Cover Artwork:
Love Hallucination Tracklist:
1. Don’t Leave Me Now
2. Midnight Ontario
3. Limbo
4. Casino Niagara
5. Don’t Cry On My Pillow
6. Big Pink Rose
7. Drive
8. I Hate Myself
9. Gossamer
10. Marathon
11. Double Time
Water From Your Eyes have shared ’14’, the latest single from their upcoming album and Matador debut, Everyone’s Crushed. Following previous cuts ‘Barley’ and ‘True Life’, the track arrives with a black and white music video directed by the band’s Rachel Brown. Check it out below.
According to the band, ’14’ is “a quasi-serial inkblot signifying submission to personal demons and the realization that change is both necessary and inevitable.” Of the video, Brown added: “I was largely inspired by Meshes of the Afternoon, Last Year in Marienbad, and Spirited Away, as well as the painting ‘The Triumph of Baccus’ by Diego Velázquez, a favorite of Nate’s. I wanted to capture the feeling of being haunted by one’s own inner turmoils and the act of letting those conflicts go.”
Louisville trio Wombo have announced a new EP, Slab, sharing a video for the title track. Following their 2022 album Fairy Rust, the EP arrives June 9 via Fire Talk. Check out the visual ‘Slab’, filmed by the band’s Sydney Chadwick, Cameron Lowe, and Joel Taylor, below.
“The lyrics were drawn up as soon as we wrote the song, while staring at the concrete walls in Joel’s basement,” Lowe explained in a statement. “The video imagines what would happen if we literally removed the basement wall and instead opened it to a stream of random scenes and ideas like a pharmacy, a replica of Sydney’s house and front porch, the imaginary bedroom, and a journal entry of Sydney’s about a dream she had.”
Angel Olsen has offered her take on ‘My Reverie’, a song popularized by Larry Clinton & His Orchestra. The cover was recorded for the new National Geographic limited series A Small Light, which features Este Haim as executive music producer. Check it out below.
A Small Light tells the story of Miep Giesa (played by Bel Powley), a Dutch woman of Austrian descent who helped hide Anne Frank and her family in her Amsterdam attic. The soundtrack, out May 23, features covers by Danielle Haim, Kamasi Washington, Weyes Blood, Moses Sumney, and others. Also today, Sharon Van Etten and Michael Imperioli shared their rendition of the Ink Spots’ ‘I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire’ for the show.