Kelela has dropped a new song called ‘Happy Ending’, which was produced by LSDXOXO with additional production from Bambii. It arrives with an accompanying video Kelela co-directed with Alima Lee that highlights Black rave culture in New York City. Check it out below.
Last month, Kelela returned with her first single in four years, ‘Washed Away’.
John Cale has announced a new album, Mercy, which is set for release on January 20 via Double Six/Domino. The LP will include the previously released single ‘Night Crawling’, as well as the new track ‘Story of Blood’, which features Weyes Blood. Check out its Jethro Waters-directed music video below, and scroll down for the album artwork and tracklist.
“I’d been listening to Weyes Blood’s latest record and remembered Natalie’s puritanical vocals,” Cale said of the collaboration in a press release. “I thought if I could get her to come and sing with me on the ‘Swing your soul’ section, and a few other harmonies, it would be beautiful. What I got from her was something else! Once I understood the versatility in her voice, it was as if I’d written the song with her in mind all along. Her range and fearless approach to tonality was an unexpected surprise. There’s even a little passage in there where she’s a dead-ringer for Nico.”
Mercy also features contributions from Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Actress, and more. Weyes Blood’s upcoming album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, comes out November 18.
Mercy Tracklist:
1. Mercy [ft. Laurel Halo]
2. Marilyn Monroe’s Legs (Beauty Elsewhere) [feat. Actress]
3. Noise of You
4. Story of Blood
5. Time Stands Still [feat. Sylvan Esso]
6. Moonstruck (Nico’s Song)
7. Everlasting Days [feat. Animal Collective]
8. Night Crawling
9. Not the End of the World
10. The Legal Status of Ice [feat. Fat White Family]
11. I Know You’re Happy [feat. Tei Shi]
12. Out Your Window
London-based artist Duval Timothy has announced his new album, Meeting With a Judas Tree, which arrives on November 11 via Carrying Colour. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the single ‘Mutate’. Give it a listen below.
The follow-up to 2020’s Help includes guest contributions from Yu Su, Fauzia, and Lamin Fofana. Timothy recorded it on different pianos, including “an upright in Freetown that had lost the felt of its hammers due to the humidity creating a harpsichord-like sound as the raw wood struck the strings.” Other instruments prominently featured are Moog Grandmother, double bass, electric guitar, and Juno-G.
“While making this record, I wanted to explore what the natural environment means
personall,” Timothy explained. “I went on many trips into nature to engage with plant life and natural materials. “These included everyday strolls around South London, walks with my mum in the hills surrounding Bath (‘Up’), hikes through Freetown, the hills of Spoleto, up line in Ghana and nature sanctuaries in Sierra Leone (‘Wood’). I found incredible examples of nature in all of these contexts, which I felt personally close.”
Meeting With a Judas Tree Cover Artwork:
Meeting With a Judas Tree Tracklist:
1. Plunge
2. Wood [feat. Yu Su]
3. Mutate
4. Up
5. Thunder [feat. Fauzia]
6. Drift [feat. Lamin Fofana]
Old Fire, the project of Abilene, Texas-based composer John Mark Lapham, has shared a new song, ‘Window Without a World’, which features Julia Holter. It’s the third and final single off his sophomore LP Voids, which is out November 4 and also includes collaborations with Bill Callahan, Adam Torres, and Emily Cross, among others. Listen below.
The new track also features Robin Allender on electric guitar and loops, Christian Madden on vocoder, Audrey Harrer on harp, Thor Harris on xylophone, Joseph Shabason on saxophone, and Joe Ryan on drums. Discussing the song in a statement, Lapham said:
I randomly recorded a vocal sample off Julia Holter’s song ‘World’ and had it laying around my hard drive for a while. Some time after, I sampled some sounds from ‘Don’t You Go’ and started re-arranging them (most Old Fire ideas begin this way). It struck me quite randomly that Julia’s vocal would fit nicely on top of this arrangement, and amazingly, it fit perfectly like they were written for each other. I had pursued her initially for a collaboration but the timing was always off. When this track came together, I knew this would in some sense be our ‘collaboration.’ I was really happy to have her beautiful voice appear on the album. I originally had programmed a lot of the woodwind parts to appear on the instrumental closer ‘Circles,’ then transposed them in an arrangement for ‘Don’t You Go,’ then finally moved them over to this track. The way all the parts fit so well together felt serendipitous. My good friend David (DM) Stith provided some vocoder vocal textures for the end.
Holter added, “I loved to hear the way Old Fire sampled ‘World’ and made it into something of their own and very moving.”
Complete Mountain Almanac – the collaborative project of Norwegian musician Rebekka Karijord and poet, dancer, and multimedia artist Jessica Dessner – have announced their self-titled debut album. It comes out January 27 via Bella Union. Today, Complete Mountain Almanac have shared its lead single, ‘May’, alongside a video directed by Olof Grind. Watch and listen below.
Complete Mountain Almanac features contributions from Jessica’s twin brothers, Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National. The original concept for the project was to write an album about climate change in 12 suites that would represent the 12 months of the year. After Karijord reached out to Jessica Dessner to craft the visual component of the album, Jessica was diagnosed with breast cancer, which inspired a poetry collection titled Complete Mountain Almanac that ended up serving as the lyrical matter for the project.
Karijord and the Dessners convened in Paris’ St. Germain studios to work on fleshing out Karijord’s demos. Karijord then added minimal textures including horns and synthesizers, while Bryce Dessner composed string arrangements for six songs that were performed by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
Complete Mountain Almanac Cover Artwork:
Complete Mountain Almanac Tracklist:
1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December
The story of Killer Sally is one of the most infamous crimes in bodybuilding history. National bodybuilding champion, Ray McNeil, was choking his bodybuilder wife, Sally, when she grabbed a gun and fatally shot him twice. With a documented history of domestic abuse, Sally claimed it was self-defense, a split-second decision to save her life. The prosecution argued it was premeditated murder, the revenge of a jealous and aggressive wife. They called her a “thug,” a “bully,” a “monster”. The media referred to her as the “brawny bride” and the “pumped-up princess”. Sally says she spent her life doing whatever it took to survive, caught in a cycle of violence that began in childhood and ended with Ray’s death. This complex true crime story examines domestic violence, gender roles, and the world of bodybuilding. It’s directed by award winning filmmaker, Nanette Burstein (On The Ropes, Hillary) and is produced by Traci Carlson, Robert Yapkowitz and Richard Peete of Neighborhood Watch (Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, Blue Ruin).
Killer Sally comes on Netflix from the 2nd of November.
Watch the trailer for the documentary below.
NYC-based collective MICHELLE have released a new track, ‘PULSE’, alongside a visual designed by Juliet Bryant. Check it out below.
“‘PULSE’ is for release and for some sharp and glowing feeling when you lock eyes with a lover,” the group stated in a press release. “‘PULSE’ is for the dance floor. When the heat is cranked from moving bodies and a shared wanting, ‘PULSE’ is playing.”
MICHELLE’s second album, AFTER DINNER WE TALK DREAMS, came out via Transgressive back in March.
As long as you feel financially stable, getting a personal loan shouldn’t be something you worry about. In fact, personal loans can be very beneficial to most people. They not only help you spread the costs of a big purchase safely, but they can also help you manage your finances, help you if you struggle to save and are not as difficult to get as you may think.
They can be used for most purposes, whether it’s a big purchase or something small and can be acquired no matter your age – as long as you are an adult. Thinking about getting a personal loan and want to know how to qualify for a personal loan? Below are some of our top tips to get your first personal loan.
To start with, whenever you are considering borrowing money, check the interest rate first. The interest rate is very important and you want to go for the lowest one being offered possible. Essentially, the lower the interest rate the more money you will be paying back on top of the load you have borrowed. For example, a 5% interest rate means that you will be paying back 5% interest on the loan until it’s paid back. Some personal loans will offer a 0% interest rate which is ideal as this means you aren’t paying any interest on the money being borrowed. The lower the interest rate, the quicker you will be able to pay it back and reduce the amount of your personal loan. If you are into fashion, you may find a lot of fashion companies offer 0% interest when buying their clothes.
In order to get a personal loan you need to pass their credit checks. When running a check they will take a look at your credit score and judge you from that. If they think your score is too low, they may offer you a lower loan with a higher interest rate. The better your credit score, the more you will be able to borrow and the interest rate may potentially be lower. In order to maintain a healthy credit score, you want to ensure you do not miss any credit payments. The more payments you miss, the lower your score will be.
This is really a life point and something you should apply to anything you are doing on a day-to-day basis. Whenever you are looking to buy something in life, make sure you buy it from a credible company. The same rules apply when getting your first personal loan. Before signing up do your research on the company and ensure it’s from a reputable company that you can trust. Read the reviews from current users and ask your friends and family members about the company. Often a quick Google search will come up with a number of results about the company. Also, check who they are regulated by as in order to give out loans, they need to be regulated by an official governing body.
It’s important that whatever you are paying each month is affordable. Try to choose a fixed rate loan as this will be easier to budget. Stretching loans out over several years can reduce monthly repayments. Of course, this does mean paying more interest in the long run, which is something you need to weigh up.
While personal loans can have their benefits, there are other ways of acquiring extra money that don’t require paying anything back. This could include selling possessions you don’t need, looking into local grants or even using a personal injury lawyer to win you some financial compensation. It depends on what you are borrowing money for as to what your alternative options may be – sometimes a loan may be the only viable solution.
Leftield have teamed up with Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten for the new song ‘Full Way Round’. It’s the latest preview of their forthcoming album This Is What We Do, which is due out December 2 via Virgin. Listen to it below.
“‘Full Way Round’ was a perfect collaboration between beats and good vibes,” the group said in a statement. “Hard work and fun. Grian’s vocal is a free-flowing journey to be felt and experienced, rather than analysed. His energy and enthusiasm spits out from the speakers. Whenever I hear it, I’m reminded of the excitement in the studio when he recorded it.”
NYC artist Breanna Barbara has previewed her upcoming LP Nothin’ But Time – out November 11 via Fuzz Club – with a new single titled ‘Weaning’. It’s the third single from the album, following ‘Diamond Light’ and ‘Landslide’. Check it out via the accompanying vidoe below.
“‘Weaning’ is a song that’s followed me throughout the years,” Barbara explained in a statement. “When I go to record a new album I have mostly new songs but there are always a couple of older ones that will resurface from the vault. In the past, I found myself in relationship after relationship and, once deep inside them, I would pretty consistently want out for one reason or another. It was a pattern I followed for years and had a lot of guilt surrounding it. I think life in general requires us to wean off of certain relationships, starting with our own mother and all the way up to past versions of ourselves. For me this recording really captures the intensity and often pain that can come with grieving those relationships.”
Director Velasco said of the video: “When Breanna and I started talking about the concept for the video, the premise was to stay away from the cliche of the breaking up part and to focus on the transformation process of the person walking away from a relationship that is no longer working. In that sense, the concept of weaning became crucial and so we thought on how to visually portray it. Transformation and evolution isn’t easy, so we embraced that idea and added the element of being reborn, in a messy and even psychedelic process that concludes in a new empowered being that can feel very alien. We also wanted to give it a bold and uneasy atmosphere and look, so we decided to shoot it on film and work with different frame rates, inspired by some of the great music videos from the 90s by Floria Sigismondi, one of my favourite music video directors.”
Barbara added: “Transformational moments when you are weaning off of someone or something can often feel very shaky, scary & even psychedelic at times. The word psychedelic literally means ‘mind revealing’ – which I think is what is happening when the subconscious is revealing something to the conscious mind, that it’s time for a change.”
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