Cass McCombs and Weak Signal have teamed up for the new song ‘Vacation From Thought’. Written and sung by McCombs, it’s part of a collaborative 7″ that also includes the Weak Signal-penned ‘Give it Back’ and marks McCombs’ first new music since the release of Heartmind earlier this year. Give ‘Vacation From Thought’ a listen below.
The new 7″ was recorded to tape with Philip Weinrobe and mastered by Carl Saff. It’s due out November 11 via Wharf Cat.
Sharon Van Etten has unveiled a new song, ‘Never Gonna Change’. It’s one of two previously unreleased tracks that will appear on the upcoming deluxe edition of her latest album We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, along with ‘When I Die’. Check it out below.
‘Never Gonna Change’ “is about managing depression and anxiety in the midst of isolation,” Van Etten explained in a statement. “Coping with recurring fears throughout adulthood, acknowledging that flaws, fears and triggers can’t be overcome, they are a constant part of one’s identity to learn to be at peace with.”
The deluxe version of We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong is out November 11 via Jagjaguwar.
Fever Ray is back with a new single, ‘What They Call Us’, marking Karin Dreijer’s first new music since 2017’s Plunge. It was written and co-produced by their former Knife bandmate Olof Dreijer, and it comes with a video from director Martin Falck starring Karin in a dystopian office setting. Watch and listen below.
Liturgy have announced a new double LP, 93696, which is due for release on March 24, 2023. Today, we get to hear the album’s title track, along with a mini-album called As the Blood of God Bursts the Veins of Time, comprising a three-movement alternative version of the song – ’93’, ’36’, and ‘696’ – as well as ‘संसार’. Take a listen below.
Founded by guitarist and vocalist Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, Liturgy also features guitarist Mario Miron, bassist Tia Vincent-Clark, and drummer Leo Didkovsky. Their last album was 2020’s Origin of the Alimonies.
93696 Cover Artwork:
93696 Tracklist:
1. Daily Bread
2. Djennaration
3. Caela
4. Angel of Sovereignty
5. Haelegen II
6. Before I Knew the Truth
7. Angel of Hierarchy
8. Red Crown II
9. Angel of Emancipation
10. Ananon
11. 93696
12. Haelegen II (Reprise)
13. Angel of Individuation
14. Antigone II
15. Immortal Life II
Claire Rousay has announced the Sunset Poem EP, which sees the experimental artist reworking three songs from Circuit des Yeux’s 2021 album -io. It’s due out on October 20. She’s also shared her version of ‘Sculpting the Exodus’ to accompany the announcement. Check it out below, along with the EP’s cover art, tracklist, and a video of the two artists in conversation.
“I found Claire Rousay’s music when we were all stuck inside for 2 years,” Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr said in a press release. “Her music kind of gave me the atmosphere of company in a solitary reality. It reminded me of the way I used to interact with music when I was a teenager. A room can become a whole ecosystem once the music is playing. Her deft ability to work with sound in a microscopic way is what makes this collaboration so successful. It was an honor to give Claire the stems of -io. The results are beguiling and immense, like watching lead pipes slowly melt into a metallic river.”
Sunset Poem EP Cover Artwork:
Sunset Poem EP Tracklist:
1. Vanishing
2. Sculpting the Exodus
3. Argument
Carla dal Forno has shared ‘Side by Side’, the latest single off her third album Come Around, which is out November 4 on Kallista Records. Take a listen below.
According to dal Forno, ‘Side by Side’, which follows the previously released title track, is “about the anticipation of hooking up with someone and the feelings of inevitability, transparency and impatience. It’s all in the lyric, ‘Make your move / I recognise the method you use.’ I’ve been sitting on this track for a few years. The production was really slow at first, leaning towards ‘ballad’ territory but it really seemed to find its groove when I increased the tempo and leaned into the bassline hook.”
Nick Hakim has released a new single, ‘M1’, which was co-produced by DJ Dahi and Andrew Sarlo. It’s the latest preview of his upcoming album COMETA, following previous singles ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Happen’. Give it a listen below.
“I’ll never forget when Nick was opening up sessions he had previously been creating for the album and ‘M1’ was just a DJ Dahi drum loop, a choir synth take plus a sub bass sound with minimal editing,” Sarlo commented in a statement. “It was an immediate head turner and we knew we had to mine it. Later that night Nick delivered an insane scratch vocal take that still gives me chills just recalling the first moment I heard him ascend melodically during the chorus refrain. We tend to have one song during the final stages of the album process that is a hard one to crack and the adrenaline rush of finishing ‘M1’ in time was very gratifying. It’s definitely solidified as one of my favorite Nick songs.”
COMETA is slated for release on October 21 via ATO Records.
Moin – the project of Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead, and Valentina Magaletti – have announced their sophomore album, Paste. The follow-up to last year’s Moot! is set to arrive on October 28 via AD 93. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the double single ‘Melon / Yep Yep’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album artwork and tracklist.
Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Moin.
Paste Cover Artwork:
Paste Tracklist:
1. Foot Wrong
2. Melon
3. Yep Yep
4. Forgetting is Like Syrup
5. In a Tizzy
6. Knuckle
7. Hung Up
8. Life Choices
9. Sink
Midwife has released a new song called ‘Sickworld’, out now via Hardly Art. Listen to it below.
On the track’s Bandcamp page, Midwife’s Madeline Johnston wrote: “I started collecting globes. ‘Sickworld’ was written in late 2021, during a long, cold winter. The world is sick. I’m coming down with it. I wanted to relate the unrest and ailments experienced externally with the general malaise I had been feeling emotionally for a long time. The lyrics are a culmination of festering thoughts I was carrying around, and digestible pieces of larger ideas like faith, sobriety, and death. It is also largely about being homesick for another time. Timesick. But this is being homesick for a place you can never return to, because it doesn’t exist. The world is sick, it needs medicine. This song is about healing.”
Midwife’s latest album, Luminol, came out last year. Johnston has since covered Chevelle’s ‘Send the Pain Below’ and unveiled collaborations with Nothing, Drowse, and Kathryn Mohr. Check out our Artist Spotlight Q&A with Midwife.
Jack White has a shared tribute to the late country icon Loretta Lynn, whom he called “a mother figure” and “a very good friend.” White, who produced Lynn’s 2004 album Van Lear Rose, posted a video on Instagram, saying:
What a sad day today is. We lost one of the greats, Loretta Lynn. I said when I was first asked about her what I thought and I said years ago that I thought she was the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century. I still believe that. Loretta used to say to make it in the business, you had to either be great, different, or first, and she thought that she was just different and that’s how she made it, but I think she was all three of those things and there’s plenty of evidence to back that up too.
She was such an incredible presence and such a brilliant genius in ways that I think only people who got to work with her might know about. What she did for feminism, women’s rights in a time period, in a genre of music that was the hardest to do it in, is just outstanding and will live on for a long time. She broke down a lot of barriers for people that came after her.
I learned so much from her working together on this album Van Lear Rose and there was times where I just had to take a pause and step outside because she was just so brilliant, I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing and hearing. I almost felt like she didn’t even realize it, you know. But she was just a genius and just brilliant at what she did and we were lucky to have her and people can learn from example the rags to riches part of it and the beautiful natural voice part of it. She was like a mother figure to me and also a very good friend at times. She told me some amazing things that I’ll never tell anybody. Rest in peace Loretta. God bless you.
Van Lear Rose won the Grammy for Best Country Album. In 2015, Lynn and White were both inducted into Nashville’s Music City Walk of Fame.
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