The Beatles have announced a special edition of their classic 1966 album Revolver. Newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo and Dolby Atmos, the deluxe reissue will be released on October 28 via Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. It will include 28 early takes from the recording sessions, three home demos, a 100-page book with a foreword written by Paul McCartney, and a four-track EP featuring new stereo mixes and remastered original mono mixes for ‘Paperback Writer’ and ‘Rain’, and more. Check out a new mix of opening track ‘Taxman’ below.
Last year, the Beatles reissued their 1970 album Let It Be.
Tom Skinner, the drummer best known for his work with The Smile and Sons of Kemet, has announced his debut solo LP. Voices of Bishara comes out November 4 via Nonesuch/International Anthem/Brownswood. Along with the announcement, he’s unveiled the LP’s lead single, ‘Bishara’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
The album’s title is a reference to cellist Abdul Wadud’s 1978 solo album By Myself, which was pressed on Wadud’s label, Bisharra, which means “good news” or “bringer of good news” in Arabic.
“This record is an attempt to put something truthful into the world, through collaboration and community, at a time of rising dishonesty and disinformation,” Skinner said in a statement. “Bishara is the bringer of good news, and by bringing the musicians on this album who are very dear to me together, we pay homage to that idea by collectively spreading light where there is increasing darkness.”
Voices of Bishara Cover Artwork:
Voices of Bishara Tracklist:
1. Bishara
2. Red 2
3. The Journey
4. The Day After Tomorrow
5. Voices (of the Past)
6. Quiet as it’s Kept
Gold Panda, the project of UK producer Derwin Dicker, has announced his first new solo album in six years. The Work is scheduled to arrive on November 11 via City Slang. Check out the Lenny Rothenberg-directed video for its lead single, ‘The Corner’, below.
“A number of years back a friend of mine gave me a record by Dean Friedman, I’d been watching The Wire and when I heard the line in ‘Lydia’ I had to loop it up and mess with it,” Dicker said of the new track in a statement. “I tried to make it into a beat for some rappers but I could never get it right. When making this album I found the sample again, I had a new way of recording so starting from scratch it all came together. When I made Lucky Shiner people used to rap over those tracks and stick them on Soundcloud etc so I’m hoping this will inspire people to do it again.”
”I get more comfortable with the music I make as Gold Panda now,” he added of the album. “I always wanted to do the ‘cool’ music, but I can only make the music I make, I suppose. I think that’s why I find making club music hard – I don’t spend enough time in them. I don’t know where I fit in, and maybe that’s good.”
The Work Cover Artwork:
The Work Tracklist:
1. Swimmer
2. The Dream
3. The Corner
4. The Want
5. I’ve Felt Better (Than I Do Now)
6. Plastic Future
7. New Days
8. The Spiral
9. Arima
10. Chrome
11. Joni’s Room
Ibibio Sound Machine have shared a cover of David Bowie’s classic 1977 single ‘Heroes’. It arrives ahead of the band’s upcoming tour of North America. Take a listen below, and scroll down for the list of tour dates.
“’Heroes’ is one of David Bowie’s most legendary songs, one of our favourites!” Ibibio Sound Machine commented in a press release. “It was an honour for us to record our version of it, and in 2022, it still feels as timely a message and otherworldly as it must have nearly 50 years ago.”
Ibibio Sound Machine released their latest album Electricity, a collaboration with Hot Chip, earlier this year.
Ibibio Sound Machine 2022 Tour Dates:
Sep 16 – Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club
Sep 17 – Victoria, BC – Rifflandia Festival
Sep 18 – Fort Collins, CO – Bohemian Nights @ Old Town Square
Sep 19 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up
Sep 22 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
Sep 23 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre
Sep 25 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
Sep 28 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
Sep 29 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
Oct 1 – Crystal Bay, NV – Crystal Bay Casino (Crown Room)
Oct 4 – Chico, CA – El Rey Theater
Oct 5 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Oct 6 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Atrium @ The Catalyst
Oct 9 – San Diego, CA – Music Box
Oct 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre
Oct 13 – Chicago, IL – The Metro
Oct 14 – Detroit, MI – Loving Touch
Oct 15 – Buffalo, NY – Buffalo Iron Works
Oct 16 – Hartford, CT – Infinity Hall Hartford
Oct 19 – Fairfield, CT – The Warehouse
Oct 20 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
Oct 21 – Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall
Oct 22 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl
Oct 24 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
Oct 26 – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
Oct 27 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Oct 28- Charleston, SC – Charleston Pour House
Oct 31 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
NNAMDÏ has released a new track, ‘Dedication’, lifted from his forthcoming LP Please Have a Seat. The song, which follows previous cuts ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Famous’ and ‘Anti’, features additional vocals from Stephan Jurgovan of Nervous Passenger, Sen Morimoto, KAINA, and Brok Mende. Check out a video for it below.
“I wrote this deep into the 2020 pandemic as self-motivation to get me out of the crippling funk, just to get me to wanna do anything,” NNAMDÏ said of ‘Dedication’ in a statement. “I would play it to go on a run/exercise before I worked on music and before I responded to people’s phone calls. It was really just me hyping myself up to do something to get through the slump and make it through the weeks.”
Please Have a Seat is set for release on October 7 via Secretly Canadian.
Brian Eno has released a new song, ‘We Let It In’, which will appear on his forthcoming LP ForeverAndEverNoMore. Following previous single ‘There Were Bells’, the track features vocals from his daughter Darla Eno. Listen to it below.
Of the new song’s sonic direction, Eno said: “…it’s lowered. It’s become a different personality I can sing from. I don’t want to sing like a teenager, it can be melancholy, a bit regretful. As for writing songs again – it’s more landscapes, but this time with humans in them.”
Deerhoof have returned with the new song ‘My Lovely Cat’, their first new music since last year’s Actually, You Can. The song is an ode to the celebrity cat Lil Bub, who passed away in 2019, and was recorded and mixed by her owner, Mike Bridavsky, at Winnipeg, Canada’s No Fun Club. Check it out below.
“If you were going to compose a song about a cute cat from the internet, then get it recorded and mixed and mastered by an outside producer known not only for their recording and mixing and mastering, but for their cute cat from the internet, well, you would be shrewd indeed,” the band remarked in a statement. “But this of course we did not do, because we didn’t know about Mike Bridavsky or Lil Bub when we wrote the song! Well, we think about him now: a true collaborator and artist and friend.”
Beth Orton has released a new song, ‘Fractals’, the latest offering from her forthcoming album Weather Alive. The track features Aabaster dePlume on saxophone, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and bassist Tom Herbert of The Invisible. Listen to it below.
“The track is a beautiful example of the nature of collaboration, where people come in as they are,” Orton said in a statement. “You’re hearing the first take. I would never have been able to conjure that music without these musicians.”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced three new albums – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, Laminated Denim, and Changes — which will all drop in October. Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava arrives on October 7, followed by Laminated Denim on October 12 and Changes on October 28. Check out the new single ‘Ice V’ below, along with the details for each LP.
Discussing Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, the band’s Stu Mackenzie said in a statement: “All we had prepared as we walked into the studio were these seven song titles. I have a list on my phone of hundreds of possible song titles. I’ll never use most of them, but they’re words and phrases I feel could be digested into King Gizzard-world.”
Of Laminated Denim, Mackenzie noted that the title is “an anagram of Made In Timeland,” the King Gizard record that came out in March.
“I think of Changes as a song-cycle,” Mackenzie said of the band’s fifth album of 2022. “Every song is built around this one chord progression — every track is like a variation on a theme. But I don’t know if we had the musical vocabulary yet to complete the idea at that time. We recorded some of it then, including the version of ‘Exploding Suns’ that’s on the finished album. But when the sessions were over, it just never felt done. It was like this idea that was in our heads, but we just couldn’t reach. We just didn’t know yet how to do what we wanted to do.”
“It’s not necessarily our most complex record, but every little piece and each sound you hear has been thought about a lot,” Mackenzie added.
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava Cover Artwork:
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava Tracklist:
1. Mycelium
2. Ice V
3. Magma
4. Lava
5. Hell’s Itch
6. Iron Lung
7. Gliese 710
Laminated Denim Cover Artwork:
Laminated Denim Tracklist:
1. The Land Before Timeland
2. Hypertension
Changes Cover Artwork:
Changes Tracklist:
1. Change
2. Hate Dancin’
3. Astroturf
4. No Body
5. Gondii
6. Exploding Suns
7. Short Change
Loraine James has shared a new track from her upcoming album Building Something Beautiful For Me, which pays homage to the late New York composer Julius Eastman. It’s called ‘Choose to Be Gay’, and it riffs on Eastman’s ‘Femenine’. Listen to it below.
Building Something Beautiful For Me is scheduled for release on October 7 via Phantom Limb. It includes the previously unveiled song ‘Maybe If I (Stay On It)’.
