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Holy Fawn Announce New Album ‘Dimensional Bleed’, Unveil New Single

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Holy Fawn Announce New Album ‘Dimensional Bleed’, Unveil New Single

Phoenix-based band Holy Fawn have announced a new LP called Dimensional Bleed. The follow-up to 2018’s Death Spells as well as the 2020 EP The Black Moon drops on September 9 via Wax Bodega. Check out the album’s title track below.

“We’re always going to be the same four humans making music,” singer-guitarist Ryan Osterman said in a statement about the album, which they co-produced with Mike Watts (Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw). “With every release, I feel like we’ve continued to learn how to best support each other both mentally and musically, which enables us to try new things. Personally, I think this record has truly allowed us to explore more creative avenues than we did with ‘Death Spells’.”

“‘Dimensional Bleed’ vaguely refers to a concept of multiple dimensions and timelines that
could exist simultaneously,” guitarist Evan Phelps added. “A lot of different media has
alluded to this ideology, and I find the possibility of multiple dimensions intersecting and
bleeding into others to be fascinating.”

Dimensional Bleed Cover Artwork:

Dimensional Bleed Tracklist:

1. Hexsewn
2. Death Is A Relief
3. Lift Your Head
4. Empty Vials
5. Amaranthine
6. Dimensional Bleed
7. Sightless
8. Voice of Light
9. True Loss
10. Blood Memory

Madi Diaz Shares Video for New Song ‘Hangover’

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Madi Diaz Shares Video for New Song ‘Hangover’

Madi Diaz has today released a new single called ‘Hangover’, which arrives ahead of her performance at Newport Folk Festival as well as two shows opening for Harry Styles in August. Check out a Joey Broadnax-directed video for it below.

“I wrote ‘Hangover’ with Jesse Thomas and Drew Pearson when I was still feeling the lagging throws of heartbreak – the waking up in withdrawal, aching, reeling over a person and all the things that come after it’s over,” Diaz explained in a statement. “Sometimes it feels like you’re just stumbling around a city and in every corner there’s a memory. At every table in every restaurant some argument, on every street corner some kiss, at the 7 eleven some melt down. ‘Hangover’ is about bumping into that old feeling and reliving the less appealing side effects of not being in love with that person anymore.”

Diaz said she could only describe the accompanying visual “as full immersion light therapy. Joey conjured these huge flashing screens towering around me, making a space for me to get lost in performance and really feel every heartbeat of the song. We were in a world inside of a world. With 2 generators and 42 feet of LED walls, I’m sure it looked like we were throwing a mini warped tour in my backyard.”

Diaz’s most recent album, History Of A Feeling, came out last year on ANTI-. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Madi Diaz.

Indigo Sparke Announces New Album ‘Hysteria’, Shares Video for New Single

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Indigo Sparke Announces New Album ‘Hysteria’, Shares Video for New Single

Indigo Sparke has announced her new album, Hysteria, which will be out on October 7 via Sacred Bones. The follow-up to the Australian singer-songwriter’s 2021 debut Echo was produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner. New single ‘Pressure in My Chest’ is accompanied by a music video from director Madeline Clayton. Check it out below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover art and tracklist.

Talking about the new song in a press release, Sparke said: “In the birth of memory, there is the eternal moment of time. All things exist here. Through night dreams and wishes, and hot tears and laughing stars, I carried myself to the desert to traverse the landscape of history and reconcile the ever present Pressure in my Chest.”

Sparke finished writing Hysteria in the spring of 2021 before decamping to upstate New York to record the album. “I just had a really strong intuitive gut feeling that I would do this album with Aaron,” she explained. “We had met once years before in Eau Claire so I asked my manager to reach out to him. When we first talked, we talked about co-writing from scratch, I did have a big folder of demos but was nervous to share them, but after he heard them he said, ‘There’s so much to work with in here already.'”

Dessner added: “I started hearing ideas listening to her voice almost immediately. We connected by phone and had a long talk. She was incredibly open and gracious and really it was creatively inspiring from the moment we started working. It always feels like some weird miracle when songs emerge that you want to listen to all the time – and this was definitely the case with her record. It feels cohesive and timeless and inspired to me in a way that I know I will keep coming back to. I think the chemistry is right.”

Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Indigo Sparke.

Hysteria Cover Artwork:

Hysteria Tracklist:

1. Blue
2. Hysteria
3. Pressure In My Chest
4. God Is A Woman’s Name
5. Why Do You Lie?
6. Pluto
7. Infinity Honey
8. Golden Ribbons
9. Real
10. Sad Is Love
11. Set Your Fire On Me
12. Hold On
13. Time Gets Eaten
14. Burn

Sorry Announce New Album ‘Anywhere But Here’, Release Video for New Song

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Sorry Announce New Album ‘Anywhere But Here’, Release Video for New Song

Sorry have announced that their sophomore album, Anywhere But Here, will be released on October 7 via Domino. The North London group have also shared a new single called ‘Let The Lights On’, alongside a video directed by MILTON & FLASHA. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.

“It’s a fun love song for the club,” Sorry said of ‘Let The Lights On’ in a statement. “A bittersweet track for us. It kinda touches on how you want to be honest and say things directly, but in the end that can also ruin them. If you’ve got a light don’t let it go out… sometimes you have to leave things behind but it’s hard to do.”

The band’s Louis O’Bryen, Asha Lorenz, and Ali Chant produced the new album with Portishead’s Adrian Utley in Bristol. Inspired by ’70s singer-songwriters like Carly Simon and Randy Newman, the follow-up to their 2020 debut 925 and last year’s Twixtustwain EP includes the previously shared single ‘There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved’. “If our first version of London in 925 was innocent and fresh-faced, then this is rougher around the edges,” O’Bryen commented. “It’s a much more haggard place.”

Anywhere But Here Cover Artwork:

Anywhere But Here Tracklist:

1. Let The Lights On
2. Tell Me
3. Key To The City
4. Willow Tree
5. There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved
6. I Miss The Fool
7. Step
8. Closer
9. Baltimore
10. Hem of the Fray
11. Quit While You’re Ahead
12. Screaming In The Rain
13. Again

Charlie Hickey Shares New Version of ‘Choir Song (I Feel Dumb)’

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Charlie Hickey Shares New Version of ‘Choir Song (I Feel Dumb)’

Charlie Hickey has shared ‘Choir Song (I Feel Dumb) 2.0’, a reworked version of a track from his debut album Nervous at Night, which arrived earlier this year via Saddest Factory Records. He’s also announced he will be supporting label boss Phoebe Bridgers at London’s O2 Brixton Academy on July 28. Listen to ‘Choir Song (I Feel Dumb) 2.0’ below.

“There have been many iterations of this song since we wrote it,” Hickey explained in a press release. “This one came before the current version and was almost the album version. Everyone we played it for either loved it or hated it, which means to me that we succeeded at something. We indulged our love for hyper-pop and glossy, commercial emo and ended up making something that sounds nothing like any of those things! I like that the album version really brings out the sadness of the song and this version brings out the teeth of it a bit more. At this point, I couldn’t tell you which is the definitive version and which is the ‘remix’. That’s for you to decide now!”

Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Charlie Hickey.

Charlie Hickey 2022 UK/EU Tour Dates:

July 21 Southwold, UK – Latitude Festival
July 28 London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton*
Nov 11 London, UK – Pitchfork Music Festival London
Nov 18 Paris, FR – Pitchfork Music Festival Paris

* supporting Phoebe Bridgers

Mykki Blanco Announces New Album ‘Stay Close to Music’, Shares New Single Featuring Kelsey Lu

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Mykki Blanco Announces New Album ‘Stay Close to Music’, Shares New Single Featuring Kelsey Lu

Mykki Blanco has announced a new album called Stay Close to Music. The follow-up to 2021’s mini-album Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep lands on October 14 via Transgressive and includes the early singles ‘Your Love Was a Gift’ and ‘Family Ties’ as well as guest spots from R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Sigur Rós’ Jónsi, Devendra Banhart, and more. They’ve also shared the new single ‘French Lessons’, which features Kelsey Lu; ANOHNI also appears on the album version. Check out its Felix Kalmenson-video below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork (by Frank Dorrey) and tracklist.

“The song is a reflection on the possibility of true love, on the notion that one truly can experience what we see in the Hollywood films,” Blanco explained in a statement. “The song is also this ode in a way to Lou Reed. I’m not what I would consider a singer at all, I’m a talk singer so I look to people in history who have that same style: Tom Petty, Jonathan Richmond of the Modern Lovers, Lou Reed – these are all AMAZING ‘talk singers’ and I feel comfortable in that style vocally. The song was originally composed by FaltyDL and it encapsulated so much sonically of what I was trying to articulate with my own music. FaltyDL has a way of touching on the spiritual subtleties of life. He is able somehow to create mystery out of banality, to create tranquility and fill a room with zen-like vibrations, something unnameable and yet so familiar a feeling.”

Of collaborating with Kelsey Lu, Blanco added: “Kelsey Lu, I’m sure will go on to become one of the legendary artists of my generation. A classically trained virtuoso with a voice that sounds ancient like a bell ringing for the first time, like something out of a Greek odyssey. I have been a long-time super fan of Kelseys and collaborating with her on this song has been a very special moment for myself and FaltyDL.”

Stay Close to Music Cover Artwork:

Stay Close to Music Tracklist:

1. Pink Diamond Bezel
2. Steps [feat. Saul Williams and MNEK]
3. French Lessons [feat. ANOHNI and Kelsey Lu)]
4. Ketamine [feat. Slug Christ]
5. Your Love Was A Gift [feat. Diana Gordon]
6. Family Ties [feat. Michael Stipe]
7. Your Feminism Is Not My Feminism [feat. Ah-Mer-Ah-Su]
8. Lucky
9. Interlude
10. Trust A Little Bit
11. You Will Find It [feat. Devendra Banhart]
12. Carry On [feat. Jónsi]
13. French Lessons [Single Version] [feat. Kelsey Lu]

black midi Share Video for New Single ‘Sugar/Tzu’

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black midi Share Video for New Single ‘Sugar/Tzu’

black midi have shared the music video for their new single ‘Sugar/Tzu’, which appears on their upcoming record Hellfire. The track follows earlier cuts ‘Eat Men Eat’ and ‘Welcome to Hell’. Check out the Noel Paul-directed clip below.

Elaborating on the new song, the band’s Geordie Greep said in a statement:

‘Sugar/Tzu’ imagines that in 2163 it’s possible to see a championship fight between two 600 lb men. Albeit in a so-called ‘Leadweight’ division,” explains Greep. “The fight is between Sun Sugar and Sun Tzu; the latter being a fan of the Chinese general, hoping to channel his strength; and the former looking to continue the lineage of Sugar Ray Robinson, Leonard etc.

Present at their battle is a young boy who stands just over three feet tall. At ringside, he briefly exchanges a glance with Sun Sugar, who, in perhaps an attempt to inspire, comes over to the boy and shakes his hand. It is then revealed, as the contender walks back to the action, that the boy is in fact a killer. He takes a small pistol from his little jacket and shoots the man in the back, honour be damned. The boy believes this not to be a cruel act, but a virtuous one, with his interference giving the audience an ultimate, rare entertainment.

As Sun Sugar hits the deck, the crowd cheer and scream, believing this only to be the result of a particularly vicious shot from Sun Tzu.

There is a little joke here. It is regular for a boxing audience to bemoan an early stoppage, the official stepping in to save a fighter who could’ve gone on. And while there is the surface agreement of most that ‘it was the right thing to do,’ there seems to be often left unsaid the fact that we actually do want to see a brutal knockout. And in the split second where these one-shot, punch-perfect, coma-inducing blows do occur, there is an undeniable rush. The boy in this story feels he is a hero for giving the crowd what they all really want. This is not to say the song is a critique of boxing or anything of the like – I love the sport – but it is an interesting and rare phenomenon worth exploring.

Hellfire comes out July 15 via Rough Trade.

The Goon Sax Break Up

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The Goon Sax Break Up

The Goon Sax have announced they are breaking up. “To all fans of the Goon Sax we have some bittersweet news…” the band wrote on Twitter. “After nine years of giving it our everything we’ve decided to draw the curtain on this band. It’s taken us places stranger, more beautiful, and far beyond anything we could have imagined, and brought us to meeting and working with so many special and incredibly inspiring people. Our gratitude to everyone who’s been with us and allowed the madness of the last 9 years to happen is far beyond anything we can palpably express.”

The Brisbane trio have also canceled their scheduled US tour, including shows with Interpol and Spoon as well as Pavement, but “promise we will play one or two more shows in Austalia before we finally say goodnight. For us it feels like a happy ending. We love each other and we love you! Thank you for everything.”

Louis Forster, James Harrison, and Riley Jones were in high school when they released their debut album, 2016’s Up to Anything. Its follow-up, We’re Not Talking, arrived a couple of years later. After signing with Matador, the Goon Sax put out their final album, Mirror II, which was produced with John Parish, last year.

In our Artist Spotlight interview ahead of the release of Mirror II, Jones said: “We’ve known each other for so long now, we’ve spent so much time together. It’s kind of like beyond friendship. It’s more like family, but it’s also something else. Like, I wonder sometimes how I exist outside of this context, because it’s such a huge part of my life. And I think that I maybe lean on James and Louis just as I go about, you know, doing my thing in the world. I kind of always know that they’re there in some way.”

Forster added: “We really learned how to play music from playing together, and there’s a lot of instruments that we play in this band that none of us really played a whole lot before. I feel like I learned how to play lead guitar over Riley’s drumming and Jim’s bass playing, and I think that’s true for all of us. It’s like going to primary school together and learning how to read and write from reading each other’s texts or something.”

Interpol Share Video for New Song ‘Gran Hotel’

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Interpol Share Video for New Song ‘Gran Hotel’

Interpol have released a new single from their upcoming album The Other Side of Make-Believe, which arrives this Friday (July 15). It’s called ‘Gran Hotel’, and it’s accompanied by a video from director Malia James. Watch it via Facebook and listen to the track below.

“The lyrics to Gran Hotel tell a story of grief and heartbreak, of a character processing loss,” Paul Banks explained in a statement. “Working with a fantastic camera crew and with the help of two very talented actors, Malia created a powerful video that conveys the events that lead to that loss. It’s a work of art filled with mood and color that we are very proud to share with you.”

Previously, Interpol previewed The Other Side of Make-Believe with the singles ‘Toni’, ‘Something Changed’, and ‘Fables’.

Courtney Marie Andrews Shares New Single ‘Loose Future’

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Courtney Marie Andrews Shares New Single ‘Loose Future’

Courtney Marie Andrews has shared ‘Loose Future’, the title track to her forthcoming record, which comes out October 7 via Fat Possum. It follows the previously released single ‘Satellite’. Listen to it below.

“These words slipped out of my mouth one evening while speaking playfully with a lover, and we both agreed they needed to be a song about the unknowns of bracing for any romantic endeavor,” Andrews said of the song in a press release. “We always want to play it cool with love, but deep down our inner children are always afraid. In the studio, Sam Owens and I wanted to create the hopeful and free feeling of that sentiment.”

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