Visionary US artist Lonnie Holley has announced his new album Tonky will be released on March 21st. Check out the first single ‘Protest with Love’. The album includes a plethora of guests including Mary Lattimore, Isaac Brock, Angel Bat Dawid, Jesca Hoop, Alabaster de Plume and Saul Williams. Foreword by Hanif Abdurrqib: There are poets like the great Mary Oliver, who might suggest that one’s … Continue reading LONNIE HOLLEY ANNOUNCES NEW 2025 ALBUM
Ahead of Floating Points‘ (Sam Shepherd) new album Cascade (Sept 13th) he has today released the new track ‘Ocotillo‘. A slow build, it begins with contributions from Austrian-Ethiopian harpist Miriam Adefris – who Shepherd first collaborated with on Mere Mortals, his first ballet score for the San Francisco Ballet – and the gentle resonance of a clavichord Shepherd inherited from his great aunt, before rumbling into a thrilling dancefloor conclusion. … Continue reading Floating Points release another sublime cut of electronica on new single ‘Ocotillo’
Alan Sparhawk‘s new solo album White Roses, My God will be released on Sub Pop on September 27th. The record, his first solo effort following the end of his legendary band Low (R.I.P. Mimi Parker) features the first single ‘Can U Hear’ and this second release, ‘Get Still‘. The track finds Sparhawk continuing his exploration of dissonant sounds and textures that began across the last … Continue reading Alan Sparhawk (Low) shares the video for his new single ‘Get Still’
Ben Frost today releases his third studio single in seven years, ‘Chimera‘, setting the stage for his much-anticipated album, Scope Neglect, due via Mute on March 1, 2024. As one would expect from Frost, it’s a brutalist and unsettling composition that injects heavy power metal chords (courtesy of Greg Kubacki of Car Bomb) into screes of digital static, synths and detonating beats. “There is always a shape and a sense of … Continue reading BEN FROST RELEASES VISCERAL NEW SINGLE ‘CHIMERA’
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter releases her new single “Sun Girl” today. Fragments of flute, field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, and fretless bass are interwoven to delirious and balmy effect, infusing the ludic drum programing and production style of Holter’s earliest recordings with a fresh vibrancy. The song’s lyrics – “Place me, drag me, move me, Sun Girl”—evoke the spirit of a childlike game, … Continue reading JULIA HOLTER RELEASES VIDEO CLIP FOR NEW SINGLE ‘SUN GIRL’
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Hallelujah Picassos continue to impress with their renewed activity and renaissance in recent years. Always a band to ignore genre limitations, they’ve explored hardcore, reggae, dub, indie rock, rockabilly and electronic styles – always with intriguing results. If you’re new to the band, make sure you head back and check out the Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland band’s brilliant 18 song retrospective compilation Rewind The Hateman … Continue reading HALLELUJAH PICASSOS RELEASE AGILE AND POLYRHYTHMIC NEW SINGLE ‘TAX THE RICH’
NSW artist Wade Jackson‘s voice always conjures so many wonderful reference points every time I hear it. Following his album Sensationalized, ‘The Sweetheart‘ (Broken Stone Records) is the next opening chapter of his always fascinating musical journey. Rich and evocative, the song possesses a sublime sense of restrained grandeur. Swelling synthetic strings, melodic bell-like intonations and a wide open stereoscope provide the perfect backdrop for … Continue reading WADE JACKSON CROONS A DREAMY LOVE SONG DEDICATION
Over the last few months, Melbourne composer, songwriter and documentary film maker Ben deHoedt has been tantalising listeners with a selection of tracks from his forthcoming album City Lights Shimmer. ‘Divided Souls’ and ‘This Call May Be Recorded’ showed that deHoedt has created an exotic and evocative world of moody synths and melancholic guitars set in hi-res atmospheric soundscapes. A kind of neon noir with … Continue reading VIDEO PREMIERE: Ben deHoedt – Dianne’s Leaving
NSW songwriter and filmmaker (WAITING: The Van Duren Story) Wade Jackson has released his new single ‘Limelight’ (Broken Stone Records), his first new music since his 2020 album Sensationalized. ‘Limelight‘ emerges twitching, writhing, pulsing and electronically convulsing. Like Bowie and Suicide in hi-fidelity 4K, ‘Limelight’ is hypnotic, with waning vintage synths and tribal-esque drums, the latter evolving from the coal freight trains passing through regional NSW. The middle … Continue reading WADE JACKSON STEPS INTO THE LIMELIGHT WITH NEW SINGLE
Definitive edition of their 1985 studio album Low-Life that includes the original album on 180g vinyl LP and CD – remastered. A second CD of unreleased audio, x2DVDs of live performances from 1984 & 1985, plus a hardback book. The vinyl album and CD are both wrapped in the original tracing-paper sleeve – not available since the very first pressing, and the first time ever for the … Continue reading DEFINITIVE EDITION OF NEW ORDER’S LOW LIFE OUT NEXT FRIDAY
Our final video premiere for 2022 and it’s a damn fine one to go out on. The glistening, synth slow-burn of Ben deHoedt‘s new single ‘Divided Souls‘. Seemingly with one foot in the 80s and one in the future, De Hoedt pays tribute to the iconic TV series Miami Vice, transforming it into a gritty, stylised noir that, as deHoedt explains, is “a re-imagining of … Continue reading VIDEO PREMIERE: Ben deHoedt – Divided Souls
Melbourne-based artist Ben DeHoedt has announced his new album City Lights Shimmer will be released on Bandcamp on December 10th and today we’re very pleased to be able to premiere the video clip for the first single ‘This Call May Be Recorded‘. The song is a lush, neon-lit, hyper sleek sound of dark and futuristic electronic avant pop. There are post-punk themes & sonic undercurrents … Continue reading VIDEO PREMIERE: Ben deHoedt – This Call May Be Recorded
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