News Round-Up: George Ezra, Warpaint


George Ezra by Alex Eden-Smith

George Ezra by Alex Eden-Smith




Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes returns for George Ezra and Warpaint.

George Ezra has returned with details of his third studio album Gold Rush Kid.

After the huge UK number one successes of debut album Wanted On Voyage and the 2018 follow-up Staying At Tamara’s, Ezra will release his latest LP on June 10th.

“Anyone For You is a patchwork of lyric ideas found in old notebooks and chance moments shared between musicians in the studio,” he states of its lead single. “It’s joyous and infectious, and I can’t help but smile every time I sing it.”


Biffy Clyro have built a headline North American tour around their appearance at Shaky Knees Festival on April 29th.

There’s just the one gig in Canada during the run, at History in Toronto on April 22nd, with a stop in New York for a show at Irving Plaza following immediately after.

May brings mainly west coast shows which end on the 9th at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles.


Halsey, Kid Cudi and J. Cole have been confirmed as the headliners for this year’s Governors Ball festival in New York.

Elsewhere on the bill are the likes of Skepta, Black Pumas, Tove Lo and Clairo, while Glass Animals will be there in the midst of the incredible, slow-burning and still ongoing global success of the Heat Wave single which featured on 2020’s Dreamland LP:

“Back in the room, there’s more than one occasion in which you’re simply too filled with the need to dance versus decoding everything,” our review reads.

 

Warpaint

Warpaint

Warpaint are set to make their return on May 6th with the new album Radiate Like This.

After a period of time spent largely apart, Emily Kokal, Jenny Lee Lindberg, Stella Mozgawa and Theresa Wayman were recording new material when the pandemic struck.

Forced to be separated once more, the group began to record remotely, finding an entirely different sounding album emerging in the process.


Blossoms will release their fourth studio album Ribbon Around The Bomb on April 29th.

“While on tour in 2019 in Mexico, I visited Frida Kahlo’s house. Looking at her paintings on show, someone had described one of them as being like a ‘ribbon around a bomb’,” Tom Ogden explains.

“I immediately thought that it was a great title for a song and album because of the imagery that it evoked in my mind. I thought about how lots of things in life could be described as being a ribbon around a bomb in the sense that as people we often dress things up which have a darkness lying beneath them.”


SOAK’s follow-up to 2019’s Grim Town will be released via Rough Trade on May 20th.

If I Never Know You Like This Again was developed with long-time collaborator Tommy McLaughlin under the influence of bands such as Radiohead and Pavement, with final sessions taking place at Attica Studios in Donegal.

“This record is the most accurate picture of me,” Bridie Monds-Watson aka says. “I felt no pressure at all, it was almost like I was ranting as I was writing.”


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