Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes a US chart record for Glass Animals and new UK tour dates for Phoebe Bridgers.
The incredible 59-week journey to the top of the US’ Billboard Hot 100 has been completed by Glass Animals’ single Heat Waves.
From TikTok to FIFA, the track has been gradually but unmistakably taking hold in the States, now eventually beating the previous record of longest time spent to reach number one after release which was held by Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You.
“I absolutely can’t believe it,” Dave Bayley has responded. “For it to do this means the absolute world.”
The Prodigy have announced some UK tour dates for July upon the 25th anniversary of their blockbuster third studio album The Fat Of The Land.
“We can’t wait to get back onstage endplay our tunes for the people again,” they’ve said on social media. The 25th anniversary of Fat Of The Land felt like the right time for us to step up.”
“We’ll be droppin tunes from all our albums and maybe some shit you haven’t heard before. This one’s for Flinty!”
Florence And The Machine’s fifth studio album is entitled Dance Fever and will be released on May 13th.
‘A fairytale in 14 songs’, as described on social media by Florence Welch, was recorded primarily during the pandemic with producers Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley from band-of-the-moment Glass Animals.
The new track My Love follows on quickly from King, when Welch said: “As an artist, I never actually thought about my gender that much.”
Phoebe Bridgers by Frank Ockenfels
Phoebe Bridgers has added UK and European shows to her Reunion Tour not long after being confirmed for this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
More live shows on that side of the Atlantic have been booked for June; at Fairview Park in Dublin, Barrowlands in Glasgow and the O2 Academy in Birmingham.
And once a healthy amount of European festivals have been played in July, more UK gigs will come at Latitude Festival, Manchester’s O2 Apollo and the Brixton Academy.
Arctic Monkeys will be joined by Tame Impala and Dermot Kennedy as headliners for Electric Picnic 2022 this September.
It adds to the many European festival bookings which the Sheffield band have coming up from August, those including the Reading/Leeds bank holiday weekend and Rock En Seine in Paris.
And shortly after this Electric Picnic appearance, they’ll head to California for the Los Angeles leg of Primavera Sound.
Sigrid will release her second album How To Let Go on May 6th.
“I believe you need to feel the lows in life to feel the highs, and you have to know what sucks to then properly appreciate the good stuff,” she says.
“It Gets Dark is an ode to that. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about a single release before. It’s the first song that was written for my upcoming album, and I remember the joy and relief when we figured out the soundscape. I was like FINALLY I know how this second record is gonna sound!”
