The Smile by Alex Lake
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The Smile have released their latest single.
The trio – which consists of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, along with drummer Tom Skinner – have shared Pana-vision to keep the work going of The Smoke, Skrting On The Surface and the cracking debut track You Will Never Work in Television Again.
A European tour meanwhile, will be in the UK for two nights at the London Roundhouse, and gigs at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and Manchester’s Albert Hall.
The Rip – the next preview of Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky ahead of its release on May 20th – was the last to be completed according to Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin.
“We wanted it to sound like massive pop, like Charli XCX, but with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones,” Margolin continues.
“It took the longest a song has ever taken me to write lyrics for, and they took form over a few years. At the beginning it was a song about a power dynamic where I was in control, by the end it was about one where I had none.”
Courting have shared their new single Tennis, which they’ve said closes a short chapter for the band.
“Tennis is a paypig’s personal redemption narrative, set in ‘the city’, and told in two parts,” they explained. “A twisted tale of two lovers’ back and forth, bound by cricket, bodybuilding, and money.”
“A story as old as time. We named the song Tennis as a logical (but unrelated) sequel to our two previously released sports-related songs. To us, this felt like a natural ending to that idea.”
The Subways have confirmed the new single You Kill My Cool is the latest from their forthcoming fifth studio album, which will mark the permanent addition of Camille Phillips on drums.
Delving into the meaning behind the track, Billy Lunn has explained how it was written during a time of intense emotion:
“You Kill My Cool was written at a time when I felt love so strongly that I wanted to be consumed by it, to give myself over to it entirely.”
Anna Calvi will release her Tommy EP on May 6th, leading with the track Ain’t No Grave which was a part of Peaky Blinders’ sixth season for which she wrote and performed the score.
There’ll be another nod to the series with a cover of Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – its theme-tune – while there’s also a take on Bob Dylan’s All The Tired Horses and another Peaky Blinders original, Burning Down.
“I’ve been living in the character of Tommy Shelby for years now, after scoring series 5 and this final series of Peaky Blinders,” Calvi reflects.
Floating Points has followed-up last month’s Vocoder track with another cut of fresh material.
Grammar is more new music from Sam Shepherd aka after last year’s Promises album which was recorded with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Meanwhile, Shepherd has DJ stints everywhere from Coachella to Mad Cool to Field Day in London coming up this year.
SOAK has unveiled the visuals for Purgatory, the new track from their upcoming third album If I Never Know You Like This Again.
“The song came out of a slump phase, I wasn’t really a fan of myself and honestly just felt rather lost,” Bridie Monds-Watson aka continues.
“In ways that felt like it’s own purgatory. I was trying to figure out how to make myself feel better, become a ‘better version’ of myself. So I guess whilst this song is about panic, it’s equally about the pursuit of change.”
Poliça have set their new album Madness for release on June 3rd after picking up quickly where they left off with 2020’s When We Stay Alive.
Writing sessions began that same year in Ryan Olson’s Minneapolis studio with his new production toy ‘AllOvers(c)’. First out is the single Alive:
“Bad things happen, the fire goes out; even with the best flammables it stays dark until nothing matters becomes the fire itself,” Channy Leaneagh says of it.
