Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes new music from My Chemical Romance and Paolo Nutini.
My Chemical Romance fans who’ve been waiting patiently for the band’s reunion tour to reach the UK will have a new song to enjoy when it finally opens at the Eden Project this week.
The Foundation Of Decay is released before the other UK and Ireland concerts in Milton Keynes, Dublin, Warrington, Cardiff and Glasgow, while a trip around mainland Europe in booked for June.
A lengthy run of North American gigs then starts in August, continuing through the autumn.
Pale Waves will release their third album Unwanted via Dirty Hit on August 12th.
Recorded in Los Angeles with Blink-182 and Machine Gun Kelly cohort Zakk Cervini, the album’s first preview is entitled Lies.
“It was really the only thing this album could be called,” Baron-Gracie continues. “It’s bold and unapologetic, and that’s what the Pale Waves community is about.
black midi have unveiled their new album Hellfire and its first single Welcome To Hell, which Geordie Greep describes as, ‘like an epic action film’.
“Almost everyone depicted is a kind of scumbag,” he continues on the single. “Almost everything I write is from a true thing, something I experienced and exaggerated and wrote down.
“I don’t believe in Hell, but all that old world folly is great for songs, I’ve always loved movies and anything else with a depiction of Hell. Dante’s Inferno. When Homer goes to Hell in the Simpsons. There’s a robot Hell in Futurama. Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer who portrays a Satan interfering in people’s lives. There’s loads!”
Paolo Nutini has announced the release of his new album Last Night In The Bittersweet on July 1st.
Can and Neu! are cited as some of the more unlikely inspirations on the record, along with the classic 70’s soul which can be found on Through The Echoes.
Meanwhile, Nutini will play some headline UK dates starting later this week leading into the Liam Gallagher support at Knebworth on June 3rd.
Kendrick Lamar posted the video for his first Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers track.
On the visuals for The Heart Part 5, deepfake tech transforms Lamar into Kanye West, Will Smith and others, under the control of co-director Dave Free.
“I spend most of my days with fleeting thoughts,” Lamar wrote when introducing the record last month. “Writing. Listening. And collecting old Beach cruisers. The morning rides keep me on a hill of silence.”
Death Cab For Cutie have unveiled their tenth studio album Asphalt Meadows with a new single entitled Roman Candles which they say looks at the intangible perils of modern day city living.
“‘Roman Candles’ is about the crippling, existential dread that goes hand in hand with living in a nervous city on a dying planet. And that the only way to be in the moment is to let it all go.”
“The lyrics were cobbled from a couple of different songs dealing with my general sense of anxiety; the feeling that the fabric that weaves a functioning society together was crumbling during the pandemic,” Ben Gibbard adds.
