The Lounge Society by Alex Evans
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The Lounge Society’s eagerly awaited debut album is entitled Tired Of Liberty.
After resuming work with Speedy Wunder’s Dan Carey, the band are looking ahead to its release with Blood Money – ‘a reaction to the culture of greed that’s seeping into the corridors of power across the world’.
“It’s a reminder that ultimately, we all suffer at the hands of self-serving elites, and it’s our personal perspective on the effects of dirty politics on the everyday lives of ourselves and people we know,” they say.
Julia Jacklin has announced her new album Pre Pleasure.
To be released by Transgressive on August 26th, it’s a record about the constant grind for satisfaction which defines a lot of everyday life.
“A lot of the time I feel like I need to do all the work before I can enjoy my life,” Jacklin explains. “Whether that’s work on songs or sex, friendships, or my relationship with my family – I think if I work on them long and hard enough, eventually I’ll get to sit around and really enjoy them. But that’s not how anything works is it. It’s all an ongoing process.”
Ezra Furman has been working with producer John Congleton on the new album All Of Us Flames which will be released on August 26th.
A third single from the LP, Forever In Sunset, is out today, inspired by a conversation with a friend.
“When Covid was first hitting, she was talking to me a lot about how ready she felt,” Furman explains. “She was like, ‘people who have been comfortable in life are freaking out right now.”
Stella Donnelly has set her new album Flood for release via Secretly Canadian on August 26th.
On the record, Donnelly ponders heritage and her prospects for the future, on Lungs asking: ‘History again teach me like a friend what you know and why’.
“I do love observing human dynamics,” she says. “Dynamics between old best friends, or dynamics between housemates, or a relationship where the two people are broken up and haven’t spoken in years. I like getting into the mind of someone who we’ve all been at some point.”
Starcrawler have released their new single Roadkill online.
It’s the start of a new chapter for the band after 2019 brought their second studio record Devour You – a Live4ever album of the year:
“Feted as saviours of rock a few years ago, Starcrawler certainly had some advantages,” our review reads.
Pastel are streaming their new single Isaiah as the band prepare to follow-up last year’s debut EP Deeper Than Holy.
“We had pretty tough childhoods, surrounded by drug addiction,” the band say. “Sadness, madness and badness. Isaiah wasn’t actually written with any of that in mind, but our feelings seem to have soaked through us into the song subconsciously.”
“Sometimes when you’re deep in hard times you become numb to it all. ‘I can feel nothing more, in this life that I’ve suffered for.’ But this tune is not about wallowing in self-pity. It’s about using our experiences as motivation; having some hope and self-belief!”
