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The first track to emerge from Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor’s new collaborative venture THE WAEVE is streaming online.
Something Pretty gives a taste of what the pair have been working on since they first began writing sessions together back in that otherwise bleak Christmas period of 2020.
“We are greatly looking forward to unleashing our new sound live at the Lexington,” they’ve said. “We’ve been locked away, busy translating the varied sounds of our songs into a dynamic live show, with the help of some great musician friends. We invite you to surrender to the world of The WAEVE.”
Asylums have returned with a new single in anticipation of their fourth studio album, of which more is expected soon.
Crypto Klepto was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales with producer Dave Eringa, whose long experience – mostly with the Manic Street Preachers – still didn’t have him ready for the energy the band brought to the legendary studio.
“I can honestly say this is one of the most unhinged songs I’ve ever produced and up above 215bpm one of the fastest too!,” he says.
The Chats have introduced their new album GET FUCKED with its latest single 6L GTR.
“I kind of said it half-jokingly, and Matt was like, ‘That is the best title I’ve ever heard!’,” Eamon Sandwith explains of the title. “I was like, ‘It’s a bit silly, isn’t it?’, but eventually it just grew on us over time. There’s a lot of boardroom meetings, clipboards and manila folders, all about this stuff. Spreadsheets, and that.”
“We just thought how funny would it be, if you were a kid seeing it on the album cover. I remember going to K-Mart and seeing the Green Day ‘Dookie’ CD, and being like, ‘Aw man, this is the craziest album cover I’ve ever seen!’. Imagine being a kid and just seeing a CD that says, Get Fucked!”
Hovvdy are previewing more of their new EP ‘billboard for my feelings’ ahead of its release later this month.
With Everything and Town already out, a video for Hide has now been shared, leaving opener Ruby still to come on May 27th.
“The full-on origins of Hovvdy is getting lost,” the duo say. “The first two albums we made were really for no one other than our friends and ourselves. Getting lost, and not having to worry about anything, is something we kind of find again for these songs.”
The Afghan Whigs have confirmed the details of their first studio album in five years after returning with their new single I’ll Make You See God back in February.
How Do You Burn? has been set for release on September 9th and is being previewed now with The Getaway.
The album’s release will be preceded with festival and headline appearances around Europe during the summer.
Metronony have enlisted Sam Bailey on the video for Love Factory, taken from their recent Small World LP.
“The idea for this video came from watching bees hopping from bud to bud on a rosemary bush, indiscriminately having sweet little intimate interactions before moving onto the next one,” the director says.
“The flowers became happy little dance partners to the bee as it moved around from station to station as if on a factory floor. It married up brilliantly with Joe’s lyrics and the uplifting feel of the track’s hazy musicality.”
On the eve of their first studio record since 2018’s Twentytwo In Blue, Sunflower Bean posted a video for In Flight.
“This song is a romantic vision of meeting a lover, running away together, and entering a dangerous new world. It’s less safe but also less suffocating,” guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen says.
“The video follows me through a series of twilight zone-style mishaps as I search to be seen or understood. Things only improve when I finally find like-minded people. Is it a dream? Is it the multiverse? It’s for the viewer to decide.”
