Tracks Of The Week: Regina Spektor, Greentea Peng and more

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Regina Spektor is streaming Loveology online ahead of the release of her new album ‘Home, before and after’ on June 24th.

“With Loveology, I wrote it and then played it once or twice live,” Spektor says.

“Sometimes I’ll have a song that I’m really glad exists, but I can’t record it because every time I try, it just doesn’t feel right coming out of my mouth. But for whatever reason both Loveology and Raindrops felt so right this time and I’m so glad I was finally able to put them on a record.”

Kae Tempest has premiered the official video for Don’t You Ever, filmed in London and Bristol by Gabi Norland and featuring artist Daisy Beau.

“When I was 19 I was in a band with my friends, we used to play pubs, squats and parties in SE London where we lived,” Tempest says.

“This song started its life in that band. The guitar line and vocal hook written and performed by Luke Eastop and Daisy Beau are the same as they were. It’s been 15 years since that time but I’ve never let go of this song, it’s stayed with me and when I was working on The Line Is A Curve I just knew I wanted to record a version of it.”

Greentea Peng has shared a new single entitled Stuck In The Middle.

Featuring production credits from MJ Cole and Swindle, the track precedes an appearance at Glastonbury later this month, and earlier a spot on the Grace Jones-curated Meltdown line-up.

“We’re delighted to confirm that Greentea Peng, Dry Cleaning, Eska, Alewya, Josey Rebelle, and cktrl with the London Contemporary Orchestra will all be appearing at the Southbank Centre this summer,” the event’s new artists blog stated.

Inhaler have unveiled their new single These Are The Days.

It’s emerged from sessions for the band’s second studio album, more of which is promised soon as they move on from a debut album which was described by Live4ever as being, ‘crammed with pop hooks’, containing, ‘an assuredness and confidence’.

Headline dates, festival appearances and stints supporting the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Noel Gallagher are all coming up as this summer progresses.

William Orbit has announced the release of his new album The Painter on August 26th.

“I had been away from music making for some years, holed up in a beach town in California, painting, and writing about my life and reflecting on general observations,” he says.

“Then, back in London, inspiration struck with a vengeance. I was feeling the same spirit as I had in the mid 90s.”

Fontaines D.C. have premiered their video for Roman Holiday, taken from this year’s third studio album Skinty Fia.

In our review, the record was described as a ‘circle-closing masterpiece’, one containing a ‘resolute, almost hubristic confidence wherever it goes’:

“The reverb-doused Roman Holiday is about Chatten’s experiences in the capital and Britishness seen as a casual adversary – ‘I don’t wanna see the Queen’, he croons, ‘I already sing her song’, a reference to the concession of speaking somebody else’s tongue.”