Billy Nomates by Eddie Whelan
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Billy Nomates will release her second studio album CACTI on January 13th next year.
“Writing CACTI took just over a year,” she says. “I wrote very intensely and then none at all. (This seems to be the way I work best.)”
“I picked up old drum machines, mapped out things in my kitchen with the same small micro keyboard I always use and then raided the cupboards and rooms at Invada Studios, to play and experiment with old synths, an upright piano, this weird organ thing. I hope everyone finds their own narrative in CACTI. I think it’s about surviving it all.”
Hamish Hawk has set his new album Angel Numbers for release on February 3rd next year.
Think Of Us Kissing is following a string of 6 Music-playlisted singles, described by Hawk as coming at you, ‘like a cannonball’:
“It’s a tragic, romantic song about the music industry. It looks at the lengths an artist may or may not go in order to have glory showered upon them. It’s about the pitfalls of success, the perils of fame and the curse of ambition.”
These New South Whales have confirmed their near-self-titled new album TNSW will be released on November 18th.
The Rotten Sun single was inspired by the Ross J. Farrar poem of the same name, and has an official video directed by Oscar O’Shea.
“I can’t read Ross’s poem without crying,” frontman Jamie Timony said. “So I wanted to regurgitate it in my own way with these lyrics.”
Italia 90 have confirmed the details of their debut album Living Human Treasure.
Some previous singles sit along side brand new ones on the tracklist – the latest of these being Leisure Activities, on which the band take aim at lazy political discourse.
“Leisure Activities is a response to the tendency of countless modern bands who identify as, or are described as political, when their commentary amounts to little more than mundane descriptions of British life or sneering caricatures of an idle working class entirely of their invention,” they said.
Gilla Band have unveiled the latest track to be taken from their first studio record since the switch of names last year.
“Our friend Ryan turned 30 during lockdown and we were asked by his mates to make a track for his birthday,” Dara Kiely said on Post Ryan.
“We wrote and recorded ‘Happy Birthday Ryan’ (a hair metal attempt penned by our secret Hard Rock alias, The Whisky Guns). Right after that we came up with the bones of what is now known as Post Ryan.”
The standalone single Typical Love is following Cate Le Bon’s 2022 album Pompeii.
The accompanying video comes from Le Bon’s regular collaborator Phil Collins, as well as co-director Stefan Ramírez Pérez.
“Cate has always embodied a timeless mystique which distinctively conjures up the European silver screen,” Collins says.
Nobody Knows (Ladas Road) is the latest from Loyle Carner’s forthcoming ‘hugo’ LP, out with a video directed by Uncanny.
“We aimed to push even more focus and attention towards the powerful words by stripping back any distractions, not even allowing for cuts,” Uncanny explains.
“Through this, we were able to give the focus to Loyle and allow space for his performance solely to captivate the viewers attention.”
The Howlers have shared the video for The Boy I Was Before, taken from their Further Down The Line EP which is due for release on October 5th.
“Growing up in the world we did, in the areas we cut our teeth, everything is stacked against you, but your loved ones shield you from the reality’s of the world around you,” Adam Young said.
“So as kids you tend to see the world through the rose tinted specs of youth. We really wanted to reflect these little moments so we asked our families to dig out our childhood videos and photos for this track, not only to really hit home what the song is about but also to show them how thankful we are for that love.”
Joe Talbot of Idles has joined METZ on their new track Come On Down.
“Come On Down was originally recorded during the Atlas Vending sessions but never fully finished,” Alex Edkins explains.
“During the pandemic I really gravitated towards the idea of collaboration as a way to fill the void left by the loss of live music. I reached out to friends from far and wide in order to get that feeling of community that gigs provide.”
