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Santigold has shared a short video featuring Fall First, the standout closing track from the recent Spirituals LP.
These vignettes are part of a multimedia and sensory campaign which Santigold is pursuing in support of Spirituals, including a soon-to-be-aired podcast series.
“I want to continue branching out into all forms of art,” she said. “And I’m really excited to let my music take me to new places.”
LIFE have premiered their official video for Shipping Forecast, taken from the summer album North East Coastal Town.
“Shipping Forecast is a track that is awash with Hull’s nautical heritage,” Mez Green said. “The music channels the power of the waves somewhere between Dogger and Humber.”
“It’s an urgent and powerful track that grapples with the need to get home and pins themes of toxic social media and control to its mast.”
Nilüfer Yanya has shared her cover of PJ Harvey’s 1993 album title-track Rid Of Me.
“Rid Of Me haunted me for many years after I first heard it, but in a comforting kind of way, like I knew it was always there for me,” Yanya said.
“It comes across defiant, alien and twisted, but it is a perfect song. I actually think it’s very romantic despite what some of the lyrics get at.”
Hotel Lux have confirmed the details of their debut album Hands Across The Creek.
After early buzz thanks to cracking singles like Tabloid Newspaper and Ballad Of You & I, like most artists Hotel Lux found the brick wall of lockdown a hard one to navigate.
Eventually, after much soul-searching about their future direction and the arrival of Max Oliver in the place of original guitarist Jake Sewell, their maiden record began to take shape with the help of producer Bill Ryder-Jones.
Calexico have shared a brand new track entitled Rambler.
The country twang of the single is inspired by the Pacific Northwest travels of Joey Burns.
“Throughout these travels I kept seeing ghosts looking for someone to sing their stories,” Burns said. “When John (Covertino) and I met up to record, the music came together in a flash, and you can feel that spark of spontaneity between the acoustic guitar and drums when you listen.”
Confidence Man have shared the Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs version of Luvin U Is Easy from their forthcoming RE-TILT EP which is due out on September 30th.
Tame Impala and Daniel Avery are among the other artists who’ve contributed to the seven-track release which is putting a fresh spin on some select cuts from this year’s TILT album – one of Live4ever’s favourites of the year.
“Throughout, there’s also an assured brand of energised post-feminism, always present but especially in places like the hugely radiant opener Woman; you might not have expected to find that or lots of other things like it here, but dismiss Tilt as just pastiche at your own risk,” our review reads.
The Tallest Man On Earth has confirmed the release of a new covers album entitled Too Late For Edelweiss this week on September 23rd.
“This past year, I’ve spent a lot of time touring but also writing and recording an album that I’m wildly proud of and will see the light of day eventually,” Kristian Matsson said.
“But in the small hours in between trips and sessions, mostly in my house in Sweden and an Airbnb in North Carolina, I lo-fi recorded some covers here and there. Many times as a reset button for my own song writing, to cleanse the palate from my whirlpool mind while writing songs. A little document of songs I had on my mind during those nights.”
Emily Breeze is sanguine on the past on her impressive new single Ordinary Life.
Breeze describes it as a, ‘reflection on a gloriously misspent youth and a celebration of the magic, misery, miracles and monotony that are sewn into the fabric of everyday existence where you are the hero of your own mythic quest’, as the single builds towards the release of her new album.
That’s entitled Rapture and is due in February next year.
Sorry Officer is the first single from The Shakes and will be released on October 7th.
Its video comes from La De La Studio, while the band are set to take it out on the road next month, starting at Neighbourhood Weekender.
A launch gig is booked to follow soon after at the Notting Hill Arts Club, while support shows behind Andrew Cushin are set for Brighton, Southampton and Bristol.
