Hundred Reasons by Matt Higgs
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Hundred Reasons have shared the video for The Old School Way with their new LP Glorious Sunset due for release on February 24th next year.
“The subject matter for this is about not taking responsibility for your actions,” Colin Doran said of the single.
“I’ve known someone who never takes ownership of their mistakes and it’s always the fault of someone else rather than them. These people then choose to avoid the subject or the person wronged to avoid effectively being called out, when if they just admitted they acted horribly in the first place, then maybe certain roads would not be taken.”
Well over a decade on from their last studio record, Hell Is For Heroes have shared a new single entitled I Should Never Have Been Here In The First Place.
“It’s taken us the best part of 15 years to get back in the studio and a lot has changed but making music with friends is still a special kind of fun just as it always was, and we can’t wait to play them live (as well as the old songs),” they’ve said.
“Not to oversell it, but we’re reasonably certain the forthcoming tour with Hundred Reasons and My Vitriol will be beyond epic.”
Gruff Rhys has soundtracked the new film The Almond And The Seahorse and will release it digitally and on deluxe 2LP in February 2023.
“The soundtrack for The Almond And The Seahorse was recorded largely in pandemic conditions so it was a matter of recording in bursts of possible activity in various friends’ studios, homes and even scout halls as chance permitted,” Rhys explained.
“It’s a varied quilt work as a result. As sonic flagpoles I wanted to signify the film’s location in Liverpool and the Wirral by liberally, but hopefully not too obviously, using the Mellotron synthesizer (as famously used in Strawberry Fields by the Beatles and therefore in my mind it represents that great city sonically) and the cello as a nod to its use by Gwen’s character in the film.”
‘ache for’ – featuring jazz artist José James – is the latest release on Moby’s fledging Always Centered At Night label.
“Working with a legend like Moby is a huge honor,” James responded. “He sent me the track just after my sister passed away over Christmas, a moment that filled me with questions.”
“Talia Billig and I wrote the words and music in Amsterdam. We came up with an unanswered question that felt quite profound: What do you ache for? Moby transformed our message into a powerful meditation on loss, change, and evolution.”
Dutch Uncles are streaming Poppin’ ahead of the release of their new album True Entertainment on March 10th next year.
“True Entertainment is a soundtrack for the pursuit of anonymity within ever-changing societal norms, and the trappings that come with it,” Duncan Wallis believes.
“Those trappings are presented in a series of life-changing scenarios and epiphanies that include: abandoning one’s identity and accepting one’s generation as a useless vessel; to suffering for betterment and dealing with challenges from other generations.”
LIFE are getting in their own Christmas spirit on the festival track Jingle Bells.
“When Christmas was lost to Covid/Lockdown we put on a livestream from our Moon Factory studio in Hull,” Mez Sanders-Green explained.
“It made us smile, it made people laugh at home and most importantly it made my little boy dance around my flat in Hull!”
