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Heartworms has shared her new single Retributions Of An Awful Life with the debut EP A Comforting Notion set for March 24th.
“The song itself lyrically is deeply unsettling, I wanted it to come alive in action,” she’s said.
“I had an idea of being kitted up in full militaria of no specific regiments, in black and white, putting my body through cold water and wet mud. This was stepping outside my comfort zone because I’m not a skilled swimmer; deep water frightens me immensely, especially when cold and in full military gear.”
With their fourth album Rules Of Love & War ready to go on March 17th, Trampolene have premiered its latest single Money.
“Money was probably the fastest poem I ever wrote, just woke up one morning full of anxiety and anger and upset about the fact I knew I didn’t have any money…not even enough to eat properly,” Jack Jones has explained.
“It just pissed me off…how we always end up being the ones suffering and the government gives tax breaks to the ones with all the money who are already rich…and now we are in the middle of a cost of living crisis I guess everyone’s feeling the same way.”
DMA’s have another new single out with their How Many Dreams? LP due in a couple of months.
“Our palette for this album was a lot broader because we’ve learned so much since our debut and we’ve listened to so much more music between then and now, which has shaped us,” Johnny Took has commented. “It felt like a first outing all over again. The excitement was the same.”
“Tommy wrote the majority of this song to an obscure demo I made during lockdown,” he’s continued on the Fading Like A Picture single.
The Lathums have posted Struggle from their new LP ahead of its release on March 3rd.
“It’s about loss, someone who has gone from your life and has its roots in our early college days,” Alex Moore said.
“Scott (Concepcion – guitars/piano) has a piano in his house and up to that point I’d never had contact with the piano, but the more we hung out, the more I played around on it. This is the song that came out of me and it’s been difficult to show people up until now. It’s so personal.”
The Goa Express are back with their new single Portrait – ‘a band favourite for a while’, according to frontman James Douglas Clarke.
“It always seems to go down well live, and it felt ready for the radio at the time we signed our record deal,” he’s said.
“I guess it’s about the ups and downs of sharing the same space with somebody significant and how things seem to jump around, twisting and turning in every direction.”
Johns Newton and Healey have shared the B-side of their upcoming new JOHN single Theme New Bond Junior.
“The title alludes to the contemplative characters of Edward Hopper’s paintings – often locked in thought in a series of dream-like interiors,” Newton explained upon the release of Hopper On The Dial.
“The song functions in a similar manner: a wandering view that mulls over the potential of a future – whether that be the security of an occupation, home or environment.”
There’s more from Black Honey’s forthcoming new album A Fistful of Peaches (March 17th), Up Against It described as an open letter by Izzy Phillips to her younger self.
“…And to every young discriminated and marginalised person out there,” Phillips said. “I want so bad to give them an anthem that was instead of “fuck the world” would give them a screaming discovery of new found kindness towards themselves.”
“Troubled young people give themselves the hardest time of all. I want to tell them that you are hurting and things are harder than you ever thought they could be, but all you have to do is show up for yourself every day.”
The new CMAT single Mayday has hit streaming services this week.
“Mayday is a very sexy song about climate change,” she’s said. “I found the inspiration for the song last summer. My boyfriend was on tour and flying into a country that was at the time being evacuated for forest fires.”
“I was so anxious, I kept asking for him to text me when he landed. Eventually he did, like: ‘hey! The runway is on fire’. I thought the human anxieties of the oncoming climate change disaster are something that are either not spoken about, or spoken about in big, sweeping, dramatic statements.”
Fenne Lily has unveiled her new album Big Picture along with details of North American, UK and European tour dates.
“I’d never really written about love in the present tense before this, but even though I was still in love and not thinking about the end, there was something else going on subconsciously that led to a song about moving on before the moving on had begun,” Lily said on lead single Lights Light Up.
“When it came time to record, the band and I had been playing it live for a while and it’d become something joyful and positive, but when I started recording vocals, the lyrics made me cry. By that point the song was over a year old and I thought those wounds had healed but I guess it hurt to admit I’d been letting go of something while still trying to hold on.”
Rianne Downey has unveiled her new single Hard with a run of UK tour dates coming up in March, starting at a sold-out Kazimier Stock Room in Liverpool on March 18th.
“It’s a love song and the first straight up love song I’ve released,” Downey said. “It’s about trying to make it work out but it’s just not destined to be, though everything’s going to work out, one way or the other, in the end.
“Sometimes people, especially women, can be tricked into thinking they can change the person they’re with to make an imperfect situation perfect but it’s not going to be as simple as that.”
“Breaking Up is yet another breakup song,” Bnny‘s leader Jessica Viscius has said of the band’s new single. “A reflection of my past and present.”
It follows on from their 2021 debut long player Everything, and is out in the week a US tour with Bonny Doon got underway at Empty Bottle in Chicago.
It’s due to continue in Indianapolis tonight (January 21st) at the Lo-Fi Lounge.
