News Round-Up: slowthai, Joy Division and more

slowthai performing at the 2019 Pitchfork Paris Festival (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the last seven days…

slowthai has released a new track entitled ENEMY.

Containing some not-so-subtle references to his equally in-your-face behaviour at the NME Awards earlier this year, it comes almost exactly a year on from the release of his debut album Nothing Great About Britain.

Jessie Ware has shared a fifth track from her new album What’s Your Pleasure?, which will follow 2017’s Glasshouse on June 19th.

“Save A Kiss has taken on a new meaning during these weird times and it seems like the right time to put it out,” she says of the single. “This track is an optimistic one for me, I hope it resonates with people wherever they are right now. It’s an upbeat song to dance along too and have fun with. I know I’ve got plenty of kisses I’m saving up for everyone when this is all over.”

Biffy Clyro‘s latest single Tiny Indoor Fireworks has been launched by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 – whose virtual Big Weekend UK 2020 they’ll be a part of between May 22nd-24th.

The track will feature on Biffy’s new studio album A Celebration Of Endings when it gets a delayed release on August 14th. “This is a very forward-looking album from a personal perspective and a societal perspective,” frontman Simon Neil has said.

Closer

A 40th anniversary edition of Joy Division‘s second and final album Closer will be released on July 17th.

The vinyl reissues are also to include Transmission, Atmosphere and Love Will Tear Us Apart – three classic non-album singles which fell in-between this record and the landmark debut Unknown Pleasures.

Everything Everything have announced the release of their fifth studio album, shortly after returning with their first new music since 2018.

Re-Animator is out on August 21st, made up of eleven new tracks including that recent single In Birdsong and last week’s preview Arch Enemy. The album’s genesis comes from frontman Jonathan Higgs’ fascination with the psychologist Julian Jaynes’ ‘bicameral mind’ theory – the premise that early humans had two distinct, autonomous sides of the brain.

Run The Jewels have confirmed RTJ4 for release on June 5th.

The duo spent most of their recording time at Rick Rubin‘s Shangri-La studio in California and Electric Lady in New York, inviting collaborations with the likes Pharrell Williams, Josh Homme, Zack de la Rocha and Mavis Staples, as well as Greg Nice and DJ Premier who both appear on the recent Ooh LA LA single whose video was unveiled last month.