Big album announcements from Glass Animals and Peggy Gou were among our top stories last week.
Glass Animals have announced their fourth studio album I Love You So F***ing Much.
It’s the first from the band since the runaway sleeper success of Heat Waves, a transformative period made all the more surreal for Dave Bayley given it happened during the isolation of lockdown.
“Life can change dramatically, but sometimes you aren’t able to change as quickly on a personal level,” he’s reflected.
Killer Mike has confirmed the details of his Down By Law tour.
It’ll go around North America during the late spring and summer, preceded by an appearance at Riverbeat Music Festival in Memphis on May 4th.
Dates start at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. that month, and later include three nights in New York at Blue Note between July 29-31.
“We intend to rekindle the magic energy that gave birth to Hollywood,” Jarvis Cocker has said as Pulp add another venue to their first headline tour of North America in over a decade.
With two LA nights already booked in September at the Hollywood Palladium, another show in Tinseltown is to come on the 21st of that month at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
“So, the encore continues,” Cocker has previously said.
Peggy Gou by Park Jong Ha
Peggy Gou has finally set the date for the release of her debut album I Hear You.
News of the ten-track LP has been announced with a video for ‘1+1= 11’, directed by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson.
“Dance is transformative!,” Eliasson has said. “It bends and reshapes our relationship with time and space.”
Kamasi Washington has shared the collaboration with André 3000 which is set to feature on his new album Fearless Movement, due on May 3rd.
Dream State has been described as, ‘a celebration of life’, by Washington, ‘and the opportunity it gives us to explore new possibilities’:
“We created this song together instantaneously as we improvised off the music we made in the moment.”
Interpol will play to a potential crowd of 280,000 in Mexico later this month.
After a consistent run of success in the country, they’ve been invited to play a free show at Mexico City’s main ceremonial square the Plaza de la Constitución on Saturday, April 20th.
The show is set to span the band’s career ranging from their 2002 debut Turn On The Bright Lights to 2022’s The Other Side Of Make-Believe.
