Warpaint by Richard Ramirez Jr.
New music from Warpaint and Goat Girl were among our biggest headlines last week.
Warpaint are marking a significant milestone with the release of their new single Common Blue.
Backed by another new track, Underneath, the 7″ is set to be released back where it all started with Rough Trade on March 22nd.
“It started with the chord progression on guitar,” Theresa Wayman has said of the lead track.
New songs Work In Progress, Down Swinging, Easy Tiger and Dive – which is streaming online now – have been collected by Holly Humberstone on an EP titled after another of those, Work In Progress.
“Every song starts as a work in progress,” she’s said. “Some stay as demos and ideas, others find new life with more production. But these songs were demos I couldn’t leave behind.”
“I went back through the archives and discovered these lost older versions of myself mixed up with the present version of me. I wanted to release them this year – as I start touring again and since the release of my debut album – as a work in progress for my fans. I’m very much a work in progress, and I think this body of work feels impulsive and more like a stream of consciousness to me. Dive is the first song I’m dropping today.”
Ride have premiered Last Frontier from their forthcoming new album Interplay which is due for release on March 29th.
“This was the runt of the litter of the very first jam session from Mark’s OX4 Studio and I didn’t even include it on my shortlist of the best tracks,” Andy Bell has remembered.
“It was our producer Richie Kennedy who saw the potential of the song, and we attacked this with a vengeance at Vada studio. A complete revamp of the backing track and arrangement was needed and we took it right back to basics, more towards a pounding Joy Division feel.”
Goat Girl by Holly Whitaker
Goat Girl will be back on June 7th with their third studio record Below The Waste.
Laid down primarily during a ten-day period at Hellfire Studios in Ireland, the LP is following 2021’s On All Fours – one of Live4ever’s essential picks of that year – and has been announced with a video for ‘ride around’ directed by Luke Kulukundis and Mateo Villanueva Brandt, who said:
“The film explores themes of outsiderdom via both desire and fear of connection. The strangeness of togetherness in the context of a drab city, mired in capitalist claustrophobia and absurd mundanity.”
It came to Joe Talbot in a dream, apparently, and Chris Martin was more than happy to lend a hand in making his vision for IDLES‘ Grace video come to life.
Deepfake AI tech has been used to transform Coldplay’s Yellow promo into this, the final piece in the build-up to the release of Tangk, which Live4ever has awarded a strong 8/10.
“On previous albums the impression was that experimentation came very much within certain parameters,” our review reads.
Bess Atwell has unveiled her new album Light Sleeper with its lead track Release Myself.
“Light Sleeper is about the willingness to feel,” Atwell has said. “While writing the album, I was realising that somewhere along the line I had become very afraid of feeling.”
“My approach on Light Sleeper was to give up concern with what’s cool and to reconnect with why I make the things I make. I was afraid to really sing on my previous record, having come to believe it wasn’t cool or would draw attention to the fact that I am indeed an emotional woman and therefore not to be taken as seriously.”
