Röyksopp by Stian Andersen
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Beki Mari is the guest of Röyksopp on the Norwegian duo’s latest piece This Time, This Place.
“I could only describe working with Royksopp as an out of body experience,” Mari says. “My mind already had the trails of their music burnt-in; little pathways back to very specific memories and so being asked to sing for them filled me with an inimitable feeling.”
“In Norway, in their studio, my voice spanned octaves I didn’t know I had; which was especially interesting as I was still learning how to fly. Working with Svein and Torbjørn was a divine blessing, something I shan’t ever forget.”
Just Mustard have set their second album Heart Under for release on May 27th.
Recording sessions took place primarily at Attica Studios in Donegal with Frank Ocean, Let’s Eat Grandma, Jamie xx and FKA twigs cohort David Wrench, while post-production was completed at home.
After their first headline US date at Union Pool in Brooklyn on March 9th and a visit not long after to SXSW, the band will spend lots of time on the road through April and May supporting Fontaines D.C. around North America and Europe.
The introduction to TSHA’s fabric presents curation is the exclusive single BOYZ.
“The idea of the mix is very acid house,” she says. “I love the idea of old skool rave culture, the ethos around peace and love as well as the aesthetic that comes with it, so that’s what I wanted to bring with the mix. Lots of old skool vibes, which is the reason dance music exists – to break down barriers and bring people together.”
Across the 25 tracks, TSHA took the opportunity to showcase many lesser known artists, just as Bonobo had done when inviting her on to his compilation back in 2019.
A video for the title-track has heralded the arrival of Goose’s third studio album Dripfield.
“The underlying idea of Dripfield is that of saturation,” Rick Mitarotonda explains. “Imagine a piece of earth – it’s kind of like the water level rising and seeping up to the top. It’s a metaphor for the creativity we have inside of us. I’m not sure what pulls it out of us – maybe it’s our subconscious.”
“To me, every music video project is a new task of understanding the artist, and finding what I think is the best visual interpretation for them and their music,” the promo’s director Dylan Hahn adds.
CMAT has said her latest single Every Bottle (Is My Boyfriend) is a song, ‘about being defiantly chaotic’:
“Because being that, an agent of chaos, is something quite defiant for a girl to do. It almost didn’t make the album. But then I managed to shoehorn in a line about the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) and I felt happy it was representative of my drinking habits.”
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson will be at Rough Trades East and West, and Banquet in Kingston around the release of the new album, and is also at SXSW next month.
Brooklyn-based duo Momma have unveiled their new single Rockstar before they support Wet Leg on a short tour of the US from the end of next month.
“Etta and I wanted to write a song about making it big, and becoming rock stars,” Allegra Weingarten says. “We didn’t want to take anything too seriously, lyrically, or musically.”
“We just wanted the song to sound big. We thought it would be cool to have our own little rockumentary condensed in a 3-minute music video. It’s also kind of like a manifestation – I think we shamelessly want all of these things to happen in our careers.”
The Afghan Whigs have returned with their new single I’ll Make You See God – ‘one of the hardest rock songs we’ve ever done’, according Greg Dulli: “It was written and performed on sheer adrenalin.”
It was in 2017 when the band last released a studio album, In Spades, while before that 2014 brought Do To The Beast and one of Live4ever’s top picks of that year:
“From the urgent, hungry, glam-rock opener ‘Parked Outside‘, to the feeling of creeping flesh in musical form in the ominous ‘Lost In The Woods‘, and finally to the truly epic finale ‘These Sticks‘, ‘Do To The Beast’ is immersed in scenes of tragedy,” our review reads.
A one-take video directed by Dana Margolin’s sister Ella has introduced Porridge Radio’s new single Back To The Radio and with it, the follow-up to their 2020 record Every Bad.
“Back To The Radio feels like a huge introductory hello or a big ceremonial goodbye,” Dana comments. “I wrote it at the end of 2019 when we were gearing up for the release of Every Bad and I felt like a lot of things were coming that I wasn’t sure I knew how to handle.”
“The song grew out of a feeling of intense loneliness and being unprepared for what everybody was promising me was about to happen – and a strong desire to escape without knowing what I wanted to escape to. To me there’s a huge feeling of catharsis in this song, of letting go and letting it sweep you away.”
