The Rural Alberta Advantage by Matt Barnes
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The Rural Alberta Advantage have announced their fifth studio album The Rise & The Fall will be released on October 6th.
“There is so much I love about being in a band, but one of its most fundamental aspects causes me more mental anguish than anything else, and that’s actually writing songs,” Nils Edenloff has said of its lead track Conductor.
“When I’m able to tune out the doubting voice in my head and get it done, there’s no greater feeling. But often the devil wins and it’s easier to just run away.”
DAIISTAR have marked the release of their debut album Good Time with a video for its Parallel track.
“Sometimes I’ll be working on a song for weeks, other times I pick up the guitar and write nothing, but the songs that seem to emerge out of thin air always end up being my favorite,” Alex Capistran said.
“Parallel came to me instantly and has become one of the tracks I feel most connected to on the album. It’s a love song contrasted with fuzzed out guitar and driving rhythm. It’s about those days we find ourselves gliding effortlessly through time as two lives in unison and we can’t help but think ‘how is this real’.”
The Big Moon will end their year with a tour of Europe during December.
It’s set to include UK gigs in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Oxford, and will end with a stripped-back performance at London’s Union Chapel on December 18th.
The band have also shared a new song entitled Summer Still Comes, taken from a deluxe version of the band’s Here Is Everything album which is due for release on October 13th.
Marika Hackman is back with a brand new single entitled No Caffeine.
“No Caffeine is a list of what to do to avoid having a panic attack and looking at my anxiety as an abusive partner,” Hackman said.
The track was self-produced along with additional work from Thom Yorke and Warpaint cohort Sam Petts-Davies and Hackman’s long-term collaborator Charlie Andrew, while the video was co-directed with Natàlia Pagès.
Following on from the brilliant Where Are Your Kids Tonight? collaboration with John Grant, CMAT has premiered her brand new single Stay For Something?.
“It’s basically just about questioning why I stayed / suffered in a bad relationship for as long as I did,” she’s said. “Trying to desperately find some kind of meaning in the mess and then being embarrassed when I remember the good parts.”
“It’s not very lyrical or poetic, it’s just a lot of emotion and energy – this song, to me, sounds like going for a run at 1am with your headphones on full blast, screaming through the streets in order to get away from your problems. I hope that at least one person does that when they hear it.”
Ten years on from their road trip around the United States, Du Blonde & Samuel T. Herring of Future Islands have released their standalone track Pelican Canyon.
The pair undertook studio time in LA when their four-week trip around the US reached California after it had visited 15 states coast-to-coast in all, including Virgina, Maryland, New York and South Carolina,
“Pelican Canyon is a song that’s really close to my heart,” Du Blonde has said.
Coach Party squeezed in one more single ahead of the release of their new album Killjoy on Friday, September 8th.
“We were touring a lot last year, so a big chunk of the writing for KILLJOY happened in hotel rooms, such as ‘Be That Girl’ of which the bulk was formed in a morning in Spain before heading out to play BBK Festival,” drummer Guy Page has explained.
“It’s one of the more inward & self reflective songs on the record, and the one with the softest sonic edges. Retrospectively, it feels like a step closer to our early style as a band, which is nice.”
The Joy Formidable have premiered their latest track The Hat.
“I feel like your own inner reflections can take on a sensation like being in space, alone in the gravity of your own uncertainty, drifting and off balance but aware of how beautiful and extraordinary life is,” Ritzy Bryan said.
“This new song has that sensation of being transported but also moving forward, a nod to the new aperiodic tile that never repeats and your own vow to ‘nehttps://www.live4ever.uk.com/ver make the same mistake twice’.”
Kenny Anderson has confirmed the details of his first King Creosote record in seven years.
‘I DES’ is the result of Anderson rediscovering his love for ambient music, with chief inspiration coming from a Nils Frahm show in Edinburgh:
“I started listening to drones and stuff again because I read Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany.”
