Bonnacons Of Doom by Will Shields
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Bonnacons Of Doom will release Signs – their second album for Rocket Recordings – on October 27th, and have shared its storming new single Facing.
“The past five years has really accelerated a sense of confusion,” the band’s Rob Strachan said. “I think we’re in a period of post-digital decay and in a sense the album is naturally a response to that.
“I think everyone feels out of control and we’re all trying to make sense of a period where it feels like everything is falling apart. So I think culturally and politically there’s a tendency to look for emergent signs to explain things that are essentially chaotic. Pattern recognition is a key part of being a human so we all look for signs even if their interpretations are misaligned or totally out there.”
Wings Of Desire have released a double A-side single.
The duo of James Taylor and Chloe Little have described Be Here Now as, ‘a song about being exactly where you’re supposed to be’, while on Made Of Love they added:
“In the wake of hyper-masculinity being promoted within the internet sphere, we invite all the tough guys out there to try and feel their emotions instead of repressing them.”
MRCH have shared their new single Easiest To Bend with the duo’s next EP TV Bliss coming up on September 29th.
“Love is probably the most thrown around word,” Mickey Pangburn said. “It really just means vulnerability to me though.
“And it’s difficult to not treat vulnerability as a weakness. It’s super hard to not put up walls of protection. Easiest to Bend is about the courage and strength of being imperfectly, honestly, vulnerable. So here we go throwing the word love into yet another chorus, but, we LOVE it.”
Heavy Lungs have premiered the video for their latest All Gas No Brakes single Head Tilter – about, ‘the piercing sense of guilt that comes with repeating the same mistakes and the resolve to break that cycle’, according to Danny Nedelko.
“It’s driving, it’s vibin’ and it’s a hypnotising bit of kit. Three is a lucky number, they say, and this is our third single so I guess listening to it will bring you luck. They also say age is just a number. People really think about numbers a lot. Maybe a bit too much. Anyway, Head Tilter goes hard for 3 minutes 54 seconds and it’s 83,518 minutes 29 seconds until our album comes out.”
The band were at the Holy Mountain and Humm studios with producer Chris Fullard for the recording of their first LP.
Isaac Holman has shared his latest solo track Middle Urinal Business.
“I will forever be in awe of men who can wee in the middle urinal like it’s nothing,” he said of it. “I get stage fright on my own in my flat. How they do it I will never know. This is a song about those men.”
It features on Holman’s just-released Baby Dave album Different Gravy, recorded back home in Tunbridge Wells with producer Erik Miles. “Making this record over the last year has both kept me sane and made me feel more mental than ever,” Holman continued.
Spector‘s first piece of new music in eighteen months is entitled The Notion.
“We started The Notion on a spare day we had in Liverpool during the Now or Whenever sessions,” Fred Macpherson explains. “It’s been on a real journey since, with Jed coming up with these early Four Tet style guitar loops, which have a really hypnotic feel I love.
“Then Dev Hynes came to the studio to hear some stuff and ended up free styling the solo in one take. I was worried he’d blown a speaker at one point. Lyrically it’s kind of a letter to one’s younger self – a reminder that repressing feelings and emotions is a dangerous precedent, and however bad (or good) things get, nothing is forever.”
Emmeline has premiered the video for her new single Dust shortly after the release of its parent EP Small-Town Girls And Soft Summer Nights.
“We wanted to make a song that was bold and playful, and that captured the spirit of the EP, with themes of theatricality and the legacy of a life on the stage,” she’s said.
“We used musical nods to Peter Pan and Frank Sinatra, whilst I wrote with references to Shakespeare and classic Hollywood; it’s a song about ageing and wish fulfilment, and how great art rarely fades to dust.”
Mike Skinner has released another single from The Streets‘ forthcoming album The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light.
The LP is being accompanied by a first feature film of the same name from Skinner, and he’s said Too Much Yayo was a cornerstone for both mediums:
“Too Much Yayo is the first song on the album and it really is the focus of the first key scene in my film.”
Future Islands have released a new single entitled Deep In The Night.
It arrives with the band set to play UK and Ireland dates this month, including an appearance on Noel Gallagher’s bill at Wythenshawe Park in Manchester on August 26th.
September, meanwhile, will bring European gigs at La Nef Du Centquatre in Paris, and Dutch gigs in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
