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David Holmes is streaming his new single It’s Over, If We Run Out Of Love, featuring vocals from his regular collaborator Raven Violet.
“It’s an ode to youth culture in difficult times and remembering what things were like growing up in the ’70s and ’80s in Belfast,” Holmes explains. “There was a civil war kicking off on our doorsteps but we always had our music, our clothes, our culture that kept us sane.”
Noel Gallagher gets a co-writing credit on the track, it taking us back to the Oasis man’s 2017 third solo album Who Built The Moon? which was produced and heavily influenced by Holmes.
Bodega’s build-up to their second album Broken Equipment is continuing with the latest single Statuette On The Console.
As well as taking lead vocals on the track, Nik E Iki has directed its video with an old-school tech fascination very much in mind:
“I have a certain reverence for the symbols of religion; creating iconography with antiquated technology is a big part of my process for the art of Bodega.”
Kurt Vile’s newly created home studio in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia was the primary location for the sessions which have produced his next studio album ‘(watch my moves)’.
His longtime collaborator Rob Schnapf was present as Vile worked to a simple premise: “It’s about songwriting,” he says. “It’s about lyrics.”
“It’s about being the master of all domains in the music. I’m always thinking about catchy music, even though it’s fried, or sizzled, out. It’s my own version of a classic thing – it’s moving forward and backward at the same time.”
Stockholm band Vero are previewing Unsoothing Interior with their new single Cupid.
“Cupid was the first song we wrote that made the album” they explain. “We had made a couple of demos before, but we weren’t loving them.”
“They all sounded a bit too pretty and safe, so when the drums for Cupid were done, we took a guitar and started making these wheeling, chaotic noises, and that was it. That was the sound that set the tone for our album. The lyrics are a bit dream-like, it’s about lust and control.”
Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean has kickstarted Pink Mountaintops again after eight years and will release the new album Peacock Pools on May 6th.
“Lincoln Heights hilltop sunrise riff’n’bang sparks spree of vengeance by disgruntled ex-bass player turned cyborg tinkertronic handsome man, Ken The Walnut,” he says of the video.
“Obsessed with Pink Mountaintops demise The Walnut’s sinister plot almost succeeds in a Don McClean sized wave of rock’n’roll destruction.”
TV Priest are looking ahead to their second record with One Easy Thing – ‘the key to unlocking a more direct and personal approach to our songwriting’, according to Charlie Drinkwater.
“It’s about dealing with the small things of everyday life; the anxiety, pressures, and battles inside your own headspace – and not being afraid to show this in our songs,” he adds.
The band have a visit to End Of The Road Festival booked for September as plans start to fall into place for the successor to 2021’s debut LP Uppers.
Hatchie is streaming the title-track of her new album Giving The World Away.
Due on April 22nd, the LP will present a conscious effort from the Brisbane-based artist to emphasize the farther corners of her songwriting.
“There’s more to me than just writing songs about being in love or being heartbroken – there’s a bigger picture than that,” she explains.
Chubby And The Gang have released their Labour Of Love EP, containing new single Who Loves Ya (Coup d’état) along with Twice Shy and Ain’t There No One?.
“We had the idea to do a Valentine’s Day single and I sort of wanted to show all the angles of love,” Charlie Manning Walker says of the opener.
“Warts and all. Quite often it’s not such a smooth experience. Can often feel scary and insane. So I wanted to write a bubblegum song about it but also show the duality of the emotion.”
Happy Science have returned with the video for their new single The Last Goodbye.
Recorded at Shrunken Head Studios in London where the likes of King Krule and Ghostpoet have spent time in the past, the track’s lolling bassline ensures ears are pricked up before a simple but spiky angular guitar, along with the lead vocal, snaps senses into full attention.
An ode to drinking culture in a specific pub, singer Callum Connaughton sums up the feeling of being on an irregular perfectly: ‘You wanna be a part of it, but you’re apart from it’.
Japanese Television have revealed the details of their debut album Space Fruit Vineyard.
The Yaxley village hall and producer Kristian Bell of The Wytches kept things familiar and comfortable during the recording sessions, but the video for lead single Dopplegänger Disco will be a bit more unsettling for one member of the band at least.
“It’s based on a nightmare our guitarist Tim always has where he’s on a never ending set of stairs,” they explain. “This sense of unease, anxiety and impending doom is perfectly captured in the video by animator and director Mars West.”
