Fran Lobo by Henry Gorse
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After recently signing up to Heavenly Recordings, Fran Lobo has shared her first single on the label.
“It’s a dystopian trip through the inner psyche,” she’s said. “It’s a battle and a struggle. A lament and a prayer for a better inner and outer world.”
“We venture through a twisted and dark terrain until we summon the holy choir who hear our call, tempting us into a deranged party where we live our sensual desires and play out our sadistic fantasies until we implode!”
Fresh from returning last year for some comeback gigs at Glasgow’s O2 Academy, The View have confirmed the details of a brand new studio record.
Exorcism Of Youth will be released on June 9th after Kyle Falconer, Kieran Webster and Pete Reilly headed to Granada in Spain for sessions with producer Youth.
“Working with Youth on our third album Bread And Circuses was one of the best experiences of my career so we jumped at the chance to revisit the opportunity with him in Spain,” Falconer recalled.
Rodrigo y Gabriela have announced the release of their new album In Between Thoughts…A New World on April 21st.
Self-produced with a spirit of spontaneity at the duo’s studio in Ixtapa, Mexico, the record is being teased with a video for Descending To Nowhere directed by Olallo Rubio.
“The video is based on a specific chapter/segment of a storyline written by Rodrigo y Gabriela where a character has a spiritual journey towards non-dualism,” Rubio said.
After some recent live outings and social media snippets, Beabadoobee has shared her new single Glue Song.
“I wrote a lot of this song while on tour across Australia and Asia in the back of cars and whilst traveling,” Bea explained.
“It’s a heartfelt song that means a lot to me, a love song and the first one I’ve written in my new relationship. I usually write these songs that are sad; in the past even when it doesn’t sound sad, looking back the lyrics usually have been.”
Teleman will release their new album Good Time / Hard Time on April 7th, five years on from Family Of Aliens.
The LP’s first single is Trees Grow High – ‘a track for anyone who had a strange or difficult childhood’, Sanders added.
“The chances are you’ll be drawn to someone else with similar experiences, for better or for worse, and this song paints a picture of two people in that situation.”
Dry Cleaning will release their Swampy EP on March 1st containing two new songs – the title-track and Sombre Two.
“These two songs were recorded in the Stumpwork sessions and they feel like good companions to us,” the band said.
“They share a dusty, desolate and spacey atmosphere. On the eve of this release we have been touring through the southwest USA, where these songs feel at home in the arid, Mars-like landscape of the Arizona desert.”
The Hold Steady have shared another new track ahead of the release of their ninth studio album The Price Of Progress on March 31st.
“Sixers was written in the first days of the pandemic,” Craig Finn explained. “It’s basically a song about knowing your neighbors.”
“Two young professionals meet up in their building late on a Friday night and spend the weekend partying together. They try to find a love connection, but it’s not quite there.”
Moby has announced the release of his new album Resound NYC on May 12th.
In similar vein to 2021’s Reprise LP, a host of special guests including Gregory Porter, Ricky Wilson and Margo Timmons will revisit 15 tracks written and/or recorded in New York between 1994-2010.
“Before I discovered punk rock, I grew up with classic rock,” Moby has said. “My first concert was Yes at Madison Square Garden in 1978.”
FEET have released Changing My Mind Again, their first new music of the year.
“There’s always a level of uncertainty that hangs on my decisions I’ve found, particularly now in my mid 20s,” frontman George Haverson said.
“With age comes consequences which I wanted to explore with Changing My Mind Again. The band even embody the same indecisiveness when playing the song.”
Brooke Bentham will release her new EP Caring on March 17th.
Let Go is the second track to be taken from it, written in the midst of a songwriting course with Robin Pecknold singing teacher training.
“I’d been trying to get the song right for a while and our homework for the course was to try to rework an old song,” Bentham said. “After playing around with old material for a while, I came up with Let Go.”
Beck has shared a brand new stand-alone single entitled Thinking About You.
The song is out before some April tour dates in Australia lead into two appearances at the Hollywood Bowl as part of Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday shows.
August will bring a full co-headline tour of North America with Phoenix and supports including Japanese Breakfast, Weyes Blood and Jenny Lewis.
