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Hayden Thorpe will add four new tracks and four remixes to his Moondust For My Diamond album for an expanded digital release on August 19th.
“Every Piece of Dust brings into the family all of the stray songs that were written alongside Moondust For My Diamond,” the Wild Beasts man says.
“I think of this release as a Director’s Cut – indulging some of the choices that went unmade up until now. There’s a mini-grief that happens when you finish off and move on from a record – you almost have to say, ‘I’m moving on forever’. However these songs stave off execution day for sometime yet.”
CLAMM have premiered the official video for Something New, the latest track from their upcoming CARE LP.
“Something New is a song about searching or yearning,” guitarist and vocalist Jack Summers said. “It is about impatience and time, and its title refers to the process of facing seemingly new stimuli throughout life.”
The band will be in the UK from the end of next month as part of a European tour which is booked to open at Shacklewell Arms in London.
Rodrigo y Gabriela have put their stamp on Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, one of the highlights from Radiohead’s modern classic album In Rainbows.
“When I was young, I never took a close look into Radiohead’s music,” the duo say. “I was the typical metal head and the typical metal head in the 80s and 90s was pretty much a closed-minded character who rarely took a risk listening to alternative bands.
“It was not until we met John Leckie, who produced our first album in 2006 and Radiohead’s first 2 albums in the early 90s, that they got my attention.”
The Linda Lindas have posted a cover of Tonite by The Go-Go’s, recalling when Belinda Carlisle and co would dominate the fledgling band’s early days.
“The Linda Lindas started out as a cover band, and we’ve played more songs by The Go-Go’s than anyone else,” they’ve said.
“And even after we started to write our own songs, we never stopped playing ‘Tonite.’ We love the idea of us going out and owning our town, and ‘Tonite’ is as fun to play as it is empowering – especially the part where we all sing together.”
Waxahatchee (Katie Crutchfield) and Jess Williamson have unveiled their new collaboration Plains with the Problem With It single.
It’s the first track from the duo’s debut record I Walked With You A Ways, announced along side an introductory North American tour.
“I’m thrilled to announce this new project and album,” Crutchfield said. “I’ve felt a connection to Jess’s songwriting and a kinship with her since we met years ago.”
Orbital have premiered the official video for Smiley – one of the brand new tracks which features on their recently released 30 Something album, part of the duo’s 30th anniversary celebrations and which also contains reworkings and remixes from the Hartnoll brothers’ back catalogue.
“We wanted to do something that represented where our heads are at now but wearing the clothes from back when we started,” Paul said. “So to chronicle thirty years of Orbital you’ve got this track that chronicles the very start of dance music in Sevenoaks. It’s our origin story.”
“And to make the very important point that, in civil rights terms, basically we all got beaten up by the police for having a party,” Phil added. “Could never happen now, everyone would film it on their phones. Instant police brutality case.”
Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has shared his new solo single Long, Long Year, recorded with producer Vance Powell and musicians including Raconteurs bass player Jack Lawrence.
“My trip out to Nashville in March of 2021 was my first time recording any solo material since I made Hard Lessons,” Shiflett says.
“I hadn’t done much traveling post-Covid lockdown so I was a little nervous heading out there to work with a producer and roomful of musicians I didn’t really know. In true Nashville style we made our introductions and got right down to work, hammering out the basic tracks in a few hours.”
Leftfield will release their first album in seven years on December 2nd via Virgin Records.
This Is What We Do – their first collection of new music since 2015’s Alternative Light Source – is wrapped around themes of love, acceptance, diversity and healing, written on both sides of the pandemic and a period of ill health for Neil Barnes himself.
“I wanted Pulse to be the first statement from the new album,” Barnes says of the lead track. “It felt strong. Dance floor. Human. Positive. And I love the bass. It’s Leftfield.”
Flohio’s debut album Out Of Heart will be released on October 7th.
The 12-track record is being previewed with opener and new single SPF, showcasing a record whose inspiration came from the memories of some classic gaming soundtracks:
“I grew up around the time of games like Playstations and Nintendos; I’m bringing back the nostalgia of me in my living room playing games with my friends at age 10.”
