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Leah Weller has unveiled her new single Wonder after recording sessions with producer Steve Cradock.
Those sessions took place at studios in Surrey and Devon, and first started way back in the very different world of early 2020.
“Wonder is one of the more recent tracks from the album, dealing with an egoic mind and bad habits of overthinking things,” Weller said of the single.
The SBTRKT-produced Shake is the latest from Santigold’s new LP Spirituals.
“Shake is one of those songs that was just floating around me for the taking,” Santi reveals. “What I mean is that there are some songs that basically write themselves, and all you have to do as the artist is be open enough to reach out and pull it in and say thank you.”
“When that happens I am always so grateful because it’s like the universe just handed me a gem. I sit down to write and as soon as I open my mouth the song just pours out. In this instance SBTRKT had sent me several tracks he’d been working on, and this one stood out because it sounded so different from anything I’d ever heard from him, and also so unlike anything I had ever done before.”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released Burning from their upcoming new album Cool It Down, which is due on September 30th.
The track focuses on the devastating Californian wildfires of 2020, which Karen O witnessed first-hand whilst living in LA.
“Back when I was 19 living in the east village, one night a roommate dragged me out of the apartment for an impromptu drink across the street, I left a votive candle burning on a plastic yaffa block which in my absence set flame to my room,” she says.
Pixies are previewing Doggerel again with Vault Of Heaven, the track which was recently given its live debut at Band On The Wall.
“We’re trying to do things that are very big and bold and orchestrated,” Black Francis has previously said of the album. “The punky stuff, I really like playing it but you just cannot artificially create that shit.”
“There’s another way to do this, there’s other things we can do with this extra special energy that we’re encountering.”
The Black Angels are pressing on towards the release of their Wilderness Of Mirrors double LP with its latest single, and opener, Without A Trace.
“We have always said that if you can rob a bank to our music then we are in the right ballpark,” the band say. “And while we don’t condone robbing a bank – the idea alone creates an anticipatable, adrenaline inducing soundtrack for your mind.”
Their take on various issues since the release of Death Song in 2017 – particularly geo-politics and the pandemic – are set to underpin the new record.
So There has been shared from the new Lambchop album The Bible.
The follow-up to last year’s Showtunes LP is out on September 30th, and Kurt Wagner has said this preview, ‘addresses the idea of showing up, being there for your friends and for things that we believe to be right and true’:
“But also wondering if that alone will ever be enough. I was reflecting on this during the time I was immersed in the scorching Minneapolis summer of 2021.”
Pictish Trail – aka Johnny Lynch – has premiered a five-videos-in-one promo for Remote Control, the closing track from this year’s Island Family LP.
The video can be viewed either a single edit on YouTube, or with all five simultaneously on the Eiggflix platform.
“I wanted the video to match the hyperactive mood-swings of the song, and so chatted with Sam (Wisternoff, director) about creating something where there was an interactive element, incorporating different footage,” Lynch says.
Ellie Bleach has shared Tupperware Party, the opening track from her new EP which will be released via Sad Club Records on October 6th.
“A tupperware party was an event hosted by pyramid sellers in the mid-20th century to sell tupperware products to their friends,” Bleach said.
“I thought it would make the perfect backdrop for this story – even the background characters are desperate to break out of suburban monotony. Tupperware Party is about a wall-street banker who hates his life , so embarks on a quest to find his first love, a girl from his improv group in college.”
