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Zack Keim has released two brand new singles, Maggie and our highlight today Better Days.
“The song Better Days to me represents a reflection of hopeful youth but also the daily struggles of life,” Keim said.
“When we wrote the song together we reflected on what has happened over the last few years, and how we all had our ups and downs. Yet, we remain hopeful that better times and better days lay ahead.”
Leeds band Thank have set their new double A-side single Torture Cube / Dead Dog In A Ditch for release on July 21st via their fellow Loiners Yard Act’s Zen F.C label.
“This was our first time in the studio with our friend and Leeds avant-metal legend Steve Myles on drums, and like a lot of our peers it marked a return to honing tunes in a grotty rehearsal spot rather than writing remotely,” vocalist/guitarist Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe has said of Torture Cube, which is streaming online now.
“The result feels like it has that pent up, fraught, fidgety energy of our first EP, combined with the more ambitious arrangements we started to experiment with on ‘Thoughtless Cruelty’. Personally, I think it’s quite good actually.”
Gold Panda has invited McKinley Dixon, Open Mike Eagle, and Infinite Livez on to a new version of his 2022 The Work album track The Corner.
“When I was making the album version of The Corner I was thinking about how a vocalist might work on the track,” Gold Panda has explained.
“Rap/Hip Hop has always been my go-to music for inspiration. I’d say a lot of my music starts off as trying to be a hip-hop track and slowly descends into Gold Panda-ness, so it’s been a pleasure to de-clutter my original version to make space for the artists I’ve been so lucky to get verses from.”
Devendra Banhart has announced the release of his eleventh studio album Flying Wig on September 22nd.
It’s the follow-up 2019’s Ma and is being previewed today with Twin. “This entire record was inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem: ‘This dewdrop world, Is a dewdrop world, And yet, And yet…’,” Banhart said.
“I’ve never read a more concise and clear illustration of hope… it just sweeps me away by the breadth of its scope…. as lonely as we might feel at our saddest, angriest, most desperate, most frustrated, most hopeless, most heartbroken moments, we have all felt that, everyone on earth, our ancestors before us, and those that will come after, have or will feel that.”
London-based quartet Powerplant will follow up last year’s ‘instrumental fantasy’ Stump Soup with the release of their 5-track EP Grass on July 14th.
“I had the melody and the lyrics more or less written for quite some time but it didn’t mean a lot to me, until so much was lost and taken by the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year,” Theo Zhykharyev has said of its lead track. “The carcass of Beautiful Boy was what I had to process the loss personally.”
The band will be on tour around the UK during July, including a date in Leeds at Magbate on the 22nd.
Coach Party are building up to their debut album Killjoy with a lyric video for its Born Leader track.
The LP is due out via Chess Club Record on September 8th, set to be supported shortly after with a lengthy tour of the UK and Europe.
Before then, the band will be a part of the BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury a little later this month.
