The Los Angeles trio Automatic are releasing their sophomore album, Excess, next month. We’ve heard “New Beginning” and “Venus Hour” from it already, and today they’re back with another single, “Skyscraper.” “It’s about spending your life making money and then spending it to fill the void created by said job,” the band’s Halle Saxon-Gaines said […]
SOAK – “swear jar”
On Friday, Bridie Monds-Watson, the Irish singer-songwriter who records as SOAK, will release their new album If I Never Know You Like This Again. We’ve already posted the early singles “last july” and “purgatory.” Now, with the LP release looming, Monds-Watson has dropped one last pre-release single. The new “swear jar” is a vulnerable and […]
Cola – “Fulton Park”
At the end of this week, Cola, the band that rose from the ashes of Ought, are releasing their debut album, Deep In View. We’ve heard a good chunk of singles from it already — “Blank Curtain,” “So Excited,” “Water Table,” and “Degree” — and today we’re getting one more, the itchy and impressionistic “Fulton […]
Plague Skater’s New psep EP Is A Compact Lo-Fi Tour De Force
New Jersey lo-fi rockers Plague Skater’s Plague Skater II was one of my favorite albums of last year. Today the self-professed “scuzz pop” act is back with another efficiently titled project, an EP called psep. Will Schwester continues to handle mostly everything where Plague Skater is concerned; in this case that means “vocals, guitar, bass, […]
Ty Segall – “Saturday Pt. 2”
Ty Segall released Harmonizer, his last proper album, less than a year ago. A few months ago, Segall also released his soundtrack to the documentary Whirlybird. But Segall’s not about to take a vacation or anything. Instead, later this summer, Segall will follow those two records with the new LP Hello, Hi. We already posted […]
OSEES – “Funeral Solution”
Madcap mastermind John Dwyer has kept up his non-stop string of releases over the past year with albums from projects like Moon Drenched and Gong Splat, which Dwyer made with a whole bunch of friends and collaborators. Today, he’s announcing a brand-new Osees album, A Foul Form, which is due out on August 12 via […]
Hamilton Leithauser And Paul Maroon’s Dear God Is Streaming For The First Time
In the wake of the Walkmen, the band’s individual members started churning out music. For example, former frontman Hamilton Leithauser stormed right out the gates with 2014’s Black Hours, and then followed that with his 2016 album-length collab with Rostam, I Had A Dream That You Were Mine. But in between, there was also the […]
Sam Gendel Made A Whole Album With His Girlfriend’s 11-Year-Old Sister
Sam Gendel, the eclectically minded Los Angeles jazz saxophonist and producer, just announced a sprawling new album called SUPERSTORE, but that’s not stopping him from releasing an entirely different album today. The latter project is called LIVE A LITTLE, and Gendel created it mostly in one sitting with Antonia Cytrynowicz, the 11-year-old sister of Gendel’s […]
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – “Seven Red Rose Tattoos”
Jessie Buckley, the buzzy young actress you might have seen in movies like I’m Thinking of Ending Things or The Lost Daughter, is also a singer. She’s recorded a whole album with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, titled For All Our Days That Tear The Heart and set for release next month. Get excited. We […]
felicita – “Cluck” (Feat. Kero Kero Bonito)
Today, PC Music have dropped a new compilation called Volume 3, collecting “hits from 2018-2021 alongside upcoming, unreleased and unreleasable music.” One of those finds felicita teaming up with fellow pop experimentalists Kero Kero Bonito for a song called “Cluck.” The song had been performed live before, but now you can hear its official recorded […]