Autechre released a new album, SIGN, just a couple weeks ago. It was the beloved English electronic duo’s first “proper” album in seven years. They’ve wasted no time on a follow-up. Today, they’re back with another whole new full-length album called PLUS, which features nine new tracks, and judging by the similar album artwork and […]
Khruangbin – “Summer Madness” (Kool & The Gang Cover)
Khruangbin are the latest artist to curate their own installment of the long-running Late Night Tales compilation series. Khruangbin got their first big break when Bonobo included their song “A Calf Born In Winter” on his own Late Night Tales mix in 2013, so this is a bit of a full-circle moment for them. The […]
Calexico Announce Holiday Album 'Seasonal Shift'
Apparently no one told Calexico that October is when you release Christmas albums, not when you announce them. The mariachi-infused Tucson indie veterans will drop Seasonal Shift, their first holiday LP, in the more seasonally appropriate month of December. Seasonal Shift features guest spots from Bombino, Gaby Moreno, Gisela João, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata, and Camilo […]
Rhye – "Black Rain"
Michael Milosh must be making up for lost time. After a big five year stretch between Rhye’s debut album, 2013’s Woman, and its sophomore outing, 2018’s Blood, Milosh has been pretty busy. A piano-led collection, Spirit, appeared last year. An odd song or two trickled out along the way. And now, everyone’s favorite purveyors of […]
Lavender Diamond – “In The Garden”
Lavender Diamond, the orchestral art-pop trio led by Becky Stark, are coming back with their first new album in eight years. We’ve already heard two songs from the forthcoming Now Is The Time, “Look Through The Window” and “This Is How We Rise.” Today, they’re sharing a third, “In The Garden,” which features Bright Eyes’ […]
Jordana – "I Guess This Is Life"
Back In July, Jordana Nye unveiled a new EP called Something To Say, the followup to March’s expanded re-release of her 2019 debut Classical Notions Of Happiness. She didn’t waste much time in following that EP up, either, returning in September with “Divine” and the news that Something To Say was one half of a […]
Empress Of – "You've Got To Feel" (Feat. Amber Mark)
Lorely Rodriguez released her third album as Empress Of, I’m Your Empress Of, in March of this year. Today, she’s back with a new track called “You’ve Got To Feel” that features Artist To Watch Amber Mark. It’s the first release on Rodriguez’s own newly launched label Major Arcana. It’s a groovy protest song that […]
Blood From The Soul – “Calcified Youth”
Way the hell back in 1993, Napalm Death’s Shane Embury teamed up with Sick Of It All’s Lou Koller to form an industrial-influenced side project called Blood From The Soul, and they released one album, the excellently titled To Spite The Gland That Breeds. Now, 27 years later, Embury is bringing back Blood From The […]
Told Slant – “Whirlpool”
Told Slant’s latest album, Point The Flashlight And Walk, is out in a couple of weeks. We’ve heard “Family Still,” “No Backpack,” and “Run Around The School” from it already, and today Felix Walworth is back with another one, “Whirlpool,” which is about the intangibility of missing how a relationship used to work. “I just […]
Dirty Projectors – "Searching Spirit"
Way back in the early, comparatively halcyon months of 2020, Dirty Projectors embarked on an ambitious project. Over the course of the year, they would release five EPs, each with music helmed by DPs mastermind Dave Longstreth but featuring a different band member on lead vocals: Maia Friedman for Windows Open, Felicia Douglass for Flight […]