Temples announce details of new album produced by Sean Ono Lennon
Temples have announced details of their fourth album, Exotico. The Sean Ono Lennon produced album will be released on ATO Records on Friday 14th April 2023. Having previously worked with Lennon on their 2020 single ‘Paraphernalia’, the album was recorded at his upstate New York studio and mixed by Dave Fridmann (Beach House, Spoon, The Flaming Lips).
The New Pornographers to release their Merge Records debut
Continue as a Guest, the new album from The New Pornographers, is set for release on March 31st via Merge Records - their first for their new label. The first single, “Really Really Light,” is out with an accompanying video directed by Christian Cerezo.
Ezra Collective release version of Fela Kuti’s ‘Lady’
After a storming 2022, Ezra Collective begin the new year in style by releasing their reinterpretation of the Fela Kuti track, "Lady". The six minute Afrobeat roller closely follows Ezra Collective's widely acclaimed new album, 'Where I’m Meant To Be', released in November on Partisan Records.
Spacey Jane new single feat. BENEE
Spacey Jane release 'Lots of Nothing feat. BENEE' via AWAL. Following the release, the band will embark on a 13-date UK and European tour in February. 'Lots of Nothing' was originally released as part of Spacey Jane’s ARIA #1 album Here Comes Everybody, which landed at #3 on the triple j hottest 100 in 2022. Now, the internationally acclaimed AUS four-piece have joined forces with the alternative pop icon for a formidable rework of the original. With new production from Kon Kersting, the pop anthem features a dreamy new verse from BENEE.
La Luz’s Shana Cleveland to release new album ‘Manzanita’
Songwriter, musician, visual artist and writer Shana Cleveland (La Luz) has announced the forthcoming release of a new solo album, Manzanita, on March 10 via Hardly Art Records. Today she shares the first peek of the LP via the orchestral pop single “Faces in the Firelight.” The song is addressed to both her son (written while he was in utero) and her life partner Will Sprott (Shannon and the Clams).
Avey Tare announces new album 7s
Avey Tare, the solo project of Animal Collective’s Dave Portner, will release his new album 7s on February 17 via Domino. Following three solo albums and one release under Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, 7s was recorded with producer Adam McDaniel (Angel Olsen, Archers of Loaf) at Drop of Sun Studios in Portner’s hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, and he describes the album as “a dreamy surrealist landscape.” Avey Tare shares two new songs from 7s - “The Musical,” with a video by Ellie Thatcher, and “Hey Bog,” with a visualizer by Abby Portner.
The Murder Capital share new single ‘Return My Head’
"Return My Head" is perhaps the most visceral of the singles released so far, an immediate, direct slice of alt-rock that delivers both aggression and melody paired to a lyrical motif that slots firmly into the sense of reinvention surrounding the album as a whole, opening as it does with the following: "I had to realign, To begin, To survive."
The Hold Steady announce new album The Price of Progress
The Hold Steady have announced the release of their ninth studio album, The Price of Progress, arriving everywhere on the band’s Positive Jams label via Thirty Tigers on 31st March 2023
The Lemon Twigs release new material for the first time in two years
The release marks their first new music in two years, following the 2020 album Songs For The General Public. “Corner Of My Eye” is a warm, guitar-led ode to a new love interest, written and produced entirely by The Lemon Twigs.
Interview: The Clause
Ahead of their sold out gig at the Wedgewood Rooms for Fitz Promtions, we had a quick chat with Pearce Macca from Birmingham's very own The Clause.