Tunng’s founding members Mike Lindsay and Sam Genders have a new project called Throws and a self-titled album on the way. The effort was conceived and recorded in Lindsay’s new home and recording studio in Reykjavik, where Genders visited him for a month. Being together again, the pair reconnected their creative minds and started to make music.
“The whole month became a cathartic party,” said Lindsay speaking about it. “We talked about the challenges we were facing in life. We walked by the sea and along the city’s small streets to crowded bars and cafes. We drank, laughed a lot, and danced like madmen on moonshine whilst recording whatever ideas came to us without any responsibilities other than making music, eating, and sleeping.”
The upcoming album also saw Lindsay and Genders being joined by guest contributors, including Icelandic String Quartet Amiina, drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen, and múm’s Sigurlaug Gísladóttir.
Throws arrives on June 10th via Full Time Hobby, and ahead of it, the pair shared the wonderful lead single ‘Punch Drunk Sober’. Take a listen now.
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Gruff Rhys unveils new song ‘I Love EU’
Britain will hold a EU referendum on 23rd June and in the run-up to it, Gruff Rhys is wholeheartedly endorsing a continued membership of the European Union. The Welsh musician has unveiled ‘I Love EU’, a brilliant and funny new song, praising Europe and the good and diverse things the EU offers. ‘I Love EU’ is “a love letter to an idea that crosses international borders”, says the press release. “It puts forward the long overdue and much-needed positive case for staying the European Union.”
Here’s what Gruff Rhys said about ‘I Love EU’:
“This song genuinely came to me in a daydream whilst I was trying to tune in my faulty DAB radio. I heard a snippet of news about this badly timed referendum on staying in/leaving the EU and suddenly it hit me hard how much I’d miss it if the UK managed inexplicably to kick itself out. It’s basically just an attempt to make an emotional case for Mother Europe – this flawed, fantastic, potentially Utopian mega-club that I’ve been lucky enough to grow up in.”
Out today digitally, ‘I Love EU’ comes with a fittingly amusing video. Check it out below.
Orchestra Of Spheres preview upcoming album with new single ‘Anklung Song’
New Zealand’s Orchestra Of Spheres are gearing up to release their much anticipated brand new album, Brothers And Sisters Of The Black Lagoon. Last month they dropped the album’s incredible first taste, ‘Trapdoors‘, and they are teasing the effort again. The latest track to emerge from it is the groovy and hypnotic ‘Anklung Song’. Listen to it below and make sure you grab the album when it’s out on May 13th via Fire Records.
Watch the new video for Bibio’s ‘Light Up The Sky’
Spring is blooming with wonderful album releases, and one that we have been listening to over and over again is Bibio‘s seventh album, A Mineral Love. Bibio has recently shared a new single from the album, the marvellous ‘Light Up The Sky’, with a fitting kaleidoscopic video directed by Joe Giacomet. Watch it below.
A Mineral Love is out now via Warp.
Julianna Barwick’s third album, Will, arrives next month
Brooklyn based experimental artist Julianna Barwick has a new album on the way called Will, which follows her celestial 2013’s Nepenthe. Busy with touring and projects all over the place, Barwick worked and conceived the album in many different locations, from New York to Asheville, North Carolina, to Lisbon, Portugal. “I love touring, but it can be a wild ride”, said Barwick. “You’re constantly adjusting, assimilating, and finding yourself in life-changing situations.”
The self-produced Will also sees Barwick bringing in guest collaborators, including Mas Ysa’s Thomas Arsenault, Dutch cellist Maarten Vos and percussionist Jamie Ingalls (Chairlift, Tanlines, Beverly).
Ahead of the album’s release on May 6th via Dead Oceans, Barwick has shared the gorgeous and dreamy single ‘Nebula’ and it comes with a video directed by Derrick Belcham. Watch it below.
Suuns close video trilogy with interactive video for ‘Brainwash’, new album out this week
We’re a mere two days away from the release of Suuns‘ third album, Hold/Still. The quartet’s previously shared singles, ‘Translate’ and ‘Paralyzer’, have both been offered with videos, directed by Charles-André Coderre and part of a triptych of videos. Suuns have closed the trilogy, with the third and final instalment now available to stream and even play with. The album’s excellent ‘Brainwash’ has been paired with an interactive Virtual Reality video, programmed by Jake Clover. You can watch the video below, directed by the band’s own Max Henry, and make sure you download the app for the full VR experience.
Hold/Still is out this Friday through Secret City in Canada and Secretly Canadian in the rest of the world.
