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Earlier this month, Ought dropped ‘Beautiful Blue Sky‘, the lead single off their upcoming second album Sun Coming Down. Ahead of the album’s release, the Montreal based post-punk quartet are sharing another fantastic track from the album, the opening track ‘Men For Miles’. Give it a listen now.
Sun Coming Down is out on September 18th via Constellation Records.
Meet Sharer, the new collaborative project of JD Samson (MEN / Le Tigre) and Young & Sick (Nick van Hofwegen). ‘Body Tonight’ is the first track they are letting loose, a dance floor banger you’ll want to hear over and over again. JD and Nick shared vocal duties with guests Jo Lampert (Tune-Yards, AVAN LAVA) and Xavier Smith. ‘Body Tonight’ will be released on August 21st, and it features a couple of remixes from LEFTI and Midnight Magic.
The pair offered some words on the project:
“I used to go see JD simply as a fan while living in London. Her live shows were always absolutely fantastic, leaving me a sweaty mess. When the opportunity arose for me to work with her, I jumped at it. A few months later, here is the beginning of our new friendship. I couldn’t be more excited to share it.” – Nick van Hofwegen (Young & Sick)
“Nick and I were matched up to write songs for other people, but after about two seconds of sharing, we knew what we had was something completely and utterly ours. Love and respect for your collaborators is so important, and working with Nick is such a beautiful expression of our mutual admiration. I love our process and can’t wait until the world gets to share the joy.” – JD Samson
Now listen to ‘Body Tonight’. You will dance.
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There’s no stopping Yonatan Gat, and thank goodness for that. In addition to the recent release of Director, his debut album, and several live shows in Europe and North America with his trio, the inventive and prolific guitar virtuoso has a brand new release out. It includes an unreleased A-Side from Director, ‘Ascension’, and B-Side ‘Analog Gold Rush’ lifted from Gat’s upcoming Steve Albini engineered EP.
The release comes on a lathe-cut CD, a new hybrid format that can be played both on a turntable and in a CD player, one song for each format.
The record sold out in no time, but it’s also available digitally on his bandcamp. Now listen to ‘Analog Gold Rush’.
Earlier this month, Seattle’s Midday Veil announced the release of their third album, This Wilderness. It follows their 2013’s The Current and is due out on September 11th via Beyond Beyond is Beyond.
This Wilderness sees co-founding members member Emily Pothast and David Golightly, and core members Garrett Moore, Jayson Kochan, and Timm Mason, assembling a stellar cast of guests, including Bernie Worrell (Parliament, Funkadelic), Eyvind Kang and Skerik.
With the previous album, Midday Veil “could be viewed as the band emerging from their kosmische chrysalis, unfurling previously unheard banners of both colour and control”, describes the press release. It adds that their upcoming album “is the sound of the band under the self-imposed hypnosis of that emergence, extending the voyage with even more discipline than ever before”.
Serving as the album’s first taste, ‘Babel’ is a delightfully engaging track overflowing with rich instrumentation and a mesmerizing vocal delivery. Undoubtedly one to listen to again and again.
We had already heard ‘New Coke’ and ‘Stonefist‘, both singles lifted from HEALTH‘s upcoming full-length album Death Magic. The Los Angeles noise rock band have just shared another single called ‘Men Today’. Listen to it below and watch out for the album release on August 7th via Loma Vista Recordings.
Two decades after playing together in Dream City Film Club (1995 – 1999), Michael J Sheehy and Alex Vald join forces again to form United Sounds of Joy. “With an alluring brand of devious pop noir”, as the press release describes, they “traverse an emotionally wrought but righteous and rewarding route to a new gothic chanson, where the songs are immersed achingly in an eerie, crepuscular pool of fuzzy, warmly welcoming psychedelics.”
United Sounds of Joy will be releasing their debut album in November. Whilst we wait to hear more about it, we can already get a taste of what they have in store for us with the wonderful and velvety ‘The Sun That Hides A Darker Star’. The track is being offered with a visual accompaniment and it will be available as a free download on August 14th via their website. Till then, listen to it below.
