We already heard the soulful and groovy ‘Hold Tight’ and the funky ‘How We Be’ from Sinkane‘s upcoming second album, Mean Love. Now the multi-instrumentalist is offering another cut off the album, the sensual and infectious ‘New Name’. Give it a listen below and grab Mean Love when it drops on September 1st via DFA Records in North America and via City Slang in the rest of the world.
Deerhoof have just announced the release of their twelfth album and the follow-up to their 2012’s Breakup Song. The new effort is entitled La Isla Bonita and it arrives on November 4th via Polyvinyl and Upset the Rhythm.
Deerhoof recorded the album live in guitarist Ed Rodriguez’s basement, “a weeklong sleepover arguing over whether to try and sound like Joan Jett or Janet Jackson, cracking each other up, one guitarist whose name starts with J always putting too much red chile into the rations,” as the band’s drummer Greg Saunier put it.
According to the press release, La Isla Bonita sees Deerhoof pay tribute to some of their “heroes-turned-fans”, like David Bowie, Ric Ocasek, The Roots, Lou Reed, David Byrne, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead and Beck. The album is also described as a discourse with some of very current fierce female-fronted bands, including St. Vincent, Tune-Yards, Perfect Pussy, Karen O and Speedy Ortiz.
Here’s what Saunier said speaking about the upcoming album:
“No band is an island. Felt like one sometimes, in those budgetless and obscure early days, Satomi and me locked in the basement trying to figure out how our clashing personalities and ideas could turn into a band. If we hadn’t had that crazed mid-90s Bay Area punk scene to call home, I doubt we’d still be here to chat about a 20th anniversary.”
Lucky for us, Deerhoof have shared La Isla Bonita‘s first single, the punky and catchy ‘Exit Only’. Here it is.
In twenty years, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have released 25 full-length albums, including Millions: Live In Denver, which came out earlier this year as a Record Store Day exclusive album. Currently a trio, the Tulsa, Oklahoma based ever-evolving band are set to to follow it up with Worker, which is slated for an October 14th release via Royal Potato Family.
Worker stays “true to the ideal that’s led them to where they stand today; that is to surge forward, fearlessly and freely, guided by their creative impulses,” describes the press release. “Visceral live music, played by sentient beings, Worker probes the nexus of modern and primitive, merging analog and digital with composition and improvisation.”.
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have let the first single loose. It’s called ‘Betamax’ and your ears better grab it fast.
Last month we learnt about Octave Minds, the new collaborative project that pairs together Chilly Gonzales and Boys Noize. They are releasing an eponymous album, described as “New Age-Electronic-Romance” and combining 88 keys and 808 kicks. We had already heard the beautiful first single ‘In Silence’ and now Octave Minds have unleashed a video to accompany the album’s opening track ‘Symmetry Slice’. The video was written, directed & animated by Rolf Bremer. Watch it below and watch out for the release of Octave Minds on September 15th via Boysnoize Records.
Octave Minds can be pre-ordered now here.
Roberto Carlos Lange aka Helado Negro will soon release his fourth album, Double Youth. The effort is due out on September 2nd via Asthmatic Kitty.
Helado Negro gave us the first enticing single ‘I Krill You’ last month and he sure knows how to keep us excited. The man has recently unveiled another marvellous cut off Double Youth called ‘Ojos Que No Ven’. Check it out below.
Following the 2012 debut album World, You Need A Change Of Mind, Kindness is ready to unveil its follow up this Autumn. The new record is called Otherness and it drops on October 13th via Female Energy in the UK and October 14th via Mom+Pop in the U.S. Otherness sees Adam Bainbridge, the man behind the project, going all over the place to engage properly with his collaborators, who include Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, Robyn, R&B singer Kelela and Ghanian rapper M.anifest. “Otherness is Adam’s vision, but it’s a collective vision”, says the press release. “In a world where one can make music, in virtually any style, using software alone, we are losing sight of how special it can be when artists get together to blow some air around a room.”.
Here’s what Bainbridge had to say about the upcoming Otherness:
“I want to give people another choice. There’s a lot of great, direct contemporary-sounding pop music to choose from, but even the most mainstream of mainstream audiences might also want something that sounds different from time to time. I still love and appreciate pop music, but I’m happy to leave the people making it to get on with their thing. My motivation is: ‘What do I feel I can do better than anyone else?’ I hope I’ve made that record.”
Kindness is offering the album’s opening track ‘World Restart’ as a first taste. The track features Kelela & Ade. Listen to it below and check out the album trailer straight after.
