Mary Lattimore shares new single ‘It Feels Like Floating’

11 April 2018

Last month LA-based experimental harpist Mary Lattimore shared ‘Hello From the Edge of the Earth’, the first single from her upcoming album Hundreds of Days. With its release fast approaching, Lattimore is enticing us again with the gentle and ethereal ‘It Feels Like Floating’. She had this to say about the track:

“It started off being a song about a description of a guy’s drug experience – it was the answer when I asked what it felt like to him. The song morphed into an ode to anything that you do alone and personal; be it swimming or skateboarding in the night by yourself; riding a bike or playing a harp in a redwood barn by the Pacific Ocean. It’s looking at the world through a filter of blissed-out detachment, untouchable for a minute.”

Let ‘It Feels Like Floating’ envelop you.

Hundreds of Days is out on May 18th via Ghostly International.

Juana Molina’s comical characters return to life in the new video for ‘Cosoco’

09 April 2018

Released nearly a year ago, Juana Molina‘s wonderful album Halo has a total and timeless hold on us. The bewitching ‘Cosoco’, which served as the album’s first single, is now being offered with a wildly amusing video. Directed by herself, Alejandro Ros and Ian Kornfeld, the video has the usual dose of charming and comical weirdness she got us used to over the years. A multi-talented and multi-faceted artist, Molina can just about do anything and the video saw her revisit her 90’s popular sketch comedy show Juana y Sus Hermanas, where she played a bunch of sister characters, based on Argentinian stereotypes. Molina brings back to life her character Gladys the Beautician, and creates a new wacky one, Bigóteta, the fashion designer. In the works for months, the result is something you’ll want to watch more than once.

Halo is out now via Crammed Discs.

Drinks share second single from upcoming album Hippo Lite

05 April 2018

Hippo Lite, the second album from Drinks, is getting excitingly close to release day. After sharing the excellent ‘Real Outside’, the collaborative duo of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley are teasing the album again with a new charmingly weird and brilliant cut from it, ‘Corner Shops’. Take a listen below.

Hippo Lite is out on April 20th through Drag City.

Vula Viel announce new London date in May, second album incoming

31 March 2018

Vula Viel have been hinting at a new album for a while now, after turning heads with their 2015 outstanding debut album Good is Good and explosive live shows. Entitled Do Not Be Afraid, the upcoming record is due out this year, and it saw bandleader Bex Burch return to western Ghana, to continue studying, making and playing the Gyil, a large xylophone used as a primary instrument by the Dagaare tribe. With the Gyil again taking centre stage, Do Not Be Afraid is influenced by the culture and rhythmic traditions of the Dagaare.

Now a trio, featuring Jim Hart on drums and Ruth Goller on bass, Vula Viel have recently announced a live date at the Vortex Jazz Club in London on May 27th. Known for their exhilarating and entrancing performances, and with the highly anticipated Do Not Be Afraid under their belt, this will be a date not to be missed. Tickets are on sale now,  just head here to snap one up.

While we wait for Vula Viel’s new album, revisit their debut Good Is Good on bandcamp and listen to the opening track ‘Yes Yaa Yaa’ below.

In other related good news, we invited Bex Burch to create a guest mixtape for us to get a glimpse into her influences and inspirations. Her mixtape in on its way in May, so keep your ears peeled.

Watch Snapped Ankles’s video for ‘CIA Man (NSA Man Violation)’

29 March 2018

Snapped Ankles have a covers EP coming out for Record Store Day, Violations, featuring tracks by Can, Joey Beltram and Comateens. The EP also features the trio’s take on The Fugs’ 1965 track ‘CIA Man’ with their NSA Man Violation cover. “Having unearthed The Fugs’ ‘CIA Man’ some years before, we were shocked to discover a newer, more sinister agency had taken over from the diatribe’s protagonist, so we updated Tuli Kupferberg’s list of ills…”, said the band. “Of course every time the song is now mentioned online, a blip of data triggers a filter that enters a file that rings a bell in a bunker deep under a mountain in Pennsylvania. So now the forest is full of agents looking for us, and we are taping up our microphones and cameras and walking backwards through our own footprints to shake them off…”

Snapped Ankles have shared a video for ‘CIA Man (NSA Man Violation)’ and you can watch it below. Diet Clinic directs.


Violations EP is out on April 21st through The Leaf Label.

Kamaal Williams set to release debut album The Return in May

26 March 2018

South London’s multi-talented Kamaal Williams aka Henry Wu is one of the UK’s finest jazz musicians to emerge in recent years, garnering wide acclaim with his now disbanded duo Yussef Kamaal and a 2016 debut album. May 25th will see him release his first record under his own name, The Return, through his own label Black Focus Records. “The Return is a natural evolution from the Yussef Kamaal project”, describes the press release, “mining the influence of visionary jazz but blended with all kinds of texture, sounds and signals from the over-saturated London streets.”

Williams enlisted bassist Pete Martin and drummer MckNasty to help him bring the album to life, with Richard Samuels on engineering duties.

The Return‘s opening track ‘Salaam’ is streaming now and it serves as a fantatic taste of what he’ll be throwing at us.