Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders share two tracks from upcoming album Hijack!

09 August 2021

Next month Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders are releasing a new album called Hijack!. The Australian composer and singer-songwriter, real name Tim Rogers, and The Dreamlanders, made up of Kirin J Callinan, Donny Benét, and Laurence Pike, have also enlisted the help of composer Sam Lipman to work on string arrangements. Marking his sixth studio album, Jack Ladder touches on the theme of staying and departing from a rehabilitation facility, after he spent some time in one. This is echoed in the two singles released recently, ‘Xmas in Rehab’ and ‘Leaving Eden’. The latter is offered with a video with painted animation by Anna-Wili Highfield. Here’s both.


Hijack! is out on September 10th through Endless Recordings

Watch the video for Yann Tiersen’s new single ‘Ker Yegu’

06 August 2021

After sharing ‘Ker al Loch’, Yann Tiersen is giving us another tender and tantalizing taste from his upcoming album, Kerber, with a video for new single ‘Ker Yegu’. Like his previous albums, Kerber is ingrained with a sense of place, and is named after a chapel in a small village on the Breton island of Ushant where he lives. The video that accompanies ‘Ker Yegu’ opens a window into the life and the people of Ushant and was directed by Murat Gökmen. Watch it below and watch out for the release of Kerber on August 27th through Mute.

In other related news, Yann Tiersen has announced a worldwide tour, with dates in North America this November preceding several shows in Europe in early 2022.

Run Logan Run unleash new single ‘A Brief Moment’

05 August 2021

For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers, the upcoming third album from drum-and-sax duo Run Logan Run, arrives next month. We had already heard the buoyant and boisterous lead single ‘Screaming With The Light On’ and now they are offering a heady new brew called ‘A Brief Moment’. “I think moments are all we ever have because the past is gone and the future never comes, so our lives are in reality just constant movement from one moment to the next,” the pair comments. “Except that this moment is recorded so you can keep going back to it.” Listen to ‘A Brief Moment’ again and again and make sure you grab the album when it’s out on September 17th through Worm Discs.

Gerycz/Powers/Rolin share video for ‘Rotations’ off upcoming album Lamplighter

04 August 2021

Photo: Matthew Chasney

Lamplighter is the second album from Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, the marvellous trio of musicians Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin. Mostly improvised, Lamplighter sounds and feels intimate, powerful, radiant and hypnotic, all at once. “It was almost entirely improvised,” Rolin said about the record, with Powers adding, “We talked about each piece for maybe thirty seconds to a minute before recording it.”

Lamplighter will see the light of day on September 3rd through American Dreams. Ahead of it, they are enticing us with ‘Rotations’, a blissful and bewildering track offered with an accompanying video made by Peter Shapiro. Watch it below.

Anna Meredith’s Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems out now

01 August 2021

Anna Meredith‘s music is exhilarating and magnificent. An incredible electronic contemporary composer, producer and musician, she never ceases to surprise us. Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems is her latest offering, an album described as “a full-throttle reinvention of the traditional fairground dodgems”, which is also part of the Dodge installation at London’s Somerset House. The idea came to life as a pandemic-friendly alternative for the ice rink at the main courtyard at Somerset House and can be visited and experienced this summer. If you’re not in London, you can still play the dodgems virtually at home on bumpsperminute.com.

Speaking about Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems, Meredith said she “approached writing these 18 tracks like little exercises, making identities that are bold, playful and characterful but without beats, percussion or any acoustic elements and relying on my skills to create melodic and harmonic based energy.” She added:

“They’re also less about musical development than my orchestral work or material in my studio albums, these tracks are only themselves and unapologetically so, and that freed me up to unleash some pretty bonkers ideas, knowing it’s about these bold switches – like a sort of musical Whacky Races…”.

For a taste of what’s on offer, here’s ‘BPM 124’.

Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems is out now through Moshi Moshi

Manu Delago unveils video for new single ‘Curveball’

30 July 2021

‘Curveball’ is the second stunning single lifted from Manu Delago‘s forthcoming album Environ Me, following lead track ‘Interference’. Delago has paired the track with a video, coreographed by himself and also featuring percussionists Charly Mair and Chris Norz playing ball games in UV light. Watch it now.


Environ Me is out on September 24th through One Little Independent Records.