Leon Vynehall’s debut album Nothing Is Still out in June

12 April 2018

After spending four years crafting his debut album, we can rejoice, for British producer Leon Vynehall is ready to unveil the fruit of his work. Entitled Nothing Is Still and slated for a June 15th release through Ninja Tune, it follows his two incredibly well received extended EP’s, 2014’s Music For The Uninvited and 2016’s Rojus. The record, which also comes accompanied by a Novella and short films, is dedicated to Vynehall’s grandparents, who emigrated from Southampton, UK to New York City in the 60’s. “I knew they had lived in the U.S. and heard many anecdotes”, Vynehall explains. “But it was only after Pops died and my Nan presented these polaroids of their time there; of her waitressing at the New York Mayor’s Ball in ’66, or Pops with horses on a ranch in Arizona, that she delved deeper into their story, and I started to become overtly inquisitive about it”.

The news comes paired with the first wondrous single, ‘Envelopes (Chapter VI)’. Take a listen below.

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.