Josiah Steinbrick announces debut solo album Meeting Of Waters

22 September 2017

One of our favourite albums released this year, LIVE, comes from the hands of LA based composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Josiah Steinbrick, with his ensemble Banana. We’re delighted to know he’s ready to follow it up with his first solo album, Meeting Of Waters. Informed by some of the same references from LIVE, including pattern based music, the exploration of percussive tones is at the core of his upcoming album. Produced by Cate Le Bon, Meeting Of Waters will see the light of day on October 27th through Leaving Records. The collection of works on the album, “stem from Steinbrick’s childhood fascination with anthropology and travel tales and almost operates like a cartography of some indeterminate landscape.”, describes the press release. It adds, “Each piece has a palette of one to five elements that work in harmony together – with synthesizers, marimbaphones, tuned wood, idiophones, bells, and gongs providing resonant tones that slowly accrete in detail.”

The wonderful news comes laced with magical and mesmerizing sounds, with three tracks from Meeting Of Waters now streaming for our absolute listening wonderment.

Circuit des Yeux teases upcoming album with new single ‘Black Fly’

21 September 2017

We’re eagerly waiting for the release of Reaching for Indigo, the new album from Circuit des Yeux. Haley Fohr, the incredible and adventurous Chicago musician behind the project, had already enticed us with ‘Paper Bag’. With just a month to go until the album is out, she has shared a new single, ‘Black Fly’. In the works for many years with many collaborators, ‘Black Fly’ is a soul-stirring opus of a song. Fohr describes it as “a 7 minute meditation on self invention & embracement of our parasitic nature”. We can’t stop playing it and Reaching for Indigo can’t come soon enough!


Reaching for Indigo is out on October 20th through Drag City.

Listen to Weaves and Tanya Tagaq’s collaborative track ‘Scream’

20 September 2017

Weaves earned a Polaris Music Prize nomination this year for their self-titled debut album, as did Tanya Tagaq for Retribution, which was one of our Album Picks of 2016. Weaves have a second album on the way, Wide Open, and it features a collaborative track with Tagaq called ‘Scream’. Fresh off their performance together at the awards ceremony, Weaves have unleashed a video for the track, serving as the third single from their upcoming record.
“I almost don’t think of ‘Scream’ as a song, it’s like a sculpture in the middle of the album, sticking out poking people like a 3D installation,” said Weaves’ lead single Burke. “This song came out of my heart. The band and Tanya elevated it in a way that’s just real and raw. It’s definitely an experience.”

Watch the video for ‘Scream’ below.

Wide Open is out on October 6th through Buzz Records in Canada, Kanine in the US and Memphis Industries worldwide.

Tomorrow: Kiran Leonard performs new album in London

19 September 2017

Photo: Sebastian Matthes

Young British multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Kiran Leonard is celebrating the release of his new album Derevaun Seraun with a handful of shows, including two performances at London’s St. Pancras Old Church tomorrow evening.

With literary works as the source of inspiration, Derevaun Seraun is in five movements, arranged entirely by Leonard for piano, strings and voice. He explains:

“Derevaun Seraun is a piece I wrote a couple years back in five movements for voice, piano and string trio. Each movement is written about a different piece of literature, exploring the value I see in each work and the impression it has made on me, and there is nothing more to it than that. The pleasure of books – of good verse and stories and ideas – is a very simple thing, and I felt that some lofty unifying theme for the entire piece would be a betrayal of that belief. I think that when a work resonates with you it is an instinctive response to something. You can be taught to understand a challenging book, but not to feel affection for it; I think a lot of conversation around art, especially around literature, sometimes forgets this. In my experience, the art I like the most, irrespective of its ‘difficulty’, is the art I can advocate most directly and plainly, and about which I can say: “I read this piece and now I do not read or think in the same way that I did before”, or: “This is a story that I could not explain to someone; I do not understand it word-for- word, yet I feel like innately I understand the whole, and that the whole spoke to me”. This is a piece about five books that I like and why I like them.”

Take a look at Leonard’s full list of stops here and don’t miss his utterly beautiful and spellbinding songcraft come to life with a string trio. To entice you further, listen to the album’s lead single ‘Living With Your Ailments’ inspired by Albert Camus’ essay The Myth of Sisyphus and opening track ‘Could She Still Draw Back?’ inspired James Joyce’s short story Eyeline.



Derevaun Seraun is out on September 22nd via Moshi Moshi.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith shares new single ‘To Feel Your Best’

18 September 2017

Photo: Tim Saccenti

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has unveiled a new track from her impending new album The Kid. The record charts the different stages of life and the synth star and composer had already shared a couple of tracks from the album, ‘An Intention’ depicting the first stage of life and ‘To Follow and Lead’, depicting the third one. With less than 2 weeks to go until the album drops, she is offering another taste from it with new single ‘To Feel Your Best’. It represents the last stage of life and as the press release describes, the song is “a bittersweet goodbye, but also a renewal and a reflection on not only of what is lost but also gained; a rebirth.”
Take a listen below and watch out for the album release on 6th October via Western Vinyl.

The Weather Station previews new album with second single ‘Kept It All to Myself’

17 September 2017

The Weather Station‘s eponymous new album is on the way and Tamara Lindeman, the marvellous singer/songwriter, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist behind the project, had already enticed us with the lead single, ‘Thirty‘. With less than a month to go until the album drops, she has shared another single from the album, ‘Kept It All to Myself’. “When I wrote the line ‘I Kept It All to Myself,’ I knew immediately I wanted it to be my entry to the canon of singalong,” explained Lindeman. “It made me laugh, the idea of hearing ‘I Kept It All to Myself’ through loudspeakers, in clubs, through crowds. To sing out loud about privacy. But it’s true, too. I do keep most things to myself, for better or for worse. The song was my tribute to the unkempt acres of the unspoken—everything too crazy, beautiful, or strange to mention.”

‘Kept It All to Myself’ comes with an accompanying video directed by Maya Bankovic. Watch it below.

The Weather Station is out on October 6th via Paradise of Bachelors.