Listen to Grandbrothers’ new single ‘Long Forgotten Future’ off forthcoming album

27 September 2017

German duo Grandbrothers have a new album on the way, entitled Open, following their 2015 divine debut album Dilation. They had already enticed us with the sublime and ravishing first single ‘Bloodflow’ and with less than a month to go until the album drops, the pair have shared another marvellous track called ‘Long Forgotten Future’.

With an exploratory and open approach to their compositions, Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel, who make up Grandbrothers, put again the grand piano as the album’s one and only centrepiece. “Just because we use the same instrument doesn’t mean that it’s the same music,” explained Sarp, adding:

“We always think about what physical impact the songs can have on the audience, for instance whether they can dance to them. We don’t only make music for listening to, after all. As much as we enjoy playing concert halls with the audience seated we also love to play at sweaty clubs where people are standing and dancing around us.”

Listen to ‘Long Forgotten Future’ below and grab Open when it’s out on October 20th via City Slang.

The Weather Station shares ‘You and I (on the Other Side of the World)’ ahead of album release

26 September 2017

Photo: Rui Oliviera

Following ‘Thirty‘ and ‘Kept It All to Myself’, The Weather Station is sharing another jewel from her much-anticipated self-titled album. The Weather Station is out on October 6th via Paradise of Bachelors. Until then, listen to the marvellous new single ‘You and I (on the Other Side of the World)’ below.

Listen to Rone’s first single from forthcoming album Mirapolis

25 September 2017

French electronic musician Rone is back with his fourth full-length album, Mirapolis, due out on November 3rd via InFiné. Erwan Castex, the man behind Rone, invited a slew of stellar artists to collaborate on the new record, including Saul Williams, The National’s Bryce Dessner and Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead, amongst others. The album’s cover art and art direction comes courtesy of Michel Gondry.

Alluding to Rone’s childhood and development, and the 1927 film Metropolis, Mirapolis is “a juxtaposition of early memories of amusement parks & circuses,” describes a press release. “The LP is a 12-track psychedelic kaleidoscope of Rone’s musical depths, a journey from wonderment and bliss all the way to tearful melancholy.”

The delicate and fierce ‘Brest’, co-written and featuring John Stanier (Battles, Tomahawk, Cologne Tape) on drums, is the first glorious taste to emerge from Mirapolis. Listen to it. Again and again.

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.