Maserati are back with a new album, Rehumanizer, the follow-up to their 2012 Maserati VII. The effort drops on October 30th via Temporary Residence. According to the label, Rehumanizer “is distinctly as much man as it is machine – a true alliance of the past and the future”. Maserati are “retro futurists hellbent on forging Krautrock and classic rock into one motorik, monolithic vehicle”.
‘Rehumanizer II’, the electrifying closing track, serves as the first taste from the album. Here it is.
We’re just a month away from the release of Battles third album, La Di Da Di. They gave fans a spectacular first glimpse of the new material earlier this month with a video featuring 4 new songs, recorded live in their rehearsal space in New York and directed by David Radboy. Battles have been a firm favourite of ours for a decade now and we’re thrilled to see they are back in full force as a trio.
Here’s the album’s accompanying blurb:
“As the name might imply, La Di Da Di is a mushrooming monolith of repetition. Here is an organic techno thrum of nearly infinite loops that refuse to remain consistent. The rhythmic genus of Battles is here as ever; full frontal, heightened and unforgiving – the gauntlet through which melody and harmony must pass, assailed at every turn.”
One of the tracks from their live session, the monumental opener ‘The Yabba’, is now being offered as the first single. Listen to it below and check out the live video straight after.
La Di Da Di is out on September 18th via Warp.
‘One Thing’ is the brand new single from the mighty British rapper/producer Roots Manuva, released last Friday via Big Dada. Here’s what the accompanying blurb says about the track:
“Revolving around control addiction to status: not for or against but simply a reflection of the mind state that creates one dimensional aspiration in the most unlikely places. But all with a warped sense of narrative in regards to not being a prisoner of merely my own experience.… Part poem, part proverb, semi theatre all condensed into 2mins plus of modern reconstruction of “Punk Attitude”.”
Give it a listen now.
With the September 18th release of The Diet fast approaching, HeCTA are teasing their debut album again. They have unleashed a driven and hypnotic beast of a track called ‘Sympathy For The Auto Industry’, that brings to mind Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, with touches of pop and new wave. The single is “HeCTA’s unique interpretation on the pop-song format”, says the press release. “Inviting laid-back techno sounds & bubbling synths provide a fresh foundation to Kurt Wagner’s instantly recognizable voice, offering a further glimpse of what to expect from the forthcoming record”. Listen to ‘Sympathy For The Auto Industry’ now.
The Diet is out on September 18th via City Slang in Europe and via Merge in North America.
Back in March, Benoît Pioulard dropped his celestial full length Sonnet, which he followed the month after with a low-key companion piece called Stanza. But there’s no stopping Thomas Meluch, the marvelous and prolific singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind the project, who is putting out Stanza II next month. Head over to his bandcamp to grab one of the few remaining handmade CD’s, or a digital copy. And for a taster of what’s on offer, here’s two enchanting tracks from Stanza, ‘X’ and ‘XI’.
London based duo Public Service Broadcasting are releasing their new single The Other Side later this month. The track is the latest taken from their second album The Race For Space, released in February. The band’s own J. Willgoose, Esq. described the track as the “most emotional moment”. The single, which features clips from the Apollo 8 launch from the British Film Institute archive, comes paired with a remix by London producer Datassette, which has just been made available to stream. Take a listen to both ‘The Other Side’ and Datassette remix below and grab it when it’s out on August 28th.
In other related news, and whilst the band continues to play a number of summer festivals, Public Service Broadcasting have just announced a tour this Autumn including a London show at Brixton’s O2 Academy on 29th November.
