Just last month, Oakland, California’s Waterstrider released their debut album Nowhere Now and they can’t seem to stop making amazing and infectious music. ‘Frayed’ is the quintet’s brand new track, released as part of a compilation from OIM Records. Featuring 13 artists from the Bay Area, who went into the studio for three days with producer Jeff Saltzman, the compilation drops on June 23rd in vinyl, cassette and digital formats. Now listen to ‘Frayed’.
Photo: Yuula Benivolski
We were won over by ‘Way It Is, Way It Could Be’ and ‘Shy Woman’, the first wonderful singles from The Weather Station‘s upcoming third album Loyalty. The album will see the light of day on May 12th via Paradise of Bachelors in the US and Europe and via Outside Music in Canada. Ahead of it, Tamara Lindeman, is enticing us further with a new cut, the gorgeous and silky ‘Tapes’. Wrap your ears around it.
Tanya Tagaq is offering a striking visual accompaniment for the tremendous ‘Uja’. The track is taken from her groundbreaking and tantalizing third album Animism, which won the Polaris Music Prize last year and the award for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the 2015 Juno Awards.
The video was directed by Manitoba’s Procter Bros, and it “presents the same stark instabilities, frailties, dangers and violence as evoked by the song”, as the press release describes. Watch it now.
Tanya Tagaq is performing a special show in London on May 19th at Village Underground.
Los Angeles noise rock foursome HEALTH haven’t released an album in a very long while. We’re pleased to know they are back, and ready to release the follow-up to 2009’s Get Color. The new album, entitled Death Magic, is due out on August 7th via Loma Vista Recordings.
We can already get a taste from the album, with the first single ‘New Coke’. It comes paired with a video, directed by the band’s bassist John Famiglietti. It involves quite a bit of slow-motion vomiting, so if that’s not your thing, just stream the song straight after the video.
Stolen Youth, the new EP from Roots Manuva, drops in less than 2 weeks. We already heard the insanely good ‘Facety 2:11′, produced by Four Tet. Now the British rapper/producer is offering the B-side ‘Like a Drum’, produced by Machinedrum. Listen to it below and grab the EP when it’s out on May 4th via Ninja Tune/Big Dada.
Eric Chenaux has unveiled a video for the utterly gorgeous ‘Poor Time’, directed by Eric Cazdyn. The track is taken from his divine album Skullsplitter, released recently via Constellation. Here it is.
In other related good news, the experimental guitar virtuoso and songwriter with a voice of gold is returning to the UK in late May, for a string of special intimate shows. Check all his stops below and don’t miss the chance to see Chenaux’s majestic and enveloping songcraft come to life.
23/05 – MacDevitts Studio, Reading
24/05 – Burning Bridges, Northampton
25/05 – The Eagle Inn, Salford w/ Irma Veo, Tekla & Dean McPhee
26/05 – Glad Cafe, Glasgow
27/05 – Fuse Art Space, Bradford (free entry)
28/05 – Cafe OTO, London w/ Oscilanz
29/05 – Raveningham Cafe, Norfolk w/ Laura Cannell
