We haven’t heard from Atlanta’s Little Tybee since they released For Distant Viewing last year. They are getting ready to record a new album, and on the run up to it, Little Tybee have just kicked off a month-long US tour. The outfit will be debuting new material live, “in hopes to get it polished”, as they said.
To tease us further, Little Tybee have unveiled a video for a new song, ‘Don’t Quit Your Day Job’, recorded at Doppler Studios. Here it is.
Sinkane‘s debut album came out to wide acclaim in 2012 and now New York based Sudanese multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, the man behind the project, is ready to follow it up. Mean Love is set to be released on September 1st via DFA Records in North America and via City Slang in the rest of the world.
A prolific and inspired man playing and collaborating often with various stellar artists, Sinkane’s upcoming album saw him recruit guest collaborators Damon Albarn, David Byrne, The Lijadu Sisters, Money Mark and members of Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and Blood Orange.
Mean Love is “melodically beat-driven and meditatively lyrical”, describes the press release. It “rolls like an emotional, existential history of the artist. Ahmed Gallab has created an altogether unique compound of sound, stylistically nostalgic and ultramodern at the same time.”.
To get us excited, Sinkane has dropped the soulful and groovy lead single ‘Hold Tight’. You better listen to it now.
In other related good news, and in support of the new album, Sinkane has announced a string of European live shows for September, including September 11th at London’s Shacklewell Arms. A US tour will follow in October.
London based Dan Carney, formerly of alt-folkers Dark Captain, has a new solo project called Astronauts, and a debut album about to drop. Entitled Hollow Ponds after an area of Epping Forest in North-east London, the effort arrives on July 21st via Lo Recordings.
According to the press release, Hollow Ponds “combines the soft melancholy, psych-folky dynamics and bubbling electronic textures favoured by Dan in his former incarnation with more adventurous moments of good ol’fashioned spiky guitar abuse.”
Delivering a blissful ride, ‘Skydive’ serves as the album’s wonderful first taste. Wrap your ears around this beauty below.
Montreal based post-punk quartet Ought have shared a video to accompany ‘Today, More Than Any Other Day’, taken from their recently released debut album More Than Any Other Day. Watch it below.
More Than Any Other Day is out now via Constellation.
Earlier this year, Norwegian folk droners Origami Arktika released their latest album, Absolut Gehör. Part of the artists’ collective Origami Republika, they recast traditional Norwegian folk songs and folklore into experimental and drone renditions, as the press release describes.
“The music on this new album is dim, dark, & melancholic. Some tracks bear witness to a sacral droning organ. The associations leap towards damp ecstasy in small chapels, deep in narrow valleys where meaningless rituals & prayers tempt weary souls with promises of a better afterlife. Folk beliefs, Pagan beliefs, Christian beliefs – the unintelligible has led a life in close proximity to the shallow waters of reason & perception permeating our times, breeding models of understanding for an unfamiliar & seemingly meaningless existence.”
Absolut Gehör is available on vinyl via Killer Records and digitally via Silber Records. To give you a taster of what they’re throwing at you, listen to the grand and hypnotic ‘Det syng for Storegut’ below.
Composite, the second album from Montreal based outfit Monogrenade, came out in February via Bonsound.
The album’s first single, ‘Métropolis’, which takes its name and inspiration from Fritz Lang’s 1927 German sci-fi film, has now been paired with a video directed by Christophe Collette. Watch it below.
In other related news, Composite is being released in France on September 1st via Atmosphériques.
