Back in December, St. Vincent announced the release of her self-titled fourth studio album and teased us with the first electrifying single off it, ‘Birth In Reverse’. She has just dropped another brilliant and rather brassy taste from the album, ‘Digital Witness’. Listen to it below and watch out for the release of St. Vincent on February 24th via Loma Vista and Caroline International.
We’ve been quiet for a festive while but as always, we kept listening to old and new great music. One of the latest tracks that grabbed our ears comes from the hands of Brandon Locher, the man behind The Meets and the album It Happens Outside which was one of our 15 Album Picks of 2013. His new project, Stage Hands, sees him collaborating with multi-instrumentalist Gerald Mattis.
‘Regardless’ is the duo’s first excellent offering. Be sure to listen to it below, there could not be a better track to start off the year.
With Christmas just around the corner, there is plenty of new appropriate festive music for this jolly season. British electronic contemporary composer Anna Meredith is offering ‘Winter Wonderland’ as her yuletide gift. ‘Winter Wonderland’ is a rollicking track, “guaranteed to confuse and irritate all your family on Christmas Day!”, as Anna puts it herself. Listen to it below.
Bibio‘s Silver Wilkinson, released in May, is one of our 15 Album Picks of the year. So we’re very pleased to learn that the talented British producer and musician is following it up with The Green E.P., a six-track EP featuring the album’s gorgeous track ‘Dye The Water Green’. “I wanted to do a follow up EP with ‘Dye The Water Green’ as it is my favourite track off Silver Wilkinson,” said Bibio. “I also have a lot of music in my archives that would complement the track well”.
The Green E.P. will be released on bottle green 12″ vinyl and digitally on January 27th in the UK/Europe and a day later in North America via Warp.
To get you excited for this release, wrap your ears now around ‘Dye The Water Green’.
Earlier this month, British outfit Adult Jazz have shared their wonderful and enveloping debut single, ‘Springful’. The song is taken from their forthcoming limited edition ‘Am Gone’ / ‘Springful’ 12″, slated for a January 13th release via their own imprint Spare Thought. Head over to their bandcamp to order it.
Now immerse yourself in ‘Springful’.
Everything is New is an international outreach project curated by Scottish arts collective Transgressive North and the charity Scottish Love in Action, featuring and in aid of Dalit “untouchable” children in southeast India. The project, which has been running for seven years, comes in thee parts – two separate albums entitled Sun Choir and Boats, and a 70-minute feature film called Everything is New. Both albums will be released on January 20th and the film will be included with the physical copies of Sun Choir.
Sun Choir is a full-length album of new music composed and recorded by Scottish band Marram with and for the Light Of Love Children’s Choir. The effort features stellar contributors including Jarvis Cocker, Owen Pallett, doseone, White Hinterland and Margaret Bennett.
Boats is a double album featuring 29 exclusive new tracks from Four Tet, Dan Deacon, Bear in Heaven, Califone, Deerhoof, El Guincho, Gang Gang Dance, Lucky Dragons, Julian Lynch, Max Tundra, No Age, The Ruby Suns, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), and many more. Each artist who contributed to Boats created a new song using samples of the Light of Love Children’s Choir taken from Marram’s Sun Choir.
YACHT is also one of the artists who contributed to the Boats compilation with the track ‘Icarus Complex’. Here’s what Jamie Chambers and Mike Brogan of Transgressive North said about it:
“We LOVE Icarus Complex and are thrilled that YACHT, one of our absolute favourite bands, are part of the Everything is New project. When we first handed out the samples from the Sun Choir album to all our magnificent BOATS contributors, we asked them to make whatever music they wanted, but to think about what the kids might like to hear themselves singing, hinting that the kids like to DANCE…”
‘Icarus Complex’ has just been made available to stream. Listen to it below and watch a video about the Everything is New project straight after.
