Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band unveils two collaborative tracks ahead of new LP

15 August 2013

Yoko Ono and her Plastic Ono Band have announced the release of a new full-length album entitled Take Me To The Land Of Hell. Yoko’s new effort features stellar collaborators including Sean Lennon, Yuka C Honda, Keigo “Cornelius” Oyamada, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Questlove, Michael Leonhart, Jared Samuel, Lenny Kravitz and Andrew Wyatt, to name but a few.
Produced by Yoko, her son Sean Lennon, and Cibo Matto’s Yuka Honda, Take Me To The Land Of Hell is due out on September 17th via Chimera.

“My new album comes at a very special time for me”, said Yoko about the forthcoming album. “The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forward all the time. This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such and exciting time of my life.”

Take Me To The Land Of Hell is also glowing with the talent of other very special guests on the two excellent tracks that have recently emerged, ‘Tabetai’ and ‘Bad Dancer’. ‘Tabetai’ features tUnE-yArDs and the latter features Beastie Boy’s Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond and also marks their first work together since the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch last year. Listen to both tracks beneath.

Juana Molina returns with new album

13 August 2013

Argentinian multi-talented and inventive artist Juana Molina has not released an album in five long years. This Autumn will see the end of this hiatus as she returns with a new full-length album called Wed 21, the follow up to 2008′s Un Día.
Slated for a October 28th release via Crammed Discs, Wed 21 was composed, performed, recorded and produced by Molina in her studio in Buenos Aires.
Molina, who has on previous albums chosen to be more minimal, using mainly guitars and layers of vocals, this time ventured to enrich Wed 21‘s musical spectrum with the addition of electric guitars, bass, drums and electronics, as the press release notes. “In some of the tracks, Juana comes as close to a pop song format and to a full band sound as she ever did… while some other pieces are sinuous excursions through gamuts of feelings & textures”.

‘Eras’ is the first delightfully jubilant taste to emerge and it’s clear evidence that Wed 21 will be an album to look out for. Listen to ‘Eras’ below.

Julianna Barwick premieres video for ‘One Half’

12 August 2013

Back in June, we were dazzled by ‘One Half’, the first single lifted from Julianna Barwick‘s forthcoming third album Nepenthe. ‘One Half’ is now being offered with a befittingly stunning video directed by filmmaker Zia Anger. Here’s what Zia said about it:

“Julianna’s music, to me, evokes such a supernatural mind state – an existence that is without a principal body of laws. Because of this I wanted to make something that was lawless, that indulged the subconscious and also remained unexplainable. I’m fully aware of how tripped out this sounds but what is a music video if not at it’s core something without rules.”

Watch the video below and watch out for the release of Nepenthe on August 19th in Europe and a day later in North America via Dead Oceans.

Heavenly Beat announces new album and shares first single

11 August 2013

Heavenly Beat, the solo project of former Beach Fossils’s bassist John Peña, has announced the release of a new full-length album. Prominence, the follow up to his 2012’s debut album Talent, drops on October 15th via Captured Tracks.
Lyrically Prominence is “a very direct look into someone dealing with poor body image (Thin), infidelity (Honest) and emotional/ physical/ sexual recklessness (Prominence)”, as the blurb that accompanies the release explains. “It’s not asking or answering any questions. Just existing within itself, fully aware of its shortcomings.”
‘Complete’, a feel-good summery track, is the first single taken from Prominence. Listen to it below.

Anna Meredith drops new cut from forthcoming EP Jet Black Raider

07 August 2013

Last month we heard the tremendous first cut from Anna Meredith´s forthcoming second EP Jet Black Raider. To whet our appetite some more, the British electronic contemporary composer has just unveiled another brilliant track off the EP called ‘Bubble Gun’.
Jet Black Raider will be available on vinyl and digitally on August 19th via Moshi Moshi Records in Europe and Lefse Records is putting it out in America as a double release also including her debut EP Black Prince Fury.
Now turn your headphones up and enjoy ´Bubble Gun´.

Zammuto shares second track from upcoming 2nd LP

02 August 2013

We had already heard an excellent taste from Zammuto‘s upcoming somophore album. The talented Vermont based multi-instrumentalist has just debuted a second track called ‘Need More Sun’, and I was hooked right away with its killer bass line. There’s another song due to be shared as part of Zammuto’s current campaign to help fund his yet-to be-titled album. ‘Need More Sun’ is insanely good, listen to it below.

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