As previously mentioned, Nigel Godrich teamed up with drummer and producer Joey Waronker and singer Laura Bettinson earlier this year to form a new band called Ultraísta.
The threesome will release their self-titled debut album on October 2nd via Temporary Residence.
We heard already two cuts from it, ‘Smalltalk’ and ‘Static Light’, and now Ultraísta have shared the album’s opener ‘Bad Insect’. Stream it below.
The triumphant debut album by Newcastle, UK native Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny, Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose, came out in February this year via Mute.
The songstress and her band have just announced the release of a new single from it, ‘Dodecahedron’.
“The night before I wrote it I had a dream that consisted of me running up to strangers in the street and asking them what a dodecahedron was, but no one knew,” explained Houghton. “I later found out that the ancient Greeks believed the Dodecahedron is a symbol of the universe and represents an idealized form of divine thought. Having said that, despite that first line, the song is nothing to do with Dodecahedrons, it’s just a prelude to a thought.”
‘Dodecahedron’ will be out on October 8th and to tease the new single further, Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny have just unveiled a video for it, directed by Sasha Rainbow. Watch it below.
Menomena are set to release Moms, the follow up to their widely acclaimed 2010’s Mines. Moms will be Menomena’s fifth studio album and also their first as a duo.
The album is due out on September 18th via Barsurk Records.
Moms shows Justin Harris and Danny Seim didn’t slow down after the departure of Brent Knopf and kept writing and recording “with more focus and speed than ever before” as the label described.
Moms is “tragic and intimate, comic and endearing, personal and motivated”.
Ahead of the release, Menomena have just shared a new cut off the upcoming album, the excellent ‘Capsule’. You can get it free here, in exchange for an email address.
Enjoy it below.
‘Cara Falsa’ and ‘Vistate’, the first two singles from Ombre‘s debut album, are now followed by another beautitul cut called ‘Tormentas’.
Believe You Me is out now via Asthmatic Kitty and you can stream it via Ombre’s bandcamp page.
Here’s ‘Tormentas’.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra seem to enjoy complimenting their songs with cool videos.
They released their eponymous debut album last year and this year they have been dropping videos for some tracks off it.
The last one to receive the visual treatment is ‘Jello and Juggernauts’. Behn Fannin directs and you can check it out below.
Rioux has just premiered a video for ‘Halo’, the second single from his recently self-released EP Come On All You Ghosts. The Brooklyn via Detroit multi-instrumentalist and producer moved to Berlin for a few months earlier this year to record the EP.
Come On All You Ghosts is inspired by “nightlife, Krautrock, psychedelia, and the starkly contrasting energies of the dancefloor” as the press release states.
Mike Sidow directed the video for ‘Halo’ using found footage and interpolating it with images of Rioux. Speaking about the video, Sidow said “the imagery is inspired by the overall vibe and energy of the song itself. It was edited in much the same way Rioux’s music is constructed: sampling, cutting up, distorting, and piecing together ephemeral clips and meaningful images into a final result”.
Watch the video below and head over to Rioux’s soundcloud page to stream the whole EP.
‘Halo’ follows the previously released single ‘Find the Reason’ featuring Thurmon Green. Listen to it after the video.
