We’re only two weeks away from the release of Conner Youngblood‘s somophore album entitled Sketches Pt. 2. Ahead of it, the Dallas based singer songwriter has unveiled a final single, ‘The Warpath’.
According to the press release, the new single showcases a side of Conner not seen before. ‘The Warpath’ features “a ‘folk’ sound with nuances of the various forms of ‘Electronic’ music scattered here and there”.
Listen to it below and watch out for Conner’s forthcoming album due out on August 28th.
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Diggs Duke released last week a new four-track EP entitled Mass Exodus.
Inspired and mentored by alumni of classic jazz groups, as described in the release blurb, “Diggs Duke combines jazz sensibilities with the R&B, Hip-Hop and Latin music of his 90’s upbringing.”
All the instruments in Mass Exodus were played by Duke himself. Head over to his bandcamp to stream/buy it.
Here’s the EP’s title track to open your ears’ appetite.
John Butler‘s ‘Ocean’ has become a signature track, played time and time again for over a decade now. ‘Ocean’ was first recorded as part of Butler’s first album Searching For Heritage and sold on the streets of his native Freemantle, Australia, where he was busking. The track was then featured in Butler’s self-titled studio album released in 1998.
In the words of John Butler, “Ocean is a very interesting aspect of my life. It is part of my DNA. It conveys all things I can’t put into words. Life, loss, love, spirit. As I evolve so too does ‘Ocean’.
Now the guitarist and singer has re-recorded the 11-minute epic track at ‘The Compound’, his studio in Freemantle and he’s offering it as a free download. Listen to it now.
Last week saw Toronto indie rockers The Natural Shocks drop Kobayashi Maru, a four-track EP named after a technique used in Star Trek.
The EP, written, recorded and mixed by lead member Jim DeLuca, is available to download free or on a pay-what-you-want basis on their bandcamp.
Listen to the catchy EP opener ‘Change’ below.
Ruban-Ruban, the new full-length by Quebecois electronic composer Raycord, will see the light on September 12th via Phonosaurus Records.
The album reflects the serenity of Raycord’s countryside home. According to the press release, his lifestyle “suits his sensitive nature, the warmth of which permeates and humanises the analog electronic sounds he channels”.
Ruban-Ruban, which is a literal translation of Reel-to-Reel in French, sees Raycord re-recording “‘his tracks on open reel tapes in order to confer new possibilities to his music, allowing him to makes changes to the speed and to inverse sounds”.
The first single lifted from the forthcoming album is the ethereal ‘Wurlitzer à Nu’, named after the Wurlitzer pianos. Don’t let your ears miss it.
Matthew Dear‘s fifth full-length is very close to being released. Beams, the follow up to his 2010’s Black City, drops on August 27th in Europe and a day later in North America via Ghostly International.
In Beams, recorded in Dear’s home studio in New York and “shot through with equal parts optimism and uneasiness” as the press release states, “a thick-fingered electric bass gallops in atop a driving backbeat”.
“It’s alright to be someone else sometimes.” said Matthew Dear. “I’m about 4 to 5 different people at any given time. By allowing all of those different personalities to exist… the most pure and direct self can come through in the music. [The songs] may still be cryptic, and full of contradictions—but in my opinion, that is pure, unadulterated thought in musical form. They are direct lines to the center.”
To entice us even more before the release, Dear has shared a new single off Beams, ‘Earthforms’. Listen to it now.
