Dirty Projectors unveil new cut from forthcoming album

25 June 2012

Dirty Projectors‘ sixth album, Swing Lo Magellan, is only a couple of weeks away from being released. The band has unveiled a new cut from the album, ‘Dance For You’, embedded below.

Songwriter and leader David Longstreth describes Swing Lo Magellan, produced and mixed by himself, as “an album of songs, an album of songwriting”.

According to the issued press release, “the album is a collection of moments: accidental, fortuitous, spontaneous. The performances feel warm and imperfect. The album has both the handmade intimacy of a love letter and the widescreen grandeur of a blockbuster, and if that sounds like a paradox – it’s because it was until now.”

Swing Lo Magellan drops on July 10th in the US and the day before internationally via Domino.

Check out the new single below and also the video for the previous cut ‘Gun Has No Trigger’, directed by Dirty Projectors’ own Longstreth.

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David Byrne & St. Vincent to release collaborative album in September

22 June 2012

When two incredible musicians like David Byrne and Annie Clark aka St. Vincent team up, it’s no surprise that their delivery is a golden one. And this is the case with Love This Giant, a collaborative album they have been working on for the last two and a half years.
Byrne and Clark have finally announced Love This Giant will be released on September 10 in the UK and a day later in the US via 4AD / Todo Mundo.

“The writing was truly collaborative” said David Byrne. “Sometimes Annie would send me some synthesized versions of brass or guitar riffs and I would arrange them a bit and write a tune and words over them; other times this process would be reversed and I would send some musical ideas to Annie for her to write over. This material would get passed back and forth—each of us adding and elaborating on it.”

Love This Giant includes ten tracks, eight of them written collaboratively and another two written by Byrne and Clark individually.
The album also features guest appearances from Antibalas, Dap-Kings and John Congleton who added some beats.

Following the album release, the pair will embark on a North American tour, starting in Minneapolis on September 15th.
According to Byrne, the band joining them on tour will include eight brass players, a keyboardist and a drummer. “We’ll be doing these songs and a bunch of songs that we suspect people will know.”

Byrne and Clark have shared the album’s catchy opening track ‘Who’, which you can download free on the album’s website. Now just hit play below.

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Pevin Kinel drops mouth-watering full-length album

16 June 2012

Early this year,  Normandie born and London based self-taught multi-instrumentalist Pevin Kinel announced the release of his full-length album Syntactic Sugars.

Pevin first enticed us with the lead single ‘Dusty‘, a great uplifting electronic piece, and followed it with ‘Fake ppl‘, a charming track with layered folksy vocals.

June 5th finally saw the release of his much anticipated new album, spanning thirteen tracks and each sounding stylistically different from the other.
Syntactic Sugars channels many different influences showing Pevin’s huge creativity and diversity. The album, all written, played, recorded and produced by Pevin himself,  is so varied that no matter what you’re into, there is a track on the album that will appeal to your taste.

Head over to his bandcamp to stream the album free and buy it for only a couple of british pounds.

Check out below two tracks from the album, the ominous opening track ‘Master Removers’ and the title track, featuring Campa La Hampa and some frenzied percussion. Enjoy.


Blues Control unleash video for new single from upcoming album

02 June 2012

Blues Control‘s forthcoming fourth full-length album, Valley Tangents, is only a couple of weeks away from being released, via Drag City.
The outfit of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho dropped the first single, ‘Iron Pigs’, a month ago and they are enticing us again with another cut off Valley Tangents. The duo have just unveiled a video for the album’s exuberant opening track, ‘Love’s A Rondo’. Tara Sinn directs and you can watch it below.

dEUS drop new album out of the blue

01 June 2012

Belgian rockers dEUS surprised everyone today by releasing their seventh full-length album entitled Following Sea.

“This isn’t a clever marketing ploy or an attempt to grasp the zeitgeist but, more simply the band looking to get their music out whilst it is fresh”, wrote the band about the unannounced release.

The album is now available digitally and a physical edition will hit stores on June 11th via Pias.

The first single from the album, ‘Quatre Mains’ is a Gainsbourg-esque piece where Tom Barman sings in French. He also directed a video for it, watch it beneath.

Laetitia Sadier shares first cut off forthcoming somophore album

01 June 2012

Laetitia Sadier, of Stereolab fame, is set to release the follow up to her 2010 solo debut record The Trip. The new effort, Silencio, is slated for a late July release.

The press release describes Silencio as “an album exploring the individual connection to a deeper self, placed in a broader environment, in a similarly fresh kind of way”.
It adds that the “noise preventing your connectivity comes from society – the noise of commercialism and the marketplace overwhelming your ability to cut deeply inward, prohibiting your inner-connections. Silencio may help you understand how to resist the rules of these systems”.

Sadier’s somophore album drops on July 24th via Drag City. Ahead of it, she is offering the first taste, ‘Find Me The Pulse Of The Universe’, free to grab on the label’s website. Enjoy it below.