FYEAR’s eponymous debut album out in April

07 February 2024

Photo: Frank Schemmann

FYEAR is a Montréal-based supergroup of sorts led by electroacoustic composer Jason Sharp and poet/writer Kaie Kellough, and currently featuring poet, writer, and activist Tawhida Tanya Evanson (director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word program), violinists Josh Zubot and Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Darius Jones, Joshua Hyslop), pedal steel player Joe Grass (Tim Hecker, Patrick Watson), drummers Stefan Schneider (Bell Orchestre) and Tommy Crane (The Mingus Big Band, Aaron Parks). The nine-piece have announced the release of their self-titled debut album, a 45-minute work fusing spoken word, out-jazz, post-classical, drone, ambient metal, avant-rock and modular synthesis.

Thematically the upcoming record was written against the backdrop of our political and social state of affairs and it “interrogates our present and future post-capitalist polycrisis, invoking collective anxieties, emotions, and critiques”, as the press release describes. FYEAR, it adds, express and embody these themes sonically on an album where “contemplative, disquieted, and visceral readings of our struggles, fictions, shackles, desires, neuroses and freedoms unspool through a fervid artistic lens that brims with thought, feeling, and urgency.”

FYEAR arrives on April 5th through Constellation and ahead of it we can hear a first mesmerizing taste in the shape of ‘Pt I: Trajectory’. The single is offered with a video made by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo. Watch it below.

Marie Klock set to release new album, Damien est vivant, in March

06 February 2024

French multi-talented chanteuse and multi-instrumentalist Marie Klock has announced the release of a new full-length album, four years on from the release of her self-titled debut album. Entitled Damien est vivant, the upcoming record is named after Klock’s close friend and collaborator Damien Schultz, and was written as an earnest tribute in the aftermath of his recent passing.
Through the album’s ten songs, Klock demonstrates her stylistic versatility and talent for composing intimate and emotive songs leavened with idiosyncratic pop melodies and devastatingly funny lyrics. As the press release desribes, Damien est vivant is a “celebration of the unique bond they shared, in past and present.”

We’ll have to wait until March 29th for the album to be out through Pingipung but we can already hear ‘Se goinfrer de rage’, which serves as a fascinating and intriguing first single. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by Marie Barat and you can watch it below.


Dorian Dumont teases upcoming album, to the APhEX, with new single ‘180db_ [130]’

05 February 2024

Dorian Dumont has been cultivating a unique path in the vibrant Belgian jazz scene, both solo and in various projects. In keeping with his fascination with his musical hero, Aphex Twin, the incredibly talented and skilled pianist is gearing up to release to the APhEX, his new LP following 2021’s APHEXionS. Last month Dumont shared the utterly stunning lead single ‘Windowlicker’, and as if we weren’t excited enough for the release of to the APhEX, he has now unveiled an enigmatic and moving new single titled ‘180db_ [130]’. Take a listen below and watch out for the album release on February 23rd through W.E.R.F. Records.

Listen to Sedibus’ third and final single, ‘SETI Pt. 2’, off upcoming album SETI

02 February 2024

Sedibus, the collaborative project of Alex Paterson and Andy Falconer of The Orb, announced the release of their new album, SETI, at the tail end of last year, and shared then the beautiful and creamy lead single ‘Purgatory’. As we near the album’s release date on February 23rd through Orbscure Recordings, Sedibus have unveiled a third and final single from the record called ‘SETI Pt. 2’ and you can listen to it below.

De Beren Gieren announce seventh album, What Eludes Us, and share first single ‘The Houses’

26 January 2024

Photo: Francis Vanhee

2024 has only just started but it is already shaping up to be a fantastic year for music, all the more as Dutch-Belgian acoustic-electronic piano trio De Beren Gieren have today announced a new album. Entitled What Eludes Us, it follows 2021’s Less Is Endless and is set for release on March 29th through Sdban Ultra. Described as “an ode to what escapes us and what we consciously want to look away from”, the upcoming album saw the trio of Fulco Ottervanger (piano, synths & effects), Lieven Van Pée (double bass) and Simon Segers (drums & effects) work together with Norwegian producer Jørgen Træen in his studio in Bergen.

Alongside the announcement, De Beren Gieren also shared today ‘The Houses’, the first intoxicating taste of what to expect from their seventh long player, clearly pointing towards transcendence. “It’s the soundtrack to a wandering tribe traveling through Europe, their minds filled with expectations and nostalgia, marveling at beautiful landscapes and cities gliding past their trailers”, as the press release describes. “What happens behind the facades of all those houses and in those people’s minds?”.
‘The Houses’ comes with an accompanying video, featuring snippets from the 1932 film Le sang d’un poète by Jean Cocteau, and you can watch it now.


Watch Hatis Noit’s animated video for ‘Jomon’

25 January 2024

Originally released in 2022, Hatis Noit‘s striking debut album, Aura, will be physically re-released in the US this Spring through Erased Tapes. The Japanese vocal performer has also announced her first live dates in the US, including stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Knoxville for the 2024 edition of Big Ears Festival.

To celebrate the news, Hatis Noit has shared an animated video for album track ‘Jomon’, directed by Berlin-based Taiwanese-Japanese director NAOWAO. Watch it below.