DJ Premier let the word out this week that he is working on a new album of unreleased material from Gang Starr, his iconic collaboration with the late MC Guru, Consequence of Sound reports. Yesterday, we get our first taste of the surprise effort with the song 'Family and Loyalty' featuring J. Cole.
Electro-pop producer and singer KUČKA is the newest artist at the Scottish independent label LuckyMe, and she came there with a present - her new single 'Drowning' (watch below). KUČKA, aka Laura Jane Lowther, has collaborated and co-written with an array of high-profile artists, including SOPHIE, Vince Staples and A$AP Rocky, Fact Magazine reports.
“What does music do, Where does music start? How simple can it be? How honest can it be?” - Mark Nelson asked himself before he started making his latest album, 'A Son', under his Pan American moniker, Fact Magazine reports. The acoustic-focused LP is due out November 8. Listen to the guitar melancholy of 'Memphis […]
UK producer Special Request has announced his new album 'Offworld' with just a few words - “what if Jam & Lewis signed to Metroplex? 80s soul meets Detroit electro". SR has released a first song from it - 'Shepperton Moon Landing', which "frames breathy R&B samples against a backdrop of space age synths and earworm […]
"As much as we try, we cannot always control the feelings that enter our lives. They can come in unexpectedly, like a wild animal appearing just when you thought yourself alone. Have you ever crossed paths with a wolf? In the North, where we lived and worked for many years, they call them Amaruq" - […]
Baltimore singer :3LON has shared a his new single ‘Aria of Resilience’ produced by fellow Baltimore-based musician Sentinel and built around a harp sample derived from musical notes painted on a body in Hieronymus Bosch’s classic painting 'Garden of Earthly Delights', Fact Magazine reports. :3LON wrote that the lyrics were "written from the perspective of a character in a medieval […]
Danny Brown's fifth album 'uknowhatimsayin¿' is “my version of a stand-up comedy album", and his new song 'Dirty Laundry' is in the same vein. The album will feature production from the iconic likes of A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, Flying Lotus and JPEGMAFIA, with Run The Jewels, Obongjayar and Blood Orange appearing on the album.
Their second studio album 'Cry' arrives October 25, and the first single from it has just arrived. Frontman/guitarist Greg Gonzalez said 'Heavenly' was “inspired by the overwhelming beauty [he] felt watching an endless sunset on a secluded beach in Latvia one summer night”, Pitchfork reports. Gonzalez said 'Cry' was "really about romance, beauty & sexuality".
London R&B/experimental electronics producer Klein has announced a new LP, 'Lifetime', out September 6. She has shared a new song from it, 'Claim It' (listen here), very atmospheric, rich, yet soft. A great way to start a day!
Canadian electronic producer TR/ST will be releasing his new album 'The Destroyer (Part 2)', second part of his double album, on November 1, and the album’s title track, out now, is a little different than typical TR/ST dark synthetic club banger, more atmospheric, organic and wide-open. Listen below.
Twin Shadow has promised a new album for today, but he “got caught up”, since "I needed a bit longer to live some life. It took some time, and I took that time”. But there's a new single 'Crushed' (explaining the delay), with heartbreak lyrics: “You played up all your innocence/ And I downplayed experience/ […]
NME really likes "blistering guitar riffs and yelping vocals" of political dance-punk by The 1975 in 'People', as well as "sunshine-laced instrumentals" with "dark lyrics" by Bakar in 'Hell 'N Back', and "fearless guitars and galloping rhythms" by Los Blancos in 'Dilyn Lesu Grist'. Brooklyn Vegan makes a broader choice, as usual. They've got "cold […]
Canadian producer Yu Su has a new vinyl release ‘Watermelon Woman' on Ninja Tune sister label Technicolour - four versions of the "ridiculously funky" title track, which is itself a riff on Herbie Hancock’s impossibly smooth and delightfully kooky classic jazz composition, as Fact Magazine puts it. She explains that "The whole idea of ‘Watermelon Woman’ […]
Kim Gordon has announced her first-ever solo album, 'No Home Record', coming out October 13 via Matador. The album’s new single ‘Sketch Artist’ "projects a certain restlessness of spirit", ac Fact Magazine hears it. Why a solo record, and why now? - "living in L.A. the last few years it feels like home, but the […]
NME hears the song as "hypnotic", with Natasha Khan moving "between husky, spoken word-style delivery in the verses and a melodic, falsetto-heavy chorus" (listen below). Her new album, ‘Lost Girls’, comes out September 6, and it, as she said, pays “homage to Los Angeles where the album was recorded, to being a kid in the […]
"‘Hold Me In,’ is the sound of someone gripping their emotions so hard that unprecedented waves of pain and beauty shoot out from between their fingers” - guitarist Ben Levin says of their newest single (watch video below). There's another thought he shared - “When everything seems to be falling apart around us, the path […]
Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan made a very good choice of songs released this week (or is it just that the week was just rich witch good releases!?). There are, among many others: 'Nothing Is Safe' by the great experimental rap trio clipping.; 'Not', a "roiling, fraying rock", new song by Big Thief, coming on a […]
An album John Coltrane recorded with his Classic Quartet in 1964, between celebrated 'Crescent' and 'A Love Supreme', will be released for the first time September 27, Exclaim reports. 'Blue World' takes an unfamiliar route for Coltrane, comprising revisions of his earlier work (listen to the title track below). The album was made at the request of Canadian filmmaker […]
Brazilian samba icon Elza Soares has shared a brand new song 'Libertação', featuring fellow Brazilian vocalist Virgínia Rodrigues (listen below). Soares (82) has released nearly three dozen albums across her career, which has spanned for nearly 70 years.
Experimental rock New Yorkers Battles have a song out, 'Titanium 2 Step' (listen below), with a new album 'Juice B Crypts', their fourth, coming out October 18. Warp describes the album as “a sensory overload of information” filled with “synthesizer loops, cut-throat drum patterns, and cyclical riffs”, as Fact Magazine reports. It’s the first Battles […]
“Laced with leftfield house and cut-up sound collages... Lost words, twisted presets, voice collage, simple sounds - things that have been lost to technology’s current determinism” - Dais Records says about new album by Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire. 'Um Dada' is his first solo work in over 35 years, and it is about "play", Fact […]
Bon Iver' have released three new songs from 'i'i', the band’s fourth record, coming out August 30. Listen to 'iMi', featuring James Blake, Velvet Negroni, and others, 'We' and 'Holyfields,' below.
Tool have released the first song from their new album 'Fear Inoculum', their first studio material in 13 years, the Kerrang reports. The title track is similar in mood to 'Reflection' from 2001 album 'Lateralus' (listen below). In Revolver magazine interview the band discusses getting older and wiser - "It's making those choices that are […]
The English folk musician had two critically acclaimed records - 2014's 'Nothing Important' and 2017's 'Peasant', and this years he returns with new album '2020', out October 11. On it he "introduces us to grand themes through small lives. His are portraits of human beings struggling with recognisable (and dare we say it, relatable) concerns, […]
It's refreshing to hear an epic instrumental of this caliber and ambition in the current musical climate - PopMatters really likes new song 'Epigenesis by the prog post-metal band Ghosts of Glaciers. The progressive elements are subtle but important, the metallic leanings played tastefully, the song comes out deeply melodic and yet sacrificing nothing in […]
Penguin Cafe have a new song 'At The Top Of The Hill, They Stood...' inspired by journeys taken by the band's leader Arthur Jeffes to Antarctica. The song comes out October 4 on album 'Handfuls Of Night' (listen below). The album began its life when Jeffes was commissioned by Greenpeace to write four pieces of […]
Soaring choruses, gorgeous vocal harmonies and well-tempered inspirational lyrics - PopMatters really likes new single by the Seattle pop-folk band Ivan & Alyosha. Well, it really is a hit (listen below).
In 2009 American ambient techno band Telefon Tel Aviv published their latest album 'Immolate Yourself', and band's founding member Charlie Cooper died. Remaining member Josh Eustis has since been working with Puscifer, Apparat, Nine Inch Nails and Vatican Shadow, and in 2017 he made a solo track 'Something Akin To Lust', as Fact Magazine reports. […]
Billboard presents the latest edition of Queer Necessities, monthly LGBTQ-driven playlist where they catch on the latest and greatest bops by queer musicians. This time they've got Sam Smith with "a hard-hitting bass and a beat that's radio-ready" on 'How Do You Sleep?', Charli XCX & Christine and the Queens has "’80s-like drums, infectious synths […]
Fact Magazine picked out best house, techno, electro, disco and rave tracks from the past month. They chose Bobby Analog, AceMoMa and Afrodeutsche with unique takes on classic Chicago house, while Karen Gwyer, Andras and Yu Su took 4/4 into more experimental territory, and Floating Points returns to straight-up club music. Listen here.
