Magnetic Skies ‘Everything’s Alright’ final single before Fragments album release

The sec­ond, long-await­­ed album by dark­wave syn­th­pop supre­mos Mag­net­ic Skies called Frag­ments will be out on 7th Novem­ber. Till then we’ve been lis­ten­ing to sin­gles from the upcom­ing release and the final drop, Every­thing’s Alright is out today. Front man Simon Kent has this to say about the sin­gle: “This is the most hope­ful, pos­i­tive track on the…

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Hot Chip serve up a Best Of album, new song and live dates

Eight stu­dio albums in, Hot Chip remain as vital as ever and today they announce their first Best Of album, Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion, to be released Sep­tem­ber 5th.  Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion – the title alludes to both the lyrics of their career-defin­ing track and one of Alex­is Taylor’s favourite Prince songs – cap­tures some­thing ele­men­tal about the band: a…

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Australian artist Merpire releases new album called Milk Pool

Merpire’s high­ly antic­i­pat­ed sec­ond album, Milk Pool, drops today July 4th, fea­tur­ing the pre­vi­ous­ly released sin­gle Big­ger. Mel­bourne based Rhi­an­non Atk­in­­son-Howatt – aka Mer­pire – first impressed music fans with her 2021 debut, Sim­u­la­tion Ride, and she’s back to take things even fur­ther. Flu­id and meta­phys­i­cal as the tides, Milk Pool is for “the roman­tics, the daydreamers,…

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Snowapple unveil new album Utopia

Always inven­tive, with a unique and expan­sive world view, the inter­na­tion­al, female-led Snowap­ple col­lec­tive has released a new album June 13th titled Utopia, blend­ing music, the­atre and activism. And they will be play­ing at Glas­ton­bury fes­ti­val on 25th June. The Snowap­ple col­lec­tive evades pigeon­hol­ing into par­tic­u­lar genre; instead they embrac­ing and bring togeth­er dif­fer­ent gen­res in…

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100%WET debut album release

The Copen­ha­gen-based duo 100%WET unveiled a euphor­ic sin­gle ear­li­er this year titled Over Me, offer­ing a glimpse into their dis­tinc­tive, genre-blend­ing sound. Their debut album, arriv­ing on May 16th, fea­tures nine tracks that show­case their expan­sive, atmos­pher­ic style, sharp­ened by drum’n’bass rhythms and exper­i­men­tal pop ele­ments. It’s an uncon­ven­tion­al mix, but one that cre­ates a…

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Lael Neale reveals new album Altogether Stranger plus film and tour

Lael Neale uproot­ed her­self from her idyl­lic rur­al life in Vir­ginia and relo­cat­ed to Los Ange­les – and it’s a move she has made more than once, due to lock­down. Such an extreme shift has pro­voked feel­ings of alien­ation and dis­con­nec­tion.  Lael’s new album Alto­geth­er Stranger, her third with Sub Pop, delves into and tries…

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Constellations For The Lonely by Doves

By some weird chance, the first time I heard Rene­gade, I was step­ping off the tram and cross­ing the sad waste­land of Pic­cadil­ly Gar­dens to meet a friend in the North­ern Quar­ter. Omi­nous, thun­dery synths and an echoey piano note fade to Jim­i’s famil­iar vocals describ­ing a bleak and tor­tured land­scape, both emo­tion­al­ly and physically.…

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Choses Sauvages release new single Cours Tourjours

We’ve become fans of French-Cana­di­an band Choses Sauvages with their upbeat brand of dance-punk. Their sin­gle called ‘En joue’ caught our atten­tion last year. Now a new track just released called Cours Tou­jours offers anoth­er glimpse into the Fran­coph­o­ne band’s sound. There’s a touch of Steely Dan to the open­ing notes before the track breaks…

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Parastatic release powerful new Brutalist themed album Concrete Reborn

The North East-based band Parasta­t­ic are back with a tweaked line­up and an intrigu­ing new album, Con­crete Reborn on Workie Tick­et Records. It’s a son­ic explo­ration of archi­tec­ture, specif­i­cal­ly Bru­tal­ism, which coin­ci­den­tal­ly hap­pens to be enjoy­ing its own cin­e­mat­ic moment. I was sur­prised to realise that near­ly a decade has gone by since I last…

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Pale Blue Eyes: new album, ‘New Place’ out 7th March

We’re excit­ed to dis­cov­er Pale Blue Eyes are to release their third stu­dio album on 7th March. Titled New Place, to be released on the band’s Broad­cast Record­ings label, the work reflects a sub­stan­tial shift in the band’s lives, both geo­graph­i­cal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly. The lat­est album includes two guest musi­cians who have fea­tured in the…

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