Toronto based art-rock band Tidal Wave have premiered their new single "This Cost of Life".
The song is out now and is about the pain of a relationship ending, but to truly live you need to experience these lows. Get it here.
Tidal Wave evokes the melodic elements of indie rock bands like Arcade Fire, while creating compelling production-heavy ambient synth and guitar textures comparable to Godspeed!
German cold wave/post punk/new wave band ISOCULT have unleashed the video for their new single "White Noise".
The song is taken from their upcoming EP. Get it here.
From the band: "The song was written in early 2021 when public life came to a halt due to lockdown regulations, a song about the feeling of consuming media all day while not being able to talk to others, loosing oneself in a mental state of "white noise"."
From the band: "We wrote this song about our mental health over the past year or so and put some kind words we received in the chorus. We found writing this song really cathartic so we hope it brightens your day."
Ann Arbor, Michigan synthpop/synthwave duo Same Eyes (aka Chad Pratt and Alex Hughes) have premiered their catchy new single "Pavillion", and its accompanying music video.
The song b/w "Seconds" is out today (Jan 28) and is taken from their upcoming new album 'Desperate Ones'. Grab it here.
Canadian dream pop/indie rock/shoegaze band Soft Set have sahred the video for their brand new single "More More More".
The song, was produced and performed by Set Set with Mark Crozer (The Jesus and Mary Chain) on bass and Madisyn Whajne on additional vocals!, mixed by Shae Brossard and mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive), it is taken from their upcoming LP set to be released summer 2022. Get it here.
British indie rock band Bloc Party have dropped the video for their new single "The Girls Are Fighting".
The song is taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album 'Alpha Games', which will be out on April 29, 2022 via Infectious/BMG. Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about it, Kele Okereke says: “There was no specific incident that inspired this song – it was more a composite of lots of things I’ve seen over the years when being in clubs and seeing violence erupt with feuding love rivals. I’ve always had a slight obsession with those sorts of moments; like a fuse being lit, when actions turn from words into violence. You can learn a lot about who people really are in those moments. I think ‘The Girls Are Fighting’ is kind of self-explanatory – someone’s been selling dreams to someone they shouldn’t have and it’s caught up with them. I just wanted to capture that moment of going from naught to ten in an evening, in a sweaty nightclub. I’m really pleased with the arrangement for this track because it has this 1970s glam rock feel meets Adam Ant feel. I love what Louise is doing on the tom toms.”
German singer, songwriter and actress Nina Hagen Nina Hagen has revealed her new single "Shadrack".
Have you ever heard a song about "The Book of Daniel" with Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego & King Nebudhanezzer from the Bible?
A story about the biblical stories from ancient Babylon with Shadrack, Meshag + Abednigo, translated into German by Nina Hagen, inspired by many wonderful musicians, such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight. Is a song written by Robert MacGimsey in the 1930's, performed by Louis Armstrong, Brook Benton, The Ames Brothers, The Golden Gate Quartet, The Fairfield Four, The Larks , Benny Goodman, Grant Green, Bill Holman, Sonny Rollins, Bobby Scott, Phil Harris, Kay Starr, Louis Prima, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and many, many others.
The song is out now through Groenland Records, get it here and stream it below.
Swedish shoegaze/dream pop band Boy With Apple have unleashed their new single "Strawberry Boy".
The song is out today (January 28) through VÅRØ. Get it here.
"Strawberry Boy" is musically really happy and bears a lot of classic pop but lyrically they still found themselves on darker spots. The opening bass is really hypnotizing and it rolls over to a huge world of sounds together with words about something close to a social apocalypse. The catchy chorus stays on your mind and the simple but ingenious guitar slowly takes everything forward towards something beyond restlessness.
Walsall indie rock/dance/pop band The Assist have released the video for their latest single "Television Kid".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their highly-anticipated debut album 'Council Pop', which will be out on April 8 2022 featuring their new single . Pre-order your copy here.
The track narrates the mischievous nature of a fictional socialite character who we will have all met at some point in our lives. The absorbent kind that becomes over enthused by the smallest of occasions, takes on the role of Andy Murray during Wimbledon and Tyson Fury when there’s a boxing pay-per-view.
“Ambition is an admirable trait and I’m a strong advocate for having dreams that we live and die by. However, it is important to ensure that whilst chasing our dreams we are aware of the bigger picture that is life. In order to grow and maintain a realistic outlook on life it is important to acknowledge that defeat is very much possible and as individuals we aren’t invincible." - Mikey
Sydney no wave/post punk quartet Loose Fit have announced the release of their new studio album 'Social Graces'.
Set for release on April 26 through FatCat Records, the record features 11 tracks of rhythmically-taut, anxiety-driven post-punk featuring the distinctive vocal chants of singer/sax player Anna Langdon. Pre-order your copy here.
Building on the success of their self-titled EP, the album expands the Loose Fit sound-world to include a dub-influenced march through social media bleakness, ACR-style exercises in rhythm and tension, and an atmospheric coda featuring eerie trumpet from drummer Kaylene Milner. It also features a number of the band’s concise, propulsive bangers including the title track and previous single ‘Exhale
Social Graces is a journey through familiar deeply human themes as well as sharp observations of contemporary absurdity. Lyrics about love, hope, fear, loss, and pain are woven amongst visual depictions of acquisition culture, weather patterns, digital life, adventures in wild landscapes, deep introspection, parties and mundane daily experiences.
“I think the album is a truthful document of a weird time. Covid-era has sucked (of course), but did give us time to explore new sounds and ways of working. It was a shit time to be a band, but it was great to have a vessel to channel all our anxieties and pent-up energy into. I think the album has all that fucked-up 2020/2021 energy in it.”, Bassist Richard Martin says.
New single - also called ‘Social Graces’ - is a frantic 2’29” blast of nervy punk. The song was written in 2020 inspired by the nervous tension in the air after the initial months of covid-induced house arrest. People were finally allowed to meet in the federally sanctioned groups of 5, but found themselves too nervous to touch each other for fear of infection and felt awkward in communication. There was a sense of relearning how to be together.
It comes with a video, directed by Solomon Thomas, that riffs off the song’s themes of discomfort and social anxiety. Awkwardly miming in front of vintage painted stage backdrops, the band are transformed one-by-one into grotesquely-masked characters who try and fail to find the social “normal”.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Social Graces" below.