The song is our current Single of the Week and is taken from their forthcoming debut album 'Underneath, Beside Me', which will be out on April 1st through à La Carte Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch the clip below.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Watch: Lesser Care Unveil Music Video For "Meadow"
Watch: Johnny Marr Shares "Spirit Power and Soul" Live Video
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from his upcoming new album 'Fever Dreams Pts. 1-4', out on 25th February via BMG. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch the video below.
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New Entry: Baba Ali Release New Single "Black + Blue"
The song features on the 'Living It Up / Black + Blue' AA-side release, out via Zen FC, the label run by Yard Act members James Smith and Ryan Needham. Get it here.
Acting as a bridge between direction both old and new, the two new tracks came to life prior to Baba’s debut album, Memory Device in 2020. The challenging yet fruitful period resulted in ‘Living It Up’ and ‘Black + Blue’ being cast aside in order to focus on the record with Al Doyle, only to be revisited upon a new found relevance to how the pair’s live performances had evolved.
“We ended up reacting to the beginning of lockdown by writing a tonne of new songs in my basement in New Jersey,” tells Baba. “some of the tracks ended up forming a mixtape that we put out on Bandcamp. Black & Blue was a song from that collection of songs, and one we were really happy with at the time, so this was an interesting opportunity to open the track up again and see how our experiences since that period had changed our approach to recording.
“It is a song I am always trying to convince Nik (guitarist/synths) to add to our live set, but I don't even think he can even remember the tuning he used for it. Hopefully giving the song an official release will kind of force his hands on that one.”
Yard Act’s James and Ryan say of the release: “We loved Baba Ali's music from the moment we heard it. They're joining us for our debut album tour in February. When Baba sent through some new tunes he and his bandmate Nik were working on we saw an opportunity to reboot Zen F.C., and to preserve on wax and share some great music with the world. It was a no-brainer for us. We are honoured, we are buzzed to have Baba Ali as the first ever non-YA release on Zen F.C. - follow the label, there will be much more to come in the future.”
Stream it below.
Watch: Jetstream Pony Air Music Video For "Strood McD F.C."
The song is taken from their six-track mini album 'Misplaced Words', released in November 2021 via Shelflife Records, and also features on the compilation 'Under the Bridge', released 18th March by Skep Wax. Pre-order it here.
Watch the clip below.
(facebook.com/jetstreamponyband)
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New Entry: Leisure Twins Drop New Single "Make It Better"
They are influenced by the likes of David Bowie, Hall & Oates, Roxy Music, Thompson Twins, Keane and Icehouse.
Get it here and stream it below.
New Entry: Johnny Hunter Premiere New Single "Endless Days"
The song is out now through Cooking Vinyl Australia. Get it here.
Behind 'Endless Days': An ode to the happiness one can experience in the naivety of youth. Blissfully unaware of turmoils, a lifetime was lived within a second, Romance was born, friendships eternal and days were endless.
The lyrics were inspired by my move back to Sydney and written in the back of Xanders family Volo on our way to a gig we were playing to about 10 people. Taking influence from Bowie’s Scary Monsters album and nods to The Smiths, The Queen is Dead.
Gerry had made the long journey from the Deep South of NSW to play drums with a couple of misfit uni students he’d never officially met before. It was in this fateful meeting that the song was written, the first song that birthed the conception of Johnny Hunter.
A surprising challenge in the studio, we spent the whole day on the drums and defeated we decided to call it a day. We woke up, had our ritual coffee and Gerry smashed it out in 20 minutes.
Watch a visualizer below.
(facebook.com/johnnyhunterband)
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Watch: BODEGA Reveal New Single/Video "Statuette On the Console"
The song is taken from their forthcoming second full-length album 'Broken Equipment', which will be out on March 11 2022 via WYR? Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about it, Nik E Iki writes: "‘Statuette on the Console’ is a celebration of shedding other people’s ideology. When writing the song I was trying to understand myself by exploring my values, but I could only come up against what I was not. The ability to believe and the comfort of ideology or isms is not one I have within me although as the song says, I myself live by my own inherited platitudes."
'Statuette on the Console' comes accompanied by a video directed by Nik E Iki that pokes fun at our dependence on fragile, fleeting technology. She offers:
"I have a certain reverence for the symbols of religion; creating iconography with antiquated technology is a big part of my process for the art of BODEGA. For the song’s accompanying music video, I cast myself as the titular statuette on the console, miming the song on top of an old television set, wearing a halo made out of a laser disc. I also created a giant iPhone dongle out of cardboard, fabric and pillow stuffing. In our tech-obsessed world, the dongle is a symbol with godlike powers of animating silence. I see something tragic in the fragility of these dongles and our dependence on them. It’s only a matter of days before they become broken equipment."
Watch/listen below.
(facebook.com/BODEGABK)
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New Entry: Future Islands Unleash New Single "King of Sweden"
The song is out now via 4AD, and is is their first release since 2020 album As Long As You Are. Get it here.
Take a listen below.
(facebook.com/FutureIslandsMusic)
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