New Entry: Dehd Release New Single "Empty In My Mind"

Chicago indie pop/rock/post punk trio Dehd have released their new single "Empty In My Mind". 

The song is taken from their upcoming new album 'Blue Skies', set to arrive on May 27th through Possum Records. Pre-order your copy here.

The band says the single is about “the floating mindless space around a new crush… The sort of high that occurs, the spinning, the detachment and the feeling of ungroundedness. All of these things being either very fun or absolutely dreadful.”

Stream it below.

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New Entry: POP ETC Reveal "Slips Away (Feat. Jason Schwartzman)"

Brooklyn, NY-based indie pop band POP ETC have revealed their new single "Slips Away (Feat. Jason Schwartzman)".

The song was produced and recorded by the band largely at home during quarantine and is the first taste from their upcoming new album 'Over the Moment' (TBA). Grab it here.

"We all try to hold on to the past. No matter how futile or ridiculous it may seem," says frontman Chris Chu about the new song. "Why do we have so much trouble accepting that everything comes to an end? I know I’m still fighting it. Still trying to be a kid. Still trying to hold on to the joy and carefreeness of that time."

Chu adds: "There’s an energy and life to the past that we keep grasping at, and yet it always slips away. But it’s not just a sad story. There’s real liberation that comes with acceptance. A freedom and richness that we can tap into once we embrace that everything is fleeting. 'Slips Away' is about trying to get there.”

Stream it below.

New Entry: Los Colognes Drop New Single "Ballad Of A Straw Man"

Nashville indie rock/pop Los Colognes have dropped their new single "Ballad Of A Straw Man".

The song is taken from their forthcoming new album 'The New World', which will be out on May 3. Pre-order your copy here.

“Anything that could get us out of our mental jail cells and into a creative flow was welcomed,” the group’s Aaron Mortenson said of how the song and album came together. “If anything, the entire record is a time stamp. We chose to create when we had no real idea of what was on the other side, and I’m glad we did.” 

Watch a lyric video below.

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Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Mallinder Announces New LP 'tick tick tick', Airs 'Hush'

Brighton, UK musician Stephen Mallinder, co-founder and frontman of the iconic Cabaret Voltaire, has announced the release of his second solo album 'tick tick tick'.

The follow-up to 2019's debut Um Dada, further distills his signature fusion of minimal synth, oblique wordplay, and “wonky disco” into a riveting rhythm suite ripe for our age of escalation: tick tick tick.  It will be out on July 15 via Dais Records, pre-order it here.

Channeling the temporal malaise of lockdown through a lusher palette of modular electronics and stereo strings, the songs embrace ambiguity and plasticity, loose systems of percolating circuitry and airless funk. Recorded across a handful of sessions at MemeTune Studios in Cornwall with frequent collaborator Benge (aka Ben Edwards), Mallinder cites no guiding aesthetic premise for the collection beyond “cowbell on every track, and entirely no reverb.”

Lyrically the record is equally evasive, rich with allusions and associative linguistics, surveying liquid notions of societal noise, ecological ruin, art world pretension, and the trials of daily life. But the lack of fixed meaning remains Mallinder’s main muse: “Music should draw you in; lyrics should make you think. Most interpretation is misinterpretation.” This is music of countdowns and comedowns, fleeting pleasures and opaque futures, observing the great decline while dancing on its ashes. Flux is deathless and forever; the rest, illusion: “I will be a constant figure / Flickering a moving picture / Turning in your head forever / Split apart but held together.”

Check out the album's tracklist and take a listen to the late-night techno-influenced lead single "Hush", below.

tick tick tick Tracklist:

1. Contact

2. ringdropp

3. Galaxy

4. Wasteland

5. Hush

6. Shock to the Body

7. Guernica Gallery

8. The Trial

9. tick tick tick

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