Australian indie rock/alt-pop band Methyl Ethel have announced the release of their third studio album titled 'Triage'.
The follow-up to 2017's 'Everything Is Forgotten' was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb, mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry. It will be out on February 15th 2019 via 4AD Records. Pre-order it here.
The band have also dropped the video for their the self-proclaimed "surrealist love song" "Real Tight", directed by Matt Sav.
According to the press release, Triage "is like experiencing youth as a fever dream. Drawing from experiences that have been erased with time. As ever, the songs feel like "real life" even if their author has put their authenticity into question in the past."
"The first couple of records I wrote from a personal experience, then obscured it; that's how I write songs", Methyl Ethel's Jake Webb explains, "My go-to thing is really to write about an abstract emotional experience while being ultra-personal." This delicate balance of internal revelations played off against calculated ambiguity, has struck a nerve as Jake's lyrics are sung back at him by audiences around the globe. They are precise enough to be authentic, and hazy enough to be anyone's, a universality that is echoed when Jake touches on the themes of Triage. "It's about love, about mental health, about people and relationships. Isn't everything?"
Check out the tracklist and watch the video for "Real Tight" below.
Tracklist:
01. Ruiner
02. Scream Whole
03. All The Elements
04. Trip The Mains
05. Post-Blue
06. Real Tight
07. Hip Horror
08. What About The 37ยบ?
09. No Fighting
Dayton alt rock band The Breeders have unleashed a home made video for "Nervous Mary".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their latest album 'All Nerve', released back in March via 4AD. Grab your copy here.
The video was shot in the middle of a busy street in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Puppet versions of Kim and Kelley Deal – dressed in custom-knitted outfits made by Finnish fan and professional puppet-maker Milla Risku – go wild performing the song as their real-life counterparts sing live vocals off camera.
Dayton alt rock band The Breeders have announced they will release their new album titled 'All Nerve' on March 2nd via 4AD.
The new album reunites Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson – the line-up behind the iconic and platinum-selling record, Last Splash, and features the previously unveiled track "Wait in the Car". Pre-order your copy here.
The quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary and have been quietly working on new material since then. Recording took place with Mike Montgomery at Candyland, Dayton, Kentucky; with Steve Albini and Greg Norman at Electrical Audio, Chicago; and with Tom Rastikis at Fernwood Studios, Dayton, Ohio. Artwork was conceived by Chris Bigg, who has worked with the Breeders since their first album Pod.
The band have also shared the album's title track, which you can listen below the tracklist.
Tracklist:
01. Nervous Mary
02. Wait in the Car
03. All Nerve
04. MetaGoth
05. Spacewoman
06. Walking with the Killer
07. Howl at the Summit
08. Archangel’s Thunderbird
09. Dawn: Making an Effort
10. Skinhead #2
11. Blues at the Acropolis
Dayton alt rock band The Breeders have returned with a brand new single called "Wait in the Car" and its accompanying video.
According to a press release, the two-minute track is the first featuring the classic lineup behind The Breeders’ 1993 LP, Last Splash — Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson. The group’s members hit the studio to work on this new material not long after going on a 20th anniversary tour of Last Splash in 2013. The band's last full-length was 2008’s Mountain Battles.
The new tune will be released as part of an upcoming series of 7-inch singles via 4AD. Grab it here.
Watch/listen below (directed by Chris Bigg & Martin Andersen).
American indie rock band The National have unleashed the video for their newest single "Day I Die".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming seventh album ‘Sleep Well Beast’, which comes out on 8th September via 4AD Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Casey Reas. Take a look below.
Australian indie rock/alt-pop Methyl Ethel have dropped the video for their latest single "Drink Wine".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their latest album 'Everything Is Forgotten', which came out in March via 4AD Records. Buy your copy here.
The video was directed by Cem Hizli and PAXI. Take a look below.
Australian indie rock/alt-pop Methyl Ethel have dropped the video for their latest single "Ubu".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming new album 'Everything Is Forgotten', which will be released on 3rd March via 4AD Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by PAXI. Take a look below.
Shoegaze legends Lush has confirmed a performance at the London Roundhouse for May 6th, 2016, it is the band's first show in two decades.
To celebrate their return, on November 27, 4AD will be reissuing Lush's best of compilation Ciao! on vinyl. Then in December they will release the Chorus limited edition box set. It includes all three of their full-length albums (1992's Spooky, 1994's Split, and 1996's Lovelife), their 1990 early singles compilation Gala, and their 1996 B-sides compilation Topolino (the Canadian version).
Chorus also includes B-sides, radio sessions, remixes and demos, some previously unreleased. Chris Bigg did the artwork for the box set. He, along with 4AD design chief Vaughan Oliver, was responsible for designing Lush's original album covers.
In a statement, guitarist Miki Berenyi said: "The opportunities and practicalities of reforming Lush meant that for 20 years it was an impossible undertaking. But we all loved what we did, and the time is finally right for us to do it again."
Re-visit the video for "Nothing Natural" and "For Love" below.
Atlanta indie rock band Deerhunter have revealed the video for their newest single 'Breaker'.
The song is taken from the upcoming seventh studio album 'Fading Frontier', set to be released on Rocktober 16 via 4AD Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Los Angeles native Ariel Pink has dropped the video for his recent single "Put Your Number in My Phone".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from his forthcoming double album 'pom pom', which will be released on November 18 via 4AD. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Grant Singer. Take a look below.
Los Angeles native Ariel Pink has announced plans to release a brand new double album, titled 'pom pom'.
The follow up to 2012's ‘Mature Themes’ (recorded at the time under the name Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti), features 17 new tracks and will be out November 18 via 4AD. Pre-order your copy here.
This new record is credited to just Ariel Pink, who said in a statement: "Although this is the first 'solo' record credited to my name, it is by far the least 'solo' record I have ever recorded."
'pom pom' tracklist:
01. Plastic Raincoats in the Pig Parade
02. White Freckles
03. Four Shadows
04. Not Enough Violence
05. Put Your Number in My Phone
06. One Summer Night
07. Nude Beach A G-Go
08. Dinosaur Carebears
09. Lipstick
10. Goth Bomb
11. Negativ Ed
12. Sexual Athletics
13. Jell-o
14. Black Ballerina
15. Picture Me Gone
16. Exile On Frog Street
17. Dayzed Inn Daydreams
Pink is also streaming the record’s lead track "Put Your Number in my Phone", have a listen below.
Tampa FL based indie-punk outfit Merchandise have revealed the video for "Begging For Your Life / In The City Light".
Having just signed a deal with 4AD, the band are currently working on their new album, but in the meantime, they're releasing the single "Begging For Your Life / In The City Light" (it's full 14 minutes) on limited edition 12".
The track is part of our current playlist. The full version is available to buy today (January 15th) on most digital services. The limited 12" will be released on February 25th, and is available to pre-order from the 4AD webstore now.
Copenhagen-based singer songwriter and musician Sรธren Lรธkke Juul aka Indians, has released the video for "La Femme", another cut taken from his debut album "Somewhere Else" released earlier this year via 4AD.
Recorded in a countryside studio outside Copenhagen, 'Somewhere Else' is a “highly personal document that's equal parts melancholic lament and hopeful stargazing, with the album title itself an indication of the sense of otherness that runs throughout Sรธren's music”.
The video was directed by Ty Olson. Watch it below.