New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate have announced the release of their fifth studio album 'The Main Thing'.
The follow-up to 2017’s In Mind February 28th via Domino Records, according to the press release, it delivers the band’s most inspired and self-aware set of songs to date, created over the course of a year at upstate New York’s Marcata Sound. Pre-order your copy here.
Following his work on 2011’s Days, engineer Kevin McMahon returns as producer, and, for the first time ever, Real Estate have brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests like Sylvan Esso, whose vocalist Amelia Meath features on first single, “Paper Cup”. Across the 13 interrogative tracks – as full of depth, strangeness, and contradictions as they are lifting hooks – the band balances existential, environmental, and political anxieties with fatherly sentiments, self-satirizing lyrics, forever-lively guitar lines, and shimmering strings.
On “Paper Cup” and the making of The Main Thing, Martin Courtney says: “Paper Cup is a song about getting older and realizing that this thing that I fell into doing over ten years ago - being a musician, writing songs, being a guy in a band - this may end up being my life’s work. Watching the people around me change and evolve, take on new challenges, and feeling sort of stuck in a rut, in a way. Feeling uncertain of the validity of being an artist in an age of climate change and general political and social unrest around the world. It’s a song about questioning your chosen path in life and searching for meaning in what you do. Those questions don’t really get resolved in this song, but ironically, the process of making this record - really diving deep and trying to make it the best thing we’ve ever made - reaffirmed in me, and I think in all of us in this band, why we are doing this.”
The Main Thing dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Paper Cup", below.
The Main Thing Tracklisting:
01. Friday
02. Paper Cup [ft. Sylvan Esso]
03. Gone
04. You
05. November
06. Falling Down
07. Also a But
08. The Main Thing
09. Shallow Sun
10. Sting
11. Silent World
12. Procession
13. Brother
London electronic/dance band Hot Chip have aired the video for their new single "Melody of Love".
The song is taken from their upcoming seventh studio album 'A Bath Full Of Ecstasy', which will be released on on 21st June via Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
The clip was directed by Nima Nourizadeh, watch below.
London electronic/dance band Hot Chip have announced the release of their seventh studio album titled 'A Bath Full Of Ecstasy'.
The follow up to 2015's Why Make Sense?,was recorded in Paris and London, and sees the group open up to a more adventurous and collaborative song-writing process, choosing to work with outside producers for the first time: Philippe Zdar, the French maestro who’s shaped the magic of Cassius and Phoenix, and Rodaidh McDonald, the Scot who’s collaborated with The XX, David Byrne and Sampha, among others. It will be released on on 21st June via Domino. Pre-order your copy here. "is the group’s definitive release, crystallising the sound they’ve become celebrated for – bridging euphoria and melancholy with colourful melodies, idiosyncratic vocalisations and pounding electronic pop rhythms."
Check out the album's tracklist and video for its first single "Hungry Child," directed by Saman Kesh and starring Martin Starr and Milana Vayntrub, below.
A Bath Full Of EcstasyTracklist:
01. Melody of Love
02. Spell
03. Bath Full of Ecstasy
04. Echo
05. Hungry Child
06. Positive
07. Why Does My Mind
08. Clear Blue Skies
09. No God
Washington, DC post-punk trio Flasher have unleashed the video for their latest single "Material".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their debut album 'Constant Image', which came out in June 2017 via Domino Record Co. Grab your copy here.
The video was directed by Nick Roney. Watch it below.
Washington, DC post-punk trio Flasher have unveiled the video for their latest single "Who’s Got Time?".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their first full-length album 'Constant Image', which came out on 8th June via Domino Record Co. Grab your copy here.
The video was directed by Adinah Dancyger. Watch it below.
Washington, DC post-punk trio Flasher have premiered their catchy new single "Who’s Got Time?".
The song is taken from the band's upcoming first full-length album 'Constant Image', which will be out on 8th June via Domino Record Co. Pre-order your copy here.
Washington, DC post-punk trio Flasher have announced the release of their first full-length album titled 'Constant Image'.
The album, produced by Nicolas Vernhes (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, The War on Drugs) and recorded last year at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, NY, will be out on 8th June 2018 via Domino Record Co. It includes the previously shared single "Skim Milk," and their catchy new single "Pressure".
Speaking about the new song and video, the band said: "'Pressure' is a song that treads the line between queer delight and delirium, and crushing isolation and survival. The video for 'Pressure,' made in collaboration with Weird Life films and featuring designer and Chicago based artist An Authentic Skidmark, is a compliment to the paradox of the song itself and an invitation to that world in between."
Pre-order the album here, check out the tracklist and watch the video for "Pressure" below.
Tracklist:
01. Go
02. Pressure
03. Sun Come And Golden
04. Material
05. XYZ.
06. Who’s Got Time?
07. Skim Milk
08. Harsh Light
09. Punching Up
10. Business Unusual
Leeds neo-psych band Hookworms have released the video for their new single "Each Time We Pass".
The song is taken from their upcoming third studio album 'Microshift', which will be out this Friday (February 2) through Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Sam Wiehl
. Take a look below.
Leeds neo-psych band Hookworms have unveiled the video for their new single "Static Resistance".
The song has been added to our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming third studio album 'Microshift', which will be out on February 2 through Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Ciaran Lyons. Take a look below.
Leeds neo-psych band Hookworms have announced the release of their third studio album titled 'Microshift'
The follow-up to 2014's The Hum, was recorded and written after the band had to rebuild their Suburban Home Studio after it was flooded in 2015, and will be out on February 2 through Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
"All of our records are to an extent about mental health," says the band's MJ of the album in a statement. “Largely this is an album about loss but also about maturing, accepting your flaws and the transience of intimacy”.
Tracklist:
01. Negative Space
02. Static Resistance
03. Ullswater
04. The Soft Season
05. Opener
06. Each Time We Pass
07. Boxing Day
08. Reunion
09. Shortcomings
The band are also streaming the album's lead single "Negative Space". Have a listen below.
Liverpool-based indie pop/post punk trio All We Are have unveiled the video for their latest single "Dance".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their sophomore album 'Sunny Hills', released earlier this month (June 9th) through Double Six/Domino. Grab your copy here.
The video was directed by Eoin Glaister, it follows 'Animal' & 'Human', and is the final part of the trilogy. Watch it below.
Liverpool-based indie pop/post punk trio All We Are have dropped the video for their newest single "Animal".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming sophomore album 'Sunny Hills', set to arrive on June 9th through Double Six/Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Eoin Glaister. Watch it below.
Liverpool-based indie pop/post punk trio All We Are have announced the release of their sophomore album titled 'Sunny Hills'.
The follow-up to their self-titled 2015 debut was produced by Warp aligned talent Kwes, and "finds the band with a new sense of urgency and a new sound."
The record will be released on June 9th through Double Six/Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
Tracklist:
01. Burn It All Out
02. Human
03. Animal
04. Dance
05. Down
06. Dreamer
07. Youth
08. Waiting
09. Punch, 'What for?,
The band have also aired the video for the album's lead track "Human". Watch it below.