Watch: Pom Pom Squad Share New Single/Video "LUX"

Brooklyn indie rock/riot grrrl/punk four-piece Pom Pom Squad have shared the video for their new single "LUX".

The song is out now via City Slang. Get it here.

“Lux” is a razor-sharp bite of cathartic punk that the band’s powerhouse frontperson Mia Berrin initially wrote at seventeen, while in the traumatic throes of her adolescent feminine awakening and realizing the ever-present gaze of the male patriarchy. With its namesake coming from the character in The Virgin Suicides (one of her favorite movies), the song is achingly vulnerable while delivering its message like a thrashing sonic sucker-punch. 

Watch/listen below.

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James Announce New LP 'All The Colours of You', Stream Title Track

Manchester legends James have announced the release of their 16th studio album 'All The Colours of You'.

Recorded in part before the Covid pandemic struck, the album will arrive on June 4th and was produced by the Grammy award-winning Jacknife Lee (U2, REM, Taylor Swift, Snow Patrol, The Killers). Pre-order your copy here.

On production duties with James for the first time, he bought a fresh approach to their sound, working remotely from his studio liaising with Tim (his Topanga Canyon neighbour) liaising with Jim in a daisy chain, reimagining their demos, and capturing the band in all their virtual glory. 

The result is a record with the most fresh and festival ready tracks of their 38-year career, the sound of one of Britain’s best bands, deconstructed and reassembled by one of the world’s most renowned producers.

Check out the album's tracklist and watch a lyric video for lead single "All The Colours of You" below.

All The Colours of You Tracklist:

01. ZERO

02. All The Colours Of You

03. Recover

04. Beautiful Beaches

05. Wherever It Takes Us

06. Hush

07. Miss America

08. Getting Myself Into

09. Magic Bus

10. Isabella

11. XYST

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Watch: The Psychedelic Furs Air "Wrong Train" Music Video

New Wave legends The Psychedelic Furs have aired the video for their latest single “Wrong Train".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their album 'Made of Rain', which came out in July 2020 via Cooking Vinyl. Grab your copy here.

Richard Butler: “‘Wrong Train’ continues the black and white textured, mysterious feel of the previous videos from ‘Made Of Rain’. It was a pleasure working along with Hans Neleman on this project. The creativity Hans, Peter Sebastian and their team brought shows in every frame. Much like in paintings, imagery in this video is altered to where it is seen in an entirely different way.”

 

For the video, director Hans Neleman drew inspiration from Furs’ frontman Richard Butler’s paintings. “Wrong Train" explores the theme of a disintegrating relationship and the idea was to deliver something rooted in a more abstract realm rather than illustrating the lyrics literally. I photographed and filmed Richard while painting his face as if he were delivering an art performance” Neleman says. Restricted by Covid-19 limitations, the video was shot in Neleman’s home-studio in Connecticut and at Michelson Studios in upstate New York. After the shoot, the photographic material was handed over and digitally manipulated by Peter Sebastian.

Watch it below.

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