Sports Team Unleash New Single/Video "The Drop"

London indie rock band Sports Team have unveiled the video for their new single "The Drop"

The song is taken from their sophomore album 'GULP!', which will be out on September 22 via Island Records. Pre-order your copy here.

Speaking about the song, the band say, “It’s questioning a constant striving for achievement, never really enjoying the moments and ‘Katie dying waiting for the right time to retire’. Today the internet told me they’ve found ‘pits on the moon where humans could comfortably live and work’, brilliant.”

Working with director, filmmaker and architect A.T. Mann for the accompanying video, Mann adds, “When I stepped through the sonic journey of The Drop I dreamed of a poet caught in his own urban web of city lights, stuck there as the mind is being lost, knowing there is only one way out – letting it all go. Letting all the nonsense boundaries drop, taking the one leap into the unknown like the soul of the acrobat about to fly – or fall – stepping along the highwire of the one important quest - Creation. This reminded me of a beatnik poem by Laurence Ferenghetti called ‘Constantly Risking Absurdity’.”

Watch/listen below.

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Stereolab Unveil "Simple Headphone Mind" & "Trippin"

Anglo-French avant-pop band Stereolab have share two new tracks "Simple Headphone Mind" & "Trippin", off their forthcoming compilation Pulse of the Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5]. 

The collection will be out on Sept 2nd via Warp Records and Duophonic UHF Disks. This time out it's 'Simple Headphone Mind' and 'Trippin' with the Birds' from their 1997 collaborative 12" with Nurse With Wound getting an airing.

Simple Headphone Mind was the second collaboration between Stereolab and Nurse With Wound. As with their first release, Crumb Duck, Stereolab recorded the basic track and then handed it over to Steven Stapleton to do with as he pleased. Unlike with Crumb Duck, listeners can hear the original Stereolab recording, as it was issued under the title 'The Long Hair of Death' on a split single with Yo La Tengo; this version was also featured on Stereolab's Aluminum Tunes compilation album.

Listen to 'Simple Headphone Mind' + 'Trippin' with the Birds' below.

Suede Share New Single "15 Again"

British alternative rock Suede have shared their new single "15 Again".

Described by Brett Anderson as “a song about falling in love with life for the first time”, it is taken from their forthcoming ninth studio album 'Autofiction', which will be out 16th September via BMG. Pre-order your copy here.

“Autofiction has a natural freshness, it's where we want to be,” says Anderson. And where The London Suede want to be is, in a way, the same place as they were when they began 30 years ago – a group of people living off the raw sensation of creating music together in a room. 

This natural freshness can be heard anew in “15 Again.” “When we were rehearsing and writing this record it was this sheer, physical rush. That thing where you're hanging on for dear life,” bass player Mat Osman adds.

Stream it below.

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