PREMIERE: Caroline Kingsbury gives ‘Heaven’s Just A Flight’ the remix treatment
In April of last year, Los Angeles-based Caroline Kingsbury released her great debut album Heaven’s Just A Flight (which, by the way, received a belated vinyl pressing in the back half of 2021), and in keeping with the record telling her story of coming out as queer in a religious family, she’s revisited the source …
PREMIERE: Montreal post-rock trio Yoo Doo Right emphatically kick against the pricks on thunderous new album
Barely a year since they released their debut LP, Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose, Canadian trio Yoo Doo Right are back with their second album, on which their towering, politically charged experimental rock soars to new heights. Trailed by two singles earlier in the year – one of them a whopping 17 minutes …
PREMIERE: Astrologer announces second EP for next month, shares sprawling lead track ‘Détente’
Last year, the Phoenix-based ‘avant-pop’ project Astrologer (led by Drew Cline) made their debut with the riveting Legerdemain (L) EP, and today they’re announcing the complementary 6-song set that makes up the band’s second release. It’s out next month, and to coincide with the announcement they’re sharing three-part lead track ‘Détente’, which features vocal contributions …
PREMIERE: A.M. Boys stream their gorgeous debut album ‘Distance Decay’ ahead of release tomorrow
Back in March, we lifted the lid on the impending debut album from Brooklyn duo A.M. Boys. It’s a hell of a grower and we fell in love on first listen, so to say we’re delighted to be streaming Distance Decay in full ahead of its release tomorrow is putting it lightly. Here’s what the …
PREMIERE: TWÏNS thinks there’s ‘Something About Alice Coltrane’ on instrumental tribute to jazz pioneer
Berlin-based Miro Denck, otherwise known as TWÏNS, has a new record arriving at the end of the month (pushed back from April). He’s shared three songs from The Human Jazz already, and today unveils a loosie that pays tribute to Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, tipping the hat to (and rearranging) a certain piece of hers in …
PREMIERE: Endearments survey breakup wreckage on huge new single ‘Too Late’
You’d do well to get on board with Brooklyn trio Endearments at this early stage of their career. They tapped Abe Seiferth to mix the song we’re premiering today. He’s worked with Nation of Language so knows a thing or two about the up-and-comers when it comes to Brooklyn synth-pop. ‘Too Late’ is the band’s …
PREMIERE: Damion announces debut album with buttery smooth lead single ‘Company Man’
If you’re working on music whose main sonic touchstones are the likes of Joni Mitchell and Todd Rundgren, you may as well go all in and record straight to cassette, right? Well, it works for Damion Schiralli. The Bloomington, Indiana native, inspired by 1970s AM radio deep dives, was happy to lean into the aesthetic …
PREMIERE: Damn Jackals are here to make you ‘Swoon’ with their supremely catchy new single
Working on their second album as you read this, New Yorkers Damn Jackals are intent on making up for lost time. They had a big 2020 ahead of them in terms of giving their 2018 debut Crooked Castle, Volume 1 a victory lap, but the world, well, it had other plans. So they were put …
PREMIERE: Tatum Gale takes a swipe at music industry cutthroats with ‘New Look, Same Great Flavor’
If the single artwork, above, seems gaudy, then that’s entirely the point: the New Orleans-via-Portland producer and songwriter Tatum Gale is asking you not to judge the book (or in this case, the song) by its cover. About two years since his Both EP, he returned last month with ‘Botanical Babe’, and is quickly following …
PREMIERE: Saint Christopher announces debut album with the bruised yet hopeful ‘Winners’
Christopher Kalil went to hell last year. Or maybe everything went to hell for him. He’s not sure exactly how, but the Los Angeles-based former leader of Arms Akimbo is still hanging on. He now operates as Saint Christopher, a project that, with the best will in the world, was launched at the worst time: …