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Premiere: Alex Frenkel announces new album as Caicos and shares lead single ‘A Spade A Spade’
Formerly the vocalist for New York band Gospels, Alex Frenkel has since moved on to making music as Caicos. Last we heard from him, Frenkel released the Past Perfect EP in autumn of 2020, but he’s been at work on a new project, the first fruits of which we’re delighted to share with you today. …
Premiere: Paul Murphy announces new album as POSTDATA, shares ‘Mine the Sea’
Also known as the voice of excellent Canadian outfit Wintersleep, it would be fair to say Paul Murphy likes to keep busy. His main band last released In the Land Of in 2019, a year after his second album as POSTDATA, Let’s Be Wilderness. Twin Flames arrived in early 2021, and today he’s announcing his …
Premiere: Kid Francescoli announces new album ‘Sunset Blue’ and shares ‘Run, Run’
Back in March, Marseille’s Mathieu Hocine kicked off his 2023 with the release of ‘You Are Everywhere’, which trailed his then-unannounced new record, the proper follow-up to 2020’s Lovers. We said there was more to come but couldn’t tell you what, but thankfully we can lift the lid on Hocine’s new album today with a …
Premiere: KAZIMI is aflame with desire on ‘Fever Dream’
In a world where the typical route for an artist includes introductory singles and EPs en route to a debut album, it’s much less common for someone to make an album before stepping into the spotlight, but that’s exactly what New Yorker KAZIMI has done, in spite of herself. “I never sat down to make …
Premiere: Alaskan duo maeve & quinn announce debut album for September, share ‘Jeweler’s Row’
It’s been a little bit since we’ve heard from twin sisters Maris and Bryce O’Tierney, otherwise known as maeve & quinn, but they’ve been busy. It’s coming up on two years since the Anchorage-based pair last released something, namely the Star-Crossed EP, but until now we’ve only been offered glimpses of what they were capable …
Premiere: hunter & wolfe toast their ‘Famous Friends’ as they prep first album in almost a decade
It’s been quite a while since we’ve last heard from Brooklyn duo hunter & wolfe; longer still since they’ve put out a full-length album. With the impact of the pandemic on artists in general, it’s a relief to see they’re still kicking. Almost six whole years ago they released the Late Then Never EP, itself …
Premiere: Michael Ian Cummings of SKATERS returns with ‘Contemporary Me’
If you were a fan of New Yorkers SKATERS, you’ll probably remember that they went from a major label deal to disappearing after the release of their second album within 5 years, chewed up and spat out during a transitional period for the wider music industry. Band leader Michael Ian Cummings has been off radar …
Premiere: The Mortal Prophets return with title track from new album ‘Deeley Plaza Blues’
Toward the end of last year, the John Beckmann-fronted New York band The Mortal Prophets released their debut album Me and the Devil, and you would have expected them to slow down a little bit after that but that isn’t the case at all. Just a month later, Beckmann released a solo piano record, which …
Premiere: Homeschool trails new EP with self-acceptance banger ‘My Only Enemy’
You may remember back in February when we premiered New Yorker Tom D’Agustino’s most recent single as Homeschool, ‘Bound to Be’. At the time, all we could say was there was more to come from them this year, with no indication of what form that might take. Well, it turns out there’s a new EP …
Premiere: Rose Haze stun with the epic sweep of ‘Slow Decay’
If you haven’t heard of Kate Ramsey before, you’ve got plenty to catch up on, but her new song as Rose Haze is a good place to start. In just the last year, she’s released both a full-band album called Maximum Security Prism and an atmospheric instrumental counterpart called Contemplations in the Desert. If you’re …