Kate Bush and Running Up That Hill have secured a third consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
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The Beths have announced their third studio album, ‘Expert In A Dying Field’, alongside the release of a new single titled ‘Silence Is Golden’ and Australasian tour dates.It’s one of the Aotearoan pop-rockers’ heavier cuts, carried by propulsive, math rock-inspired drum fills and winding staccato guitars. It also sports both bass and guitar solos, the former fuzzy and slathered in distortion, and the other intentionally piercing with modulated legato slides and high-note shredding.According to vocalist Liz Stokes, the hectic feel of the song reflects its lyrical basis.
“The song is about stress and anxiety manifesting as an intolerance to noise,” she explained in a press release, “where each new sound makes you more and more stressed.”The song arrives alongside a video directed by Callum Devlin, which shows The Beths performing the song in a dimly-lit garage. Have a look at that below:‘Expert In A Dying Field’ will be released on September 16 via Carpark Records.
It’ll mark The Beths’ third full-length effort, following 2020’s ‘Jump Rope Gazers’ and 2018’s ‘Future Me Hates Me’. Pre-orders for the album are available now, and can be found here.According to the press release, the new record sees Stokes evolve on her songwriting style by stepping into a new role “somewhere between a novelist and a documentarian”.
Its 12 songs are also said to be autobiographical in nature – with an overarching theme of relationships “and more importantly, their aftermaths” – but spun through the lenses of various characters.Musically, the band say that ‘Expert In A Dying Field’ was written with the intent that the songs on it would shine brightest in a live setting. The bulk of the album was recorded last year at the home studio of lead
.Kate Bush and Running Up That Hill have secured a third consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
Cardi B has kickstarted her second album campaign in earnest with the announce of a new single, Hot Sh*t, dropping this Friday.
Ozzy Osbourne has announced his new album ‘Patient Number 9’ with the release of its title track ahead of the record’s release this September.The album’s title track also features guitar work from Jeff Beck, who joins an A-list cast of musicians guest-starring on the track including Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, Zakk Wylde, and producer Andrew Watt.A music video has also been released alongside the single that sees Ozzy portraying the titular patient, hunched over in what appears to be a room in a mental asylum before he falls into a comic-book-esque world of madness. Lights project bats all over the room as Ozzy’s iconic voice sings “When they call your name / Better run and hide / Tell you you’re insane / You believe their lies”.Watch the music video for Ozzy Osbourne’s seven-minute single ‘Patient Number 9’ below.Set to be released on September 3, the album also includes contributions from Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready.
New music from Taylor Swift has arrived.
Lil Nas X has immortalised his ongoing beef with the BET Awards on new single ‘Late To Da Party’, opening the track with a chant of “fuck BET”.The new song, which also features Youngboy Never Broke Again, doesn’t specifically lay into BET any further, although the lyrics do assure everyone listening that Lil Nas X doesn’t need anyone’s help to make money. So that’s good.This year’s BET Awards are set to take place in LA this Sunday and – as he has been teasing this new track on social media in recent weeks – the rapper has been taking aim at the ceremony due to his lack of nominations.Insisting that his complaint is not simply sour grapes, he wrote on Twitter earlier this month: “This [is] not over no BET Award, this is about the bigger problem of homophobia in the black community.
Spielbergs have shared their new single ‘Every Living Creature’ and announced details of a UK tour in September and October – you can listen to the new track below.The Oslo trio are gearing up to release their new album ‘Vestli’, which is set for release on August 19 via Big Scary Monsters and is the follow-up to their 2019 debut album ‘This Is Not The End’.‘Every Living Creature’ is the second preview of ‘Vestli’ following last month’s double single ‘When They Come For Me’ / ‘Get Lost’.The band’s latest track is, according to singer and guitarist Mads Baklien, “a straight-up rocker about when a relationship between two people gets polluted by something that is always left unsaid”.“The other person doesn’t want to address it and you certainly don’t want to do it yourself. So you just keep on keeping on, with something poisonous in the air between you at all time.”Spielbergs have also announced a run of headline UK and European dates, with tickets on sale now.
Yukika will soon be releasing a brand-new single titled ‘향기’ (translates to “scent”).Yesterday (June 20), the Japanese-born singer shared on Twitter that she would be dropping a digital single titled ‘향기’ on June 23 at 6pm KST. The announcement was accompanied with a graphic poster for the release, which features a cool-toned photo of Yukika looking into the horizon from a rooftop.YUKIKA Digital Single'향기'Release on2022.06.23 6PM (KST)#유키카 #YUKIKA #향기 pic.twitter.com/5VcYU6B2ez— 유키카 | YUKIKA (@ubt_yukika) June 20, 2022The forthcoming track will mark the musician’s second release of 2022, following January’s ‘Moonset’.
LOONA have made their long-awaited comeback with the new mini-album ‘Flip That’ and a title track of the same name.In the stunning new visual for ‘Flip That’, the members of LOONA enter a summery wonderland on a retro-looking train, playing gleefully in a forest clearing filled blooming flora. Elsewhere in the video, the girl group perform the song’s choreography in a pastel-toned room filled with flowers.“Stay still, follow the new light that leads me / We love the way we go / Yeah, turn it all upside down,” they sing in the dreamy pre-chorus.The ‘Flip That’ mini-album features a total of six songs, including the intro track ‘The Journey’, which was previously featured in the group’s comeback trailer.
Two Door Cinema Club have announced their return with a new single today (June 17) called ‘Wonderful Life’.It’s taken from their upcoming fifth album, ‘Keep On Smiling’, which is set for release digitally on September 2 and physically on November 4, via LOWER THIRD [PIAS]. You can pre-order it here.A statement said of the new record that it is “a nod back to the pure rush of Two Door Cinema Club’s early output.”Check out the new single here:The ‘Keep On Smiling’ tracklisting is as follows:1. ‘Messenger AD’2. ‘Blue Light’3. ‘Everybody’s Cool’4. ‘Lucky’5. ‘Little Piggy’6. ‘Millionaire’7. ‘High’8. ‘Wonderful Life’9. ‘Feeling Strange’10. ‘Won’t Do Nothing’11. ‘Messenger HD’12. ‘Disappearer’ The band also announced a string of European and North American tour dates today.
Santigold has announced her upcoming fourth album, ‘Spirituals’, with a new single, ‘‘Ain’t Ready’.Featuring production by Illangelo, Dre Skull and SBTRKT, the song speaks about the power of moving forward and embracing change. “It come in hard / Kick in one side of your heart / What a blow, no it won’t stop / So I take my time now getting back up / Taking the reins,” Santigold sings over pounding textures and rumbling bass.“This song was my own battle song.
Marlon Williams has shared details of his third studio album, ‘My Boy’, as well as its second single.The album, announced today (June 15), serves as the official follow-up to 2018’s ‘Make Way For Love’. The announcement was pre-empted on May 3 by the release of what has now been revealed as the album’s title track, which came out last month.
Foals have shared new single ‘Crest Of The Wave’ ahead of the release of their new album, ‘Life Is Yours’.The track, which you can listen to below, is the fifth to be shared from the band’s seventh album, which will be released this Friday (June 17).“A portion of ‘Crest Of The Wave’ existed in 2011, and we had demoed it in Australia and just left it for years,” the band said in a statement.“But it was one of those songs which had always been at the back of our minds, like there was some unfinished business there. As we were playing around with it with some of the themes on this record, we cracked it open and really revelled in adding lots of layers to it in the studio.
Sam Faiers has excitedly predicted that her older sister Billie Faiers is expecting a baby girl, after the latter announced that she is pregnant with her third child. The former TOWIE star uploaded a sweet beach snap with her husband and two children Nelly, seven, and three year old Arthur, and she grinned as she showed off her growing baby bump in a white bikini and straw hat. Alongside the image, the 32 year old wrote: "Baby number 3 we can’t wait to meet you … We are so happy and excited." Sam, 31, who welcomed her own third child, Edward, a few weeks ago was quick to comment on her sister's happy news and speculate as to the sex of the unborn child.
Amyl & The Sniffers have announced a new run of North American tour dates, marking their second tour of the continent this year.The new dates will see the Australian band return to the United States in September and October. The tour will begin with an appearance at the first-ever Los Angeles edition of the Primavera Sound festival, before taking the band on a run of 14 headlining shows across the country.It follows on from the band’s previous tour in April and May of 2022.
Dry Cleaning have announced their second album ‘Stumpwork’ and shared lead single ‘Don’t Press Me’ – see its album art and full tracklist below.Clocking in at just under two minutes, the band’s latest sees vocalist Florence Shaw deliver a characteristically dry internal monologue, singing “You are always fighting me / You are always stressing me out” on its refrain.“The words in the chorus came about because I was trying to write a song to sing to my own brain,” Shaw explained in a statement.Watch the accompanying, animated video for ‘Don’t Press Me’, created by Peter Millard, below:Set to arrive on October 21 and available for pre-order here, ‘Stumpwork’ follows on from the band’s 2021 debut album, ‘New Long Leg’. The new album reunited the band with producer John Parish late last year, with a longer amount of time in the studio than the two weeks ‘New Long Leg’ was recorded in.The album announcement arrives just as Dry Cleaning are about to embark on a slew of festival dates in the UK, Europe and US, including Glastonbury, Rock Werchter, Green Man Festival, All Points East and many more.1. ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’2. ‘Kwenchy Kups’3. ‘Gary Ashby’4. ‘Driver’s Story’5. ‘Hot Penny Day’6. ‘Stumpwork’7. ‘No Decent Shoes For Rain’8. ‘Don’t Press Me’9. ‘Conservative Hell’10. ‘Liberty Log’11. ‘Icebergs’
Tacoma garage rockers Enumclaw have announced their debut album Save The Baby. It's out on October 14, and today you can hear its lead single "Jimmy Neutron." No, it's not a homage to a kids cartoon, but the group are very much infatuated with the lovesick guitars and creaky vocal melodies of Dinosaur Jr.
Steve Aoki and Taking Back Sunday have teamed up on an unexpected new joint single called ‘Just Us Two’ – check it out below along with the two acts telling NME about what they learnt from each other and their newfound brotherhood.The track marks Taking Back Sunday’s second release of the year, following frontman Adam Lazzara featuring on The Maine’s ‘Loved You A Little’ in January. It’s Aoki’s fourth single of 2022, succeeding ‘Welcome To The Playhouse’, ‘Da Homies’ and ‘KULT’.“I was talking with our manager one day and she’s like ‘Hey, Steve Aoki’s camp reached out – would you like to write a song with him?’ My first reaction was, ‘Wait, do they know who they’re reaching out to? Did they get the wrong guys?’” explained Lazzara.
BTS have released the music video for ‘Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)’, the title track of their new compilation album ‘Proof’.The visual opens with Jungkook sitting alone in a desert, looking out into the vast open land. It then cuts to the septet sitting together as they perform ‘Yet To Come’, which finds the boyband looking back at their nine-year-long career so far.It later cuts to individual shots of BTS performing their different parts, before they reunite and run towards a yellow school bus in the middle of nowhere.