The Kooks announce new album ’10 Tracks To Echo In The Dark’: “A youthful, fresh spirit is what we are all about”

Sinead O’Brien has announced that she will release her debut album, ‘Time Bend And Break The Bower’, this summer. She’s also released a new single called ‘Holy Country’ and announced a load of tour dates.“The story of the album is built up in layers; one song giving context to the next”, says O’Brien. “I thought about becoming undressed; testing my ideas, my voice.

Moderat have announced their fourth album and their first release since 2016’s ‘III’, ‘MORE D4TA’ – find the art and full tracklist below.The 10-track album is set to be released on May 13 on Monkeytown Records, and can be pre-ordered here. It features lyrics inspired by member Sascha Ring’s trips to Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie museum, often with his infant daughter.As the album itself was written during the pandemic era, many of Ring’s ruminations were on his worries for the future as he pondered the museum’s antique paintings, leading to many of the album’s songs dealing with “feelings of isolation and information overload”.Moderat have shared the first preview of the album in the song ‘Fast Land’, which received a striking music video directed by Ben Miethke. Watch it here:The supergroup – comprising Sascha Ring of Apparat and Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary – first announced their hiatus in 2017 to focus on their own projects, and subsequently spent two years apart before reuniting to release more music as a group.Moderat recently announced a tour including stops at London’s Alexandra Palace on October 31 and Barcelona’s Sónar Festival on June 17.

Johnny Depp's most recent performances have included him taking on some notable projects. In Minamata he retold the story of an injustice against a Japanese community. In Waiting for Barbarians he played a cruel Colonel battling against indigenous people in an unnamed empire.

Emeli Sandé has announced that she will release new album ‘Let’s Say For Instance’ in May, following on from a string of recent singles. Her fourth album in total, it will be her first for Chrysalis Records.“I’m so proud of this album and can’t wait to release it”, Sandé tells Variety.

Swedish House Mafia have shared an update on their forthcoming new album, ‘Paradise Again’, revealing the long-awaited comeback LP is “done”.After disbanding almost a decade ago, the EDM supergroup – comprised of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso – announced in 2018 they would be reuniting for a homecoming show in Stockholm, Sweden.They followed this up last year with ‘It Gets Better’, their first new music since the release of their last album, September 2012’s ‘Until Now’.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBritish singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé has announced her forthcoming album, “Let’s Say for Instance,” will be released on May 6 via Chrysalis Records.Sandé has enjoyed enormous chart success in her native England, with her debut album, “Our Version of Events,” selling nearly five and a half million copies to date and becoming the biggest-selling album in the U.K. for 2012 (and the second-biggest for 2013).

Ibeyi have shared a new single – listen to ‘Sister 2 Sister’ below.It comes as the Afro-French Cuban musical duo – comprising twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz – also unveiled details of a new album ‘Spell 31’, which arrives on May 6 via XL. You can pre-order the album here.The album has been made with longtime producer Richard Russell and features guests including Jorja Smith, Pa Salieu and Berwyn.Listen to ‘Sister 2 Sister’ and see the full album track listing below.Tracklist1. ‘Sangoma’2. ‘O Inle’3. ‘Made Of Gold’ (Feat. Pa Salieu)4. ‘Sister 2 Sister’5. ‘Creature (Perfect)’6. ‘Tears Are Our Medicine’7. ‘Foreign Country’8. ‘Lavender & Red Roses’ (Feat. Jorja Smith)9. ‘Rise Above’ (Feat. Berwyn)10. ‘Los Muertos’ Back in November, Ibeyi released ‘Made Of Gold’ featuring Pa Salieu.Speaking about that track the pair said: “The first song we produced in the studio was ‘Made of Gold’.

Kate Garraway gushed she has discovered a “new way to be in love” with her husband Derek Draper as he recovers from Covid. She has been caring for her husband since he returned home in April 2021 after he was in hopsital for more than a year when he was struck down with the virus.

Charli XCX says she is struggling with the toxicity of social media in the lead-up to her fifth studio album, Crash. The English singer-songwriter, 29, has received criticism for the song rollout supporting her impending project.

Omar Apollo has announced his upcoming forth album, ‘Ivory’.The 16-track album is slated to release on April 8 via Warner Records. While the tracklist for ‘Ivory’ has not yet been revealed, it has been confirmed that the record will include previously released singles ‘Go Away’ and ‘Bad Life’ featuring Kali Uchis.The album will also include the newly released ‘Invincible’ featuring fellow singer-songwriter Daniel Caesar, which received a music video.

Fleet Foxes have announced details of a 2022 world tour, which includes new UK dates – see the band’s full schedule below.The band’s new run of shows, which take them from late June until September, come on the back of their 2020 album ‘Shore’.The shows begin in Salt Lake City on June 27, with North American dates running until mid-August, where they play the Forest Hills Stadium in New York.Robin Pecknold and co. then travel to London for a show at All Points East in support of The National before they play four more UK shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and as a headliner of End Of The Road.The tour then heads to mainland Europe, wrapping up with a Berlin show on September 11.Watch a trailer for the tour and see the full schedule below.

Sharon Osbourne is back and reunited with her “old iPhone” to make a special announcement on Instagram.

NME on the red carpet ahead of the BRIT Awards 2022, Glass Animals told us about the secret to the runaway success of their single ‘Heat Waves’ and thoughts about going all “Celtic opera” on their next album and dreams of collaborating with Lil Nas X. Watch our interview with the band above.The Oxford band were at the London ceremony where they nominated for Best Rock/Alternative Act as well as ‘Best Song’ for ‘Heat Waves’ – which has racked up millions upon millions of streams over the last year and recently saw them become the first UK band to top Spotify’s global singles chart.“There’s something in it.

Sunflower Bean have announced details of their third album ‘Headful of Sugar’ – you can listen to their new track ‘Who Put You Up To This?’ below.The New York trio will release the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Twentytwo in Blue’ on May 6 via Lucky Number. You can pre-order/pre-save it from here.“We wanted to write about the lived experience of late capitalism, how it feels every day, the mundanity of not knowing where every construct is supposed to ultimately lead you,” vocalist Nick Kivlen said about the new Sunflower Bean record, which was produced and mixed by Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Jacob Portrait.“The message is in the title: this is about fast pleasures, the sugar of life, the joy that comes with letting go of everything you thought mattered.”Sunflower Bean have today (February 8) shared the Josefine Cardoni-directed video for their new single ‘Who Put You Up To This?’.“Are you satisfied? Who put you up to do things that you do? Was it your own choice?” the band asked in a statement about the track.“Questioning your life is the first step to taking the agency to change it.

Jessie Ware has rescheduled her UK tour and announced some new dates.The ‘What’s Your Pleasure?‘ singer pulled four shows last December including two nights at the O2 Brixton Academy in London after her crew members contracted COVID.“I’m completely devastated to announce that sadly, we have to reschedule the remaining shows of the ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’ tour,” she said at the timeThe jaunt was previously moved from April 2021 to December due to ongoing concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.She has now rescheduled her dates to May with the first of those cancelled at Bristol’s Marble Factory now going ahead on the May 26, while two new shows in Halifax and Edinburgh have been added to the jaunt on June 19 and 22. Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday (February 11) and can be purchased here.Announcing her return, the singer said: “Finally, I am so pleased to tell you that the ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’ Live will resume in May! And we have added some extra dates.

Kavinsky has announced ‘Reborn’, his first new album in nine years – you can hear his latest single ‘Zenith’ below.The French producer, real name Vincent Belorgey, returned to action back in November with the track ‘Renegade’.Kavinsky will now release ‘Reborn’ on March 25 via Fiction / Virgin Music France, marking his first full release since his 2013 debut ‘Outrun’ (which featured his breakthrough track, the Drive-featuring ‘Nightcall’).To celebrate the news of ‘Reborn’, Kavinsky has today (February 4) shared the single ‘Zenith’, which you can hear in the below video.Billed as the sequel to ‘Nightcall’, which was originally released in 2010, ‘Zenith’ features The Dø’s Prudence (AKA Olivia Merilahti) and Justice collaborator Morgan Phalen on vocals.“Muted and futuristic, the new song reveals Kavinsky’s romantic side,” a press release further explains about the track. “Like ‘Nightcall’, it’s a duet between man and a woman. Yet with ‘Zenith’, he flips the script, featuring the female character, Prudence, on the verses while Morgan Phalen takes the choruses, playing the male lead.“A soulful, sensuous saxophone adds a distinctive third voice as the song plays out.” Pre-order of ‘Reborn’ is available now from here.You can see the album’s tracklist, which also includes collaborations with Cautious Clay and Sébastien Tellier, below.1. ‘Pulsar’2. ‘Reborn’ (feat. Romuald)3. ‘Renegade’ (feat. Cautious Clay)4. ‘Trigger’5. ‘Goodbye’ (feat. Sébastien Tellier)6. ‘Plasma’ (feat. Morgan Phalen)7. ‘Cameo’ (feat. Kareen Lomax)8. ‘Zenith’ (feat. Morgan Phalen, Prudence)9. ‘Vigilante’ (feat. Morgan Phalen)10. ‘Zombie’11. ‘Outsider’12. ‘Horizon’

Many Voices Speak – aka Swedish musician Matilda Mård – has announced that she will release her second album, ‘Gestures’, in April. New single, ‘Seat For Sadness’, is out now.“The verse of this song kind of came to me all at once”, she says of the single. “Then it took quite a long time until I got the rest of the song out of me”.“I lived in Berlin at the time and rented a piano room at a music school, and most of the hours spent in there I was searching for the rest of the song”, she continues.

here.Joseph has her first co-production credit on the new album, which was recorded with producer Lomond Campbell in a converted old school-house over the course of a week. It’s described in press material as being “a statement of abuse observed; its narrative woven with pain’s complexities, futility and stasis”.Alongside the album announcement Kathryn has shared the new single ‘What Is Keeping You Alive Makes Me Want To Kill Them For’. Watch the accompanying video below.For You Who Are The Wronged track list:01. ‘What Is Keeping You Alive Makes Me Want To Kill Them For’02. ‘The Burning Of Us All’03. ‘Only The Sound Of The Sea Would Save Them’04. ‘How Well You Are’05. ‘Until The Truth Of You’06. ‘The Harmed’07. ‘Bring To Me Your Open Wounds’08. ‘Flesh And Blood’09. ‘Of All The Broken’10. ‘For You Who Are The Wronged’11. ‘Long Gone’Joseph will head out on a UK tour this spring and autumn in support of her third album.