Banks is set to return with her sophomore album The Altar next month. The follow-up to 2014’s Goddess drops on EMI Virgin on September 30th. Banks also shared the new album’s opener “Gemini Feed”. The new track follows Banks’ lineage of brooding, dark R&B with a synth lead, pop aspects and a bursting chorus. Stream Banks “Gemini Feed” and see The Altar […]
LA’s Warpaint will drop their first new album since their 2014 self-titled effort. On September 23, Heads Up will arrive on Rough Trade. The album news accompanies the its lead single. Warpaint “New Song” finds the quartet moving in a more upbeat, danceable direction (apparently stemming from their mutual love of dancing). While that might alienate some […]
New Zealand’s Shakes shared a new single this week, following the release of their Tambourine Girls EP last summer. Shakes “Strange Tides” is a tight, three and a half minute, psyche pop jam. Fun fact: “Strange Tides” was mastered by Brian Lucey (also produced The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, The Shins). No word if the track will be […]
On October 21, Seattle’s Smokey Brights will release their new album Hot Candy via Freakout Records. The quintet, lead by wife and husband Kim West and Ryan Devlin, holed up on Sauvie Island (the wonderful land of Portland summer swimming) at the end of last year to record the LP. With the album announcement, the band shared Hot Candy’s lead single […]
This morning we premiere a new track from Brooklyn’s Plastic Picnic. The quartet is composed of Pacific Northwest transplants Emile Panerio, Lincoln Lute, Gordon Taylor and Marshall Hunt. Plastic Picnic’s “In Your Mind” is the second track in a pair the band recorded with producer/engineer Ted Young, following May’s “Nausea in Paradise“. “In Your Mind” displays the band’s […]