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Hiatus Kaiyote shares a new video for 'Chivalry Is Not Dead'. Co-directed by Lauren YS and Lester Chan with additional animation from David Osegueda, the new visuals are a deep dive into a colorful wormhole where the band is animated as various other-dimensional creatures. It's a fitting visual for a track whose lyrics explore the bizarre mating rituals of leopard slugs (they turn fluorescent) and seahorses (they lock tails and dance). Singer Nai Palm said “One of my most beloved dearest friends, Lauren YS, who is a superstar illustrator, has intricately brought to life the inner fabric of my brain’s innermost desires. I feel like we are two parts of the same coin. They cover the visuals (in collaboration with animator Lester Chan), and we cover the sonics. We hope to take you on a sexy bizarre journey into the kinks of the animal kingdom. Love from us.”

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Ally Nicholas has released her new single ‘Bullets’, a stunning rock record that draws on her love Deftones and Paramore, as well as rappers like Lil Peep. ‘Bullets’ is an intimate look into the struggle of dealing with mental illness while being in a relationship. Essentially, this song is about the dissonance that’s created when you’re struggling and want to let someone in, but don’t know if you should or how. Throughout the verses Ally details some of the issues and insecurities she’s grappling with, as well as her suspicion that her lover may be growing tired of not understanding her situation. The chorus is a swaggering demand, almost as if Nicholas is mid-breakdown telling her partner what little they can do to comfort her, as she feels she’s beyond saving. Alternating between a cool indifference and explosive passion, ‘Bullets’ is an alternative rock/pop song with an untouchable, apathetic confidence. Produced by Diego Ferrera, Bullets perfectly captures the nostalgia of 90s/00s alternative rock while also pushing the genre forward, creating a new breed of alternative rock for every kid who’s just trying to make it through the day.

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Ukrainian/British non-binary duo tAngerinecAt have released a new single accompanied by their second ever music video, 'House of Shards'. Both producers and seasoned multi-instrumentalists, Eugene Purpurovsky and Paul Chilton have recently been chosen for a Help Musicians award to release their next concept album, Glass, in 2022. 'House of Shards' is the second single from Glass, based around Eugene’s personal life experiences as a neurodivergent person, severe trauma, acute poverty and Chernobyl disaster survivor, and a queer multiethnic refugee activist from Ukraine. Directed by Ray Moody in collaboration with tAngerinecAt and based on a script by Eugene Purpurovsky, the video draws out the cinematic potential that many listeners have already noticed in tAngerinecAt’s music, culminating with a sequence of rapid cuts in which Eugene delivers a dizzying performance on the hurdy-gurdy, like a circle dance of uprising ending in triumph. They sing about confusion and disconnectedness, being caught in a dream and trying to find the way out – “lost in a maze of unbeknown parts, where is the exit? Too many guards.” Eugene’s genre-bending vocal delivery, utilizing a wide range of techniques, hits just as hard as the thumping kick drum as the atmosphere grows in intensity. They move from an almost angry hoarseness in the beginning, before soaring to purer notes in the second part of the song, accompanied by an effect-laden Carpathian bagpipe drone, and heavily delayed vocal echoes that circle around the stereo field similar to a ritual choir. The song’s labored production spans post-punk and experimental genres, with hints of techno and even doom metal. Based on one of his dreams about a house in which objects from the past were mixed up with the present, the video is replete with symbols, containing traditional Ukrainian garments and photographs of Eugene’s grandparents. It is a ceremonial attempt to collect, in Eugene’s words, “fragments of personal and generational history into a single whole as a process of healing from trauma and a journey into the self.”

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Taraka shares 'Welcome To Paradise Lost'; the title track from her debut solo LP out now on Rage Peace. Watch the Salvador Cresta-directed college punk masterpiece of a video above. Written in the wake of Prince Rama's split, during an intense period of isolation with only a 7 foot sonoran gopher constrictor snake for company, 'Welcome To Paradise Lost' is dedicated to Taraka's inner teenager, as she explains: "One day, I found myself living in isolation sleeping on a sand floor with a 7 ft long constrictor snake. My band (Prince Rama) just broke up, me and my boyfriend just broke up, my bank account broke up-- my life in general just felt pretty broken up. I started constructing this trashed simulated Garden of Eden in a gallery near my Texas hometown out of dreamlike fragments of my youth-- a Nirvana poster, a burned Green Day CD-R, some spikey belts wrapped around dead trees. I picked up an electric guitar while the snake slept in the amp and wrote 'Welcome To Paradise Lost' as a joke homage to Green Day, an anti-'Welcome to Paradise'. I wanted to make an anthem for innocence destroyed, a world turned upside down, an orgiastic celebration of ennui and disillusion. I wrote it for my inner teenager, so she would have a song to sing when she felt the absurd futility of pining for lost paradise-- to whisper to her that perhaps paradise is nothing but another empty societal construction-- a mirage-like prison of perfection-- and the moment it is lost, we are left with the remembrance of some inner forgotten freedom. The song was then cut on a lathe and pressed into pizza dough as an ephemeral, edible sonic artifact, a "pizza record", made from various plants grown inside the garden, and eaten by my childhood friends. This is the first time the song is being released in a non-edible manner."

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Secret Shame's intimate new music video for their dreamy post-punk single, 'Pure' is available now. Quote from Lena: "We shot all the footage for the 'Pure' video on our cell phones throughout the course of the pandemic. For awhile, it was difficult to be creative but making the video was a good outlet because we could go at our own pace. The song was already released and there was no pressure on time, and it’s not like touring was happening. This was a way to feel like we could keep going even if we were at a halt for the time being. The lyrical content of 'Pure' is sort of this mix of interesting imagery and this melancholic energy around feeling defeated. Originally, Matthew had the idea of playing monkey in the middle with a stuffed animal. I figured maybe we should just be covered in toys while playing this apathetic song about enduring abuse. In the end, it was fun and weird. We took turns filming flowers and skateboarding and captured each other being candidly strange. I got to sit in a bathtub with a bunch of toys and drink whiskey till 6 in the morning. There were sweet, gentle moments. I love being able to call these people my friends."

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K-pop girl group aespa have dropped the futuristic music video for ‘Savage’, the title track of their first mini-album of the same name. ‘Savage’ was co-written by SM Entertainment in-house producer Yoo Young-jin, alongside Hautboi Rich and Jia Lih (NCT U’s ’90’s Love’), and Kirsten Collins. At a press conference for the song’s release, aespa’s WINTER noted that the group members “paid extra attention to [show their] powerful and strong side” for the new music video, per Soompi. [via NME]

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Pop trendsetter Kim Petras premieres the official music video for her new single 'Future Starts Now.' A glossy end of the world dance party inspired by the chaos of one chapter closing for a new one to begin – a reminder that although our world has changed, there’s still hope and joy to be found on the other side. “The ‘Future Starts Now’ video is inspired by going into the unknown, having the world change and break under you, and celebrating that change and the future after what feels like the end of the world,” says Kim. “I was very into this amazing anime called Japan Sinks and, since I was so inspired by Europe when making my new music, I thought ‘There’s no better way to do this music video than to have the Eiffel Tower sink.’ When I think of Europe, the first thing I think about is the Eiffel Tower. It’s a metaphor for life: things are going to change whether you want them to or not and you can either roll with it and make the best out of it or let it drown you. The pandemic changed the world in bad ways but good ways too. It’s about not letting life sink you and to have fun and celebrate the world – whatever it becomes.”

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Disturbing Body, the intimate debut album by Cots, paints a celestial portrait of lost love and consequence. On album centrepiece 'Our Breath,' her oblique poetry suggests the mystery of a secret hymn, of “a person carrying with them what they need and finding access to it in difficult moments,” Steph Yates said. The song’s 3D animated music video by director Jenn E. Norton articulates this emotional stealthiness, merging a blob-like Yates into a gelatinous otherworldly landscape of oil-slicked swans and lightning bolt fractals. Norton’s video spotlights the album’s nocturnal, experimental palette, showcasing producer Sandro Perri’s enclosed use of space, a subtle warble on Yates’s rich vocals, her nylon guitar flooded, just barely, with distortion and flanged hand drums. Norton says: "I love that Cots draws upon the language of physics to look at relationships. Theoretical physicist David Bohm once said that thought was a material process, a subtle movement of matter travelling through minds via neurons and synapses. “[…]there is no sharp division between thought, emotion and matter. You see that they flow into each other.” When I listen to Cots’s album Disturbing Body, I get a sense of an in-betweenness, becoming and unravelling in the lyrical ruminations. I wanted to represent this in a viscous, gooey state in which everything is permeable, where thoughts rippled and melted in and out of shape."

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Phoebe Green has shared a brand new single, ‘So Grown Up’. Coming alongside a Vasilia Forbes directed video (whose previous visual work includes credits with the likes of Pixey, GIRLI and Hannah Diamond), it follows up on her Really Very Brilliant previous single ‘IDK’, and is described as “the first taste of a bigger body of work still to come”. Speaking about ‘So Grown Up’, Phoebe explains: “For a while now I’ve been wanting to write a song that feels like it’s straight out of a ‘90s coming-of-age film, that is equal parts nostalgic and bittersweet; I wrote about my relationship with my best friend of ten years, and how our pivotal years from vulnerable teenagers into adults were somewhat moulded by men and our experiences with them. Our self worth and our identity was so heavily warped by the male gaze, and it was overwhelming and almost uncomfortable to come to that realisation, I really wanted this song to reflect those feelings of sadness and anger that I feel now, but also our combined strength, resilience and love that we have as a result. When it came to filming the music video, I wanted to go back to Blackpool, the place we went to school together and spent countless nights walking the illuminations, discussing our hopes and fears for the future, drinking the cheapest wine we could find and making ourselves dizzy on the waltzers on the pier, it was such a special day and the video means so much to us, we’ll treasure it forever.” [via Dork]

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Ahead of the release of her debut album Leftovers on October 15 on Secretly Canadian, Le Ren is unveiling the final single, ‘May Hard Times Pass Us By’. “This song is really close to my heart. It was written for someone as we worked through a turbulent time in our relationship,” explains the Montreal-based artist. “When I think of leftovers, I think of things that have been cast aside,” she continues of the record. “When they’re picked back up or remembered, they can be repurposed… Leftovers came to mean a collection of feelings and moments of the past that still remain relevant to my present.” [via DIY]

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Mitski has released a new song, 'Working For The Knife,' her first proper single since 2018’s Be The Cowboy, minus a soundtrack contribution and a comic book score along the way. 'Working For The Knife' was co-produced by Mitski and Patrick Hyland, who she’s worked with on every album since Bury Me At Makeout Creek. “It’s about going from being a kid with a dream, to a grown up with a job, and feeling that somewhere along the way you got left behind,” Mitski said in a statement. “It’s being confronted with a world that doesn’t seem to recognize your humanity, and seeing no way out of it.” The sound of the song is bleary and dark, as Mitski intones about about feeling unfulfilled: “I always knew the world moves on/ I just didn’t know it would go without me/ I start the day high and it ends so low/ ‘Cause I’m working for the knife.” The track comes with a video directed by Zia Anger with Ashley Conner, which was shot at the striking Albany performance venue The Egg. It starts with Mitski entering in a cowboy hat before shedding it and making her way to the stage; it ends with an extended music-less dance. [via Stereogum]

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Los Angeles electro-pop duo Magdalena Bay have released their long-awaited full-length debut Mercurial World and has shared a bugged-out video for one more song, the loping/swaying 'Hysterical Us.' Magdalena Bay built 'Hysterical Us' on a funky bassline and a tinkly, nagging melody. It’s a fun, low-key pop song about feeling totally unmoored. In the Ian Clontz-directed video, the duo rides a minivan through some kind of psychedelic portal and emerges in a new, more colorful dimension. [via Stereogum]

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South Korean singer Luna, also a member of girl group f(x), has released the music video for her long-awaited solo comeback ‘Madonna’. The dance-pop track is a tribute to its namesake, pop legend Madonna, and makes a reference to the snger’s 1990 hit single ‘Vogue’. “When I grow up / I wanna be like Madonna / When I grow up / I wanna vogue how I wanna, I wanna,” Luna sings on the chorus. Meanwhile, the accompanying music video features the K-pop idol performing sleek choreography on a number of different sets, including a sprawling abandoned factory. [via NME]

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Hand Habits will release their new album Fun House on October 22, and here's one last early taste before the whole thing drops. 'Clean Air' is an arresting, sweeping rock ballad featuring The War on Drugs' Dave Hartley on bass. "When writing songs for Fun House, I had become exhausted and bored by the idea of writing more songs out of blame, spite, or anger," says Meg Duffy. "'Clean Air' is about finding clarity, leaning into acceptance, and acknowledging someone else's experience as truth without blame or resentment, even when it differs from our own." The song comes with a gorgeously shot black and white video directed by V Haddad. [via Brooklyn Vegan]

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ÄTNA have dropped their experimental new alt-pop tune, ‘Smile’. Out now via Humming Records, the track arrives with a brand new video, and follows their recent collaborations on Solomun’s ‘Tuk Tuk’ and ‘Weirdo’ with 11-piece techno marching band Meute. They explain of the clip: “In the music video for ‘Smile’, we go new ways this time and escape to a place between dream and disturbance, where a fleeting smile distorts space and time. Echoes from the future become déjà vu. Hypnotic and intangible. Unsurprisingly, our new song comes as a surprise; dry yet dubby, ballad-esque yet beat driven – a strive for acceptance of dark passengers who will always be a part of the whole.” [via Dork]

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After recently releasing her incredibly well-received sophomore collection the second ep, fast-rising indie bedroom-pop artist girlhouse (aka Lauren Luiz) has now unveiled the official video for the release's most recent offering 'boundary issues'. Establishing itself as one of the more anthemic and euphoric additions to her latest EP, the video for 'boundary issues' delivers a sweet and heartfelt visual accompaniment to the thunderous new single. Directed in collaboration with Jon Lee, the pair looked to tell a story of breaking free from your shackles and embracing your true self, a message that Lauren has always looked to embed within her music. Speaking about the video, she said, "This video was a collaboration between me and Jon Lee, a director from Los Angeles, CA. He really wanted to get to know me and what my life was like and try to make something that represented the feeling of letting go of holding back. Jon says, “The journey is when you discover your wings.” I'm so grateful for him and all the lessons we learned while creating this video."

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Marissa Nadler is releasing a new album, Path Of The Clouds, at the end of this month, right at the end of spooky season. Now, she’s sharing a new single from it, 'Couldn’t Have Done The Killing,' which leans into the haunted energy of so much of her music with a horror paperback-style single art and a creepy new video. The vid, directed by Tyler Derryberry and Christen Dute, is eerie and inspired by late-night chiller shows like Unsolved Mysteries and In Search Of…. They explain: "When Marissa came to us to make a video for a song on her new album, we were already aware of the album’s themes and her inspirations. While she was writing and recording the album sequestered at home during the pandemic, we stayed in touch, sharing our media diet of true crime and the paranormal. We exchanged links to podcasts about Skinwalkers, recommended our favorite serial killer documentaries, and discussed our favorite theories about DB Cooper. We set out to recreate that moment in time when murders and bank robberies shared an equal plausibility with hauntings and high strangeness. Remember when innocently entertaining a conspiracy theory or two seemed to have no cultural or political consequences? When Coast To Coast AM would have us believing the government was hiding a UFO in a hangar somewhere, but no one was going to storm the capital over it? The settings of Massachusetts and Maine appropriately enhanced the New England vibe of our and Marissa’s tone. Cabins older than the Great Depression and cemeteries older than the Revolutionary War are everywhere. Apartment buildings where college students still live today were the scenes of murders fifty years ago. Everybody seems to own an ax. We even did some shooting in Cumberland County, Maine, where Stephen King’s fictional town of Salem’s Lot is located. Turn on the camera, point it at the dark, and the witchiness just seems to seep in on its own." [via Stereogum]

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yeule is building their own universe. A non-binary London-based polymath, their work moves from visual arts to performance, absorbing the latest technological advances in the process. At the centre, though, lies a beating heart, an urge towards self-expression in all its forms. Real name Nat Ćmiel, this groundbreaking force will release their new album Glitch Princess on February 4, and it opens a pathway to extraordinary spaces. yeule kicks off their mission with 'Don't Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty' and it's a riveting display of lawless creativity. Melding together hyper-pop tendencies to shoegaze elements and jagged rhythmic interplay, the song dwells on self-worth and self-esteem amid the maddening expectations placed upon us by society. Joy Song directs the video, a beautiful yet un-nerving shoot that finds yeule weaving through saturated shades of pink, purple, and green landscapes. A bravura performance from yeule, they had to learn the lyrics to the backwards for this inventive shoot. [via Clash]

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Reggae, dancehall, hip hop, and more artist Koffee has been on the rise for the past few years, and now she has finally confirmed that she'll release her debut album in early 2022 via RCA. It'll include her just-released single 'West Indies,' produced by Iotosh, which finds her genre-defying and addictively catchy sound in fine form. Listen and watch the video (co-directed by Meji Alabi & Koffee) above. [via Brooklyn Vegan]

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Winnipeg singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Sierra Noble, released the music video for their new single 'Let Me Out Of Here'. The video, illustrated by Nicholas Friesen, draws Noble and creative collaborator Rusty Matyas (formerly of The Weakerthans, The Sheepdogs, Slow Leaves, Imaginary Cities) overcoming their past struggles in calm pastels that flicker through shifting shades and an evolving timeline. “This video is a visual trail of breadcrumbs to some serious shit in my life. The challenges of growing up in a single parent home with a lot of unresolved trauma, sexual abuse in the music world, the very serious effects of being raised in the entertainment industry as a young girl, and the very real experience of avoiding the darkness until it swallows you whole. But, in the end - ironically - it’s about hope, and light, and love,” Noble explains. "My collaborator on this song and dear friend, Rusty, brought his own version of this experience to this song and video from surviving years of alcoholism and addiction that almost took his life. Once you’ve been in the darkness, you always know it’s there, but we fight to stay in the light now, and hope we can help others in their fight too.”

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London singers Miraa May and RAYE have come together to give us a brand-new single titled 'Go Girl' alongside visuals. As the title of the track suggests, this collaboration is an uplifting one that hears Miraa and RAYE trade vocals to create a new anthem for all the ladies out there. Directed by Sheena Brobbey and Miraa herself, the visuals provide us with a fun yet powerful display of female empowerment as the two singers let their hair down during a staycation. 'Go Girl' is the first single to be released from Miraa’s forthcoming debut album and by the sounds of it, we’ll be in for a treat when it arrives! [via GRM Daily]

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Ravenna Golden is here to take over the music industry, carving her own lane in the hyperpop genre. Since 2016, the rising star has been working behind-the-scenes, collaborating with pioneers in the industry including long-time friend Dylan Brady of 100 gecs. With the release of her debut album Girl Gone Wild, Golden stepped into the limelight as her own recording artist… and it’s been up ever since. Currently signed to Big Beat Records, Ravenna Golden returns with her newest release, the official music video for 'Expensive City.' The record itself was written from a vulnerable place, as any young adult woman would feel in an attempt to turn her dreams into a reality. Speaking on the record, Golden states, “‘Expensive City’ was written during a time when I felt like I was never going to get anywhere from doing what I loved. Every time I had to spend money, I’d think ‘What am I doing? Why am I here?’ But that feeling serves its purpose when a great song comes out of it.” In terms of the visual, the 25-year-old hopes to remind fans that they can have fun within the frustrations of daily life. [via Flaunt]

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After debuting it at the Proenza Schouler NYFW show last month, avant-garde artist Eartheater officially releases her new single 'Scripture' via Chemical X. The track, which showcases a transcendental mix of ethereal electronic and folk influences, is accompanied by a visual directed by Moshpxt and Eartheater herself. Speaking on 'Scripture', Eartheater says it's about “the feeling that I had surmounted some kind of huge mountain in my life that I'd been climbing for years...feeling very validated and rewarded in trusting my “stars” after following my heart, for years, down my very unorthodox and uncertain, risky path.” [via Flaunt]

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Meet Me @ The Altar have announced that they’ll be heading back to the UK next year for a run of tour dates. Following their debut UK live shows with All Time Low last month, the US pop-punk trio will embark on a European tour in support of State Champs, which reaches the UK in May. Meet Me @ The Altar, comprising guitarist Téa Campbell, drummer Ada Juarez and singer Edith Johnson, will take in shows at Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham as well as two gigs at London’s Electric Ballroom. The band are also scheduled to play Slam Dunk and Download Festival next year. In addition to the tour news, Meet Me @ The Altar have also shared a video for ‘Now Or Never’, which features on their acclaimed major label debut EP Model Citizen. In the Dillon Dowdell-directed clip, which starts out at 11:45pm on a Friday night “outside the shittiest venue in the world”, the band give an electric performance in a diner. [via NME]

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Alternative pop singer-songwriter Bella Kelly shares her sophomore single, 'Heartbreak Motel,' alongside its captivating visual. The somber piano-driven ballad details the pain and anguish that comes with being in love, vulnerable, and lacking the strength to crawl out of that dark place. Kelly's vocal performance is remarkable as she makes use of a hushed sultry delivery that oozes emotional trauma and pure melancholy. The track is bolstered by a grand piano-driven minimalistic backdrop courtesy of producer/engineer David Gnozzi who creates a dynamic ebb and flow environment for Kelly's intimate melodic runs. The slow build-ups, short silence, and transitions in the song also add an unprecedented urgency and emotional payoff as the tension eases off bit by bit. Award-winning director Vicente Cordero takes charge and delivers a beautiful cinematic video that plays out like a noir suspense thriller. He makes use of performance shots, subtle dark aesthetics that truly brings out Bella Kelly's unique and distinct beauty and style. From her signature half-shaved hair, the imposing majestic angel wings to the dark edgy fashion, Cordero brings the different elements in full circle with seamless cut scenes and slow-motion effects to drive the tragic tale of the three main characters forward without losing the plot or being too obvious. [via Earmilk]

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It’s been a minute since we heard anything new from Kelis, whose last full-length album was 2014’s Food. Now, the singer (and chef!) has shared a slinky new song and video directed by Adrienne Raquel called 'Midnight Snacks,' which she teased on social media this week. Produced by The FaNaTix (aka Giggs, Nicki Minaj, Popcaan, Vybz Kartel), 'Midnight Snacks' fits right in with Kelis’ long-running food theme. “It’s funny to me, but I like the fact that you can take sex and food, and you can put these two things together, and they’re totally interchangeable. I love that,” Kelis said of the new song, touching on her tendency to sing about food’s sensual appeal. “It isn’t intentional, but the idea is just that food is a very carnal thing,” she said in a press release. “Everyone can relate to it. It’s very human, it’s sensual, it’s something that you crave. And it’s sexy.” [via Stereogum]

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Set for release on February 8, Canadian duo Softcult have announced their new EP Year Of The Snake, and now they’re sharing new single ‘BWBB’. “We wrote Boys Will Be Boys about gender violence and the double standard, hypocrisy and dissonance of the ‘bro code’. Covering up for your buddies after they’ve assaulted someone creates a dangerous environment, especially for women. All of us need to be allies in this fight against gender violence and hold our circles accountable. The line ‘if there’s one in your company, I wonder when they’re gonna come for me’ sums it up pretty well.” [via DIY]

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As Chong the Nomad’s career continues to deepen in craft and skyrocket in popularity, she continues her run as one of music’s most reliably great singles artists with brand new single 'Forward,' a twinkling, dreamlike love song that feels like birds carrying ribbons around your head. The soft edges of its video highlights the comfort of being in love; the trampoline jumps and bridge walks and sitting by the lake and petting dogs on a sunny day and watching movies together. About 'Forward' and its corresponding video, Agustiano wrote to KEXP, “‘Forward’ was one of those songs that came out of me very naturally. Nothing forced. The same thing goes for the visual for it. Detroit artist Jax Anderson, one of my favorite people I’ve met in music ever, stepped up to direct it and I couldn’t be happier with what came out of it. We come from very similar backgrounds, she understood the awkward emotions that surround young queer love. I’m very proud of the final product. I’ve avoided being this vulnerable on film but it was about time, especially since it’s for a song I feel very connected to.” [via KEXP]

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Fresh off of the release of her mixtape The Yearbook last month, Baby Queen has shared the video for ‘Narcissist’. Speaking about the track, she describes it as “an admission of my own narcissistic tendencies but also me trying to make sense of where those tendencies came from in the first place. I think women are told from the moment they are born until they can form their own opinions that beauty and vanity are the key to their success, and then they are berated when they are older for being self-obsessed or apathetic. Cosmetic companies want us to hate ourselves. There is money being made off our obsession with improving ourselves and our appearances. This song is just saying, ‘Yeah fuck you, I am a narcissist, and I am self-obsessed, but why do you think that is?’” [via DIY]

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Kraków Loves Adana shared their new song 'Dream House' - the second single taken from the duo’s upcoming sixth record Follow The Voice, due Nov. 12. For the first time the band releases a fully animated video to accompany the song, which was created by Swedish animation studio Hannes & Johannes. Here, we are again drawn into Kraków Loves Adana’s alluring mix of mystic and melancholy. “'Dream House' is the byproduct of a daydream I had last fall and describes me abandoning my usual habitat, stepping out into the unknown but leaving a vital piece of my soul behind. The song’s outlines emerged in less than an hour and over time evolved into the synth pop piece it is now”, explains singer & producer Deniz Çiçek.

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LA singer/multi-instrumentalist talker, aka Celeste Tauchar, has shared a new single and video with the release of 'Sad Chick.' An anthemic confessional, 'Sad Chick' explodes as Tauchar’s confessional for what she calls her “depression habits,” those little routines that both maintain and help foster her helplessness. Cataloging all the ways in which she sees herself as just another sad chick, Tauchar rails against a backdrop of heady percussion and grumbling riffs. The music video for the single, directed by Sean Berger and co-produced by Tauchar herself, sees the singer swaying by her lonesome against a variety of city backdrops with a trio of balloons in her hand. It then cuts to shots of her sitting in an armchair overlooking an expanse of city lights and then to her sitting alone in a bedroom — still with her balloons — underscoring the tired isolation and feelings of not being understood that she gasps out on the song. It’s a whimsical juxtaposition to the song’s heavy-hitting honesty about the vicious cycles of depression and its frantic finale only adds to the song’s lucid openness. [via Grimy Goods]

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Jaguar Jonze has returned with her fiery new single ‘Who Died And Made You King?’. The cut sees the Brisbane artist share a different side to her sound. It’s driven by punchy percussion, fierce distorted production and unflinching lyrics, with Jonze taking aim at the culture of misogyny and toxic masculinity in Australia’s music industry. She illustrates this with a grab from a 2016 speech by former Sony Music Australia CEO Denis Handlin, who resigned in June, shortly after it was revealed that Sony Music’s head office were investigating allegations of discrimination, bullying and harassment in its Australian branch. An accompanying music video directed and edited by Jonze also arrived alongside the track, which sees the singer surrounded by a troupe of 12 Asian-Australian women and gender non-conforming people. They’re all clad in various shades of nude clothing, which Jonze chose to represent different bodies and the co-existence of vulnerability and strength. [via NME]

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Returning with new track ‘Typecast’, ELIO is introducing us to her brand new era. “‘Typecast’ really sets the tone for my new era,” she explains. “It’s about being put in a category of what you are, and what you can do. I feel like artists get put in a box so much, of how much they’re allowed to change and how much they should stay the same. I do it so much as a fan of other artists, but know how limiting it can feel as an artist myself. While writing the new music I just wanted to create stuff that felt right, no matter how different it was from my previous releases, but I found myself being reluctant because of how people view me as an artist, and how people have connected to the type of songs I have out. ‘Typecast’ was me having to go in a completely different direction in order to move on and grow as an artist.” [via DIY]

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SATE sends shockwaves with fiery riffs from her new single and music video for 'Nobody', featuring appearances by Toronto-based punk rockers The OBGMS. 'Nobody' is the second single from SATE’s upcoming album, The Fool, set for release on November 4. Much like the album, the single is based on her spiritual connection to Tarot. The single artwork, designed by SATE herself, evokes the card of Strength. The song is about standing in one’s own strength, vulnerability and having the courage to always be your true self. “The saying is, you can’t judge a book by its cover. We all desire to be important, taken seriously, and especially honoured by others for the strength and unique majick that we have to offer to the world. There have been many times in my life where I have felt passed over, worthless or invisible to certain people. I’m a true believer that no one is above me, nor is anyone below me. I wrote Nobody, to remind me of this belief in the times when I faltered. I wrote this to remind me to meet others with an undefended heart, full of compassion, but also to stand strong in my worth and all I had to offer. Not to get caught up in what others have to say about me or what I may feel that they might perceive of me, but to be my full unique and divinely designed Self,” says SATE. [via Volatile Weekly]

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Tank and the Bangas have returned with their newest single 'Big' featuring fellow NOLA native Big Freedia. “Big ass, big mouth, big bands, big house/ Everything I do is big/ Chillin’ at Big Freedia house/ All I drop is big sh-t/ Toilet bowls need cleaning out/ I pull up in that black thing/ I do a set, I roll out,” raps frontwoman Tarriona “Tank” Ball over Big Freedia’s wailing descant. Meanwhile, the track’s accompanying music video is a colorful science experiment gone wild, in which a lab coat-adorned Big Freedia convinces Tank to drink up a potion she’s concocted. Naturally, dancing, twerking, and all kinds of wild revelry ensue. Says drummer Joshua Johnson of the collab: “This song boasts big energy from two talented New Orleans artists. Tank effortlessly twists and turns lyrics at will during the verses only to open the stage for Big Freedia to join her on the hook. Anytime Tank and The Bangas and Big Freedia get together it’s a banga but this time it’s a BIG one!” [via Consequence]

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