The song was written by Sting, about a castaway on an island, who sends out
a message in a bottle to seek love. A year later, he sees ‘a hundred billion bottles‘
on the shore, finding out that he’s not the only one who’s alone.
Bloc Party‘s orchestrator KELE OKEREKE jumps from left
to right, from recording with his band to working on solo
projects.
Last year he released with BC a 4-track EP named The High Life
followed last June by a stand-alone single, called Flirting Again.
Last month he dropped a new funky solo single, titled Hometown Edge and here’s another fresh one. IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE is a bouncy, repetitive electro loop with Kele articulating all over it. Listen below.
Kele: “Once the dust has settled, there might be the intention to be a grown up and achieve closure with the other party. But sometimes, even with the best will in the world, you can’t get past the fact that this person, who you once loved, has hurt you. It’s a song about anger concealed in pleasantries.”
He also confirmed that both songs will be on his new, 7th solo longplayer,
baptized The Singing Winds Pt. 3. It comes out next year, on January 17th.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
29 September 2024
Press photo by Shervin Lainez
L.S. DUNES is a Herculean, postcore American supergroup fronted by Anthony Green
( Circa Survive, Saosin and The Sound of Animals Fighting), guitarist Frank Jero (My Chemical Romance), guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Tim Payne, and drummer Tucker Rule from the band Thursday.
They have a new single out. FATAL DELUXE is a turbulent cry-out.
Alongside archival pieces, UNCUT’s writers have made their own insightful trips inside THE BEATLES’ music, to chart the band’s recorded course from “1-2-3-4!” “…the love you make”.
They bring things right up to date with a deep look at the new Giles Martin remixes
of Revolver, Sgt Pepper, The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be. There’s a review of
the Get Back series, in which Peter Jackson has given a deeper insight into the band’s legendary studio sessions of January 1969 beyond that in the Let It Be film.
You can purchase your 172-page copy and let it be sent to your home address. Info HERE.
Viens: “The lyrics of ‘#VOTE’ retain a kind of neutrality, in that ‘sides’ are not taken, there is no reference to ‘right’ or ‘left’. The lyrics emphasize the ideas of liberty, justice and freedom for all.”
“Most of us do not want to live in a world where LGBTQ+ people are not safe; where people of color are not safe, or have the same opportunities as whites; where children are being gunned down daily; where books and education are devalued; and where women don’t have control over their own bodies. No candidate is perfect. We must vote while we still can, especially in this election, to ensure that future generations continue to have the sacred power of their freedom, their choices, and their voices.
This song is really an homage to the great, profound privilege of living in a country where we have a vote. And a call to action when something crucial at hand needs our vote, and our voice.”
TUTV: This song was written about 20 years ago by a Boston musician when George W. Bush was running for re-election against Massachusetts’ own John Kerry and it’s highly relevant again.
GWAH, rockers at heart, turned the encouraging tune, into a jaunty country folk pop
gem you can hum, sing and whistle along all day long. Here in Europe, we are also waiting with anticipation for the election results. Whoever wins the White House, it’ll have an impact on the rest of the world. Europe wants democracy to prevail, it takes care of humanity in all aspects. While waiting, let’s rock the boat, and vote for GWAH today.
Californian art noise duo XIU XIU aren’t the lazy kind of artists.
In their 22-year-old career, they fabricated 13 LPs, with last year’s
primo Ignore Grief album as the most recent one.
Recently, the duo moved from L.A. to Berlin where
they experience a new stream of inspiration.
Press info: “Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart deliver some of the band’s most compelling and mesmerizing music to date. Mixed by John Congleton (Chelsea Wolfe, Swans, Lana Del Rey) this album is unlike anything the band has ever recorded previously and was motivated by the destruction of previous aesthetic notions, as well as the band’s recent move from Los Angeles to Berlin.”
The Quietus writes: “13”… is a superlative pop record, but still an endless cycle of extremes.
A shining, distorted, expertly constructed, open-ended record, that might be Xiu Xiu’s best.”
TUTV: This is their most intense, most emotional and most accessible album to date.
Well, not that it will sell millions of copies and be No 1 on the charts all over the world.
It’s still XX, always exploring different soundscapes, but here they come up with
less complex song structures, actually more (sort of) conventional alt ones. And?
Outstanding record dominated by layers of industrial synths and chilling melodies.
I hear Cure-esque echoes (Common Loon / Veneficum), eerie and ghostly vocality
à la the late great Scott Walker (Arp Omni / Sleep Bvld.) and trippy Cabaret Voltaire
dynamics. All together, these sonic ingredients lead to a fascinating XX opus.
The more spins, the more your ears
get around this new Xiu Xiu exploit.
MARK LANEGAN who was a member of many bands/projects (Screaming
Trees, QOTSA, The Gutter Twins and more) and scored 12 solo LPs, passed
away in 2022, at the age of 57. No cause of death was revealed.
Next November, on the 25th, he would
have celebrated his 60th birthday.
For that occasion, many musical friends will pay tribute with
a concert at the legendary Roundhouse venue in London, on
December 5th.
One of his most praised albums, BUBBLEGUM
turned 20, two weeks ago, on August 10, 2004.
A 20th Anniversary Box set which includes a remastered double LP edition of the original album and a 4XLP/3XCD/Digital release containing 40 remastered tracks, 12 of which are previously unreleased, is out now. More info here.
