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On 14 June 2022, Simple Minds announced the forthcoming release on 21 October 2022 of their new studio album entitled Direction of the Heart via BMG. Most of the new album's tracks were written, created and demoed in Sicily (where both Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill live).
Jun 14, 2022 · Simple Minds announce their eighteenth studio album ‘Direction of the Heart’, set for release on 21st October 2022 & available NOW!
- Caroline, Caroline
- Beth Orton, Weather Alive
- Deserta, Every Moment, Everything You Need
- Rachika Nayar, Heaven Come Crashing
- Let’s Eat Grandma, Two Ribbons
- Pendant, Harp
- Naked Flames, Miracle in Transit
- More Eaze,Oneiric
- Caterina Barbieri, Spirit Exit
- Disq, Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet
The music of UK eight-piece caroline is richly textural and atmospheric, pulling you into an empty space as much as it builds on it. There’s a gentle hopefulness to their self-titled debut album where others might lean on desperation, even as it subtly gestures toward collapse. And like its cover photo, you might find yourself drawn to the single e...
Beth Orton’s first album in six years evokes more than a single headspace: there’s a breathtaking physicality to it, but also a gorgeous, ethereal ambience. Eliot Lee Hazel, who shot the cover art for Weather Aliveand directed the video for its title track, explained that the inspiration behind the visual was “pretty straightforward… I tried to cap...
Though recorded in the studio he set up in his family’s two-bedroom apartment while working as a healthcare worker during the pandemic, Matthew Doty’s second album under the Deserta alias sounds as majestic as it is expansive. The music’s kaleidoscopic palette was only part of whatPhilistine DSGN, who also created the artwork for Deserta’s 2020 d...
On her sophomore full-length, Rachika Nayar conjures a world of haunting, cinematic beauty, cascading between moments of somber reflection and sweeping euphoria. “Much of the album for myself comes from some confrontation with fantasy—embracing, celebrating, and destroying it,” the Brooklyn-based composer told us. “The romantic love plot especially...
During the making of Two Ribbons, Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton found themselves writing separately for the first time in their collaboration, yet they both gravitate to nature and water-related imagery to convey the ebb and flow of relationships – including their own friendship. Looking at the album’s stunning cover, I’m reminded of this line...
After being forced to shift away from guitar-based music and reorient his approach, Los Angeles-via-Oakland artist Chris Adams’ second LP as PENDANT finds him plunging into a different array of sounds. Harpanchors in a shimmering fusion of rave, hip-hop, shoegaze, and pop to grapple with the enormity of grief and love, capturing glimpses of euphori...
Miracle in Transitis a glimmering, gloriously exuberant electronic record from Naked Flames, trading the lo-fi production of the Bristol producer’s earlier work for a more polished sound. Gabe matches the vibrancy and liminal space of the music in the album artwork and accompanying visuals. “Having been close friends with Naked Flames since childho...
Though most adjectives relating to dreams often describe a vague mood or some abstract approximation of actually experiencing one, oneiriccan be defined as both “of or pertaining to dreams.” It’s an apt title for more eaze’s album, which inhabits a unique liminal state, shuffling through familiar, everyday sounds while gesturing at an orchestral lu...
‘The Landscape Listens’, the final track on Caterina Barbieri’s latest album Spirit Exit, takes its name from the Emily Dickinson poem ‘There’s a certain slant of light’. “When it comes — the landscape listens/ Shadows — hold their breath/ When it goes, ’tis like the Distance/ On the look of Death.” Like Dickinson, the Italian composer and synth vi...
There’s a clear tongue-in-cheek irony to the title of Disq’s sophomore LP, Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet, but there’s an earnestness to it, too. The album often gives the impression that its characters are floating in a sort of dream state, as if caught in a collective daze; that things get noisier and messier only confirms that any effort ...
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Oct 21, 2022 · The new album’s cover art features the juxtaposition of a gas mask set against flowers, finding beauty even amidst uncertainty. The new songs reflect that, maintaining a sense of optimism despite...
Jun 14, 2022 · Simple Minds have shared new single ‘Vision Thing’, which is the first to be taken from the band’s upcoming eighteenth studio album ‘Direction Of The Heart’.
Oct 19, 2023 · Ducks Ltd. have shared their urgent, shimmering new single “The Main Thing,” out today via Carpark Records alongside a Colin Medley-directed video, and featuring backing vocals from Dehd’s Jason Balla.
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Jun 16, 2022 · This year we’ve already seen epic albums from the Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar, a legendary farewell from Daddy Yankee, breakout debuts from Fivio Foreign, Koffee, and Wet Leg, as well as new...
