by Dave Bertram and Phil Scarisbrick
Sharon Van Etten – Comeback Kid
Alongside the announcement of her first new album since 2014’s Are We There, Sharon Van Etten also unveiled the first single from Remind Me Tomorrow; the aptly named Comeback Kid. During her four-year hiatus, Van Etten has kept herself busy by having a child, going back to school to study psychology and appearing in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks.
Her fifth studio album, Remind Me Tomorrow was produced by John Congleton (Future Islands, John Grant, Angel Olsen) and will arrive on 18th January through Jagjaguwar.
Ian Sweet – Holographic Jesus
The third song to be unveiled from her forthcoming second album, Holographic Jesus sees IAN SWEET again showing a progression from the ideas expressed in their debut LP: Shapeshifter. Following on from Hiding and Spit, this track is getting us even more excited to hear the full record when it arrives on 26th October.
Speaking of the track, frontwoman Jilian Meford explained “Holographic Jesus is a song based around collecting holographic Jesus posters from various bodegas and dollar stores while living in Brooklyn. I am in no way religious but I hung them up all over my room and was constantly finding the nuances and idiosyncrasies of each one. You could turn your head the slightest and see an entirely different image reflected. I felt connected to that idea. Some people collect ceramic frogs or action figures but I collect holographic Jesus posters. This song is about the things I went through in that room while these posters were so to speak ‘watching over me.’”
Crush Crusher arrives on 26th October through Hardly Art Records.
Nicholas Krgovich – Lido
Canadian multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Kyrgovich has given us a third taste of his new record OUCH. Lido delves once again into Krgovich’s outpouring of emotions. Utilising the old adage of ‘write what you know’, he has used this album to deal with falling in love for the first time, but ultimately having his heart broken for the first time too.
Speaking of the song Krgovich says “I wrote Lido last year on May 29th. The sun was out and it was hot, so I rode my bike to the park and laid on a towel on the grass. I had a book of poems by Hafiz and a notebook with me and ended up writing this song very quickly that afternoon. I know this scene sounds impossibly twee but since the weather in Vancouver is usually trash and I’d been spending many sunny days inside recording the album, writing outside felt crucial.
This was the second to last song I made for the record. I felt like I could have written 100 more but I also felt like I needed to stop. The important bases were covered — this album was not meant to be a 10 LP boxset although at the time it felt like it could have been.
I think there is a resigned sense of clarity and acceptance in this one. The sound of someone who all of a sudden knows the thing they had going wasn’t what they’d hoped or thought it was at all: things turning from a love to a lesson, or something.”
OUCH is released via Tin Angel Records on 26th October.
Typesetter feat. Lydia Loveless – Technicolor
Another act about to release their sophomore album, Typesetter, have released the second peek at their forthcoming long player, Nothing Blues. The collaboration with alternative country singer, Lydia Loveless, sees the Illinois natives channelling their inner stadium rock gods with an anthemic indie track perfectly befitting the name Technicolor.
Nothing Blues arrives on 26th October on 6131 Records.
Nili Hadida – Covered In Luck
Nili Hadida, formerly one half of the French folk duo, Lilly Wood & The Prick, has shared new single Covered in Luck ahead of her self-titled debut solo album, set for release via Believe Digital early next year. Nili, who released three albums under the folk monikor, demonstrates a nod towards R&B and gospel, while maintaining the glittering pop that scored through her previous work.
Leila Moss – Memories And Faces
With the release of her debut solo album, My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth, just over a month away on 9th November, Liela Moss has shared a video for new single, Memories and Faces.
The ex-Duke Spirit front woman has embarked on a ‘serene-to-stormy series of deep dream-pop meditations’, with the latest track described as an exploration of devotion where Moss likens herself to an animal, a storm and a river over the spacious backing of a reverberant piano.
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