I know it’s only March, but I’m already 97% certain that Gengahr’s just-released sophomore album ‘Where Wildness Grows’ will place in our Albums Of The Year list for 2018. Where the band’s 2015 debut 'A Dream Outside' lived in a whimsical and fantastical world, ‘Where Wildness Grows’ touches on more definitive themes, and captures the complex essence of human relationships within the twelve tracks.
Last year, Australian singer-songwriter E^ST dropped new single ‘Life Goes On’ - a buoyantly upbeat song in which she mourns a loss while at the same time acknowledging that, life indeed does go on. The song followed an EP from 2015 (‘The Alley’) and a support slot on tour with Twenty One Pilots in Australia, and more new music has been promised for 2018.
MUST-LISTEN: 'Life Goes On'.
YOU WILL LIKE, IF YOU LIKE: Tove Lo, Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, MØ, Tove Styrke... and starting a feminist book club with your friends.
Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer King Princess (real name Mikaela Strauss) excels at all of the above on her debut single, ‘1950’.
The first official release under Mark Ronson’s label Zelig Records, ‘1950’ is the first single from her upcoming debut EP - which if this song is anything to go by, is going to be very exciting…
Ahead of the release of the ‘Love, Simon’ soundtrack (which he executive produced), Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers took to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform lead single ‘Alfie’s Song (Not So Typical Love Song)’.
The performance saw the addition of Jack’s dad Rick Antonoff on guitar.
Watch the performance below (+ Jack’s discussion with Jimmy about touring)…
Having just won iHeartRadio Music Award’s Female Artist Of The Year, Taylor Swift has premiered her music video for latest single ‘Delicate’, lifted from her ‘Reputation’ album of last year.
The video, directed by Joseph Kahn, sees Swift starting out on a paparazzi frenzied red-carpet, before dancing through a hotel and rainy streets like nobody is watching.
Watch the music video below…
While kicking off his tour tonight in Basel, Switzerland, Harry Styles debuted several unreleased songs in the form of ‘Medicine’ and ‘Anna’.
Watch fan footage of the debuts below…
Florence + The Machine is back to save 2018, with the announcement that a brand new 7” release is coming for Record Store Day on April 21st - which suggests that there might be two new songs coming (an A-side and a B-side), titled ‘Sky Full Of Song’, and ‘New York Poem (For Polly)’.
Danish model Josephine Skriver has landed the April 2018 cover of Numéro Tokyo magazine, as photographed by Zoey Grossman in pastel Spring 2018 looks, and styled by Sarah Gore Reeves.
For Record Store Day 2018, Billie Eilish is releasing a pink vinyl limited-edition 'Party Favor' 7" with a B-Side of her 'Hotline Bling' cover, which is limited to only 2000 copies.
Glass Animals guitarist/keyboardist Drew MacFarlane has shared solo music under the moniker of Lokki - which is an alternative Scandinavian spelling of 'Loki' and also Finnish for 'seagull' - with his debut single 'I Catch You' released last month, and new song 'Breathe A Breath' out now.
Both songs are lifted from Lokki's forthcoming debut 'Cirrhi' EP which is due March 16th, and will be supported with two shows:
March 20 | The White Rabbit, Brighton (Folklore)
March 29 | The Slaughtered Lamb, London (Folklore)