“I am now 78 years old, but from here on, I feel a growing curiosity toward the unknown music that my new self will create, while also embracing the music of my former self-as if I now carry two musical worlds within me.”
Estrus refers to "female mammals in heat." Tonally speaking, that's precisely what Tove Lo was going for (per a press release), channeling faves like The Knife and Robyn to further explore that musical space "somewhere between hedonism and vulnerability." To accomplish just that, Tove Lo once more teamed up with longtime collaborator Ludvig Söderberg (as well as newer collaborators Elvira Anderfjärd and Luka Kloser), with the collective recording in a small Swedish fish village from the singer's childhood.
“Bootleg is a compilation of songs written and recorded overtime with no particular intent or goal in mind,” the pair said in a statement. “This album is and was purely a pleasurable endeavor by us both. Every track has its own meaning or story, not unlike a chapter book of different narratives.”
“There was never a moment where we felt super stuck,” Lange says. “It was just like 'ok what's next?' and even within the songs, trying to create these micro worlds - we just felt excited about each moment.”
Aaron Dessner, who produced her first two albums, returns for DFH. She teased the new single at the Met Gala last week, telling , "It's the introduction to this new chapter and I feel grateful and relieved that this is the introduction. I love the song so much and I love the people I made it with and it feels embodied and that feels good. So I'm excited for it to belong to everyone else."
Basement's first album in eight years, Wired, is out today via Run for Cover, and to celebrate guitarists Alex Henery and Ronan Crix each made lists for us. Henery told us about five music videos he loves that inspired the videos for the new album, and Crix told us about his five favorite albums with animals on the cover. Watch those below:
Rain Music started as a session combining Timothy's prepared piano and Niño's percussion at the former composer's south London studio. Work continued remotely, at their homes in London and California, at which point Niño brought in the extra players-also including double bassist Michael Alvidrez, saxophonist Darius Jones, and woodwind all-rounder Aaron Shaw-and sequenced the record.
'END TO KNOWING YOU' transcends the boundaries of conventional love songs, delivering a poignant exploration of the dichotomy between desire and detachment. KARYYN's sensual elegy navigates the complexities of a toxic yet unrelenting love, illustrating the ache of yearning to be connected while grappling with the fractures that time and circumstance impose.
"So much changed in our lives and in the world while we were making this record, and somehow, it all pulled us deeper into the band and deeper into our friendship. Twenty years in and this is the most connected we've felt to what we're doing."
I co-wrote Alone With Heaven with Andy Maddox and Andrew Farrell, along with a slew of collaborators over a nine year span. I consumed approximately nine thousand Diet Cokes during this process.
"I feel like the first album, it was very hectic, it was a rush. It was like, all of a sudden, overnight craziness. So now that I'm settled in, I feel like I know more about my direction and what I want to do, what I want to say."
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