#album-release

#album-release

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.

The Menzingers have a new album, Everything I Ever Saw, on the way, and they've announced a tour supporting it. The shows run throughout the US from September through November.

"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."

Angelo De Augustine collapsed at his home in Los Angeles halfway through recording Toil and Trouble, with days of medical testing producing no diagnosis but a persistent sense of failing health.

The 'Loveland Tour' will kick off in Phoenix on July 22nd, featuring stops in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, concluding on October 17th.

Loathe's upcoming album, A Stranger To You, is set to release on July 17 via SharpTone Records, marking their first new music since 2020's I Let It in and It Took Everything.

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."

Vienna Teng blends genres like chamber folk, jazz, and electro-pop while homaging her heroes, including Paul Simon and Tori Amos.

'This song is about getting what you've wanted, or reaching a place you've seen off in the distance for a long time.'

The 3xLP set is pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in a triple gatefold jacket featuring pop-up components and a subway map lithograph, making it a unique collector's item.

Snail Mail's new album 'Ricochet' marks her return after five years, showcasing her growth as an artist and her evolving sound in the music industry.

"This album, like our first album, was all made by the same people at the same time in the same place. It has its own musical universe. Even as songs pull apart and get further afield, it became naturally cohesive."