Album Announcement
Black Thought Announces New Album Glorious Game with El Michels Affair, Shares “Grateful”: Stream
After teaming up with Danger Mouse last year, Black Thought has announced another collaborative album. This time around, he has linked up with New York funk and soul band El Michels Affair for a project called Glorious Game, out April 14th via Big Crown Records. Black Thought and El Michels Affair founder Leon Michels have a relationship dating back to the early 2000s, which includes performances together in New York and Philadelphia. After occasionally collaborating at the group’s studio over the years, Black Thought reached out to Michels during the pandemic and set the wheels in motion for the album. Pre-orders are ongoing. See the artwork and tracklist below. Related Video As a preview, Black Thought and El Michels Affair have shared the first single “Grateful.” On the track, Blac...
U2 Reimagine 40 of Their Songs on New Album Songs of Surrender
On St. Patrick’s Day, U2 will unveil their new album Songs of Surrender. Taking a page from Taylor Swift, the forthcoming collection sees the band reimagine 40 songs from their back catalog. U2’s The Edge previewed the project in a handwritten note sent to fans. “The fact is that most of our work was written and recorded when we were a bunch of very young men. Those songs mean something quite different to us now,” The Edge wrote. “Some have grown with us. Some we have outgrown. But we have not lost sight of what propelled us to write those songs in the first place. The essence of those songs is still in us, but how to reconnect with that essence when we have moved on, and grown so much? “Music allows you to time travel and so we started to imagine what it would be like to bring these songs...
Animal Collective’s Avey Tare Announces New Solo Album 7s, 2023 Tour
Animal Collective’s Avey Tare has announced his latest solo album, 7s, will be released on February 17th via Domino. What’s more, he’s mapped out a spring solo tour (grab your tickets here) and shared the lead singles “The Musical” and “Hey Bog.” The new set, which is Dave Portner’s fourth studio effort solely as Avey Tare, was recorded in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina with producer Adam McDaniel. The project began with home studio sessions in Fall 2020 following the completion of Animal Collective’s Time Skiffs, and he later linked up with McDaniel to help populate what he describes in a statement as the album’s “dreamy, surrealist landscape.” Portner has provided the first glimpses of his new project with the dual release of album cuts “The Musical” and “Hey Bog,” which arriv...
Neutral Milk Hotel Announce New Box Set, Share Unreleased Single “Little Birds”: Stream
Neutral Milk Hotel, the indie rock project led by the reclusive Jeff Mangum, have readied a new archival box set, titled The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel, for release on February 24th via Merge. The vinyl compilation includes the group’s two full-length LPs, 1996’s On Avery Island and 1998’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, as well as two 10-inch EPs, three 7-inch singles, and an exclusive 12-inch picture disc of the concert album Live at Jittery Joe’s, which features a 1997 performance by the band originally released in 2001. The Collected Works marks the digital debut of several tracks initially included on a 2011 compilation self-released by Mangum, and expands on the previous offering with a double LP edition of On Avery Island, a remastered and extended tracklist for the 1...
The New Pornographers Announce New Album Continue as a Guest, North American Tour
The New Pornographers have announced their new album, Continue as a Guest, out March 31st as their debut on Merge Records. Along with the announcement, they have mapped out a North American tour (grab your tickets here) with Wild Pink and released a new single titled “Really Really Light.” A.C. Newman produced the 10-track album, which he recorded alongside a lineup of Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Todd Fancey, and Joe Seiders. Continue as a Guest also features contributions from saxophonist Zach Djanikian and Sadie Dupuis, the latter of whom co-wrote “Firework in the Falling Snow.” Pre-orders are ongoing. See the artwork and tracklist below. Related Video Though Dan Bejar doesn’t appear on Continue as a Guest, Newman reworked “Really Really Light” from a song that the Destroyer...
Everything But the Girl Announce Comeback Album Fuse, Share “Nothing Left to Lose”: Stream
Everything But the Girl — the prolific pop duo best known for their 1994 club hit “Missing” — will return on April 21st with Fuse, their first studio album in 24 years. Ahead of its release, Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn have shared the record’s first single “Nothing Left to Lose” today. The English music duo went on an amicable, indefinite hiatus in 2000, choosing to go out on a natural high note. Their re-emergence appears to have come about just as organically: “Ironically the finished sound of the new album was the last thing on our mind when we started in March 2021,” Thorn said in a press release. “Of course, we were aware of the pressures of such a long-awaited comeback, so we tried to begin instead in a spirit of open-minded playfulness, uncertain of the direction, receptive to in...
Daughter Announce New Album Stereo Mind Game, Share “Be on Your Way”: Stream
Daughter have returned with Stereo Mind Game, their first studio album in seven years. It’s out April 7th on Glassnote Records and features the lead single “Be on Your Way.” The trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella wrote and recorded the album in locations ranging from London, England to San Diego, California to Vancouver, Washington. Haefeli and Tonra co-produced Stereo Mind Game, which marks Daughter’s first record to feature voices other than Tonra’s; Haefeli sings on “Future Lover” and “Swim Back.” Voice notes from friends and family also appear on “Wish I Could Cross the Sea” and “(Missed Calls),” with Josephine Stephenson-led London-based string orchestra 12 Ensemble featured throughout the album. Advertisement Related Video Stereo Mind Game will be available dig...
Miley Cyrus Announces New Album Endless Summer Vacation
Miley Cyrus has announced a new album called Endless Summer Vacation, which is set for release on March 10th via Columbia Records. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and produced with Kid Harpoon, Greg Kurstin, Mike WiLL Made-It, and Tyler Johnson. Cyrus describes it as her “love letter to LA,” as well as “a reflection of the strength she’s found in focusing on both her physical and mental well-being,” notes a press release. The album artwork, seen below, was photographed by Brianna Capozzi and fully executed by without visual effects. Advertisement Related Video As previously announced, the lead single “Flowers” will be released on January 13th. The announcement of Cyrus’ new album comes on the heels of her New Year’s Eve NBC special which she co-hosted with her godmother, Dolly Parton...
Fantastic Negrito Announces New Album Grandfather Courage
Fantastic Negrito has announced his new album Grandfather Courage, an acoustic reimagining of his 2022 full-length White Jesus Black Problems. It’s out on February 3rd via his own Stormfront Records. Grandfather Courage contains 11 songs in total and brings a new perspective to White Jesus Black Problems, which was based on the true story of his seventh-generation white Scottish grandmother, an indentured servant who lived in 1750s colonial Virginia in a common law marriage with his seventh-generation Black enslaved grandfather. The album was created with the help of Negrito’s touring band and includes a previously released reworking of “Oh Betty,” which was nominated in the Best American Roots Performance category for the 2023 Grammys. As a new preview, Negrito has shared the reimagi...
Little Simz Reveals New Album NO THANK YOU: Stream
Little Simz has revealed her fifth album, NO THANK YOU, and you don’t have to wait to hear it. The 10-song LP is now available to stream below via Forever Living Originals/AWAL. NO THANK YOU reunites Little Simz, a.k.a. Simbi Ajikawo, with producer Inflo, who helmed her most recent effort, 2021’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, and who also leads the prolific London indie-R&B collective SAULT. Just hours before the album’s release, Little Simz unveiled the 10-song tracklist alongside the cover art, which features a candid profile shot of the British-Nigerian rapper. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert ranked No. 5 on Consequence’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 list Related Video NO THANK YOU Artwork: <img data-attachment-id="1259932" data-permalink="https://consequence.n...
Lana Del Rey Announces New Album Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Lana Del Rey has announced a new album. Titled Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the singer’s ninth full-length arrives on March 10th, 2023. As a preview, Del Rey has shared the title track, which she co-wrote with Mike Hermosa. She also co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson and Zach Dawes. The album also features contributions from Father John Misty, Antonoff’s Bleachers, Jon Batiste, and Tommy Genesis. Advertisement Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean follows Del Rey’s pair of 2020 albums, Blue Banisters and Chemtrails Over The Country Club. She most recently popped up on Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights, providing backing vocals on the track “Snow on the Beach.” Editor’s Note: See our updated list of Lana Del Rey’s 10 be...
Lana Del Rey Announces New Album Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Lana Del Rey has announced a new album. Titled Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the singer’s ninth full-length arrives on March 10th, 2023. As a preview, Del Rey has shared the title track, which she co-wrote with Mike Hermosa. She also co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson and Zach Dawes. The album also features contributions from Father John Misty, Antonoff’s Bleachers, Jon Batiste, and Tommy Genesis. Advertisement Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean follows Del Rey’s pair of 2020 albums, Blue Banisters and Chemtrails Over The Country Club. She most recently popped up on Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights, providing backing vocals on the track “Snow on the Beach.” Editor’s Note: See our updated list of Lana Del Rey’s 10 be...
