3/31/2021

Tame Impala Announce 'InnerSpeaker Live From Wave House' - Tickets On Sale Today!

TAME IMPALA ANNOUNCE 
INNERSPEAKER LIVE FROM WAVE HOUSE
SEMINAL ALBUM WILL BE PLAYED IN FULL IN LIVE STREAM CONCERT EVENT
ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21ST

TICKETS AND EVENT AVAILABLE VIA MOMENT HOUSE AND ON SALE TODAY
INNERSPEAKER 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION 
OUT NOW

Today, Tame Impala have announced INNERSPEAKER LIVE FROM WAVE HOUSE, a streaming concert event taking place on Wednesday, April 21st via the premium digital live platform Moment House. The band will perform their seminal debut album from start to finish. Tickets go on sale today and can be purchased via www.momenthouse.com. Global timings below. Located four hours from their home-town of Perth and perched on the Indian Ocean, Wave House is the legendary studio where Kevin Parker recorded the album 10 years ago, and where the band will bring the album to life on April 21. For more info visit www.momenthouse.com/tameimpala

TAME IMPALA INNERSPEAKER LIVE STREAM 
Australia + New Zealand + Asia – April 21 5:00PM AWST / 6:00PM JST / 7:00PM AEST
UK + Europe + Africa – April 21 6:00PM BST
North + South America – April 21 6:00PM PDT / 9:00PM EDT

Tame Impala has also released the InnerSpeaker 10 Year Anniversary Edition. The deluxe, 4LP box set reissue features the singles “Solitude Is Bliss,” “Lucidity” and “Expectation” among the original album track list, plus a collage of album sketches, an unearthed, side-long jam, new mixes of tracks from the original album, instrumentals, and a deluxe 40-page booklet. Parker also revealed InnerSpeaker Memories last weekThe short film captured in the halcyon days by Matt Sav and edited by Alex Haygarth features never-before-seen footage from the recording of InnerSpeaker at the idyllic Wave House Studio in Western Australia. Watch here. The Tame Impala web-store has been updated with a brand new InnerSpeaker range, including new t-shirt designs, a deluxe blanket and throw pillow. Visit https://official.tameimpala.com/
Photo Credit: Alex Haygarth

Parker has emerged as one of the most influential voices of the last decade. The Slow Rush, Tame Impala’s multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed fourth studio album was released via Interscope in 2020. The album landed at #1 album in multiple territories and was his highest charting album to date in both the US and UK with 14 top 10 chart positions around the world.  The album serves as a deep reflection on the passage of time. "The Slow Rush is an extraordinarily detailed opus," said Pitchfork. "I have to marvel that all this sound and history comes from Parker alone, picking every string and twisting every knob." The Slow Rush has amassed over one billion streams and counting. 

In addition to its chart success, he recently won an ARIA Awards haul, taking home Album of the Year, Best Group, Best Rock Album, Engineer of the Year and Producer of the Year. Parker was nominated for two GRAMMY Awards in 2021 for Best Alternative Album and Best Rock Song for the single Lost In Yesterday. This marks the third nomination in the Alternative category for Parker, having previously been nominated for Currents and LonerismThe Slow Rush was also nominated for two Billboard Music Awards and an American Music Award (AMA).

Thanks to the ravenous demand of fans for a transcendent live performance, Tame Impala has headlined festivals and theatres around the world and released four full length albums - InnerSpeaker, Lonerism, the RIAA Platinum-Certified Currents and The Slow Rush. As a writer and producer Parker has collaborated with The Weeknd, Travis Scott, SZA, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Kanye West, Kali Uchis, Theophilus London, Miguel, A$AP Rocky and more.

US TOUR DATES
 
Sept 04: Bonnaroo
Sept 10: The Gorge, WA
Sept 17-19: Life Is Beautiful
Oct 29-31: Outside Lands



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POND Return With New Track "Pink Lunettes"

POND

RETURN WITH NEW TRACK ‘PINK LUNETTES

ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Photo credit: Jim Bob The Homie 

“Through their career [Pond] has reliably pumped out albums chock full of psych-rock featuring more twists and turns than a waterslide. a triangulation between yacht-rock yarns, starry-eyed neurotic daydreams and wonderfully knotty guitar fantasias. [Their] evolution speaks to the fact that the main constant in Pond’s approach is change. Even as the sea levels keep rising, they’ll doubtless find new waves to ride.” -Pitchfork

“ Stadium-sized bliss...sometimes psychedelic, sometimes completely sincere, sometimes trashy, sometimes cerebral, sometimes sarcastic...constantly and schizophrenically, filtering just about every genre of music through decadent cosmic synths and chunky guitar solos. But, there's something a little deeper at play.” -TheFader

“Uniquely wiggy space-fuzz travelers in their own right. Pretty ambience and twisty freakout.” -Stereogum

Today, Pond rise from the shadows to uncover new single ‘Pink Lunettes’ via Spinning Top Records / Secretly Distribution. The frenetic track is the first new music since the release of their internationally acclaimed eighth studio album Tasmania

‘Pink Lunettes’ is a five minute, high energy speed mantra, a lock-jawed no-wave groove that shudders between analogue synths, drums, drum machines and yelped lyrics that read like a duct taped mosaic of an art school dropouts’ shredded textbook. “I think we managed to jitter along the neon tightrope between totally unhinged, strobing spontaneity and focused forward momentum,” says frontman Nick Allbook of the new track. The accompanying visualiser captures the uninhibited abandon of the enigmatic Allbrook in a pageant of purple haze. 

To celebrate the release, the Fremantle five-piece have announced headline performances across Western Australia, a full list of dates can be found below.

POND - Pink Lunettes (Official Visualizer)
Originally formed in the turn of the 2010’s, as “a Royal Trux - cum - Cream power trio,” fronted by Allbrook with Jay Watson and Joe Ryan, Pond added Jamie Terry shortly afterwards, with James Ireland later rounding out the irrepressible five-piece. Ever prolific, Pond boasts an impressive eight studio albums in their ever-expanding repertoire. 2019 was a milestone year for the one-of-a-kind collective with the release of their most critically acclaimed album to date, Tasmania. The LP debuted at #15 on the ARIA album chart and #2 on the AIR independent chart . 

Pond boasts an impressive performance resumé, having toured with Arctic Monkeys, MGMT and Flaming Lips. They have stunned at premiere musical festivals around the world including Glastonbury, Coachella, Primavera, Bonnaroo, Reading and Leeds, The Governors Ball, South by Southwest, St Jerome’s Laneway, Splendour in the Grass and more, and have sold out countless venues around the globe from New York’s Bowery Ballroom to Paris’ La Gaite Lyrique and London’s O2 Forum .

Pond have spent the pandemic recording new music and touring exclusively in their home state of West Australia for the first time in over a decade. Watch this space.
POND 2021 TOUR DATES 
 
Fri 09 April | The River, Margaret River WA* TIX
Sun 11 April | Prince of Wales, Bunbury WA# TIX
Fri 30 April | Magnet House, Perth WA with Methyl Ethel^ TIX
Sat 01 May | Magnet House, Perth WA with Methyl Ethel^ TIX
*w/Sweet Treasures 
#w/Racoo 
^w/ Miss Genius & DJ Nina BC

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CLAIRE GEORGE Announces Debut Album, Shares Lead Single & Video

CLAIRE GEORGE
ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM & SHARES LEAD SINGLE

LISTEN/WATCH:

The Land Beyond The Light out May 21st on Cascine
photo credit: Kkanvas 
 
Early praise for Claire George: 
 
“[‘Orbits’] seems to send her voice hurtling through space, but for all its dreamy wonder and celestial wordplay, it stays tethered to this world through kind devotion.” - NPR Music
 
["Orbits" is] a lonely ghost of a pop song that drips and melts with molasses synths and lazy buzzing drum machines. Her sinewy vocals stay mostly to an aching whisper, but occasionally reveal powerful, Lorde-like creases, tripping out the song’s slo-mo atmosphere further with a muted background vocal loop." - Stereogum
 
“Claire George makes quite the auspicious introduction with the...wistfully bittersweet [‘Orbits’]” - Gorilla vs. Bear
 
“Cascine continues to have a superb ear for indie pop gems and Claire George might be the most promising signee yet...heavenly...an immersive soundscape held together by haunting vocals, swelling production, and healing words” - Highsnobiety
 
"The synth pop artist asks a painful question in this dreamy, languid track from her debut EP" - Resident Advisor
 
“This is one to watch no doubt.” - Paste

Los Angeles-based artist Claire George released her stunning self-produced and self-written debut EP via Cascine three years ago to critical acclaim, and today she is back with the long-awaited announcement of her debut full-length album. While 2018’s Bodies of Water EP -- which earned support from the likes of NPR Music, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Gorilla vs. Bear, Highsnobiety, Refinery29 and more -- was notable for its wide-eyed celestial synth-pop, The Land Beyond the Light, delves deeper into George’s swath of dance and pop influences. The album was initially inspired by a 2019 heartbreak, but the tone and tenor of the writing process changed when George suddenly lost her friend, an ex-boyfriend, to substance abuse. The loss of this significant person in her life left George to reckon with questions of addiction and grief, while exploring new sonic vocabularies in which to house them. The result is an achingly human document of life; an album in turns ecstatic and elegiac. 

Pre-order The Land Beyond The Light, out May 21st on CascineHERE

To celebrate the album announcement, Claire George shares the first single off of The Land Beyond The Light. The syncopated and pulsing “Pink Elephants” finds George acknowledging her own struggles with substance abuse, as she sings, “I don’t blame you, I know how it feels / with tusk and teeth gnawing at your heels.” “The ‘Pink Elephants’ video is an expression of my desperation to save someone who I loved and lost to addiction,” George explains. “The storyline is meant to depict the lengths to which one will go when they see a loved one losing a battle with substance abuse, but how ultimately, it can be heartbreakingly impossible to catch someone who is already so far gone.” Listen to the song and check out the music video HERE.
Claire George - Pink Elephants [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

 
The Land Beyond The Light Tracklist:
 
1. You Don’t Feel the Same 
2. I Promise
3. Pink Elephants
4. Medellín
5. Northern Lights
6. Nosebleed Seats 
7. Islands
8. Bag of Peaches
9. Particles in Motion 
 
 
More on Claire George and The Land Beyond The Light:

How do we cope with the gulf between us and those we’ve lost? On The Land Beyond The Light, the debut full-length album by Claire George, the Los-Angeles artist aims to answer that question. The Land Beyond The Light was initially conceived as a break-up record, largely inspired by a tough split Claire was going through in late 2019. She wrote the album opener “You Don’t Feel The Same” in the immediate aftermath, charting a course for a record channeling her feelings about the dissolution of relationships. “When that relationship fell apart, I felt really angry,” Claire says. “As I set out to write this album, I envisioned it being much harsher, being fresh off of the break-up.”
 
The writing process shifted, however, in the wake of another personal tragedy: the death of one of Claire’s close friends, an ex-boyfriend, as a result of substance abuse. “Everything changed when he passed away,” she says. When Claire returned to the songs she had written for the album, they took on a new meaning filtered through her grief. “So many of the songs, whether they were about him when I first wrote them or not, are about him now. And this record is for him.” 

One of the tragedies of addiction is that it can make us feel lost to those who are suffering, even before they’re gone. “Most of these songs express the desperation of wanting to help someone you love, but who you cannot possibly save from themselves,” Claire explains. “There is this thread of desperately wanting someone to break free from their afflictions, and the heartbreak associated with knowing you cannot change someone.” 

Claire’s writing process coincided with her grieving process, and the spirit of her late friend was stamped indelibly onto the album: memories of their relationship, imagined what-if scenarios, her competing feelings of gratitude and grief. The result is a stunning and multi-layered collection of songs that marvels at life and the beauty of the world around us, even in its most tragic moments. 

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Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth announce collaborative album on Third Man, share track & video

BOBBY GILLESPIE & JEHNNY BETH
ANNOUNCE COLLABORATIVE ALBUM
UTOPIAN ASHES
DUE JULY 2, 2021 VIA THIRD MAN RECORDS

PRIMAL SCREAM & SAVAGES VOCALISTS
SHARE NEW TRACK "REMEMBER WE WERE LOVERS"
AND ACCOMPANYING VIDEO


Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie has teamed up with solo artist and Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth to release the collaborative album Utopian Ashes, due July 2, 2021 via Third Man Records. The album is heralded by lead single "Remember We Were Lovers" alongside an official video by Douglas Hart (The Horrors, Paul Weller). Listen HERE before the track arrives on DSPs tomorrow in the US, and watch the video HERE. Vinyl will be available in the U.S. shortly after the album's worldwide release -- stay tuned for more details. Pre-orders will be available soon.

"Remember We Were Lovers" provides the first taste of what to expect from the album, with Gillespie and Jehnny Beth’s emotionally resonant vocals expressing desperately disparate views as their relationship flounders.

Utopian Ashes explores the loss, miscommunication and emotional inarticulacy that a married couple experience as they realize that their relationship is breaking down. The collection draws on the tradition of country soul classics, such as Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris’s "Grievous Angel" and George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s "We Go Together," to deal with the heavy realities of love turning sour. It’s an album for people who have dealt with the inevitable sadness that comes with age and acknowledged the realities of life. There is no sweetening of the pill, but it does achieve what should be the goal of all good art: to make us feel less alone. And while it’s not autobiographical, it channels heartfelt truth from the songwriters’ own experiences.

In addition to Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, the album features Johnny Hostile (bass) alongside Primal Scream trio Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (piano) and Darrin Mooney (drums).


HEAR "REMEMBER WE WERE LOVERS"

WATCH THE VIDEO


In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here,” says Jehnny Beth. “But you put yourself in it, because you’re trying to understand the human situation. The singing has to be authentic. That’s all that matters.”
 
“When you write a song you marry the personal with the fictional and make art,” adds Gillespie. “I was thinking about two people living alone, together but apart, existing and suffering in a psychic malaise, who plough on because of responsibilities and commitments. It’s about the impermanence of everything — an existential fact that everyone has to face at some point in their lives.”

They first met in 2015, when they were both invited to perform with Suicide at the Barbican. The following summer she joined Primal Scream on stage for a duet of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s ‘Some Velvet Morning’, which cemented their connection. In 2017, they convened in Paris for sessions, accompanied by Beth’s musical partner Johnny Hostile and the rest of Primal Scream. Their initial electronic-focused ideas gradually evolved into a richer tapestry of soul, country, blues and rock ‘n’ roll.

Gillespie explains, ‘I wanted to put pain back into music. I wasn’t hearing a lot of it in modern rock music”. 

The pain of trying to make something beautiful flourish in a bleak environment is palpable throughout. It feels beyond repair in the southern soul of opener "Chase It Down," while the Scott Walker-like waltz of "English Town" shows that the world outside their door is just as bleak as the relationship itself. But there’s a redemptive arc to the story, notably with the elegant "You Can Trust Me Now," in which the male protagonist vows to leave his vices in the past. 
BOBBY GILLESPIE & JEHNNY BETH
UTOPIAN ASHES
(THIRD MAN RECORDS)
RELEASE DATE: JULY 2, 2021

1. Chase It Down
2. English Town
3. Remember We Were Lovers
4. Your Heart Will Aways Be Broken
5. Stones of Silence
6. You Don't Know What Love Is
7. Self-Crowned King of Nothingness
8. You Can Trust Me Now
9. Living A Lie
10. Sunk In Reverie

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