7/21/2026

MICK HARVEY and AMANDA ACEVEDO share new track and video for 'Song for Aurora', latest from Psychedelia in White - out 4 Sep on Mute

MICK HARVEY & AMANDA ACEVEDO

DUO SHARE VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK 

‘SONG FOR AURORA’


LATEST FROM THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM

PSYCHEDELIA IN WHITE

OUT ON 4 SEPTEMBER 2026

 

UK & EUROPEAN TOUR WITH MERCURY REV IN THE FALL

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GLORIA DE OLIVEIRA announces new album 'The Lying Swans' out Oct 30th via La Double Vie & shares first single "Fading Faces".


GLORIA DE OLIVEIRA

- Announces new album 'The Lying Swans' out Oct 30th via La Double Vie
- Shares new single "Fading Faces"
 

Photo credit: Beto Ruiz Alonso


Today German-Brazilian musician and visual artist Gloria de Oliveira announces new album The Lying Swans is set for release Oct 30th via La Double Vie and is sharing the lead single "Fading Faces" alongside a self-directed video.   

Darkness can be revealing. Joy feels different after grief, sharper and clearer. Though allowing the light in again after desolation can be incredibly challenging, especially when the wounds of the past still haunt the present. The Lying Swans, Gloria de Oliveira’s third full length, explores this in depth, like a work of Gothic literary fiction set in motion by the image of a woman fleeing a haunted house; this central image also shaped the album's visual world. Produced by Randall Dunn (Anna von Hausswolff, Sunn O))), Marissa Nadler) and recorded between Iceland, New York and Berlin, the result is an oneiric world where enchantment and danger coexist.

“I numb my hurt one last time”, sings de Oliveira in the first single "Fading Faces", as a farewell to darker times. The ethereal lightness of the shimmering synth layers contrasts with thunderous drums and glam-rock inflected guitars. The resulting tension amplifies the song’s bittersweet beauty, fully embodied her siren voice, yearning and unguarded. The accompanying music video, directed by de Oliveira herself, depicts her stranded like a Pre-Raphaelite water nymph on a mystical Brazilian beach, between black cliffs and pink sand.

On "Fading Faces", Gloria de Oliveira offered "This is not only the first single, but also the very first piece of music I wrote when I started working on the album. It was also the first song that Randall Dunn and I later recorded together in Iceland. In many ways, it’s the reason the album even exists - ‘Fading Faces’ required me to allow myself this degree of vulnerability that permeates ‘The Lying Swans’. Musically, it still follows the tradition of my previous albums to some extent, while simultaneously drawing on new modes of expression.”

"Fading Faces" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqRhEtvTd_o
"Fading Faces" on other streaming services: https://cargorecordsde.ffm.to/gloria-de-oliveira-fading-faces

Drawing inspiration from poetry, literature, film and visual art as much as music, de Oliveira and Dunn crafted an album that moves effortlessly between the spectral and the pastoral, where echoes of Fantasy and Giallo film scores, ancient folk traditions and the rhythmic tenderness of Bossa Nova, MPB and Tropicália converge. The lyrics likewise weave together mythology with allusions to Milton's Paradise Lost and the poetry of John Keats, Emily Brontë and Anne Sexton. The Lying Swans seeks beauty amid darkness, embracing a proto-Gothic sensibility rooted as much in German Romanticism as in horror cinema, where love, obsession, and illusion become almost mythical.

The Lying Swans thus unravels as a deeply personal story of trauma and its aftermath, referencing the Greek myth of Leda, wherein Zeus tries to charm a Spartan princess by disguising himself as a swan. As with all myths, this one can be looked at in different ways, as a tale of magical seduction, or an account of a of brutal violation. Leda’s consent has remained a topic of debate for centuries. The album traces the fractured sense of identity left in betrayal's wake, the fragile process of falling in love again, and the slow return of trust. Many of the songs revolve around acts of recognition: learning to distinguish truth from illusion, reading signs, seeing clearly, and trusting one's own perception again after years of doubt.

The successor to “Oceans of Time” (Sacred Bones, 2022), her collaboration with David Lynch’s longtime sound designer Dean Hurley, “The Lying Swans” leads de Oliveira into new territories. Thematically as well as sonically, on these 9 songs the German-Brazilian artist seems to be stepping out of the misty realms of reverb and gauzy fuzz, displaying an earthier, more tactile and thereby vulnerable side. Still, they inhabit the very space where de Oliveira's emotionally resonant songwriting naturally thrives, magnified by Dunn’s instinct for dense atmosphere, hovering between dream and reality, concealment and revelation. Her seraphic, yearning voice remains the focal point, flanked by a stunning cast of musicians:

Matt Chamberlain’s (David Bowie, Tori Amos, Pearl Jam) one-of-a-kind drumming lays the foundation for the album's idiosyncratic movement, wherein Lennard Zander's intricate guitars and Múm’s Gyða Valtýsdóttir’s cello provide rich, warm countervoices to de Oliveira’s agile soprano. Marilu Donovan’s harp (LEYA, Eartheater, Julie Byrne) and Úlfur Hansson’s Segulharpa and custom synthesizer soundscapes add a gossamer shimmer, while Ambient icon Tor Lundvall delivers a rare spoken word performance. Lina Andonovska’s transverse flute has a leading role, imbuing the songs with both an airy and unsettling tone, indebted as much to de Oliveira’s Brazilian roots as to 1970s & 1980s Giallo soundtracks, the atmospheric Italian horror mysteries that contain both stylized graphic violence and voyeurism, and splendid beauty.  

The haunting tale of The Lying Swans unfolds like a work of Magic Realism, inhabited by birds, saints, sirens, bloody faces, ghost ships and spectral apparitions, inviting listeners into Gloria de Oliveira’s most immediate and complex work to date.

The Lying Swans artwork:


The Lying Swans tracklist:
1. Leda
2. Fading Faces
3. Sacred Hearts
4. The Voyager
5. Wounded Birds
6. The Wind Took it Away
7. The Perfect Con
8. Shadows in the Fog 
9. Cranes in Flight

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AUSSIE ROCKERS C.O.F.F.I.N RETURN WITH NEW SINGLE “THINK BAD” NEW ALBUM OUT IN OSLO OUT SEPTEMBER 18TH VIA P(DOOM) RECORDS

AUSSIE ROCKERS

C.O.F.F.I.N

RETURN WITH NEW SINGLE

“THINK BAD”

NEW ALBUM

OUT IN OSLO

OUT SEPTEMBER 18TH VIA P(DOOM) RECORDS




[July 21st, 2026]- Today, C.O.F.F.I.N (Children Of Finland Fighting In Norway) present their new single “Think Bad”. In addition to the release of the energetic new single, the band announce their sixth studio album Out in Oslo, which will be released September 18th via p(doom) records.

Out today on streaming platforms worldwide, the new single sees C.O.F.F.I.N exploring rock 'n' roll more deeply, taking a step away from fast-paced, wall-of-sound power to a more mid-paced groove filled with ZZ Top-toughness.

STREAM “THINK BAD”:

SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | TIDAL | YOUTUBE MUSIC | AMAZON MUSIC | DEEZER

Ben Portnoy from C.O.F.F.I.N describes the track’s inspiration as follows:

“Think Bad describes the use of negativity to fuel forward motion. It's about using hard thoughts as a compass, reminding yourself that not everything that feels good is good for you, while at the same time, understanding that the combined weight of cynicism and reckless behaviour can make the greatest losses.”

In addition to the digital release, C.O.F.F.I.N present an amusement park-themed video featuring the band goofing around.

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO FOR “THINK BAD”

Out in Oslo - Tracklisting
1. Out In Oslo
2. Sleep In It
3. Think Bad
4. A Place To Stay
5. 13 Days
6. Won’t Let You Down
7. Loose Ties
8. Fair Enough
9. Gettin’ Down
10. See Ya Later
11. Miles Away

C.O.F.F.I.N are keeping it busy in 2026. In addition to a tour later this year, the band are also gearing up for the release of their documentary 10,000 Miles From Oslo. Throughout July, the documentary has been screening at cinemas in Melbourne, Sydney, Europe and North America, and hits the UK in August. Featuring commentary from family, collaborators and figures across the Australian music community, alongside live in-studio performances and early previews of unreleased music, the film offers an intimate inside view into who C.O.F.F.I.N is. The documentary follows the band's 20-year journey, from teenage beginnings through to the making of their new album.

The new album Out In Oslo is both a celebration of this journey and the beginning of a new chapter.

SCREENINGS:
10/08 — Genesis Cinema, London*
12/08 — Cultplex, Manchester*
27/11 — Vaterland, Oslo* SOLD OUT

*Q&A with C.O.F.F.I.N and director Jake Laderman.

CHECK OUT THE TRAILER FOR “10,000 MILES FROM OSLO”

Additionally, alongside the documentary rollout, C.O.F.F.I.N recently announced a run of EU and UK tour dates for November and December.

EU / UK TOUR DATES:
17/11 — Bristol, UK, Exchange
18/11 — Manchester, UK, YES
19/11 — Nottingham, UK, Bodega
20/11 — London, UK, MOTH Club
21/11 — Brussels, Belgium, Tough Enough
22/11 — Amsterdam, Netherlands, Bitterzoet
23/11 — Hamburg, Germany, Molotow
25/11 — Stockholm, Sweden, Debaser Nova
26/11 — Oslo, Norway, Vaterland SOLD OUT
27/11 — Oslo, Norway, Vaterland SOLD OUT
28/11 — Gothenburg, Sweden, Monument
29/11 — Copenhagen, Denmark, Stengade
30/11 — Berlin, Germany, Cassiopeia
01/12 — Karlsruhe, Germany, Alte Hackerei
02/12 — Cologne, Germany, Gebäude9
03/12 — Rotterdam, Netherlands, Rotown
04/12 — Paris, France, Point Ephemere
05/12 — Le Havre, France, Tetris

Tickets for the shows & screenings are available HERE.

C.O.F.F.I.N is: Ben Portnoy (Lead Vocals / Drums), Abijah Rado (Lead Guitar / Vocals), Aaron Moss (Guitar / Vocals) & Steven 'Kosty' Kostogiannis (Bass / Vocals).


(C.O.F.F.I.N press photo by Jamie Wdzieconski)

C.O.F.F.I.N BIO:

Produced by Declan Mehrtens (Amyl and The Sniffers), with vocals co-produced by Jason Whalley (Frenzal Rhomb), Out In Oslo captures C.O.F.F.I.N at their most expansive and refined. While retaining the grit and energy that the band are known for, the album broadens their sonic palette with greater dynamics, richer textures and some of their most adventurous songwriting to date. The music nods to the rich and raw lineage of bands such as Coloured Balls, The Angels and AC/DC, while filtering it through their own Northern Beaches lens, exploring ideas around Australian identity, community, environmentalism, injustice and the country’s connection with the rest of the world.

Having shared stages with acts including Amyl and The Sniffers, Viagra Boys and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, C.O.F.F.I.N’s relentless curiosity, work ethic and commitment to their craft has seen them evolve from a Manly Beaches upstart to one of Australia’s most respected contemporary rock’n’roll exports. Their last full-length album Australia Stops, released in 2023, received an ARIA nomination for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album, alongside a National Live Music Award for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Album.

With years spent refining their craft, C.O.F.F.I.N's music began to focus more on important social issues, such as climate action, indigenous rights and gender politics. The sheer power of their musical response to social injustices we face as a society is a key element that C.O.F.F.I.N fans everywhere have recognised and come to adore. C.O.F.F.I.N have become a cherished band, staple to the punk/rock community across the globe and an integral live band in Australian rock and roll history.


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Boy Harsher announces new album 'GET MEAN' due September 18th + shares new single / music video

BOY HARSHER ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 

GET MEAN OUT SEPTEMBER 18TH 

VIA ATLANTIC RECORDS


SHARES NEW SINGLE AND MUSIC VIDEO 

“HARD BEAT” 


EMBARKING ON HEADLINE TOUR ACROSS

NORTH AMERICA THIS FALL

Boy Harsher by Nathaniel Jerome



GET MEAN

PRE-ORDER / SAVE: https://ffm.to/getmean


“Hard Beat” 

LISTEN: http://ffm.to/hardbeat

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDwfZ_ftvg


(July 21, 2026) – Boy Harsher announces their new album GET MEAN due September 18th via Atlantic Records. GET MEAN is a meditation on love, loss, and survival. Across the record, Boy Harsher, the duo of Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, confronts grief and heartbreak head-on, tracing the difficult process of moving through loss and discovering a path toward renewal. At its core, GET MEAN is a redemption album – a document of one of life’s most painful chapters and the strength found on the other side of it. 


Alongside the album announcement, Boy Harsher shares the new single and music video “Hard Beat.” The music video was directed by Boy Harsher with cinematographer Owen Smith-Clark and explores themes of surveillance, deviance, and trauma with influence from Helmut Newton’s 1995 "High and Mighty" feature and the queer punk of Greg Araki’s films. The video sees a pair of freaky deviants, played by Cheeky Ma and Mo Stark, speeding down an uncanny highway in a vintage Cadillac. Matthews, in a funeral veil, narrates from the backseat. Meanwhile, a woman in a leg brace, played by Angel Zinovieff, is being recorded on closed circuit in a windowless tiled room. The movement in the video was choreographed by performance artist Monica Mirabile (FLUCT). 


In early 2024, following years of increasingly well-received releases, a mounting series of ambitious collaborations and cross-genre experiments, and extensive stretches of worldwide touring to sold-out crowds, Boy Harsher confronted the most profound test of its existence: the end of its members’ relationship. In the wake of the breakup, which arrived on the heels of a period of personal turmoil, familial loss, and creative block, the future of the band was mired in uncertainty and the notion of new music impossibly remote. It wasn’t until Matthews hit the road – sounding out her shifting identity and staring down the loneliness beneath the skies of West Texas, the Pacific Northwest, South Florida and points in-between, over and under, and off the map entirely – that the writing of a new Boy Harsher record began in earnest, one born of rootlessness and bound up in seemingly insoluble questions. What happens when a band that’s been forged in intimacy, cloaked in the sonic textures of darkly swooning electronics, and dedicated to plumbing the complex and contradictory depths of romantic feeling falls apart? What’s left after grief takes everything? What does a breakup album look like for a band as singular as Boy Harsher?


The result is GET MEAN: twelve tracks of glittering edges and weary voluptuousness, diamond-dense instrumentals and vaporous vocals, a document of pain, dislocation, and redemption as only Muller and Matthews can deliver it. But where previous Boy Harsher releases have drawn on the duo’s predilections for classical synth textures and nakedly confessional lyrics to craft a signature sound mired in darkness and transgression, GET MEAN brings many new shades to the sonic palette: from softy detuned pads and noisily squelching leads to pedal steel pitchbends, from brash percussive in-jokes to unadorned cellphone voice notes, from the driving coldwave beats that have long anchored the band’s sound, to New Romantic guitar textures and archly cheeky pop moves. It’s a new statement of purpose for a band with complete command of its instrumental arsenal and a maturing – if no less ravenous – aesthetic sense.


GET MEAN stomps out the parameters of its bespoke musical universe, staking an unapologetic claim for new musical relationships on the level of form and genre even as it hints at new possibilities on the level of the deeply personal. The first single "Jeans,” takes tongue-in-cheek aim at canonically Americana-fied themes of self-actualization and success, updating “Proud Mary” and Brat Pack signifiers for the era of gigwork alienation and national decline (“THAT’S LIFE / LIVING IN A SMALL TOWN / GAVE IT ALL UP / JUST TO SELL JEANS”). 


In considering the genesis of GET MEAN, Matthews describes it as “what I had to give during the most extreme period of my life.” And no doubt – the radical destabilization, the all-consuming doubt, the desperate drive to escape, all of these qualities are palpable on a record as transportive and multitextured as this. It’s not for nothing, after all, that GET MEANis Boy Harsher’s “road album,” one recorded in eight locations across the USA and through to Mexico and Italy such that the listener can feel the Florida scrub, the icy Northwest rivers, the grit of the highway rumble strip. There’s also something else, though, a feeling no less drawn from pain and confusion but given new life across an album that mourns, begs, jokes, and flirts its way out of the dislocation, out of the rootlessness and alienation and through to a place of abandon, of purification, of dancefloor catharsis. It’s like Matthews tells us in “Hard Beat,” careening in the inimitable Boy Harsher fashion between confession, exhortation, and proud self-reclamation: not just “I FEEL HIGH / WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE LOW," but also—“LET’S MAKE IT REAL.”


Following the album release, Boy Harsher will be heading on their North American headline fall tour. The tour kicks off in Hudson on September 25th and travels through Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New Orleans and more before concluding at New York's Knockdown Center. Boy Harsher will have support from Choir Boy, Evanora Unlimited, True Blue, and Kassie Krut on select dates. 



Since forming in 2014, Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller have cultivated one of underground music's most devoted followings as Boy Harsher. Their first EP Lesser Man, which includes the underground hit “Pain,” was originally released on a small run of cassettes, but then uploaded by a fan onto YouTube. They continued momentum with their Yr Body is Nothing LP in 2016 and Country Girl EP in 2017, which lead to their acclaimed 2019 album Careful and the 2022 album and film The Runner, which the duo wrote, produced, and scored. Boy Harsher have continually expanded the possibilities of darkwave, industrial, and electronic music. Their signature blend of hypnotic synths, propulsive rhythms, and Matthews' magnetic vocals has influenced a new generation of artists while helping bring minimal synth, EBM, and dark electronic music from underground clubs to festival stages around the world. 


Beyond the music, Boy Harsher continues to expand their cinematic ambitions. They are currently at work on their debut feature film, The Lonely Woman, starring Chloë Sevigny, FKA twigs, and Sturgill Simpson.


Pre-order / save GET MEAN and check out “Hard Beat” above and find album details and the full tour routing below.

Boy Harsher 

GET MEAN

September 18, 2026

Atlantic Records 


1. Ronny

2. Jeans

3. Break Me

4. Tough Luck (When You Don’t Call)

5. Faulty

6. Coming Home

7. Hard Beat

8. Ice Pick (Walk Away)

9. Ivy’s Spiral

10. Pray 4 Me

11. Falling ~

12. Bleed 

Upcoming Live Dates

*= festival date

^= supporting TURNSTILE


9/25 - Hudson, NY @ Basilica

9/27 - Boston, MA @ Royale

9/29 - Montreal, QC @ M Telus

9/30 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall

10/01 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic

10/02 - Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT

10/03 - Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT

10/04 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater

10/06 - Denver, CO @ Summit

10/09 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall SOLD OUT

10/10 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall SOLD OUT

10/11 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox SOLD OUT

10/12 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

10/13 - Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl SOLD OUT

10/15 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater

10/16 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium SOLD OUT

10/17 - Del Mar, CA @ The Sound

10/18 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory Festival Grounds^ SOLD OUT

10/20 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues

10/21 - Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren

10/24 - Fort Worth, TX @ Sick New World*

10/26 - New Orleans, LA @ Republic

10/27 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse

10/28 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel

10/30 - Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre

10/31 - Philadelphia, PA @ Making Time*

11/05 - New York, NY @ Knockdown Center

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MICK HARVEY and AMANDA ACEVEDO share new track and video for 'Song for Aurora', latest from Psychedelia in White - out 4 Sep on Mute

MICK HARVEY & AMANDA ACEVEDO DUO SHARE VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK  ‘ SONG FOR AURORA ’ LATEST FROM THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM PSYCHEDELIA IN WHIT...