COIL - Listen to 'Aqua Regalia' from the forthcoming Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) remastered reissue - out 30 Oct

COIL LISTEN TO ‘AQUA REGALIA’ HERE   MUTE & THRESHOLD HOUSE ANNOUNCE A SERIES OF RELEASES, STARTING WITH  GOLD IS THE METAL (WITH THE BROADEST SHOULDERS) OUT ON 30 OCTOBER 2026

[Coil, credit Laurence Watson] Mute - in conjunction with Threshold House - have shared a track from 1987’s Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), the first in a series of releases in a new partnership between the labels that will see four early, often overlooked, works by Coil - remastered and released with restored artwork, previously unseen imagery and new sleeve notes.

Listen to ‘Aqua Regalia’ Originally conceived by John Balance, Coil swiftly became a duo with Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson(Throbbing Gristle) and after their 1984 debut release, the one-sided 12” single How to Destroy Angels, they were joined by a young Stephen Thrower. On the recordings in the series, Coil are John Balance (1962-2004), Peter Christopherson (1955-2010) and Stephen Thrower.   The series launches with Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), the third in a trilogy that began with Scatology and Horse Rotorvator. Where Scatology and Horse Rotorvator are revered, the period immediately after is sometimes skipped over, but these years were enormously potent moments in their history, ones where sex and sexuality, as core engines of their work, were cast under increasing shadow by homophobia and the fear of AIDS, both of which were deliberately fanned and propagated by the mainstream media.   Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) draws on work that had been sidelined during Horse Rotovator’s sequencing. It takes textural and instrumental pieces and shapes them into a fully-formed album. Thrower explains that this is much more than “a round-up of wraiths and strays”, describing it as “the culmination of a ‘magnum opus’ in the artistic sense, the closure of a trilogy – Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Gold is the Metal – rounding up even our most jagged, cryptic, frictional, intemperate materials into a final balanced form”.   It honed what Thrower calls “electro-erotics of sound”, with a collage structure inspired by The Faust Tapes.Notable are its field recordings – a drunken brass band captured in Mexico, a snippet of a TV documentary about young British boxers, and a Thai boxing arena recorded by Christopherson. There is also accident and serendipity at play: ‘Metal in the Head’ contains the sound of their hired Fairlight sampler malfunctioning, when it began to randomly rearrange and distort the music. Words become less important for this record: it is instead about the creation of an enveloping continuity, atmospheres where barbarism lurks, unspoken but detected, alongside the euphoria of intoxication and the Rites of Spring.   For this reissue its artwork has been painstakingly reconstructed by Thrower and his partner Ossian Brown (a member of Coil from 1999-2004), expanding upon its original concept with additional archive material, including artefacts, photographs, artworks, and personal notes made by John Balance.    Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) will be followed by Coil’s soundtrack for Derek Jarman's The Angelic Conversation, the unreleased music for Clive Barker's Hellraiser, and the compilation Unnatural History.    Threshold House was Coil’s own imprint, set to release Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) and now reactivated by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown as a vehicle to release the early Coil albums in partnership with Mute, and in association with the estates of John Balance and Peter Christopherson.   Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) will be released on limited edition vinyl, CD and digitally on 30 October 2026. Pre-order the album Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) tracklisting (cat # COIL3) The Last Rites of Spring (2026 Remaster) Paradisiac (2026 Remaster) Thump (2026 Remaster) For Us They Will (2026 Remaster)  The Broken Wheel (2026 Remaster) Boy in a Suitcase (2026 Remaster) Golden Hole (2026 Remaster) Cardinal Points (2026 Remaster) Red Slur (2026 Remaster) ...Of Free Enterprise (2026 Remaster) Aqua Regalia (2026 Remaster) Metal in the Head (2026 Remaster) Either His, or Yours (2026 Remaster) Chickenskin (2026 Remaster) Soundtrap (2026 Remaster) The First Five Minutes after Violent Death (2026 Remaster) Connect with Mute INSTAGRAM | WEB | TIK TOK | FACEBOOK | BLUESKY | X

Sylvan Esso Find Heaven On Latest Single, "On & On"

Sylvan Esso Find Heaven On Latest Single, "On & On"

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New Album Ow ∞ Arrives September 11 via Psychic Hotline

Global Hi-Fi Listening Parties Set For September 3, US Road Trip Previews Full Band Tour & Good Moon Festival's Return This Fall

Photo by Tonje Thilesen

DURHAM, NC – August 25, 2026: On September 11th, Sylvan Esso will release Ow ∞, their first new album in four years and first to be released on their own, on their own record label, Psychic Hotline. Bringing together 12 of the band's most collaborative, improvisational and experimental songs to date, Ow ∞ is trust fall into our dystopian present, past and future: arms wide open, embracing and absorbing the pain of cities under water or on fire, and piecing oneself back together as a tactile, scotch-taped collage of memories, ephemera, Y2K-era burned CDs and backseat makeouts.

On new single "On & On," the album's third preview out today, Sylvan Esso seek to find heaven in everyday moments, sharing their own tender reflection on resiliency and fleeting transcendence. Alongside Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, the track features Daniel Aged (bass), Glenn Kotche (drums, percussion), Jake Luppen (guitar), TJ Maiani (drums) and Jenn Wasner (bass, guitar, percussion), with additional production by James Mapley-Brittle, pairing a bubbling, layered scape of sound with intimate meditations on love, recollection and the search for peace amid life's trash, noise and chaos. 

Pre-order Ow ∞, listen to "On & On" via Psychic Hotline, and leap into the waves in the video by Aaron Anderson, Eric Timothy Carlson and Sylvan Esso: HERE

Produced by Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, Ow ∞ marks the longest the band has ever spent writing a record, but arrives with an intense immediacy that is messy, hellish and free, metabolizing a life of making music with people into making art that you just love. Created, reimagined and revisited nearly every day since 2022, in the woods of their studio Betty's in Chapel Hill, NC, Ow ∞ is both a technicolor totem of personal destruction, and an ecstatic invitation to party – like recent singles "Hot Slob"(hailed by The New York Times as "an infectious and defiant ode to living messily") and the Sigur Rós-sampling "Concrete Glen" (which NPR Music called "one of the best Sylvan Esso songs I've ever heard"). 

Most of the tracks on Ow ∞ are Meath's first vocal takes, while arrangements and ideas are excavated, painted over and held together by the largest community of musicians Sylvan Esso have ever worked with on an LP. Featuring six different drummers in total, as well as live guitar, bass, keys, vibraphone, woodwinds, Innato, organ, piano and electronics, Meath and Sanborn are joined by Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean, Dijon), BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Charli XCX), Matt Douglas (the Mountain Goats), Glenn Kotche (Wilco), Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Samia), TJ Maiani (Weyes Blood, Neneh Cherry), James Mapley-Brittle (GRRL), Buddy Ross (Frank Ocean, Bon Iver), Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) and Joe Westerlund (Megafaun) throughout the record, filling hard drives with 5-10 songs at a time, some sticking and some not. 

But for an album that wrestles so much with the out-of-control nature of being alive, Ow ∞meets Meath and Sanborn at a time where, finally, they have complete control over what Sylvan Esso can be: putting things out the way they want to, with the people they choose, in their own studio and through their own label. 

Ahead of the release of Ow ∞, fans can experience an early listen to the record in full at a series of free, all ages Hi-Fi Listening Parties around the globe on September 3rd, as well as a special Road Trip that Sylvan Esso are taking across the US this month and next. Find the list of all locations and details at sylvanesso.com.

Following the release of Ow ∞, Sylvan Esso will bring the music to a full-band tourspanning more than two dozen shows across North America and beyond in 2026 and 2027, in addition to return of their biennial Good Moon festival, taking over four venues throughout their hometown of Durham, NC, from October 8th-10th. Find tickets and more information at sylvanesso.com.

Ow ∞ Album Art by Eric Timothy Carlson

Ow ∞ Listening Parties | September 3rd, 2026

Mexico City - 99Recs (Roma)

Taipei - Chao Bar Record Store

Tokyo - IPPEN

Dublin - The Big Romance

London - Cafe 1001

Berlin - Unkompress

San Diego - Part Time Lover

Los Angeles - ISC HQ

New York - Mr. Melo

Chicago - Parachute

Philadelphia - Percy Sound Lounge

Denver - ESP Hi-Fi

Portland - Daydream

Austin - Equipment Room

Dallas - Shyboy Hi-Fi

Omaha - Oto Hi-Fi Lounge

West Palm Beach - Rust & Wax



Sylvan Esso Road Trip Dates

Aug 28 - Philadelphia, PA - Echo Echo | 6pm

Aug 29 - Washington, DC - Byrdland Records | 6pm

Sep 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Chatroom | 7pm

Sep 6 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records | 2:30pm

Sep 9 - Durham, NC - Psychic Hotline Mailroom | 5pm



Sylvan Esso Tour Dates

Sep 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (DJ Set w/ Special Guests)

Sep 12 - Abiquiu, NM - Blossoms & Bones

Sept 20 - Brighton, UK - Resident Music (In-Store Performance)

Sept 21 - London, UK - Rough Trade (In-Store Performance, Matinee)

Sept 21 - London, UK - Rough Trade (In-Store Performance)

Oct 1 - Atlanta, GA - The Eastern

Oct 2-3 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel

Oct 5-6 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

Oct 8-10 - Durham, NC - Good Moon

Oct 12 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall

Oct 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount

Oct 15 - New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall

Oct 16 - Portland, ME - State Theatre

Oct 17 - Boston, MA - Citizens House of Blues

Oct 19 - Toronto, ON - HISTORY

Oct 21 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater

Oct 22 - Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed Indoors

Oct 23-24 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue

Oct 31-Nov 1 - Kakegawa, JP - Festival de Frue

Feb 19 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre

Feb 20 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre

Feb 22-23 - Portland, OR - McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

Feb 25 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater

Feb 26 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

Feb 27 - Santa Ana, CA - Observatory

Mar 1 - Del Mar, CA - The Sound

Mar 2 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren

Mar 4 - Salt Lake City, UT - Rockwell at the Complex

Mar 5-6 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre

Mar 8 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater

Mar 9 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues

Mar 11 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's

Mar 12 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City

Mar 13 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl



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Night Talks spin self-doubt into shimmering groove; "Window Shopping" out now with moody, mirror-filled visual

NIGHT TALKS SPIN SELF-DOUBT INTO A SHIMMERING GROOVE ON "WINDOW SHOPPING" OUT NOW–LISTEN / WATCH PRODUCED BY ERIC PALMQUIST (BAD SUNS, TATE MCRAE, HALF•ALIVE) LOS ANGELES SINGLE RELEASE SHOW AT GOLD DIGGERS ON SEPTEMBER 1

Photo credit: Eliot Hubert

“Night Talks is adding a little funk-tinged indie to your playlists this month” - Idobi Radio "['People Pleaser'] oozes with confidence and demands that you sing along" - RIFF Magazine "Led by the magnetizing and sonorous vocals of Soraya Sebghati alongside guitarists Jacob Butler and Josh Arteaga, Night Talks have a penchant for creating joyous rock anthems." - Grimy Goods “There’s a dramatic melodic quality in her vocal delivery that genuinely gave me flashes of Kate Bush. Not because Night Talks sound like some retro throwback act trying to cosplay the ‘80s, but because it sounds like Sebghati understands how to inject emotional movement into a melody line the same way many of the great art-pop vocalists of that era did..A sleek, emotionally intelligent indie-pop track with enough groove to pull you onto the dance floor and enough emotional honesty to make you stay there." - Blurred Culture

Today, Los Angeles-based indie rock/pop trio Night Talks return with "Window Shopping," an upbeat groove that spins insecurities, self-doubt and comparison into an electric, dynamic jam. With its sparkling melodies, crisp vocals and thumping bassline, the band masterfully embodies the universal, roller coaster-like experience of questioning what success looks like and if one is on the right path. Celebrate the new track live with the band at LA's Gold Digger's on September 1. Lead vocalist Soraya Sebghati shares, "'Window Shopping' is about impostor syndrome and the price of comparison. When you reach a point in your career where your friends are surpassing you and you feel left behind, you start to feel small in your own accomplishments, wondering if you really belong or if you'll ever make it." LISTEN "WINDOW SHOPPING" The band reunites frequent collaborator Eric Palmquist (Bad Suns, Tate McRae, half•alive). On the track's production process, Jacob Butler (guitar, synth, vocals) adds, "We had the skeleton of this song sitting around for a while, with just the triplet guitar rhythm and a drum beat. It wasn't until pretty late in the process that we figured out what the song should be about, and came up with that bassline which really brought the whole song to life and made it groove." WATCH "WINDOW SHOPPING"

In May, Night Talks shared the funky, splashy track "People Pleaser," produced by Palmquist, that sees the group commit to putting themselves first. RIFF Magazine wrote the track, "oozes with confidence and demands that you sing along," and Blurred Culture raved that it's, "a sleek, emotionally intelligent indie-pop track with enough groove to pull you onto the dance floor and enough emotional honesty to make you stay there." LISTEN "PEOPLE PLEASER" WATCH "PEOPLE PLEASER" Officially formed in 2014, Night Talks is made up of three life-long friends Soraya Sebghati (vocals), Jacob Butler (guitar, synth, vocals), and Josh Arteaga (bass, synth, vocals) who were all born and raised in Los Angeles. Night Talks' debut record Same Time Tomorrow was shared in February 2022, followed by a sold out show at The Troubadour. The band has garnered support from several leading tastemakers, including KROQ's Locals Only, GrimyGoods, Buzzbands LA and more. Buzzbands LA raved about the band's debut album, stating, "Same Time Tomorrow,” is a vibrant plea to rise above a wound from the past." They've been featured on playlists like Fresh Finds, All New Rock and All New Alternative and in November 2025, the band shared cinematic, shimmery single, "Shadows On The Run." Melodic Magazine wrote of the track's masterful "mixture of rock guitars and glittery synths..[pulling] from both the sparkly and sharp ends of the indie rock genre." Night Talks has supported Couch, Circa Waves, Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade), Wine Lip and Kississippi. Last year, GRAMMY® Award-nominated genre-defying songwriter, producer, and guitarist Cory Wong was featured on the band's single, "Targets" after Sebghati appeared as a surprise guest at several shows on Wong's tour in 2024. Plus, earlier this year, the band stopped by Jam In The Van for a full set. Now, with renewed energy and big plans ahead, the group is gearing up for more. Connect with the band on @night_talks on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube and stay tuned for much more from the rising trio.

ABOUT NIGHT TALKS Night Talks started out as three kids who wanted to start a band, which sounds like the start to any great coming of age movie. Unsurprisingly, the trio is made up of filmmakers and film lovers — now adults, in the same band. Born and bred Angelenos Soraya Sebghati, Jacob Butler, and Joshua Arteaga create sparkly alt-rock that's inspired as much by films they create and consume as by LCD Soundsystem and Queens of the Stone Age. Their songs are defined by cinematic stories, danceable grooves, and intricate sonic layers, transporting you to a loud, lit up dance floor whether you're listening in your car or at a show. In 2022, Night Talks released their debut LP, Same Time Tomorrow — including KROQ's #1 Locals Only song of the year "On And On" — which was produced during the pandemic and allowed the band to create a whole visual world of music videos for every track on the album. 2025 saw Night Talks return to the studio to go deeper, taking a fresh, pop-forward approach to their songwriting and album conception. As they take their unique blend of synth pop and arena rock across the country, Night Talks continues to build their loyal following, winning over fans of every genre night after night.

Photo credit: Eliot Hubert

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